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Show Up Toronto brings together community organizing, mutual aid, and advocacy events from around the city. Come take direct action to make Toronto a better place to live!

The website is a daily/weekly calendar of cool events.

Events today (Sunday, Aug 17th):

• Solidarity Ride In Support of Arms Embargo
• Flight Attendants Strike Rally
• Spring's Book & Bake Sale
• Friends and Families for Safe Streets Peer Support Meeting
• Migrant Community Picnic & Fundraiser
• Community Welcome Day
• Teach-In: Rejecting Narratives of 'Relationship-Building' between Police and Young People
• Marx in the Park

They're on the Fediverse: https://cosocial.ca/@showuptoronto

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Democracy is not just voting. It's also getting involved.

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ALL OUT ON AUGUST 16: We are calling for all people of conscience to take action, to join us on the streets, and to demand Canada stop sending weapons to Israel now!
Gaza is being starved, bombarded, and kept under a brutal siege by the zionist entity, all while Canada green lights their violence and enables the genocide of Palestinians by sending weapons and arms components to Israel. Last week, we released a report outlining in the clearest form, the direct military exports from Canada to Israeli weapons manufacturers.
Let it be clear: Canada is not a neutral actor, it is arming the war on Gaza.
We will not stop, we will not rest until there is a complete two-way arms embargo on Israel, sanctions, an end to the genocide, an end to Canadian complicity and support for Israel, and until every inch of Palestine is free. JOIN US ON AUGUST 16 IN TORONTO!

• https://www.instagram.com/pymtoronto
• More info, flyers and resources: https://linktr.ee/pymtoronto

A Brampton judge who handed out a conditional, non-jail sentence to a man convicted of his fifth impaired driving offence did not merely make a “clear error,” but committed “a wilful violation of her judicial obligation to apply the laws of this country to the best of her ability,” according to another judge overturning the lower court ruling.

“I view it as an affront to the administration of justice for a judge to choose to knowingly disregard and decline to follow the law that must be applied,” wrote Superior Court Justice Jennifer Woollcombe in her decision released last month.

Woollcombe instead imposed a mandatory four-month jail sentence, which under the circumstances of this offender, is “an extremely lenient sentence,” she wrote, given that LeClaire was under a driving prohibition at the time of his arrest. The Criminal Code requires a minimum sentence of four months in jail for a third and successive impaired driving offence.

According to the facts supporting his guilty plea, LeClaire admitted that on Nov. 27, 2020, at around 8 p.m., he drove the wrong way on Winston Churchill Boulevard in Mississauga with only rims on the passenger side of a Toyota RAV4. Sparks flew from the damaged wheel rim, before the vehicle came to a halt and the driver fled. Police received multiple calls about his swerving vehicle.

Hey guys, so with Pearson airport's new rules about picking up and dropping of at the curbside, I want to hear how you choose to pickup and drop off your friends, family, or relatives?

For those unaware Pearson airports new fine is a $75 ticket for stopping at the loading and off-loading curbside at Terminals 1 and 3.

From the website:

For loading and offloading, you may stop briefly outside the Arrivals or Departures areas at either terminal. Note, waiting is not permitted.

I'm curious what your thoughts are about the wording as its a little confusing where it says you can't stop or wait, but then says you can stop briefly in the same paragraph.

Edit: Thank you all for the insights, I am picking up my Dad from the airport this Friday, will report how my experience goes with the new rules that the airport put in place.

Edit 2: Picked up my dad successfully this Friday, but as soon as I stopped at the curbside I had a vested airport employee approach my car and start to aggressively knock on the car window.

I rolled down the window to which he started to shout and scream "no stopping unless I am picking up or dropping off". I replied "i am, my father's walking over now", but he started to write down my plate number and saying I will be getting a ticket in the mail.

Not two minutes later while this is all happenig while i try to both talk with the employee and call my dad on the phone, my dad slowly walks up to the car (he's got a walking cane btw). I ended up parked a few cars short from where he was standing apparently. All the pilers have the same letter for a large chunk so it was not automatically obvious, especially with a employee shouting at me.

The whole situation was extremely stressful tbh, and the curb was not all that busy.

Thanks for everyone suggesting the cell phone lot, I was able to wait there prior to coming to the curbside pickup location. Texted my dad to tell me what leter column he was at so I could pull up to it (though the leter didn't help all that much)

Might still be getting a ticket though, no clue how I could have made my pickup any quicker from the vested employees point of view? Also I was told I was racist by the vested airport employee for asking clarity in how to make my next pickup not as stressful, and pointing our that to many columns have the same leters on them.

Edit 3: Got a response back from person airport in email asking for clarity on what "active loading" means and if there is a designated amount of time allotted.

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Went to Wonderland yesterday and got this fantastic sunset shot of Leviathan. Wanted to share.

Toronto’s bike lanes had undergone a significant growth spurt since the pandemic, carving out safer spaces for cyclists.

“The city was finally making strides,” Ms. Ng, a doctoral student in history, said after cycling onto the leafy downtown campus of the University of Toronto.

Then came the backlash.

Some of the most popular bike lanes were making Toronto’s notorious traffic worse, according to the provincial government. So Doug Ford, Ontario’s premier, passed a law to rip out 14 miles of the lanes from three major streets that serve the core of the city.