Today I’m thinking about food sovereignty. I could easily go on & on about it being essential for gardening to become community knowledge again. Growing our own food’s also collective action against corporate power! Gardens grow food *&* community. I have so much more I could (& will likely) say!!
This is me doing my therapy homework and posting a video with some of the knowledge I don’t often get to share. Tonight I’m talking a little bit about growing mint. Next time, who knows what I’ll share about, but I promise to keep posting!
Photo shows a dark grey and black, rectangular, single stereo cassette player from the 1990s with its handle up. It’s sitting on grey flooring with a white shelf behind and to the left of it. Just underneath its set of buttons for playing the cassettes, it shows the radio dial at the top, left side and it says “RADIO CASSETTE” in green and white letters at the centre of the tape player. There is a speaker on right side of the player, which has the volume dial at the top of it. To the very right of the player is the radio station dial.
Happy bit of nostalgia I recently uncovered at my parents’ place! I definitely need to find some cassettes other than the adorable childhood recordings of my sisters and I.
The image is a dark blue background with a white space in the centre and the words “coldest night of the year” displayed in it.
I have a neighbourhood team looking for donations to support the Coldest Night of the Year fundraiser. Please donate if you can at cnoyw.ith.me/cpsnteam
Photo shows a grey tabby cat looking up at the camera while laying on a blue couch. Printed over the cat are several chunks of purple text.
Reflection on my previous post.
Link to one of the articles describing the initial issues I wrote in response to: www.insauga.com/city-threate...
I wrote a letter about legal threats the outreach program in my neighbourhood is facing. The Peel Poverty Action Group decided to publish my letter in a special edition of their Tough Times newsletter and I want to share it with you: ppag.media/publications/
Please share widely!
Don't let them convince you that anything about generative AI in its current form, with its current level of consumption, is the way forward for humanity. Say no.
With Bill 5 now passed, from where I’m standing Ontario is under the rule of an oligarchy and we are right on our way to an even scarier future than ever. It’s time to rally and make change happen! We can’t let this situation get worse
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#ontario #ontariopolitics #canada
Shown in the photo is a wooden table with variety of medications and supplements sitting on it. There are three, 7-day pill trays full of capsules and tablets. There is one small pill bottle with tablets inside of it, there is one small, square plastic container holding a single yellow pill, and there is one small, square container holding four foil-wrapped pills. There is a small bottle of melatonin tablets sitting next to a large container of magnesium supplements. There are also two glass containers, one of which is a bottle of ribes nigrum homeopathic drops. The other glass container is a small vial of vitamin D drops.
In the photo is text that reads: When I was diagnosed with cancer I assumed that all my cancer care would be covered by my “universal”healthcare, but I found out that because of my age and the rare type of cancer I have, I’d have to pay out of pocket for my medications. I was already paying hundreds of dollars out of pocket every month for my chronic migraine, mental health, and seizure disorder meds, but now I was going to have to find tens of thousands of dollars to get the medications I needed to combat my cancer. It turned out that Ontario has a drug plan for people who make a low enough income to qualify (I guess not being able to work actually does come with a perk), but I still had to pay a $3000 deductible and the drug plan wouldn’t cover the cost of every medication I need.
In the photo there is text that reads: So now I’m spending what could be savings on meds and on things like the oncology-specialist naturopathic doctor I see and the expensive but effective supplements she recommends (also shown in this picture). My potential savings are spent on things like therapy, therapy for my kids, and the physiotherapy that got me walking without a cane or a walker. Even still, I’m lucky! I had the time and capacity to learn about Ontario’s drug plan and apply for it. And I’m even more lucky because I come from a family who can make sure that no matter what I still have a home, groceries in the fridge, and transportation to my many appointments.
In the photo there is text that reads: As we approach the Ontario election, keep in mind that even people with a lot of privilege like me are struggling to manage. Then consider the folks who have far less and vote with your empathy and not your wallet. $200 wouldn’t cover the cost of one of my medications, let alone all of them. We need tangible investment in public services and infrastructure so that no one needs to worry about getting cancer treatment or getting their next meal. My photo shouldn’t be the flex that it is.
Until I got cancer I had no idea that cancer medications aren’t all covered by our “universal healthcare”. These ones are worth tens of thousands of dollars which isn’t a flex: it’s indicative of a crisis.
#healthcare #ontariohealthcare #ontarioelection #cancer #vote #ontariovotes #dougford
Write to Liberal, NDP and Green MP’s offices – ask them why they keep posting on a website owned by a guy who does sieg heil salutes, endorses the German AfD and threatens democracies around the world
They won’t do anything if they get 1 or 2 emails, they will respond if they get 100 or 200 emails
The United States, to hear some tell it, is currently experiencing a “plutocratic coup.”
Its democracy is in decline, reports have warned.
In light of that, I’d like to share a slightly personal story -- one that keeps me up at night:
youtu.be/VDccQaYgwNk
My pleasure 🐝
Honey bees destabilize regional ecosystems by out-competing native bees. Honey bees monopolize resources that specialist native bees need and then in response to this the local flora changes, making plants that native bees rely on scarcer. Honey bees can also spread disease to local bee populations
Love that! We often don’t get a look at native bees or don’t recognize them, but they are so cool
Oh absolutely! Most important thing they do and are highly underrated for their specialist skills.
I didn’t think you meant otherwise, I was just emphatically agreeing about why the bees are important! I’m sorry if it came off otherwise
Especially our native bees! Honey is lovely and all, but honey bees are an invasive agricultural crop imported here relatively recently. We need our specialist native bees to thrive as part of the unique ecosystems in our province!
Shown in the photo is a cat with cream, grey, and peach markings. She’s curled up into a ball on a dark blue sofa, fast asleep. The photo is taken from above, showing the circular shape of the cat’s position.
This is exactly how I’d like to spend my Sunday, but alas…I have kids to feed, laundry to do, and plots for overthrowing capitalism to make.
“She really doesn’t have to go on about it,” her father, Graeme Haworth, 61, said. “There’s much more to Beth than autism. Like her extensive coin collection, constant need for sameness and intense love of 15th century Tudor fashion.”
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Exactly! And no matter how much any MPP or MP has given from their own pockets, it doesn’t address the actual problem (which is, imo, systemic poverty and oppression). Individual acts of kindness matter but that’s not what these folks are doing; they’re trying to seem generous to get political clout
A young woman sits in a hospital chair with medical equipment nearby. Overall cancer rates rising among women under 50, as well as those 50 to 64 years old. Credit...Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post, via Getty Images
Cancer’s New Face: Younger and Female (Gift Article) www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/h...
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Textbook definition of “terrifyingly beautiful”, in my opinion
The comic that got us demonetised on Facebook back in August. (We’re no longer on Facebook).
My eldest often worries that nobody cares & that “bad guys” always win. I tell her that if she & I exist then other kind, community-minded people exist too. That all of us are collectively fighting against the “bad guys” like those in this article, & I know love will win.
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It shouldn’t take seeing a former white-collar colleague lose their housing to move our politicians to action. Individual donations and charity shouldn’t be relied upon to provide housing, food, and other necessities. Everyone should have what they need, full stop.
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Wow… Such BS being peddled by our own “Trump Light” (Except his policies aren’t “light”; Pollievre just uses more coherent wording than Trump does)
Nice! I hope you decide to share some more here 😁
