I know there’s lots of pop culture references to City Hall station but I want to add NK Jemisin’s The City We Became to the mix. The climactic battle scene that happens in the station is just epic. So much layered metaphor in the story that aligns with Mamdani getting sworn in there too. #booksky

Another poison pill buried in Mark Carney’s budget: a repeal of a reduced postage rates for books and shipments between libraries. Libraries across the country are sounding the alarm for what it would mean for the viability of another essential public institution.

Alt headline: How a wealthy Kwantlen man bought Simon Fraser's life — and potentially laid the foundations for B.C. as we know it. Canadian history is consistently more interesting than you think it is.

The radicalization of Silicon Valley is the subject of my forthcoming book, "The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and The War on Democracy." It exposes a decades-long campaign to use tech power to overthrow democracy and destroy nations. Pre-order here: www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...

Geneviève Bergeron Maryse Laganière Hélène Colgan Maryse Leclair Nathalie Croteau Anne-Marie Lemay Barbara Daigneault Sonia Pelletier Anne-Marie Edward Michèle Richard Maud Haviernick Annie St.Arneault Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz Annie Turcotte #Dec6 #EcolePolytechnique

“Women and girls continue to be killed every two days somewhere in Canada, mostly by men. And the numbers continue to rise.” #femicide

New in PN: A war criminal without a war "We’re watching the flimsy justifications fall apart in real time. They can try to shift the blame. They can try to say that people clinging to wreckage for dear life are somehow an active threat. But in the end, it’s just murder."

I've got friends and family still dealing with trauma from their experiences with involuntary care growing up. Often young people turn to substance use in an attempt to cope or escape from high-control households. "Strengthening access to involuntary care" means empowering their abusers.

First Nations chiefs from across Canada pass emergency resolution rejecting any proposed exemptions to the federal ban on oil tankers off the northern coast of B.C. after Ottawa-Alberta energy MOU www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...

“There are no clean demarcations between feminism and its backlash and the backlash to the backlash, between progress and regress. It was always fanciful to conceive of progressive victories as permanent, just as it was a shortsighted fantasy that edgelord heterodoxy would remain cool.”

This afternoon, I informed the Prime Minister of my decision to resign as Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture, Minister responsible for Official Languages, Minister of Nature and Parks Canada, as well as his Lieutenant in Quebec. You can find my full statement below.

The Ottawa-Alberta MOU is nothing more than a pipedream - Coastal First Nations "We have zero interest in co-ownership or economic benefits of a project that has the potential to destroy our way of life and everything we have built on the coast," says Heiltsuk Nation elected Chief Marilyn Slett

"Over a decade ago the community of Kitimat voted to oppose the Northern Gateway project. The Haisla Nation, who were firmly against that proposal at that time, still maintain that same position today” The mayor of Kitimat and Chief of the Haisla met with Danielle Smith www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Because it’s 2025 🤦🏻‍♀️ #cdnpoli

'Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has made Tehran impossible to sustain' #Iran 🇮🇷

Thanks to @thetyee.ca for republishing my op-ed about Danielle Smith and the Notwithstanding Clause. ✨ Always glad to see outlets beyond LGBTQ2S+ publications platforming and highlighting trans voices on issues like this

I would love to see some progressive politicians run on reducing bureaucracy. It’s a right wing purview & generally limited to being “for business” rather than for people, but the people most burdened by it are poor/disabled, but as with everything else these days, that struggle is trickling up. 1/

Coastal First Nations say the federal government hasn't been talking to them about Alberta's pipeline proposal, despite multiple requests for nation-to-nation meetings "We are tired of learning about these discussions regarding our traditional territories in the press," reads a press release

A few months ago @thelocal.to got a promising pitch from a writer with bylines in whole bunch of reputable publications—The Cut, The Guardian, Dwell, Architectural Digest, etc. Then I started investigating. Here's a story about fabulists in journalism's AI slop era. thelocal.to/investigatin...

My mind has been spinning the last few days as multiple crises of journalism converged—the Nuzzi book, Epstein’s emails revealing journalists hid information, Trump berating a reporter with no consequence—and it occurred to me they all stemmed from the same source: elite impunity.

Health Canada convened an independent expert advisory group in 2020 to provide guidance on safer supply. Health Canada heavily redacted its final report, but unredacted version obtained by CBC shows the expert group said drug crisis is driven by prohibition and recommended expansion of safer supply

The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.

🌍✨ Vancouver’s Climate Work Is On the Chopping Block Mayor Ken Sim + ABC councillors plan to cut major climate action programs. For 35 years, Vancouver has been a global leader in local climate action — starting with the 1990 Clouds of Change report. 🌱

This is really well done. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Really appreciate @harrisonmooney.bsky.social & @thetyee.ca doing this interview w/ @gilduran.com. I learned about ‘the Network State’ from his Nerd Reich blog some months ago, but I sound completely conspiratorial when I try talking to anyone about it. Glad to see this coverage - read it!

“What we have is each other and our will to remake the world.” ♥️✊🏻

Tŝilhqot’in Call for End to Political Fear-mongering About Title tsilhqotin.ca/tsilhqotin-c...

A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women 🧵

women, are they bitches?

A terrifying thread, and yet another example of why government/regulations matter so much. Yes, as Canadians, if we’re not already avoiding US products, here’s another reason to do so. But that won’t help the many people who don’t have that choice. Murderous action from that regime.

I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.

Until it’s done. ♥️✊🏻

This is 💯 correct. Please let’s do away with the twice a year time change but suggestions to stay permanently in DST are wrong wrong wrong I see so many people who otherwise believe in science on the wrong side on this one

so @matteowong.bsky.social & I wrote on data centers: arguably the most important buildings in the world & are, in a way, holding the economy hostage. Byzantine financial instruments, private equity, depreciating tech, hype, $trillion valuations. it’s all there. an ai crash prob starts here.

NEW: Whether you measure it by number of supporters, fundraising ability, or by the size of its militant groups, the white nationalist movement in Canada has never been larger or more of a threat.

honestly the only piece worth reading on the platner situation. @tressiemcphd.bsky.social is absolutely cooking here. (gift link)

The government of Jamaica has set up a portal for contributing to official relief efforts. I will update this thread if anything analogous opens up for Haiti, Cuba, or the DR supportjamaica.gov.jm

According to the rule, photos taken of foreign travellers will remain on a DHS database for up to 75 years. www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

“People can just offer themselves up as addiction counsellors without any certification whatsoever or anyone watching what they're doing” Unregulated private addiction clinics across Canada are putting people looking for help in danger www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

This kind of work creates POLITICAL COVER for people (normies and politicos) to peel away from the fash and do hard but necessary work to recreate the public sphere. It's THE LITERAL EMBODIMENT of liberal pluralism in the BODY POLITIC.

Rallies like this bring together multigenerational groups and the playfulness can help create enthusasim for big tent politics against the monoculture of fascism.

When the conflict expands in scale & scope, the good feelings help propel people to do hard things. Shitting on the public rallies is fucking dumb. It's also ahistorical and lacks any serious engagement with the history of social movement successes in the US. It's just trashy demobilization.

The regime tried to scare people and failed. That's good.

Point 2 from Tim Snyder’s how to stop fascism, lessons from Nazi Germany: Coalitions are necessary…the left has to hold together with the center-left, and their energies have to be directed at the goal rather than at each other. #NoKings

Looking real good today, America. Keep it up. Land of the free, home of the brave. May it be so. #NoKings

notice the general mood of the timeline? how everyone is in a good mood and there’s a lot less misery and dooming? how there’s a lot of “we’re going to beat these assholes”? anyway that’s why these events are important

I didn't take pics but the feeling of being in a group of people with no visible beginning or end was so thrilling. The opposite of online anomie, and a living counterpoint to the wary, isolated, compartmentalized world the shitheads want to make. It's simple and obvious I guess but it means a lot.

Defense Metals, which owns the Wicheeda rare earth project in B.C., has been in discussions with the U.S. government & has brought on advisers with backgrounds at Lockheed Martin, the CIA & Tesla. @amandafollett.bsky.social for @thetyee.ca. thetyee.ca/News/2025/10...

In an era when Canada is touting critical minerals as a way to lessen it's dependence on the United States, the U.S. government is taking direct ownership in Canadian critical minerals companies... And Canada isn't stopping it www.cbc.ca/news/world/t...