Alida Thomas

Alida Thomas (she/her) currently works as the Director of Research and Impact for Kinvest. She has a background in conflict resolution and human rights and is passionate about public policy, climate justice, gender equity, mountains, and the Toronto Raptors. Alida lives, works, and explores in the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the Squamish, Musqueam, Tsleil-Waututh Nations in Vancouver, BC.

Bio last updated January 12th, 2022.

Alida Thomas

Articles by Alida Thomas

  • Beyond The Way Things Are

    In Jeremy Courtney's Love Anyway, Alida Thomas finds stories of loving with resilience in the midst of war, disaster and betrayal, as well as important lessons of peace for a polarized world.

    What Courtney does throughout Love Anyway, a standalone continuation of his first book, Preemptive Love: Pursuing Peace One Heart at a Time, is give not only an honest and raw look into his own story and the growth and evolution of Preemptive Love Coalition (with a refreshing amount of humility, adm...

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  • Belonging On The Court

    Last night’s improbable NBA championship for the Toronto Raptors was one professional sports team’s triumph. Even more, Alida Thomas writes, it’s a historic moment of shared belonging when Canadians discovered who they want to keep becoming.

    Euphoria over the Toronto Raptors historic NBA championship victory wafted north from Oakland at the final buzzer of Game 6 last night and is spreading from across Canada today It’s also about the record number of Canadians playing in the NBA and WNBA, such as Andrew Wiggins and Kia Nurse, many of w...

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  • Elfin Lakes

    In the midst of noise: calm. In the midst of frenzy: space. In the midst of ambition and movement and work: rest. 

    In the midst of frenzy: space ...

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