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Toronto mom who lost son in subway stabbing calls for more supports for people in crisis

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/andrea-magalhaes-interview-ttc-fatal-stabbing-as-it-happens-1.6792936

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Magalhaes said she feels it is important to speak out about the senseless violence on the TTC. She said she said she hopes officials can hear the pain in her voice and she wants them to imagine "it is your child that could be murdered on the subway" when they are making decisions about whether public services deserve funding.

"I am hoping that people will raise their voices so we can be heard. More needs to be done to help people in crisis. More needs to be done so that people don't get to the point where they are in crisis," she said.

"We need more social services. We need more investment into physical and mental health. We need more supports for housing. I feel like, as things go the way they are going right now, so many people are going to be suffering the horrible pain that I am going through right now."
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#FundOurCommunities #DefundThePolice

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#DeathAsAPolicyChoice
#TOpoli #Toronto #PoliceDontKeepUsSafe #ONpoli #CanPoli

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Posted by Desmond Cole

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I'm at city hall. the council chamber has been cleared twice for people disruptions, but this time many haven't left, and neither have most media. here a sample of what people are saying:
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#DefundThePolice #FundOurCommunities
#HousingForAll #HousingIsAHumanRight #HousingNow
#WhoKeepsUsSafe #CommunityDefence
#TorontoActions #AlertaAlertaAntifascista
#FuckThePolice #PoliceDontKeepUsSafe

(Because it's fucking important to have this seen, I have liberated it from the birdsite.)

There are at least 24 officers here, with salaries of at least $100,000 a piece, but they can't afford to house people properly.

#DefundThePolice #FundOurCommunities

RT @BlackVisionsMN@twitter.com

Participatory budgeting is essential to ensuring community involvement and leadership in the budget process from start to finish. Join us at the next hearing & tell the Mayor to support community governance practices like participatory budgeting!! #FundOurCommunities #InvestInUs

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/BlackVisionsMN/status/1589689457317318656