A tale of two visions for Canada’s future — As Mark Carney’s budget doubles down on austerity, #ZohranMamdani’s victory in New York City shows what people-powered politics can look like, and how Canadians deserve better. New column by Jared Walker: ricochet.media/politics/a-t... #cdnpoli

$70 Trillion in Inherited Wealth Shows Global 'Inequality Emergency' Spiraling Out of Control www.commondreams.org/news/70-tril...

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

The Feds amended their egregious data mining operation at the Tri-Councils but they pretended it had nothing to do with our protest! I’ll take it. www.nsnews.com/national-new...

someone got indicted on the basis of “transporting antifa materials” for allegedly transporting a box of ZINES THEY’RE PROSECUTING PEOPLE FOR DOMESTIC TERRORISM OVER ZINES

‘New reality’: Hurricane Melissa strength multiplied by climate crisis, study says

We’ve received more than 5000 signatures on our open letter to stop MPs from accessing private data about scientists, researchers and students in the university sector! This story is still developing- www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/national/ove...

“The essential services we need to survive used to be owned by us: the UK public. Our public services have been sold off to private corporations over whom we have no control.” @kmilb.bsky.social, author of Radical Abundance, interviewed on @neweconomics.bsky.social neweconomics.org/2025/10/radi...

Thinking of my collaborators in NY this morning. 💛

"Whoever controls AI infrastructure — compute, models, data and cloud — will shape the economic and political order of the 21st century." www.noemamag.com/reclaiming-e... unless said "AI" is just a bunch of magic beans and we're about to witness a ridiculous economic catastrophe 🤷

A research facility at Harvard Medical School was blown up by two masked men. This follows the mass shooting at CDC months ago. Attacks on universities & public health are a key feature of right wing domestic terrorism.

Mark your calendars! It’s time for the second lecture in our 2025-2026 free public lecture series!! Join us this coming Monday, November 3 at 7:30 pm! Taking place online and in-person at Cape Breton University!

If you’re a grad student or faculty living in Canada- please read this letter! The Conservative Party is forcing the release of all our EDI data from all funding applications over the last 25 years- incl. sexual orientation, gender identity and disability info. forms.gle/8tCkKgKG8tww...

“You don't have to be everything to everyone, but you can give yourself and you should give what you can. That's mutual aid. I share with you what I have. You share with me what you have, whether it's skills, resources, talents… As opposed to exploiting and commodifying each other.” - Eric King

Are you f'g kidding me 🤬 NO, just NO #NovaScotia Nova Scotia Natural Resources Minister Kim Masland confirmed Thursday that her department has received a proposal for a golf development that would use West Mabou /1 thread www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

People are scared of what happens after the bubble bursts. @ftrain.bsky.social is looking forward to it www.wired.com/story/ai-nor...

ICYMI: Miami PD just rolled out “PUG” — an AI powered, fully autonomous, self driving patrol car with automated plate readers, thermal vision, and a built in drone that launches from its roof. They’re calling it “the future of law enforcement.” It goes well with the Robocop outfits.

BREAKING: economist discovers “second shift,” a concept coined by sociologists almost 50 years ago; gives it new, stupider, and less explicitly labor-oriented name

Prominent climate scientist, @katharinehayhoe.com, argues it's time to ditch the 'myth of neutrality.' www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks... 💯 ... The other side has done that a long time ago.

The message is clear, in this new world order: morality is dead and might makes right. "The US State Department has removed an online portal for reporting alleged human rights violations by foreign military units supplied with American weapons." www.bbc.com/news/article...

Innocent political enemies will be killed and he will claim they were ‘tied to drug trade’.

Acorn Canada's breakdown of Doug Ford's landlord-friendly legislation to gut protections for renters "They would make it easier for landlords to kick people out, harder for tenants to fight back, and make housing even more expensive" From @acorncanada.bsky.social:

BREAKING: Israeli forces have carried out massive bombing operations southeast of Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic report from the ground. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/oiwpck

This is an incredible move by the Hind Rajab Foundation - they are taking the soldiers responsible for murdering Hind, her family and Red Crescent medics to the ICC. One is a former US Navy Seal. www.hindrajabfoundation.org/posts/her-na...

A former student of mine is missing in Ontario. Please share missingpeople.ca/missing-pers...

A very dear friend is an incredible support person if you don’t want full-on therapy, but want a radical comrade to help you sort stuff out. Check her out! medium.com/@japjiannabas

I am watching the Parliamentary Standing Cttee on Science & Research and the stance from Conservative MPs is absolutely chilling. They are attacking every witness to start a fight about DEI based on misinformation and racism.

Trump is quietly expanding control of state & local police. "Their larger project is to blur the lines between different law enforcement agencies in the military and create one national police force that is essentially under the command of the president.” theintercept.com/2025/10/20/t...

This is such an incredible piece… artreview.com/the-intervie...

The Federal Trade Commission removed several blog posts in recent months about open source and potential risks to consumers from the rapid spread of commercial AI tools.

Fundy tides to peak in 2034, adding urgency to #ChignectoIsthmus flood project #NovaScotia #NewBrunswick Astronomical cycle means higher high tides expected until mid-2030s Yet Houston is squabbling about who will pay, when the feds offered to cover half the cost. /1 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

It’s no surprise that the Nazis in control of the US are dismantling ethics review boards given the direct link between these boards and the defeat of the Nazis in WW2. journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/hist...

A waiting list of thousands, and just five new homes for social rent: this city shows the depth of Britain’s housing crisis | John Harris

… And this is why you should not vote in Conservative provincial Governments who want to sell your 13,000s of coastline to millionaire developers and luxury golf hotel chains.

A review of The City of Our Dreaming in the Winnipeg Free Press Imaginary cities Themes of justice, reciprocity run through authors’ ruminations on urban life www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-lif...

How are future historians going to write about this "And then, the people with inflatable frog suits rose up"

"More Than 200 Bodies Dug Out of the Gaza Rubble Since Ceasefire Went Into Effect"

These three women are courageous heroes. And kudos to NTV for some of the most honest reporting I've seen: Israel illegally abducted them. And by all accounts tortured them. Proud three of our own risked their lives for the cause of humanity.

The veterinarian who helped heal & care for the animals of Gaza during the genocide has been ‘disappeared’ by the IDF. One Health should include protection & safety from war for humans, animals & their ecosystems. The AVMA and CVA should call upon Israel to release Dr Muath Talat.

The CDC RIFs are terrible in more ways than just immediate impact to people’s health. It’s bad enough that we will lose access to our own health data. It’s worse that these data can and will be weaponized against us. rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/a-health-d...

The expansion of energy hungry, dirty AI data centers in Canada would be a terrible move. www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

"[W]e demand arrest warrants for the perpetrators of crimes against our fellow journalists in Gaza." "We encourage American and international media outlets to demand direct, unsupervised access to Gaza in the wake of the ceasefire agreement." #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #USA #Incarceration #Genocide

BC is exporting liquified natural gas and is in a frenzy of building infrastructure with many projects. This has implications for the climate, our health and affordability. Hear how from @iglikaivanova.bsky.social, @emikonewman.bsky.social, Ismail Askin. Oct. @ 12pm PT. us06web.zoom.us/meet...

don't worry, Sam Altman is confident that his efforts to eliminate vast numbers of jobs will all just sort of work out for the unemployed, eventually, possibly after they starve to death, which is technically a form of having it work out futurism.com/artificial-i...

*cough cough Carney please read this…*

Terrifying.