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How to vote in the local elections on May 4th.
Together we can remove 1000s of Tory councillors from 100s of Tory councils.
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Together we can remove 1000s of Tory councillors from 100s of Tory councils.
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TL:DR
To find out who to vote for to remove, or block, Tories from your council on May 4th:
1. Visit StopTheTories.Vote
2. Put in your postcode
3. Tell a friend, download a poster, signup for updates
4. Show up and vote tactically!
(Remember your Voter ID!)
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To find out who to vote for to remove, or block, Tories from your council on May 4th:
1. Visit StopTheTories.Vote
2. Put in your postcode
3. Tell a friend, download a poster, signup for updates
4. Show up and vote tactically!
(Remember your Voter ID!)
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*Appropriate Tory-removing hashtags
#LocalElections
#TacticalVoting
#VoteTactically
#ProportionalRepresentation
#GTTO
#StopTheTories
#VoterID
#FBPA #FBPPR
#LetsFixIt
#ToriesOut
#SunakOut
#ProgressiveAlliance
#UniteToWin
#FairerVotingSystem
#VoteSmart
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#LocalElections
#TacticalVoting
#VoteTactically
#ProportionalRepresentation
#GTTO
#StopTheTories
#VoterID
#FBPA #FBPPR
#LetsFixIt
#ToriesOut
#SunakOut
#ProgressiveAlliance
#UniteToWin
#FairerVotingSystem
#VoteSmart
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Hey Toronto 👋
What will we do with extra lawn signs? Plastic-eating mushrooms that break them down in weeks instead of 200+ years, obvs.
Vote for 🇨🇦's first municipal climate innovation lab to explore city solutions like this.
#LetsFixIt #topoli
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What will we do with extra lawn signs? Plastic-eating mushrooms that break them down in weeks instead of 200+ years, obvs.
Vote for 🇨🇦's first municipal climate innovation lab to explore city solutions like this.
#LetsFixIt #topoli
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2/ I just want to live in an affordable, innovative, efficient, equitable, and corruption-free city. Don't you, Toronto?
If so, tell your friends & vote. Grab a sign & get the word out.
One of the lowest voter turnout rates ever is projected. It may never be easier.
If so, tell your friends & vote. Grab a sign & get the word out.
One of the lowest voter turnout rates ever is projected. It may never be easier.
3/ if you haven’t already, check out our climate plan
- pilots of sidewalks and roads made of organic-based solutions that are similar & inexpensive compared to existing solutions
- solar road pilots
- cost effect electrification of transit
stephenpunwasi.com/campaign/platf…
- pilots of sidewalks and roads made of organic-based solutions that are similar & inexpensive compared to existing solutions
- solar road pilots
- cost effect electrification of transit
stephenpunwasi.com/campaign/platf…
Hey Toronto 👋
Let’s start a city-owned housing company.
Instead of selling off land for cheap to developers, we can develop it ourselves & create rent stabilized apartments. 🥳
#LetsFixIt #topoli #ToRe
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Let’s start a city-owned housing company.
Instead of selling off land for cheap to developers, we can develop it ourselves & create rent stabilized apartments. 🥳
#LetsFixIt #topoli #ToRe
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2/ Under this mayor, Toronto literally sold public land for a toonie.
Building “affordable” housing is quite profitable if you’re paying less than the price of a soda for land.
Why isn’t the city running these rentals?
#topoli #toronto
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Building “affordable” housing is quite profitable if you’re paying less than the price of a soda for land.
Why isn’t the city running these rentals?
#topoli #toronto
toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2…
3/ Let’s build medium density, mixed use rental buildings.
We can use the revenues from the commercial component to subsidize low income units in the building.
The current system of housing financialization and monetary policy is breaking how cities work. #LetsFixIt
We can use the revenues from the commercial component to subsidize low income units in the building.
The current system of housing financialization and monetary policy is breaking how cities work. #LetsFixIt
Economic disasters are emergencies & Toronto needs to treat it that way.
That was a central thought as we designed our anti-poverty platform.
We can’t solve poverty, but we’ll fight for you even harder than Tory fights for Rogers.
<thread>🧵👇 #topoli #LetsFixIt
That was a central thought as we designed our anti-poverty platform.
We can’t solve poverty, but we’ll fight for you even harder than Tory fights for Rogers.
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2/ the human & economic toll of poverty in TO is unbelievable.
Some 🤯 data
… human:
- over 10k unhoused people
- adding 22/people per week
- avg deaths: 3.5/week (+40%)
- median age at death: 38
economic:
- $5.5 b annual cost
- $600m city has spent on homelessness & housing
Some 🤯 data
… human:
- over 10k unhoused people
- adding 22/people per week
- avg deaths: 3.5/week (+40%)
- median age at death: 38
economic:
- $5.5 b annual cost
- $600m city has spent on homelessness & housing
3/ we’ll be short 1000s of shelter beds this winter. It will cost people their lives.
We need to act fast, so we’ll erect temporary crisis disaster tents where people can get a bed, shower, & warm meal.
This isn’t a permanent solution but we need to prevent people from dying.
We need to act fast, so we’ll erect temporary crisis disaster tents where people can get a bed, shower, & warm meal.
This isn’t a permanent solution but we need to prevent people from dying.
Heck yeah, we do! 🥳
A city that loses its artists & creatives loses its soul. We can't let that happen.
Toronto produces some of the world's most talented people & we love to see it. However, they're leaving at an alarming rate. #LetsFixIt
<thread> 🧵👇 #topoli #art #music
A city that loses its artists & creatives loses its soul. We can't let that happen.
Toronto produces some of the world's most talented people & we love to see it. However, they're leaving at an alarming rate. #LetsFixIt
<thread> 🧵👇 #topoli #art #music
2/ What do Larry David, Alicia Keys, Tennessee Williams, Christian Slater, & Angela Lansbury have in common?
They lived at Manhattan Plaza, a no frills, low-income apartment building that required 70% of tenants to be practicing artists. We're reviving this idea with a twist.
They lived at Manhattan Plaza, a no frills, low-income apartment building that required 70% of tenants to be practicing artists. We're reviving this idea with a twist.
3/ The number one issue we heard from early and mid-stage artists is the city is too expensive and they don't have space to practice their craft.
Any artist will tell you that without practice, they can't get to the next stage of their career.
Any artist will tell you that without practice, they can't get to the next stage of their career.
Toronto isn't the next NYC, San Francisco, or LA. That's GREAT news. 🥳
Those cities have systemic inequalities we don't tolerate in 🇨🇦. Let's build something better & set a new global standard.
Here's how we'll drive Toronto's economy with community-based growth.
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Those cities have systemic inequalities we don't tolerate in 🇨🇦. Let's build something better & set a new global standard.
Here's how we'll drive Toronto's economy with community-based growth.
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2/ We'll invest in our talent. Our plan is to build a community venture fund to make city-owned investments in early stage companies that demonstrate potential.
We'll keep our talent, grow our local economy, & make opportunities more widely available.
We'll keep our talent, grow our local economy, & make opportunities more widely available.
3/ Save your small business money with a city-owned payment processor.
Big companies pay dramatically lower credit card fees than small ones due to the volume. It's not cool.
We plan to leverage the collective size of Toronto's small business community & negotiate together.
Big companies pay dramatically lower credit card fees than small ones due to the volume. It's not cool.
We plan to leverage the collective size of Toronto's small business community & negotiate together.
Toronto recently recovered $28 million from anti-corruption investigations.
So many files that the auditor general herself needs to help investigate.
Why aren’t we hearing about charges? 🧐
#LetsFixIt #topoli
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So many files that the auditor general herself needs to help investigate.
Why aren’t we hearing about charges? 🧐
#LetsFixIt #topoli
stephenpunwasi.com/campaign/platf…
2/ The auditor general’s recoveries and reduction in future crimes makes this area revenue positive.
Is Toronto’s leadership intentionally underfunding an anti-corruption effort that makes taxpayers money or do they have no clue?
Either way, not a great look.
Is Toronto’s leadership intentionally underfunding an anti-corruption effort that makes taxpayers money or do they have no clue?
Either way, not a great look.
3/ Remember, corruption costs you money. A LOT.
How much of your tax dollars are going to criminals & special interests?
How much better would public schools, public transit, social housing, and investments in the city be, if we weren’t lining the pockets of criminals?
How much of your tax dollars are going to criminals & special interests?
How much better would public schools, public transit, social housing, and investments in the city be, if we weren’t lining the pockets of criminals?
Toronto’s housing crisis means we need to curb speculative use of housing, including aggressive AirBNB use.
Let’s start with:
- hosts can rent a room, but not a whole home. They must be present
- fining host & platforms for allowing false license data (common)
#LetsFixIt
Let’s start with:
- hosts can rent a room, but not a whole home. They must be present
- fining host & platforms for allowing false license data (common)
#LetsFixIt
2/ if you knew how many people rent multiple condos and then AirBNB them, you’d be a lot angrier.
Yes, they don’t even own the unit. 😒
Yes, they don’t even own the unit. 😒
3/
- state subsidies inflated the price of housing
- the state restricted building
- the state de-risked banks to provide reckless leverage
It’s the state’s moral responsibility to curb that fallout. Unfair? What’s unfair is students in homeless shelters due to no housing.
- state subsidies inflated the price of housing
- the state restricted building
- the state de-risked banks to provide reckless leverage
It’s the state’s moral responsibility to curb that fallout. Unfair? What’s unfair is students in homeless shelters due to no housing.
Government corruption drives your taxes higher & destroys our communities.
That's why we won't just set a global transparency standard in Toronto. We're asking mayoral candidates in cities across 🇨🇦 to commit to our plan.
<🧵> #LetsFixIt
Read more: stephenpunwasi.com/campaign/platf…
That's why we won't just set a global transparency standard in Toronto. We're asking mayoral candidates in cities across 🇨🇦 to commit to our plan.
<🧵> #LetsFixIt
Read more: stephenpunwasi.com/campaign/platf…
2/ Fun fact: 🇨🇦 has no clue who owns anything.
Literally didn't collect the info. @OCCRP said it's worse than notorious tax havens.
Meet my friends @scaldron & @JamesCohen82. They work tirelessly behind the scenes to change that. Two great follows!
Literally didn't collect the info. @OCCRP said it's worse than notorious tax havens.
Meet my friends @scaldron & @JamesCohen82. They work tirelessly behind the scenes to change that. Two great follows!
3/ Want to know how wacky 🇨🇦 is? Those two have to raise tens of thousands just to pay for access to government information.
Anti-money laundering doesn't have deep pockets, but the government sets prohibitive barriers to PUBLIC information.
It's not an accident. #LetsFixIt
Anti-money laundering doesn't have deep pockets, but the government sets prohibitive barriers to PUBLIC information.
It's not an accident. #LetsFixIt
Our current leadership is why we don't have nice things. #LetsFixit
I'm running for mayor of Toronto and I promise you the platform we're launching tomorrow is like nothing you've ever seen.
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stephenpunwasi.com
I'm running for mayor of Toronto and I promise you the platform we're launching tomorrow is like nothing you've ever seen.
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stephenpunwasi.com
2/ Increasingly Canadians are telling me they can't get ahead. It doesn't matter how hard they try, it just doesn't work.
A household can make double the median income and still not be able to afford housing in 🇨🇦's major cities.
This isn't just a Millennial issue.
A household can make double the median income and still not be able to afford housing in 🇨🇦's major cities.
This isn't just a Millennial issue.
3/ Established small business owners are getting crushed.
We're telling disabled people to consider MAID because housing is expensive.
Our state committed senicide and glossed over it.
We don't trust our government. It doesn't matter which level. It's all levels.
We're telling disabled people to consider MAID because housing is expensive.
Our state committed senicide and glossed over it.
We don't trust our government. It doesn't matter which level. It's all levels.
