Canada presents itself as peaceful, yet for Indigenous Nations reconciliation is a facade that masks assimilation. Assimilation is genocide, and true peace requires truth, land back, and self-determination—not colonial rebranding.

YES! THIS on GenAI! Please read this absolutely splendid piece of writing that had me cheering, a little bit weepy, and writing in the margins: "An extraordinary amount of money is spent by the AI industry to ensure that acquiescence is the only plausible response. But marketing is not destiny."

Comedians who have accepted this contract and are going to be at the "Riyadh Comedy Festival" include, lol, Dave Chappelle, Kevin Hart, Bill Burr, Aziz Ansari, Gabriel Iglesias, and Louis CK

For anyone not in Alberta or not paying attention, girls playing sports in school now have to prove they were born female to play sports. And can be challenged by anyone at anytime and must prove they are female to keep playing. This doesn’t apply to boys. What a dystopian hellscape

Given recent concerning events, @TruthInTheSoil and I have decided to speak out about the harm and harassment of residential school denialism, arguing in this new piece for The Conversation that confronting it is an ethical and shared responsibility: news.umanitoba.ca/the-conversa...

ICYMI: Ellen Gabriel and I published a new piece on resisting Canada's "elbows up" colonialism, for @canadiandimension.bsky.social: canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...

Carney’s ‘elbows up’ promise to defend Canadian sovereignty seems to have gone up in smoke. Surely he didn’t mean elbows up and…to the right, right? This bill needs to be withdrawn NOW: act.gp/46KmZHS #StopBillC2 @leahgazan.bsky.social

I don't want to see a single more "the US was anti-fascist in WW2" posts. Y'all they were the Inspiration to the fascists, the only reasons they went to war was they were attacked, and to prop up the failing capitalist system. Please learn history. Right after the war they took in the fascists too

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

To all the comedians who stood for free speech in the face of wokeness

Worried about rising fascism on Turtle Island, especially how 'canada's' Liberal government is pushing through right-wing policies that will harm us all? Show up Saturday!

Worried about rising fascism on Turtle Island, especially how 'canada's' Liberal government is pushing through right-wing policies that will harm us all? Show up Saturday!

Great CP piece ahead of this Saturday's Draw the Line actions: "What's taken shape, organizers say, is a level of cross-country collaboration not seen in recent memory among progressive civil society groups..." www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/politics/pro...

All of these words are true so I think it's very important for all of us to ask WHY people in and with power are agreeing to all of this... What's the most logical answer to that question?

Canada’s “elbows up” nationalism may look like resistance to Trump, but it risks repeating the colonial violence it claims to oppose. Ellen Gabriel and @seancarleton.bsky.social warn that patriotism built on erasing Indigenous struggles makes real reconciliation impossible.

New today from Avant Garde Press: Mark Carney’s Embrace of Political Violence & His Honouring of Charlie Kirk By @sashafury.blackskycomra.de open.substack.com/pub/avantgar...

The US massacre of 11 civilians in the Caribbean drew condemnation across Latin America. Canada’s Mark Carney offered none. His silence follows a history of undermining Venezuela, from blocking its gold reserves at the Bank of England to aligning with Washington’s regime-change agenda.

GENEVA – Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel said in a new report today.

Due to Bluesky video limits, a lot of people haven't been able to share some of the fabulous Groyper explainer videos being passed around the internet. So I'm splitting them up & posting the best ones here: Please save the thread & share with others! GROYPER EXPLAINER THREAD: 🧵👇🏼

"All of a sudden, you see post after post re-inforcing that immigrants are causing harm to you (even though the only immigrants in your life are your doctor and the people who you rely on for services)" ⬇️

And there’s the smoking gun: Tennis Canada collaborated with Israeli intelligence to ban spectators from the Davis Cup match. (Obviously in order to prevent images of anti-genocide protest spectacle that would have been broadcast around the world.) www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

One of the dead ends that I am seeing way too many people running down is trying to argue that the Kirk shooter (or really, any murderer who's act looked thought-out for some reason) has a coherant political orientation. The reality is this: it doesn't matter. Here's why:

The leaked Trump plan for Gaza comes directly from the US playbook for Native Americans. The plan calls for the US to take over the Gaza strip and to hold it in trust for development. Gaza’s residents would be encouraged to leave “voluntarily.”

Kind of a reach, considering he was trained to kill by his cop and clergyman Republican father.

The arms industry is organized. So are we. WBW’s global Events Calendar connects antiwar efforts across borders, virtual or in person. Add your event, find others, and access tools to make it real. We don’t just protest war. We plan for peace. events.worldbeyondwar.org

We cannot have "respectful debate" when the topic of debate is whether certain people deserve rights, including their right to exist as themselves, just because of their identity.

T-12 days until people from coast to coast to coast mobilize to #DrawTheLine against genocide, exploitation and austerity! On September 20th, we’ll flood the streets in 50+ communities to fight for a just future for ALL of us. Find or organize and action near you here: drawtheline.world/canada

US and EU sanctions have killed 38 million people since 1970 | Business and Economy | Al Jazeera aje.io/5pqm33

When the Liberals invite the guy behind Project 2025 to speak with them, you know there is no point worrying about Poilievre. King Carney is the real threat. www.thestar.com/news/world/p...

"It's a budget of austerity and investment at the same time and that's possible if you have discipline," he said Wednesday. Austerity for whom, investment for whom, discipline from whom?

Our series of essays and commentary relating to the ongoing genocide in Gaza is free to read, share and download until the end of September 2025. #OpenAccess @jich.bsky.social [1/4] ● Raz Segal, "Settler Colonial Genocide" (doi.org/10.1080/0308...)

[3/4] ● Sindre Bangstad, "The Palestine Exception to Academic Freedom and the IHRA Definition of Antisemitism" (doi.org/10.1080/0308...)

72. In a win for the Palestine solidarity movement, Colombia becomes the first state to impose a total energy embargo on Israel. bsky.app/profile/bdsm... #MovementWins2025

71. Workers in Ottawa win their union vote and become the first Canadian Tire location in Ontario to unionize. ufcw175.com/canadian-tir... #MovementWins2025

Canada’s conspicuous silence as the US sanctions ICC judge Kimberly Prost marks a sharp decline from the days it challenged apartheid in South Africa. Where Canada once championed the court’s independence, it now defers to Washington.

Throughout the crisis in Gaza, the CBC has consistently capitulated to pro-Israel lobby pressure. The public broadcaster’s choices have not merely misinformed; they have implicated Canadians in the ongoing genocide.

Since the beginning of the genocide I’m thinking about this encounter in C. Hitchens memoir on a regular basis.

My latest -- I look at who experiences random violence, who falls through society's cracks to become violent and how it's easier to ignore than to address. noraloreto.substack.com/p/random-vio...

The Anglo-American empire always needs to create the threat of an Other who wants to take over the world to keep their people on-side while they continue to assert dominance over the world, exploiting, sanctioning, killing, etc.

"A landmark US-UK study in International Security challenges Western narratives, asserting China is not seeking global dominance or military conquest."

Canadian scholars Junaid Jahangir and Jennifer Long examine the role of dehumanization, Islamophobia, and Whiteness in limiting Western media coverage of sexual assault committed against Palestinian men: mediacoop.ca/node/119304

Canadians built Air Canada and our airports with decades of public investment. Now we have a privatized airline cutting service, abandoning workers, and pocketing bailouts. If we’re footing the bill anyway, shouldn’t they serve the public—not shareholders?

The 1937 Oshawa GM strike showed how radical organizing and international solidarity could transform the labour movement. @tonyleah.bsky.social’s new history reminds us that the victories workers take for granted today were won through militant class struggle.

NEW: Round 3 of Find IDF Soldiers is in progress. If you have know of Canadians who have ever been in the Israeli military that are not already included in this list, email hello [at] readthemaple [dot] com with “Find IDF Soldiers” as the subject line. findidfsoldiers.net/soldiers/

These are the wonderful 'helpers' Carney and the libs are making ads about.

Soldiers are not helpers. They are not trained as helpers. They do not help. NATO spending increases are not about building militaries to help anyone other than billionaires and Empire. War is not Peace. (Apparently, Carney identified with the wrong people when he read Orwell's 1984) #landback

When Canadian workers won the right to collectively bargain, it was intended to put an end to chaotic andnogten violent labour struggle -- bosses were forced to actually engage with their employees and in exchange, employees agreed to only strike in very limited circumstances.

What we are witnessing with air Canada is a complete breakdown in Canada's industrial relations regime. It's part of a trend that should be scaring the hell out of average people.