The Canadien Government has made an ad about the proposed Ksi Lisims LNG terminal & PRGT Pipeline, and it's surprsingly honest and informative.

Today, it’s the defenders of privatisation who are clinging to an out-of-date ideology. They’re out of touch & out of time. Let’s end the rip-off & take back our future. Explore our new project — Who Owns Britain? — at the link below. www.common-wealth.org/interactive/...

AI as consultants.

Has anyone else received a spambot invite from Springer to become editor of a "a Curated Literature Overview book"? They're asking us to give the seal of approval for AI-generated summaries of academic articles. And so the plagiarizing machine gains more credibility.

Just learned that Europeans were not acquainted with the front crawl until the mid-19th century, when they were taught it by Ojibwe swimmers. A style of swimming that is now celebrated for its speed & efficiency, the standard that we learn as kids, was reviled, at the time, for its barbarity: /1

The fed gov cuts to pay for military and wealthy tax cuts have rapidly expanded. My new analysis shows that most of the cuts will now be on transfers to other govs, non-profits and people. A stunning 1 in 5 dollars is just cuts to FN govs for basic social programs. @policyalternatives.ca 🧵👇👇

This isn't about austerity. It's not Paul Martin redux. It's about the massive redistribution of public funds to the military. Higher train fares and reduced spending on local journalism are the direct result of a massive hiring spree in defense, unprecedented since WWII.

The federal workers I've spoken with emphasize it isn't just their substantive work that's suffering - basic organizational functions like payroll and IT are breaking down. This comment from a recent NYT article haunts me. "It was only when he left that we truly realized his value..."

It is becoming impossible to deny the brutal agenda of #MarkCarney's class war government breachmedia.ca/mark-carneys...

not really news today, but still crazy that Canada's idea of export promotion is to lend to Canadian public pension fund to 'invest' in - read privatise - a British public good that's now so badly run it discharged 300,000 hours of raw sewage into our rivers last year www.ft.com/content/418f...

This week's Mobilizing Data for Justice podcast features interviews with Tactical Tech, a Berlin-based collective that engages with citizens and civil-society organizations to explore and mitigate the impacts of technology on society @datajusticehub.bsky.social

This week's episode of the Mobilizing Data for Justice podcast features interviews with Visualizing Palestine. @datajusticehub.bsky.social

Workshop coming up this Friday in Montreal, featuring Inés Durán Matute from the International Research Group on Authoritarianism and Counter-Strategies.

The third episode of our Mobilizing Data for Justice podcast features Petra Molnar, from the Refugee Law Lab, who is investigating the rapidly growing surveillance apparatus at our borders. @datajusticehub.bsky.social

The second episode of our Mobilizing Data for Justice podcast is now out, featuring the investigative collective, Bellingcat. @datajusticehub.bsky.social

Over the past few months, we have been doing interviews with social activists engaging with data in creative ways. Check out our first interview, featuring the Accountability Archive.

New podcast season launched today! Check out our interview with the Accountability Archive on Youtube, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. open.spotify.com/show/4SdE490...

Melinda Cooper on Trump, Doge, and the mutations of the neoliberal state. www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

York has given the consultancy firm, Nous, millions to "create efficiencies." It then suspended admissions into 19 programs, including gender studies & indigenous studies. Here, we talk abt unis & consultants, equity implications & how to fight. #academicsky www.academicaunties.com/episodes/fig...

The program for the Progressive Publics symposium (Feb 28-Mar 1) in Montreal is nearly finalized. Check it out. @datajusticehub.bsky.social @harbingermedia.bsky.social

Very sad to hear about Michael Burawoy. He was such an inspiration, not just in his academic work but also in his activism, and his conviction that we can and should be doing public sociology.

We're helping to host a symposium at Concordia connecting together independent media, academic research and social activism, Feb 28-Mar 1. Check it out. @harbingermedia.bsky.social @andremarrgoulet.bsky.social @iris-recherche.bsky.social @pivot.quebec @datajusticehub.bsky.social

Interesting parallels between today and the early struggle against free trade.

Carney & Poilievre supporters ignore the fact that Carney was appointed to head the Bank of Canada under Harper. And they downplay the fact that his rate cuts, which were framed as a solution to the 2008 crisis and he pursued more aggressively than the USA, contributed to rapid asset inflation. /1

Tony Clarke, a key activist in the movement for global justice, passed away last month. It is worth reading his 1991 speech to the Action Canada Network, which -- as we move to another round of free trade, and Trump considers annexing Canada as the 51st state -- remains quite prescient.