Larry Patriquin

Then there's the R2 I encountered a couple of years ago: "He writes like a leftwing journalist and therein lies the problem."

Larry Patriquin - Profile on Academia.edu Larry Patriquin earned a PhD in social and political thought at York University, Toronto in 1996. He was a faculty member at Nipissing University, North Bay,…

I recently created an Academia.edu page with PDFs of my articles and book reviews; "look in the book" PDFs for my books; and a full open-access PDF for Permanent Citizens' Assemblies. (I am not the most prolific academic, but I just might be the best organized! 😀)

Mark Carney to Donald "Spike" Trump:

Lloyd Axworthy: Canada once rejected America’s aggressive, unlawful foreign policy. Today Mark Carney embraced it By endorsing preventive strikes on Iran during ongoing diplomacy, and after Washington itself shredded the previous agreement, we are embracing the very doctrine we used to reject, writes Lloyd Axwort...

Llyod Axworthy is spot on here about Canada’s response to today’s events between the US, Israel, & Iran. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont... #cdnpoli

CEC Results | Your Party Results of the cec Election The following MEMBERS have been elected to the Your Party Central Executive Committee. Public Office HoldersCORBYN, JeremySULTANA, ZarahSMITH, LauraLEWIS, Grace North WestG...

I just noticed something fascinating about Your Party's Central Executive Committee election results: 20 of the 24 members elected (83%) identify as female; the other 4 identify as male.

I'm guessing this ratio is unprecedented in the history of western politics.

The Country That Starts the War Is Wrong That's us.

"We are wrong because we started the war" should be the anchor point for all coverage of what's happening and it's remarkable how quickly that tends to get obscured.
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Labour is now entering its dementia stage.

Would you (and Haymarket) consider publishing a wonderful hardcover, one-volume work of this rainbow? (Similar to Arundhati Roy's My Seditious Heart: Collected Nonfiction)

Here's a BBC journalist reporting that Russian forces have committed widespread war crimes against civilians in Ukraine, telling us "there has been horrific evidence that has emerged"

Can you imagine any BBC journalist reporting this about Israel & events in Gaza? Of course not.

I miss the days when there were clocks everywhere.

Why are Canadian charitable donations going to Israel’s military? Funding other countries’ militaries is not a charitable activity according to Canadian tax law. Yet some organizations granted charitable status by the Canada Revenue Agency funnel their donations to ...

💥 BREAKING: The CRA has revoked the charitable status of the Canadian Zionist Cultural Association, a group that raised millions to support the Israeli military.

Canadian Dimension, @mivasair.bsky.social, and Just Peace Advocates first flagged CZCA’s activities in 2021:

WTF is with some of these shipping fees I'm seeing on Abebooks? Does it really cost $89 to mail a book from the 🇺🇸 to 🇨🇦? Along with Abe sellers' crazy book prices (often more expensive than for new books), it's now unaffordable to buy secondhand books online.

🔴 NEW: More than 75,200 people were killed during Israel’s military campaign in Gaza between October 7, 2023 and January 5, 2025 — roughly 25,000 more than the 49,090 violent deaths reported by Gaza’s Health Ministry for the same period — according to a new population-representative study published in The Lancet, one of the world’s most prestigious peer-reviewed medical journal. The survey of 2,000 households finds that Israel’s military campaign killed 3.4% of Gaza’s pre-war population by January 2025 alone. Women, children, and people over 64 made up 56.2% of those killed. Researchers also estimate an additional 8,540 excess non-violent deaths linked to Israel’s war. The findings indicate the death toll during the most intense phase of Israel’s genocidal military campaign was significantly higher than official figures suggested.

🔴 NEW: More than 75,200 people were killed during Israel’s military campaign in Gaza between Oct. 7, 2023 and Jan. 5, 2025 — roughly 25,000 more than the 49,090 violent deaths reported by Gaza’s Health Ministry for the same period — according to a new population-representative study published in...

In some ways I'm philosophical about The End these days. It is what it is. But for the final wave to hit because of the crisis when we worked the hardest we possibly could, we nearly broke ourselves, and did exactly what the govt told us to do? It seems.. painful.

A powerful decentralized campaign forced Scotiabank to divest from Israeli arms ⋆ The Breach A major bank sells its shares in Elbit Systems, in one of Canada’s biggest BDS victories to date

Canadian BDS activists just won a historic victory: Scotiabank, once the largest foreign shareholder in Israel’s biggest weapons manufacturer, has dropped all its shares in Elbit Systems.

@desaima.bsky.social and Harrison Samphir report on the years-long pressure campaign that led to divestment.

The UN found Israel killed 35 kids during the 2018 Gaza protests. At the time Lisa Nandy asked the govt how it could continue justifying arms sales to Israel

Nandy is now part of a govt thats armed Israel while its killed tens of thousands of kids. But she gets a ministerial car

The only thing AI is freeing up reporters for is unemployment.

I aim to be the last adult on the planet without a Substack.

Orwellian ...

Gaza’s Palestinian elderly are keeping hope and resilience alive Israel’s genocidal war left around 85 per cent of the enclave’s infrastructure in ruins, killed more than 72,000 Palestinians, and injured nearly 200,000.

Israel's genocidal war left around 85% of the enclave's infrastructure in ruins, killed more than 72,000 Palestinians, and injured nearly 200,000:

Rightwing critics blame Mamdani as New York snow fails to melt Murdoch tabloid leads charge as big freeze persists – could the mayor please do something about the weather?

Looks like @theonion.com got scooped.

This is two months old (Dec 1-8)?

I don't know but I'm sure it has *nothing* to do with capitalism.

Holocaust Memorial Day 2026: Foreign Secretary's speech Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper gave a speech at the FCDO's Holocaust Memorial Day commemoration, co-hosted with the Embassy of Israel, on 26 January 2026.

Yvette Cooper with the Israeli embassy, using Holocaust Memorial Day to cover up the Gaza genocide: ‘I am committed to preventing atrocities and pushing for accountability wherever they occur – from Sudan to Iran.’

www.gov.uk/government/s...

"The conclusion? Israel's prison authorities, judiciary and political class are complicit in the systematic abuse and sexual violence"

Nida' Ibrahim on a new report by B'Tselem titled 'Living Hell, The Israeli Prisons as a network of torture camps'

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"The tech platforms figured out how to insert themselves between the news producers and the news audience. The ad money that used to fund news now goes to the tech companies. ... That’s why your local paper sucks and your favorite website is dying."

If you ever want to feel like you live in “the ruins of a once great civilization,” then read a local daily paper from the middle of last century — our predecessors had more and better knowledge of their neighbors, their societies, and their local democracies than we do about our own.

Montréal neighbourhood: Discover Old Montréal | Tourisme Montréal No visit to Montréal is complete without exploring Old Montréal and the Old Port, the city’s iconic postcard-pretty historic districts. And while the area’s glittering history lives on in its cobblest...

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