BREAKING: Jeremy Kalicum and Eris Nyx's charges are being thrown out. she said they did a public service "at considerable personal cost."

toronto! you’re needed!

Out of the Cold Meal Program: Saint Luke’s Toronto@ootc-stlukesto.bsky.social · 2mo ago

we need volunteers! Our meal program continues to provide meals twice a week through the year. Each week we serve about 900 meals & offer 400 bagged lunches! In order to keep going this fall, we need extra volunteers. More information & sign-up: docs.google.com/forms/d/17EC...

spoke to cbc: if we are concerned abt public drug use, why not address the fact that people have nowhere to go? why not invest in the conditions that prevent people from being stuck outside? stop conflating homelessness w substance use. and the hart hubs are a farce.

Ontario Works rates have not increased since 2018 - eight years now - staying at $733 (including max shelter allowance). Meanwhile, according to the Ontario gvt, inflation has gone up about 23% since 2018.

there are four homies in the community & their families that i’m close with who have no AC and are really struggling. besides outreach on the streets, im trying to purchase some AC units to get to folks this week. if you’d like to chip in: www.buymeacoffee.com/lorrainelam memo: heat

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hi friends :) I have been an outreach worker in Toronto for over 10 years. I currently work at Amadeusz: as a case manager supporting individuals with firearms chargers during and post-incarcerat

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lorrainelamchops.bsky.social@lorrainelamchops.bsky.social · 4mo ago

today’s heat is so dangerous for people unhoused and precariously housed. the city has ONE cooling centre w a capacity of up to 45ppl and it’s not accessible.

today’s heat is so dangerous for people unhoused and precariously housed. the city has ONE cooling centre w a capacity of up to 45ppl and it’s not accessible.

lorrainelamchops.bsky.social@lorrainelamchops.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Spoke to Global: Dr. Murti (TPH) said the city won’t open more 24hr cooling centres bc they were underused. mind you, this same person is refusing to call the closures of SCS’ an emergency. let's consider why the spaces were underused: [1/] globalnews.ca/video/119454...

Spoke to Global: Dr. Murti (TPH) said the city won’t open more 24hr cooling centres bc they were underused. mind you, this same person is refusing to call the closures of SCS’ an emergency. let's consider why the spaces were underused: [1/] globalnews.ca/video/119454...

Toronto officials criticized over heat relief strategy | Watch News Videos Online

Watch Toronto officials criticized over heat relief strategy Video Online, on GlobalNews.ca

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this is fucked up. using AI, with numerous research showing how it produces racist outcomes, to speed through creating “profiles” will lead to MORE RACISM. these “profiles” determine a person’s security “rankings” which determine what access people have to resources and programs and future releases

various groups have been told by security at union they can’t do outreach or provide harm reduction supplies. the risk of overdose continues to rise AND IT’S HAPPENING. Hearing of a death already. SCS’ close in two weeks. @Metrolinx out here murdering ppl. where is the media?

just also gonna add that i didn’t see Moise or any other city councillor speak up when Chrissy froze to death this winter across the park he wants to close at night. what then, you say, about violence and safety?

lorrainelamchops.bsky.social@lorrainelamchops.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Besides the obvious fact that having to sleep outside is itself a safety concern for… the person outside, unhoused people are more likely to be victims of crime. You know what’s violent? Freezing to death outside. Who’s actually “safer” when you close the park? 7/

Queerwashing homelessness: where LGBTQ2S+ issues are highlighted in ways that seem supportive but actually distracts from the real issues that impact people who are queer. Moise & Myers want to close Barbara Hall overnight to protect the AIDS & Trans memorials. 1/

wild articles today in @thestar.com about a $25m donation to deal w homelessness but says nothing about actually where the housing is. 300 people in five years is 60 a year and hundreds die every year. $25m? also why do we have billionaires and millionaires?

people are more mad at visible homelessness than the reality than homelessness is even a thing people have to survive through

my friend found someone here yesterday: deceased, frozen. if you knew the sidewalk that you tread on the alley that you rush past the side door through which you toss trash was the deathbed of another who took their last breath alone would you move different if you knew?

Just come out of the locker room 5x5 and dare the IOC to stop you

Spoke w CBC alongside Isaac & Pastor Eddie abt the May closure of 5800 Yonge, a shelter for 200 ppl. Where is the housing/shelter spaces the City says they have? Combined w BLC respite & 545 Lakeshore closures, that's abt 500 people to be displaced. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Refugees worry about future as North York shelter set to shut down in the spring | CBC News

The city says its moving toward a long-term shelter system. But residents of a shelter that houses more than 200 refugees say they are scrambling to find places to go, while advocates worry the commun...

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The Safe Third Country Agreement is a deal where US and Canada have deemed each other as ‘safe countries’, so the idea is that refugees have to claim protection in the *FIRST* country they land in. Besides the fact that America is not safe, there are many other glaring issues. [1/]

Chow hasn't been great (tf the cops get more money again), but I think alot about how she inherited a city "led" by austerity. Same with Harris' gvt. That's the thing about cuts: we might not see immediate impacts but the consequences are dire for years to come.

Today would have been Pierre’s birthday. He would have, should have, turned 38, but instead he died in a KFC bathroom. The toxic drug supply has claimed the lives of so many people. We need more SCS’ & safe supply; instead the gvt has decimated them. breachmedia.ca/doug-fords-c...

250 people are about to be displaced because of FIFA. The City says that they will be offered alternate spaces but where are said spaces? WHY are they not available NOW? The risk of cold-related injuries in March is very high. Where are people to go? www.cp24.com/local/toront...

Toronto respite centre to close early for World Cup 2026, but unhoused individuals won’t be left in the cold: officials

The City of Toronto has confirmed that the winter respite facility at the Better Living Centre will be closing its doors a month early.

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At a time when shelters are full, and winter respites and warming centres have been at over 100% capacity… instead of MORE spaces being made available, we are about to LOSE 250 spaces. Where will everyone go? I dont know. www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

Toronto shelters under strain as respite centre closes early for FIFA World Cup

The City of Toronto says it's added shelter spaces and implemented extra support during the winter months for people experiencing homelessness. But as CBC’s Talia Ricci explains, with shelters overwhe...

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i actually still don’t know who won the football game nor have i looked but it appears Bad Bunny swept!

how quickly everyone thought that little boy was Liam Ramos just told me that yall can’t tell latino boys apart. And couldn’t bother do quickly do some homework because once again, just wanna exploit emotions for your entertainment. let’s do better please.

COMPLETELY INHUMANE. take action to demand the City keep these warming centres open ALL WINTER.

@shjntoronto.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Toronto's warming centres were beyond full at 106% capacity last night. The need is there and yet these sites don't open through the winter. How inhumane to leave unhoused people outside with no options!! TAKE ACTION, TORONTO. Template here to write to Mayor& Councillors: tinyurl.com/RespitesTO

he City is closing two shelters this spring, including 5800 Yonge: currently sheltering 410 people. The City says they're prioritizing smaller shelters but there is NO NET GAIN OF BEDS: www.toronto.ca/wp-content/u...

this isn’t just abt one administration or entity. this is generations of policing that our Indigenous, Black, queer kin, have been screaming abt forever. it’s not just abt abolish ICE (YES), but the entire system of policing that is disguised as “safety” & “protection”

i am grateful we humanize renee (mom!), alex (VA nurse!), liam (an innocent child!) AND if they did not work, did not have kids, not documented, were homeless, were substance users, had mental health barriers, had a “criminal” record, we should still damn straight be outraged.

Spoke to 1010 Radio yesterday about the cold. Thoughts: * Jim wonders abt forcing people off the street in light of this dangerous weather. Forcing people is not recognizing that ppl outside make the choices they need for themselves & deserve dignity of choice www.iheart.com/podcast/962-... [1/]

Why we need to take the freezing temperatures seriously this weekend. @jimrichards1010 talks with outreach worker @lorrainelamchop - Jim Richards - Sound Bites | iHeart

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the God i’ve come to encounter in Scripture doesn’t seem to care if your 4min How Great is our God or 4point sermon or even tithing & prayer is disrupted Seems to have much to say abt how the vulnerable are treated. Isaiah 58 for one.

western christianity out here thinking they’re persecuted when really they’re Babylon. not them being the ones taking christ out of christmas tho right