- 2 days ago
Video was put together using kdenlive at the apple store due to urgent electrical repairs in my building, requiring the power to be off until 6pm, which would prevent me from putting the video together.
Minimal editing in terms of the audio was done, take it as you wish, it is not perfect. I tried to get those "speakers" as best I could, but the chants were quite loud.
These carbrains/fake advocacy groups only want to take away the rights of citizens, including the right to mobility and freedom of movement. Their aim is to push licensing of not just bikes, but mobility devices, even wheelchairs. That kind of draconian ableism just will never be tolerated.
Minimal editing in terms of the audio was done, take it as you wish, it is not perfect. I tried to get those "speakers" as best I could, but the chants were quite loud.
These carbrains/fake advocacy groups only want to take away the rights of citizens, including the right to mobility and freedom of movement. Their aim is to push licensing of not just bikes, but mobility devices, even wheelchairs. That kind of draconian ableism just will never be tolerated.
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00:00We can have bike lanes and common sense, we can make progress without punishing people,
00:18and we can build a city that works for everyone.
00:20God just allows us 3% of action to burn.
00:23So let's start with that.
00:25This is about bike lanes.
00:26It's about balance.
00:27It's about the process.
00:28It's about respect.
00:29It's about transparency.
00:31Because the city isn't working down in the lane.
00:33You're not working down anywhere at the time.
00:35And you're certainly not being honest about how it's affecting businesses, communities,
00:39and families across the West End.
00:41And yet, it's fixing a giant mistake before people lose their jobs and lose their lives
00:47and lose their faith in cities.
00:49While Mayor Chow and Councilor Everett White continue to destroy the spirit
00:54is doubling down in a broken scale so that it seems to have fallen into a hole.
00:58That's why we do this again.
00:59That's the end of the day.
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02:07We're choosing to place emergency shelters near daycares, and that's what we're trying to get to neighborhoods.
02:22This city is putting in a more important part of our community and children at unnecessary risk.
02:28These are infants and toddlers who rely on us as adults and leaders to protect them.
02:33And instead, we can garantize inconvenience over safety, and politics over planet.
02:41I want to see you next time.
03:11If you want people to be part of the country, they'll be free to save dollars.
03:16We'll go because of this fight, we can get those out.
03:20What do we want?
03:21What do we want?
03:23What do we want?
03:26What do we want?
03:31How do we want?
03:35Hard of resistance!
03:41How about that game?
03:43How about that game?
03:44What?
03:45What do we want?
03:47What do we want?
03:48What do we want it?
03:49Yeah!
03:50What do we want?
03:52We want to do it.
03:55Everything we love it.
03:56No, no, no!
03:58Everything we love it.
04:07Where you got it?
04:09We know, everyone, what we are hearing today is the sign that we are hearing from all walks
04:20of life are coming together to reclaim their city from the radical bridge to the distance
04:27of the turns of three falls for two hours.
04:30We are hearing that we are hearing from all walks of life are coming together to reclaim
04:36the public buildings to want to speak the city back to radical policies that have gone too far
04:43to modern, the city of the city is a indestructible center where it's going to be in a community
04:49for life so hard.
04:51The leadership is pretty high, it's just not working.
04:55And I've actually realized that there are a couple of weeks ago in the last fall I had
04:59a lot of people still hatching, they need to deal with those drug injection sites
05:04To care for people with compassion rather than destabilizing their communities.
05:08To get the city moving again so you can get from A to B.
05:11It shouldn't be something that could become horrendous to take the kids to a hockey game or a baseball game.
05:17And that's where we are.
05:19And I'm hoping in the past two years the city is moving in the wrong direction.
05:23On a number of key fronts.
05:25And I think what we're looking for right now is a call for accountability.
05:30olescent.
05:33nutzen the same load.
05:37You are dumping the same DIY community, you are not creating a safer community.
05:45That means the city does not represent us.
05:49He is a likely 있고요.
05:52We represent for whoever they're fighting to himself or whoever they have.
05:57We want people to save lives.
05:58And I think you're going to hear a little more from these people than most of the time.
06:03Thank you so much for joining us.
06:13Our next speaker is David Margulies from New York City, 3rd Street.
06:23Good morning, everyone. My name is David Margulies from South Carolina.
06:28The chief of the board is politically challenging the president of fighting shelter.
06:33Instead of delegating it to subordinate and tripping their response to the law.
06:38This is not property.
06:40We elect our leaders to look in towards the city of the police and the shelter in the shelter in 50 years.
06:47The court is now in the shelter.
06:51The city's own minimum standard of 15,000 square feet.
06:58The city's own minimum standard of 15,000 square feet.
07:12The shelter will be 2 out of 5,000 square feet.
07:21The shelter 663rd would be designated as a harm reduction site.
07:26It will offer 24-7 access to drug paraphernalia, including needles and crackpipes.
07:33It will prohibit corruption on-site.
07:37This policy will surely increase drug use in alleys, parks, streets, playgrounds, endangering our community.
07:46The city of Thistle and shelter agonists insist that addicts are the most vulnerable among us.
07:54But we strongly disagree.
07:56Our children are our most vulnerable and certainly not addicts who choose to leave discarded needles and crackpipes in our neighborhood.
08:06Our final message to the city is this.
08:10Thank shelter agonists alike.
08:12If you think you can shame people into silence, we don't want you to steal from their backyard.
08:18Use crackpipes in their backyard.
08:20By calling them NIMBY, you better think again.
08:23This kind of crackpiping does not work on us.
08:27We are here to fight for a return to common D&C in our neighborhood and across the city.
08:39We will not be cowed by absurd and childish name-calling from our leaders and some of the media.
08:46Let's end harm reduction practices in our neighborhood and begin to cite shelters appropriately.
08:52Stand high!
08:54The community is about to say hi.
08:55Stand high!
08:56Stand high!
08:57Stand high!
08:58Thank you!
08:59I'm Dr. Fortier, Upper Jarvis Residence.
09:06Good morning, I'm Dr. Fortier, and I'm Dr. Fortier.
09:14I'm Dr. Fortier, because of our neighbourhood has become unsafe.
09:20Since KC House has began handing off free drug paraphernalia and allowing for a wide consumption of narcotics,
09:27there is an explosion of street drug use and activity in our neighbourhood, right outside our homes.
09:33People are injecting our sidewalks, street drug dealers fight for territory,
09:38we hear yelling through the night, syringes and garbage left everywhere.
09:43A resident told me yesterday, and I quote,
09:45I used to feel I lived in a piece of heaven, now I feel like I live in a house.
09:51Our elderly and children walk to school.
09:54And this is happening just 110 metres from a local school.
09:58A lot of people under the community care of the country in 2014,
10:02which prohibits supermarkets and sanitize within 200 metres of schools.
10:07So how is this allowed?
10:09The province has acknowledged that street-trouble drug sites are not safe and sustainable,
10:14commitments that are dedicated to rehabilitation countries that protect both public health and neighbourhood safety.
10:21KC House is exploiting a hospital classification to bypass the law,
10:26practicing harm reduction through harm redistribution in our community.
10:32KC House is funded 80% by the province,
10:35and must be accountable for the direct harm they are causing in the community.
10:40This loophole must be shut down.
10:43It's putting lives and neighbourhoods at risk.
10:47With our demanding action,
10:49the Minister of Melchia Jones and MC Doug Ford must close the loophole
10:54and contact the private and local justice.
10:57It's working to help the people to participate in and repubng the additional,
10:58and aparecs to our areas.
11:03We are out to carry on support,
11:05and we are out to carry on support,
11:06and we are out to carry on that,
11:08and we can still pray for them,
11:09and may they do not really care,
11:10to take action
11:12to make it happen,
11:14to make a call to this compareable situation knowing the truth.
11:16The industry has given permission to this
11:18and reporting may not be clearly geared.
11:20This is failure policy and implementation, and it must be corrected.
11:25And we have assembled a media kit, including photos, available upon request.
11:29This is an election issue. Thank you.
11:36Our next speaker is Sharon Danley, SNAd seniors dancing.
11:50Good morning everyone. I'm a senior, long-time resident of the Apple Hall, and an advocate for healthy, independent living.
12:00Today I am speaking on the many seniors and disabled residents who feel abandoned by City Hall.
12:07Let me be clear, we are not against psychics or addiction treatment,
12:12but we are absolutely against being treated like collateral damage in a city that claims to be progressive,
12:20but forgets the people who spent our lives building this city.
12:25I've been struck by a cyclist myself, and nearly side-swiped twice more.
12:31By riders who don't know the rules of the road, they ride on the road, the sidewalks, over everywhere they feel it.
12:39Pedestrians have the right of way under the Ontario Traffic Act.
12:44From Toronto, crossing the street, especially with a walker, cane, or from a wheel transport airport, is life-changing.
12:53E-bikes race at car ride-like speeds, and drivers turning through bike lanes are on constant higher verge,
13:01hoping that they won't end up in an accident or a road.
13:06Then there's the methadone clinics, placed right in the heart of our vulnerable residential community.
13:13There was no consultation, no support space, and no safeguards.
13:19Now we find you scarred needles in our laneways, and many senior women are played, dressed,
13:26stepping outside their front door.
13:28Would you place a facility like that next to your mother's building?
13:32A few years ago, the city promised to make Toronto accessible for all people.
13:38That felt like a program. It felt like a home. It felt like a dream.
13:43But now you feel like it's just a dream.
13:45A nice, blind public policy that never reached the sidewalk.
13:50We deserve better. We demand real consultation, not rubber stamps.
13:58All cyclists must drive an exam and be licensed and insured.
14:07And first, there's safety laws, not chaos. The sky is in danger.
14:11And a city that truly works for everyone. Not just allowed to smile and work around us.
14:19Remember, one day you could be a senior too, or disabled.
14:23People might bring and just place North of the brave to steal that future from you.
14:28We need a city that works for everyone and promises of accessibility and safety for the disabled up out.
14:43The next speaker is Roman Bauer, MP of the York West.
14:58My name is Roman Bauer. I'm a conservative member of Parliament for the Great Lightning of York Centre.
15:05I also know this is Ward 6 in the City of Toronto.
15:08We're here for one reason only.
15:10We were taught about the propriety of the Damzio homeless shelter.
15:15Proposed to be situated 100 metres away from the Pier La Porte.
15:21The Damzio Centre was situated right here.
15:37This is the Pier La Porte Public School.
15:40This is the St. Theresa Childcare Centre.
15:44I submit to everyone who said this is the respect of the discourse here.
15:48The respect of the fact that some people value free speech, but obviously do not allow others to exercise this.
15:55This is not an appropriate spot for a shelter.
15:59There is a variety of staff that work in the shelter.
16:04What do you know when you get vaccinated.
16:10How you will fight Shilpa?
16:15They will simply find themselves at the Pier La Porte Public School, the Medicare Centre and the Palestinian Park.
16:27Everybody acknowledges that there are sideいきます to Nous übrigens racism in theieniard & CI.
16:28We can do as we're building an employment plan to work with the residential shelter.
16:43The property shelter was built on a hill and now we're all right because we see it happening in the story.
16:53Logan and Jamie Wilson, the Toronto Plaza Shelter, has turned Jamie Wilson into an epicenter of drugs and crime.
17:02Two weeks ago, there was a murder at the Toronto Plaza Shelter.
17:07We're on the council, not to turn.
17:11You and Wilson will be Jane and Wilson.
17:14Thank you so much.
17:16Our new speaker is Daniel Tate from Intake from CEO.
17:28My name is Daniel Tate from CEO.
17:42We are Toronto's newest and perhaps going to have an advocacy team on this new bike lane.
17:50And we're very affordable.
17:53We're a centrist organization.
17:55We want radical, normal training.
17:57And me personally, my guest bike lanes, I'm an avid user of the Sherbourne and Palm Street bike lanes, which are fantastic bike lanes.
18:05Why?
18:06Because they were done smartly.
18:08They don't eat up roads.
18:09Right?
18:10And so this is not about being anti-bikers.
18:13I'm going to tell if you ask Mark, Brandon.
18:15But I do want to flip it over to a couple of other issues quickly.
18:19For some people, I was the person who brought the gun back to the question.
18:23We're sitting there, a budget representative committee, and 35,000 people who signed it.
18:28And that was a wake-up call for everybody.
18:30Because we were maligned before I only used that.
18:33We were maligned by Chris Royce and other people in the community.
18:37And I think that shows that there is a lack of respect for citizens of this city, by the free city council of administration.
18:44And the citizens want respect for them.
18:46We don't want to be treated like that.
18:48We need to be treated like that.
18:49We need to be treated like radical ideologies.
18:51And the people who want respect, that you know, it's all about.
18:53We're going to buy parking stations for our $150 million dollar service.
19:01And the rest, the rest, we're not all of this.
19:04It's unbelievable.
19:05We've never seen this in our city before.
19:07Giving kids the right to vote, right?
19:10Zach to 14-year-olds feel that vote naturally.
19:13These are radical policies that your local Antonians don't want anymore.
19:18So that's what we're all coming here for to talk about.
19:22A couple of other quick things.
19:23I just want to give a shout-out to Calvin Berry, who represented me pro bono.
19:27We free John Andrew Donald at C-S-P-L.
19:29We appreciate the product.
19:34We're proud of our founder.
19:37Two more quick things.
19:38Chris Moyes needs to listen to his constituents.
19:41He did a con job on Yonge Dundas Square.
19:43We know this.
19:43And now he wants to rename Sumac Shooter Parkhead.
19:47With no public consultation.
19:49So there's a Trefan core residence petition.
19:521,500 signatures.
19:54We need to do a reset of that renaming.
19:56It was done in a completely dishonest way.
19:59And lastly.
20:00You're fighting a hard time.
20:02The last thing I'm talking about is.
20:05There is an unbelievable amount of public money that we all believe is not being stewarded or sponsored.
20:11There's a lot of waste.
20:13And so.
20:13We want an audit.
20:14And this is going to be the first division at City Hall.
20:15There's going to be many more to follow.
20:41So follow IntegrityTO on Instagram and online.
20:44Talk to you later.
20:51Now we will have some time for questions and answers.
21:02Hi.
21:03Very good to be here.
21:03Hey, Mike.
21:04Hey.
21:04So do you have a question?
21:05Miguel.
21:06Can you raise your hand then?
21:07Hola.
21:08Okay, go ahead.
21:09Gracias, senor.
21:11Who would you let to?
21:12We're not going to let us.
21:14We're not going to let us.
21:15I just spoke.
21:16I know.
21:17I mean, over there.
21:18Okay, so Daniel.
21:20Yeah.
21:20I don't do that kind of stuff.
21:22I don't do it either.
21:23I'll do my best.
21:23I'm productive, but, you know.
21:25I just document it.
21:26No need to have more wannabe cops besides being wannabe cops.
21:30And then, you know, I lose that fight.
21:32It doesn't matter that they...
21:33Yeah.
21:37So why not?
21:39So what?
21:41That's what I thought.
21:43Yeah.
21:43Well, that's history.
21:49Things have changed.
21:50Life is so fluid.
21:512025 going into 2026 is nothing like in 21, 22, or even 2023.
21:58So we're talking about now, current state, and looking ahead to the future.
22:02And I can only speak on my experience.
22:05My experience is I've been deluged with people across the city who are absolutely just fed up
22:10with the state of disrepair.
22:12You know, just go walk around.
22:14The infrastructure is failing.
22:15Why are you paying double-digital tax hikes year over year when your city is just crumbling?
22:22Garbage bins don't work properly.
22:24The streets aren't working properly.
22:25I've been stepping on egos.
22:27We've been letting these problems go from production sites to operate.
22:30So make it real sense.
22:32And so I think the silent majority is less time to pay.
22:36Housing not handcuffs!
22:37Housing not handcuffs!
22:39Housing not handcuffs!
22:40Housing not handcuffs!
22:42Housing not handcuffs!
22:43Housing not handcuffs!
22:45Housing not handcuffs!
22:47Housing not handcuffs!
22:49Housing not handcuffs!
22:51Housing not handcuffs!
22:52Housing not handcuffs!
22:54Housing not handcuffs!
22:56Housing not handcuffs!
22:58Housing not handcuffs!
22:59Any other questions from the accredited media?
23:02My claims are the cheapest infrastructure there is!
23:05We're playing for free, too!
23:12We're playing for free, too!
23:15We're playing for free, too!
23:20Where's your hammer?
23:23Uh, there is?
23:26You don't really answer, because I'm done!
23:30Well, quite frankly, there's 1,700 stops
23:37and maybe they could figure out a better place for the shelters.
23:43Because right now, where they're being raised, it's dangerous.
23:47Place it at a school and near the home.
23:51And by the way, no!
23:55It needs to be a small reorganization
23:59of Toronto Shelton's birth services.
24:01And they need to re-look at what they're doing.
24:03You can see from today that people are very concerned
24:06about where the shelters are going to be.
24:08I agree!
24:09I think that's what the minimum of concern is, right?
24:12R3!
24:13R3!
24:14R3!
24:15R3!
24:16R3!
24:17R3!
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24:47there wouldn't be residential people there well if it's going to be a harm reduction
24:53purpose they're handing out needles recently we had
25:01sorry that's my answer is we can rezone in more appropriate places than right in the middle of
25:07every other questions yes go ahead who are you addressing
25:29we are
25:37We need to have a true alternative to the community.
25:44We don't want to have a good, bad feel, and then you have a lot of dissatisfaction.
25:53I'm really hoping that one or two of you can all rally behind
25:59and it'll be sort of a binary choice that can be the best route forward in my opinion.
26:07Thank you very much, everyone, for coming out this morning.
26:21This is put on by the Downtown Concerned Citizens Organization
26:29in conjunction with Protect Rappers, Integrity TO, and several other community organizations.
26:36My name is Margaret Samuel.
26:38I'm a very good person.
26:39I'm not a miracle.
26:40I'm a miracle!
26:42I'm a miracle!
26:44I'm a miracle!
26:46I'm a miracle!
26:48I'm a miracle!
26:50I'm a miracle!
26:51I'm a miracle!
26:52I'm a miracle!
26:53I'm a miracle!
26:54What does that mean?
26:56Driving.
26:57Driving.
26:58Driving.
26:59Driving.
27:00Driving.
27:01What does driving become protected by a driver?
27:04What does that mean?
27:05Driving.
27:06Driving.
27:07Driving a car.
27:08Everybody should be able to drive, ride a bike, walk.
27:11Everybody should be able to do what they want.
27:13Driving is a privilege, right?
27:15Everything is a privilege.
27:17That we walk, that you walk, here is a privilege.
27:19Walking, driving, rolling, wheeling is a privilege.
27:23Driving is a privilege.
27:25That will never change.
27:26Everything is a privilege.
27:28The traffic act and the criminal code specifically state the driving is a privilege.
27:32And it can be taken away.
27:34Driving a bike is a privilege too.
27:36Because if you can't afford a bike, I can drive a bike.
27:39You can't drive a bike.
27:41You can't drive a bike.
27:43You walking here is a privilege.
27:45Because if your legs hurt, you wouldn't be able to walk here.
27:48That's why mobility devices exist.
27:50We cannot license you to.
27:52But that's a privilege.
27:53Everything is a privilege.
27:55You being here standing here healthy talking to me is a privilege.
27:59Because you can be at home in bed not well.
28:01Yeah, I know.
28:02Life is a privilege.
28:03Life is.
28:04Yeah, life is.
28:05And there's many different walks of life.
28:07There are many different situations.
28:08There are many different situations.
28:09There are many different things.
28:10No, I'm just trying to say.
28:11You can't license freedom of movement or freedom of mobility or the rights of mobility.
28:14No, nobody's licensing it.
28:15Well, that's what they were just talking about.
28:17No, no, we're not.
28:18No, no, no.
28:19They're not saying that at all.
28:20They want a space for everyone.
28:23For cars, for bikes, for buses, for everybody.
28:25It looks like cars alone.
28:26It's not.
28:27That's not what.
28:28That's what you're being told.
28:29That's not actually what they're saying.
28:31That's not what they're saying.
28:32That's not what they're saying.
28:33That's not what they're saying.
28:34I don't drive.
28:35That's okay.
28:36You do this.
28:37And that's fine.
28:38I don't drive and I never will.
28:39And that's fine.
28:40And that works.
28:41And a lot of people do this.
28:43That's fine.
28:44One bike, one car takes to the space of 6 to 9 bikes in motion, 4 to 12 to 15, 4 to 24 weeks.
28:50It's a big city.
28:53You should be able to drive, bike, bus, everything.
28:56I'm sure you find it difficult to ride your bike in the winter too.
28:59You could probably take 10.
29:00No, I don't.
29:01No, I don't.
29:02I ride on your ride.
29:03I'm sure you do, but it's more difficult.
29:04I find it difficult.
29:05No, it's like riding too sad.
29:06Really?
29:07Which is hard.
29:08That's hard.
29:09You're a trooper, man.
29:10You're a dream.
29:11You're a trooper.
29:12If the sand isn't deep, it's okay.
29:14Yeah.
29:15Maybe not down here, but in the suburbs, it's pretty deep.
29:20Well, good on you for riding through the winter.
29:22Oh, I know.
29:23It could be a pain there.
29:24Yeah, yeah.
29:25That's fine.
29:26I've been riding down here around.
29:27It's not taking away bikes.
29:28No, it's not taking away bikes.
29:29We should be able to ride a bike.
29:31But everybody should...
29:33Some people have to ride a bike.
29:35No, so actually their employer requires one.
29:38That's kind of serious.
29:39Yeah, that's the thing, right?
29:40Some buses don't make it to where you're going.
29:43So what I know there's going to be spending all over the city.
29:47There's so many different ways.
29:49I'm worried.
29:50Oh, I'm sorry.
29:51I'm sorry.
29:52I'm sorry.
29:53I'm sorry.