@brendonstuff.bsky.social second month in a row where I’ve had to email the London Police Service Board to ask for their meeting minutes from the previous month because they never posted them online 🥲. And the “policies” section on their website leads to a broken link hahahahah.. 😭

You know what would be great? If Michael and Susan Dell actually paid their taxes.

Meanwhile, our faculty is being nickel-and-dimed into removing TA assistance from already too-large classes even as we are harangued about retention, and the university is sitting on massive cash reserves that they say they can’t spend even as they redirect operating $ to “strategic” slush funds.

anyways, for everyone watching stranger things this weekend: remember that Will Byers (Noah Schnapp) is a zionist.

So the most ridiculous thing just happened at Point Pleasant Park. The Conservative who ran in my federal riding is walking his dog in a bright blue CPC logo jacket. Ho’s making deals on his phone and tries to scurry away after seeing his dog take a dump in the middle of the walkway…

Naming an award after Vickery Bowles is a special kind of hell. Screw that pandering bootlicker.

I'll have a full story and video coming tomorrow about Alberta using the notwithstanding clause on its three anti-trans laws. Just know that Danielle Smith said "If you don't become sexually mature, you can't have kids. And that's what we're trying to preserve" during the press briefing on Monday.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... I’ve had the honour of working alongside Serena during my many advocacy visits to Nova Institution. Her experience is not an isolated case—it reflects a broader pattern of state violence inside prisons across Canada. 1/8

www.cbc.ca/news/politic... Canada pours billions into punishment while denying resources to the community supports, housing, health care, harm reduction, and land-based healing that truly create safety. 1/5

socialism isnt a dirty word

Bean and I spent the early afternoon at #LdnOnt ‘s Bones&Brews market, where a portion of all proceeds are being donated to Anova (www.anovafuture.org) Anova is a NPO in London, that provides support & shelter to survivors of family based violence, including domestic and sexual violence. 1/3

Locking people up for being poor, sick, or in crisis doesn’t solve the problem and in fact makes it worse. When people are detained instead of supported, they often lose housing, jobs, and vital connections. That instability drives desperation, which fuels crime and social harm. (1/6)

Carleton University is implementing the most restrictive policy on speech at any university in Canada.

In New Brunswick, seclusion rooms are used instead of intensive care units because of inadequate healthcare funding—this is what happens when ‘public safety funding’ is prioritized over collective community care. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Plotting/Planning my first winter balcony garden. cc: @emgeekay.bsky.social

Pierre Poilievre says Canada’s top politicians all need protection. Meanwhile, Charlie Kirk had six private security guards when he was shot in the neck — a spot no bulletproof vest could cover. Maybe the issue isn’t a lack of bodyguards, but a lack of critical thinking.

the skillset you need to survive is not the same skillset you need to love and be loved. - leanne betasamosake simpson

It's simple. They see themselves in him. They do not see themselves in his targets.

"On Labor Day it's important to remember that police unions arent part of the labor movement. One of the basic purposes of modern police has been to crush every attempt by the working class to organize for social, labor, environmental, racial, gender, & immigrant justice." @equalityalec.bsky.social

In harm work, there’s no such thing as a “perfect victim.” People have histories, contradictions, coping strategies that don’t always make sense from the outside. Support and care can’t be conditional on someone fitting an impossible standard. Harm is harm.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... I changed my PhD dissertation research topic a while back, but this was my bread and butter for many years. It’s frustrating to see the NB government dismiss library workers as if they don’t matter for student learning. 1/6

I finished reading Leanne Betasamosake Simpson's absolutely gorgeous book "Theory of Water" last week and I recommend it highly. It's currently 40% off at @haymarketbooks.org. I think a number of you who follow me would appreciate this book. www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2533-t...

Conversation with @prisonculture.bsky.social about how the "conciergification" of our lives is de-skilling us for organizing with each other. Listen to the whole episode wherever you get your podcasts.

You know the world is on fire when Marjorie Taylor Greene becomes more of an advocate for Palestinians than Hakeem Jeffries.

ACAB also means the "cop in your head and heart".

"I understand the mice, the rats, you know, maybe a rabbit, but these poor little beagles — you just look at their faces," Ford told a news conference in Windsor on Tuesday. Yeah, screw those mice, rats, and rabbits. They got ugly faces. 🙄🙄🙄🙄 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Insisting on peaceful protest is a neoliberal talking point. It’s less about peace and more about preserving the status quo. It asks oppressed people to protest in ways that don’t disrupt business, property, or power — even while they’re being brutalized by violent systems. 1/2

Respectability doesn’t keep people safe. People are brutalized every day without laying a hand on police — for being in the wrong place, for looking the wrong way, for simply existing while Black, Indigenous, Palestinian, poor, or homeless. 1/2

I hope Mark Carney steps on Lego today.

The cuts to Women and Gender Equity Canada (WAGE) aren’t just budget decisions—they are acts of gender-based violence. Defunding organizations that support women, Two-Spirit, trans, non-binary, and gender non conforming people undermines their safety, dignity, and access to justice. (1/3)

Hi! I have a new research website. There are some zines, reports and resources on mental health, family violence and disasters. Maybe you will find those helpful…? www.ourpublicsafety.ca

Canada cares more about young men's sports prospects than women's bodily safety.

“Today’s decision cuts deep against sex workers. It continues to ignore the lived experience of sex workers and the ways in which these laws put them in danger and risk of criminalization.” -BCCLA Staff Counsel Ga Grant Read our reaction to R v Kloubakov: ow.ly/1xj750WuVJN

Don’t enroll your kids in Canadian boys hockey. Nothing has changed.

For EM

Trump is taking on the "deep state" by dumping endless COINTELPRO blackmail records about Martin Luther King Jr, to the glee of white supremacists, while covering up pedophilic blackmail records, also likely an intelligence operation, that he and his buddies are implicated in.

We can hate capitalism while also enjoying our silly little treats.

Just want to amplify this outside of my own replies. @antihate.ca has been carrying Canadian extremism reporting on its back for years and deserves all the flowers for it.

I know I am going to get yelled at but I am still going to say it: Barack Obama can never be the answer to anything because he helped to get us here now. And he also doesn't have an honest assessment of the country. He can't and won't say what he knows because it's not in his interest.

I've been thinking a lot about how librarians are well positioned to gain a deeper understanding of politically right leaning folks (MAGA, Trump supporters, Pierre Poilievre stans, fiscal conservatives, etc) to help build bridges within our communities.

Love seeing a massive piece from CBC News on something I've covered extensively over the last two years -- complete with the same screenshots I've put in videos -- that doesn't even give a nod to my reporting. Even more fun, as a female independent journalist, I got repeated threats for this work!

Pls credit independent journalists!!!

You mean CBC reported on content that @rachelgilmore.bsky.social has been covering for over a year? Good enough to steal her labour but not good enough to pay her? Interesting.

I know a lot of people think the “Longest Ballot Committee” stuff is stupid but I think this is funny AF. We need more harmless trolling like this tbh. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Do the police next. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Anyone who thinks this is a good thing is misinformed. The solution isn't to build more prisons/jails or add more beds, it's to release more people sooner. In addition to that, we need to fund more community initiatives that support people who are criminalized in our communities.

The #LdnOnt police force believes TASERING people is an “effective” de-escalation tool. I don’t know if I would describe a non-lethal weapon as an “effective” de-escalation tool. Imagine if therapists, social workers, nurses, and doctors did the same? Diabolical. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Anywho, as I tell the young people in my life whom I love deeply, this is your time to create beautiful works of art, to throw the most fun parties you can for no money, and to fight like hell for a future worthy of you. This is NOT a time to retreat into yourself and to forgo the world.

One of the greatest things I have learned in my 30s (and perhaps much too late in my life) is being able to work alongside people who I fundamentally disagree with in order to create system change at the ground level. I think this is a skillset that a lot of left-leaning people could benefit from.

His victims got on the stand and shared some of the most horrific stories and he was acquitted anyway. This is why I get so angry when people blame victims for not speaking up or walking away. Why? Who will protect them, believe them, and guarantee proper justice?