Here we go! So thrilled to be having our World Premiere at #TIFF23 📽️🌊
Jessica Allen Emma Hunter Wildling Pictures Canadian Film Centre Toronto Outdoor Picture Show

A 🧵 on this Rogan/JFK Jr./'debate me' stuff. This one's going to be a bit circuitous, but hey, it's Sunday, we're all just hanging out.

So a while back I listened to this podcast on the rise & fall of Mars Hill, an evangelical church in Seattle.
christianitytoday.com/ct/podcasts/ri…

I don’t have kids but always feel like choosing your favourite book must be like choosing your favourite child: either impossible, or always changing. Anyway, this was fun!

swiss chalet which actually *is* five star according to me, a tastemaker, and i will fight anyone who says otherwise

According to this The Globe and Mail article, a donor to the Ford government borrowed $100 million at a TWENTY-ONE PERCENT interest rate in order to buy up Greenbelt land that, in less than a year, was magically open to development. (1/x)

#Greenbelt #Bill23

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Ontario has now passed its Bill 23 on housing and go. In time the most destructive element will be the removal of tenant protections. Allowing apartment buildings to become teardowns - with no compensation for existing tenants - is a disaster.

Alberta’s premier. Day 1. No words.

There’s something grimly poetic about being sexually harassed by a man in a hockey jersey while talking about alleged sexual misconduct by hockey players.

Im so excited that I’ll be on The Social next Tuesday at 1pm EST!!! I’m taking Health Advocacy and #nursing to daytime television. Can’t wait to talk about healthcare with these fierce femmes! Elaine L. Melissa Grelo Cynthia Loyst Jessica Allen NSB The Gritty Nurse-Speakers| Authors| Thoughtleaders

Protests are sweeping Iran & women are burning their hijabs after the death last week of Mahsa Amini, following her arrest by the “morality police”. Human rights groups say at least 8 have been killed. Last night, I planned to ask President Raisi about all this and much more. 1/7

Say that again but slowly.

Bestselling author Alexander McCall Smith (A. McCall Smith) discusses the newest book in his beloved No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, A Song of Comfortable Chairs, in conversation with Jessica Allen.

Sep 12 at 7 pm | Appel Salon
Tickets: …der-mccall-smith-chairs.eventbrite.ca
#SalonSeries

“Ifill, The Hill Times columnist, described how the campaign against her and other journalists appeared to be targeted, expanding from a few people to a group of more than a dozen, many of them people of colour.”
#cdnpoli cbc.ca/news/politics/…

I wrote a thing 👇🏾
“The reality is things won’t get better for a while. The rise of the far right means that BIPOC and other marginalized journalists are under siege; the coronation of Pierre Poilievre as Conservative leader will only make things worse” hilltimes.com/2022/08/17/co-…

have my tweets been good lately? no. but is this because i’ve reached a level of contentment in my personal life that leaves me less bedeviled by the need for constant, empty validation? also no

Fun fact: The Lighthouse (2019) had to be shot in black and white because Robert Pattinson looked like Mario in color.

Our hyper-capitalistic society depends on us tying our identities to our jobs.

What scares the ruling class is that workplace flexibility gives us the ability to reconnect our well-being to our communities, our families, to nature, and to ourselves.

I literally think of Paul Sorvino every time I slice garlic

1. The Canadian Parliament's voted on two bills that would attempt to limit abortion in some form over the past six years. One motion was supported by 68% of sitting Conservative MPs, and the other by 96% of Conservative MPs.

Let's talk about those bills: