Excellent stuff from @graceblakeley.substack.com. People believe that if you build more houses then the price will come down. This simplistic analysis ignores the fact that the demand side is virtually unlimited due to the super rich wanting to buy up all of the assets.

"Why the Working Class Matters" www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...

The dispute at Canada Post is more than just a labour dispute between a company that has fallen on hard times and a union intent on defending its members jobs. It is so much more, and one that is vital to understand. A short thread.

CBAN is Canada's go-to organization for critical analysis (scientific, economic, social and ecological) of GMO impacts and developments in the food system. Sign the e-petition and follow on Bluesky! #canpoli #food #GMOs #gene-editing

Two Ring-billed Gulls reflecting in Saskatoon. #birds

www.nfu.ca/parliamentar... What is more fundamental to our lives than seed? The Canadian government is set to remove the right to save seed for farmers on new varieties of fruit, veg, ornamental and hybrids. Sign the Parliamentary e-petition against this attack on food sovereignty. #food #canpoli

Local business community defends foreign worker program against Conservative proposal - DiscoverMooseJaw.com - Local news, Weather, Sports, Free Classifieds and Job Listings share.google/14eL5xW9vzHx... Moose Jaw SK business community 100% against Poilievre's position on Temporary Foreign Workers.

www.theguardian.com/news/2025/se... Just ask SaskPower!

September 11, 2025

SAVE THE DATE 🗓️ for the NFU’s 56th Annual Convention: Food. Sovereignty. Justice. Building Collective Solutions. Where/When: Crowne Plaza, Moncton, NB from November 19, 20, and 21. Book your hotel rooms by October 20th to receive our convention rate! www.nfu.ca/2025conventi...

Proposed seed regulatory change threatens seed sovereignty in Canada by removing Farmers’ Privilege from new fruit, vegetable, and ornamental varieties. This encroaches on farmers’ age-old practice of saving seed. 📣 Sign the Parliamentary e-petition today! www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

Mourning Cloak butterfly

No fines for big grocers that ... www.cbc.ca/news/busines... Why doesn't CFIA fine major grocery chains that cheat?

This is so cool! What an amazing way to organize.

Astrid Johnson

youtu.be/tFjoDq0HfFw?... American, but the basics are true here in Canada too.

Someone just alerted me to an incredibly important release today www.canada.ca/en/immigrati... 🧵 Half of all the new permanent residents in Canada are coming from the ranks of the temporary residents we welcomed to Canada to study and work. That's good news. (Share could and should be higher!)

🇺🇸 National Guard soldier speaks out: “I swore an oath to defend our constitution… seeking refuge is not an act of violence. Locking people up for it is.”

Who controls the food supply? ... www.cbc.ca/news/politic... I'm quoted in this item. More about our position on the issue in the comments.

If Humans Were As Evil As We’re Usually Told, We’d Be Extinct www.pressenza.com/2025/08/if-h...

The push to take down "internal trade barriers" in Canada is mostly a political stunt. But the impacts on Atlantic Canada's fisheries could be very real—and devastating.

📢 NEW OP-ED! 🛒 High grocery costs are the result of retail grocery companies’ increasing profit margins, not farm prices. Farmers deserve a fair share of food prices. The success of supply management provides clear evidence that this is possible. www.nfu.ca/dont-let-the...

Curating your own set of news sources through an RSS reader is the best way to do it. Highly recommend checking out Molly’s guide and making your own. I use Inoreader for mine.

So-called efforts to show “good will” are little more than gifts to corporate America and the Trump Administration, eroding what leverage the country has. www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

So far, Canada's negotiating strategy with the U.S. appears to be mostly based on concessions. It's time for a change of course. www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

A society based on honour could never deal with a state built on dishonour.

The newly elected federal government has promised major military spending increases + tax cuts. To pay for it, the gov't is seeking 15% in cuts across almost all federal departments. Is the trade off worth the pain? @davidmaccdn.bsky.social says no. #cdnpoli www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

If Canada 'accepts' a deal with Trump that keeps big US tariffs on our vital value-added industries, we lose our right to challenge them under CUSMA or WTO, give him a win at his most vulnerable moment, and lock in subservient status. See our report: centreforfuturework.ca/2025/07/22/a... #cdnecon

Beautiful words, perfect for me to read today ... and perhaps for you too...

With Aug.1 looming, so important for Canadian negotiators to stay firm. A bad deal with Trump (with tariffs that would hit Canada harder than almost any other country) is worse than no deal at all. See our Centre for Future Work Cda report: centreforfuturework.ca/2025/07/22/a... #cdneon #canlab /2

“Half of these ‘savings’ are cuts to somebody else," said @policyalternatives.ca senior economist @davidmaccdn.bsky.social. “You’re pushing the problem onto somebody else [to make cuts], whether that’s veterans for disability supports...or First Nations governments" www.thestar.com/politics/fed...

After decades of international cooperation and the domestic implementation of a global minimum corporate tax, the use of tax havens must be declining, right? Actually, our new report finds Canadian assets in tax havens hit a record $682B in 2024, up 165% from 2014 www.taxfairness.ca/en/resources...

Malaysian Food Sovereignty Forum expressed deep concern over the proposed amendments to the Plant Varieties Act 2004 and Plant Seed Quality Bill. The proposal aims to align Malaysia's seed law with UPOV 1991. The network remain steadfast pressuring the govt not to go ahead with the plan

Here's Colbert on July 14 making fun of Paramount for paying Trump $16 million. It's hard not to see CBS canceling his show through this lens. "I believe this kind of complicated financial settlement with a sitting government official has a technical name in legal circles. It's big fat bribe."

The fed gov cuts to pay for military and wealthy tax cuts have rapidly expanded. My new analysis shows that most of the cuts will now be on transfers to other govs, non-profits and people. A stunning 1 in 5 dollars is just cuts to FN govs for basic social programs. @policyalternatives.ca 🧵👇👇

Kenyan farmers are in court to challenge seed laws that criminalize the saving, sharing, and exchange of seeds, the decisions will be on 27 Nov. At the heart of the struggle is a call to recognize community seed systems and promote alternatives. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcGH...

Which is more helpful in a crisis - wisdom or technology?

"Unemployment is rising...in particular for young people — young graduates coming out of school, they're not finding their first job," said @kjscott.bsky.social, a senior researcher focused on gender equality and public policy at @policyalternatives. ottawa.citynews.ca/2025/07/16/s...

Cutting "red tape" (aka public protections), as Reeves is doing, does not save money. Instead, it transfers costs from the rich to the poor. Other people pay for financial recklessness, filthy rivers, air pollution, lax building standards and consumer rip-offs. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

"What we are witnessing is not just a tragic consequence of war, but the deliberate use of starvation as a tool of political and demographic control. This strategy, designed to dismantle Palestinian society, amounts to a form of structural genocide." viacampesina.org/en/2025/07/g...

The great Sam Gindin on dealing with the gangster president and democratic sovereignty at home.

Nice to see a Congressmember with the maturity to treat these immigrant internment camps with the gravity they deserve. We should all call it what it is: an internment camp like we all studied about in school and swore never to forget.

July 12, 2025

“You will never be disappointed with The United States of America.” Well. I guess if your expectations are low enough, that will be true. RIP, Digital Services Tax. #cdnpoli #elbowsupyours

Trump’s own (insane) Liberation Day tariff math implies an 8% tariff on 🇨🇦 merchandise (not 35%). On services his formula says WE should impose an 18.5% tariff on THEIR products. is outbursts have no economic basis whatsoever: authoritarian & imperialist: centreforfuturework.ca/2025/07/09/g...