This is an astonishing piece of writing.

Excellent that Judge Young's ruling has spurred journalists to dig into the trial transcripts. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

🧵 Peck is a phenomenal filmmaker and I'm sure 2+2=5 is a great doc, but I really hope that it (unlike this interview) touches on Orwell's marriage. Reading Anna Funder's 'Wifedom' and learning that he literally wrote his wife, Eileen Blair, out of Homage to Catalonia fundamentally altered...

VANCOUVER! Whatcha doing Fri Oct 24? Come see our free public panel, "Beyond Fire & Floods (BFF): Indigenous Narratives in an Era of Extremes," part of a larger invitational gathering of climate-related storytellers, hosted in MOA Great Hall at UBC! sppga.ubc.ca/events/event...

BREAKING: WE WON!!! 💥 💥 💥 Federal Judge William G. Young ruled today in our lawsuit against the Trump administration that the policy of arresting, detaining, & deporting noncitizen students & faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the 1st Amendment. Full ruling here:

I started tracking the TRC's Calls to Action in 2016 and, since Eva Jewell and I stopped writing annual reports in 2023 out of despair, things have only become more bleak. No meaningful structural changes have been made. They were never even attempted. A clear-eyed take from @michellecyca.com

"Why would it bow to antidemocratic pressures by placing a professor on leave without their request, consent, or involvement? That any university would do this is beyond comprehension and is cause for alarm about the future of academic freedom in Canada."

From Cory Doctorow: "AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations" damn I wish I had written that line pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...

Important piece by Andrew Nikiforuk on Lemkin and the origins of the Genocide Convention. Thanks to Andrew for writing it and the Tyee for publishing. #cdnpoli #abpoli

"Though conspiracy requires an 'agreement' between two or more people to commit a crime, in practice the mere appearance of concerted action is often enough. This makes conspiracy an especially potent weapon against social movements, which, by their nature, aim to project an appearance of unity."

“I've been thinking about it these days, and after discussing it with my team, I think I'll do just one date in the United States,” Bad Bunny said in his Super Bowl announcement. His upcoming world tour is skipping the US entirely out of fear ICE may stalk fans outside his shows👇🏽

I am, once again, stuck on a @viarailcanada.bsky.social train running almost an hour late ON TOP of a scheduled detour. This route should arrive at 11:45pm. Nonetheless, we are waiting for a freight train to pass.

This is a great read

I wish this wasn’t true but it is: the wifi on both Air Canada and WestJet is better (faster, more consistent) than on VIA. I’ll always be team train, but my god VIA tests one’s loyalty…

“Despite the university requiring students to undergo the training, the Trump administration still cut $790m in research funding.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Assata Shakur joins the ancestors a free woman. She did not die bound by the carceral system and she did not pass away living in a land that never respected or accepted her. Assata taught us that liberation can not be bargained for, it must be taken. Rest Free, Assata.

a bunch of actors show more leadership and critical thinking than many universities. awesome, awesome.

Nothing says “nation building” like getting rid of [checks notes] the postal service

We are excited to announce the Second International Conference of Critical Legal Geography at the University of Concepción, Chile, 17-20 March 2026. The call is now live @ www.clg.place on our conference page. Deadline for submissions 10 November 2025.

Excellent question #A2J www.thestar.com/news/gta/ont...

While Kneecap’s rise to prominence has clearly troubled the Liberal party, Vince Gasparro’s claim that the band glorifies terrorist organizations is an obvious smokescreen meant to divert the public’s attention from the band’s steadfast support of the Palestinian people. @enda-b.bsky.social writes.

I’m fine with the rapture. It’s not like we’re getting another season of Andor.

me telling my grandkids what it was like to have vaccines

Shocking

We could have dirigibles and high-speed rail and green energy but no... it's all the same three oil companies in a trenchcoat thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...

The AB gov’t appealed the injunction against trans health care bans, but is now bypassing its opportunity to argue the reasonableness of *all* its anti-trans laws via the notwithstanding clause. This reveals a lack of confidence in its claim that it is “protecting” trans and gender diverse youth.

The surveillance of pro-Palestinian protests raises serious concerns about systemic discrimination. We echo the calls of @bccla.bsky.social and @pivotlegalsociety.bsky.social for an independent review by someone with real knowledge of anti-Palestinian racism & human rights: tinyurl.com/4pc9wuvk

BCCLA condemns the Liberal government’s unfounded, biased, and authoritarian decision to bar Irish-language rap group @kneecapceol.bsky.social from Canada, preventing them from performing their October shows. Email your MP and tell them to Reverse Kneecap's Travel Ban! bit.ly/ReverseKneec...

My inner property law nerd is very excited for a new SCC adverse possession case (and it went 5-4!) but did they have to issue it literally 72 hours before I planned to teach the ONCA's decision?!? (Yes, this is all about me)

One week left to get your apps in!

Looks like Carney's 'bubble zone' Criminal Code amendments will be tabled Friday. The bill would "outlaw the “intimidation” or “obstruction” of places of worship and other community spaces" www.thestar.com/politics/fed...

I just did

BREAKING: Trump says he is designating “Antifa” as a “major terrorist organization.” Such a step being taken this way would be concerning enough, given what it actually is, but, given that Trump sees “Antifa” hiding in every corner of opposition, this could be an extremely alarming escalation.

Looks like Carney's 'bubble zone' Criminal Code amendments will be tabled Friday. The bill would "outlaw the “intimidation” or “obstruction” of places of worship and other community spaces" www.thestar.com/politics/fed...

One week left to get your apps in!

Canadian COVID Forecast: Sep 13 - Sep 26, 2025 Severe: NL, PEI, SK Very high: CAN, AB, BC, MB, NB, North, NS, ON High: QC Moderate: none About 1 in 81 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.

This is who Carney put in charge of building affordable housing —an exec with a major Toronto real estate developer with a history of pushing out low-income tenants or forcing them to take massive rent increases. Companies like this is why we have a housing crisis. pressprogress.ca/toronto-mayo...

The near total lack of reference to the Professor Watchlist in the professionally Serious journalist class’s chin-stroking about Charlie’s Civil and Good Politics is a reminder that the US “free press” does not have a position on whether targeting academics is a bad thing and has often helped do so

Calling a guy who said that the 1964 Civil Rights Act was a mistake "An advocate for freedom" is a real choice (derogatory)

Being a @viarailcanada.bsky.social passenger sometimes feels like a cruel joke. I’m on a train that is running an hour late *on top* of a scheduled 40 minute delay. We’ve done a detour and waited for multiple freight trains. Unless we’re a full hour late (from the revised schedule)…

hannah einbinder backstage at the #Emmys said it was "important to talk about palestine because it is an issue dear to her heart.....it is my obligation as a jewish person to distinguish jews from the state of israel....."

"I just want to say, go birds, fuck ICE and free Palestine," "Hacks" star Hannah Einbinder at the #Emmys

The high speed rail odds are even longer for Windsor given our MIA conservative MPs. The fact that they refuse to make the case for HSR not just from Toronto to SW Ontario but on to Detroit, Chicago and beyond is maddening. windsorstar.com/news/local-n...

Christie Pits, Toronto. Best sign of the day.

"We reject any process that tramples our inherent and constitutionally protected title and rights, ignores free, prior and informed consent, and sacrifices the climate for foreign corporate profits. True nation-building requires working with us, not against us.” GCSP www.ubcic.bc.ca/first_nation...

This is an injunction application to watch: the logging company looking to remove protesters in the Walbran is partly owned by the Huu-ay-aht FNs thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

If I wasn't avoiding travel to the US, I'd definitely be submitting an abstract...

Turning Point USA made a literal watch list of professors, primarily women, queer folks and people of color, and made us targets of political violence. I’ve received hate mail and harassment and death threats off and on for nearly a decade in part due to that man’s organization so 🤷🏽‍♀️

Applications are due in two weeks! 🏃🏻‍♀️⌛️

Five charts that explain the financial crisis in Ontario's colleges and universities. thelocal.to/ontario-post...