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A. S. Compton retweeted
11 Sep 2024
The Wilmot land grab is not how democracy works. Kicking farmers off their land is un-Canadian... it is not the Waterloo way. It is downright disrespectful to farmers #FightForFarmland #onpoli
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A. S. Compton retweeted
29 Aug 2024
Wilmot farmers are weighing up whether they want to continue investing in their businesses. Why would they when they know they could lose their land if the Region or province decide to just take it if they want it? This is destabilizing the farming community in Wilmot. #ONpoli
28 Aug 2024
ON farmers deserve respect. Ford & Co. are funding the ROW land assembly of 770 acres of Class 1 Farmland in Wilmot Township for industrial use. This farmland will be lost w/o ANY public consultation. Wilmot farmers are NOT willing hosts. #FightForFarmland #NoFarmsNoFood #onpoli
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A. S. Compton retweeted
29 Aug 2024
.@CFifeKW: "What's happening in @WilmotTownship right now is essentially 'ground zero' for every farm across ON. This is not a Wilmot issue. This is the integrity of farming for province of ON."
#ONpoli #DougFord @fordnation @mikeharrisjrpc @RegionWaterloo @Redman4Region #farmers
29 Aug 2024
@CFifeKW We are not a willing Host!
What is happening in Wilmot is essentially ground zero for every farmer across the province. This is the integrity of farming for Ontario.
When Ford stops funding the expropriation and the purchase of this land, this goes away!
#ONpoli
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A. S. Compton retweeted
5 Sep 2024
The Wilmot farmland grab has been shrouded in secrecy from the beginning. The Ford government forced the Region to sign NDAs and are funding the purchase/expropriation that threatens to force farmers from their land. #ONpoli #FightForFarmland
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A. S. Compton retweeted
12 Apr 2024
The next chapter of Greenbelt Scandal happening in Wilmot. Greenbelt 2.0. If it can happen to us, it can happen to any farming community. The govt has enabling legislation that fast-tracks expropriation of farmland, like the 770 acres of prime agricultural land in Wilmot. #onpoli
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A. S. Compton retweeted
5 Apr 2024
“a developer approached the farmers offering to pay $58,000-an-acre because he heard the land would be rezoned to industrial, this is exactly why the RCMP is investigating Doug Ford right now,”
Call it Greenbelt 2.0 or Farmgate...the community deserves answers. #onpoli
5 Apr 2024
The Region of Waterloo and Wilmot Township have a lot of explaining to do.
#RegionofWaterloo #WilmotTownship #governmentsecrets #NDA #farmlandloss #landassembly #expropriation
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22 Feb 2024
🤣 probably a 2!
22 Feb 2024
Scale of 1-10
1=full on pantser; writes the first line with no idea what the story is
5=basic outline written down; may or may not be adhered to
10=every scene, every character detailed out in writing before the first word is ever written. Does not deviate.
Where are you?
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19 Oct 2023
Mennonites have told a lot of stories about our #WW2 #ContentiousObjectors. I wrote a piece for Canadian Mennonite about a #Mennonite who enlisted.
canadianmennonite.org/storie…
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27 Sep 2023
I had the honour of interviewing Di Brandt, a brilliant Canadian poet. Read about it in Canadian Mennonite.
canadianmennonite.org/storie…
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19 Jun 2023
#Mennonites are strong advocates of socialized #healthcare and services. My grandfather often told us how proud he was at age 18 to be earning enough income to pay taxes; it was his civic duty to contribute to society.
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29 May 2023
#Mennonites lived (some still do) in tight-knit, self-sufficient communities, mostly of farmers and tradesfolk. #OldOrder communities speak #PennsylvaniaDutch (low German), some Modern speak it with our grandparents, while others chose to not teach their children generations ago.
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29 May 2023
I come back to these two poems over and over. Yilin Wang and Ross Gay.
ex-puritan.ca/sichuan-diaspo…
poets.org/poem/small-needful…
27 May 2023
What's your favorite poem by a living poet?
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24 May 2023
#ModernMennonites still prioritize pacifism and #SocialJustice. They were active in the '70s #environmental movements and continue to innovate and promote low-consumerism lifestyles (ever wonder where the #BlueBox #recycling program started? A Menno community).
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19 May 2023
Similarly, in #WW1, #Mennonites refused #conscription, but without the government's blessing. Some were jailed as #traitors, tarred and feathered, or bribed conscription officers to bypass their names.
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15 May 2023
#Mennonite communities cared deeply for their COs (never 'proud', pride is a sin) as a substantiation of their commitment to pacifism. Communities were persecuted for their refusal of military service.
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11 May 2023
#ConsciousObjectors were called COs by their home communities, but elsewhere they were known derogatorily as yellow-bellies, yellow boys, conchies, and cowards, for their avoidance of #conscription.
#WW2 #Mennonites
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8 May 2023
#ConscientiousObjectors were required to serve the country in non-militaristic ways: mining, building railways, forestry, for approx. 4 months. Hard labour, far from home communities.
Many people hated them for their exemption, refusing to open shops and towns for the CO camps.
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4 May 2023
#Conscription in Canada was enacted in 1941. Leaders from #historicPeaceChurches (Mennos, Tunker, Brethren-in-Christ, Quaker) were informed their people would be exempt on religious grounds. Boys who refused conscription were called #ConscientiousObjectors.
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4 May 2023
When #WW2 was declared, several groups of Canadian #Mennonite delegates travelled to Ottawa to negotiate a promise of exception of service, should conscription be enacted.
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A. S. Compton retweeted
2 May 2023
The immediate fear of AI isn’t that us writers will have our work replaced by artificially generated content. It’s that we will be underpaid to rewrite that trash into something we could have done better from the start. This is what the WGA is opposing and the studios want.
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