Diana Chan McNally

Diana Chan McNally has been a member of Linktree for 5 years and joined in June 2021. The social media accounts linked to from Diana Chan McNally are: Instagram, SoundCloud, X, Bluesky. Besides social media accounts, automaticamore has populated their site with How to Vote When You're Unhoused: 2025 Federal Election Edition (PDF), How to Vote in Ontario When You're Homeless, Agencies! Learn How to Support Homeless Canadians to Vote!, NEW DJ MIX: The Limits of Good Taste on The Electric Disco (London, UK), TAKE ACTION: Support Your Neighbourhood Shelter!, SUBMISSIONS OPEN! I'm judging a design competition seeking shelter solutions for unhoused people, MY LATEST OP-ED: Homeless women in Toronto face early, often preventable deaths (Feb. 8, 2025), LISTEN: Moore in the Morning on Newstalk1010: homeless encampments (June 8 2022), NEW DJ MIX! Hallowe'en Disco for Berlin's Sound Metaphors., HELP: Find your local Toronto Liberal MP and tell them to fund shelter for refugees and unhoused people!, BUY MY BOOK, REGISTER: Social Planning Toronto's Annual City Budget Town Hall! I'll be presenting on the impacts of the budget on homeless people., MY POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS ON ENCAMPMENTS, WATCH: The Guardian: I speak on the topic of rising anti-immigration sentiment and homelessness in Canada (August 6, 2024), WATCH: CBC News Election Special: I speak on a panel after Mayor-Elect Olivia Chow has been declared (June 26, 2023), WATCH: TVO The Agenda: I speak on a panel "What Should Be Done About Violence on Toronto Transit?" (February 2, 2023), CTV News: Canadian cities struggling to get past 'Whac-A-Mole' solution to homeless encampments (October 27, 2024), LISTEN: CBC Metro Morning: Why more beds still won't be enough to keep Toronto's homeless out of the cold this winter (October 25, 2024), CBC: Toronto police special constables to be stationed in 3 ERs for mental health cases (September 22, 2024), Radio-Canada: Le centre pour demandeurs d’asile à Pearson tarde à ouvrir (September 22, 2024), The Local: When Environmentalism is Weaponized Against the Unhoused (August 28, 2024), CP24: 'Detrimental impacts': Ontario announces closure of 10 supervised drug consumption sites (August 20, 2024), CBC: Experts call province's move to shut 5 drug consumption sites in Toronto a 'deadly mistake' (August 20, 2024), WATCH: CP24: People dealing with homelessness are dying younger (August 9, 2024), Toronto Today: Doug Ford is ‘putting lives at risk’ to win an election, The Toronto Star: What you need to know about people sleeping in tents in parks — they have nowhere else to go (November 14, 2024), Maytree Canada: Frontline workers need policy. Policy needs frontline workers (October 22, 2024), The Toronto Star: Doug Ford, homeless in Ontario spend their lives trying to meet their basic needs — which is the most relentless work there is (September 25, 2024), The Toronto Sun: Action needed now on Canadian-Ontario Housing Benefit (September 5, 2024), OPINION: Doug Ford is ‘putting lives at risk’ to win an election, The Toronto Star: Upset about homeless encampments? Talk to Doug Ford (June 13, 2024), The Toronto Star: As a front-line worker in a homeless shelter, I see the dire impact of federal inaction (January 25, 2024), The Toronto Star: Toronto needs help addressing the growing homeless population before winter hits (November 6, 2023), The Toronto Star: I ran a community program on a $10,000 budget. Toronto’s social services are dangerously underfunded (February 9, 2023), The Globe and Mail: An Ontario ruling defending those living in encampments is only a partial victory (January 31, 2023), The Toronto Star: A catastrophic increase in visible homelessness (January 11, 2023), The Toronto Star: Washrooms, menstrual and incontinence supplies are a basic human right. Let’s ensure Toronto’s unhoused population has access (Jan. 23 2022), Toronto.com: Times of conflict alter the trajectories of lives and communities for generations to come (Nov. 11 2021), The Toronto Star: Violent, militarized park encampment clearings won’t end homelessness in Toronto. Here’s a human rights approach (July 26 2021), Automaticamore on YouTube, Automaticamore on Soundcloud, WATCH: "Records," a documentary by filmmaker Alan Zweig I'm featured in as the requisite Italo-Disco nerd, Stamp The Wax: Digger's Directory Interview w/ Automaticamore, Music is My Sanctuary: Interview w/ Automaticamore, WATCH: I speak on the topic of 'Advocating from the Front-line' for Maytree Canada's 'Five Good Ideas' series, WATCH: CBC Live: A harm reduction worker on why she believes homeless encampments are on the rise in Toronto (April 11, 2024), WATCH: CP24: Extreme cold puts spotlight on homelessness (February 3, 2023), LISTEN: The National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health's 'Mind the Disruption' Podcast: Disrupting for Racial & Climate Justice (March 26, 2024), WATCH: CP24: 3 warming centres not enough (Jan 25, 2023), CP24: 'Not the right time' to close temporary shelters (January 4, 2023), CP24: City needs to open more warming centres: advocate (December 22, 2022), CBC: I speak live on CBC Newsroom about Homelessness in Canada (October 22, 2022), Presentation: I speak at a Global Center for Advanced Studies Roundtable: Contemporary Media in the Wake of War (March 5 2022), Presentation: I speak at the 2022 DesignTO Festival's forum "Confronting the Housing Crisis" (Jan. 25 2022), Global News: I speak about the federal election and encampments as a federal issue, CP24: Activists weigh in on encampment removal (July 21 2021), CP24: Activists Demand Better After Encampment Cleared (July 14 2021), LISTEN: CBC Metro Morning: If you come across someone using illegal drugs on the TTC, is there anything you can do to act? (April 5, 2024), LISTEN: Spacing Radio: What does change cost? (January 30, 2024), LISTEN: CBC Metro Morning: First-hand stories from refugees: a jurisdictional fight over funding has left these refugees sleeping on the streets of a busy Toronto intersection (July 11, 2023), Toronto Star: ‘It’s just an overall explosion in homelessness’: Encampment numbers in Toronto have more than doubled over last March (April 11, 2024), LISTEN: CBC Metro Morning: This outreach worker is crowdfunding to feed, provide essentials for refugees on the street (July 10, 2023), LISTEN: Toronto Today with Greg Brady: Novotel Resident Carried Away By Police Sparks Shock & Anger (November 28, 2022), LISTEN: CBC Ontario Today: What's your city doing about homelessness? (October 13, 2022), The John Oakley Show ft. Diana Chan McNally (August 31, 2022), LISTEN: CBC Metro Morning Toronto will hire security guards to patrol parks, but housing advocate says there's better uses for that money (May 13 2022), LISTEN: Toronto Today on AM640 Radio: Surveillance of encampments in public parks (May 13 2022), LISTEN: A podcast I recorded calling for personal hygiene products to be made free for low-income and unhoused people (Feb. 9 2022), TVO Podcasts: Homing in on houselessness (Nov. 2021), Spacing Radio Podcast: I speak about A Path Forward and Encampments (Aug 5 2021), AM 640 Radio: Chaos erupts again as Toronto officials, officers clear homeless encampment at Lamport Stadium (July 22 2021), WATCH: CityNews: 'It's been a disaster': Reports of three deaths among Toronto's unhoused population amid heatwave (June 19, 2024), CP24: Toronto politicians, advocates and other prominent figures share important lesson imparted by their fathers (June 14, 2024), CBC: New study gives 22 recommendations to make Toronto shelters more safe (April 30, 2024), WATCH: CityNews: Violent incidents at Toronto shelters increase with overcrowding (April 30, 2024), WATCH: CTV News: Physical assaults on Toronto shelter staff up more than 400 per cent as 'critical incidents' rise (April 30, 2024), CBC: Number of tents set up by Toronto's unhoused population rising, advocates 'unsurprised' (April 12, 2024), WATCH: CTV News: Advocacy groups concerned as TTC fare inspectors, special constables will be equipped with body-worn cameras starting in May (April 12, 2024), WATCH: Global News: TTC tests out body cameras as part of new use-of-force policy (April 12, 2024), Ricochet: In an age of collapse, does philanthropy still make sense? (October 11, 2023), WATCH: Global News: Toronto mayor’s office scrambles to enact refugee policy passed months ago (September 8, 2023), CBC: Asylum seekers left sleeping on Toronto streets amid funding stalemate between city, feds (July 12, 2023), CTV News: 'A huge shame': Asylum seekers sleeping on the streets of Toronto as city, feds argue over who should foot the bill (July 8, 2023), CBC News: As extreme heat gets worse, expert calls for access to cooling as a human right (July 7, 2023), WATCH: Global News Toronto: ‘People aren’t going to disappear’: Toronto community divided over encampment response  (June 29, 2023), The Trillium: What the Ford government is doing for, and to, Toronto on homelessness (June 21, 2023), The Toronto Star: Is mayoral hopeful Bailão a consensus builder, or keeper of Toronto’s status quo? (June 21, 2023), The Toronto Star: Toronto to run out of money to help homeless people pay market rents after only two months, city says (May 4, 2023), The Toronto Star: Strathcona residents say Toronto shelter hotels failed promise of permanent housing (March 23, 2023), CTV News: Heavy rain hammers Toronto after city rejects 24/7 warming centres (February 9, 2023), WATCH: CityNews: Budget concerns include services for those living on Toronto streets (January 11, 2023), Toronto Star: Facing an ‘unprecedented’ shelter crunch, city proposes extending leases at temporary sites (January 4, 2023), West End Phoenix: A Fully Housed Toronto (Dec 16, 2022), WATCH: CP24: 'Pretty devastating': 20 tenants displaced, non-profit damaged following fatal fire in downtown Toronto (December 13, 2022), WATCH: CTV News: Fatal fire hits some of city's most vulnerable (December 13, 2022), WATCH: CityNews: All Saints fire leaves one person dead, two injured and 18 displaced (December 13, 2022), WATCH: Global News Toronto: 1 dead, 2 hospitalized after fire at supportive housing building (December 13, 2022), WATCH: Global News Toronto: ‘We jumped through so many hoops’: Homeless couple recount process in accessing social housing (December 6, 2022), The Globe and Mail: Hamilton doctors track homeless deaths amid national push for governments to collect more data (November 12, 2022), CBC Toronto: City of Toronto asked to drop plan to deter encampments by posting security guards in parks (September 3, 2022), The Breach: Toronto’s shelter hotels promised safe transitional housing—what happened? (September 1, 2022), The Toronto Star: Ontario confident in monkeypox vaccine strategy, Moore says, but some seek expansion (August 8, 2022), CTV News: Advocates in Toronto urge city to rethink 'inaccessible' heat strategy, bring back cooling centres (August 8, 2022), The Toronto Star: Toronto says person with monkeypox at homeless shelter moved to isolation centre (August 1, 2022), WATCH: CBC Toronto News: OmbudsmanTO's interim report on encampment evictions is released (July 16, 2022), The Toronto Star: There has been a big spike in homeless deaths in Toronto and other cities. The reasons go beyond a toxic drug supply (July 14, 2022), The Toronto Star: City under fire for awarding $1 million in contracts for private security for Toronto’s parks (June 9 2022), WATCH: GlobalNews Toronto: Housing advocates respond to Toronto’s dossier on homeless encampment in Trinity Bellwoods Park (May 25 2022), The Toronto Star: Toronto’s homeless encampments are back on the fringes. Here’s why that’s a problem (May 23 2022), The Toronto Star: Private security guards won’t stop homelessness in Toronto — homes will (May 13 2022), WATCH: CityNews Toronto: Housing advocates blast park patrol plans (May 12 2022), CityNews: Homeless shelters in Toronto hotels to start closing this spring (March 28, 2022), Toronto Star: ‘Undignified’ lack of personal hygiene products for the homeless tackled in city budget talks (Feb. 9 2022), CTV News: Extreme cold threatens the homeless in the city (Jan. 10 2022), Toronto Star: Toronto wants to allow the simple possession of illegal drugs. So why does the city still treat homelessness as a crime? (Dec. 7 2021), CityNews: Council divided over encampment clearing inquiries (Oct 1 2021), Global News: Toronto officials, police under fire for tactics used to clear homeless encampments (July 22 2021), City News: Toronto Park evictions continue (July 21 2021), Toronto.com: 'I ain't going to no shelter': evicted Alexandra Park resident rejects city offer (July 21 2021), Global News: City of Toronto officials and police move to end Alexandra Park encampment, 9 arrested (Video Interview Embedded in Article) (July 21 2021), Toronto Star: Scuffles break out in Trinity Bellwoods after Toronto police and city staff descend on the park to remove encampments (June 22 2021), CBC News: Several arrested, tactical units mobilize as Toronto evicts encampment residents from Trinity Bellwoods park (June 22 2021), CTV News: Several arrests made after Toronto clears out large encampment at Trinity Bellwoods Park (June 22 2021), CBC Saturday News: Speaking About Heat Risks for Unhoused People (June 7 2021), NOW Magazine: There’s no such thing as affordable housing in Toronto (November 20 2020), BlogTO: What to know about the tent encampments in Trinity Bellwoods Park (September 9 2020), CBC Toronto News: Speaking About The Overdose Crisis During COVID-19 (May 18 2020), NOW Magazine: How Toronto’s party scene can get safer using harm reduction, Twitter Thread: My Live Coverage of the Lamport Stadium Encampment Eviction (July 22 2021), Twitter Thread: My Live Coverage of the Alexandra Park Encampment Eviction (July 21 2021), Twitter Thread: My Live Coverage of the Trinity Bellwoods Encampment Eviction (June 22 2021).