'The Calgary School is not producing “maverick thinkers” who keep happening to fall into politics and happening to govern badly. It is producing a specific intellectual product with a specific political shape, and the badness is a feature of the design.' @lindsaytedds.bsky.social

‘violence in our classrooms is not a “student problem”—it is the result of systemic underfunding, unmet needs, and a lack of supports’ ett.ca/its-a-childs... @elemteachersto.bsky.social @nigelbme.bsky.social

Do you want to work at @policyalternatives.ca ? We've partnered with the School for Moral Ambition to offer an incredible Tax Fairness Fellowship. Its a 6 month paid position to put you on the front line of the debate. Apply now: www.moralambition.org/fellowships/...

New research out today showing the collapse of Canada's development assistance as featured in the @ottawacitizen.com this morning 🧵👇👇 @policyalternatives.ca ottawacitizen.com/public-servi...

Thread from @davidmaccdn.bsky.social on his most recent analysis for @policyalternatives.ca: "The federal government now plans to cut Canada’s ratio of development assistance to Gross National Income (GNI) to its lowest level since 1964, setting development goals back by 6 decades."

www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... 'Pearson’s 1969 vision was for Canada to contribute 0.7% of its Gross National Income (GNI) to international assistance....This analysis examines how the November 2025 budget cuts dismantle that legacy.' @davidmaccdn.bsky.social @policyalternatives.ca

www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... ‘Canadian companies in the oil industry are bringing in an extra $170m in profits every day because of the war in Iran, which has pushed global oil prices up by more than 50%’ @policyalternatives.ca @hadrianmk.bsky.social @davidmaccdn.bsky.social

Posted without comment because I know so many comments will be forthcoming….

www.merip.org/2026/04/cens... ‘Universities have also turned to surveillance technology, deploying video cameras, facial recognition systems, drones, identity-card readers and social media analysis to identify and keep tabs on student demonstrators.’

Yes. And quickly! Canada needs a windfall tax on oil industry war profiteering - www.nationalobserver.com/2026/04/15/o...

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... ‘IRCC would not comment on specific applications or decisions. In an emailed statement, it said that "visa applications are considered on a case-by-case basis based on the information presented by the applicant."’

www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... ‘How this decision is perceived will not only affect this project, but future projects as well. Business and government have the choice of building public trust or public opposition. So far, this process is only building the latter’ @simonenoch.bsky.social

FOM joined @albertanurses.bsky.social to celebrate the Canada Health Act's anniversary today! Don't let this be the last! Help call on @mark-carney.bsky.social & @mark-carney.bsky.social to enforce the Act to protect public health care against AB's two-tier bill: Post cake for public health care!

www.nationalobserver.com/2026/04/15/o... ‘There are many things the federal government could do with an extra $46b…But the best approach would be to invest these proceeds in reducing our dependence on oil &, thus, our vulnerability to future oil shocks’ @hadrianmk.bsky.social @policyalternatives.ca

ZOHRAN: “TBH, I don’t think too much about how Republicans portray me. The power of an ideology is judged in the worth of its delivery— to be told a city-run grocery store is implausible but $500 MILLION/day to kill ppl in Iran & Lebanon is necessary speaks to a broken politics.”

Curious about what oil windfall profits look like in real time? Check out this thread by @hadrianmk.bsky.social and then read this report www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... to find out why we really need bette policy on corporate profiteering @davidmaccdn.bsky.social @policyalternatives.ca

Hey it's Friday and the Canadian oil industry made $1.5 billion in profits this week. 🧵 Thread...

www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... 'What image of Canada is he projecting globally by affirming colonial wars and genocides? Carney and his team should not forget that history will judge the events unfolding today.' @policyalternatives.ca

www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar... “It really doesn’t make sense to continue funding private schools with public dollars at a time when public schools are struggling to keep their heads above water” @alonghurst.bsky.social @policyalternatives.ca

‘Bill 11’s ambitions are anything but modest. It will “fundamentally reshape the AB health care system,” massively opening the scope of private health insurance & for-profit health care in ways no other province has yet tried’ @alonghurst.bsky.social @poliscirish.bsky.social @policyalternatives.ca

Book Launch/Celebration for Knowledge Under Siege: Charting a Future for Universities Monday, April 27th, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM Perfect Books, 258A Elgin St. Ottawa www.perfectbooks.ca Defining the value of universities has never been so urgent. Pls join us for this crucial conversation.

www.thetrillium.ca/insider-news... Ontario: Open for none of your business

www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... ‘When the elite call for ‘belt-tightening’ and ‘productivity gains,’ they are not asking the billionaires to sacrifice their capital gains; they are asking the working class to sacrifice their public services, their wages & their time’ @policyalternatives.ca

www.cbc.ca/news/politic... Dress it up however you want—this isn’t transformation. It’s managed decline. And it’s squandering CanadaPost’s key competitive advantage that private couriers are using as a selling point. Shortsighted, wrongheaded and completely devoid of imagination.

Thanks very much to @alonghurst.bsky.social and @policyalternatives.ca for this powerful analysis and compelling conclusion. We completely agree- spending public tax dollars on private schools is indefensible. #bced #bcpoli #cdned #PublicEdPublicGood www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... 'Why do we need to repeat an experiment whose failures have been clearly documented?' @policyalternatives.ca @twieditz.bsky.social

www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... 'Families that can afford annual tuition of $37,300 at elite schools do not need to be subsidized by families who can barely afford housing & basic living expenses—to say nothing of the lack of supports in public school classrooms' @policyalternatives.ca

www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... ‘Fiscal year 2025-26 will close off with real spending cuts for BC’s public schools—with an increase of only 0.6% in nominal terms (or $46M). This falls far below the rate of inflation & other cost drivers, including wages’

Last week, @policyalternatives.ca put together an urgent call for Canada to tax the profits that the oil and gas industry is making off the war in Iran. Yesterday, the best Carney could do was removing tax on average people, further defunding the state. www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... 'As costs rise, many Canadians increasingly rely on AI chatbots for advice...While this expands access, it also dramatically increases the sensitivity of data being captured outside any meaningful regulatory framework' @policyalternatives.ca

If oil prices remain at current levels for the next 12 months, the Canadian oil industry is on track to make $90bn in profits, which is $60bn more than it would have earned without the war...Applying 15% rate on excess profits of oil industry could generate $9 billion over the next 12 months. ⬇️

www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... ‘For school libraries, judgments about what is appropriate are best made by professional educators and librarians, not by politicians playing to their political base.’ @policyalternatives.ca

www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... 'We can choose to view inheritance not as a private right, but as a lucky windfall that should be shared. We can choose to invest in the living, rather than just protecting the assets of the dead.' @policyalternatives.ca @resourcemovement.bsky.social

www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... 'What the data now shows—and what educators have been saying for years—is that violence rises precisely where supports disappear.' @nigelbme.bsky.social @elemteachersto.bsky.social @policyalternatives.ca

Door-to-door delivery. Rural post offices. Reliable mail service. These are vital public services – and they’re at risk. In solidarity with CUPW, workers across the country are speaking out against cuts to Canada Post. Tell your MP: protect our public postal service. psacunion.ca/support-post...

www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... What we COULD do... 'Consider what the federal government could do with an extra $46 billion.' @policyalternatives.ca @davidmaccdn.bsky.social @hadrianmk.bsky.social

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives' @hadrianmk.bsky.social and @davidmaccdn.bsky.social calling for an oil and gas windfall tax. Their analysis is now live: www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... 'Private-pay testing will increase public wait times, making the diagnostic testing bottleneck worse, & continue to unravel the foundational principles of the Canada Health Act.' @alonghurst.bsky.social @policyalternatives.ca

‘It is now time for a federal-provincial strategy on public postsecondary education: essential infrastructure in this nation-building era.’ @policyalternatives.ca @caut.bsky.social

www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... ‘What’s needed now is a coherent national strategy to stabilize our system, encompassing a commitment to retain & nurture Canadian talent & to welcome international students & scholars for sound educational reasons, not as a compensatory revenue stream’

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... centralize control, limit options, constrain democratic mechanisms that provide public accountability…but don’t mention the persistent and egregious underfunding of public education.

www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... 'The sort of disparities that we see in Canada today don’t happen by accident; they are the result of systemic forces that play out across generations.' @policyalternatives.ca @resourcemovement.bsky.social

news.ontario.ca/en/advisory/... Quite confident this will be a disaster. ‘Paul Calandra, Minister of Education, will be joined by Nolan Quinn, Minister of Colleges, Universities, Research Excellence and Security, to provide remarks and hold a media availability.’

“What has become clear is that a thorough forensic investigation into the deaths of plasma donors in Winnipeg was not conducted by Health Canada. The urgent issue of high frequency plasma donation and its adverse health impacts on donors is beyond troubling.” www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... 'The massive data centre construction boom fueled by AI investment has been characterized as building the material ‘backbone’ of the digital economy. So what would happen...should the AI Bubble burst?' @simonenoch.bsky.social @policyalternatives.ca

‘That’s been the experience with AI tutoring…It doesn’t necessarily make students motivated to learn or fill in gaps in knowledge needed to ask questions.’

Ten years ago today, in April 2016, the Boston Globe printed a satirical front page imagining a future Trump administration. The page was called "alarmist," "hyperbolic," "dystopian." But we’ve put up with so much since then it now looks like . . . a slow Thursday?

🧵#PalQuest hosts the digital, interactive version of All That Remains by Walid Khalidi, documenting Palestinian villages depopulated and destroyed in 1948. Among them is Deir Yasin (دير ياسين), located in the Jerusalem subdistrict: www.palquest.org/en/place/169...

www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... 'The Canadian oil and gas industry is making an extra $170 million in profits every day due to the U.S. and Israeli war in Iran, which has driven up global oil prices by more than 50%' @hadrianmk.bsky.social @davidmaccdn.bsky.social @policyalternatives.ca