Apply for a position in our steering committee for 2024-25! Apply here:  tinyurl.com/HPAP24app

We are looking for healthcare, social care or anti poverty workers who want to join us in the fight for healthcare to have a strong voice against poverty and injustice!

Al Shifa, a recognized teaching hospital & the largest in Palestine is completely out of service. With 750 beds, 26 operating rooms, 250,000 ED visits &17,000 surgeries annually &care for 450 dialysis patients, its decimation is a profound blow to #Gaza health system #NotATarget

Many residents have reached out to me with serious concerns, which I share, about police conduct at the peaceful Land Day march in Toronto on March 30.

My council colleagues and I reaffirm our commitment to upholding the rights and freedoms of all Torontonians.

AID ORGANIZATIONS ARE NOW STOPPING THEIR DELIVERY TO GAZA BECAUSE OF RISK

THIS WAS A CALCULATED TACTIC BY ISRAEL to make it so that aid to Gaza is impossible and deter anyone who tries.

We must go beyond calling for ceasefire. Sanction Israel.

Please read and support the work our Kingston branch is doing to try to fight back against harmful encampment clearings and support their communities !!

📣 URGENT: STOP DAYTIME ENCAMPMENT EVICTIONS IN KATAROKWI (KINGSTON) 📣

#NoEncampmentEvictions #HousingForAll

Reminder tonight 6:30!

Please join us for our monthly organizing meeting tomorrow Wednesday April 3rd at 6:30pm. All healthcare, social care and anti-poverty workers welcome! The zoom link will be on healthprovidersagainstpoverty.ca or send us a message for it!

Good news from 1440-1442 Lawrence!

Last year Barney River didn’t tell any tenant union members about an AGI hearing, and the LTB refused to hear from us about it.

Today we took them to divisional court and WON!

Our fight continues on the streets, in our homes & in the courts!

Over 1200 healthcare workers across Canada have signed this letter addressed to Canadian Medical Association two weeks ago. They have since continued to double down on their stance of remaining silent in the face of ongoing genocide, including the sustained & systemic attacks on healthcare in Gaza.

Stop the unprecedented campaign of silencing and intimidation of healthcare workers, learners & educators calling for the upholding of human rights law, and an end to the Palestinian genocide. #CeaseFireInGaza #StopTheGenocide #NoIHRA 🇵🇸🏥

We join an international group of health organizations to call on the global health & human rights community, health professional bodies & global health institutions to condemn the deliberate destruction of Gaza health system. It's time to Act up, Speak up, Stand up.

Ontario govt facing class action suit for abruptly cancelling 3 year #BasicIncome pilot in 2018 after only 1 year.

'The govt enters into contracts the way people do. They don't get to change their minds once they've entered into it'

#ONpoli
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📢 WE ALL NEED #PaidSickDays as well as serious illness leave! Oncologist Sandeep Sehdev said: 'a patient in Toronto with Hodgkin's lymphoma died because he couldn't take time off work for cancer treatment.' #PaidSickDays SaveLives #Justice4Workers #onpoli
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'I saw the most appalling atrocities, and I saw things that I never would have expected to have seen in any health care setting' #GazaGenocide #CeasefireNOW

“'We are very, very far from a proportionate increase in accessible, affordable housing, let alone safe emergency shelter, which means people end up in encampments by default” ⁦Diana Chan McNally⁩

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I'm very honoured to have been invited by Maytree Foundation to join their Five Good Ideas series on March 26! Balancing frontline praxis with effective advocacy is … not easy. I'll be speaking to how and why frontline perspectives should be at the forefront of systems change work.

We worry about providing Universal Basic Income because people might stop working, but here's a thought: maybe, just maybe, with a little financial security, people might actually pursue work they truly choose rather than work to just not die. Imagine that world for a moment.

It’s been frustrating to watch the Canadian govt repeat the same mistakes as Australia. If you want truly affordable nonmarket housing infrastructure, directly invest in it- don’t waste $$ on subsidising short term market unaffordable ‘affordable’ units.

All eyes on Gaza. Rafah is being bombed right now in the middle of the night. The Oscar’s is used as a distraction.

A stark reminder of the heavy bombing and massacre that happened overnight at 2am on Feb 12. The super bowl was used as a distraction. We entered Rafah that day.