Ford and Calandra just keep punching down.
Cutting #OntEd language and math programs for vulnerable students is wrong.
“The program is typically offered at schools in underserved communities and provides opportunities for students who have fallen behind.”
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This.
Book jacket front: NATIONAL BESTSELLER CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE DEAR IJEAWELE OR A FEMINIST MANIFESTO IN FIFTEEN SUGGESTIONS
Book jacket back: HOW DO YOU RAISE A FEMINIST? Teach her self-reliance. • Teach her to love books. Teach her to ask questions. • Feminism and femininity are not mutually exclusive. • Never speak of marriage as an achievement. • Teach her about difference. Make difference ordinary. • Teach her about privilege and inequality and the importance of giving dignily to everyone. • Measure her on a scale of being the best version of herself. Give her a sense of identity. It matters. "FIERCE AND ILLUMINATING." -O. The Oprah Magazine ISBN 978-0-7352-7341-2 9 780735 273412
Perfect day to reread this book. Happy International Women’s Day, everyone!! #IWD2026
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Getting a newsletter like this is legit the kind of thing that makes me refuse to incorporate the tags for names in my newsletters.
Today members of our Kitchener Centre NDP riding association attended the OSAP protest in Kitchener. Here is what some of the local students had to say! #OSAPprotest #HandsOffOurEducation #SaveOSAP
Poor turtle. I was really rooting for them.
Short video to explain ranked ballot voting (which is what we’re using to elect the leader of the federal NDP): youtu.be/3Y3jE3B8HsE?...
Kimiko holding ETFO flag
People over profit patch
Youth holding protest signs
Ramzi, Kimiko, and Stephen
Spent the afternoon protesting OSAP cuts with students from Kitchener high schools and Conestoga College.
There will be a large protest at Queen’s Park on the 24th.
Doug Ford is a huge part of the origin story of an amazing group of youth leaders.
March 8 city hall osap rally 12-2
Today:
Sending love to all the people who were late getting somewhere today because they forgot about the time change!
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Excellent. You just doubled my follower count!! 🤣
I officially exist on Gander now.
Anyone else from here over there?
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Some of my favourite humans showed up today to volunteer, play games, break bread, and help raise money for the YWCA Women’s Shelter and collect period product donations for the Food Bank. Guest speaker @edendebebe.bsky.social was incredible. Thank you to everyone who helped out and showed up!!!! 💕
If Ontario has money to build Ford Island then we have money to provide non-verbal students who elope with 1:1 Educational Assistant support to keep them safe.
#OntEd
Eden debebe
Kimiko and Amanda
WRLC women’s committee
Jodi and Leanne
A fabulous day with incredible humans raising money for the YWCA Women’s shelter and collecting period products for the Food Bank. Thank you to all of our Labour Council and community volunteers for making this day possible. #IWD2026
Chart showing 6.35 billion dollars in underfunding in Ontario education since 2018
#OntEd school boards have been taken over and are still in debt.
It’s not a “spending problem”.
It’s a funding problem.
We need to invest in public education.
Standing up to authority figures can feel really scary, and some students need support to do so. Cultural and gender norms around addressing or challenging authority figures vary widely.
When we tell students to “self-advocate” in a classroom to get their needs met, it may not be simple for them.
Kimiko, Chandra-Li, Leanne, and Rob
Wonderful virtual kitchen table conversation on gender equity with #NDPleadership candidate Rob Ashton this evening. Rob's passion for youth, the working class, and his allyship with women and gender diverse people shone through tonight. Thank you to everyone who was able to join us tonight!
Totally blown away by the numbers of students who showed up in both Waterloo and Toronto today to #SaveOsap.
Children always pay the highest price in wars they did not choose.
Oof. This post from United Nations hit me with all the feels.
Sending love to every child living in an area of conflict.
Sending love to every Momma trying to stay calm and keep her babies safe.
Every day in #OntEd staff are asked to put an accommodation into place like “provide hand over hand support” while also being asked to follow a safety plan that says “stay more than an arm’s reach away from this student at all times.”
Thank you for coming to my #EdTalk.
Education Minister to “bring back paper report cards”… um… okay, so which boards are not sending home paper report cards? Maybe a few boards were trialing this for cost-savings due to government underfunding?
#OntEd
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NDP évent poster
How can we work together to address the affordability crisis? How can we protect and expand publicly funded healthcare and pharmacare? Join this community social and conversation on March 12! 6-8 pm 169 Wharncliffe road south.
Thanks for the kind words. I know that what I can provide is nothing compared to what they actually need, but I will keep trying.
Be gentle with yourself as you process that which you cannot control.
The heaviness of this weighs on you because you care.
And because it hurts to witness others suffering.
Thank you for caring.
❤️🩹
STEM poster
Ignite STEM networking night happening in Waterloo: bit.ly/40DV08V
And also:
Calgary: bit.ly/3OHBV36
Vancouver: bit.ly/46Vrf7p
Toronto: lnkd.in/eZryA6n4
St. John's: bit.ly/4skbGOI
One can only hope that this helps students to see the truth-the Conservative government is not setting them up for success.
I've been wondering if this will turn out to be the beginning of the end of the conservative youth movement.
Federally, the CPC is often leading in the youngest age bracket.
Will this provincial issue be enough to shift the momentum away?
I wish we had 1:1 and small group funded trauma/mental health counselling in #OntEd to offer our students instead of teachers trying our best to patch together little bits of strategies like this for kids who are struggling (in between reading lessons). But I guess this will have to do.
We spent some time talking about feeling safe now, what we can and can’t control, and how we can pull our brains back to the present when worrying about the things we can’t control. We talked about tuning into sounds in our immediate environment to help ground us in the present.
