Mastodawn

@retrotechshop @mayintoronto @javensbukan @PhoenixSerenity @danbrotherston
If all it takes is for someone to be labelled "a bad actor" is a mere allegation...

And without yet even having made a statement in their defense...

As a former professional political operative, particularly as one who worked on the #DavidSoknacki campaign, the ability for progressives to eat their own and spit them out: the purity tests, the litmus tests, and the outright hostility if anyone should fail them, and the speed and intensity withwhich that hostility is applied...

People are messy!

Life is messy!

Ideally we'd make every decision through consensus but sometimes compromise is needed!

Perfection is the enemy of the good enough!

Ev Delen Jan 2

I can't believe I hadn't heard about this massively successful effort to not merely recruit, but to HIRE doctors as City employees, complete with an incredible benefits package including, get this, a defined benefits pension plan!

I've been talking about doing this 2013 when I was a data and policy staffer with the #DavidSoknacki 2014 #Toronto Mayoral campaign.

#TOPoli #ONPoli

https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/cities-hiring-family-doctor-1.7638292

'I'm a problem solver': Meet the mayor whose plan to attract family doctors is turning heads across Canada | CBC News

A clinic in a small city outside Victoria is making family doctors municipal employees. By offering them pensions, benefits and administrative support, they are giving doctors a lifestyle many say they want.

CBC