@legrady.bsky.social @legrady.bsky.social 
Rafael Campos-Gottardo @rafaelgottardo.bsky.social Researcher at the Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship. MA McGill University, BA Wilfrid Laurier University. Also interested in biking, photography and F1.
Montréal, QC
Rafaelgottardo.github.io
FCM @fcm.ca The Federation of Canadian Municipalities has been the national voice of municipal government since 1901. #CDNMuni
La Fédération canadienne des municipalités est la voix nationale des gouvernements municipaux depuis 1901. #munican
🖥️ fcm.ca
nancyforde.com @nancyfjorde.bsky.social don't dream it's over • 🇨🇦🇮🇪 mamaí (she/they) • Writer. Photographer. Settler. Kjipuktuk | SSHRC CGRS M Winner • MFA Creative Writing (2026) • MA Photojournalism & Doc Photography (2021) | ✨noli timere✨ b.322ppm linktr.ee/nancyforde
Christine Clark @cclarkradio.bsky.social Morning News Anchor on CHYM 96.7, Country 106.7, CityNews
Proud Hockey Mamma 🏒/ Triathlete🏊♀️🚵♀️🏃♀️ / Always down to talk D&D 🎲
Phil Pothen 🇨🇦 @pothen.bsky.social Counsel and Land Use and Land Development Program Manager for Environmental Defence. The "Hands off the Greenbelt" guy. Arch-Adversary of Mr. Sprawl. Tweets aren't advice or statements from Environmental Defence. he/him
@martinasling.bsky.social @martinasling.bsky.social Co-founder of Waterloo Region Yes in My Backyard.
GREEN LIGHT ARTS @greenlight-arts.bsky.social BOLD. PROVOCATIVE. CONTEMPORARY. THEATRE. GLA is an award-winning live theatre company based in Kitchener-Waterloo.
www.greenlight-arts.com for all shows and tickets.
Mohamed Moustafa @fairewinds.bsky.social 
Rodney 🚧🚇 @chanface.bsky.social 🎙️🚌 Co-host of @dwelltime.ca, a transit podcast
🚊🚲 Co-lead at @TriTAG.ca
Transit Politics & Planning | Housing | Cities | 24 | @uwaterloo.ca Planning | Toronto/Waterloo | 🇨🇦🏳️🌈🇭🇰
Saket Narayan @saket.me Android @ Square • he/him
🌎 https://saket.me/
📍 Seattle
Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social Anti-Zionist Free Palestine Ukraine Solidarity Anti-Racist Anti-Carceral Abolitionist Anti-Genocide Anti-Colonial Anti-War Anti-Imperialist Intersectional Feminist Queer LGBTQI+ Green Eco-Socialist People Planet Peace Interfaith Seeker of Beloved Community
Kitchener Citizen @kitchenercitizen.bsky.social Kitchener’s original community newspaper - established in 1996
Joy Harris @joy-panda.bsky.social On this journey of life, looking for meaning - reading, writing, learning, dancing, soaking in the tunes, & speaking up along the way! ✊🏾 (she/they)
Fitsum Areguy @fareguy.bsky.social 
Mike Morrice @morricemike.bsky.social Running to lead @canadiangreens.bsky.social, previous Green Party of Canada Deputy Leader, Kitchener Centre Green MP 2021-25.
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Block 2, Haldimand Tract
https://linktr.ee/morricemike
@jenvasic.bsky.social @jenvasic.bsky.social 
Sara Casselman @saracasselman.bsky.social Community-builder, intersectional feminist, advocate, maker, lover of justice and kindness. Executive Director of the Sexual Assault Support Centre of Waterloo Region. She/her. 🌈
ACB Network of Waterloo Region @ofacb.bsky.social A network focused on reducing social, political and economic barriers for people of African, Caribbean, and Black descent.
Laura Manning @ljmanning.bsky.social Nonprofits, philanthropy, community-building, social justice │ Former grantmaker and foundation CEO turned advisor and mentor │ Occasional photographer │ Waterloo Region on the Haldimand Tract │ she/her
Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social Verso Books is the largest independent, radical publishing house in the English speaking world.
Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org radical publisher of politics, culture, current events
haymarketbooks.org
Truthout @truthout.org Independent reporting and commentary on a diverse range of social justice issues.
Support our work: truthout.org/donate
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Human Rights Watch @hrw.org 🔎 🌎 ✊
Exposing human rights abuses around the world.
Democracy Now! @democracynow.org Independent, daily global news hour.
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Meg RW @hedgewitch.bsky.social Mommy
Community Organizer - Climate, Abolition, Housing, Unions in Southern Ontario.
Very sweary.
Plants!
CCPA — Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives @policyalternatives.ca The CCPA is Canada's leading progressive policy research institute. We offer independent, non-partisan research on social, economic & climate justice.
www.policyalternatives.ca
Instagram & FB: policyalternatives Also on Gander social: @ccpa.gander.social
Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social "End Times Fascism" book coming September 2026.
Doppelganger. This Changes Everything. The Shock Doctrine. No Logo. On Fire.
UBC Professor of Climate Justice.
🔗 https://linktr.ee/naomiklein
The Conversation Canada @ca.theconversation.com Written by academic experts, edited by journalists, backed by evidence
✉️ Newsletter: http://bit.ly/2W8X3Ev
🎧 Podcast: http://bit.ly/39v1EE0
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Old Goat Books @oldgoatbooks.bsky.social Booksellers since 2001. Quality books bought and sold. Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
Waterloo Region Record @therecord.com A daily newspaper in print and online, serving Waterloo Region in southwestern Ontario since 1878. Find us at therecord.com, sign up for newsletters and alerts, and download our app. News tip? Email newsroom@therecord.com
Basic Income Waterloo Region @basicincomewr.bsky.social Building a movement for economic security.
🏠 Stable housing | 💵 Livable Income | ✊ Dignity for all
👇 Learn how it works
basicincomewr.ca
Broadbent Institute @broadbent.bsky.social Leading Canada's social democrats, advancing justice & equality. | Diriger les sociaux-démocrates du Canada, faire progresser la justice et l’égalité. 🌹
Trish Hennessy @trishhennessy.ca Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives: policyalternatives.ca. Editor, Monitor magazine. Income inequality, health equity, workers' rights, public services, inclusive economy, fair taxation.
Jdelima @josedelima.bsky.social 
Joanne Weston @westonj.bsky.social 
Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social Politics, author of Dangerous Memory: Coming of Age in the Decade of Greed. Meidas Canada/ The Resistance Lead singer with Grievous Angels. Just a boy from Cobalt.
Not a space for the cynical and snide.
Dorothy McCabe @mayormccabe.bsky.social 🇨🇦 Waterloo Mayor. Honoured. Grateful. Here to serve.
Community. Bold ideas. Smart public policy. Politics. I'm here for it! 🇨🇦
Jen Hassum @hassum.bsky.social Executive Director @broadbent.bsky.social
Former publisher @pressprogress.ca
Fait du bien jour après jour.
she/elle 🍞🌹
Laura Pin @lpin.bsky.social Settler in the Hammer. Associate Prof at Laurier in Waterloo, ON. Public policy, housing, budgets, inequality. Parent to one human & one cat. Coffee, bikes & unions. She/her.
James Howe @kitchenerguy.bsky.social An advocate for action on climate change and universal basic Income. Believes in making Waterloo Region better for all. Loves spending time in Kenya.
Melissa Bowman @dtkmelissa.bsky.social Passionate about...just about everything! Especially Waterloo Region. 🇨🇦
Author of CitifiedWR blog https://citified.substack.com/
Co-founder of Waterloo Region Yes In My Backyard
"Kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight"
https://linktr.ee/dtkmelissa
Eleanor Grant @eleanor7.bsky.social Senior in Waterloo Region, Ontario.
Social Justice. Climate. Palestine.
Reducing corporate control.
Craig Norris @craignorriscbc.bsky.social Host of The Morning Edition on @CBCKW891 & host/producer of #InTheKeyofC on @CBCRadio 1 across Ontario. Singer for @TheKramdens.
Stacey Danckert @sdanckert.bsky.social I love data, and learning, board games, and weight lifting. I'll likely mostly engage with politics, climate and social justice issues, #WR stuff, and whatever else smarter people than I bring my way!
@regionwaterloo.bsky.social @regionwaterloo.bsky.social 
Alex Szaflarska @alexszaflarska.bsky.social A bit of co-ops, beer, politics, and conservation. Based in Waterloo Region. (she/her)
Waterloo Region Drug Action Team @wrdrugactionteam.bsky.social Community-led effort to action solutions to Waterloo Region's drug poisoning tragedy. It's a crisis, not a spectator sport! Unfunded. Volunteer. Non-partisan. Honest. Find us on Insta at: @wrdrugactionteam
Waterloo Region Yes In My Backyard @wryimby.bsky.social Waterloo Region Yes in my Backyard, also known as WR YIMBY, is a grassroots community group that urges the cities of Waterloo Region to adjust their zoning to allow for more housing, especially affordable housing.
https://www.wryimby.com/
Berry Vrbanovic @berryonline.bsky.social Personal Account. He/Him. Community promoter of #WRAwesome-ness. Mayor of #Kitchener. Co-President of #UCLG. Motto: Live~Love~Laugh
Sarah Marsh @sarahmarsh.bsky.social writer | deaf | debut novel A SIGN OF HER OWN out Feb 2024 
@janemitchell.bsky.social @janemitchell.bsky.social 
Beisan Zubi @beisan.bsky.social Palestinian and hopeful — antipalestinianracism.com
Leilani Farha @leilanifarha.bsky.social Global Director, The Shift
Former UN Special Rapporteur on the right to housing
Co-Host PUSHBACK Talks
International law; human rights; housing; cities; finance
Regional Councillor Colleen James - Kitchener @colleenjames.bsky.social www.colleen-james.ca
William Turman @willnturman.bsky.social Cities, bikes, housing, trains, labour, Kitchener-Waterloo, trans rights are human rights, he/him
Opinions and stray thoughts are mine.
CBC K-W @cbckw.bsky.social News headlines from CBC Kitchener-Waterloo.
Stephanie Stretch @stretch-ward10.bsky.social Renaissance women in ward 10 Kitchener. Total newb here. 
michael parkinson @88xtc.bsky.social Human systems engagement, design, and policy planning. Upstream prevention pro. Drug strategy specialist. Population health, justice, socio-economics, (in)equity. Struggling musician, failed pro hockey player. Waterloo region, Ontario, Canada
Kate Bueckert @katebueckert.bsky.social Guelph, Ont., mom, wife, ⚾️,🥎,🍻,📷, 📻. News nerd at CBC Kitchener-Waterloo. Go Blue Jays. I take a lot of photos. Mostly here for my own amusement but will occasionally post work-related stuff.
Michael Druker 🇨🇦 @mdruker.app Cities, justice, bad jokes. Dad. Immigrant 🇨🇦⬅️🇺🇸⬅️Ru. Erstwhile staff eng, advocate @tritag.ca, bsky tinkerer @feeds.mdruker.app. he/him. Support 🇺🇦
📍 Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario
Mike Boos @mikeboos.ca Citizen of Kitchener. I make noise about walking, cycling, transit, and land use. Staff engineer in developer productivity. He/him
Jasmine Mangalaseril 🧁 @cardamomaddict.bsky.social food columnist for CBC-KW | freelancer elsewhere | Canadian | promiscuous eater | effervescent | cat pillow | equal opportunity buttertartist and apple fritterian with an art history degree.
Views: mine. Yes, I'm greedy that way.
@margjohnst.bsky.social @margjohnst.bsky.social 
HousingNowTO @housingnowto.bsky.social Monitoring Progress & Activity on Twenty-One (21) sites 🏙️ proposed under the Mayor's #HousingNow plan for creating new Affordable-Rental units
#TOPoli #YIMBY
HousingNowTO.com
Ashley Fox @ashleyfoxrpn.bsky.social RPN CFN GPNC(C) | Nurse Case Manager | Aria's Mom | 2022 & 2025 Provincial Liberal Candidate for Perth-Wellington | OLRNC RVP South West
she/her
Andrea Perrella @amlp.bsky.social Associate professor, Political Science, Wilfrid Laurier University.
Sharon Schmidt @skaysmall.bsky.social Rabid environmentalist, hiking the Bruce, Nana to 8 adorable kids, walking with refugees, fighting injustice, and following Jesus. Thoughts expressed are my own. 🇨🇦
Union Co-operative @unioncoopwr.bsky.social Working to buy and build residential & commercial properties in Waterloo Region for permanent affordability and community ownership.
www.unionsd.coop
Beyond Housing @beyondhousing-ca.bsky.social Beyond Housing provides affordable rental housing for families seniors, and single people with low incomes in Waterloo Region. Our projects are viable, sustainable and include support services for our tenants. beyondhousing.ca
Scott Piatkowski @scottpiatkowski.bsky.social Candidate for Waterloo City Councillor, Ward 5. WRDSB Trustee (2018-2026) and former Board Chair (2021-2022). Affordable housing champion. Opinions are my own. He/Him.
Teneile Warren @teneilewarren.bsky.social They/Them. Black Liberation. Playwright. Chef. Queer Mama. opinions are my own. Inquiries: teneile.consulting@gmail.com
@kaeelgie.bsky.social @kaeelgie.bsky.social 
Jarnick 🇨🇦 @jarnick.bsky.social 🍁 From Toronto to Mississauga to Oakville and now Kitchener/Waterloo Ontario. I'm here to commiserate, and learn. No DMs please if I don't know you.
WilmotCAN @wilmotcan.bsky.social The Wilmot Civic Action Network is a group of motivated and proactive residents of the Township of WIlmot fostering positive community action www.WilmotCAN.com
dan kellar @dankellar.bsky.social never succumb to dystopia.
journalist and editor with CKMS News, host aw@l radio. complex systems geographer and sandwich understander. an unschooling papa and community spider.
radiowaterloo.ca/news
Dinah Murdoch @dinahmurdoch.bsky.social Founder, KW Little Free Diverse Libraries
Itinerant teacher - Literacy & Reading Interventions
Community lover
All around big feelings feeler ♥️
Carly @grecoce.bsky.social Probably riding a bike.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
ocasiocortez.com
Climate Caucus @climatecaucus.bsky.social Climate Caucus is a non-partisan, national non-profit working at the intersection of two essential pillars: local democracy and climate policy 🌍 Learn more at www.Climatecaucus.ca
૮´˶• ᴥ •˶`ა (Acer) @patches1312.bsky.social PFP by chharmanii!!
26 | She/They
Just a transfem activist and occasional artist and absolute gaymer who doesn't know why she made this. I'm like if a girl was just a silly little guy but also a cute puppy.
Patrice Gagnon @patricegagnon.bsky.social Père, amoureux, syndicaliste, montréalais et québécois! @ufcwcanada.bsky.social / @laftq.bsky.social
@newfychick.bsky.social @newfychick.bsky.social 
Stephanie B @stephanie-b.bsky.social Passionate about the environment, healthy spaces, clean air, and inclusion for all. Still masking. Living in Ontario, Canada. She/her.
Cllr Lukas Oakley @lukasjoakley.bsky.social Councillor for the County of Brant. Housing - Electoral Reform - Transit Advocate. Dungeon Master
Sara Bingham @s4r4b1ngh4m.bsky.social Feminist, Clinician, WeeHands founder, author of The Baby Signing Book and A Beginner's Baby Sign Language: Sign and Sing at Home
More Transit Southern Ontario @moretransitso.bsky.social MTSO advocates for more frequent, reliable & integrated transit networks for riders across Southern Ontario. 🚍🚊🚆🚇
🔗 Links: https://linktr.ee/mtso
Cycle Waterloo Region @cyclewr.ca We advocate for cycling in Waterloo Region to be a safe, respected, and convenient mode of transportation for people of all ages & abilities.
Sign up for Rides with Candidates: cyclewr.ca/2026-municipal-election-rides-with-candidates-volunteers
Jörg Broschek 🇨🇦 @jbroschek.bsky.social Political Science Prof and Laurier Research Chair | Federalism/Multilevel Governance | Political Economy | (Active) Transportation and Infrastructure Policy | Kitchener/Waterloo Region
More at https://tinyurl.com/4pzjpykm
Sean Campbell @seancampbellwr.bsky.social Working to buy and build affordable rental homes with @UnionCoopWR.bsky.social (www.unionsd.coop), and supporting purpose-driven organizations with www.scaledpurpose.com
Brooklin Wallis @handle.invalid Kitchener Ward 6 Candidate!
2025 Kitchener Centre ONDP Candidate
Chair of Kitchener's Climate Change Committee, Director at Spectrum WR, and Co-founder of ACORN Waterloo Region
Linktr.ee/brooklinWR
The End Is Nige @theendisnige.bsky.social Stuff by Nigel Gordijk in Waterloo, ON. Proudly and loudly Afro-Caribbean/Chinese-Caribbean. He/Him. https://linktr.ee/TheEndIsNige
Kimiko Shibata @eslfairy.bsky.social @esl_fairy on X/Twitter
Parent, Educator, Trainer, Volunteer, Author, Music-Maker, Video-Maker, Miracle-Maker, Resource Enthusiast, Nerd.
Here to love, not to hate.
Sharing is caring.
Bit.ly/eslfairy
David Alton @ourjoymovement.bsky.social Queer Theologian
Facilitator of homelessness advocates
Organizer for independent/grassroots power in Waterloo Region
Marinus de Groot @marinuspdegroot.bsky.social musing, learning, planning, associating, making ... .
making: Promenade radio magazine, Mondays 7p MidtownRadio.ca
musing: The Evening Muse marinus.substack.com
associating: Home Range Story Kitchen; Sandhills Parlour Tuesdays 5-7
Mike Farwell @farwell570.bsky.social Curious. Interested. Opinionated. Local. Stubborn. In motion. Host, 570 NewsRadio, 9-1, M-F. Kitchener Rangers play-by-play. Other duties as assigned. #curecf
Brian Doucet @briandoucet.bsky.social Planning Prof at the University of Waterloo studying housing, displacement, transportation & how they are related. Also cycling, curling, baseball & photography
I was born in Toronto, now live in Kitchener & have lived in Scotland & the Netherlands
he/him
Catherine Fife @waterloompp.bsky.social Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) for Waterloo, Ontario (2012/14/18/22/25); Shadow Minister for Economic Development, Job Creation and Trade; https://linktr.ee/cfifekw