"[C]ommunity policing."
"'[P]ublic relations job' meant to 'sell the department.'"
"[P]olice paired 'dialogue' and 'outreach' with relentless racial profiling, harassment, and physical and psychological violence."
#Ontario #Quebec #Canada #Education #Policing
Fun fact: bridge toll removal and 1% HST reduction cost us appx $300 million.
All of the devastating cuts in the current budget?
$300 million.
Is your 1% HST cut worth the loss of tourism, arts & culture, educational quality and wildlife conservation in NS?
Is it standard journalist practice to only interview police and apologists for a story like this? (Notice Cormier’s “we” identification)
Police always demand more gear, more money, more training but their violence is ceaseless. What prevents their murderous tyranny is reduced contact with people.
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Excerpt from 2025 UK government report: "...more studies demonstrated an association between drug-related law enforcement activities and increased violence than decreased violence." https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/drug-related-law-enforcement-activity-and-serious-violent-crime/the-impact-of-drug-related-law-enforcement-activity-on-serious-violence-and-homicide-a-systematic-review
Excerpt from 2010 study by BC Centre on Substance Use. "based on several decades of available data, the existing evidence strongly suggests that drug law enforcement contributes to gun violence and high homicide rates and that increasingly sophisticated methods of disrupting Canadian gangs involved in drug distribution could unintentionally increase violence. " https://www.bccsu.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/violence-eng.pdf
Excerpt from 2020 study in American Journal of Public Health. "opioid-related law enforcement drug seizures were significantly associated with increased spatiotemporal clustering of overdoses" https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/AJPH.2023.307291
Headline from 2025 Reason article. "A New Study Adds to the Evidence That Drug Busts Result in More Overdose Deaths." https://reason.com/2025/03/20/a-new-study-adds-to-the-evidence-that-drug-busts-result-in-more-overdose-deaths/
There's a ton of research which clearly shows that big drug busts:
- cause more violence
- cause more overdose deaths
- have no positive benefits
(I'm not saying cartel leaders are all great people, I'm saying the best and only way to put them out of business is to end the drug war.)
Self identified leftists who support policing confuse me and feel more like liberals
The Mayor has his chief of staff passing notes to senior staff marked “do not read in front of other people”.
This is grade school level governance.
Oh, also @huntgather.bsky.social @communitynotcops.bsky.social @rebeccahartery4.bsky.social @willaoaks.bsky.social - still missing folks. Need some union folks to tag into this 😅
Came here to say that - like, I'm reactive as hell and won't be donating to anything if it's something that's pissing me off 😅
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While I half kid, I’m also totally serious and would absolutely be down to get together with any folks to plan something like this. And, tbh, theres a chance we're getting pretty close to a collective level of rage that could actually turn into a solid response. 🤷♂️
@landofsticks.bsky.social @safehrm.bsky.social @terriclarke.bsky.social @benmacleod.bsky.social @sflkirk.bsky.social (and @ so many others talking traffic violence and transit (Cause I don't how this tagging etiquette shit works)
Want to cut wages and transit and say fuck bike lanes and traffic safety? Cool. Let’s see how well this city functions if we’re only relying on drivers to show up.
I feel like everyone in Halifax/Dartmouth who relies on transit, active transit, or literally anything that ISN’T driving to work should get together and plan a city-wide worker strike (including essential workers) before this budgets out.
Shocking no one…
Commenting to hopefully help me remember to come back to this later for a listen!
Peter’s also the first name listed in Fillmore’s campaign disclosures. Donations Andy made bank on - despite them mainly coming from these same barely surviving developers and LL's... Which Fillmore ALSO used for a ridiculous and obnoxious ad campaign filled with misinformation and false expertise
For context: Peter Polley is VP of Rental Housing Providers (RHPNS) - tied to the landlord-led “stop the tax” campaign (where they cry about being the victims who are barely surviving their own impoverishment.. all while shelling out ludicrous amounts on ads they refuse to disclose the amts for.)
This villain mayor election daredevil clip had me like, “is this Fillmore???"
The vibes are… eerily similar... and couldn't resist attempting a screen recording (despite my zero tech skills or wit)
His threat of needing to cut police budget is not the threat he thinks it is…..
Devastating. Fck you Tim Houston and your whole government.
Cleary has a question. Says from 2024 under Savage, to the 2026 budget that’s a 29% increase in mayor’s office budget. Given that the mayor wants a flat tax rate, is it appropriate to grow the mayor’s budget by 29%?
Nancy Hunter's remarks today at Halifax's Budget Committee, 1/2
Remarks from Kay Macdonald at Halifax's Budget Committee, 1/2
Halifax - we have the 3rd most congested traffic
Only real solution improved transit
political will
lets clog bus lanes with HOV cars
lets raise the price of transit to discourage use
well we don't want those pesky bikers being safe
Lets make it free to cross the bridge
Also part of this, while I don’t think predominantly here yet, is the lose of the use of vpn
I've just emailed my MP about this controversial and fascist bill.
If you're a Canadian like me. You should probably spend ten minutes of your time emailing your MPs. I mainly went for liberal MPs however...
So, if the “armoured vehicle” is a a legally required OHS buy. But the city under funds plows for proper road plowing and a bunch of cars crash due to required work transportation, is that a city legal OHS lawsuit?
- yes, I am being facetious here. But also….
"The military action on Monday brought the number of fatalities caused by US strikes to 145 since September"
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Bright Pink background with black and white photo of tents title text reads 100 Victoria Street community under attack Fightback KW logo in black. Blueprints of disruption episode 220
Despite MULITPLE court rulings - the Region of Waterloo continues to try to push people from the encampment at 100 Victoria Street.
In our latest, hear the many (carceral) ways Police, the Region and even social workers create more problems than they portend to address.
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