#suze morrison

[yourdailyqueer]

Suze Morrison

Gender: Female

Sexuality: Bisexual

DOB: 4 February 1988

Ethnicity: White, First Nation

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Politician (New Democratic)

Note: Has endometriosis

[onpoli]

1,265 crosses were placed outside Queen’s Park this morning to represent those who died due to opioid overdoses in Ontario in 2017. Queen’s Park security staff started removing the crosses before the vigil had even ended. NDP MPPs Bhutila Karpoche, Suze Morrison, and Terence Kernaghan were in attendance.

A statement from the organizers, the Toronto Overdose Prevention Society and the Toronto Harm Reduction Alliance, is here.

[onpoli]

Most polls predicted a win for Doug Ford in Ontario’s election, but there were reasons to be optimistic that he would fail to secure a majority. The final results were obviously disappointing, but for all of us feeling let down today, there are many winners worth celebrating. Here are just a few:

Suze Morrison

Suze Morrison, a community advocate working in the Indigenous non-profit sector, secured an NDP victory in Toronto Centre for the very first time. Toronto Centre was widely considered to be “one of the safest Liberal seats in the province.” Morrison will be Ontario’s first Indigenous MPP.

Gurratan Singh

As the brother of federal NDP leader Jagmeet Singh, Gurratan Singh was a major target for attacks in the buildup to the election. Gurratan was castigated by the Progressive Conservatives for his no-holds-barred criticism of the police, but he won handily in Brampton East.

Laura Lindo

In 2014, Kitchener Centre was won by the Liberals with the PCs finishing in second place. The PCs would have been confident of winning here this year, but NDP candidate Laura Lindo won by a landslide. Lindo is the Director of Diversity and Equity at Wilfrid Laurier University.

Jessica Bell

Like Gurratan Singh, Jessica Bell was repeatedly attacked by the PCs. Bell was criticized due to her arrest during a protest over a mercury contamination scandal, but she won her seat in University-Rosedale by over 13,000 votes.

Mike Schreiner

Mike Schreiner has won the Ontario Green Party’s first ever seat in Queen’s Park. NDP leader Andrea Horwath has been supportive of Schreiner, advocating for him to be invited to debates, and Schreiner may turn out to be a valuable ally for her.

[onpoli]

Toronto Centre MPP Suze Morrison, City Councillor Kristyn Wong-Tam, and TDSB Trustee Chris Moise hosted a town hall tonight in Toronto and invited a lawyer to talk about how the legal challenge against Doug Ford’s cuts to city council is shaping up.

This is just a brief clip of the lawyer’s speech where he discussed how it may be argued that the cuts are a violation of our Charter rights. The video quality is really patchy, but his entire speech is worth checking out (it’s posted here).

Overall, the tone of the speech wasn’t optimistic about the legal challenge succeeding, but he also said that even if it fails, that doesn’t mean the 25 ward system would be implemented permanently. We’d be stuck with it for at least one election cycle, but if the PCs are voted out in the next provincial election, we could revert back to the 47 ward system.

I saw CBC reporters and camera crews there, so they’ll probably have a more in-depth story about this posted soon.

[thestarfishdancer]

Historic NDP win as Suze Morrison takes Toronto Centre | The Star

Liberals lose their grip on longtime hold of downtown riding

I’m experiencing a lot of disappointment in Ontario right now, but not in Toronto Centre. I met Suze a few years ago when we took a course together, and I’m so lucky to know her. I know she’s going to do good things, and I’m super proud of her. She’s incredibly awesome, and I look forward to seeing the good she continues to do.

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Suze Morrison is the Ontario NDP’s candidate for the riding of Toronto Centre. She is an experienced communications professional and has worked across Ontario on healthcare, community safety, diversity, inclusion and Indigenous Issues. She says her passion for change is rooted in her personal experience of overcoming poverty, precarious housing and gender-based violence.

More information here:

https://suzemorrison.ontariondp.ca/

The Ontario election is on June 7th, 2018.