@profsmithsask
Teaching labour politics in Treaty 6 territory, the Paris of the Prairies. Co-Editor of Labour/Le Travail and President of CAWLS. Terrible guitarist. Even worse Pianist. Proud father of twins. Blue Jays nut. Fair weather runner. Opinions are my own.
Not sure what the end game here as all the momentum was lost when the strike ended. Is it a broader political point? A moral one? I honestly don't know what the strategy is here.
Or men sliding unaccountably further right.
Yes, good point. Abject failure. Also explains the far-right's attack on public education to tackle such reactionary opinions.
What crazy patriarchal sexist nonsense is this? And pollsters wonder why women are moving further and further to the left.
Two positions: One which is the absolute position of the government is that what is good for Cameco is good for the province. Two, that doubling down on uranium extraction with a country that has not signed the non-proliferation agreement on nuclear weapons could have serious implications.
Of course, Carney won't bare the consequences of such a choice. His elite circles never do. The children of working people are always the pawns on the chess board when elites makes these calculations.
Carney has no authority to make this promise. There is no world in which the Canadian people have elected to join a US/Israeli war in the middle east.
For too many governments, war is a priority. Attacking immigrants is a priority. Clamping down on civil liberties is a priority. Austerity for health and education is a priority. Protecting the water and air we breath through good research and action? Not so much.
My biannual reminder, if we don’t agree to peer review requests, the whole system collapses.
And, faculty in at research universities with reasonable teaching loads, need to carry most of the weight. If you or your students want to publish, you need to say yes, even when you are busy.
It is a threat. But the combined force of employers and the capitalist state have always been a threat. Only solidarity can push back against it.
A union representing Saskatchewan library workers says they are dealing with an onslaught of violence that saw one worker lose a finger in a machete attack and others fend off aggressors. www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/politics/sas... #skpoli
Of course it violates the Charter. Quebec knows it, that's why it used s. 33.
"In other words, Donald Trump’s foreign policy vision is imperialism. It’s a global outlook that closely resembles Mr. Trump’s governing style at home — both feature spectacular violence and contempt for the restraints of law."
Nice! I’ll be tuning in!
What’s currently happening with Universities that might be cause for alarm?
Gag orders, book bans, censorship of entire areas of scholarship and teaching— in the USA but also in Canada & globally.
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Donald Trump is actively and very publicly working to undermine democracy and freedom in the United States and yet the media in North America is defending a unilateral declaration of war on Iran as a war for democracy. You can't make this up.
Cartoon by Tommy Siegel
Not sure about the timing, but it is great to see the AFL flex its muscles.
Why is it that the same people who complain about public deficits and debts are also the same to champion war?
Two headlines. When Iranian government reports casualties, it is a claim but, when Israel does the same, it is a fact.
Manufacturing legitimacy. #NYTimes #Iran
Bombs cost housing and healthcare.
The link between #militarism and #austerity become horribly clear in the next period and it will be a major focus for any common front of social resistance.
Israel & Saudi Arabia pushed the U.S. to attack Iran.
Netanyahu killed 72,000 people in Gaza, mostly women & children.
Saudi Arabia is a brutal dictatorship that allows no opposition.
These are the leaders who want to bring “freedom” to Iran?
Does anyone really believe that?
Hey Siri, show me an example of an editorial board that has learned nothing from history, that champions a war against authoritarianism while also ignoring that it is being waged by actors increasingly committed to authoritarianism.
"Whatever happens in the coming weeks, the United States has extended its post-9/11 forever war into Iran, an act that will reverberate across the Middle East for years to come."
Saturday is the first day of the workweek in Iran. The US and Israel timed their strike for 9am when kids are in school and everyone is at work.
They could have hit military infrastructure in the middle of the night, but no.
This is a good reminder about how fiscal transfers work in a federation. Also, the separatists are making up their program on the back of a matchbook.
War is peace.
Wag the Dog
Oh great, another war. These leaders are obsessed with war, death, and destruction to maintain their own power.
