Athena Bedassigae-Pheasant

bodéwadmi & anishinaabe-kwe / wiigwaaskinagaa ndoonjiba / mukwa ndodem / 👽🌟

[Sean Carleton @SeanCarleton]

"You're free to say that gravity doesn't exits, I just never want you operating a plane." Consequences not criminalization, argues @Niigaanwewidam, is the best way to deal with residential school denialists.

[Kavita Algu @KavitaAlguMD]

How can @MarcMillerVM @MarkJCarney have a diversity council led by two white men that does not include a single Black member?

Their first order of business should be to disband and assemble a group equipped to address rampant and systemic anti-Black and anti-Indigenous racism.

[Athena Bedassigae-Pheasant @athenaph]

@JonSThompson @NickFDunne @dreahouston @EthanCoxMtl Congrats Jon! 👏👏

[Athena Bedassigae-Pheasant @athenaph]

It’s a Doug Ford summer, baby!
😎☀️👙⛱️

[Tina Yazdani @TinaYazdani]

NEW: the Ford govt has moved to cancel all summer meetings of the committee that vets PC appointments to provincial boards & agencies.

The move came after opposition MPPs questioned two nominees who had donated a combined $13K to the PCs.

Full story w/ @steve_cornwell to come.

[John Michael McGrath @jm_mcgrath]

Red alert for the Premier's office here because literally all Ottawa needs to do to kill this project is not unduly accelerate its approvals, drag the process out past the lifetime of the current legislature.

[Courtney Theriault @cspotweet]

Me: Congrats to the NHL on the end of another fun season...

Friend: But the Knights and Canes are...

Me: I SAID CONGRATS ON THE END OF THE NHL SEASON

[Ricochet Media @ricochet_en]

Five missing people found dead as First Nations leaders demand answers in #ThunderBay

The recent deaths have reopened painful questions about policing, systemic racism, and why Indigenous families continue to lose faith.

New from @JonSThompson:

https://t.co/tUSKkJjwoW

[Jon Thompson @JonSThompson]

In all the years I've reported on the fragile relationship between the Thunder Bay Police Service and First Nations leaders in northern Ontario, I've never once seen a police chief call out those leaders by name.
This statement is in response to this:
https://t.co/ZRtyVNCacw

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

.@NYCSanitation I'd like to report a sweep

[Dr. Jill Andrew, PhD (she/her) @JILLSLASTWORD]

When mental health and caregivers collide...
Seniors caring for seniors.
We've sounded off on mental health and homecare cuts for years.
Caregiver burnout, underfunded PSWs, seniors w/o family support.

This happened on the PCs watch?
Ford, any thoughts?
https://t.co/96lXXVMr00

[Rehan Mazid @Rehan_Mazid]

I asked MPP Riddell to meet with my board to discuss non-partisan topics and youth issues in his constituency. His response? Refusal without reason.

What does that say about the state of our government?

[Athena Bedassigae-Pheasant @athenaph]

the term “heats up” is doing a lot of heavy lifting in this lede 🙃

[Laura Stone @l_stone]

NEW: Ontario Liberal leadership race heats up as Stephanie Smyth endorses Lee Fairclough #onpoli https://t.co/LDdadej8p6

[Athena Bedassigae-Pheasant @athenaph]

I’m not saying I emailed Metro Morning and asked for this to happen a while back, but I’m also not saying I didn’t 😅

[Chris Glover @chrisglover]

👀😂 Who wants to see an interview between @ChrisGloverCBC and I?

[Jessica Bell @JessicaBellTO]

Today, I'm reading through the 350+ public written submissions about Bill 110 - the proposed law that would allow the expanded Billy Bishop Airport takeover.

Thank you to everyone for their submissions. Among them, the Toronto Atmospheric Fund highlighted eye-opening data that shows this airport expansion is simply not needed. 

They point to a 2016 KPMG Supply and Demand Report, which forecast:
✈️ 74 million passengers going through Southern Ontario airports by 2036

🛫 That these same airports (with their current runways) could actually support up to 94 million

We haven't gotten close to these passenger numbers yet – Toronto Pearson and airports across the region still see less flyers overall than they did in 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic.

Why expand an airport when we already have the infrastructure in place to meet air traffic demand, which is still lower than expected? 

That's not logical.

[Athena Bedassigae-Pheasant @athenaph]

Northern mayors like Rick Dumas would rather support $5B worth of downtown Toronto infrastructure that no one asked for, citing improved access to healthcare. How about you advocate for the healthcare we need close to home in northern Ontario.

[Siobhan Morris @siomoCTV]

The head of the Toronto Port Authority says the expansion plan for Billy Bishop may be another year away and cost $5 billion.

Those details came late in a committee hearing on Bill 110 that allows the Ford government to bump Toronto out of the deal governing the island airport

[Jessica Bell @JessicaBellTO]

Toronto Port Authority just confirmed in hearings late today the Billy Bishop airport expansion will cost a massive $4B to $5B.

Who is going to pay for it?

Is this expansion even economically viable?

We also learned the provincial government and the federal government are in secret closed door conversations with the Port Authority over the Billy Bishop airport expansion, and the rest of us are in the dark, including the City of Toronto.

Toronto residents don't want this airport expansion, and the people in charge know it.

That's why they're not telling us about what's in store for us.

They're not telling us about the business case, the increase in pollution, the noise, the health impacts, or the impact on tourism and housing construction.

[Chris Glover @chrisglover]

It's been a whirlwind day at Queen's Park so far as committee hearings begin on Bill 110, Building Billy Bishop Airport Act.

I spoke with the media after an intense back-and-forth with the Minister of Transportation.

#ONpoli

[عَزِيز Aziz @woolyonezeez]

Canada’s Food Guide was developed by performing nutritional experiments on intentionally malnourished Indigenous children in residential schools during the 1940’s and 50’s

[Jack Hauen @jackhauen]

Wow. Ontario municipalities are passing near-identical natural gas resolutions supplied by natural gas company Enbridge, the National Observer reports.

https://t.co/JTyyN15xla

[John Bowker @bowker_john]

Carney literally wants the power to wipe out orcas to build pipelines: “Two sources within the government, who spoke on condition of anonymity, confirmed the last measure in the discussion paper is intended to create a carve-out for the southern resident killer whales” #cdnpoli