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Shawn Micallef 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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‘I knew it was a car bomb straight away’: the day my mother Daphne Caruana Galizia was murdered theguardian.com/world/2023/oct…

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NEW: In the fallout of #Mississauga council not passing a motion showing support for 4-plex homes, the city has been denied housing funding from the federal government, believed to be $120M. I hear this letter from Sean Fraser was sent to council around 5 p.m. #Missipoli

NEW: In the fallout of #Mississauga council not passing a motion showing support for 4-plex homes, the city has been denied housing funding from the federal government, believed to be $120M. I hear this letter from <a href="/SeanFraserMP/">Sean Fraser</a> was sent to council around 5 p.m. #Missipoli
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“the only real revenge for murder is achieving peace.” @ayodeh in an essay for New York Times Opinion quoting poet chaim nachman bialik. nytimes.com/2023/10/19/opi…

Shawn Micallef 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ (@shawnmicallef) 's Twitter Profile Photo

So what is it about this unremarkable far flung big box company from Austria that so enthralled the Ford gov't and local architect and design firms. The latter is mercenary amoral money of course - but what of the gov't? Odd. 🧐

uospɹɐɥɔᴉɹ uᴉʌǝʞ 🇨🇦🇦🇬🏳️‍🌈 Limp Wristkit (@korichardson) 's Twitter Profile Photo

It’s going to be incredibly hard to get rid of these anti-democratic “strong mayor” powers when they’re used for things you don’t like after you’ve cheered for them to be used for things you do. Ontario politics really has become, “The ends justify the means.” #ONpoli

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Mississauga Mayor Bonnie Crombie stepped away from her provincial Liberal leadership race to use strong mayor powers to veto a council vote that would’ve denied 4-plexes in that city, after the federal liberals threatened to pull $120M in proposed housing funding. So, a 🧵:

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All of this, amplified by stepping back in from her leave. She could've used Council's failure to say she will make this policy across Ontario (or in the GTA or whatever) when she's Premier. That would have showed leadership in her current arena without comprising democracy.

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This is a fine appreciation of Roberto, who gave so much to Toronto. I loved his restaurant and the hospitality it provided so much I wrote this a few years ago smartpeopleiknow.com/2022/12/30/on-…