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Bill 254 is an attempt by Ford to take advantage of the moment and tip the scales in his favour for the next election.

There was a lot of news on April 19.

Federal NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh called on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to consider invoking the federal Emergencies Act to help make the distribution of vaccines more equitable.

In Ontario, 4,447 new cases of COVID-19 were reported, 755 people were in intensive care and 516 on ventilators, and 19 died.

And, amid warnings that ICU capacities were near being maxed out, a law that will radically change Ontario’s Elections Act received Royal Assent.

Bill 254, Protecting Ontario Elections Act, brought forward by Premier Doug Ford’s Conservatives, makes several significant changes to election rules, including doubling personal donation limits and reducing the amount of time parties have to give notice for fundraising events.

These changes, which got little press attention, are anti-democratic and should be opposed, as privately financing public elections can lead to even more corruption and disenfranchisement.

When politicians can be bought to read Special Scrolls — as Ford recently was through a $1,000 per ticket Zoom Fundraiser that promised donors their names would be passed on to the premier — they can be bought to build a super highway through their friends’ land. They can be bought to reduce regulations that were intended to keep workers safe. They can be bought to work on behalf of the ones who own them rather than the people they were elected to serve.

But these changes aren’t the worst of the bill, as it has also changed Ontario’s pre-election period from a very long six months to a ridiculous 12 months. This means that Ontario will be in a pre-election year at least once every three years.

Tagging: @politicsofcanada @onpoli

sciencetylia

Doug Ford really saw the USA’s dysfunctional election system with long election periods, large donations from the rich and 3rd parties influencing democracy, and said I WANT THAT.

everythingfox

lots of kitties

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azspot

Since January, ICE has arrested about 250 students who were enrolled at a fake university in Farmington Hills set up by ICE to lure in students.

The students had arrived legally in the U.S. on student visas, but since the University of Farmington was later revealed to be a creation of federal agents, they lost their immigration status after it was shut down in January. The school was located on Northwestern Highway near 13 Mile Road in Farmington Hills and staffed with undercover agents posing as university officials.

Out of the approximately 250 students arrested on administrative charges, “nearly 80% were granted voluntary departure and departed the United States,” the Detroit office of ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) told the Free Press in a statement Tuesday.

allthecanadianpolitics

Documents show Ford government spent more than $230 million to cancel renewable energy projects

Premier Doug Ford said Thursday he is “proud” of his decision to tear up hundreds of renewable energy deals, a move that his government acknowledges could cost taxpayers more than $230 million.

Ford dismissed criticism that his Progressive Conservatives are wasting public money, telling a news conference that the cancellation of 750 contracts signed by the previous Liberal government will save cash.

“I’m so proud of that,” Ford said of his decision. “I’m proud that we actually saved the taxpayers $790 million when we cancelled those terrible, terrible, terrible wind turbines that really for the last 15 years have destroyed our energy file.”

Later Thursday, Ford went further in defending the cancelled contracts, saying “if we had the chance to get rid of all the wind mills we would.”

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note-a-bear

For ppl who need the source here’s a guardian article

fandompariah-deactivated2021120

When I worked at Amazon a microwave fell from five layers up in the racking and broke the arm of an order picker.

They were an agency temp so Amazon called the agency to let him go and have another temp sent *before* they called an ambulance, when he tried to put in sick days they turned around and told him “Sorry you’d already been let go before the accident was logged anywhere”

postsatire

The man crying is George Gillette, tribal chairman of the Mandan, Arikara, and Hidatsa tribes of North Dakota in 1948. He was forced under the threat of death of all his people to sign over the tribes’ homeland on the fertile floodplain of the Missouri River in order to build the Garrison Dam.

The final settlement legislation denied tribes’ right to use the reservoir shoreline for grazing, hunting, fishing or other purposes, including irrigation development and royalty rights on all subsurface minerals within the reservoir area.

After the dam was constructed, the three tribes were scattered, their communities and extended families flung to different shores of the 200-mile-long Lake Sakakawea.

This is what your freedom and democracy is built on.

accras

America was NEVER great. “In creating the dam, the federal government flooded 156,000 acres of prime real estate, including the tribe’s capital. More than 300 families and 1,700 residents – 80 percent of the membership at the time – were forced to relocate, prompting the loss of an entire way of life, tribal members say.“ [x]

blackqueerblog

Black-Asian animosity is an American tradition

Protesters call for boycott of Bronzeville store connected to viral video

Brooklyn Family Attacked With Acetone And Brooms By Nail Salon Workers

China has an irrational fear of a “black invasion” bringing drugs, crime, and interracial marriage

Japan’s blackface problem: the country’s bizarre, troubled relationship with race

Youngest black women to own Beauty Store in California went out of business, they say they were rejected by Korean manufacturers

Dramatic video shows Lafayette nail salon holding customer hostage

Asian store owner punched Black woman in the mouth as her kids watched

Oklahoma court upholds sentence for ex-cop convicted of rape

Ashley said it all

bryannagraham

I see NO lies

arthoerina

i don’t understand why people of color think they can’t be anti-black? white supremacy has worked so well that white people barely have to do anything because non-white people reinforce their systems and ideologies for them. so foh with that kumbaya let’s all come together bs. you can’t have solidarity between ppl of color if they’re anti-black

tallblackguy

Blogging for receipts.

disasterhimbo

Hey y’all, I don’t normally do this but there’s a black man in Texas about to be wrongfully executed so please consider signing this petition:

FREE RODNEY REED

odinsblog

10 facts you need to know: https://www.innocenceproject.org/10-facts-you-need-to-know-about-rodney-reed-who-is-scheduled-for-execution-on-november-20/

Link to article: https://www.innocenceproject.org/stand-with-rodney-reed-on-texas-death-row/

Link to the petition: https://www.freerodneyreed.com/

wtfisgoingonews

An indigenous forest protector named Paulo Paulino Guajajara was shot dead in the Amazon by illegal loggers on Saturday. It is the latest incident in a wave of violence targeting indigenous land protectors since the election of Brazil’s far-right President Jair Bolsonaro last year. Guajajara was killed when he and another forest protector were ambushed by a group of illegal loggers inside the Araribóia reservation in the northeastern state of Maranhão.

saddest-faery-gothmother

Published today, November 4 2019

cop-disliker69

The real ecoterrorism is done by the people pillaging the environment, not the ones protecting it.

quasi-normalcy

Every time I think that I've grasped the full extent of just how heinous Canadian policy towards the First Nations has been, I learn some new fact of history that lowers the floor another 20 feet. Today's crime is the 1927 amendment to the Indian Act that made it illegal for indigenous people to hire lawyers or file land-claims disputes without the permission of the federal government.

allthecanadianpolitics

Ontario NDP leader Andrea Horwath has released a statement in response to the protests that are ongoing today in response to the Toronto Public Library giving Meghan Murphy, a TERF, a platform:

https://twitter.com/AndreaHorwath/status/1189236435561472000

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rowark

Police currently have protestors detained inside the library, including Gwen Benaway, who organized the rally and also happened to win the Governor General’s Literacy Award, earlier today.

The Toronto Public Library tweeted congratulations to the award recipients while one of them was being detained inside one of their branches.

Like… wtf.

activistnyc-deactivated20200530

#NoNewJails: Community organizations and activists across all city boroughs unified in Chinatown, NY to protest Mayor Bill de Blasio’s $11 billion Borough Based Jails plan. The Mayor’s plan would build four skyscraper jails, sited for Chinatown, Kew Gardens, Boerum Hill and Mott Haven. These jails would displace many of the senior citizens living in these areas, especially in the neighborhood of Chinatown. Activists demanded that instead of investing in more jails, this money should be invested in affordable housing, education and healthcare.

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rightsandhumanity

The New York Times

In a major escalation of violence since protests began four months ago, the Hong Kong police fired a live round at a protester from point-blank range. We analyzed the footage to create a comprehensive picture of what exactly happened.

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