COMMUNITY ANGEL : Newmarket teacher uses shirts to make social impact - Way to go Megan!
newmarkettoday.ca/local-news/com… via NewmarketToday

Help make it happen for Voice Male: Pro-Feminist Men's Magazine Est. 1983 on @indiegogo igg.me/p/2864004/twtr
Next Gen Men is an incredible organization working w/boys & men to eradicate toxic masculinity. Please support if you can.

A policy talk on the future of disability inclusion in Canada with all-white panelists.

How come white leaders are the only ones invited to talk about the future?

& how come in 2023 we still have all-white panels...

'By failing to tax these huge land wealth gains, we’re locking in growing wealth inequality (and) we’re depriving the government of badly needed revenue that could be put toward direct investment in affordable housing.' jacobin.com/2023/09/housin…

#DYK that 80% schools in high-income areas offered arts clubs (e.g., school plays, visual arts clubs etc.) compared to 66% in low-income areas? Why should access to clubs & extracurriculars depend on the median income of school neighborhood?
Our new report releases soon.

'The Premier's Office has accepted #RyanAmato 's resignation as Chief of Staff to the Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing, effective immediately.'

And still, not a single Ontario PC Party MPP will speak out against the blatant corruption in their govt.

#DougFordIsCorrupt

Exciting Toronto Election 2023!

The government created homelessness and enables it through inaction thestar.com/opinion/contri… via @torontostar

Man who plunged city into financial decay supports woman that enabled him...

Today marks three years since Derek Chauvin murdered George Floyd. Three years since the largest series of antiracist demonstrations in history, followed by one of the most concerted racist movements to demonize and ban antiracist work in history.

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People for Education’s latest report looks at Indigenous education in Ontario schools. To quote The Honourable Murray Sinclair, “Education got us into this mess, and education will get us out of it.”

Read more at peopleforeducation.ca/our-work/signs…

When you make funding this precarious, you ensure that only students with existing supports (read: family money) can *make it* - just like so many aspects of the academy (publish/perish; uni rankings; for-profit conferences) this opposes the values of higher ed and what we study.

And now for a little sunshine in the otherwise bleak, neoliberal reality we're living in. youtu.be/9jhl1NtDd8Q Vidya Shah Herleen Kaur Arora I just had to share this with you.

We know this strategy all too well - manufacture a crisis and then 'appear' to be trying to solve it. The Cons are the masters of this - hence their name. Thanks Vidya Shah for always spitting the truth. More to unpack at the conference Sue Winton Erika Shaker

Happy birthday my friend Herleen Kaur Arora I hope you were completely spoiled. You deserve it!

Loving this session interrogating how we define ‘advantage’ and ‘disadvantage’ - maybe we need to include flexibility in work schedules, social supports and cultural capital - Alma Garza at U Texas #AERA2023

Dynamic duo of Ayşe🕊️ and her daughter Noor. Perfectly planned and carried out #Ramadan event tonight. The student leadership Tommy Douglas S.S. was on full display. Congrats Team! York Region DSB ISCS YRDSB 🏳️‍🌈

#Ramadan2023 celebration this evening Tommy Douglas S.S. Ayşe🕊️ York Region DSB

What an incredible evening of celebration and learning. Big shout out to the staff and students Tommy Douglas S.S. who hosted the Iftar Night Event with the incredible support of Ayşe🕊️ and many community members. ISCS YRDSB 🏳️‍🌈