Susan Lloyd-Swail

Over 52k Ontario adults with intellectual disabilities are stuck on waiting lists for vital supports. Their stories of fear & uncertainty demand action.

Learn more: www.waiting2belong.ca

#WaitingToBelong

"The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality."
- James Baldwin

As these political and personal purges continue, important agencies will become unable to perform their basic functions, and at some point will only be able to spread the purges into the larger society.
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Trump cuts weather forecasting service, girls drown in unexpected flooding.
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‘We thought we’d got the numbers wrong’: how a pristine lake came to have the highest levels of ‘forever chemicals’ on record Holloman Lake was a haven for wildlife and seemed an ideal campsite. But strange foam around the shoreline turned out to be more than just an oddity – and reveals the alarming way forever chemicals mo...

In the US there are more than 9,000 active legal cases related to the production or release of Pfas. ‘We thought we’d got the numbers wrong’: how a pristine lake came to have the highest levels of ‘forever chemicals’ on record #cdnpoli #pfas | Pfas | The Guardian share.google/UJhgcb1PzB1l...

Ten Trump-proof nation-building projects for a strong, independent Canada - CCPA Thanks to decades of concerted action by Canadian businesses and governments—often working in opposition to workers and the broader public interest—the Canadian economy is now deeply integrated with o...

Let's build a strong #Canada that serves the public interest rather than feeding profit for private interests. #canadaday2025 #cdnpoli www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

lol, ok

Conservative Candidates Aren’t Talking to the Press. That’s a Problem. | The Local Across ridings, and across media outlets, local candidates from one party are refusing to speak with the media.

Asking voters to elect candidates who have often never faced a single question about their record or their beliefs isn’t just thumbing your nose at the press—it’s an insult to voters. thelocal.to/conservative...

Green Party disinvited from federal leaders’ debates. Commission says inclusion would ‘undermine’ public interest “The Commission concludes that the inclusion of the leader of the Green Party of Canada in these circumstances would undermine the integrity of the debates and the interests of the

Infuriating! Commission says including Green Party leader in the debate (who has a progressive vision for Canada)would undermine integrity of the debates?
www.thestar.com/politics/fed...

Kidnapping.

Capturing a person against their will without due process is called kidnapping.

Transporting them to another country without due process is called human trafficking.

A squalid extrajudicial prison for people found guilty of no crime is called a concentration camp.

A network of X accounts is targeting Canada ahead of the election - The Logic The accounts are pumping out thousands of posts about the Canadian economy and alleged support within Canada for U.S. President Donald Trump’s annexation threat.

IMPORTANT: A major disinformation network of X accounts is targeting Canada ahead of the Federal election.

“The accounts are pumping out thousands of posts about the Canadian economy and alleged support within Canada for U.S. President Donald Trump’s annexation threat.”

thelogic.co/news/canada-...

Sign the Petition Support Affordable Housing in North Etobicoke

Friends in Rexdale, can you help? We are trying to ensure that an innovative, community-led housing project in Rexdale is built, but we're facing significant pushback from neighbours who are pressuring Cllr Crisanti to stop it! Please sign and share this petition: www.change.org/p/support-af...

Ah #coal...for you and me...more smog days, higher health bills, and an increased risk of death. But it feeds those oligarchs who bought coal shares low yesterday #PM2.5 #airpollution

‘Oligarchy’: Trump exempts big oil donors from tariffs package Trump’s new 10% universal tariffs will not apply to many fossil fuel products in sign of his fealty, advocates say

The world's most polluting industries are exempt from tariffs. The American people will suffer but oil and gas billionaires who have put the world on fire, pollute our air and water walk. #climateaction #trumptariffs www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

How has fascism in Britain got this far? Neoliberalism has opened the door for it | George Monbiot We need a new politics of belonging, not Labour’s craven appeasement of capital, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

For 150 years, capitalism has sought to undermine or crush its direct antagonist: democracy. A new politics of community cooperation is needed. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Prominent Yale professors flee Trump’s America for new roles at University of Toronto Philosophy Prof. Jason Stanley from Yale University is headed to U of T along with Timothy Snyder and Marci Shore.

American catastrophe" playing a role in their thinking. Academics leaving the U.S for U of T. www.thestar.com/news/gta/pro...

Invading Canada Is Not Advisable We’ve tried before. It didn’t work out.

As Canadians we are a spirited lot...https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/03/us-canada-relations-trump/682046/

One in 15 Americans has witnessed a mass shooting – study Study found that 7% of Americans have been present at a scene of a mass shooting and 2% had been injured in one

Another reason life in the U.S. sucks...https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/08/one-in-15-americans-has-witnessed-a-mass-shooting-study

Trump’s trade war is a perfect time to embrace a ‘no one left behind’ strategy ⋆ The Breach ‘Keep calm and buy Canadian’ will line Galen Weston’s pockets and do little else. We need emergency measures that protect everyone.

A “no one left behind” approach is also the best protection for a resilient economy. No matter who we are or where we come from, it is we who keep our communities strong: as workers, as customers, as small businesses, and as families. breachmedia.ca/trumps-trade...

Trump Thinks He Humiliated Zelensky. He Really Humiliated the United States Trump’s Oval Office mob show proves he’s no Don Corleone. He’s Luca Brasi—with nukes.

The Trump Vance performance today was one of the great foreign policy fails in US history, the biggest Oval Office clusterfuck the public has ever had the chance to watch in real time. But it was much worse than that. Another piece from me. www.thedailybeast.com/trump-thinks...

Independent Ontario candidate wins rare and resounding second election victory Bobbi Ann Brady set out in this Ontario election to prove that her win in Haldimand-Norfolk as an independent in 2022 was not a fluke, but winning by the second-largest

Independent MPP says PC MPP's are brand ambassadors. "We've done a lot of work in this riding ensuring people know the difference between a brand ambassador and a champion for their communities." www.thestar.com/politics/ind...

‘We are going in the wrong direction’: Why last year saw Ontario burn a record amount of natural gas Emissions are projected to continue to rise as Ontario’s reliance on gas plants increases until they make up 25 per cent of all energy produced in 2030.

#ON’s electricity grid was 94% emissions-free in 2020, but that’s falling over time as more natural gas is brought online. Our electricity dir. Scott MacDougall says the prov. should consider other grids around the 🌎 that are scaling up renewables to retain its “clean energy edge”.

Not voting for #dougford #Ontariovotes

Ontario Election series: Analysis of party platforms on thriving Wellesley Institute’s Ontario Election 2025 series laid out our recommendations for what provincial party leaders can do to advance health equity in three key areas: thriving – policies that will help...

🗳️ The Ontario Election is on February 27. How do the parties differ in their plans to ensure everyone in Ontario can thrive?

Read our latest platform analysis to learn more. #OntarioVotes2025 www.wellesleyinstitute.com/elections/on...

Ontario’s economic and fiscal performance—failing grades all around From 2018 to 2024, per-person total business investment declined by 2.9 per cent in the province.

Know a Ontario Conservative that needs a quick intervention? Ask them to read this...from the notoriously Conservative Fraser Institute www.fraserinstitute.org/commentary/o... #ONpoli #ontario2025 #ontariovotes2025

Justin Trudeau trolled by Donald Trump as he and other world leaders show support for Ukraine PM Justin Trudeau was in Kyiv where he spoke at the International Summit on the Support of Ukraine while trolled by U.S. President Donald Trump on social media.

Solidarity with #Ukraine ..It's about the rules and the values and the principles of sovereignty, of independence, of territorial integrity that protects every country in the world. All of us rely on those rules, to be able to build peace and security. #cdnpoli www.thestar.com/politics/fed...

‘We are going in the wrong direction’: Why last year saw Ontario burn a record amount of natural gas Emissions are projected to continue to rise as Ontario’s reliance on gas plants increases until they make up 25 per cent of all energy produced in 2030.

Can't breathe? 4x increase in natural gas plants under Ford = a significant increase in local air pollution as well as far more planet-warming carbon emissions. #ontariohealth #ONpoli @cleanairalliance www.thestar.com/news/gta/we-...

Ontario pauses 15 government advertising campaigns deemed to be partisan | Globalnews.ca When Doug Ford called a snap election, Ontario's top civil servant paused 15 government ad campaigns that had previously been flagged by the auditor general as partisan.

Primary purpose of $milllions of your tax dollars spent on ads was promoting the governing party Auditor General finds, globalnews.ca/news/1103062...

The war on words: How the Trump administration is rewriting reality - Neos Kosmos From historical echoes of Athens and Rome to Orwellian distortions, the battle over meaning is reshaping American democracy—and the first casualty may be education

There’s a movement to make the world less fair, less predictable, and meaner tomorrow than it was today. Those of us who still can must be brave enough to call it what it is, a lust for power and greed. neoskosmos.com/en/2025/02/2...

Ford can't even manifest his own mandate #housing needs, #healthcare, #education. What arrogance to think he should have any juridiction over federal matters from border security to the Criminal Code— "send 'em right to sparky". #onpoli #getitdone