If you’re worried about climate change and you’ve never heard of controlled burns by Indigenous nations, read this great piece.

We are in the throws of a battle over who is going to survive the future. A future marked by scarcity and disaster. A future these people are accelerating. That is what is driving the attacks on civil rights and basic equality. Supremacist beliefs are the tool needed to justify human culling.

In case Canadians haven’t heard, the US government has discovered Bluesky. This is important because previously on Visa applications US homeland security asked for social media handles to Instagram, X, Facebook but not bluesky. I thought it was flying under the radar. Apparently not.

Chicago cyclists are buying out tamale carts to keep vendors home and safe from ICE. blockclubchi.co/42KQ57O

Some good news

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

🚨 URGENT SOLIDARITY SUPPORT NEEDED IN MI’KMA’KI 🚨Mi’kmaw land defenders have been leading a resistance on Hunters’ Mountain in Unama’ki/Cape Breton for over a month now to block industrial developments that would destroy sacred grounds and harm the vulnerable moose population

Independent Investigations Office report says duty of care not met for 21-year-old who died in Williams Lake, B.C., RCMP cell Tŝilhqot'in First Nation member Surrance Myers died after collapsing in an RCMP holding cell and not being checked on for about two hours. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

I know this case is all over - & it should be - but Turning Point USA has waged a harassment campaign against faculty for more than a decade. I know of at least a half dozen other faculty, personally, who have received death threats and several of those who felt so unsafe they too left their homes

This is extremely alarming. Prime Minister @mark-carney.bsky.social won the federal election promising to make us *less* depending on the US. Now we are hearing reports that he is offering up a CLOSER energy and military partnership in exchange for a trade deal... 🧵 www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

More antifa. Everyone antifa.

Watching the way the Trump administration is using criminalization as a weapon ought to make clear how criminalization works even in normal times.

Another new piece out today at Boston Review. The rate of publication there has picked up considerably at a time when we need this magazine the most. Please read and support them. www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-t...

If you've ever found your name on a list, or feared landing there, you're not alone. Today, doxxing is imbued with terrifying state powers, but it's an old strategy of deputization that has terrorized people for centuries. The power of lists is division, but we can draw from histories of refusal.

Avi is direct, committed, and building a political base that is grounded in movements for justice. I have never been a member of this party, but I will become one to make sure he becomes leader. Let's seize this moment for real change.

In light of BC approving the Ksi Lisims LNG terminal, we feel the need to reshare one of our most important podcast episodes: The Costs of LNG. We dig into the climate, health, and financial impacts, and cover (almost) everything you wanted to ask about LNG (but were too afraid). 🎧 Listen here 👇

Really excellent piece that provides important diagnostic on the legal dangers of how we define antisemitism in this moment.

"We reject any process that tramples our inherent and constitutionally protected title and rights, ignores free, prior and informed consent, and sacrifices the climate for foreign corporate profits. True nation-building requires working with us, not against us.” GCSP www.ubcic.bc.ca/first_nation...

Mark Carney continues to use the phrase “decarbonized oil” to try to greenwash a new oil pipeline for Alberta. It’s so shameless and I would argue it even shows contempt for the public to be so dishonest.

This is an injunction application to watch: the logging company looking to remove protesters in the Walbran is partly owned by the Huu-ay-aht FNs thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

Reminder that the feds can’t “approve” LNG Canada phase 2 — it’s been approved for years. Federal support would mean sweetening the deal for the company through things like subsidies. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

It turns out that protecting hate speech did not create the conditions to protect other kinds of speech; instead, it protected hate and allowed hate movements to take over all the institutions of that might have defended the rest of us.

[W]hen governments are ramming through laws that sideline Indigenous rights and environmental protections, BC is putting a disgraced policing unit in charge of enforcing them—turning struggles for Indigenous sovereignty & climate justice into criminal matters. #bcpoli breachmedia.ca/rcmp-unit-co...

🚨Windsor Law is hiring! 🚨 @windsorlaw.bsky.social is looking for 4 asst/assoc profs who bring social justice & critical perspectives to our core curriculum, esp environmental law, torts, constitutional, family, evidence, int'l trade & Indigenous law. Deadline: Sep 24 www.uwindsor.ca/faculty/recr...

New piece with Tia Dafnos in @breachmedia.ca: The emergency RCMP unit called "CIRG" that invaded Wet'suwet'en territory is now a permanent force called CRU. Through access to information records, we learned they have a special role to play in policing resistance to Bills 14 and 15.

Pls stop what you are doing and read this entire report on Israel's murder of journalist Anas al-Sharif and five colleagues in Gaza City. "He characterized Israel’s threats as 'Silence or Death,' and he vowed not to be silent." It ends with his final message. www.dropsitenews.com/p/anas-al-sh...

Tiny house for matriarch opposing PRGT arrives in Gitxsan Lax’yip from ‘Victoria’ Volunteer supporters built the home for Maas Gwitkunuxws Teresa Brown, who has been camping in the path of the controversial pipeline in northern ‘B.C.’ indiginews.com/news/tiny-ho... Story @mikegraeme.bsky.social

Another new print from Sam Wallman! justseeds.org/product/no-p...

It’s wild that “Elbows Up” PR campaign means that we now have massive “CANADIAN OWNED” banners outside of billionaire owned grocery stores, who have been actively price gouging us and ripping everyday Canadians off.

Happy Canada Day! 8thfirerising.ca

“Canadian officials throw up their hands in the face of logistical hurdles but other governments are putting us to shame. European countries have taken in thousands of Gazans. Belgium evacuated hundreds of sick Palestinian children – twice. The U.S., Spain, Italy, Australia all found ways to act.”

'"Economic nationalism savvily appeals to working class grievances while papering over class conflict, presuming there is a supposed national interest above the opposing interests of bosses and workers"'. Begin the politics of refusal. Refuse sacrifice zones.

Me & Jess Dempsey wrote this piece a few years ago that seems relevant today: Critical Minerals And Settler Colonialism: Who Will Pay For The “Green” Transition? blogs.mediapart.fr/berliner-gaz...

Important insights - across key areas, from resources to infrastructure to immigration - Carney is entrenching the settler colonial state. It seems the desire to avoid the extreme right has nonetheless pulled our 'center' further right.

In Canada as much as in the US, "These so-called “emergency” levers being pulled in the national interest are a complete stunt." Great piece by Shiri and Dayna.

"A common thread in this onslaught of new legislation is the creation of “legal black holes” and the dangerous centralization of discretionary power.." A necessary intervention on the new fed & prov "special economic zone" laws by Dayna Scott & @shirip.bsky.social theguardian.com/commentisfre...

New piece: We might not have fascism in Canada, but our response to U.S. threats has been to double down on colonialism + xenophobia. Power is centralizing to expedite extraction and we must fight in broad coalitions to win. Elbows up against the oligarchy! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Livestream link here: torontomu.zoom.us/j/92458836311

Come out and learn more about links b/w RCMP and Palestine solidarity on May 29. In-person Toronto event or livestream. Link through registration. www.eventbrite.ca/e/a-national...

This is really important reporting and a solid overview.

Come learn about the long struggle in Canada against the national police force and how it links so many communities together. Incredible speakers hosted by the remarkable journalist @brandimorin.bsky.social. May 29 in Toronto. More details here tinyurl.com/yc3skpmk

Anyone who knows about Abdoul Abdi & children abducted by the Canadian state then abandoned to criminalization through poverty & violence in the child welfare system, only to face the threat of deportation to places they never knew should be ashamed to think what happens in US can't happen here.

Where do Mark Carney and Pierre Poilievre stand on Indigenous Rights? And what could their positions mean for the future of Indigenous-led conservation in Canada? New from @michellecyca.com: thenarwhal.ca/indigenous-r...

We have a minimum wage. We need a wealth maximum.

Mark Carney questions why struggling young Canadians not setting up offshore tax havens

"Canada’s oil and gas industry is, to a large extent, owned by American companies, including oil majors, asset managers, and other financial players." @emilylowan.bsky.social @shirip.bsky.social www.thestar.com/opinion/cont... #ElbowsUp #CanadaStrong #Cdnpoli #Election2025

"As Palestinian solidarity organizers face dramatic arrests and deportations in a sweeping crackdown on dissent in the United States, some Canadian lawyers are taking notes." "[L]awfare is gaining ground among some Canadian legal professionals." #Canada #Gaza #Palestine #USA #Genocide

If you're worried about what's happening in the States, with the new phase of crackdowns against Palestine solidarity, you should know that lawyers in Canada are watching and taking notes. Co-written w/ @jillianrogin.bsky.social and Joshua Sealy-Harrington. tinyurl.com/y8fhcady