These compromises are really adding up 😢

The IHRA definition should be revoked everywhere

Police chiefs & crown prosecutors should pause and think before embarking on a politically-motivated campaign to violate civil liberties and criminalize anti-genocide protests in Canada. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

This is a fascist move in Ontario happening right now.

This year's @ablawg.bsky.social year in review post has lots to say about the state of democracy in Alberta and elsewhere, a major theme on the blog this year. Wishing all our readers a 2026 in which state actors are held to the highest standards of democratic accountability and justice.

In a democracy, politicians don’t direct police operations.

The Chief of the Toronto Police Service should make a clear and unequivocal statement that the police do not take orders from elected officials.

Read these posters and tell me how this constitutes hate speech.

Update: One year after @ubcmedicine.bsky.social SPPH violated my academic freedom for speaking out about the genocide in Gaza. Grievance filed in Feb. '25. Later amended to include an outrageous allegation that my posters somehow constitute "hate speech." 1/2

David Frum in his own words: “If Canada is a country that has committed genocide is it worth defending? You wouldn’t defend a country that’s committed genocide.” @davidfrum.bsky.social

Postmedia is pushing the idea that if constitutionally protected protests are not suppressed by “police and political leadership,” then Palestinian protesters will be targeted with retribution (and/or political violence?)

I know everyone is super concerned about ‘inciting terrorism,’ so why exactly is it okay for a Toronto Sun columnist to essentially say that violence is an appropriate response to anti-genocide protesters?

Reckless and dangerous rhetoric from Toronto Sun columnist, Brian Lilley. Vigilantism is completely unacceptable.

"Academics literally cannot make genAI go away" we also can't make underage drinking go away and we're not advocating for installing bar carts in every classroom.

If more shopping isn’t your thing, how about supporting your favourite non-profit newsroom instead? 🎁🗞️

Rana Zaman recently received the Halifax YMCA Medal for Peace and Human Rights Award. Then the award was rescinded. @smohyeddin.bsky.social's interview with Rana Zaman. Shame on the Halifax YMCA. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWNC... .

Remember when every leader wanted their picture taken with Greta? She is still that truth teller, they just can't face the truth of their crimes.

New report by @kamilkaramali.bsky.social on Palestinian students in Gaza waiting months and sometimes years for Canada to issue study visas. www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...

here's the 60 minutes cecot video part 1 of 5 - recorded/uploaded by and all credit to @jasonparis.bsky.social I just reduced background noise, chopped the 14 minutes into 3 minute segments each compressed under 100 mb for bsky's limits, cropped and rotated a few degrees for easier viewing on here

Another judicial decision related to pro-Palestine university student activism. Justice Young upholds Vancouver Island University's 2-year suspension. IMO @VIUniversity response was excessive and punitive. Decision here: www.bccourts.ca/jdb-txt/sc/2...

🤯 unbelievable line of questioning & response from @spaikin.bsky.social (re: should 🇨🇦 arrest Benjamin Netanyahu). Have a listen w/ @bobbyrae48.bsky.social . Doing his part to further erode confidence in the work of the ICC. Good grief 🤦

They’re trying to do reparations for white people.

This is indistinguishable from a post by The Onion.

Completely unacceptable. When will the Government of Canada right this wrong @wgreaves.bsky.social? universityaffairs.ca/news/univers...

The gutting of peer scientific review, more broadly, is about the deconstruction of expertise and traditional scientific metrics of credibility. Trying to lower the curtain on the era of evidence-based practice.

2/ Antisemitism has lethal consequences, gun violence is everywhere, hate is surging.... And we can choose to respond with love, courage and universal solidarity.

1/ Woke up this morning in Toronto - excited to see my family for Hanukkah. Opened my phone to news of the horrible killing of 12 Jews in Sydney. And then video of the incredibly brave guy tackling one of the shooters.

Thinking of students and faculty at Brown University and their families. Thinking of the Jewish Australians at Bondi Beach who were celebrating Hanukkah. Today is also the 13th anniversary of Sandy Hook, one of the worst days in modern American history. I love people and hate weapons of war.

Tatiana Schlossberg, the daughter of Caroline Kennedy, had just given birth when she was diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia. She writes about her fear of adding another tragedy to her family’s life. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/CLpbsb

Such an important story and why I financially support the Maple and other independent journalism in Canada.

A rare criminal conviction for a worker death. The company, J. Cote & Son Excavating (BC), faces sentencing in January. I hope we will see more police trained in investigating workplace deaths & serious injuries, more charges and, ultimately, more successful prosecutions.

Simon Fraser University wants only non-union faculty at its new medical school. SFU contends that it's so new and different that the existing collective agreement with university faculty doesn't apply. pressprogress.ca/sfu-medical-...

Canada needs better labour relations data. Read the CAWLS/ACETS open letter on the need to restore public access to data tracking work stoppages — and for stronger collection of labour relations statistics. cawls.ca/en/canada-ne... #canlab

The end of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greenes’ accountability interview with @amnanawaz.bsky.social. Perfect 🙂

Two years ago today. We will never forget. press.un.org/en/2023/sc15...

On Dec 6, we remember the massacre at l’Ecole Polytechnique and we acknowledge that gender-based violence is a pervasive issue: One woman or girl is killed every 48 hours in Canada (Canadian Femicide Observatory, 2022).

We will remember Dec 6 1989 and the lives of these folks cut short because of hatred for humans marked as female/feminine

A memorable evening with Sara Kishawi, @libbydavies.bsky.social, Amy Wyn Blanding at the recent Vancouver launch of Razing Palestine (edited by @haikuboxer.bsky.social). Thank you for filming & editing Jase Tanner. www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3w9...

No reason provided just a giddy Ricki Gurwitz

🤯 Journalist, Munk Debate member, U of T graduate, and recent (unanimously selected) PEN Canada Ken Filkow Prize recipient for her work advancing freedom of expression in Canada, @smohyeddin.bsky.social, is turned away from attending tonight's Munk debate in Toronto. Good grief 🤷

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I have been studying (lack of) public confidence in vaccination for over a decade now. This is the first time I have really felt scared for public health writ large. The damage the current US administration is likely doing to children’s health & safety, domestically & internationally, is horrifying.

An important win for academic freedom and the fight against the Palestine Exception! Thanks to members for standing against this illiberal motion. 🙌 💪 Shame on the Executives of Guelph and U Alberta Faculty Associations.

For folks following CAUT Council, I’m pleased to report this motion was resoundly defeated

Peak AB-SK petro politics playing out on Twitter today. Good grief.

Many hoped that a Liberal cabinet minister would muster the courage to resign on principle over the Government of Canada's complicity in Israel's genocide in Gaza. Sadly, it never happened.

Nice cover @profsmithsask.bsky.social

👀 one day suspension 👇

UBC Faculty for Palestine teach-in this evening: “Palestine under fire”