Jackie Brown
@jackiebrownTO
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literary urbanist. into ecological economics and tools for conviviality. alum @MacArtsci, @YorkUEUC urban planning
Toronto, Ontario
Joined June 2017
1. Just finished my master’s thesis on the role of financialization in abysmal #LongTermCare (#LTC) outcomes, where I exposed the web of perverse incentives that led to this mess. Here's what I learned 👇
In the first nine months of 2020, as the COVID-19 catastrophe unfolded across Ontario, the three largest publicly traded long-term-care operators in the province made huge payouts to investors while taking millions in government funds, data shows. https://t.co/DjvirNGGqv
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“I think the way that we treat the most vulnerable seniors in our society is really a mark of how we’re doing as a country,” says Jackie Brown. This doc is just the tip of the iceberg to start making real change.
"I think the way that we treat the most vulnerable seniors in our society is really a mark of how we’re doing as a country." How STOLEN TIME investigates the harmful state of elder care
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Featuring a stellar line-up of contributors, I’m delighted to see this book out in the world. For more info, see here: https://t.co/WhPyD1rCab
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If polluting a lake can increase GDP because the resulting cleanup stimulates the economy, why do we continue to use it as an indicator of national wealth? In "Missing Values," @jackiebrownTO explores different ways of quantifying a country's wellbeing. https://t.co/a5VGD547DY
maisonneuve.org
As policymakers set their sights on frameworks beyond GDP, the question of what it means to quantify a nation's wellbeing becomes pressing.
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📆 The @EN_NHC is holding a review panel hearing to examine the human rights impacts of for-profit corporate firms buying affordable rental housing, known as #financialization. The review panel needs your voices! Make a written submission by August 31:
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Please consider donating! It is unconscionable that refugee claimants and asylum seekers are without food and water, let alone shelter. Myself and @lorrainelamchop are asking for your help to purchase these items to help keep people hydrated and well.
gofundme.com
Right now, refugee claimants and asylum seekers are stranded and sleeping on t… Diana Chan McNally needs your support for Water and Food for Stranded Refugees
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Ontario has confirmed it's ending its agreement with the CBSA to hold immigration detainees in its jails, effectively ending the controversial practice across Canada. Here's our initial story: https://t.co/0MQv8K7gvz
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The province’s decision effectively ends the controversial practice across the country.
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Nervously excited to join Federal Housing Advocate @HousingLogement and awesome researchers @Martine_August @NemoyL @ACORNCanada @jackiebrownTO @ManuelGabarre3 May 9 to tell HUMA why #financialization of housing is a #humanrights issue
The #HUMA Committee will be holding its first meeting to look in to the #financialization of housing in Canada. Tune in on May 9 to hear from the Federal Housing Advocate and experts on the topic:
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Important read on the ongoing consolidation of Ontario's long-term care homes into the hands of companies that treat elder care as a money-making investment. Thanks @royinori and @TheLocal_TO for giving me the opportunity to speak with you for this story
Ontario has the highest percentage of for-profit LTC homes in the country. Now, @royinori writes, new deals are consolidating elder care into the hands of a few major companies.
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Law school is reading a case about a kid who finds out his parents worked under assumed names as deep cover Russian spies his entire life for its take on the reasonableness standard of judicial review...
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Does anyone know if there are plans in the works to translate @criveragarza's Autobiografía del algodón into English? cc: @sarahkbooker @mervatim
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When you want to reference Star Wars without actually referencing Star Wars --> "'the Force' is the leitmotiv for a very famous metaphysical/western movie sequence" (Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation)
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@jackiebrownTO: financialization of seniors’ housing correlated with worst COVID outcomes. Low wages mean “staff work in long term care homes by day & stay in shelters by night.”
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When you delete twitter but still have to find a way to broadcast that to the world
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Elder care which itself is increasingly treated as an asset class to maximize profits for investors
You're not even going to be able to pass that asset onto your kids - focusing on asset appreciation, rather than public service provision, means that you will have to liquidate the family home to pay for your eldercare and your kid's student debts. 18/
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