Alessia Avola

interested in people, places and things

[Russ Diabo @RussDiabo]

Ontario First Nations leaders call for housing minister, chief of staff to resign over Greenbelt controversy

https://t.co/ho3lLvmlq7

[Uahikea Maile @uahikea]

“This is, for us, genocide.”

Keʻeaumoku Kapu headlines a rare piece in a sea of reporting about the Maui wildfires. @McKayJacqueline’s article in @CBCIndigenous examines it in relation to the erasure of Kānaka Maoli & Hawaiian land rights. A must read.

https://t.co/vfm2MKTW6H

[Naomi Klein @NaomiAKlein]

Maui, the Next Frontier for Disaster Capitalism, Plantation-Style

New from me and the great Hawaiian legal scholar Kapuaʻala Sproat

https://t.co/FXZuU3k6UW

[Alessia Avola @Aless_Avola]

"In early 2018...Ford...confided...that he would “open a big chunk” of the Greenbelt if he became premier in the election later that year:“I’ve already talked to some of the biggest developers in the country, and...I wish I could say it’s my idea, but it was their idea as well.”

[Bitch Media @BitchMedia]

Bitch Media's quarter-century legacy of shaping contemporary feminism through provocative dialogue comes to a close.

Visit https://t.co/ySVqgERmLB for more information.

https://t.co/0FGgQXClJp

[Alessia Avola @Aless_Avola]

@Abb_Thomp Ou I love 😍

[Petra Molnar (@petramolnar.com on BlueSky🦋) @_PMolnar]

The violence explicitly practiced by EU’s migration machine is staggering, motivated by carceral logics and lucrative border industry. What do we have to tell policy makers who undermine years’-long work trying to highlight systemic harm if real world human stories aren’t enough?

[Alessia Avola @Aless_Avola]

CBC Front Burner: how Ontario was led into a COVID-19 crisis
https://t.co/BIelhYecmP #PaidSickDaysNow #COVID19Ontario

[Ottawa Public Health @OttawaHealth]

Threads were intended for major shifts. Things that couldn't be explained in 1 tweet. We'd planned to use one every 6-7 weeks. But this is our third thread in a month. And we're writing this one because we've hit a critical point. We'll get to that, but first let's chat.

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[CBC Gem @cbcgem]

Your first look at Trickster, coming to CBC and CBC Gem in the fall.

Based on the best-selling novel Son of a Trickster.

[Alex Boutilier @alexboutilier]

Derek Sloan just said housing is hard to access in Canada's big cities because immigration is too high. He also just said "Canada for us," and "Canada first."

[Ruth Green MSW, PhD (she/her) @ruthgreen76]

Academic brag moment...
An article I am proud of came out today! https://t.co/nAMppEHpB0

[TransgenderLawCenter @TransLawCenter]

You'd be hard-pressed to find a trans person who isn't familiar with employment discrimination, whether we've experienced it or heard of it from a friend.

We are here. We exist. We are resisting.

#RiseUpOct8 #NoRightToDiscriminate #NoPrideInPrejudice

https://t.co/HfMcWFHgl6

[ACLU @ACLU]

There is an enormous amount at stake in today’s Supreme Court cases: Going back to 2000, federal appeals courts have ruled that anti-trans discrimination is a form of sex discrimination that violates federal law, providing a remedy for trans workers fired for who they are.

[Advocates for Trans Equality @TransEquality]

"The world needs to see our hearts and our souls. That we love just like everyone else. We deserve to work just like everyone else." - @LaLaZannell, @ACLU

#RiseUpOct8 #RiseUpOctober8

[Jessica Valenti @JessicaValenti]

The @nytimes has deleted this, saying it was “poorly phrased,” but this is not about the wrong choice of words - it’s the constant diminishment and laughing off of women’s pain.

[Alessia Avola @Aless_Avola]

A perspective that was left out, and that I missed!

[Brittany Andrew-Amofah @BrittanyAmofah]

I’m really confused which version of Canada is class erased or ignored.

I grew up in social housing in Toronto and I was very much aware of class.

[Alessia Avola @Aless_Avola]

A really fantastic article, and well worth the read.

[Toronto Star @TorontoStar]

The province has quietly announced that two supervised drug consumption sites in Toronto must close as of Monday. @jpags https://t.co/MmI5lSE1Mp