Last week in the community:
- Celebrating incredible community leaders at the Muslim Social Services Gala
- Soaking in the sounds of Open Ears festival as percussion ensembles Taktus Duo and TorQ guided us on an hour-long meditative escape
- We had perfect weather to cheer on drag performers, run into friends, and celebrate 30 years of tri-Pride
- Getting a kick out of this little free toy library on Fairview Ave.
Taking a step back to appreciate the big picture. As a member of the Kitchener 2051 community working group, I helped inform the city's upcoming Official Plan that will help us grow to 450,000 people in an inclusive and sustainable way. Every neighbourhood in Kitchener should have housing options for all stages of life, as well as services and jobs close by. Let's get it right and continue to protect our countryside. #Kitchener #WatReg #WRPoli
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/samnabi_kitchener-watreg-wrpoli-activity-7470236588590071808-fq6y
Taking a step back to appreciate the big picture. As a member of the Kitchener 2051 community working group, I helped inform the city's upcoming Official Plan that will help us grow to 450,000 people in an inclusive and sustainable way. Every neighbourhood in Kitchener should have housing options for all stages of life, as well as services and jobs close by. Let's get it right and continue to protect our countryside. #Kitchener #WatReg #WRPoli
Thanks, Mark! I've never been alone. A great network of queer folk have been with me at every step of the path, directly and indirectly. More quietly than me, some - visibility was an explicit goal too, for me - but Lyn McGinnis, and Judy Mackenzie, Marjorie Knight, Marcia Smellie, Maedith Radlein, and Dianne Roedding, and Jim Parrott and the late great Randy Farrell, and Ruth Cameron and Teneile Warren and Ann-Marie Beals and Sara Escobar and Amy Smoke and Bangishimo. And others whose names I'll keep more tightly, bc they often experience aggressive policing by our friendly public servants and protectors.
And in recent years a huge swell of dedicated, hardworking changemakers like Acer and other younger activists have made a big impact, to me and to the community directly.
I walked, that they could run.
They run, so the next can fly!
My friends and I are going to be taking this up with the mayor and the councillor in question.
This year is an election year in Ontario. We have decided that until the mayor of Cambridge apologises, grandly and publicly, to that young trans person, we are going to show up and be noisy, NOISY queers at every campaign event either does until the election in November.
I look forward to her attempts to make ME shut up.
Last week in the community:
- celebrating the premiere of Sara Geidlinger’s documentary about The Circle of Music, an intergenerational choir pairing high school students and seniors with dementia
- learning how to unlearn at a Sanguen harm reduction workshop organized by King East Neighbourhood Association
- listening in at a Civic Punks meetup, discussing big questions around governance and public services with insights from around the globe
Hi FediPoliFolks! As there will be another municipal election in Ontario I've begun to gather candidate info for my local municipalities. Since I'm no longer on those commercial socialmedias, feel free to share in all the places where I'm not. And do let me know of corrections, omissions, or updates!
https://poliblog.jonkman.ca/Poliblog-Elections/2026-10-26-Municipal-Election/
Ontarians should spend a maximum 30% of their gross income on housing. Ford vote down Bill 28 replacing it with omnibus Bill 60 that removed guard rails and made renting a free for all nightmare.
Sam Nabi
Cait the Proud Trans Woman
Bob Jonkman
Melissa Bowman
