A massive CBC investigation has confirmed that the Canadian government knew our weapons were reaching Israel through the "U.S. Loophole", and they were quietly investigating the legal fallout while publicly lying to us about it. Link in bio to email your MP about the "No More Loopholes Act".

Important paper. Schools are high-risk environments for respiratory disease transmission MAINLY because classrooms are underventilated. This problem has a workable solution - it just needs political will. Air quality is as important as water quality for public health. MT @martinmckee.bsky.social

Income inequality is at an all-time high in Canada. Meanwhile, CEO pay keeps climbing. The top 1% richest families control almost a quarter of the country’s wealth. And the six biggest banks raked in $70 billion in profits last year alone. It’s time to tilt the scales back towards the 99%.

One of the most effective things you can do right now to fight Trump and ICE is to cancel your ChatGPT subscription.

Reading educates us about each other, about history, about injustice. Thats why they came for the newspapers, they came for the books, they came for public schools. It was never, ever, about free speech. It was about strengthening their place as feudal lords and ours as their servants and toys.

There are no immigration crises, anywhere. There are governments deliberately under-planning for forecasted immigration and then using the strain to turn people against each other instead of against them.

And Canada still has deals with Palentir. Walking us right into Thiel’s ideal.

There are legtimate uses for AI. There are ways for AI to empower humans and level playing fields. It's just that they don't tend to make billionaires richer or let people be lazy, so that's not what is being forced on us.

Universal healthcare is a socialist policy so if that’s what you are most proud of as part of your Canadian identity, congratulations you have just discovered socialism. Its not scary here. On the contrary, it’s nice & equitable. #Canadasky

A 4th term will be the last nail in the coffin for publicly funded education and healthcare. Calling all educators, education workers, physicians, nurses, and healthcare workers to mobilize NOW. Contact your local Ontario NDP riding association and find out how to get involved.

Listen and share this song 🎵 and contact your MPP. @eslfairy.bsky.social I’m sending you a hug and a fist of solidarity. 🥰 They are cutting down public schools because they foster community, collectivism and shared goals. We need to push back. ✊

I’m thankful for books Ive read recently that inspire & inform about community action & change. Moral Ambition by @rutgerbregman.com Doppelganger by @naomiaklein.bsky.social Crackdown by @garthmullins.bsky.social

“There’s no single answer that will solve all our future problems. There’s no magic bullet. Instead there are thousands of answers—at least. You can be one of them if you choose to be.” ― Octavia E. Butler, A Few Rules for Predicting the Future: An Essay

Israel has been using AI to mass target Palestinians for years. It has used the genocide in Gaza to accelerate this technique, ramping up the speed of AI targeting to create what Israeli journalists called a “mass assassination factory”. www.democracynow.org/2023/12/1/is...

Thank you, @avilewis.ca Yet another reason you are the leader that @ndp.ca needs.

I’ve spent the past 2 years debating the credibility of the Gaza Health Ministry’s numbers with Israel supporters. It turns out the Israeli military agrees with me, not them. My latest for Zeteo on how the media was also complicit in the genocide denial:

It seems that Acton’s quote is bang on - Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

For decades in Canada, we built thousands of affordable co-op homes every year. In 1995, the federal and provincial governments stopped financially supporting co-op construction. Thirty years of underinvestment in affordable homes has contributed to the housing crisis we face today.

Canadians need to deal with the bigotry being entrenched in policy right here at home. Consider what we are seeing south of the border as a wake up call. We lose the rights we don’t fight for.

Sure, I’ll bet those food inspectors were just surplus all along @mark-carney.bsky.social And with the wheels completely off the cart down south, I’m sure nothing will get into our food supply that we need to track and alert people about. How is this for #ElbowsUp Canada?

So well said. @johnfugelsang.bsky.social sums it up here.

Local woman wakes up, redistributes all the billionaire money (but especially the Bezos, Zucko, Musko fucko buckos) to healthcare, education, housing, libraries and anything else that will help the world instead of destroy it, makes oatmeal.

Canada Complicit @mark-carney.bsky.social @anitaanand.bsky.social @emmaharrisonptbo.bsky.social

Bisan Owda won a Peabody for journalism, the Edward R Murrow Award for News and and Emmy - yet when US investors snapped up TikTok she was one of the first to be blocked out. It was never about free speech. It was always about control and oppression.

“Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic and made way for parks, people-streets and bike-lanes.” Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability and quality of life. Common sense. Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.

Fund healthcare FFS www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

This is but one of many articles exploring SARS-CoV-2’s potential oncogenic properties. If you want to avoid cancer, take steps to avoid C-19. If you don’t think your ‘future you’ will be glad you did, you’ve clearly never had cancer. It’s rather unpleasant. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Interesting look at property controls and anti-competitive practices in the grocery business (i.e. how commercial landlords attract anchor stores). (housing scholar hint: Competition Bureau might also want to peek at municipal corporation property controls on housing!) www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Consider all those without safe, warm housing. Give where & how you can. Needs are much greater this winter.

Local woman wakes up, encourages you to aggressively ignore microslop AI and other sloppy products no one asked for so the CEOs and shareholders get big mad and lose lots of money, makes oatmeal.

🧵Canadian friends: if you want to vote for the next leader of the NDP, you have *just one week left* to buy a (cheap) party membership. After that, there will be a big English debate and lots of media coverage, but it will be too late to have a say. Only members can vote for leader. link below:

People often invoke George Orwell when discussing the grim state of the world, but Hans Christian Anderson, with his story about a vain, gullible emperor, and the townsfolk who are too afraid to challenge his stupidity, doesn't get the credit he's due. #Davos #WEF

Read this 🧵 👇🏻 So true and also why I feel so tired and like so many of us have been screaming into the void this created.

IMPORTANT: As Davos is back in the news, you should DEFINITELY watch and share this. It’s still right. “It feels like I’m at a firefighters conference & no one is allowed to speak about water.” “You’re counting the wrong things!” With @rutgerbregman.com & Winnie Byanyima youtu.be/P8ijiLqfXP0?...

It's that magical time of year when private jets descend on a Swiss mountain village to discuss climate change and poverty! Anyway, here's my annual reminder. I'll stop posting this when they stop avoiding the real issue: their own massive tax avoidance 💰

“We can continue reacting every winter — accepting mass illness, overwhelmed hospitals, and preventable deaths — or we can interrupt the engine itself. We don’t need school closures to do that. We need clean air in schools.” tactnowinfo.substack.com/p/the-school...

For $1 billion in additional government revenue, countries could deliver on average: 💧 140,140 people gaining basic water access 📚 258,563 more children in school 💡 1,241,472 more people with electricity 🏥 31,616 more nurses 👩‍🏫 11,855 more teachers …plus improvements across the whole budget.

How much have billionaires made during Davos this week? 👀💸 oxfam.org/en/oxfam-bil... Oxfam just launched a new tool that counts billionaire wealth gains during #Davos — and the numbers are… wild. 🧵👇

'Staggering' disparity as Indigenous adults are overrepresented in Canadian prisons by 10 times. www.aptnnews.ca/national-new...

If you live in Peterborough ON and aren’t already subscribed and supporting @ptbocurrents.bsky.social here is a share to show you why you should be. peterboroughcurrents.indiegraf.com/index.php?ac...

If anyone was still pretending this isn’t just about excluding trans kids from public life, the Trump administration just opened a Title IX investigation into a Maine school district because a trans student is on a *co-ed* cheerleading squad.

Most people dying of toxic drugs do so in private places. Driving users back into the shadows is only going to lead to more deaths as we enter into the 10th (!!!) year of the fentanyl crisis.

"By ending the decriminalization pilot, the Province is failing to treat addiction as a public-health issue, not a criminal one, and is doubling down on policies that have already caused immense harm to First Nations." Grand Chief Stewart Phillip www.ubcic.bc.ca/ubcic_deeply...

Of course they are. Ford has never been for the people, only his people - which has always been the developers (aka his donors).

Quite frankly, it’s outrageous that Mark Carney is cutting Statistics Canada. If he was Stephen Harper or Pierre Poilievre, I feel like this would be getting a lot more backlash. Carney of all people should know the importance of high-quality data and information about the country.

UNICEF: a child has been killed every day in Gaza by Israel since the start of the 'ceasefire.' “These children are killed from airstrikes, drone strikes, including suicide drones. They’re killed from tank shelling, they’re killed from live ammunition, they’re killed from quadcopters.”

A public grocery network across Canada could save families approximately 30-45% off their grocery bill, depending on where they live—and would only cost a reasonable amount to set up. By @avansi.bsky.social @grocerynerd.bsky.social Raj Patel Anna Paskal www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

Aid organizations say Israel’s recent ban of 37 groups has dealt a severe blow to humanitarian work across Palestine. In Gaza, it means "cutting off a lifeline for over two million people," says Rahma Worldwide's Dr. Shadi Zazzah. mondoweiss.net/2026/01/isra... #Palestine #Israel

My sign today.

🎯 (Alt text: Cartoon with people fleeing a death ray, one saying "I really don't mind the government's new death ray, because it hasn't hit me yet.")