BREAKING: The BC Labour Relations Board has ruled that all research assistants at Simon Fraser University are workers and members of the Teaching Support Staff Union (TSSU). TSSU successfully organized research assistants twice over the last six years. www.tssu.ca/grad-student...

Alcohol still leading cause of substance-related hospitalizations in Canada, with cannabis now a ‘concerning’ second Hospital data for substance use visits now counts CHS, a growing weed-related illness pressprogress.ca/alcohol-stil...

I'm one of the four fired employees. I was a writer & producer at Bon Appétit for nearly five years, during which I helped organize our union and sat on our bargaining committee. I am, to my knowledge, the only trans woman in our union and the only trans woman on editorial who doesn't work at Them

I think content creators and "news influencers" can play a valuable role in our democratic discourse, but they need to hold themselves to basic standards of integrity For example, not actively working for a political party or fetching coffees for the Conservative Party's Director of Communications

Si vous êtes encore sur Twitter vous encouragez la radicalisation et le fascisme.

The people that say that, just like whenever anyone justifies anything, are just justifying their position against scrutiny. The real reason is they want to meet like-minded people, and they want to go where they can farm engagement from people that they can put into a sales funnel.

Podcast episodes from Sources and Sandy and Nora have been the most helpful in dissecting the budget. Highly recommend.

Who says: “I’m going to post on 8Chan because I want to ‘meet people where they are’”? Who says: “Hey, I created an account on the Daily Stormer message board because I don’t want to ‘cede that space to the other side’”? No one says this because it’s stupid – so why does anyone say this about X?

Ottawa Auditor General doubles down on her risk assessment for Lansdowne 2.0: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

More than anything else, I think this shows that people who remain on X because they think they don’t want to “cede space to the other side” and want to “meet people where they are” are profoundly stupid and negligent people

Data shows that the algorithm on Elon Musk’s X is systematically pushing right-wing political content to British social media users regardless of their political orientation or who they follow, according to an investigation by Sky News: news.sky.com/story/bluesk...

X effect: How Elon Musk is boosting the British right

This is a provocative lede, but the editorial actually appears be about why he is an advocate *against* domestic violence, not an advocate *for* it

City staff confirmed with me that they removed 75% of these scam stickers from city parking metres today, and will have the rest done by tomorrow.

Mark Carney is billing it as an “investment budget,” but with plans to cut $60 billion in program spending and eliminate 40,000 jobs (10% of the federal public service), @dtcochrane.bsky.social says it’s more like an austerity budget Our podcast live from inside the budget media lock-up yesterday:

@lukelebrun.ca and @dtcochrane.bsky.social break down what Mark Carney's austerity budget means for workers — both public and private sector — in the latest episode of Sources

"This leaves the minority federal government in a position of having to eke out enough supportive votes from the Green Party and the seven-person NDP or risk being plunged into a pre-Christmas election campaign ... But this budget burned whatever olive branch it might have extended to the NDP"

not to mention Carney himself is MP of Nepean. just seems eminently self-defeating to prune public service in your first budget when public servants are the main constituency of your riding. (btw just looked it up and seems Carney still does not have a riding office in Nepean 🙃)

If nothing else, eliminating 40,000 public service jobs likely increases the odds @brucefanjoy.bsky.social will not be reelected in the Ottawa-area riding of Carleton I asked @dtcochrane.bsky.social about what these job losses mean for public servants and the communities supported by those jobs

I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.

🎧 PODCAST: Looking inside Mark Carney’s ‘extremely Orwellian’ austerity budget From $60 billion in cuts to eliminating 40,000 jobs, Canadian Labour Congress Sr. Economist @dtcochrane.bsky.social shares his impressions of the Carney government's first budget live inside the media lock-up in Ottawa

I expect the DNC establishment and New York City’s wealthy elites will soon be lining up to kiss the ring

1. Despite Pierre Poilievre’s partisan rhetoric, Conservative MPs feel ideologically at home in Mark Carney’s Liberal Party 2. Despite the Liberal Party’s partisan rhetoric, Conservative MPs feel ideologically at home in Mark Carney’s Liberal Party

Chris d’Entremont has officially joined the Liberal Party. "After serious consideration and thoughtful conversations with constituents and my family, I came to a clear conclusion: there is a better path forward for our country — and a better path forward for Acadie-Annapolis."

INFO | Le gouvernement albertain a utilisé la clause dérogatoire pour imposer une loi spéciale et forcer le retour au travail des enseignant·es. Le plus grand syndicat de la province entend répliquer fermement, sans toutefois en arriver déjà à la grève générale.

Thinking of all the innocent people who died as a result of Cheney’s actions but were never eulogized with front-page obituaries

Ottawa, where children dress up as luxury condo buildings with noisy air conditioning systems for Halloween ottawacitizen.com/news/local-n...

Canada collected $3B from U.S. counter-tariffs before a majority were dropped www.cbc.ca/news/politic... Find out more at nationalnewswatch.com

No FBI agent or federal prosecutor will now ever dare to investigate a Republican, a MAGA figure, or anyone with any connection to Trump, his family, or his businesses. To even look in the direction of such a possible target would be career suicide.

Major League Baseball must have had dozens of boxes of “Blue Jays 2025 World Series Champions” hats in a storage locker in Skydome last night What happens to those hats?

Without sadness we would not know happiness

These fucking teams are going to play until 4 AM again aren’t they?

Bench clearing brawl!

I hope Ohtani didn’t have a lot of money riding on this game

Liberal strategy, every election since the dawn of time:

Shohei Ohtani will start Game 7 for the Dodgers only 3 days after throwing 93 pitches in his last start

“Earlier this month, Health Minister Marjorie Michel told a CMA town hall that economic uncertainty makes it ‘impossible’ — at least for now — to release $4 billion in national health funding promised by the Liberals during their reelection campaign.” Money for the military, but not for your health.

Why? What are we striking about?

Dodgers play of the game.

Canada-wide general strike tomorrow morning

“Our members are highly motivated by the fact that the government treated them with the disrespect that they did, that they will be more than happy to engage in pushing back,” [Alberta Teachers' Association president] Schilling told PressProgress.

Starting to think wearing an LA Dodgers shirt for Halloween was poor judgment on my part

try listening to jays *radio* supplements and hormones, shady investment firms, subprime credit cards

Watching baseball all night and have a sudden urge to order Pizza Pizza, open chequing accounts at TD and RBC and subsidize mining companies so they can develop the Ring of Fire

In response to Alberta’s use of the notwithstanding clause, labour groups are vowing retaliation. Danielle Smith's attack on bargaining rights has unions raising the spectre of a general strike: pressprogress.ca/alberta-labo...

But seriously, the wading pool and fountain that turned into a splash pad is my favourite bait and switch from the renderings. They even put in bricks in the *shape* of the wading pool they didn't build.

More I think about it, one of the true failures of The Left is in not hiring more graphic designers to create cool architectural renderings of new schools, hospitals, affordable housing, etc People don't want essay-length explanations about the benefits of social infrastructure, they want pictures!