Emma Arkell

freelance labour journalist / words and 📸 in @Chatelaine @Jacobin @TheTyee @TheBreachMedia @readthemaple @XtraMagazine / formerly @GlobalRepCentre

[Emma Arkell @EmmaArkell7]

For @Chatelaine, a story about the ‘workforce behind the workforce’: child care workers, the vast majority of them women, struggling with low wages, few benefits and overwhelming workloads while providing care their communities sorely need.

[Erica Lenti @ericalenti]

This year, we're publishing *a lot* more digital-exclusive longform @Chatelaine. Kicking things off is @EmmaArkell7's interrogation into Canada's child-care staffing shortage, and what it means for promises of $10-a-day daycare: https://t.co/8SNocn8ZjN

[Sask Dispatch @SaskDispatch]

In the last two years, two teens staying at Street Culture Project died by suicide shortly after turning 18. Alex Birrell writes about the lack of supports available for vulnerable youth, especially after they age out of available programming. https://t.co/O4V0AJAAUs

[Xtra @XtraMagazine]

Right-wing homeschoolers are pushing for policy that prioritizes the beliefs of parents over the rights of children. @antihateca weighs in:
https://t.co/B9T9eKeZV6

[Emma Arkell @EmmaArkell7]

For @XtraMagazine, I wrote about the connections between the "parental rights" movement, Christian nationalism and the homeschool lobby https://t.co/Eedtkr1gGH

[Informed Perspectives @InformedOps]

"Warnings that children are being 'sexualized' or 'indoctrinated' in public education systems are common amongst Christian Nationalist & far-right groups" Dr. Carmen Celestini @PhilofWrite via @EmmaArkell7
Celestini's #InformedOps @ https://t.co/WoiukPdytt https://t.co/bcNpVBsCTZ

[Xtra @XtraMagazine]

Christian nationalist homeschoolers are communicating to parents that schools are dangerous places and children aren’t safe there. @EmmaArkell7 reports:
https://t.co/B9T9eKes5y

[Tara-Michelle Ziniuk @therealrealTMZ]

Back to school = back to school policies = back to a basic lack of safety for some students and educators. @EmmaArkell7 writes about that last part here. https://t.co/6Oa90pdnsI

[Garth Mullins @garthmullins]

This is embarrassing coverage. If you want to understand the drug war in Canada, go to @crackdownpod. We are never sensationalistic, always evidence-based, always rooted in the community, never punching down.

[Emma Arkell @EmmaArkell7]

@SimonTownsley @PaulNuki @hellosarahgreen sincerely some of the worst reporting I've ever seen on the DTES

[Dripped Out Trade Unionists @UnionDrip]

Solidarity with the 6500 Samsung Electronics Union members on indefinite strike in South Korea ✊�

[Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare]

Beautiful tribute to Jane McAlevey by @alexnpress https://t.co/bC4CKzMrow

[Michelle Cyca @michellecyca]

a modest proposal for publications, since no one is raising their rates: complimentary subscriptions for your freelancers, please!

[Rosé Bautista @DesmondCole]

One thing I'm left with at the end of @occupyuoft: the failure of media to engage with what actually happened there, and the likely inability now to accurately summarize or thoughtfully reflect on what happened, because there was so little curiosity to begin with

[Justine Barron @jewstein3000]

I'm looking to speak to people who have dealt with mask bans (legal or related to work, retail, transit, etc.) for a story.

Or if you've been confronted by police about a mask without a legal ban in place.

Please reach out - DM or [email protected].

Please share!

[Christopher Curtis @titocurtis]

🧵🚨ANNOUNCEMENT TIME🚨
The Rover is publishing some of our best work but the past year has pushed me to the brink of financial collapse. We've cut every conceivable expense but the pressure of producing this kind of journalism (death threats, lawsuit threats) and keeping...

[Emma Arkell @EmmaArkell7]

Read my @TSSU deep dive in the May/June issue of @briarpatchmag 🗞 https://t.co/zgsOAqeXLl

[Emma Arkell @EmmaArkell7]

When I first wrote about the surge in worker organizing on campuses, I was struck by the tenacity of an independent, non-hierarchical union that was fighting a years-long battle to unionize research assistants without the support of a big union like CUPE.
https://t.co/zgsOAqeXLl

[Emma Arkell @EmmaArkell7]

“We're directly democratic and non-hierarchical, and that means we run everything ourselves,” says TSSU trustee Dalton Kamish. “That allows us to be much more active, much more agile and much more radical than a lot of other unions.”