Susan Lloyd-Swail
@plansmarter.bsky.social
Blue sky seeker Lloyd-Swail Consulting, public interest advocate, skeptical optimist, former politician, Master- land use planning, campaigner for good, #RGMC #stopthe413 #Greenbelt #oakridgesmoraine 'Grand'parent, dog lover, trail walker #Ontario
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Over 52k Ontario adults with intellectual disabilities are stuck on waiting lists for vital supports. Their stories of fear & uncertainty demand action.
Learn more: www.waiting2belong.ca
#WaitingToBelong
Learn more: www.waiting2belong.ca
#WaitingToBelong
March 20, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Over 52k Ontario adults with intellectual disabilities are stuck on waiting lists for vital supports. Their stories of fear & uncertainty demand action.
Learn more: www.waiting2belong.ca
#WaitingToBelong
Learn more: www.waiting2belong.ca
#WaitingToBelong
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"The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality."
- James Baldwin
- James Baldwin
July 6, 2025 at 3:28 AM
"The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality."
- James Baldwin
- James Baldwin
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As these political and personal purges continue, important agencies will become unable to perform their basic functions, and at some point will only be able to spread the purges into the larger society.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/good...
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/good...
Goodbye to All That
My resignation from the FBI.
www.lawfaremedia.org
July 6, 2025 at 8:09 AM
As these political and personal purges continue, important agencies will become unable to perform their basic functions, and at some point will only be able to spread the purges into the larger society.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/good...
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/good...
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Trump cuts weather forecasting service, girls drown in unexpected flooding.
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July 6, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Trump cuts weather forecasting service, girls drown in unexpected flooding.
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In the US there are more than 9,000 active legal cases related to the production or release of Pfas. ‘We thought we’d got the numbers wrong’: how a pristine lake came to have the highest levels of ‘forever chemicals’ on record #cdnpoli #pfas | Pfas | The Guardian share.google/UJhgcb1PzB1l...
‘We thought we’d got the numbers wrong’: how a pristine lake came to have the highest levels of ‘forever chemicals’ on record
Holloman Lake was a haven for wildlife and seemed an ideal campsite. But strange foam around the shoreline turned out to be more than just an oddity – and reveals the alarming way forever chemicals mo...
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July 5, 2025 at 2:48 PM
In the US there are more than 9,000 active legal cases related to the production or release of Pfas. ‘We thought we’d got the numbers wrong’: how a pristine lake came to have the highest levels of ‘forever chemicals’ on record #cdnpoli #pfas | Pfas | The Guardian share.google/UJhgcb1PzB1l...
Let's build a strong #Canada that serves the public interest rather than feeding profit for private interests. #canadaday2025 #cdnpoli www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
Ten Trump-proof nation-building projects for a strong, independent Canada - CCPA
Thanks to decades of concerted action by Canadian businesses and governments—often working in opposition to workers and the broader public interest—the Canadian economy is now deeply integrated with o...
www.policyalternatives.ca
July 2, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Let's build a strong #Canada that serves the public interest rather than feeding profit for private interests. #canadaday2025 #cdnpoli www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
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lol, ok
Ontario's premier calls judicial independence "a joke." nationalnewswatch.com/2025/04/30/d...
Doug Ford floats idea of electing judges in rant on bail reform
National Newswatch: Canada's most comprehensive site for political news and views.
nationalnewswatch.com
April 30, 2025 at 6:31 PM
lol, ok
Asking voters to elect candidates who have often never faced a single question about their record or their beliefs isn’t just thumbing your nose at the press—it’s an insult to voters. thelocal.to/conservative...
Conservative Candidates Aren’t Talking to the Press. That’s a Problem. | The Local
Across ridings, and across media outlets, local candidates from one party are refusing to speak with the media.
thelocal.to
April 26, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Asking voters to elect candidates who have often never faced a single question about their record or their beliefs isn’t just thumbing your nose at the press—it’s an insult to voters. thelocal.to/conservative...
Infuriating! Commission says including Green Party leader in the debate (who has a progressive vision for Canada)would undermine integrity of the debates?
www.thestar.com/politics/fed...
www.thestar.com/politics/fed...
Green Party disinvited from federal leaders’ debates. Commission says inclusion would ‘undermine’ public interest
“The Commission concludes that the inclusion of the leader of the Green Party of Canada in these circumstances would undermine the integrity of the debates and the interests of the
www.thestar.com
April 16, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Infuriating! Commission says including Green Party leader in the debate (who has a progressive vision for Canada)would undermine integrity of the debates?
www.thestar.com/politics/fed...
www.thestar.com/politics/fed...
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Kidnapping.
Capturing a person against their will without due process is called kidnapping.
Transporting them to another country without due process is called human trafficking.
A squalid extrajudicial prison for people found guilty of no crime is called a concentration camp.
Capturing a person against their will without due process is called kidnapping.
Transporting them to another country without due process is called human trafficking.
A squalid extrajudicial prison for people found guilty of no crime is called a concentration camp.
stop calling things deportation just because they call it deportation.
-You cannot legally deport people without due process.
-You cannot legally deport citizens.
-They are defining down deportation to break the law.
-You cannot legally deport people without due process.
-You cannot legally deport citizens.
-They are defining down deportation to break the law.
Leavitt confirmed that the WH is working on deporting US citizens to El Salvador
April 8, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Kidnapping.
Capturing a person against their will without due process is called kidnapping.
Transporting them to another country without due process is called human trafficking.
A squalid extrajudicial prison for people found guilty of no crime is called a concentration camp.
Capturing a person against their will without due process is called kidnapping.
Transporting them to another country without due process is called human trafficking.
A squalid extrajudicial prison for people found guilty of no crime is called a concentration camp.
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IMPORTANT: A major disinformation network of X accounts is targeting Canada ahead of the Federal election.
“The accounts are pumping out thousands of posts about the Canadian economy and alleged support within Canada for U.S. President Donald Trump’s annexation threat.”
thelogic.co/news/canada-...
“The accounts are pumping out thousands of posts about the Canadian economy and alleged support within Canada for U.S. President Donald Trump’s annexation threat.”
thelogic.co/news/canada-...
A network of X accounts is targeting Canada ahead of the election - The Logic
The accounts are pumping out thousands of posts about the Canadian economy and alleged support within Canada for U.S. President Donald Trump’s annexation threat.
thelogic.co
April 8, 2025 at 3:30 PM
IMPORTANT: A major disinformation network of X accounts is targeting Canada ahead of the Federal election.
“The accounts are pumping out thousands of posts about the Canadian economy and alleged support within Canada for U.S. President Donald Trump’s annexation threat.”
thelogic.co/news/canada-...
“The accounts are pumping out thousands of posts about the Canadian economy and alleged support within Canada for U.S. President Donald Trump’s annexation threat.”
thelogic.co/news/canada-...
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Friends in Rexdale, can you help? We are trying to ensure that an innovative, community-led housing project in Rexdale is built, but we're facing significant pushback from neighbours who are pressuring Cllr Crisanti to stop it! Please sign and share this petition: www.change.org/p/support-af...
Sign the Petition
Support Affordable Housing in North Etobicoke
www.change.org
April 8, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Friends in Rexdale, can you help? We are trying to ensure that an innovative, community-led housing project in Rexdale is built, but we're facing significant pushback from neighbours who are pressuring Cllr Crisanti to stop it! Please sign and share this petition: www.change.org/p/support-af...
Ah #coal...for you and me...more smog days, higher health bills, and an increased risk of death. But it feeds those oligarchs who bought coal shares low yesterday #PM2.5 #airpollution
Trump wants to turn back to coal.
This is what America looked like on a sunny day when we were burning coal. 👇
This is what America looked like on a sunny day when we were burning coal. 👇
April 8, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Ah #coal...for you and me...more smog days, higher health bills, and an increased risk of death. But it feeds those oligarchs who bought coal shares low yesterday #PM2.5 #airpollution
The world's most polluting industries are exempt from tariffs. The American people will suffer but oil and gas billionaires who have put the world on fire, pollute our air and water walk. #climateaction #trumptariffs www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘Oligarchy’: Trump exempts big oil donors from tariffs package
Trump’s new 10% universal tariffs will not apply to many fossil fuel products in sign of his fealty, advocates say
www.theguardian.com
April 5, 2025 at 12:01 AM
The world's most polluting industries are exempt from tariffs. The American people will suffer but oil and gas billionaires who have put the world on fire, pollute our air and water walk. #climateaction #trumptariffs www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
For 150 years, capitalism has sought to undermine or crush its direct antagonist: democracy. A new politics of community cooperation is needed. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
How has fascism in Britain got this far? Neoliberalism has opened the door for it | George Monbiot
We need a new politics of belonging, not Labour’s craven appeasement of capital, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
March 28, 2025 at 12:51 PM
For 150 years, capitalism has sought to undermine or crush its direct antagonist: democracy. A new politics of community cooperation is needed. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
American catastrophe" playing a role in their thinking. Academics leaving the U.S for U of T. www.thestar.com/news/gta/pro...
Prominent Yale professors flee Trump’s America for new roles at University of Toronto
Philosophy Prof. Jason Stanley from Yale University is headed to U of T along with Timothy Snyder and Marci Shore.
www.thestar.com
March 27, 2025 at 11:15 PM
American catastrophe" playing a role in their thinking. Academics leaving the U.S for U of T. www.thestar.com/news/gta/pro...
As Canadians we are a spirited lot...https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/03/us-canada-relations-trump/682046/
Invading Canada Is Not Advisable
We’ve tried before. It didn’t work out.
www.theatlantic.com
March 17, 2025 at 1:17 AM
As Canadians we are a spirited lot...https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/03/us-canada-relations-trump/682046/
Another reason life in the U.S. sucks...https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/08/one-in-15-americans-has-witnessed-a-mass-shooting-study
One in 15 Americans has witnessed a mass shooting – study
Study found that 7% of Americans have been present at a scene of a mass shooting and 2% had been injured in one
www.theguardian.com
March 8, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Another reason life in the U.S. sucks...https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/08/one-in-15-americans-has-witnessed-a-mass-shooting-study
A “no one left behind” approach is also the best protection for a resilient economy. No matter who we are or where we come from, it is we who keep our communities strong: as workers, as customers, as small businesses, and as families. breachmedia.ca/trumps-trade...
Trump’s trade war is a perfect time to embrace a ‘no one left behind’ strategy ⋆ The Breach
‘Keep calm and buy Canadian’ will line Galen Weston’s pockets and do little else. We need emergency measures that protect everyone.
breachmedia.ca
March 4, 2025 at 6:07 PM
A “no one left behind” approach is also the best protection for a resilient economy. No matter who we are or where we come from, it is we who keep our communities strong: as workers, as customers, as small businesses, and as families. breachmedia.ca/trumps-trade...
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The Trump Vance performance today was one of the great foreign policy fails in US history, the biggest Oval Office clusterfuck the public has ever had the chance to watch in real time. But it was much worse than that. Another piece from me. www.thedailybeast.com/trump-thinks...
Trump Thinks He Humiliated Zelensky. He Really Humiliated the United States
Trump’s Oval Office mob show proves he’s no Don Corleone. He’s Luca Brasi—with nukes.
www.thedailybeast.com
February 28, 2025 at 11:15 PM
The Trump Vance performance today was one of the great foreign policy fails in US history, the biggest Oval Office clusterfuck the public has ever had the chance to watch in real time. But it was much worse than that. Another piece from me. www.thedailybeast.com/trump-thinks...
Independent MPP says PC MPP's are brand ambassadors. "We've done a lot of work in this riding ensuring people know the difference between a brand ambassador and a champion for their communities." www.thestar.com/politics/ind...
Independent Ontario candidate wins rare and resounding second election victory
Bobbi Ann Brady set out in this Ontario election to prove that her win in Haldimand-Norfolk as an independent in 2022 was not a fluke, but winning by the second-largest
www.thestar.com
February 28, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Independent MPP says PC MPP's are brand ambassadors. "We've done a lot of work in this riding ensuring people know the difference between a brand ambassador and a champion for their communities." www.thestar.com/politics/ind...
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#ON’s electricity grid was 94% emissions-free in 2020, but that’s falling over time as more natural gas is brought online. Our electricity dir. Scott MacDougall says the prov. should consider other grids around the 🌎 that are scaling up renewables to retain its “clean energy edge”.
‘We are going in the wrong direction’: Why last year saw Ontario burn a record amount of natural gas
Emissions are projected to continue to rise as Ontario’s reliance on gas plants increases until they make up 25 per cent of all energy produced in 2030.
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February 27, 2025 at 8:01 PM
#ON’s electricity grid was 94% emissions-free in 2020, but that’s falling over time as more natural gas is brought online. Our electricity dir. Scott MacDougall says the prov. should consider other grids around the 🌎 that are scaling up renewables to retain its “clean energy edge”.
Not voting for #dougford #Ontariovotes
February 27, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Not voting for #dougford #Ontariovotes
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🗳️ The Ontario Election is on February 27. How do the parties differ in their plans to ensure everyone in Ontario can thrive?
Read our latest platform analysis to learn more. #OntarioVotes2025 www.wellesleyinstitute.com/elections/on...
Read our latest platform analysis to learn more. #OntarioVotes2025 www.wellesleyinstitute.com/elections/on...
Ontario Election series: Analysis of party platforms on thriving
Wellesley Institute’s Ontario Election 2025 series laid out our recommendations for what provincial party leaders can do to advance health equity in three key areas: thriving – policies that will help...
www.wellesleyinstitute.com
February 25, 2025 at 3:53 PM
🗳️ The Ontario Election is on February 27. How do the parties differ in their plans to ensure everyone in Ontario can thrive?
Read our latest platform analysis to learn more. #OntarioVotes2025 www.wellesleyinstitute.com/elections/on...
Read our latest platform analysis to learn more. #OntarioVotes2025 www.wellesleyinstitute.com/elections/on...
Know a Ontario Conservative that needs a quick intervention? Ask them to read this...from the notoriously Conservative Fraser Institute www.fraserinstitute.org/commentary/o... #ONpoli #ontario2025 #ontariovotes2025
Ontario’s economic and fiscal performance—failing grades all around
From 2018 to 2024, per-person total business investment declined by 2.9 per cent in the province.
www.fraserinstitute.org
February 26, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Know a Ontario Conservative that needs a quick intervention? Ask them to read this...from the notoriously Conservative Fraser Institute www.fraserinstitute.org/commentary/o... #ONpoli #ontario2025 #ontariovotes2025