Social Worker, advocate, needlecrafter, volunteer.
Toronto, Ontario
Joined August 2018
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“marginalized communities are not represented in the places where Canadians swim, whether at indoor facilities like schools and community centres”
Swim lessons for kids from these communities = yet another reason for community use of space.
@SPACEONTARIO @CSC_ON @SportOttawa
From 2023 Community Cohort Fellow, @kngprry 👏
By teaching Black and other racialized people to swim for free, Jacky Beckford Henriques and her team are taking on a historic Canadian inequity.
✍️thenarwhal.ca/swimming-lesso…
I am delighted that Toronto’s new Mayor will support schools as community hubs. Thank you @SPACEONTARIO and @torontolabour for making this an issue in this election.
While the mayor has no direct power over school boards, the mayor does have significant influence.
The City and school boards must work together to maximize community use of school spaces. We've partnered with @torontolabour and @planningtoronto to ask Toronto mayoral candidates to pledge to support schools as community hubs.
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The largest investigation of short-term rentals ever in Canada.
A dream team of award-winning investigative journalists from across the country, including Zachary Kamel, Brishti Basu, Anupriya Dasgupta, Sam Harper & Jimmy Thomson.
Help make it happen.
ricochet.media/en/3958/inves…
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The @AnishNation would like to see a Red Dress Alert system and the development of an Auntie Network Helpline ❤️ #NoMoreStolenSisters
"Supporting the growth of these projects and initiatives will save lives and ensure the protection of our future generations." - @Naanookasens
What is Canada doing to end the violence against Indigenous women and girls? @spaikin spoke with @CoraONWA (@_ONWA_), @PauletteSteeves (@AlgomaU), @Naanookasens (@AnishNation) & Sandra Montour (@GFASS_) about the urgent need for action. #MMIWG #cdnpoli youtu.be/4LWjfjsEiRg
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"If you’ve got a kid in full-day kindergarten today, you can thank Pascal." — @spaikin #onted tvo.org/article/remembering-…
“The right thing to do with the Ontario Science Centre is clear: Keep it open and restore it. The right thing to do with Ontario Place is also clear: Make both islands into destination parks, count on the new subway to bring visitors, and keep the entire site public.”
My column on the destruction of Ontario Place, the Science Centre and all our civic pride: theglobeandmail.com/canada/a…
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My column on the destruction of Ontario Place, the Science Centre and all our civic pride: theglobeandmail.com/canada/a…
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Ontario shouldn’t be too quick to get rid of empty schools. It should try to fill them first tvo.org/article/ontario-shou…
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#topoli #onpoli Of all the many disingenuous claims made y'day by @fordnation and @KingaSurmaMPP re: Ontario Place & the Science Centre, the most egregious involve money/transparency. A great deal of public funding will be spent, and there has been zero transparency to date. 1/n
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At this Ontario Place presser, the Premier just said that, like so many of us, he remembers taking his sailboat over there as a kid, parking it and going to see the sites.
Like so many of us.
In our sailboats.
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MISSING:
Jordan, 29
- last seen April 17 @ 8am in the Coxwell Ave & Gerrard St E area
- described as medium build with brown hair
- last seen wearing a blue shirt and shorts
#GO847620
^se
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Inbox, Saunders campaign criticises Chow for wanting "the parking area in front of 52 Division ... replaced by flowers"
The fact that the former chief thought a public plaza was police parking may help explain why cops kept parking there
🎶 Mama Duck doo doo de doo de doo 🎶
Mama Duck, the world’s largest rubber duck that swims in at six storeys and weighs over 13,600 kilograms, is set for a return to Toronto’s waterfront in September. trib.al/z1wE3CL
This is so important. COVID isn’t over. Yes, masks are annoying. Yes, not dining in restaurants sucks.
Do it anyway to keep your older loved ones safer.
COVID-19 is the third-leading cause of death in Canada, but it’s older people who are dying. That we accept this and carry on as if the pandemic is over reveals our ageism: We don’t value older people, says @machealthsci’s Dawn Bowdish. | @McMasterIIDR ow.ly/ar1r50NzSxY
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"...A brief by local consultants Urban Strategies says the spa “facilitates access to and around the waterfront.” Sure. Also, if you punch me in the nose and then offer me a tissue, you are facilitating access to Kleenex." 💥
cc @ONPlace4All
My column today; Will Toronto’s next mayor defend Ontario Place? #topoli #onpoli theglobeandmail.com/canada/t…
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I've been having tons of fun working with @SashaMTL @YJernite and @christopher on bias exploration tools for generative AI.
Today, we share some of our results.
Thanks for the reporting from @Melissahei
technologyreview.com/2023/03…
Further links below in 🧵.
Animikii’s policies include personal days, companywide paid days off, unpaid cultural leave, alternative statutory holidays, paid pet leave, bereavement leave for chosen family and compressed work weeks.
theglobeandmail.com/canada/a…
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What certain NHL players don’t understand about homosexuality and the Bible — by @michaelcoren tvo.org/article/what-certain…
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Now is the time to fight back against the force pushing women down and taking away their rights around the world. We can't let it win, and we can't leave women to fight it alone.
#InternationalWomensDay #IWD2023
