Steve James
@187lang.bsky.social
My career was focused on affordable housing and social justice. Now retired and living in the Hamilton area.
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10 years of reconciliation work, gone in less than 8 months. #cdnpoli
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November 26, 2025 at 8:48 PM
10 years of reconciliation work, gone in less than 8 months. #cdnpoli
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YES, PLEASE
I could not agree more strongly with this. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Senators call on prime minister to ban advertising for sports betting | CBC News
Two senators are calling on the federal government to ban advertising for sports betting in Canada. A letter to the prime minister from Charlottetown Sen. Percy Downe and Waterloo Sen. Marty Deacon as...
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November 23, 2025 at 11:58 PM
YES, PLEASE
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November 23, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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Everyone must have access to safe vaccination.
Novavax is the safest option for those with Long COVID.
Please help bring back access to this excellent vaccination tool for all Canadians:
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Novavax is the safest option for those with Long COVID.
Please help bring back access to this excellent vaccination tool for all Canadians:
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Sign the Petition
Demand Access to NovaVax for All Canadians
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November 22, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Everyone must have access to safe vaccination.
Novavax is the safest option for those with Long COVID.
Please help bring back access to this excellent vaccination tool for all Canadians:
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Novavax is the safest option for those with Long COVID.
Please help bring back access to this excellent vaccination tool for all Canadians:
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"Beginning in 2018, Conservatives across the country — Ontario’s Doug Ford, Saskatchewan’s Scott Moe, Quebec’s Francois Legault, and now Alberta’s Danielle Smith — have invoked the notwithstanding clause a combined twelve times"
Cons don't believe in silly things like the "Charter of Rights"
Cons don't believe in silly things like the "Charter of Rights"
"But the only way this creeping abuse of the Notwithstanding Clause really ends is in the court of public opinion, and with a clear and unambiguous rebuke of a government that’s trying to weaponize it." @maxfawcett.bsky.social @nationalobserver.com
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The use of the Notwithstanding Clause is out of control. It’s up to voters to stop it
The architects of Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms thought the Notwithstanding Clause would only be used in exceptional circumstances. Conservative premiers seem determined to prove them wrong.
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November 21, 2025 at 10:27 PM
"Beginning in 2018, Conservatives across the country — Ontario’s Doug Ford, Saskatchewan’s Scott Moe, Quebec’s Francois Legault, and now Alberta’s Danielle Smith — have invoked the notwithstanding clause a combined twelve times"
Cons don't believe in silly things like the "Charter of Rights"
Cons don't believe in silly things like the "Charter of Rights"
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This is a reminder of the importance of genuine community during these turbulent times.
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Professor John McKnight: About John McKnight and the Asset-Based Community Development Institute
YouTube video by The MN Gov. Council on Developmental Disabilities
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November 19, 2025 at 7:00 PM
This is a reminder of the importance of genuine community during these turbulent times.
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Few things bug me more than higher ed leaders saying that we lost our mission and lost the trust of the public, when we have actually been the target of a decades-long smear campaign by the right wing that worked. The moment we’re losing our mission is right now, in capitulation.
November 19, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Few things bug me more than higher ed leaders saying that we lost our mission and lost the trust of the public, when we have actually been the target of a decades-long smear campaign by the right wing that worked. The moment we’re losing our mission is right now, in capitulation.
Doug Ford is rushing Bill 33 and Bill 60 through — Bill 33 silences parents and cuts student services. Bill 60 makes it easier for landlords to evict tenants and raise rents, and opens the door to privatizing our water.
New/Mode | Make your voice impossible to ignore
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November 18, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Doug Ford is rushing Bill 33 and Bill 60 through — Bill 33 silences parents and cuts student services. Bill 60 makes it easier for landlords to evict tenants and raise rents, and opens the door to privatizing our water.
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#Bill60 will likely be passed this week, and it will grow homelessness across Ontario — something our food banks, shelters, and municipalities do not have the resources to address.
When you wonder why encampments are growing in your community, remember Bill 60.
My remarks today at the OLA:
When you wonder why encampments are growing in your community, remember Bill 60.
My remarks today at the OLA:
November 17, 2025 at 6:07 PM
#Bill60 will likely be passed this week, and it will grow homelessness across Ontario — something our food banks, shelters, and municipalities do not have the resources to address.
When you wonder why encampments are growing in your community, remember Bill 60.
My remarks today at the OLA:
When you wonder why encampments are growing in your community, remember Bill 60.
My remarks today at the OLA:
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Ford also wants to elect judges (US style).
With the tightened grip on schools, hospitals, towns, conservations and now real estate, the man collecting powers this fast isn’t running a province so much as auditioning for a crown he swears he doesn’t want.
With the tightened grip on schools, hospitals, towns, conservations and now real estate, the man collecting powers this fast isn’t running a province so much as auditioning for a crown he swears he doesn’t want.
November 17, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Ford also wants to elect judges (US style).
With the tightened grip on schools, hospitals, towns, conservations and now real estate, the man collecting powers this fast isn’t running a province so much as auditioning for a crown he swears he doesn’t want.
With the tightened grip on schools, hospitals, towns, conservations and now real estate, the man collecting powers this fast isn’t running a province so much as auditioning for a crown he swears he doesn’t want.
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"More than half of the projects Minister Piccini's office gave funding to were ranked by bureaucrats as poor, low or medium against the program's goals and criteria.
Those projects received about $742 million over the first five rounds of funding."
Looking to buy: Votes
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Those projects received about $742 million over the first five rounds of funding."
Looking to buy: Votes
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ANALYSIS | A minister under fire, alleged lobbyist connections: What to know about the latest Queen's Park controversy | CBC News
The latest scandal at Queen’s Park revolves around the Skills Development Fund – a little known pocket of government funding for organizations to address challenges in hiring, training or retraining w...
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November 17, 2025 at 1:45 PM
"More than half of the projects Minister Piccini's office gave funding to were ranked by bureaucrats as poor, low or medium against the program's goals and criteria.
Those projects received about $742 million over the first five rounds of funding."
Looking to buy: Votes
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Those projects received about $742 million over the first five rounds of funding."
Looking to buy: Votes
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More Ontarians need to take notice.
If you have not noticed yet, Ford has already taken control of several areas, Education, Healthcare, Municipalities, now real estate, he is consolidating power??? #FordMustBeRemoved #FordisCorrupt #Ontario
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Ontario weighs taking control of real estate regulator | CBC News
The Ontario government is considering taking control of the province's real estate regulator after an audit into its handling of what it describes as iPro Realty's "misappropriation" of funds.
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November 17, 2025 at 1:43 PM
More Ontarians need to take notice.
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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
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Earlier this year a group of government and CAF officials, plus health care leaders, gathered for only the second war games involving Canada’s health care system since 1939. It was more urgent, and less hypothetical. And it became a question about national resolve. www.thestar.com/news/canada/...
Can Canada’s health system survive if we find ourselves at war?
The country at war would be more than just the logistics of hospitals and ambulances and doctors and nurses. It could become something Canada has rarely faced: a true test
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November 14, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Earlier this year a group of government and CAF officials, plus health care leaders, gathered for only the second war games involving Canada’s health care system since 1939. It was more urgent, and less hypothetical. And it became a question about national resolve. www.thestar.com/news/canada/...
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What a photograph.
“Nearly two dozen arrested as faith leaders protested outside a federal immigration facility near Chicago…”
Arrested large amounts of peaceful clergy face first on pavement is a pretty good sign you’re not the good guys in the story. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
“Nearly two dozen arrested as faith leaders protested outside a federal immigration facility near Chicago…”
Arrested large amounts of peaceful clergy face first on pavement is a pretty good sign you’re not the good guys in the story. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
November 15, 2025 at 1:51 PM
What a photograph.
“Nearly two dozen arrested as faith leaders protested outside a federal immigration facility near Chicago…”
Arrested large amounts of peaceful clergy face first on pavement is a pretty good sign you’re not the good guys in the story. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
“Nearly two dozen arrested as faith leaders protested outside a federal immigration facility near Chicago…”
Arrested large amounts of peaceful clergy face first on pavement is a pretty good sign you’re not the good guys in the story. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
What odds would you give that the Ford government will deliver a valuable public asset into private hands for a windfall profit? Does this feel like deja vu?
🚨 BREAKING 🚨
My office just uncovered that, buried in their Fall Economic Statement, Ford’s Conservatives are quietly seizing control of Exhibition Place.
#ONpoli
My office just uncovered that, buried in their Fall Economic Statement, Ford’s Conservatives are quietly seizing control of Exhibition Place.
#ONpoli
November 14, 2025 at 1:59 PM
What odds would you give that the Ford government will deliver a valuable public asset into private hands for a windfall profit? Does this feel like deja vu?
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We have 7 months of evidence of Mark Carney’s ill-intent and the only thing that keeps him in a favourable light is the complete abdication of Canadian media from their jobs.
#cdnmedia #Canadasky #cdnpoli
#cdnmedia #Canadasky #cdnpoli
This seems hyperbolic to people who have not read this legislation but it isn’t. Furthermore people will tend to think it is an exaggeration because two women are presenting them this information. This isn’t a hyperbolic analysis and there is a very good reason it is not front-page Canadian news.
November 11, 2025 at 8:12 PM
We have 7 months of evidence of Mark Carney’s ill-intent and the only thing that keeps him in a favourable light is the complete abdication of Canadian media from their jobs.
#cdnmedia #Canadasky #cdnpoli
#cdnmedia #Canadasky #cdnpoli
Mark Carney is making concessions to Trump and trying to create Trump-style borders and surveillance with his new bills. Demand he respect our rights and treat people with care and dignity. Withdraw Bill C-2 and Bill C-12. act.gp/40oxP2E
Tell Carney: We don’t want Trump-style borders & surveillance state!
Sign this petition to defend our human rights and privacy
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November 12, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Mark Carney is making concessions to Trump and trying to create Trump-style borders and surveillance with his new bills. Demand he respect our rights and treat people with care and dignity. Withdraw Bill C-2 and Bill C-12. act.gp/40oxP2E
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“I’m not just disgusted by #StripperGate I’m furious at Ford for all the scandals giving our money to his rich friends! Money could go to healthcare, homelessness, youth unemployment! We aren’t being protected by Ford gov - we need protection from them!
🤬🤬 #Onpoli
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November 11, 2025 at 5:17 PM
“I’m not just disgusted by #StripperGate I’m furious at Ford for all the scandals giving our money to his rich friends! Money could go to healthcare, homelessness, youth unemployment! We aren’t being protected by Ford gov - we need protection from them!
🤬🤬 #Onpoli
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Two lessons we all need to learn really quickly which help explain the situation we are in.
1. Your data is the most valuable thing you have, this is why they are prepared to take all this hate to steal it!
2. You can't fight a coup if you refuse to name it, it IS a coup.
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1. Your data is the most valuable thing you have, this is why they are prepared to take all this hate to steal it!
2. You can't fight a coup if you refuse to name it, it IS a coup.
youtu.be/TZOoT8AbkNE
This Is What a Digital Coup Looks Like | Carole Cadwalladr | TED
YouTube video by TED
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November 10, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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So rare to read a well reason opinion out of Alberta these days. I almost skipped reading this piece. I am very glad I didn’t. We need to review the clause, and amend our constitution, if we can. Maybe this is a matter for the courts to rule on - using the constitution like a hammer.
“It was never meant to be used for the benefit of the government itself, only for the benefit of citizens (the public).” - David King, former Alberta Minister of Education
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Opinion: Notwithstanding clause never meant to be used to benefit the government
Dave King was was there when clause was born in Alberta cabinet. It was never meant to be used for the benefit of the government itself.
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November 8, 2025 at 1:36 PM
So rare to read a well reason opinion out of Alberta these days. I almost skipped reading this piece. I am very glad I didn’t. We need to review the clause, and amend our constitution, if we can. Maybe this is a matter for the courts to rule on - using the constitution like a hammer.
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Straight up.
Pierre Poilievre is the party of trump.
Pierre Poilievre is the party of trump.
#PierrePoilievre and his goon squad have been issuing threats to MPs and even contacting the families of the members they threaten. Can you even imagine what Poilievre and his band of creeps would do if they got their hands on real power? I shudder at the thought. #cdnpoli #cdnmedia #NeverPoilievre
November 8, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Straight up.
Pierre Poilievre is the party of trump.
Pierre Poilievre is the party of trump.