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Meanwhile, some activists vandalized small businesses in Hamilton last weekend as a protest against neighbourhood gentrification; someone retaliated yesterday by vandalizing a lefty bookstore in the same city, and with a provincial election coming up, I’m really worried by *anything* that might swing the undecided voters conservative. Especially since the Ontario conservatives are still fighting over who’s actually going to lead their party, at least two of the leadership candidates are campaigning on a “get rid of the new sex ed curriculum and restrict abortion access” campaign, and one of those two is also the brother of the late Rob Ford.
ETA — oh, and now a group has announced a “Patriot Walk on Locke” (the street where the businesses were initially vandalized) for later this month.
I told someone else who was despairing over this that all we can do is try to keep doing positive actions and hope it’s enough of a counter-weight, but I admit, I feel as though my country’s crumbling beneath me; apologies to my friends in the US, UK and elsewhere who I know have already been feeling that way for ages.
