This Sunday! Join me, Gabor Maté, Bill McKibben, Anjali Appadurai, Libby Davies, El Jones, Judy Rebick, Nas Yadollahi, and other guests for an All Day Outreach Party. Together, we’ll invite thousands of new members into the NDP before the Jan 28 deadline. RSVP: https://avilewis.link/january-11

Has the NDP lost its labour roots? My new piece for @broadbent.bsky.social traces how the union–party relationship has frayed, and why that matters for Canadian politics today. Labour and the NDP: Revisiting the Past, Looking to the Future perspectivesjournal.ca/labour-ndp-p... #cdnpoli #canlab

Excited for more democratic socialism in the place the CCF first met!! act.lewisforleader.ca/calgary-town...

Super simple: tax the rich

Who's gonna look back at 2025 and wistfully tell their family about Carney building another pipeline? That's not the kind of history any of us want to repeat. That's why we're proposing a Green New Deal: solutions to make life affordable and keep our world livable. youtu.be/A5XjLUxauyk?...

Checked off a huge bucket list item today and (finally) swam with whale sharks. So fucking amazing.

Beyond the Lecture Hall is a terrific podcast hosted by @robertalexier.bsky.social & Lee Easton. Earlier this month they facilitated a discussion on the UCP's use of the notwithstanding clause with @profsmithsask.bsky.social, Victoria Bucholtz & me. Listen in at: open.spotify.com/episode/5oCI...

100th dive today!! Included a humpback whale breaching right beside our dive boat!!

Toronto! It’s exam season, and stress is high. Take a break from the books and come recharge with good company and meaningful conversation. Let’s talk about the issues that matter most to you and how a reinvigorated NDP could address the issues facing young people today. avilewis.link/recharge

Literal joke of a province

Scientists at Canadian institutions have long punched well above our weight despite low and stagnant funding. Spending a billion dollars on external recruitment while science here is starving is exactly what Harper got wrong about supporting research excellence in Canada.

Danielle Smith and the UCP are so obsessed with the genitals of children they'll override Canada's constitution as many times as they have to in order to continue indulging in their obsession, to keep thinking about children's genitals and policing children's genitals.

The fuck??? And by that I mean, get fucked SFU

But I thought it was about drugs? Huh. How ‘bout that.

Last night at 2 a.m. Danielle Smith's Alberta government passed Bill 9, which invokes the Notwithstanding Clause to shield its three anti-trans laws from court challenge We must not overcomplicate what is going on here. xtramagazine.com/power/politi...

The colonial playbook never ended — Canada’s pipeline deal proves it. Coastal First Nations say ‘we will never tolerate' any exemptions to the oil tanker ban in British Columbia. New from @brandimorin.bsky.social: ricochet.media/politics/can... #BCpoli #Indigenous #cdnpoli

Call for sources from one of our @xtramagazine.com fellows: "Are you a teacher, ed worker, or librarian in Alberta? I’m writing about how education workers are working with/around the recent anti-LGBTQ+ legislation and book bans. Reach out to [email protected] if you're open to speaking."

The rule of law is an integral part of democracy. The minute elected officials start claiming that they are the law, well, then we have problems.

The things judges tend to like are the ones that are constitutional. Perhaps the problem for the premier is is less about judges' opinions and more that she thinks being elected should give her carte blanche and that's (at least currently) not how this works. www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/art...

Wrote about this for my forthcoming book and it was so much worse than we even remember.

Gee, maybe because they’re gonna lose them all? Cuz they’re violating the law on the regular?

It’s time for the NDP to tell the truth: we must get off fossil fuels fast—with no worker left behind. Today I’m unveiling our Green New Deal: a plan to tackle both the climate and affordability crises by creating 1M good jobs, lowering bills, and building a new economy. Join us: lewisforleader.ca

Quebec’s Attack on Labour, Explained Premier François Legault’s government has passed multiple pieces of controversial legislation targeting the province’s workers this year. pressprogress.ca/quebecs-atta...

"The oil sands in Alberta will get most of the profit from this pipeline, but all of the risk is being placed on British Columbia and particularly the First Nations along the west coast,” said Nissen.”

The Gaza Health Ministry says more than 70,000 Palestinians have been killed since Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza began on October 7, 2023, with attacks continuing despite the ceasefire deal that came into effect last month. 🔗: aje.io/kunho7 | #Infograph

If you want @avilewis.ca as the next leader of the NDP, you must become a member of the party by January 28, 2026. Sign up here: avilewis.link/join #cdnpoli #ndp

I’d feel better about the UCP splitting apart over the pipeline MOU if we had an actual alternative in the province

"At a time where our health system is collapsing, our public schools are a disaster and we’re facing ecological catastrophe, the CAQ (and the PQ) understands well that if they whip up enough racist sentiment, the population might forgive them for doing nothing about the real issues we all face."

Danielle Smith uses notwithstanding clause to declare herself premier of B.C.

Canada’s top political leaders are climate deniers. There’s no such thing as “decarbonized” oil and no environmentally conscious way to increase fossil fuel production. Mark Carney and his government are sacrificing the climate and baking in worse natural disasters in the hope of short-term profit.

Carney’s deal with Danielle Smith is the sellout of the century: scrapping climate legislation for a pipeline that will never be built. We need powerlines, not pipelines. Our path is through climate leadership & building good jobs in the clean economy.

Lets face it, this is a good day for oil companies, businesses, and those in the oil sector. Its a bad day for the environment and for reconciliation with Indigenous nations whose lands this thing will go over. As Blanchet stated, this is the official end of Canada's climate commitments.

Legit could the ABNDP be more pathetic? The correct response is: stop letting oil and gas drive this province and the world into the ground.

Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are collapsing, locking in multi-meter sea level rise. Coral reefs continue to die off. Atlantic ocean current collapse means Europe could soon enjoy Edmonton winters. Our boreal forest continues to burn every summer. But at least we'll have a strong economy.

Our bank boss might’ve overplayed his hand

Hahaha. If you believe that, have I got a bridge to sell you. Cuz if Dani doesn’t directed ire at Ottawa it’ll be directed at her.

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.

“I still see the war everywhere: in people’s faces, in the children, in the echo of planes and drones.”

This absenteeism is concerning, lament schools and workplaces who’ve been past tensing the pandemic since 2021 or 2022 while everyone lives in perpetual sickness.

The genocide continues

Likely why recall is about to disappear in AB…

Today, I’m excited to announce the first major policy solution of our campaign: a concrete plan to break the power of corporate monopolies and build the next generation of public options.

Strikes work! ✊🏻

Picket lines for Alberta's nursing care staff strike go up tomorrow morning. Looks like nearly every major hospital across the province will be impacted. If you'd like to see if there will be a picket line in your area, AUPE's website is searchable by location:

Breaking we have shut down Cbsa!

Massive turnout at the YYC trans day of remembrance rally tonight. You love to see it.

On this Trans Day of Remembrance, I particularly want to stress that the violence we talk about trans people experiencing isn't just murder or domestic abuse or assault. There is also legislative violence—far too much of it. And we lose lives to that every year too.

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Danielle Smith's Alberta government has announced that they will use the Notwithstanding Clause to protect three laws (all targeting trans people) from court challenges. NEW from me in @xtramagazine.com on the lies they're using to justify such a massive move ⬇️ xtramagazine.com/power/politi...