After weeks of non stop international vilification of trans people there's evidence of potential AI psychosis or radicalization that was so bad employees at OpenAI wanted to alert the RCMP before the shooting. They were silenced by the company. Why are politicians protecting Sam Altman's empire?

NEW: Understanding the Bogus Allegations of Misuse of Funds by Amira Elghawaby’s Office Shortly before her office was shut down, right-wingers were up in arms about an alleged misuse of funds. But as Tarek Tahan reports, there was really no scandal at all. mediacoop.ca/node/119343 #cdnpoli

Check out the latest tragic report, covering June 2024 to May 2025, on deaths of homeless people in #HamOnt. 32 homeless people died in Hamilton over that time, at an average age of 48. hamiltonhomelessmortality.weebly.com/june-2024--m...

"Canada’s immigration detention system disproportionately ensnares people from African and Caribbean countries, a new study says." www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... #cdnpoli #cdnimm

A thoughtful article by an Ottawa-based anarchist collective thinking through how we can go beyond just responding well when people in movements do harm to each other and can begin to build practices that help to prevent such harm. briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/vie...

slavery is one of the rare things historically where the more you learn about it the more you realize your initial assessment was correct and it was in fact one of the most evil things ever to occur

I both take pleasure in reading this kind of writerly theory-writing and have doubts about how useful it is for advancing liberatory projects. Anyway, I agree we need to make space for the unknowable and the unsayable in our politics. salvage.zone/silence-in-d...

This past October, Montreal saw a major student strike in solidarity with the people of Palestine. Check out this in-depth examination of the action by journalist Xavier Gransden. mediacoop.ca/node/119342 #cdnpoli

Leaders meet on MMIWG as most calls to action remain incomplete www.aptnnews.ca?p=283637

🙄 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #cdnpoli

Sad to hear about the passing of Chip Berlet. I remember reading some of his anti-fascist work on the far right as long ago as the 1990s. idavox.com/index.php/20...

An article from last year: "From runaway slave lists to Canary Mission, the state has long deputized citizens to enforce its will." www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-t...

"Our news media is in a death spiral everywhere it counts." readthecatch.ca/goodbye-wash...

Is it just me or has the iOS autocorrect gotten way worse lately? It will regularly take text where I’ve made a minor error and instead of identifying and making the small change that would fix it, it inserts an entirely different word. Even a few months ago, it wasn’t this bad.

Very excited to announce that our book "Mobilizing Data for Justice" is now available for pre-order with @btlbooks.com. We interviewed a bunch of folks about how they engage with data in social justice struggles and we share some of their strategies here.

Shut down Toronto’s bid to host the global HQ of the newly announced DSRB war bank! Act now to reject a vision for Toronto as a funder and facilitator of military violence around the world. actionnetwork.org/letters/stop... #cdnpoli #topoli

"Fascism is built on these systems of othering: against drug users, against trans people, against migrants, which become reproduced as targets for different fascists across time and space." www.tni.org/en/article/l...

I keep saying to people in my life that the problem with writing in these days is that you sound absolutely off your nut for simply saying what is happening.

An interview with renowned historian Robin D. G. Kelley on how to think about ICE—and the broader history of police violence. www.bostonreview.net/articles/ren...

"At least five people were killed by police [in Canada] in January 2026. One person was also killed by private security serving in a hospital." mediacoop.ca/node/119340 #cdnpoli

"German scientists are warning that global warming is accelerating, that the planet could heat by as much as 3 C over pre-industrial levels by 2050... The consequences would be catastrophic." davidsuzuki.org/story/german...

"Our allies are everyday people in the U.S. and elsewhere who are fighting the far right and the liberal capitalist decline that fuels it." tempestmag.org/2026/02/how-... #cdnpoli

"Science fiction and fantasy allow exploration of possibilities for, and constraints on, individual and collective choice. They also, through their worldbuilding, allow explicit definition of the types of possibility with which characters must grapple." strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

baffling that the media isn’t making more of an issue out of how carney is gutting key federal agencies/depts and what that’s going to mean for gov capacity when we’re supposed to be more independent and capable. food inspection, health canada, statscan, global affairs — all being cut, and more

Well-known Gaza journalist Bisan Owda had her account suspended from TikTok, she says, just days after the finalization of the company’s sale to U.S. investors — including a firm headed by the notoriously pro-Israel Larry Ellison. The journalist had 1.4 million followers on the platform.

“Dreams, expectations, needs, desires... all this is labor…” — Franco Berardi

A good overview (with a focus on so-called Canada) of the current moment, the state of social movements, and possible paths forward, written by Montreal-based migrant justice and worker organizer Mostafa Henaway: www.midnightsunmag.ca/crisis-as-cl... #cdnpoli

Email the Laurentian University Board of Governors and tell them to end the faculty strike with a fair deal: actionnetwork.org/letters/act-... #onpoli

In another Carney government gift to corporations and capitalists, Bill C-15 would allow any federal cabinet minister to exempt any corporation from any federal law they are responsible for, other than the criminal code. www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... #cdnpoli

An article from December on legislation from the Carney government that is attacking migrants and putting people in Canada at risk by giving the regime in the US greater ability to access information on people in this country. ricochet.media/internationa... #cdnpoli

There is something ominous about how much less emotional, intellectual, political, and rhetorical space we are currently able to focus on the climate crisis compared to a few years ago. There are valid reasons for this, given all the other crises we face. But it's still ominous.

Malaysia: Stop union-busting at Apple supplier Lumileds www.labourstartcampaigns.net/show_campaig... @labourstart.bsky.social

Hundreds of workers responsible for pollution prevention, weather forecasting, conservation and environmental disaster response are set to be cut from ECCC as Prime Minister Mark Carney's government takes a chainsaw to the public service. www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/23/n...

Nation-building by cutting 10,000 jobs at: * Global Affairs * Health Canada * Immigration, Refugees & Citizenship * Transport * Innovation, Science & Economic Dev * Fisheries & Oceans * Environment & Climate Change * Agriculture * Employment & Social Development * Public Safety * Canadian Heritage

Check out this zine of letters of advice from young organizers (plus two very wise older organizers) to other young organizers. I think there's lots to learn there, whatever our age and whatever role we play in movements. issuu.com/projectnia/d...

Paul Robeson died 50 years ago today. Can you imagine being the most famous Black person in the world at one point, only to die in near obscurity? The American government made sure no one would remember one of the greatest Americans to ever live. He was 77

When Elon Musk rolled back Grok safeguards, he enabled millions of people to be victimized. Shamefully, governments did little to protect their citizens. The X deepfake scandal shows why we need far stricter social media regulation as a stepping stone to new platforms — not just higher age limits.

This is one the most blatantly colonialist things I’ve ever heard. Jfc… #cdnpoli

So he made up a board, invited mostly war criminals to be on it, called it a board of peace, which does not exist as anything right now. Then, un-invited Canada...and that is international mega news? Free Palestine.

Most people I knew at Laurentian University were casualties of the 2021 insolvency process (itself a product of chronic underfunding and management incompetence) or left at other points, but I still know some who are on strike now. Here are their reasons: www.sudbury.com/columns/gues... #onpoli

"Purpose can preempt despair..." -- Kelly Hayes

I know social media will be what it is, but the breathless fanboying on the one side and the smug leftist superiority on the other re. Carney's speech are both tiresome. More interesting, given that he is who/what he is, would be asking what it signals re. what we face. #cdnpoli

Our Northern Writing Prize is launching again in collaboration with NJTI to help writers, photographers, and artists tell stories about the North. Submit your pitch for a chance to win $600 and publication in Briarpatch. More details here: briarpatchmagazine.com/northernwrit...

"The only true way to honour the dead is to work for futures that would've saved them." -- Saeed Teebi

The threat posed by the US regime to those of us north of the border is real, but the liberal/left nationalist responses that are pushing us into austerity and militarism are just implementing Trump's agenda for him. I like the alternative proposed here. www.thespec.com/opinion/cont... #cdnpoli

Some interesting insights on how the Palestine solidarity movement has pushed back against the systematic censorship by billionaire-owned social media corporations. wagingnonviolence.org/2025/12/pale...

When countries get hooked on US tech, their governments are constrained in reining in tech’s harms while most of the economic benefits accrue to the United States. It’s time to break out of that trap — but that means challenging the Silicon Valley model, not creating our own digital colonizers.

"Arresting and criminalizing individuals who need care and support will not save lives, it will only deepen trauma, reinforce systemic racism in policing, and widen the disproportionate gaps in health and justice outcomes for First Nations." Grand Chief Stewart Phillip @ubcic.bsky.social #bcpoli