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@brian_gettler@mas.to
2026-03-23 17:42:35

Tomorrow we're discussing policing in my "History of Here" course. We'll start in the 19th and continue through the turn of the 21st century. A key event: the killing of Michael Wade Lawson, a Black 17 year-old from #Mississauga, #Ontario, shot in the back by Peel Regional Police. Four years lat…

A tan button with the picture of a young Black man on the right and the text "Justice for Michael Wade Lawson" on the left.
@jerome@jasette.facil.services
2026-03-10 03:39:46

The Suburb That Won’t Sleep
Food is bringing thousands of people together to an unexpected place: a plaza west of Toronto. Some fear it’s tearing a neighborhood apart.
It's Ridgeway in #Mississauga

The Suburb That Won’t Sleep
Food is bringing thousands of people together to an unexpected place: a plaza west of Toronto. Some fear it’s tearing a neighborhood apart.

@brian_gettler@mas.to
2026-03-16 19:26:41

It's disasters and infrastructure week in my "History of Here," a course focused on #Mississauga and #Toronto. So we'll discuss the largest pre-Katrina peacetime evacuation in North America - the Mississauga train derailment.
As usual, I'll begin class with some music from the period a…

A road stretches into the background at night. In the foreground we see electric poles to the left and buildings with lighted windows to the right. The road seems to end in a giant fireball stretching into the night sky which casts a remarkably bright orange glow over the entire scene.