"The study is clear: decriminalization needs to work in tandem with other policies, which the government didn’t implement. Any plan must include targeted investments in housing, safer supply, and improved access to treatment."

"C’est cette différence dans le tissu industriel qui explique les écarts de productivité entre le Québec et l’Ontario et non pas les travailleurs et les travailleuses en soi."

"Les expert·es en opinion déplorent le manque de civilité de Magali Picard tout en passant sous silence la violence du projet de loi 3."

Green: Municipalities have been downloaded with tax cuts. Material conditions in cities will worsen. Property taxes will be hiked to backstop deferred investments in local infrastructure and social services, and the astronomical costs of policing. It's a reaction to the failures of our governments.

«Des associations pour la défense des droits, des organismes communautaires, des syndicats appellent la population à faire front pour dénoncer les politiques de la CAQ, qui démantèlent l’édifice de nos services publics et de nos droits sociaux et politiques.» www.ledevoir.com/opinion/idee...

Join us for a vital discussion with @alexhim.bsky.social about his book Breaking Free of Neoliberalism: Canada's Challenge, in conversation with @kevinskerrett.bsky.social. Tues Dec 2, 7pm - 8pm. Doors open 6:30pm. Dominion-Chalmers Centre, 355 Cooper St., Ottawa RSVP: octopusbooks.ca/himelfarb

Imagine thinking this is secularism. 🤦‍♀️ www.montrealgazette.com/news/provinc...

As some of you know, I'm working on a project looking at anti-gender/anti-trans politics and its impacts on SOGI asylum/refugee policymaking in Canada and the UK. I'm looking for interviewees to discuss their experiences as legal professionals, community supporters, and NGO workers. Please share!

"'We feel proud,' the spokesperson said. The feeling across the union is one of hope, and joy. She explained that across all of @cupescfp.bsky.social, their goal is to bring back power to unions, and to stand for their charter rights." From @therovermedia.bsky.social: therover.ca/strike-ends-...

"you taught the world about freedom and it's time for us to return the favor" hot damn

The piece takes a more nuanced position than this post makes it seem, but I have to say, we’ve known the solution to better, more affordable telecom service for over a century: it’s through public ownership and delivery.

little known fact: the Q in LGBTQ stands for Québec, where being gay was invented happy pride tabarnac

L’IRIS fête 25 ans de recherche engagée! Pour l’occasion, nous lançons une grande campagne de financement. Votre soutien est essentiel à la poursuite de notre mission! Pour faire un don -> bit.ly/25ansIRIS

Wild that no one seems to remember that women are over represented in public service and therefore are over represented in the cohort of people with the most to lose when the boss is a dickwad.

It takes very little time to realize that "Trade Barrier" is a euphamism for "public service" or "democratic expression of a way of doing things." If we just put Loblaw in charge, there'd be no barriers to moving food across Canada!

ANALYSE | 📈 Une grande partie de la population ne gagne pas assez pour atteindre le revenu viable. #polmtl #polqc #economie Un article de Francis Hébert-Bernier, pour Pivot 👇 pivot.quebec/2025/04...#polmtl

J'ai passé la journée d'hier à décortiquer le budget du Québec avec @fhbernier.bsky.social. Pourquoi parle-t-on d'austérité alors qu'il y a un déficit? Quels (minimes) efforts le gouv. fait-il pour dégager des nouveaux fonds? Quels (maigres) fonds vont au logement et à l'environnement? 🧵 #polqc

Happening tomorrow at 12 pm ET! @policyalternatives.ca's Ask Us Anything webinar: What do Trump tariffs mean for Canada’s economy? What kind of supports will exist for people who lose their job—is EI up to the task? Our panel of experts will be there! Register here ➡️ us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Roundup of pieces mostly about how to tackle the trade war from the left with progressive policies that centre workers and the environment.

NEW: free trade is dead, the current agreement with 🇺🇸 is worthless, and it’s time to imagine a very different future, economists tell @taylornoakes.bsky.social 👇 www.readthemaple.com/time-to-thin...

Empêcher les travailleurs et travailleuses de faire la grève : voilà la nouvelle idée scandaleuse du gouvernement de la CAQ. Les solidaires s’opposeront à cette attaque contre les droits des travailleurs et travailleuses. #PolQC

"But there are costs—and they will be borne by workers, the public, and the environment while any economic gains from deregulation will flow directly into the pockets of corporate giants, both Canadian and American."

Silicon Valley attracted very intelligent and creative people. But the VC’s selected for those expected to generate extreme wealth not those producing socially beneficial knowledge. Classic Veblenian sabotage.

"For the left in Canada, nationalism is a kind of defeatism: an acceptance of class rule, and a lack of vision for building a struggle that challenges the dominance of capital and capitalists’ interests, which aren’t reducible to our own interests."

Créées à l’origine pour favoriser le maintien à domicile des aînés, les Habitations partagées de l’Outaouais proposent différents services, dont le service de cohabitation qui répond aujourd’hui aux besoins de gens de tous âges en quête d’un milieu de vie confortable et abordable.

DEI needs to fix systems, not people

“Designing pro-business policies and repackaging them as serving the 'national interest' is basically what the Business Council of Canada was created for in the 1970s.”

Here's a handful of interesting pieces I read last week: theoamloi.substack.com/p/great-long...

This report examines the Canadian grocery industry to better understand what is driving retail profit growth, and as a result, higher supermarket food prices.

Ecosocialist Bookshelf, February 2025. Seven recent books on movement building, modern capitalism, evolution, ecology and colonialism. climateandcapitalism.com/2025/02/08/e...

"Les travailleur·euses sont la chair à canon de ce conflit entre les puissants, notre rôle c’est de nous sacrifier pour «sauver l’économie»." "Les syndicats (...) favorisent la défense des intérêts de leurs membres au détriment de la solidarité entre tou·tes les travailleur·euses."

Voici quelques banalités de bases sur le fascisme, exposées sans ordre particulier dans un thread interminable.

Art reminds us that we continue to exist, create and resist. Go see this show, it’s good for the soul in these hard times.

"Likewise Poilievere is also using this moment to advocate for the removal of 'interprovincial trade barriers,' this is simply code for deregulating trucking – which would simply accelerate the race to the bottom for workers. Nationalism is being used as a cover to attack workplace standards."

Think the tariffs are bad? Keep you eye on what really matters -- how corporations will use this moment to profiteer, and how our govenrment doesn't seem to care enough to stop them. noraloreto.substack.com/p/ok-but-wha...

"Several research studies show the inherent community, mutual aid, and resource-sharing that exist within homeless encampments, and that many people would prefer staying outside in their tents rather than going to a shelter because it would infringe on their independence."

COMMUNIQUÉ | Le projet de loi #PL84, Loi sur l’intégration nationale : 📌contribue à la stigmatisation des personnes migrantes et des membres des communautés ethnoculturelles 📌menace +++ droits humains 📌contrevient aux obligations du Québec en droit international. bit.ly/4aE3otc #polqc 1/3

Looking for some good nonfiction books? These are my favourites. theoamloi.substack.com/p/my-top-24-...

My book "The Skin We're In" was published five years ago today It's still the most meaningful writing I've done, and I'm grateful it was published and continues to be read The paperback, e-book, and audiobook (read by yours truly) are all available here: www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/536075...

If you're in Canada and wanting to do something concrete to protect abortion access, please support Abortion Care Canada! Their sole mission is to increase abortion access but their funding is not being renewed and that's under the current Liberal government! Help them fight back below⬇️

"In other words, Amazon is willing to absorb appreciable costs to avoid the precedent of bargaining with unionized workers." www.readthemaple.com/the-law-isnt...

"Canada’s support of the unpopular Boluarte government, which ousted left-wing president Castillo in 2022, points to the prioritization of mining interests over human rights. Castillo had planned to renegotiate mining contracts with multinational companies so that more profits stayed in Peru."

Article | Face au déclin que connaît le transport interurbain, le Québec pourrait s'inspirer du Pérou pour renforcer ce secteur essentiel au développement d'une mobilité durable et à l'atteinte des objectifs climatiques que le gouvernement s'est donnés.

"Deredulation was really a shift in regulation to favour businesses [...] that sometimes completely abdicated regulation to businesses themselves. We've seen this with the rise of the digital economy where massive multibillion dollar marketplaces are completely beholden to privately held platforms."

Amazon couldn’t stop a historic union drive in Quebec—so now it’s shutting down all its facilities and leaving the province. Scholar and organizer Mostafa Henaway says the corporate giant is sending an unmistakable message of intimidation to its global workforce. breachmedia.ca/amazon-quitt...

«Je demande à la CAQ d'arrêter de mentir aux gens et de faire semblant qu'il n'y a pas d'austérité. Surtout, je demande à François Legault de faire marche arrière.» - Ruba Ghazal, porte-parole de Québec solidaire #PolQc #AssNat

"Today, working-class people are alienated from the decisions, products, and profits their work generates. Because of this, Canadian workers have little direct control over their own destiny, either within Canada or in our relationship with the United States."

Amazon is closing its warehouse operations in Quebec. Retaliation for unionizing???

Article | Dans ce deuxième texte, Arnaud Theurillat-Cloutier explique en quoi l'adoption du projet de réforme du secteur de l'énergie (PL69) risque de nuire à la transition énergétique que doit opérer le Québec pour atteindre ses objectifs climatiques.

Our latest: an excerpt of @nolore.bsky.social's The Social Safety Net "Neoliberalism didn’t come to Canada overnight. It would have been impossible to take away people’s community supports and hope that they didn’t notice in 1985. It took years for the pieces to fit together." shorturl.at/ikhtH