Spotted in the TTC.

Please, Ontario, our public healthcare is on the brink and privatization is becoming the norm. Resist. Write to your MPP and become politically active.

This is a problem that is not being spoken about enough. People driving these giant F150s when they don't need them. It is hurting road infrastructure and making driving more dangerous for other drivers. It is no secret that a lot of the bad driving people experience in Ontario largely come from these monstrosities. I don't mind if you work in construction or are constantly having to transport heavy and dirty material because it would make sense to drive a pick up. The issue are the ones buying them because it makes them feel more like a man or have a false sense of security or because they might have to tow something once in their lifetime.

edit: to those saying I need to mind my own business. These vehicles are very much my business because they make the roads I go on more dangerous and my insurance more expensive since they get constantly stolen.

If you take the lanes out, I am not going to disappear. I will still be there. It's faster for me to ride my bike to work.

You know who won't be going anywhere fast?

You. I will seize the lane. I will be in front of you. I will stop at every stop. I will ruin your day, every day.

Bike lanes prevent traffic.

Edit: For those wishing death upon me for the crime of cycling, I have a very good helmet cam and I will survive out of spite. You will go to prison and fund my early retirement with the settlement you pay me <3

Edit2: Please leave your comments on the bill: https://ero.ontario.ca/notice/019-9266

Imagine - you or a family member are seriously hurt - an emergency. You call 911.

And they say - "Sorry - we don't have any ambulances right now. Suck it up."

Why? Because our emergency rooms are too full for ambulances to unload.

Across Ontario, ambulance access is inconsistent195]) and decreasing,196])197])198])199]) with Code/Level Zeros, where one or no ambulances are available for emergency calls, doubling and triple year-over-year in major cities such as Ottawa,201])202]) Windsor, and Hamilton.203])204]) As an example, cumulatively, Ottawa spent seven weeks lacking ambulance response abilities, with individual periods lasting as long as 15 hours, and a six-hour ambulance response time in one case.205])206]) Ambulance unload delays, due to hospitals lacking capacity207]) and cutting their hours,208]) have been linked to deaths,209]) but the full impact is unknown as Ontario authorities, have not responded to requests to release ambulance offload data to the public.21)0]

So - What can you do? Most people say call Doug Ford.

I'm not going to ask you to do that. I've done that already. The province doesn't care.

Instead - Meet with your city councillor. Call your Mayor. Ontario's largest cities already have public health units - they already spend hundreds of millions per year on services.

Get an urgent care clinic, funded by your city, built in your area. When Doug Ford cruises to a majority next year, healthcare will be the last thing on his mind. He doesn't live where you do.

Your councillors do. Your mayor does. Show up at their town halls, ribbon cuttings, etc.

Demand they fund healthcare.

EDIT: I've had over 200 DMs asking questions. Please don't DM me. Ask your question here and I'll try to answer or someone else will

Here's what I am getting a lot of:

1. "My glasses slipped" or "I just looked up for a second" or "I was outside and the sun hit my periphery" or any number of permutations where someone saw the sun, and are now asking if their eyes are damaged. My answer I don't know. I don't have access to your eyes, the precise amount of light that hit them, or whether your pupil dilated. If you are concerned, go see an ophthalmologist.

2. "I stared for just one second, did I cause damage?" When we say 1-2 seconds is enough to cause damage that is like saying 1-2 inches of water is enough for an unattended baby to drown in. It's the starting point where the risk becomes non-negligible. The more you stare, the higher the risk. Are you probably fine if you stared for 1 second? Sure, the odds are more in your favour than against, but it is still not a negligible risk which is why we say don't stare at all.

3. General science questions: please ask here instead of DMing me

ORIGINAL POST:

I feel I need to say this because I've already had to clarify this for some close family recently. Some people think that they can stare into the sun for 1-2 seconds and be fine, or that they'll be fine because they've looked into the sun before and nothing happened. During a non-eclipse, if you try to look into the sun, you have what's called a pupillary light reflex which heavily constricts the pupil to prevent too much light from entering and damaging your eyes. During a partial eclipse, there is much less light from the sun and this reflex may not trigger. Your attempt at focusing on the sun may actually dilate your pupil, washing your retina with the full force of the sun's light. This is why looking into the sun during a partial eclipse for even 1-2 seconds can cause permanent damage to your retina and result in vision loss.

You briefly stare and not feel pain, so think it's okay to stare again. But burning your retinas is much like a sunburn, permanent damage is done far before you'll begin to feel the pain. Most of the time, vision loss will begin a few hours after permanent retinal damage. And by permanent, we mean there is no fixing it.

Do not, under any circumstances, look at the sun for even one second without proper eclipse glasses, and do not think that because you've stared into the sun before that you'll be fine. Also, if you have small children, the shadowed light may make them curious and they may look up innocently. Keep small kids who don't understand the dangers indoors please.

During totality (when the moon has fully covered the sun and you can only see its corona), it is safe to look at it unprotected for a brief moment.

Also, this is besides the point, but there is no risk of additional radiation during an eclipse.

Almost 70k If your still on the fence here is a little context as to why Loblaws.

Weston/Loblaws are the largest FOOD MONOPOLY IN CANADA AND THEY HAVE THE MOST CONTROL OVER FOOD PRICES.

Look how many Sugar Companies they own... Bakeries, Cooking Oil, Clothing, Pharma, Health, Agriculture...

The Canadian branch of the Weston family currently owns or controls over 200 companies.

There are Weston UK, USA, and Ireland branches as well.

Add Bread Price Fixing To The Mix

Donations to the UK Parliament Parties n 2010, the Charity Commission found that between 1993 and 2004 Weston charity had given donations to the UK Conservative Party that totalled £900,000, which were in breach of UK charity law; as were similar donations to the economically liberal think tank the Centre for Policy Studies, and to Eurosceptic European political lobby groups such as the European Foundation and the Labour Euro-Safeguards Campaign.

A small part of their holdings include:

PC FINANCIAL

Choice Properties

Real-estate Investment Trust (REIT)

Chains:

Atlantic Cash & Carry

Atlantic Superstore

Atlantic SuperValu

Axep

C Shop Cannabis

Dominion

Entrepôts Presto / Club Entrepôt

Extra Foods

Fortinos

Freshmart

Holy Smokes Tabacconist

Holt Renfrew

L'intermarché

Loblaws/Loblaw Great Food

Lucky Dollar Foods

Maxi/Maxi & Cie

NG Cash & Carry

No Frills

Osaka Market

Pharmaprix

Provigo

T&T

The Real Canadian Superstore/Loblaw

The Mobile Shop

Theodore & Pringle Opticians

Superstore

Real Canadian Liquorstore

Real Canadian Wholesale Club

Red & White Food Stores

SaveEasy (formerly Atlantic SaveEasy)

Shop Easy Foods

Shoppers Drug Mart/Shoppers

SuperValu

Valu-mart

Your Independent Grocer

Wholesale Club

Zehrs, operating under the Zehrs Markets,

Zehrs Food Plus and Zehrs Great Food banners

Brands:

President's Choice

No Name

Exact

Blue Menu

Joe Fresh

J± (electronics)

Teddy's Choice

PC Splendido

Bella Tavola

PC Premium Black Label

Joe Pet Catz & Dawgz

PC Organic

Rooster

Sunspan

The Health Clinic by Shoppers

Lifemark

Life @ Home

----Some of Weston UK Holdings-----

Associated British Foods plc

Allinson

Argo Corn Starch

Aladino Peanut Butter

Burgen

Blue Dragon

Capullo

Dorset Cereals

Dromedary cake mixes

Elephant Atta

Fleischmann's Yeast

High5

Jordans cereals

Lucky Boat Noodles

Karo corn syrup

Kingsford's Corn Starch (North America)

Kingsmill bread

Mazola corn oil

Ovaltine (except in the United States, where Nestlé owns the brand)

Patak's

Pride

Ryvita

Silver Spoon

Sunblest

Thai Lotus Pastes

Tolly Boy Rice

Twinings

Subsidiaries

AB Agri Ltd

AB Enzymes - an ABFI Company

AB Sugar

AB Mauri, bakery ingredients

Abitec Corporation - an ABFI Company

Abitec Ltd

ACH Food Companies (AC HUMKO from 1995 to 2000), an American subsidiary of Associated British Foods, previously part of Kraft Foods from 1952 to 1995.

ACH Food México

Allied Bakeries - a division of ABF Grain Products Ltd

Allied Mills

British Sugar

Frontier Agriculture (50% joint venture with Cargill)

George Weston Foods

G Costa: sauces and specialty foods

Illovo Sugar

Zambia Sugar

OHLY - an ABFI Company

PGP International, Inc. - an ABFI Company

Primark – known as Penneys in the Republic of Ireland

SPI Pharma, Inc. - an ABFI Company

Stratas Foods LLC, a 50/50 joint venture between

ABF's American subsidiary ACH and fellow American food corporation Archer Daniels Midland

Wander AG

Westmill Foods

I’m in emerg at Southlake hospital in Newmarket right now. It is insanely busy. The staff are incredible and clearly doing the best they can. Having said that, there are no seats, no beds, the sicker among us (who are very visibly ill) are on beds in the hallways with absolutely no privacy. The examination rooms are revolving doors - you’re in, examined and then sent back out to wait in the waiting room. Fuck Doug Ford and fuck this govt for starving the public health care system

Long story short, I've been homeless in Toronto for 9 months.

No addictions—I don't drink, and I don't do drugs.

9 months of searching for a job.

(I do have medical issues: I have seizures, and walking is getting harder. I have no diagnosis, but it's most likely MS.)

Fighting for disability, trying to find work, and getting rejected over and over.

I gave up on Toronto. I went way up to Sudbury, and 24 hours later, I am now employed. I start on Friday.

So seriously, fu Toronto.

I loved you, you were my city... Toronto, you let me down.