Open data from Ontario's Landlord and Tenant Board reveals that applications by tenants take twice as long as those by landlords. Tahmeed Shafiq on a system skewed against renters. thelocal.to/landlord-tenan…

I don’t know what is scarier, the fact that atmospheric CO2 just hit the highest level in human history, or that it has gone close to completely unnoticed…

Ford is funding HS next year with the expectation students take 2 virtual classes prior to grad. Pandemic online doesn't count.

And if students opt out to take those classes in person, the school DOES NOT GET THE FUNDING BACK FOR THEM.
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OISE stands in solidarity with our community and we are appalled that such incidents continue to occur in our community spaces. We emphatically condemn anti-Asian discrimination and racism, and all forms of hate and racial violence.

The Ontario government votes on Bill 8 today. Retweet if you think MPPs should vote yes to 10 permanent paid sick days. #onpoli

I reminded people in two different meetings today with different organizations that they cannot collect and analyze data about Indigenous people in their institutions —whether staff or patients or learners—without data stewardship agreements.

NEW: The Financial Accountability Office has found the Ontario government didn't spend ANY of the $2.7 billion COVID19 Response transfer payment it received.

This money could have made schools safer for our children & prevented a lot of suffering (and deaths).

Just. Sickening.

Thank you School of Cities! Honoured and excited to work alongside Drs. Dr. Fikile Nxumalo and Rosalind Hampton OISEUofT

Without paid sick leave, Ontario's essential workers are most at risk. Paid sick leave, saves lives. Add your name to this petition calling on @Fordnation to legislate paid sick leave now: act.leadnow.ca/sick-days-ON/

‘There is always light.
Only if we are brave enough to see it.
There is always light.
Only if we are brave enough to be it.’

— National Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman delivers a soaring poem at Pres. Biden’s inauguration

This Thursday @yasmin_mariposa and myself will be presenting our research with LGBTQ Families as part of the Focus on Research series at OISEUofT. You can register and join our talk here: oise-utoronto.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

Check these out- they are very helpful

Re Doug Ford & education. #Incompetence or #privatization end game? Chomsky:
'That’s the standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don’t work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital.'

Makes us wonder what would be happening without blocking! BBC News - Google blocking 18m coronavirus scam emails every day bbc.com/news/technolog…

Thanks to all of you amazing folks for your consistent and kind support to students and faculty!! You’re the best!!

The good things that come from challenging situations:BBC News - Coronavirus: Kind Canadians start 'caremongering' trend bbc.com/news/world-us-…

Apparently he listens in a different way than the rest of us!

We are not surprised!

#ClimateCrisis -with Suzuki, Lewis & Buffy St Marie at Con Hall-building commitment locally and globally- we have to fix this. ⁦@OISEese⁩ ⁦CTL | OISE⁩

Here's everything the Doug Ford government cut in its first year in office tinyurl.com/yxnzhfvy via Canada's National Observer