I should write an essay about organizing titled "All Those Boring Meetings Paid Off."

The Alberta pipeline deal will bring us closer to climate Armageddon, writes @lindamcquaig.bsky.social rabble.ca/columnists/t...

Ford and Downey are at it again. Another “tough on crime” bail bill that won’t reduce crime, won’t improve safety, and will violate the Constitution while punishing poverty. Their Cash bail grift is bad law and worse policy. www.canadianlawyermag.com/news/opinion...

« L’ingérence du SPAL dans l’enquête du BEI s’ajoute à une montagne de violations commises par des corps de police au Québec relativement à leurs obligations légales et réglementaires depuis l’entrée en activité du BEI en 2016, en toute impunité. »

They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.

Obama, Trump and Biden all stood by for the eight vicious, destructive years Hernández was in power: "Many are the crimes of Juan Orlando Hernández, and ruinous...[he] was only able to rise to power, and stay there, because of the United States government." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I'd take it up with the disability minister, but carney got rid of that too

I will be presenting new research on 'hegemonic defeatism' soon as part of the DemLab seminar series 📄Title: Hegemonic defeatism: How the liberal elite paved the way for the reactionary resurgence 🕛When: 18/12/2025 💻Where: Zoom More info and registration: www.polsci.auth.gr/en/polsci_ne...

« Car la véritable menace qui pèse sur nous n’est pas la présence de femmes voilées dans les écoles, mais l’appauvrissement démocratique qui survient lorsqu’une majorité s’autorise à décider qui mérite d’appartenir à la communauté politique. »

STM could save $3,500 a day with an all-electric bus fleet, study finds montrealgazette.com/news/local-n...

Every time I read Robyn Urback, I feel like I get a bit dumber. Which is why I usually avoid it. This column about pharmacare, tho, is just next level dumb. 1. Ugh, drug coverage in Canada is so complicated 2. Other countries do it, but universal pharmacare here? Too complicated. 3. Yay Alberta!

Trans rights activists have joined forces with labour unions in Saskatchewan to fight anti-trans legislation It's a model that should be employed nationwide to combat laws against vulnerable groups, writes @desaima.bsky.social in our latest for @breachmedia.ca breachmedia.ca/trans-albert...

J'adore! ❤️❤️❤️

In September, @muradhem.bsky.social reported for @thelogic.co that Canada’s Defence Department has a $14 million contract with Palantir’s Canadian subsidiary. It was to use Palantir’s software for “information sharing, processing and data management”.

I keep seeing frustration (this is just the latest) over media only covering the horrors, not what to do about them—but they seem to miss stories about what people *are* doing. I report on that expressly because I want people to know there are people fighting back, and learn how they could, too.

#Montreal was rated #1 bicycle city in North America this year. But the party that won the municipal election campaigned on auditing and removing bike lanes. They’ve already started in my borough, #Outremont. So we made our own bike lane this morning. We need to keep our kids active—and safe.

The Toronto Public Library has purchased the old WE Charity headquarters at Queen & Parliament to convert into a new branch: blogs.tpl.ca/news-release...

Fire has not ceased

Recommended weekend listening - IQ is back with a vengeance. In the latest @haveyouheard.bsky.social, starring the brilliant Quinn Slobodian, we lift up the 'race science' rock to see what's squirming underneath soundcloud.com/haveyouheard...

This is how a health system burns to the ground. How Alberta's dual practice plan would drain hospital staff and delay lifesaving care, by Dr. Paul Parks canadahealthwatch.ca/2025/11/28/t... via @canadahealthwatch.ca @nicktsergas.ca

* 🏴🏴 Working Class History podcast E103-4: Pirates (this has really good descriptions of Pirates’ social structures) part 1: youtu.be/QOkCyAuqm2I?... part 2: youtu.be/7kMcTwJqa0A?... *

Hyperscale data-centre expansion is outpacing the capacity of the local systems that support it. The public health costs are falling to small municipalities with limited leverage and no oversight mechanisms. This week we map out an emerging pattern:

NEW TWIST: data centers in farm country may accelerate nitrate contamination from agricultural sources with big implications for public health. Studies are needed to confirm or refute this finding. Lack of transparency, monitoring, regulations makes it tough. www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

The far right loves to pretend it's an alternative, it speaks truth to power and cares about the "left behind" It doesn't take much though to realise that their ideology is innately elitist and tied to wealth Here exemplified by the French Rassemblement National: www.lemonde.fr/politique/ar...

The federal-AB agreement is a love letter to fossil fuels -cancelation of critical policies (OG emissions cap & clean electricity rules) -public $$ for a pipeline (via Indigenous loan program) -more $$ for CCS, incl. enhanced oil production - only mention of electricity is for fossil fuels

Carney to reporters: there won’t be a pipeline without a private investor. Carney to the chamber of commerce: here are all the ways we’re bending over backwards to attract a private investor:

The Pathways project is a major part of the new pipeline deal between Carney and Smith, appearing 17 times in the memo's text. But much like the pipeline itself, First Nations in its path don't want the megaproject.

1/ Mark Carney has betrayed all of us by making a pipeline pact with Danielle Smith. A real nation-building project would expand the renewable energy of the future while creating thousands of jobs - powerlines not pipelines.

Great piece updating the critique of culture industries for the age of the platform mega-rentier www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

The Liberals of Canada have agreed to give Alberta everything it wants and burn the planet to the ground. If you thought climate change was bad before... This while the Alberta government is attacking LGBTQ+ people domestically and accelerating a separationist movement

When your ambassador is SO deranged that Time Magazine says, "Yeah, that quote sounds real".

Quebec’s Bill 9 is legalized discrimination “The CAQ’s expanded secularism legislation is the opposite of religious neutrality.” An editorial by @mtltoula.bsky.social. #polqc

"Imagine you stole all of the intellectual property in the world. And you're using it to help people write middling emails and make revenge porn about women, and also children. And you're powering this plagiarism and non-consensual porn machine by eating up what's left of humanity's carbon budget."

And so it should! www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Ceci est un obus québécois. Deux projets que Québec soumet à Ottawa pour qu'ils soient priorisés concernent l'entreprise General Dynamics qui produit des obus à Salaberry-de-Valleyfield et Repentigny. Valeur des investissements : 1,1 milliard $. ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/220...

BREAKING: Pipelines only bad when Conservatives do it

But the rest of us need an austerity budget bc there isn’t enough money to go around :( :( :(

Ok Vatican III absolutely rules.

This is what is happening.

Est-ce que PSPP a finalement tué la sociale-démocratie et l'interventionnisme du PQ ? Mario Dumont pense que oui. Le trouble, c'est que Dumont ne connait manifestement rien de l'histoire du PQ et des ses accointances avec le néolibéralisme. 🧵

New from me & @bhaggart.bsky.social on the Canadian govt's bad AI plans: a rushed industry-heavy consultation, obsession with data centres & GenAI, & little focus on AI regulation. What of public trust & a digital governance capacity? policyoptions.irpp.org/2025/11/ai-r...

Opinion: Why do we need a cure for diabetes when I don’t have it?

The Man Who Tracks Silicon Valley's 'Nerd Reich' thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...

Encore une preuve que Labeaume n'est pas notre ami (bien au contraire).

For a guy supposedly all about climate disclosure, baffling to see Carney tossing greenwashing legislation that simply asks corporations to substantiate their environmental claims. Why defend the right to lie? Carney scraps anti-greenwashing law. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/04/n...

Budget 2025 shows that ‘austerity’ applies to efforts to protect people and the planet—but that more money can always be found for military spending and polluting industries. Read our full analysis & members' quotes on the federal budget and Climate Competitiveness Strategy. ⬇️ shorturl.at/z1ueW

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

"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"

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

Finland: yle.fi/a/74-20192344