Sally Rooney: "I would like to ask my fellow writers & artists.. not to dwell too exclusively on what we stand to lose. There is another more important side to the story. To join in something greater than ourselves, to participate in.. a struggle for human liberation"
These fucking ghouls out here layering hate onto tragedy for their own disgusting political purposes.
The shooter's gender identity doesn't fucking matter. It only matters to sick fucks trying to exploit a mass tragedy to drive an agenda of hate that will kill more kids.
Monsters, all of them.
If complaints around infill are sounding mighty familiar, that's because they are.
We heard all the same talking points a decade ago, that splitting lots for skinny homes would be the end of our mature neighbourhoods.
Thing is, it wasn't. It was fine. We grew, and changed.
THEY ARE BUYING UP WAREHOUSES TO HOLD HUMAN BEINGS IN DETENTION INDEFINITELY.
I feel crazy at how everyone is acting like this is normal. These are concentration camps being built right before our eyes. These buildings are not meant to house human beings. People will be caged like cattle and die.
Canada must help Cuba. Here is my latest about Canada's long and deep relationship with the island nation, and how Carney's Davos speech turned out to be all talk and no action.
noraloreto.substack.com/p/canada-mus...
Things I know to be true:
- It matters that so many are speaking up for the first time
- If you didn't speak up before this moment, it's important to reckon with the reasons why
- You have to become trustworthy through action
- A lifelong commitment to political education matters for everyone
Things I know to be true:
- All our struggles & our freedoms are interconnected
- We owe each other everything
- There is no "right time" to resist, come as you are
- Endless catastrophes = many opportunities to find your place
- We need a diversity of tactics & many sites of struggle to win
"Every democracy facing this challenge has learned you don’t defeat authoritarians by being more reasonable. You defeat them by being more determined and by uniting the country against their most visible vulnerability: their corruption."
Worth the wait
www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...
“the government of Alberta has done what appears to be a politicization of the whole process and basically hijacked the organization and the millions and millions of dollars that it administers”
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
www.canadianlawyermag.com/news/general...
🧵“How do seemingly ordinary people become agents of state murder?” This is one of the guiding questions I ask students in my graduate class on genocide/state violence. With recent events, it is a question many Americans are asking.
I do not have a definitive answer, but here is a reading list: 1/
My coping mechanisms and habits are on heavy rotation in these shitstorm times. Loved this podcast episode from @deanspade.bsky.social and Holly Whitaker on bringing compassion (and a harm reduction lens) to our and others' addictive patterns. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/l...
(I shoveled my roof, but it's low-slope with a door onto it. This snow's surprisingly heavy, so it seems prudent not to let it sit. I lived in a house in Quebec that had a roof collapse due to snow accumulation -- giant job to fix....)
Happy to lend you a roof rake. Riverdale. DM me.
The exclusion of trans people from public and academic spaces, removal of protections by human rights institutions, dehumanising language used by state news media, judicial tolerance of trans directed hate crime, withdrawal of medical care: all of this is very familiar to genocide scholars.
apnews.com/article/ai-f... police body cameras, once taboo, get tested on Canadian city's 'watch list' of faces
The solution to homelessness is housing
The solution to poverty is reducing economic inequality through the redistribution of wealth
The solution to the unregulated drug deaths is drug regulation
bsky.app/profile/kwar...
Some quick thoughts on Thomas King's revelations, from a Red River Métis and Critical Indigenous Studies perspective.
"Hollow-gram Indigeneity and the superficiality of colonial consumption (or: the unbearable flatness of fraud)"
zoestodd.com/2025/11/26/h...
cuz Canadian spies and law enforcement certainly remember jeff.doctor/blog/canada-...
seems like an important question the media should ask bsky.app/profile/jeff...
I did my best to not yell about how ridiculous everything is right now and how hard it is to take anything seriously when we're all supposed to bet our future on magic beans
rabble.ca/podcast/the-...
Forced abstinence it’s not the solution and will result in more deaths.
Putting somebody through forced detox who is not seeking treatment or abstinence is akin to torture.
#MBpoli
#Drugsky
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Must be controversial to want to expand democratic engagement on a public university’s grounds.
And this is why you should NOT be demanding that unions remain "neutral" on divisive or political questions. Your CAUT motion is playing into the hands of those who will silence faculty if they can, including this current excuse for a Board of Governors.
Withdraw your motion!
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DULF winning this challenge could advance people’s liberation so quickly, all the SCS and service closures of the last years to appease police and profiteer tantrums will soon be laughed at as the final bleatings of the drug war in Canada.
But first, funding: www.zeffy.com/en-CA/donati...
"After the SJC filed a defamation suit it was revealed that the 'contractor’ was Adam Dobrer who had actually been Hillel BC’s ‘Lead Advocacy Professional’ for more than a year (July 2022 - Aug 2023). Dobrer’s LinkedIn mentions how part of his role at Hillel BC was to combat antisemitism."
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