Tonight on APTN National News: Community in northern Quebec declares state of emergency over water supply crisis after a housefire. Aamjiwnaang First Nation once again asks residents to exercise caution due to high benzene levels from petroleum plants.

Unbelievably angry that this is a real headline I woke up to and nobody with an ounce of power is doing anything to stop this.

This is great! Barcelona city council also expropriated property from speculators & investors who were leaving it empty during a housing crisis! www.cbc.ca/news/world/s...

This is one of the best articles I've read in a long time. Many don't get the underlying eugenics of the far right (beyond COVID). Read this.

Interesting reporting on involuntary treatment but buried the lede big time: The man the involuntary treatment law is named after fled Washington because it was too traumatizing to be forced into treatment, and later died in treatment. Heartbreaking.

“If I die, I want a loud death. I don’t want to be just breaking news, or a number in a group, I want a death that the world will hear.” She was about to get married; a film about her life in Gaza had just been finished. 10 of her family were killed with her. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Came across this text b/w lobbyist Gurpreet Vinning & Mayor Sim's staffer Trevor Ford. Vinning wanted this kept quiet: Rogers wants to get more government contracts. Were they trying to sweeten the deal by giving money to things Sim cares about? I have questions. vancouver.ca/files/cov/20...

High voter turn-out, people waiting for hrs to vote and landslide victories for progressive candidates could be read as widespread discontent w/ Van Mayor Sim and the ABC party's anti-poor, carceral agenda But I saw a kid wearing an "I voted" sticker = evidence it was fixed Stay the course Ken

hractoronto.net Support these people. Be engaged. You’ve got 29 days to prevent mass death.

Hey Ottawa, I will be doing a talk on Wednesday at 6 at Atelier d’innovation sociale Mauril-Bélanger, 95 Clegg Street. Meeting this Moment: Building Disability and Trans Justice Amid Rising Authoritarianism. It would be great to see you there!

The tariffs will hurt bad, but Fentanyl is a front. The drug war ain’t about drugs. Never was. It’s always been a proxy fight to attack specific communities. Targets change, but the principal remains the same. It’s theatre, political kayfabe. “Fentanyl Czar” - sounds like a wrestler.

Join UBC Centre for Community Engaged Learning and SFU Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies to celebrate the launch of @deanspade.bsky.social's new book, "Love in a F*cked up World." March 30 | 1 PM | 312 Main St ubc.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... @ajwithers.bsky.social @sfufass.bsky.social

Well put advice about confronting fascists and the state

🧵"So this is how liberty dies..." Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up. I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9

The Liberals' new immigration policies are preferred over the Conservative platform by Nazis and white supremacists. No joke.

Buy. This. Book. 👇🏾 Liberals, open your pro-capitalist wallets

"Their Spirits Live Within Us" 34th Annual Women's Memorial March on Friday Feb 14th March for public begins at noon at main & hastings Led by Indigenous Women To Honour the MMIWG2S+

Last month, @theintercept.com published our investigation about E.S., a young man living w HIV in Gaza, & the terror he faced as his access to AIDS medication was threatened by US-Israeli policy. Now, TENS of MILLIONS are being similarly threatened by US policy. theintercept.com/2025/01/13/i...

Disability Politics and Theory is out as an audio book now! I am so excited. If you listen, please review.

Folks, I don't intend to post about every single horrible thing that's happening at the moment because I'm not a direct news source and also because my mental health has an upper limit. Don't confuse lack of obsessive news updating for lack of concern or lack of personal action. Also, here's a cat.

"this plot is already well under way"

In Wyoming, tribal protests prevent land transfer — for now. Written by @siisiiko.bsky.social grist.org/indigenous/i... #Wyoming #Tribe #Indigenous #Climate

People who experienced homeless encampment sweeps in Washington state and Tennessee wrote about the impact it had on their lives. Our team @propublica.org added these to our page featuring stories from people across the country: projects.propublica.org/impact-of-ho...

*Topic: Access Through Information: FOI Best Practices in a Disability Justice Context Who: Meg Linton, Carleton University When: Mar 18, 2025 12:00 PM Central Time (US and Canada) REGISTER HERE: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Bluesky has been flooded with automated reply bots - they'll offer a sort of confrontational opinion as a reply. They're pretty convincing and we all need to train ourselves to not reflexively reply to all responses until we check Dead giveaway is new acct, few followers + original posts

Intensified repression and violence in the #WestBank is a clear strategic priority for #Israel.

the moral clarity of the financial times, folks

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BREAKING: "the rhetoric of the 'save women’s sports' movement may reflect ideological motivations" It can be important to have research show what we already know. Also, not a shocker.

Tkaronto (Toronto) folks: I am having a book launch on January 23 from 6-8 at William Doo Auditorium (Willcocks & Spadina). It would be great if you came out for a conversation on disability, social justice, fighting for and building a better world. I miss so many TO folks! 🌈🎓

Nogojiwanong (Peterborough): I will be having a book event on Jan 27 from 5-7 at the public library. It would be great if you came out for a conversation on disability, social justice, fighting for and building a better world. #WritingCommunity 🌈🎓

Israeli forces moved further into the Syrian Golan, forcing entire towns to evacuate. While Netanyahu celebrated what he says will be an "eternal" Israeli presence in Syria, U.S. officials insist Israel’s occupation of Syrian lands is "temporary." https://mondoweiss.net/2024/12/israel-occupies-mor…

“An unprecedented massacre.” Reporters Without Borders (RSF) annual report finds Israeli army killed 18 journalists – two in Lebanon and 16 in Gaza – as they were working this year. 🔗: aje.io/sgb6tk

"Israel wanted a weak Assad and is not happy with the fall of this regime," political scientist Joseph Daher says of Tel Aviv's reaction, including the massive bombing campaign across Syria in recent days. "A democratization process in the Middle East is the biggest threat for Israel."

I don't understand how there are twice as many likes as reposts for this one.

June '21, 3 hrs to prep my gender studies class. Day after Waterloo stabbing. Instead, I edited the Montreal massacre Wikipedia pg. It downplayed how gendered the attack was. 35 years ago. 14 women killed. Violent cisheteropatriarchial discourse's worst in yrs. Don't just remember; fight back.

Canadian contract academics: big cuts coming = no jobs Stop doing free labour. Say: "academia relies on unpaid labour of people like me with the promise of future security that often never materializes. I'm withholding my labour from this kind of work until/unless I am paid for it". #academicsky

Help us send 2,000 books to readers who are incarcerated this winter through our Books Not Bars program

I am an obstetrician and gynecologist who has worked in Gaza throughout the Israeli genocide. I have seen the destruction of Gaza's medical sector firsthand. My patients' stories tell the story of the genocide. https://mondoweiss.net/2024/11/my-stories-as-an-ob-gyn-in-gaza-reveal-the-truth-of-the-…

I get this, I do. Like so many trans folks, I feel under siege right now. But this sentiment is what led the mainstream LGB movement to abandon the QT, BIPOC, poor & disabled folks. Instead of voting to defend one's own rights, let's reject abandonment & shift to fighting for what all of us need.

ProPublica reports that a third woman died because of Texas’s abortion ban www.propublica.org/article/pors...

Lovely view from my office this morning. #winter.

I support CUPW! Please do a couple simple things to help keep #CanadaPost public and support #PostalWorkers who are on #Strike.