Clara Stewart-Robertson

Community Planner & Manager at the Jane/Finch Centre. Plus, the odd story from the Maritimes. Check out @OurGreenChange, @CornerCommons & @BlackCreekFE.

[Nadha Hassen, PhD MPH @nadhassen]

After months of work, we are launching our community report "Park Perceptions and Racialized Realities: Exploring the experiences of racialized residents in two Toronto neighbourhoods"!

Join us on Friday, Aug. 12 at 6pm @CornerCommons
Details: https://t.co/smR7qM5D04 1/4

[Green Change @OurGreenChange]

We’re hiring a Youth Engagement Assistant for this summer! Join our Green Change & Community Development team in supporting community outreach and engagement activities in Jane-Finch! See link in bio for more details. #JobOpportunity

[Naheed Dosani @NaheedD]

The red dots = pharmacies now providing vaccines

The red blank spot = Toronto's Northwest corner (one of the areas hardest hit by #COVID19 & where many low-income racialized people live)

Why is Ontario's #CovidVaccine distribution plan leaving out those most affected?

[Ben Spurr @BenSpurr]

Early story up: Ontario says it will donate LRT land for Jane-Finch community centre after all https://t.co/XnEewhp7s6

[Jane-Finch Community Hub Organizing Committee @OurJaneFinchHub]

After years of community work and advocacy, the Province of Ontario has announced that it is transferring just over 2 acres of land along Finch between Norfinch Dr & York Gate Blvd to the City of Toronto at no cost for our community to build a Community Hub & Centre for the Arts.

[janefinchhousing @janefinchhousi1]

We're looking for Jane-Finch residents with experience in graphic design, illustration, or media arts to work with us on housing justice outreach/advocacy projects. If you or someone you know is a designer/artist and interested, please email [email protected]

[Paul Kulig @PaulKulig_TO]

Curious about the future of Mount Dennis? Want to help shape your neighbourhood? Join us tonight at 7PM as we kick off the Mount Dennis Planning Framework Study:
https://t.co/Wngnmc5DtC

[Clara Stewart-Robertson @clarastewrob]

Feeling honoured and looking forward to bringing a Jane-Finch perspective to this conversation. Make sure to sign up and tune in!

[Canadian Urbanism @CanUrbanism]

This is coming up on Wednesday. Sign up now at: https://t.co/fiDKY2rBIY

Join @AftabErfan along with @RobinMazumder , Ryanne James, @AndyFillmoreHFX, and @clarastewrob

#CanU2020 #Equity #AccessToDailyNeeds #CommunityBuilding #Urbanism #CanadianUrbanism

[Clara Stewart-Robertson @clarastewrob]

The man who took on the Irving Oil refinery and won: https://t.co/rSWTjuaMch

[Corner Commons @CornerCommons]

We’re excited to announce Atif Khan and Sakaana Yasotharan as our 2020 Corner Commons Artists-in-Residence! Both artists will be producing community-focused work under the theme of Transition. Atif’s residency is… https://t.co/MZ789U28Qk

[Tina Yazdani @TinaYazdani]

A rally has just started at the new Finch-West LRT site - members of the Jane & Finch community say they will “fight back” after Metrolinx scrapped plans to donate the land for a much-needed community hub in the neighbourhood. A few dozen people are here in support.

[Ben Spurr @BenSpurr]

Symone Walters lost her son to gun violence, and she hoped the community hub would be a place where young people in the arecould go and be safe. She says community won’t back down.

[Ben Spurr @BenSpurr]

The province’s messaging over the fate of the Jane-Finch community hub is confusing enough that Ontario’s advocate for community opportunities seems to have misconstrued it. Metrolinx has made no commitment not to sell the land. 1/

[Ben Spurr @BenSpurr]

In Jane-Finch, leaders fume at ‘terrible betrayal’ after Metrolinx goes back on plan to donate land for community centre https://t.co/FvW9rbHjSz

[Kofi Hope @kofi_hope]

Unacceptable. A total betrayal for the community, one of the densest parts of Toronto, high % of youth, an area with a huge need for a new community center. When people ask 'why dont communities get behind these new light rail projects?'... look no further than Exhibit A.

[JFAAP @JFAAP]

@Metrolinx reneges on plan to donate land for #Jane_Finch community centre, will instead sell to highest bidder. @JFAAP supported community efforts to secure this land for a badly needed hub. Shame on you @Metrolinx ! This is not over!
https://t.co/UwvJXFOoW5 via @torontostar

[David Rider @dmrider]

Bit of a pattern here. Metrolinx eased community opposition to a massive rail bridge in Davenport by promising a mural on it, then last year quietly scrapped mural funding. https://t.co/uYaCUk7BuM

[Clara Stewart-Robertson @clarastewrob]

Having worked directly with community leaders on this project since 2014, this news is beyond devastating. The land parcel that Metrolinx now wants to sell only exists because the Jane-Finch community fought for it. This is a completely betrayal of their trust & efforts.

[Ben Spurr @BenSpurr]

Metrolinx reneges on plan to donate land for Jane-Finch community centre, will instead sell to highest bidder https://t.co/CT1HqkZTOd

[Josh Matlow @JoshMatlow]

What does it say about the character of a provincial government that would reneg on a promise to support, when the needs for social services are so apparent, the Jane and Finch community? Seriously. It’s shameful.

[Shree Paradkar//श्री पराडकर 🍁 @ShreeParadkar]

Dr.Ngola overcame hardships to live the immigrant dream in NB. Then Canadian racism hit: he’s labeled Patient zero for COVID, premier threatens prosecution, he is doxxed, lives in fear - all for doing what other doctors did. By ⁦⁦@AmiraElghawaby⁩ https://t.co/136qJKrfx3