life because 5 people were killed yesterday and both brought guys the govern government coming down were denied and faced using extensive, dear guy shelling bad don't jaw jay and i've got the fact that they had played barriers. embrun wasn't able to re chair a long way. his supporters, he of god has given an ultimatum to the government, saying that within 6 days the election should be a noun. there was an important development head in islamabad today, or showed that the ruling government decided to do away with some of the amendments that were done by enron con, which would mean that the electronic, warding machine would not be used in the upcoming election. and also the fact that the foreign bug is done, the diaspora will also not be allowed to ward the key indication that the government may decide on the option of reelections be guarded, fitted an economic crisis. it had been turned down by the i am after god,

daughter dog. i store deb not going anywhere. budget don needs money, it needs it. fought ah, and let's thank you through some of the headlines here now. jesse are now the palestinian attorney general says israeli forces deliberately targeted veteran al jazeera referral to sharing a box with alma pacing bullets with the intent to kill her. and those who tried to help her are coming. how plebe says they've concluded a sniper shot shooting in the head, killing her in the occupied west bank on may. the 11th, what israel says it will not open a criminal investigation. the u. s. says it does not want to new cold war with china, but does one the chinese to in here add here to the international rules based order . secretary of state antony blank and said the challenge china poses will test us

diplomacy like never before. those the headlines, the news continues after witness the billboard squad. ah no, not a from, with an honest image with most of us the new for those who say that the whole my know y'all today and i have a reseller to what the hell that the put up with me on that one is a

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companies have access to radio ads and tv ads and online newspapers to the one space that is supposed to be sacred. li, ours belonging to the public for the public by the public is as the name implies, public space. there's something about them that has always seen grotesque to me and just so out of place, i don't think they billboards have any appropriate function in a public space. this is the corner here. we're here. we're on burnside drive right now. a beautiful side street in toronto, and this leave it or not as number 25, burnside. but then you've got, these are so big. they're just so big. it's like a, like the way donald trump tweets in all caps. going to go up on one.

i think this can be turned into a little cafe. up here. there's something really nice meeting there be a conveyor belt will talk. you will just come to the right here. beautiful view. i actually took the time to ask the city if these billboards even had proper permits, like are they allowed to be there? and the city wrote back and said no, these billboards aren't supposed to be there. we're going to have them removed. this is a mistake that was 15 years ago with a if these billboards don't have proper permits, then technically there are actually pieces of corporate garbage just in around, in which case i think it's our duty as citizens to clean up that garbage with.

mm hm. mm. hm, i started doing political activism in my late teens. i have a lot of archives down here from like, decades of activist projects rank ballot campaign. this is a b c referendum on voting reform. city i had all this is, this is original trauma, public space committee, stuff from 20 years ago. here we go. this is 15 years ago. i think it's such an important issue and i think the way we communicate with each other visually in our own neighborhoods really affects people's sense of belonging and importance and empowerment. but for people who get involved with politics and activism, and you've got poverty, and you've got a pandemic happening and you've got housing issues and you've got issues around race and equality. it's unlikely that the issue around billboards will go to the

top of anyone's agenda. but i think it should be there. i think it affects all those other issues. you know, you could say it's sad to look back and realize we're still fighting the same fights we were in the ninety's. that's life, that's politics. these fights never end. and clearly, i hoard things with this is the monthly meeting of the toronto public space committee. thank you. i'm always curious if the billboard company is really showing up with these meetings, summers looking at the names that i don't know to see what you might be watching. performance and then i had a billboard company send enough people to a meeting to out vote me and they put forward a motion to cancel our campaign against them. okay,

we'll move on to an update from dave on the billboards. i have 2 questions to ask you guys right now. one is that there is some locations where we need to actually go on the ground and do triangulation and figure out whose property it's on any just hands up if anyone's interested in. oh, i see a i see a thumbs up from eagle. mm. mm hm. this parking lot is private property right here. this is part of the green outline on the map that is part of the hydro right avoid. and as far as i can tell, the billboard literally crosses the line we look for property markers just anywhere, anything i mean, if anything, like, essentially,

everywhere here, it didn't bring a machete network that in the email, i've never felt so attacked by nature. i'm in the, in the city should be doing this work anyways. so i could ask the city like, can you guys figure this out? i'll regret this tomorrow. that slows things down. it's better if we can show them evidence that we've already figured it out in spectrum. as lynn is not impressed with what i'm saying. so i was hoping we could say it's on this property. is there a permit or not? but i, i really can't tell. but i, i would bet this was put up without any permit to matter, proving it. and then convincing staff to enforce the rules. why don't we put some signs on them? like notice of that page as the gate open? why would that leave? that scares people? definitely putting a sign up here. these doors are now under investigation by the front of the claims

committee. me aside from asking city staff to look into the 20 year. so billboards that we're looking at. i also filed a freedom of information request and any citizen can file one of these and it's a way to get information from the government that usually wouldn't be able to get. that's not our website. it's not in a flyer, but, but it's technically public information. i applied a few weeks ago, i said, does the city have a list of all the billboards and any cross reference data about whether they have permits or not? so i got a response. the decision is accesses granted in full to the records provided for review. i have to pay a $10.00 fee for

a usb stick. with an expect that the records will wreck, the records will be mailed to you after we receive a check or money order. i love the government makes it as hard as possible. i can do this by paper, how i can do by each transfer. i just send him a check or a money order. it's so frustrating. the government is like so committed to being stuck in the dark ages. ah, with great 115 in the other, her lover activism doesn't pay the bills against new psychic, going with their kid. we're fabricating on installing bike racks. so people can lock bicycles in front of the house.

you don't have to make the beeping south k go other way. oh, radiate id left. lucy little more and stop. i started doing like political activism in my late teens. there is an addictive nature to it. the pressures and expectations of being seen as a leader can be a really heavy weight. ah, and are it concrete, some serious mental health issues? so i've gone through a few major depressive episodes related to burn out and depression. i said for me in every breakdown i had triggered an identity crisis, you put everything into

a campaign. all you've got for months. now when you lose it, you can just feel like such an idiot like a failure. i was worried that my activism was killing me and the only way i could survive was to drop politics and activism entirely, but i also knew that political work is so embedded in my dna. and that's a part of who i am. i really struggle with trying to understand where my life was going. what is a 20 year old activists turn into? and then i met euchre. me. i knew he was a full time activist. he lived in breathing activism. it wasn't like something he did. it was something he, he was he was smart, he was clever. he knew how to take an issue and get on the front page like theater

and gramma and agree and humor. to put forward ideas about what are the year 2010 is to share that nobody goes there. my re let everybody has a root about their head. i don't remember to current any context other than activism, so i don't really have memories of him just as a friend me. i want to be like him. but i'm also, i don't wanna i want to diverge from his journey tech. ah, oh i ok. so essentially i did a freedom of information request to the city saying,

what have you guys got in terms of a database of existing signs and whether or not you have permits and will know right away hopefully which which sites have permits. okay, check your mouse. don't open that yet. they ready? yeah, yeah. you're ready. you're ready. big list in it. yeah, they did a good job. i think the big okay, i'm opening it. invoice date. it's done by the tax amount. so it's $1570.00. what is all, it's been almost 10000000 annually we're up against where does the part about whereas the part about permits. i don't see anything here about permits. so i think we need to follow up. this does not have the data i asked for them when it comes to advocacy. we're up against these companies who have multi

$1000000.00 budgets. they can hire the best lobbyist, the best p r people. so we need to try every tactic. we can i miss your assistant today. i'm going to put, madame, or you have your table from a stable i will go over to the grass. okay. yeah. they won't bring any flowers. no, you know, these are, these are earthworms there. there is no reason to be intimidated by me whatsoever. i guarantee you. okay. you're the one actually with the power rate, you're asking me questions so i don't know what's coming. good point. yeah. the billboards are burns. i billboards. they've been there for quite a while and they're they could be distracting as there's a lot of drivers near there. and not only just because it's an ad or a billboard, but because it's so sudden in the middle of all these trees and things that i'm looking at. it's just, i think there is an email concerning the billboards from quite

a while ago. this is dated 2006. it said there was something new information rich. not none of us were really sure what it was. you just heard that there was new information that ended up having them remain, but they never divulged what that was. yeah. how would you like to work together to look into if they're allowed to be there? and let's follow up and have a discussion. sure, thank you. me . really strong or leave focused and creative, productive, and just mellow. i mean, i wrote this last year on an airplane in the middle of a burnout, so it says you are here. and then it's got all these paths forward of different projects i could be working on. so this is the billboard thing i decided and this is

a hobby. it'll never be funded. i don't want it to be funded. i want it to be abi, it's when you start getting really hyper excited about the work. and when you're being fueled on adrenalin, that you risk burning out here, sylvia. look at us in our matching hoodies. with a squad man, billboard squad. so what could i have? it might be exciting. it might be nothing either they've. they're just sending us the same garbage again, or they caved and sent us what i know they have. ok here with that or be different. the nice usb of the cities logo on it. ok, i'm scared to look at it. you look at it on what you see. i want permits. i want

something, give us something. if they gave us a 2nd, mr. the numbers permit numbers and sign permit number. nice. i'm just scrolling down and what you get to like a 100. there's a bunch that say, you know, her records separate locating, there are 662 entries that say no permit records have been located. this is great. this is the 1st time i've ever seen this data 25, burnside, no permit. records have been located ah, the mailing every day. so what do we do now with all this? this is amazing. now, you're from american say, according to your records, it seems like these don't have permit, right? can you confirm right? either?

have them removed or have them get permit or can call me all right, bye. everyone have a great weekend and thanks for helping out with in some ways me revere the most famous activists in history and martin luther king . gandhi. everyone loves a good activist, but no one wants our kids to go down that route. so when i was in my twenties, everyone i grew up with was in university, launching careers, and i'm marching the streets with artists. i never had anyone to turn to in the one guy you i did jumped off a bridge is, is our, my past goes, does my path inevitably lead to taking my own life? and this is a place you were before i've been there before. i've been there 3 times now. each time i felt like i brought probably wasn't going to come out of it. i might have

had stress like anyone does. but i was coping. and then suddenly i'm just crying like a baby for months. and i started to fear myself more than anything. i feel like it's all coming back to sucker now because that was the 1st time that you had that burnout was after he died. one of the question my head was like, can you be an, an activist in your thirty's forty's. and the only answer i could find really was to her. when he stepped off the bridge, this anchor that i had emotionally attached myself to suddenly was gone. and it put everything i had done in question me in

here at the meeting. so i did it freedom of information request. so this includes the brand side information that they've had for like 15 years and would never thought they should share. they didn't get a notice of violation saying that you've never had assign permit and nothing in here suggest otherwise. feel like they're throwing everything. they cannot get something to stag because they never have the fact that they've done all this digging and haven't found anything with a word permit in it. i think that be really powerful to be able to say in these 47 pages, you sent us the word term. it doesn't appear once me the alex, i just want to thank you for getting out of school a little bit early for that. you know, i didn't even, i don't even have it. okay. and you're welcome. so just what you learned

so long in the short of it is, is that the advice that i'm getting from the city staff is that they, they aren't convinced that they have. busy the tools they need in the toolbox to effectively get rid of the signs, so to see very plainly whatever, whatever the city or i would do. they see it ending up in court where they are not convinced that the company would be successful. and really not, they're not willing to try. they don't know. so there are always thing that they're avoiding trying even trying to defend their own bylaw out of the year of lot of losing. it would not be like not playing a baseball game because you might know when i set the eggs verbatim. this funny i

use the exact same example by that's reasonable. i find it kind of sad that the city's own lawyers are caving on this. you have not seen any information, i would lead you to believe that a that a permit exists for the sites? no. okay. me. it's easy to get really emotionally attach. i've, i've done that. like your campaign becomes like, like a child. and then when you lose a campaign, it's like it's so crushing me now we usually lose campaigns because of the stupidest reasons. just because someone's trying to make a bach it's always like walking a fine line. you want to play by the rules, but you have to be prepared to push the envelope of

all a letter that you wrote. dear activist, it's another strange day for me. i lived breed and focused on activism. it kept me thinking, inspired, interested, and alive. but are also allowed me to ignore other things in life that now suddenly i realize i never developed. and now i find myself in a dark and confusing labyrinth trying to feel my way back to sanity and told me i think i've been in a place that was as dark as he was that day. me the scariest thing for me was worrying that i would make the same mistake, took her to me. i was able to

maintain enough faith to believe that the nightmare with me and took her didn't get back from me. the particular was missing on the part that i've learned how to do really well. i think at this point is just loving myself. oh and not feeling bad about that. mm hm. she wouldn't want us crying over him and he'd be like, sorry guys, no, sorry, i had to do that. but like, don't let it distract you from your activism. you gotta go see the world do for at the end of the day, for me it's all about power. why don't we have power and i'm not thrilled with how the city has acted. i feel like there's a bit of negligence on their part to regular work day for the trauma, public space committee by law,

citizen enforcement unit. someone's gotta do it in this city. bureaucracy will never be a leader in reform. there's always going to be a private interest that interferes with the needs of the community and the community doesn't stand up for themselves. they'll get travel with. we've been pretty lucky with the rain so far with it. if we're going to be a little hard, this is really when you're ready to go inspired me by making me realize that sometimes you have to be a little theatrical, not uniform. absolutely gorgeous. i love the human species has improved. it

fell through millions of tiny vectoring people in their own way, at their own pace, trying to make a difference. all these changes happen, not because of anyone here. it's because thousands and thousands of, again listening to reopen, saw, posted in ambassador addressing the security council. find life somewhere in between and succeed. but there are no consequences for those inflicting such pain and suffering and millions of people. why do those who condemn israeli actions shield them? of the consequences? and how do they believe israel would ever change is behavior as long as they do

business, as usual by the international community means colonialism and upper side, as usual by israel. madam president, cherry and was an exceptional bean. but they are killing is unfortunately not an exception. she kept telling the stories over people, hoping that by making them known, somehow she would help alter the course of history. she was killed because she never abandoned this belief, even though regardless how many times she told that story, it kept happening again and again. one child at a time, one home at a time, one acre of land at the time she returns killing is the story. the same story, she was telling the difference is that this time, the war new with

a victim. we are not being killed because of what we do. but because of who we are, we are not being killed by mistake. but as but a grand design a make to america to we own a safe so that we all live with fear in our hearts uncertain no. impunity for journalists, a president, health worker. and you and staff and pharma, a child it, it may be a pregnant mother, an elderly professor at the will citizen and minister, an officer, a judge. if you are a palestinian, you are