Canadian banks feeling great about attempted US overthrow of Venezuelan govt. This gets reported as news, because apparently we should all share in whatever joys Scotiabank is feeling. Elbows fly wherever and whenever the Canadian elite want to make money, an evergreen lesson.

Paul Singer dropped $5.9 B on Citgo right before Trump’s coup in Venezuela, after bankrolling his campaign with millions. Now he’s set to rake in billions as U.S. forces seize control of Venezuelan oil and industry for U.S. interests. buff.ly/k1tPzgY #HandsOffVenezuela

What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids? Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.

empire wants a war, drop those elbows to the floor

Hundreds of my colleagues at Conestoga just got fired after submitting their grades for the holidays. Meanwhile, the President is enjoying his raise to over $630k. opseu.org/news/hundred...

Mark “Elbows up” Carney’s $83 billion military spending spree has to get funds from somewhere: today it’s stripping libraries of mission-sustaining cost controls. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Least bewildering development

'Watchlists' are used to harass and target marginalized people and community organizers. On the 'bright' side, AI is such garbage tech that it will inevitably make false identifications and lead to more arrests of random people who look a little bit like the targets (a bit of eugenics for a treat).

Will soon be digging back into offering non-credit courses without assignments or assessments, as a spiritual antidote to all of this

One of the worst things about do-called AI is that it pits my students against me. Over decades of teaching, I have built relationships of trust with my students, where I don't bs them about the world they live in, and they don't bs me about the work they do for me about it. "AI" interrupts this.

Anyone who trusts AI is a mark. It's no different from crypto in the sense that it is both idiotic and dangerous, a technology that exists to help people be more wrong more quickly

One of the hardest periods in history to teach properly is WWII, because - for one strange but significant moment - the Anglo-American powers turned against fascism. The war subsequently became a pillar of the self-image of those powers despite it being a complete anomaly that they opposed fascism.

The NDP just propped up the most right-wing budget Canada has seen in, arguably, decades. Ask yourself why the NDP exists at all if it's going to do that. Just join the Liberal Party and stop wasting the energy of activists who want desperately to believe it is something better.

Canada actively supported the British war against the people of Kenya, supplying F-48 Sabre fighter jets and a host of military and police supports. A Winnipeg cop named John Timmerman tortured Kenyan prisoners in Nairobi earning the nickname "the Himmler of Kenya."

Stumbled upon this very fair and kind review of Canada in the World today. I don't know the reviewer or the publication but I'm glad people are still finding the book and getting something from it. www.itsallgeekto.me/2025/09/revi...

Love to see this!

Always love to hear this!

You're allowed to just say nothing, Wab

Carney & Canada's statements on Gaza are completely vacuous & shameless Gaza doesnt need Canada's pity. Canada is still arming Israel. Canada must implement full and immediate arms embargo. And sanction Israel. And suspend all military and trade agreements. Escalate to break imperialist consensus

Liberal PM Pierre Trudeau put the head of CUPW in jail for defying his strikebreaking legislation. But the postal workers arguably won that strike by holding the line. Carney may do the same, and I hope for all our sakes that these workers stand their ground. We owe them our support and our thanks.

“Given the ongoing genocide in Gaza…we call on Sport Canada and Tennis Canada to forbid Canadian athletes to compete against Israeli athletes at the Davis Cup and all other international events.” - 413 🇨🇦 academics, athletes + sports journalists, inc 3 former UN special rapporteurs + an Olympic 🥈ist

“No one should accept being forced to work for free, for hours and hours, every day. No one should accept being forced to work for poverty wages for years in a profession, just to earn a dignifying living. That’s what this is about,” said CUPE Air Canada Component president Wesley Lesosky.

Delete your fuckin bitcoins

After months of juiced-up Canadian nationalism, it's worth reflecting on what people think it is that makes Canada 'better.' Cdn liberals emphasize things like a free and independent media, and yet, here is the Canadian media repeating an absurd lie that runs cover for a state committing genocide.

Recent announcements by France, EU, Arab League, Canada is not them 'changing' - it is another two-state attempt at Oslo pacification and normalization. There can be NO "solution" that demands disarmament of the resistance, maintains apartheid & occupation, denies the right of return for refugees.

Nationalism is a fraud ideology. It sells out the working classes on behalf of the rich and powerful in the name of 'the nation' and empowers those who most embody 'the nation.' Every rube who fell for "elbows up" is being punished by their champion, and helped fertilize its growing racist reaction.

Poilievre worried there won’t be enough government left for him to cut (Podcast)

as far as i can tell there's only two ways Grok can go now, either flee to Argentina or be put in charge of the American rocket program...oh wait

My head is going to explode. ICE is recruiting by pitching travel as one of the key perks of the job. Like, travel *accompanying deportation flights.* Literally. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

Canada has only ever had one principle: what is best for canadian profits. To that end it has partnered with some of the most horrific govts in the world, from the British and French Empires to Pinochet, from Apartheid South Africa to Saudi Arabia to Israel to the United States. Nothing has changed.

"Elbows up, rubes"

Wracked with guilt because I accidentally tossed a plastic jar in the trash and not the recycling bin 🫤

We all watched Israel launch an unprovoked assault, it is already on Wikipedia, which prompted Iran to fire missiles in retaliation. There is no ambiguity about who shot first, it was Israel. Canadian PM issues a statement about Israel's right to defend itself.

So… does Iran have a right to defend itself?

When your province is currently on fire due to climate change and thousands of Indigenous people are displaced because of it, it only makes sense to propose building an oil pipeline through the very same land, a pipeline even the oil industry doesn't want 🙃

all of this, on the holiest of days no less.

This is the logical conclusion of all of the "elbows up" Canadian nationalism, it was always going to mean greater exploitation of the land and of people, especially Indigenous land and Indigenous people.

Hey BlueSky! I’m writing a book on social movements and protest in Canada. If you participated in Fairy Creek, Shut down Canada, Burnaby Mountain, Grassy Narrows, Idle No More or Black Lives Matter marches, rallies, round dances or sit in’s or others, please DM Please share widely. Thank you! 🙏🏻

Respectfully, 'appeasement' is the wrong framework here, because it suggests that Canada is motivated by fear, when in fact Canada is perfectly happy to have an excuse to ramp up border controls. ('Appeasement' is also incorrect when applied to the 1930s, by the way, it's a Churchill-authored myth.)

For weeks now, Indigenous land defenders across so-called Quebec have been rising up to protect Nitaskinan — their ancestral territory — from industrial logging and the Legault government’s proposed Bill 97

The widespread use of so-called "AI" is accelerating climate decline and turning online research into tarot readings without the nostalgia and pretty pictures.

I'm going to spend two hours tomorrow morning feasting on the jokes, it's my christmas

Where would they get such a horrific idea?

The ouroborous of so-called "AI" eating its own tail

Today is Red Dress Day, National Day of Awareness & Remembrance for MMIWG2S. Coined by Métis artist Jaime Black and marked by installations & visual reminders of hanging red dresses, this is 15th annual Red Dress Day Only 2 of 231 Calls for Justice from MMIWG2S National Inquiry have been completed.

Parsing causes and effects is hard, when you're a meatball

Proud moment for Winnipeg as Mach 10 get some airtime on the national stage lol

The wellness industry is killing animals, spreading disease, and fueling the next pandemic

Canadian militarism and imperialism is never the answer and I'm really looking forward to this discussion with two people I respect immensely, hosted by organizations that are doing really important work.