According to the flotilla tracker & Al Jazeera, the Conscience (along with other flotilla ships) has been intercepted. Time to get on the phones and call our MPs to demand Canada ensure the safe return of the Canadians on board including NL activists Devoney Ellis, Nikita Stapleton, & Sadie Mees.

Watching the sham replies of America’s chief law enforcement officer in Senate yesterday, it really did hit home that the institutions people can appeal to to take action - generally named ‘the government’ - are useless because they’ve really been taken over. How this ends won’t be pretty.

The federal government’s full-throated endorsement of LNG Canada Phase 2 is bad news for anyone who cares about Canada’s carbon emissions, or Canadians’ tax dollars, writes Janetta McKenzie www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/07/o...

Italy is, I believe, 3rd on list of countries that sell arms to Israel. The people recognize that’s a problem. Most people, in most countries recognize it too. Among UN’s recent recommendations:

I guess the @mark-carney.bsky.social government can’t be bothered to mention Israel’s violations of law in the action against the flotilla. Or offer support for those Canadians on board-you know, the best of us. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

It's like the Stanford Prison experiment is going on again, except it's the whole country.

Ugly it is down south. It is going to get worse. The only avenue left is impeachment.

More than 100 members of the Memorial University community have signed a letter to @mark-carney.bsky.social and other elected officials, calling for the Canadian gov to ensure the safety of students & others in the Freedom Flotilla who are delivering aid to Gaza. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

@mark-carney.bsky.social Italy and Spain are sending naval vessels to protect and support the humanitarian flotillas to Gaza. PM Carney: you should too.

www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/palestine-do... @mark-carney.bsky.social

Boycotting and divesting works. Case in point? Disney sidelined Kimmel, people cancelled subscriptions, Kimmel reinstated.

If anyone ever wants to close a religion department at your university, just email them the Charlie Kirk memorial.

Latest in the State of the University series: Memorial’s Geography of Neglect: From Decay to Transformation theindependent.ca/commentary/c...

✊📢 Tens of thousands joined #DrawTheLine actions on Sept 20, demanding PM @mark-carney.bsky.social act for people, peace & planet. Collective power was on full display across Canada. 📺 Watch the CTV coverage: youtu.be/a2YbV-Ss9fk?... 📷 See @350.org’s photo gallery: www.flickr.com/photos/350or...

Breaking: Jimmy Kimmel to return Tuesday.

"It's the banality of evil. It happens around essentially a watercooler." From the new 'We're Not Kidding', 'Andor' star Denise Gough and @mehdirhasan.bsky.social talk about the depiction of fascism in 'Star Wars' and its similarities to real world politics.

You may have heard on The Independent that 3 MUN students are part of the current Freedom Flotilla, delivering humanitarian aid to Gaza. Please read the linked petition and consider signing. Sincerely, Barry docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

"While other governments sue oil companies for climate damages, the NL government brings along an oil lobbyist like a Negotiator-in-Chief. This is inviting the fox into the henhouse." Read the op-ed from @acantle.bsky.social & Angela Carter 👇 #nlpoli www.saltwire.com/newfoundland...

Let’s hear from Mike Wilson. I am so sick if the backroom deals, the cronyism, the lack of transparency among the elites of this Province. Let’s clear the air. Let’s put the facts out there. All this hiding behind NDAs is sickening. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

In 2011 Benjamin Ginsberg published The Fall of the Faculty, The Rise of the Administrative University and Why it Matters. If you've time & can can find it, you should read it. Then, you should read the Auditor General's 2023 performance audit of the university. These past years, students & programs

A most arresting sentence: “The movement of energy between enslaved bodies in plantations, plants, long-dead fossilized plants, and industrialized labor is a geochemical equation of extraction in the conversion of surplus.” - Kathryn Yusoff, A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None

More great work from @rachelgilmore.bsky.social thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...

Truer than ever. The place is seriously messed up. www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49305/...

Yikes.

The absolutely gross and obscene inequity. Air Canada, this is disgusting! #AirCanadaStrike #cdnpoli

My late-night thoughts on Israel's Plan to Occupy Gaza Israel's security cabinet has approved a campaign of ethnic cleansing and conquest in Gaza. The United States has a responsibility to use its leverage to finally end the genocide. open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...

Austerity is a lie. They tell us, ‘No money for education, housing, health care, early childcare, transportation…. ‘ It is a lie. Wealth continues to be created by the many and hoarded by the few.

Seems our government doesn’t want the horror to end. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Perhaps the SJ’s farmers’ market might consider this.

Nova Scotia has banned the woods. Unbelievable. I get we are suffering from wildfires, partly due to our inaction on climate crisis. And now… we can’t enter the woods. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

John Paul II, Ecclesia in America (1999): "More and more, in many countries of America, a system known as “neoliberalism” prevails; based on a purely economic conception of man, this system considers profit and the law of the

Another cry regarding terminating the Harris Centre and Office of Public Engagement at Memorial University... #BudgetCuts #NewfoundlandAndLabrador www.saltwire.com/newfoundland...

@briantylercohen.bsky.social for someone who does ‘political commentary,’ you seem remarkably unwilling to cover the war crimes, human rights violations, and genocide taking place in Gaza. www.btselem.org/press_releas...

WTF? We’re very likely doomed. www.usopen.org/amp/en_US/ne...

A beautiful Friday late afternoon. I’m going to drink a beer and operate a couple power tools.

We can have a better world. A much better world. One where people can, more or less, enjoy themselves. Maybe rather than support the murder and starvation of children we, oh i don’t know, build playgrounds.

That only half of the public has finally come around to disapprove of Israel’s murderous, crazed rampage through Gaza demonstrates the effectiveness of systems of propaganda and the difficulty of cracking through them. apnews.com/article/isra...

Let’s make a lot of money by starving people and destroying homes, hospitals, schools, and everything else,’ says the psychopaths running our western ‘liberal’ democracies.

Have to reckon with the fact that our PM-along with most everyone else in power-thankfully the rare (very rare) precious exception-could care less about human rights. They simply don’t care. They care more about portfolios and profits. rachelgilmore.substack.com/p/canada-has...

What moron at Sportsnet is responsible for not showing FAA’s match?

NDP reacts to damning new report on Canada’s arms exports to Israel My full statement here: www.ndp.ca/news/ndp-rea...

Lookout

Truth tellers: Gideon Levy and @haaretzcom.bsky.social We need to call out the genocide deniers. They are making our nations complicit in the mass killing of a people.

@mark-carney.bsky.social Dear PM: Act, now. Now. No more words. www.btselem.org/publications...

Dr. Power is of course right here. We need public engagement. MUN also just killed public engagement office.