Digital accessibility specialist, previous (and you should google why) Guelph Accessibility Advisory Committee chair, Canadian Centre for Disability Studies BoD
Joined February 2022
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15 Sep 2024
Reminder that all opinions I post are my own, that I am not a paid staff member for the city, and that this is my personal Twitter account.
Unless explicitly stated, none of my posts are the opinion of the AAC, but of me personally.
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Lorelei Root (She/Her) ♿️🏳️🌈 retweeted
13 Aug 2025
Police are not social workers. They don't prevent crime. But recently, by-law officers have been ticketing homeless Torontonians $260 for "loitering in a park without a purpose."
This city needs to have a frank conversation about the role and responsibilities of police.
12 Aug 2025
Toronto mayor unveils plan to hire hundreds of police officers, more 911 operators. toronto.citynews.ca/2025/08/…
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25 Jul 2025
RT @beauboesnbarzy: Just an FYI a not guilty verdict does not erase the disgusting and dehumanizing things that those 5 pieces of garbage d…
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25 Jul 2025
I hope @CamGuthrie and others who push to criminalize homelessness in Guelph look outside during storms like this and imagine what it would be like to live in a tent.
Those are the people you’re forcing into dangerous areas away from support services and life saving resources.
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25 Jul 2025
Forgive my bluntness, but I spent the day at encampments trying to help good people survive in impossible locations. I’m wet and tired and angry.
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20 Jul 2025
Hey folks! Does anyone have leads on somewhere that designs leg prosthetics in Guelph or nearby? We have a community member who is an amputee and *urgently* needs a new prosthetic limb, and I am not sure exactly where to start to help getting her one.
Thanks!
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8 May 2025
Unhoused or low-income folks and people who use substances are always going to exist, and they are always going to do it downtown no matter where you build shelter.
So give them somewhere safe to gather and share community. Build it anywhere else and it will just be ineffective
8 May 2025
I support a daytime shelter space or hub. 100%.
However, I believe our downtown cores/main streets should be purposeful places for thriving commerce, entrepreneurial small to medium sized businesses that often risk it all to provide employment with tourism & event opportunities.
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8 May 2025
Much as he might like to, the mayor cannot ever make it illegal to exist as a poor person in his line of sight.
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Lorelei Root (She/Her) ♿️🏳️🌈 retweeted
8 May 2025
Our downtown is for people who live in Guelph, period. Our low income healthcare, religious institutions, education and social services plus their patrons have every right to be there too. Downtown is for community, not just capitalism. The core is not just for the wealthy.
8 May 2025
I support a daytime shelter space or hub. 100%.
However, I believe our downtown cores/main streets should be purposeful places for thriving commerce, entrepreneurial small to medium sized businesses that often risk it all to provide employment with tourism & event opportunities.
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Lorelei Root (She/Her) ♿️🏳️🌈 retweeted
21 Jan 2025
Cold weather alert! The front lobby of Guelph’s City Hall will be open past normal hours on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday evenings this week (Jan 20-22, 2025) from 4:30pm to 8:30am. For more resources in Guelph, visit gwpoverty.ca/community-cold-…
ALT Cold weather alert! The front lobby of Guelph’s City Hall will be open past normal hours on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday evenings this week (Jan 20-22, 2025) from 4:30pm to 8:30am. For more resources in Guelph, visit www.gwpoverty.ca/community-cold-weather-response
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11 Jan 2025
Thank you for writing this, @adamadonaldson
11 Jan 2025
In a world all of jerks and tyrants, be a Kate Nixon guelphtoday.com:443/columns/…
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11 Jan 2025
If this year has taught me anything so far it’s that you’re never too old to show up at your parents’ house late at night and sit in their kitchen crying while your mom makes you a grilled cheese sandwich.
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8 Jan 2025
Kate was an absolute wonder. It's nothing short of horrifying that we lost this amazing human, who didn't just talk about love, she LIVED love. She WAS love. Her work will continue through her community care initiative Your Downtown Guelph Friends. Donate: gofund.me/f95b3652
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8 Jan 2025
If you’re wondering how to make a contribution to Your Downtown Guelph Friends in memory of Kate, this GoFundMe goes directly to the YDGF budget. 💔 gofundme.com/f/YDGF-in-memor…
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7 Jan 2025
This is by far the hardest thing I’ve ever had to post, and the reason I have been away from social media recently. Thanks to the other admins at YDGF who helped craft this announcement, and to Kate’s family for trusting us with writing it.
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30 Dec 2024
Youre welcome to still message me, I just probably won’t be responding to people for a bit. I’ll catch up when I can.
ALT Dealing with a few really horrific things all at once right now and I am really not doing well, so I'm stepping away from my phone and social media. Maybe just for today, maybe longer. If you message me and I don't respond it isn't personal. - Lorelei
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Lorelei Root (She/Her) ♿️🏳️🌈 retweeted
22 Dec 2024
Great work by @DanaBashCNN just sitting there waiting for the birds to come and cover her with leaves as a sitting US senator tells her his reading comprehension has a 240 character limit.
22 Dec 2024
Sen. Bill Hagerty: "Thank God Elon Musk bought Twitter, because that's the only way we would even know what's in this bill ... Elon Musk's transparency helped make that happen."
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Lorelei Root (She/Her) ♿️🏳️🌈 retweeted
17 Dec 2024
Reminder that all fragrances and essential oils are not accessible and that a good chunk of the population has adverse medical reactions to them. Choose scent free products for day to day and working so that you aren’t a barrier to those around you.
16 Dec 2024
i assume people know this, but fragrances differ in their perfume oil concentrations, which affects the intensity, longevity, and projection of their scent. an atomizer that douses you in an EdC concentration of Iso E Super is going to be very different from an EdP of oud.
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Lorelei Root (She/Her) ♿️🏳️🌈 retweeted
18 Dec 2024
Never seen a reporter for a major newspaper sleep with the chief of staff of the premier he’s covering either but here we are. 🤷♂️
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