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This happened.
I picked up about 20 signs this morning. Signs that I put up at 1 a.m.
Someone went out in the middle of the night and thought it would be a good idea to tag a BPOC candidate's signs with the word "racist".
I shouldn't feel hurt, but I am.
I picked up about 20 signs this morning. Signs that I put up at 1 a.m.
Someone went out in the middle of the night and thought it would be a good idea to tag a BPOC candidate's signs with the word "racist".
I shouldn't feel hurt, but I am.
Many people don't appreciate just how hard this work is. As a BPOC woman, putting my name on the ballot was not an easy decision. I didn't take it lightly. I knew that something like this could happen, but I really didn't expect it, nor did I expect to feel this way if it did.
People don't realize the time and effort and money that goes into running a campaign. The emotional work. The long hours. I'm exhausted at the end of a 16-18 hour day, but I get up the next day and continue the work because I believe so strongly in it.
The #NDP platform #ReadyForBetter dropped this week, and there are some powerful climate policies that I'm excited to run on.
The party has been listening to big ideas coming out of the climate movement and it shows.
A 🧵...
The party has been listening to big ideas coming out of the climate movement and it shows.
A 🧵...
The Civilian Climate Corp could fix youth unemployment with jobs jobs jobs:
🌊 restoring wetlands, coasts & other habitats
🌲 planting millions of trees
🏞️ healing the land and storing carbon
Indigenous leadership & knowledge is key to the success of any land-based program.
🌊 restoring wetlands, coasts & other habitats
🌲 planting millions of trees
🏞️ healing the land and storing carbon
Indigenous leadership & knowledge is key to the success of any land-based program.
Legislating multi-year carbon budgets - both sectoral & national - is absolutely necessary to bend the curve on emissions.
The Trudeau Liberals - when they're not doling out💰💰💰 to Big Oil - relies on market incentives. Totally not working. Time for hard caps.
The Trudeau Liberals - when they're not doling out💰💰💰 to Big Oil - relies on market incentives. Totally not working. Time for hard caps.
