Tag: Public Safety
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Municipal Socialist Alliance Says No to the Proposed Increase to the Toronto Police Budget
“The Municipal Socialist Alliance says No to the proposed increase to the Toronto police budget. The notion that the hike is a step towards enhanced public safety is completely ill-conceived. While most residents who addressed the recent Police Board hearing called for measures to address mental health, affordable housing and police accountability, the appointed Board members ignored them and sided with the few Business Improvement Area reps. Every dollar that goes to the police is…
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More Police and TTC Constables will not Increase Public Safety
In response to recent public safety incidents Toronto Mayor John Tory used his authority to inject millions of tax-payer dollars into the police department, which has already seen major budget increases while medical and education budgets are slashed. During a news conference, Tory admitted that he had intended to “address the issue of violence on Toronto streets” before the stabbing incidents and it seems that the recent incidents are just an opportunity to push more…
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Stop Military Recruitment of High School Students
Fight Climate Change Not War! Canada out of NATO! End Student Military Recruitment Notes: [1] The 2021 Budget for the Department of Defence is broken down by funding sought through the Main Estimates process (83% of total, $24.3 billion CAD) and funding sought outside of the Main Estimates process (17% of total, ~ $5 billion CAD). [2] In the 2020-2021 fiscal year, the Department of Defence reported 477 kilotonnes of greenhouse gas emissions. All federal…
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The York Region District School Board Refuses to Adopt the IHRA Defintion of Antisemitism
The Toronto District School Board (TDSB) quietly adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) defintion of antisemitism in 2018. Since then, the state of Israel bombed Gaza multiple times, destroyed hundred of Palestinian settlements, and murdered both children and journalists. But the mass struggle to smash Israeli settler-colonialism and to win the liberation of Palestinians grew manyfold. Major human rights organizations released landmark reports labeling Israel as an apartheid state. International pressure to lift the…
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John Tory, Hands Off Cyclists
Earlier this month, the Twitter account of Toronto Mayor John Tory gave high praise to Toronto’s new automated speed enforcement cameras, which reported to have issued more than 43,000 tickets in June and July of this year. In the tweet, Tory stated ‘these cameras are one of the many ways we are working to make our streets safer for all and to further increase enforcement on speeding and reckless drivers across the city.’ Tory’s social…
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Municipal Socialist Alliance (MSA) Denounces Anti-Palestinian Racism
Municipal Socialist Alliance (MSA) hopes to endorse school board trustee candidates who oppose anti-Palestinian racism in our schools. We continue to witness that the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) entrenches anti-Palestinian racism by equating anti-zionism with anti-semitism. We saw the TDSB attack Desmond Cole for proclaiming “Free Palestine” at a learning session for senior TDSB educators. We saw Javier Davila, a student equity program adviser for the TDSB, placed on home assignment for sharing resources…