Did not appreciate the 3-day-late automated msg from @hydroquebec.com after days w/o electricity, telling me: there is a blackout (well, duh); & secondly, that it is our responsibility to reduce our usage during a cold snap when, really, it is an infrastructural failing!? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Property controls are yet another way that grocery chains exert their market power in ways that raise prices and undercut people's agency and choice in food systems. @keldonb.bsky.social @clairek.bsky.social See link in comments for recent analysis on same... www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Rereading this as it marks 11 yrs since my mom's death attributable to working on the assembly-line at GM for ~ 30 years. Would love to return to St.Catharines to work on a project to tell the workers stories even if it means being told by those of us left behind. thenarwhal.ca/st-catharine...

I started throwing together background research to share with folks who wanted more details on the U.S.-Venezuela-Guyana oil triangle I wrote about in @drilledmedia.bsky.social last week, and then figured I should make it public. Hope it helps! drilled.media/news/venezue...

Kinda wild that poultry and agricultural workers are not included in Canada's HVAI vaccine eligibility despite working directly with animals, and thus having increased rates of exposure. www.ufcw.ca/index.php?op...

"The US and Europe have long used unilateral sanctions as a tool of imperial power, to discipline and even destroy Global South governments that seek to shake off Western domination, chart an independent path, and establish any kind of meaningful sovereignty." www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

Brilliant report from @cjpme.org on Policing Palestine Solidarity: A Crisis of Civil Liberties in Canada (2021-2025). Without confronting this, "...the machinery of repression built today will remain." FOREIGN POLICY = DOMESTIC POLICY. www.cjpmefoundation.org/re_2025_12_2...

Good writing days feel like playing Tetris; everything glides into place. I am always curious about people's writing habits. What do you do?

This Thursday is National Day of Migrants. Join the @nfudc.bsky.social for a viewing & discussion of My Friend Omar: The Struggles of a Seasonal Worker. in the evening Register here: www.nfu.ca/event/intern...

Unionizing is the fastest way to improve working conditions. In Canada, unionized workers make ~ $7+/hr more than non-unionized workers. The attacks on organized labour from federal & provincial governments signal how they have zero interest in the working class. canadianlabour.ca/get-into-a-u...

What a sad day for labor organizing in Quebec. The early enforcement of Bill 89 (deem any service 'essential' barring strike actions), STM maintenance workers return to work. "The STM no longer had any incentive to negotiate with us," union president Bruno Jeannotte. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Raluca Bejan & research team have published "Decent Work and Temporary Stay: An Overview of the ILO Agri-Food Guidelines Affecting Migrant Workers in Canada" gflc.ca/wp-content/u... Key findings include how Federal & provincial supports like labour subsidies have strengthened agri-food enterprises.

Check out responses to the 2025 federal budget from progressive policy organizations. (Keep an eye on this page, as it will continue to be updated in the coming days.) @policyalternatives.ca #Budget2025 www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

An unexpected but unsurprising story of corn syrup, candy, farmed animals, and "corporate sustainability". sentientmedia.org/farmers-feed...

What exactly is climate obstruction—and how does it differ from denial? Chapter 1 of “Climate Obstruction” explains in short: the science is clear—but powerful actors are slowing action. Read and download our book here: cssn.org/news-researc...

Our @tulenetwork.bsky.social Call for Papers is out for the 2026 @sasemeeting.bsky.social mini-conference! MC07: Rethinking Labour on a Troubled Planet: Just Transitions, Trade Unions, and Labour Environmentalism - find more information here: sase.org/events/2026-... Can't wait :)

Unaddressed wage theft amongst temporary foreign workers is one of the many reasons why these programs should be abolished. Extra wild to read that Alek Thompson owed $60,000, worked for a construction company, 'Polat' that had federal contracts. www.thestar.com/news/canada/....

Got distracted by US politics & overlooked the passing of Bill C-5 "Protect Ontario by Unleashing our Economy Act," which gives the green light for the creation of special economic zones that sound a lot like those under structural adjustment programs. Major YIKES. thenarwhal.ca/ontario-bill...

@weanimals.bsky.social stepped inside Canada's prison animal production farms. Consider that "Incarcerated people at Joyceville and Collins Bay penitentiaries are paid under 46 cents an hour to work on these federally funded prison farms." weanimals.org/project/a-ra...

To all my comrades researching 'just transitions,' check out this call for papers from @deindustrialpol.bsky.social. Due October 1st! niche-canada.org/2025/08/20/c...

Two (2) MA fellowships at Concordia in deindustrialization studies.

Really looking forward to this! Battistoni's text develops Marx's concept of the "free gift" questioning why it is that capitalism fails to or fumbles to value nature.

Mark Carney keeps talking about “decarbonized oil.” Today he admitted that’s bullshit. At the Council on Foreign Relations, he started saying BC’s new LNG project was “zero carbon,” before adding a key caveat: “before the Scope 3 obviously.” That’s where the bulk of the emissions come from.

To any fellow salters out there 👀 Excited to read: Get on the Job & Organize by Jaz Brisack. I do hope there is a bit of an analysis of the limitations of salting, b/c it can feel a bit too vanguard-y. inthesetimes.com/article/is-s...

"Unions don’t just improve workers’ paychecks—they shape the social and political fabric of the communities they operate in, lifting standards for union and nonunion workers alike," regardless of taking an intentional social justice union position. www.epi.org/publication/....

Recent announcements by France, EU, Arab League, Canada is not them 'changing' - it is another two-state attempt at Oslo pacification and normalization. There can be NO "solution" that demands disarmament of the resistance, maintains apartheid & occupation, denies the right of return for refugees.

Read what "recognizing" a Palestinian state means to Carney's administration. Absolutely disgraceful, disillusioned, & ONLY advances the interests of the colonial, apartheid state of Israel.

Glad to see my article, Factory farm gas: Rendering industrial animal waste as renewable energy on North Carolina pig farms published today! You can read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.... #Smithfieldagreement #wastemanagement #industrialanimalwaste #biogas

In "2022, the Quebec government invested $300m into GardaWorld through Investissement Québec," and is now trying to distance itself from any responsibility for GardaWorld's actions. www.montrealgazette.com/news/article1026561.html#storylink=cpy www.montrealgazette.com/news/article...

"When two movements collide: Learning from labour and environmental struggles for future Just Transitions" by my comrade Becca Wilgosh et al., remains a solid reminder of the fleeting possibilities of & slippery slopes of the Just Transition framework. addi.ehu.es/bitstream/ha...

The occupation of Iraq was justified through same rhetoric we hear now about Iran: weapons of mass destruction, saving women & queers, clash of civilizations etc the task of anti-imperialist left is not to litigate the veracity of these allegations, but to refuse racist premise for imperialist war

And on Bill C-5, Building Canada Act (BCA), a solid primer by @ecojusticecanada.bsky.social on how it will give the federal cabinet sweeping powers to designate “national interest” projects, grant upfront approval, & weaken or bypass critical reviews under environmental, & health and safety laws.

“Elbows up” turned into stares of disbelief at the measures posited by Carney’s Lib. government. It’s one of the most profound political reverses on the Cdn. public, proving that while Carney charms us in the front, he is stripping our rights behind our backs." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"I suffer with PITS as a result,” Tom said, referring to perpetration-induced traumatic stress, a subcategory of PTSD, in which the cause of the trauma is being a perpetrator of violence — in this case, slaughtering animals for food — rather than being a victim of it." www.vox.com/future-perfe...

For those in Denver, Colorado, next Monday Brave New Life project is joining @co-lib-collective.bsky.social for an evening to engage with what it means to work in animal agriculture from the workers' perspective, & how to support those interested in transitioning into other forms of employment.

What does the future of alternative protein look like? Join us Tues 24 June at 4pm BST for a webinar on the drivers, investments, trends & regulation of alternative proteins. More info and registration here: buff.ly/EIxSaxi This is part 1 of our 3-part series on alt proteins.

"The comforting dream that energy conservation would improve while fossil fuels would be replaced by renewables, thereby averting climate catastrophe, has evaporated and been replaced with a technological horror show."

If you've yet to get this sorted out, nows a good time.

We always got money for bailing out industries wrecking havoc on our planet + communities, for war, for genocide. Never for the people.

I don't care what people on the street did or didn't do, I dont care who did or didn't engage in violence, I don't care whether you approve or not. ICE is having a hard time conducting raids, and *that* is the point. All the rest is noise. Serve the people, always. www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...

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What will be the 1st of many actions against Bill C-2, The Strong Borders Act. Another example of how the US/Canada are the same, just Canada approaches issues through bureaucracy/palatability & benefits from years of having distanced itself as the benevolent side of the border compared to the US.

“Tasted a little tear gas— tasted like fascism”

"...dignity is not just deferred, but is systematically stripped, replaced with the performance of disorder that justifies further killings & further control. The aid site becomes the set-piece where Israel can lure the starving into kill zones & use a loaf of bread as a pretext for a bullet."

Appreciate the honesty and grounded discussion on organizing, purity politics, humility, and all that that comes with organizing at scale.

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Bill 89 effectively banning industrial action by Quebec's unions has passed. Fucking hell. Not long ago, my own union, while on strike, got peppersprayed along with other comrades protesting this bill. aptsq.com/en/news/adop...

A how to union bust guide for employers published in the National Post. Literally thought this was an Onion piece... I shouldn't be surprised anymore. financialpost.com/fp-work/cana...

Excited to be in Toronto for the book launch of Migrant Work by Another Name: Differential Inclusion and Precarity in Canada's International Mobility Program by Leah Vosko! www.yorku.ca/research/glr....

Samar Alkhdour, a mother I have gotten to know over the past 1.5 years, whose been publicly mourning the killing of her daughter Jana, & home in Gaza, & holding Canada/Marc Miller accountable, is requesting support to help her family settle in Montreal. Do what you can<3