Canada’s right-wing has become obsessed with hating on the brown people who work at Tim Hortons. Katia Lo Innes explains how the racist scapegoating of migrant workers aims to divide and distract us from our real enemy — the corporate elite. youtu.be/SRjQ-MJinFg

The UCP’s use of the NWS clause to end the teachers strike is sinking in. This is a terrible precedent for *all* groups with protected rights. Why would the government ever not use s 33 now in any case where they can’t make a credible s 1 argument?

To get buy-in from all 10 provinces (which it didn't), Canada's constitution has a clause allowing provinces to override its fundamental rights and freedoms. The framers -- I've spoken to some -- imagined it used in existential-crisis cases. Well, a province just used it to break a teachers' strike

Mark Carney’s austerity, militarism and fossil fuel expansion plan is setting the stage for a wave of resistance. From Indigenous blockades to public sector strikes, workers and communities are already pushing back against Ottawa’s new class offensive.

“Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch. It is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency.Hope should shove you out the door, because it will take everything to steer the future away from endless war and grinding down of the poor.Hope gives a future." -Rebecca Solnit

The system works, but not for most Canadians www.thespec.com/opinion/cont... @futurism.bsky.social @mrpeterjulian.bsky.social @patrioticmillionaires.org @profsmithsask.bsky.social @chloelewis.bsky.social @larryneufeldsk.bsky.social @broadbent.bsky.social @jimbostanford.bsky.social

PWD (Persons With Disabilities) in Canada CALL upon @mark-carney.bsky.social & @liberalparty.bsky.social to remove DTC requirements to access the Canada Disability Benefit immediately. The CDB should be available to all medically assessed & designated PWD in EVERY Province! #NoMorePovertyPWD

Happy to share Vol. 21 of Reflections on Research featuring PhD student @wmacg.bsky.social: "Canadian Disability Poverty, Policy, and Marginalization: Critical Analysis, Neoliberal Influence, and Lived Experiences within the Context of Canada's Liberal Welfare State" ➡️ www.yorku.ca/research/rob...

Justice is... the opposite of served. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-g1u...

Barrie #Ontario recently declared a "state of emergency" over homelessness. But for its mayor, the risk to human lives is not the emergency. The visibility of poverty is. New op-ed from Nir Hagigi: ricochet.media/justice/hous... #onpoli #Barrie #housingisahumanright

Identity politics that obscures class politics and ignores economic inequality only makes the many miseries around us worse.

The new $ 17.60-an-hour minimum wage is an arbitrary figure that could and needs to be much higher. Why is it not? Because the Ontario government is making the political choice to keep minimum wage workers poor. My latest @thestar.com www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

My piece on how the Jimmy Kimmel firing is indicative of the growing authoritarian nature of the American regime. The American century is over and it collapsed so quickly. charlieangus.substack.com/p/jimmy-kimm...

General pattern in regime change: the comedy gets better and then it gets banned.

Extremist murders by ideology, 2013 to 2022. www.pbump.net/o/reassessin...

Canada loses an astonishing $15 billion every year to tax havens. Jared Walker & @silasxuereb.bsky.social argue that this money could fund public services, but successive governments have let corporations shift profits offshore—while regular Canadians pay the price. breachmedia.ca/canadas-hidd...

Carney’s first 100 days: Unpacking the new prime minister’s ‘disappointing move to the right’ with Linda McQuaig: ricochet.media/politics/car...

Simeon Brown is forcing Health NZ to sign 10 year contracts with private hospitals - meaning it will be very difficult for a future government to back out of the contracts. But the evidence is clear, privatised healthcare costs more and delivers worse outcomes: www.rnz.co.nz/news/on-the-...

A reminder that if we hope to ever rebuild an economy that works for everyone, we need a much stronger labor movement.

The Air Canada flight attendant strike was illegal. It was also profoundly Canadian. As Jen ‪Hassum explains in a new column, Canada’s democracy depends on defiance, not obedience. Read it here: ricochet.media/labour/the-a... #AirCanada #cdnpoli @hassum.bsky.social

Fascism begins the moment a ruling class, fearing the people may use their political democracy to gain economic democracy, begins to destroy political democracy in order to retain its power of exploitation and special privilege. Tommy Douglas

Check out the @policyalternatives.ca analysis highlighted in this article. “productivity” [is not] "the solution to the affordability crisis...[because]...affordability isn’t just about how much we produce, it’s about how the gains are shared. (Link in article.) thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

So much for evidence-based policy making 🤷‍♀️

www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc.... "government in Canada have pursued supposedly productivity-enhancing policies—like corporate tax cuts, deregulation, and privatization—for decades without delivering broad-based prosperity - these strategies have widened inequality and eroded public trust."

Ahh yess some brilliant accountability reporting from CTV's @pennydaflos.bsky.social who dug up how much the province is spending on agency nurses vs union nurses. Basically what private vs public health care BC is funding. Private nurses get almost twice the wage! www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

Health advocates shocked as Carney Liberals back away from pharmacare program

youtu.be/S0pGpik5FIk?.... In light of Carney's proposed austerity and tax cuts, this analysis I feel applies to Canada equally as well.

Bankrupt countries don't have welfare states. On @lbc.co.uk just now

Carney’s stated goal of “catalyzing major private investment while disciplining core government spending” is just code for more privatization and austerity.

This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged. Is it any wonder so many feel abandoned by our economy? People lose faith, and a demagogue fills the void. This is why we must fix the system.

For at least two decades policymakers say “ageing population” and “growing social care need” and then cut social care. The media declare a crisis every few months…. and then everything rolls on as before. Advocates shout… but we can’t unite. It’s a farce that disguises tragedy, indignity & pain.

"Earlier this week Donald Trump called for a second civil war at a US military base. This scenario can be resisted and prevented, if we have the courage to listen, interpret, and act. And this Saturday we will have the occasion to act." snyder.substack.com/p/trumps-civ...

Disability advocates are demanding that Ontario address the "crisis" unfolding in its group homes. Between deaths, abuse and the stripping away of residents' rights, they say, "These homes act above the law because they can." pressprogress.ca/disability-a...

www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc....

In only two years, ChatGPT has unraveled the entire academic project. James D. Walsh writes for @intelligencer.com: nymag.com/intelligence....