A Tel Aviv-based group that describes its mission as going on the "legal offensive against Israel’s enemies" says it is trying to "shut down" Canadian news organization @readthemaple.com Shurat HaDin is lobbying Canadian police to arrest a Canadian journalist www.readthemaple.com/a-mossad-lin...

#Britain is now wielding the Certificate of Entitlement to the Right of Abode as a bludgeon to kill dual nationality. Here's how it used to be a passport to mobility and how many of us were progressively forced to abandon this convenience. geist.com/fact/lost-na...

Today's High Court judgement, which found that Yvette Cooper acted unlawfully in proscribing Palestine Action, cited the work of political philosopher John Rawls. Rawls's ideas can help us to see how Cooper's actions were such a deep violation of democracy values. open.substack.com/pub/martinon...

Trump’s escalation of the illegal blockade on Cuba has triggered a humanitarian crisis. This is but the latest attempt by the U.S. to destroy Revolutionary Cuba. For more on that history, consider these titles. We've also made the e-book for "The Declarations of Havana" free.

This February I'm speaking in #Warwick, #Oxford, #Cork, #Galway and #Dublin. www.stephenhenighan.com

I'm pleased to be in agreement with Isaac Bashevis Singer.

Portuguese voters destroy the far right. A new socialist president.

Russia's attacks on Ukraine's energy infrastructure bear the characteristics of the crime of genocide, a war crime, and a crime against humanity, as they predictably lead to mass suffering and are a policy of "destruction of living conditions." Criminals must be punished. 📹MinEnergy_ua/ Facebook

Yesterday I had the pleasure of visiting the graduate residence building (apparently slated for demolition) on LIttle Clarendon Street, Oxford, where I once lived for two years, and which plays an important role in my novel *The World of After* (@cormorantbooks.bsky.social).

We're revisiting some old favourites and new-to-some novels and stories from the @biblioasis.bsky.social backlist. Check them out here: alllitup.ca/press-playba...

This is what happens when you elect, 3x over, a fucking goon whose only previous work experience was being a nepo baby and drug dealer.

PSA: it is in fact possible for universities to address financial challenges by slashing (incredibly expensive and largely useless) admin positions. Memorial University just downsized VPs from 7 to 3. Yes we can! universityaffairs.ca/news/memoria...

Costa Rica, too, suffers from Chavismo. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

It's alarming that this extensive review of a book on the #Arctic as a strtegic battleground, written by an American, discusses China, Russia, USA, Finland, Norway, Sweden....but contains not a word about Canada.

There's also been little reporting on the fact the CRTC recently released new Canadian Content guidelines they've spun as more "flexible," but actually mean Canadian-owned projects can hire more non-Canadians as writers and directors and still access the financial incentives that make them possible.

Promote my book!

This article is about public schools. But many of the points it makes also help explain why many undergrad courses at universities like #Guelph teach little to anyone. www.economist.com/united-state...

So Russia is sabotaging power lines between Romania and Moldova. Does this constitute an attack on a NATO country?

Ras ein al-Uja, the Ghor (Jordan valley). This small village was expelled in its entirety by the settlers in recent weeks. Settlers also vandalised the school, and wrote on the whiteboard: All Arabs will die. Source: Mistaklim (Looking the occupation in tye eye) www.mistaclim.org/en

Great article on our largely dormant yet easily revivable national rail network, @taras-grescoe.com. Now if we could only get the freight trains off the #Via lines in #Ontario! www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Canadians: Shane and Ilya want you… to support the Online Streaming Act www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Why is this nowhere else in the media? #actofwar

Proud of former student Armando Ledezma for this powerful piece in @newyorker.com on the situation in Venezuela, from where he writes: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/dqPfLb

I think I might take one of these "under 20 minutes" AI skills courses the UK Govt. seems very keen on everyone doing and live-post it here... Maybe we can all learn something together! The press release sends me to aiskillshub.org.uk/aiskillsboost/ - let's go and see!

After two years of BS propaganda The IDF: about 70,000 Palestinians were killed in Gaza

I was just following orders

It's probably colder in Sudbury, Ont., than it is where you are--and Laurentian U. profs are still out on the picket line. www.ctvnews.ca/northern-ont...

New from me: More Than 100 Gazans Have Been Accepted to Canadian Universities. Canada Isn’t Letting Them In.

Will this never end?

In February you can find me in #Warwick or #Dublin. www.stephenhenighan.com/talks-in-feb...

The US Holocaust Museum being more outraged by Tim Walz saying that, like Anne Frank, children today are in hiding from armed agents of the state, than they are about the fact that children are in hiding from armed agents of the state, is why Holocaust remembrance culture is in crisis.

UK universities are cutting tens of thousands of staff because of a 6% drop in international enrolments. Canadian univerities are looking at drops of 50% and are cutting nowhere near as many staff. Yet.

Or just move the US games to Canada and Mexico.

With the opening of the Rafah border crossing, we are likely to finally see international reporters in Gaza. Israel prevented foreign journalists from entering the Strip for two years and four months, and the IDF killed more than 200 local reporters during that period.

These are the addresses of four of five ICE offices in Canada. ICE Must be designated a terrorist organization in Canada. #ShutDownIce

PM Carney has planned a life beyond the US. He would not have spoken out at Davos without one. #cdnpoli www.cbc.ca/news/world/m...

DT is about to back up ICE n Minnesota with the US 111th Airborne Division Arctic Angels, trained cold-weather fighters. In theory, Canadin soldiers embedded with the US via NORAD could be ordered to join them. www.economist.com/the-americas...

They are never, ever going to win in Minnesota.

Cdn govt "programs signalled {...] what kinds of publishing activity were expected. Researched nonfiction, for instance, was deprioritized by the Canada Council.These interventions encouraged predictability and conformity among publishers." open.substack.com/pub/shush/p/...

Coming this spring....

Fucking monsters. Fuck 'em all.

"And ICE is gonna come bust down your door Try to build a house no one builds no more" A surprise from patriotic Zach Bryan..... youtube.com/watch?v=JAPS...

Florida Department of corrections says they're now banning books because they don't understand them. They're starting with the Bhagavad Gita Hare Krishnas to sue over Florida prison ban on Hindu holy text share.google/s95sG3y1RkVZ...

This is good 👇

I've been waiting for this. Independent autopsy of Renee Good is in. It's strong evidence against Agent Ross, given what it means about the second or third shot through the left-side window. It's the second and third shots that make the easiest criminal case of a willful killing.

I hope Carney has the sense to stay out of this.

Time to brush up on Greenland-themed fiction. I'd only heard of two of these books: Jane Smiley's *The Greenlanders* and Peter Hoeg's *Miss Similla*, and have read only the latter. Now there's the chance to discover titles like *Last Night in Nuuk*. (Read it before Nuuk is nuked.)

Faculty strike at Laurentian Negotiations fail, picket lines rise at northern Ontario university. universityaffairs.ca/news/faculty...