Street life ages a human body by 20 years. A 50-year-old forced onto the concrete has the chronic illnesses, organ decline, and physical frailty of a housed 70-year-old. We are leaving our aging grandparents to face biological failure on the pavement. #HousingIsAHumanRight #SovereignWealth
"1 in 25 Belgians suffers from long-term Covid: Senate votes today on better care" Belgium's Senate is set to approve 53 recommendations for Long COVID care, with effective treatment lacking. According to a 2023 study, 17% of patients in Belgium lost their jobs, while 6% faced threats or sanctions
Perfect example: this is how Shachi Kurl asks Emily Lowan about a wealth tax proposal. “What happens to the BC economy WHEN those ultra-wealthy individuals not only move themselves but also their money out of the province?” WHEN?? Wealth flight is largely a myth, but Kurl treats it as fact!
Aaron Swartz, coding prodigy and hacktivist who helped develop RSS and was a co-founder of Reddit, died by suicide after facing $1 million in fines and 35 years in prison for felony charges, just for downloading pdfs of research papers with the intention of making them accessible to the public.
Ce bout-là, ça va… Le bout où il est dans un panel de mâles qui commentent le cancer du sein, c’est plus sketch. Mais on décide pas toujours de là où on se retrouve...
Don't look away, Victoria. This is what our law-and-order municipal candidates want to use your tax dollars for. Take away people's last possessions and dignity.
NEW: Naloxone kits, medications, memorials, board games all end up in the trash, unhoused people and advocates say.
Read Part 2 of our series on bylaw enforcement and unhoused residents' possessions in Victoria.
I am definitely pro-bike lanes. To me, this is a central issue. However, I am also pro-human. I refuse to accept my taxes funding bylaw militias that harass homeless people into oblivion. Current bylaw and VicPD practices kill people. So no, I can’t vote for Alto.
Such important work! City Council can't do investigative reporting, but they can respond to solid reporting like this (including by getting rid of managers who ignore policy set by Council). And let's Tax The Rich and build homes for all. #yyj
👊🏻👊🏻 #punk
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NEW: We got consent from 7 unhoused people sheltering along Pandora Ave to hide Apple AirTags in their possessions. This is after years of City of Victoria denying allegations from unhoused ppl & witnesses who said bylaw don't follow their own policies. Now we have proof. Part 1 of 2 stories ⬇️
INVESTIGATION:
Victoria denies that its bylaw officers put unhoused people’s new, perfectly good tents in the trash.
So we tracked them with AirTags.
Same here...
I am over 50 and have voted in every election I’ve been eligible to vote in since reaching voting age. So it really makes me sad to come to this conclusion, but I will leave my ballot blank for Victoria mayor. No cop-loving jerks + no nutcases = zero options.
Hero.
Palestinian Lubna Speitan has had 56 of her relatives murdered by the Genocidal Israel in Gaza. She called Zionism Racist, it's far worse than that, now Caroline Lucas is calling for her to be banned from the Green Party. Disgusting.
