Andrea A. Cortinois

Assistant Professor @UofT_dlsph and HMB Program; Co-Director @GHmigration. #Migration #Displacement #Detention #SocialJustice #healthequity Tweets are personal.

[Andrea A. Cortinois @acortinois]

@MelissaLMRogers Believe me: we, too, are very happy you don’t live in Toronto! 😄

[Andrea A. Cortinois @acortinois]

@AllNightLongJay Wonderful! I am truly very happy for that!

[Andrea A. Cortinois @acortinois]

@brianlilley Why don’t you tweet ‘I am stupid!’ It’s faster.

[Andrea A. Cortinois @acortinois]

@pimientacarlos @UofT_HMB @UofT_dlsph Thank YOU for the excellent lecture, Carlos!

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

On this day in 1966, Kwame Nkrumah, the first president of independent Ghana and co-founder of the Non-Aligned Movement, was deposed in a coup backed by the US and UK. The coup was part of a coordinated effort to destroy socialist and Pan-Africanist movements on the continent.

[Ahmar Khan @AhmarSKhan]

Councillor Gord Perks is on a heater. He’s taking shots at Mayor John Tory for how he’s handled the budget and Councillor Brad Bradford for his attempt to goad Councillor Bravo into saying ‘defund the police.’

Worth a listen.

[Sea-Watch International @seawatch_intl]

While Italy's parliament voted to further restrict civil sea rescue yesterday, at least 73 people have lost their lives in a shipwreck in the Mediterranean.

The #ItalianDecree will ensure that there will be more loss of lives. It is an official incitement to let people drown:

[Cheri DiNovo @CheriDiNovo]

CATARACT Story: after rejecting the 'up-sell' of $4-7000 she is told she can go with OHIP for $2200.00 and will have to wait up to 6 months. #Healthcare under @fordnation How is this accessible?

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

To US Americans: your welfare is not threatened by a balloon. It is threatened by a ruling class that denies you access to healthcare, affordable housing, modern transit, living wages, proper voting rights, a stable climate, and a decent chance of living past 77. Know your enemy.

[Andrea A. Cortinois @acortinois]

If it wasn’t terrifying it would be utterly ridiculous - The upside down world… #RonDeSantis

[solutionsforpostmodernliving @postmodernlivin]

Madness.

Canada is effectively saying, "It was costly & hard work to displace & genocide peoples. The costs & labor that went into our deathly colonial enterprise cannot be ours alone to carry, the colonized peoples whom we displaced & genocided must carry some of these costs."

[Andrea A. Cortinois @acortinois]

@michaelscat2 EVERYTHING is normal when it comes to cats…

[Assaad Razzouk @AssaadRazzouk]

Meet the President of the 2023 UN Climate Talks, Sultan Al Jaber. He is also the CEO of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, the state-owned behemoth investing $127b in expanding oil & gas

Best part: This tweet is not an attempt at comedy

#COP28

[Isaac Callan @isaaccallan]

NEW: Investigators with the Ontario Provincial Police spoke to @CanadaGray and @envirodefence to determine whether to launch an investigation into the Ford government’s decision to open up parts of the Greenbelt for development.

https://t.co/UyiUDXrbiZ

[Harsha Walia (she/her) @HarshaWalia]

Not sure if it's the algorithm, but I am surprised at the silence around Biden's atrocious "managed migration" annoucement today.

Expansion of Title 42 expulsions, expedited removals, safe first country requirements, and defacto ban on right to asylum for many. Horrific.

[Andrea A. Cortinois @acortinois]

Did Greta say ‘get a life’ or ‘get life’? 🤔 @GretaThunberg

[Poet Jillian Hanesworth @SocJustice_poet]

Telling people in one of the poorest cities in the country that they should’ve stocked up on 2 weeks worth of food and batteries when they are systematically living paycheck to paycheck is beyond me smh.

[Andrea A. Cortinois @acortinois]

Celebrating what? Homelessness?

[City of Toronto Culture @culture_to]

The countdown is on! The City of Toronto's #NewYearsEveTO fireworks display is just around the corner. 🎆

This year’s event is a part of the Stronger TOgether program, funded in part by the Government of Canada.

[IrpiMedia @IrpiMedia]

#InEnglish
The Big Wall in the Mediterranean Sea was built upon contracts that are hard to track. Overall, the outsourcing of border control has cost over one billion euro. And the results have been underwhelming.

@Lorenzo_Bagnoli, Fabio Papetti

https://t.co/d1Biv7tecm

[George Monbiot @GeorgeMonbiot]

People defend Musk because to do otherwise means admitting something big: those in charge are not the best people. They might be good at some things, but really bad at other, critical skills. Recognising this is tough for those who reflexively resort to system justification.