My students did not recognize me in jeans and muted colours. Bright swishy dresses are my pedagogy.

It would have been nice if someone asked Doug Ford to explain how he plans to order these charity audits given charities are overseen federally by Canada Revenue Agency

David Cochrane asks about the fact that it would’ve been impossible for the coastal First Nations to travel from their communities to meet the feds on the timeline the govt offered. “It’s called Zoom,” Natural Resources Minister Tim Hodgson responds. Jesus CHRIST. (Video: Scott Robertson/Twitter)

The closest I'll ever come to TikToking. www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_Xh...

If you're keeping score this week, Carney is: * Negotiating backroom deals on pipelines with Alberta and without BC or Indigenous folks. * Undermining anti-greenwashing laws. * Making deals with the UAE despite their role in Sudan. * Cutting funding for infectious disease work in Africa.

This government lost in court the last time their efforts to undermine student organizing was constitutionally challenged.

BILL 33 HAS PASSED. It will: - ⏫ Ministerial power over school boards, allowing for a Minister to override local democracy and decision-making. - ⏫ Ministerial power to force schools and school boards to abide by political directives, like forcing police back into schools.

Nicely summarizes how the Carney government’s thoughtless, reckless AI strategy will reduce government capacity while making government more dependent on foreign tech firms. As with a lot of things with this government, it comes down to a refusal to think about long-term governance issues.

The UN approved a US plan for Gaza that hands control to foreign powers and delays Palestinian statehood, undermining national authority and sovereignty. qudsnen.co/un-approves-...

Former UN special rapporteur Richard Falk was detained by 🇨🇦 customs agents and, for four hours, was asked a series of questions about his participation in the conference, his involvement in the Israel-Palestine conflict, and his position on Israel. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

I'm cited in this piece in the Toronto Star today about the spread of generative AI, the challenges it poses for historians & history education, and the need for digital literacy. www.thestar.com/news/how-fak...

Buried in the Doug Ford govt's fall budget are changes that would remove parts of Wasaga beach from provincial protection. As I reported in August, those parts are 60% of the world’s longest freshwater beach and the main nesting area for the endangered piping plover: thenarwhal.ca/wasaga-beach...

“Razing Palestine” (Ed. Leila Marshy) comes out this week. Proud to stand in solidarity with every contributor & others who experienced personal & professional consequences for speaking out against Israel’s genocide. These stories represent just the tip of the iceberg of repression in Canada.

You've probably heard of Bill C-12 and C-2, but there's a slate of other bills that, when assembled together transformer style, could create a freedom repression machine that rivals the one south of the border. We broke down how it would work >> act.gp/4i9pU1b #Cdnpoli 📹 via leftiejane on IG

Another excerpt from Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis. Red Schulte’s letter speaks to those organizing outside the law—a place more people of conscience will find themselves as authoritarianism tightens its grip.

With so much on the line, the new federal government has tabled a budget that in many ways could pass as a Conservative budget, write David Macdonald and Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood. #CanPoli

If crime is way down, why are Canadians so afraid of crime? And what are politicians funnelling money into? My latest -- they are boosting policing to police us ... not keep us safe (unless you're rich, which trust me, you are not.) noraloreto.substack.com/p/the-big-cr...

Book award celebration. My heart feels full.

Queer and trans immigrants allege forced labor and sexual assault in Ice facility: ‘I was treated worse than an animal’ www.theguardian.com/... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

New analysis of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s first 100 days after the federal election show oil and gas, mining and other industrial groups made up about 60 per cent of lobbying records. Environmental groups couldn’t get a word in. thenarwhal.ca/carney-natur...

An Ohio University professor was removed from teaching a MFA class a day after returning home from an Israeli prison where he was detained upon being illegally abducted from the flotilla. His students [solidarity!] walked out on the replacement prof in protest. www.dispatch.com/story/news/s...

"Prisons are built in remote locations, shielded behind wire and walls, and utterly severed from society’s truth-seekers—its journalists, its documentarians, and its scholars—and from the families and loved ones of those inside." Read more:

At UNB, professors and students were surveilled for Palestine solidarity because, per campus security, the university is the President’s “house.” “If I tell my kids my kids you can’t do this, I don’t need to write it down… He’s the President and he can set the rules.”

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““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+

As Mark Carney prepares to observe his first National Day of Truth and Reconciliation as prime minister on Tuesday, some of the country’s top Indigenous voices say his economic-growth agenda is putting other key priorities on the back burner.

I started tracking the TRC's Calls to Action in 2016 and, since Eva Jewell and I stopped writing annual reports in 2023 out of despair, things have only become more bleak. No meaningful structural changes have been made. They were never even attempted. A clear-eyed take from @michellecyca.com

This is a probe. The IDF is dipping its toe in the water. If the public reaction is muted Israel very well may blow up a bunch of these ships for the “crime” of bringing food and medical supplies to starving/suffering children.

Canada, Australia, the U.K. and France have finally -- conditionally -- joined the many other nations who recognize the State of Palestine. But today, Prime Minister Mark Carney also once again called for a “Zionist Palestine.” Here's what's going on:

Oh this is BAD. The new TOC from academia dot edu. You grant us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable license, permission, and consent to use your Member Content and your personal information (including, but not limited to, your name, voice, signature, photograph, likeness…

It’s not a double standard this *is* their standard. Speech for them not for us. Violence for us not for them. The sooner we understand this the better.

Doug Ford wants to control admissions criteria at Ontario universities, and which non-tuition fees students pay once they’re on campus. It may not seem overtly political, but Bill 33 is part of a broader right-wing crackdown on campuses, writes @royinori.bsky.social. thelocal.to/bill-33-onta...

Doug Ford tells young job seekers “try inheriting your daddy’s sticker factory”

On crime policy, Carney agrees with... *checks notes*... *checks notes again*... Doug Ford.

I'm on the other stuff Doug Ford said today but this is man who inherited his wealth/dad's company and lives in his mom's house.

We wouldn't want to burden the automotive industry with something that was years in planning to address a global crisis, now would we...

This week, schools in Edmonton confirmed that they will be sending home forms for parents guardians to confirm that the birth certificate of any girl who wants to participate in a competitive sport reads female. xtramagazine.com/video/albert...

[Canada] Destroying ecosystems, abandoning climate targets and trampling Indigenous Rights is not in the “national interest” www.wildernesscommittee.org/news/destroy... #ClimateCrisis #Ecosystems #FirstNations #Carney #FossilFuels #Canada

BORDER OFFICER: I just wanna be clear *I'm* not racist but the Impartial, All-Knowing Computer Algorithm I report to, programmed by insanely racist Silicon Valley guys, is saying you need to pull into secondary screening Amir

Earlier today in Ottawa, Pride was cancelled by Capital Pride (the official organization hosting Ottawa's Pride Parade). They tried blaming Queers for Palestine Ottawa. The very same parade was uncancelled by Queers for Palestine, who then continued to lead — now without any police protection.

The moment the union defied back to work orders was when power was truly shifted back to the workers and Air Canada realized they were screwed, forcing them back to the bargaining table. If employers expect the government to step in every time a strike happens, they'll never bargain in good faith.

What the actual fucking fuck. www.theverge.com/news/760508/...

Government refused Canadian postal workers request for binding arbitration but orders it when Air Canada asks. Can't spell Liberal without the capital. 🎁link www.thestar.com/business/haj...

1. Arc of the moral universe, etc. Teachers, journalists, healthcare workers, and academics have been fired or suspended for expressing pro-Palestinian views. Some workers and students have been added to public or private blacklists (Canary Mission) for pro-Palestinian activism

Chasing people living outside a few or hundreds of meters over, over, & over again, via threats, tickets, notices, forced removal, destroying property, intimidation, is all more work, cost, waste, horror, violence & repugnance than just offering real housing & care. Disgusting.

I've genuinely never read a document as maddening as this one. They are, straightforwardly, planning to forcibly detransition trans children, knowing that it will harm them, and justifying it in service of the dictates of the pseudoscientific Cass Review.

Today marks the 50th Prisoners’ Justice Day. springmag.ca/prisoners-ju...

"Chatbot dependence is...built through an ongoing, interactive exchange in which a chatbot mirrors and adapts to its user, creating a stimulus loop tuned to their needs. It is an engineered dependence...and the responsibility for fostering it lies squarely with the companies that designed it."

But the first to march while planning to cut 81% of Queer services in Canada