November is Woman Abuse Prevention Month in Canada! Did you know that 8 out of 10 victims/survivors of stalking in Canada are women? Additionally, 9 out of 10 stalkers are men. Stalking is a gendered crime!

We've been calling on all jurisdictions in Canada to declare intimate partner violence an epidemic. Yesterday, the Ontario government accepted that it is "endemic". *I* feel like yes, this is a victory but also, quite telling that they chose endemic vs. epidemic.

We are not powerless in the face of rising hate and harassment. The last few years have shown us that only *we* can keep each other safe. Do you know how to intervene safely and effectively? If you give me 1 hour of your team, I can teach you. En français or in English! Weekday OR on a weekend!

We’ve received more than 5000 signatures on our open letter to stop MPs from accessing private data about scientists, researchers and students in the university sector! This story is still developing- www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/national/ove...

I love sex workers and I'm uncomfortable with a lot of the commentary I'm seeing on this that's so shitty to strippers. NONETHELESS, when for-profit businesses get tax dollars in *any way*, it should be scrutinized. But in this case, $10 million is wiiiiiiild and reeks of cronyism in the worst way.

"They want you to feel powerless and surrender and let them trample everything and you are not going to let them. You are not giving up and neither am I. The fact that we cannot save everything does not mean we cannot save anything and everything we can save is worth saving." 🔥

I'm no fan of Canada's Liberal government, but I'll laugh if the Liberals continue to draw MPs away from Poilievre because they're more like old-school, pre-teaming up-with-Reform Progressive Conservatives. I'd love it even more if some lefty Liberals went to the NDP. Make it spicy in the House.

this looks like where get my labia waxed very very nice

To think we might lose our PWHL team over this shit. Unbelievable.

"Why don't women report?" There's 8 million reasons but one is that it's highly likely the cop you're reporting to is himself an abuser.

Missing the brilliance of Anne Kingston and Kate McInturff today. Two wicked smart women who always had such brilliant feminist analysis of budgets. Cancer took both of them away from us way too young. Their sharp minds are so desperately needed in this current political hellscape.

Wow. This place is run by losers.

A reminder that quite literally no woman is safe from sexual violence and male entitlement to her body.

Can’t stop thinking about all the robber baron fucks that held secret meetings and spent MILLIONS AND MILLIONS in bribes and campaign investments and attack ads and media manipulation trying to tank Mamdani currently having the dawning realization that their money is completely and utterly useless.

For once, US politics are my day's positives (Cheney dead! Mamdani won!) and Canadian politics are my day's negative (Budget sucks so bad!)

Staring at Canada's own gender-based analysis of its budget. Give you one guess at the main beneficiary of all the major spending investments....

In many respects, this is the most harmful budget from a climate perspective since the Harper era, writes Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood

I've long maintained that Jennifer Lawrence is a perfect case study for sexism. Criticism of her basically came down to "She's everywhere & she's too charming in media, so she must be fake." Meanwhile, Gosling was everywhere & said so himself but people screamed "Don't take a break! Give us MORE!"

A reminder the wealthy love to threaten to leave if left-wing politicians are elected. 10,000 media pieces alone before Labour were elected for example Evidence shows almost 0% of them actually move. They have families, communities and home links. They just don’t move taxjustice.net/press/millio...

As we await the federal budget, a reminder that social programs, access to basic needs like housing, food, etc. are not "Good to have" - they are essential. "We'll get to addressing violence, poverty, homophobia, racism, etc. once we deal with the tariffs" is bad economic policy AND absolute BS.

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On Oct 9, Men's Rights Activists, via Senator Patrick Brazeau, launched a Men and Boys Caucus. Not to address the epidemic of men's violence or the radicalization of young men, but to uplift lies about false allegations of sexual assault and lies re: fathers being denied parental rights.

We are not powerless in the face of rising hate and harassment. The last few years have shown us that only *we* can keep each other safe. Do you know how to intervene safely and effectively? If you give me 1 hour of your team, I can teach you. En français or in English! Weekday OR on a weekend!

Teen Vogue's political work was invaluable. They really put themselves on the map with the mess of 2016 and continued to crank out brilliant stuff. I only found out a couple weeks ago that it was a team of 1 and now there's no team at all. Jesus Christ, what a bad sign.

I infamously had a very public beef with Margaret Atwood years ago because I called her out for being a terrible ally to survivors, so this headline gave me a chuckle.

I don’t think I like sports anymore, does anyone have idea for new interests

I am starting a class action lawsuit against whoever invented baseball.

extreme heart attack risk all across canada right now

The Drag Race - World Series mashup we didn't know we needed.

Also, it's so much cheaper to get a phone or a laptop (and TV!) now than ever. You can get refurbished phones for cheaper than a fridge of groceries, ffs.

The blatant way in which the umps are favouring Ohtani is bananas. (Ohtani is the 🐐 and it's no shade to him but my God.)

I think a lot about that quote where people act like art is just frivolity that doesn't actually matter but then read poems at funerals and weddings.

This is exactly it! When I've said this in trainings with media leaders, they try and pull this line. "It's the new letter to the editor! It's the way we create dialogue!" when they damn well know that letters to the editor are curated and social media exists for exactly that "dialogue".

My longstanding unpopular stance is that the beginning of the end was comment sections on news stories. The day we created this false narrative that everyone is entitled to "weigh in" on literal facts, we created the conditions for this BS where you have to "hear people out" or you're censoring.

“The unvarnished truth is that the real and greatest threat to our kids on Halloween is the automobile. Kids are 3X more likely to be hit by a car on #Halloween than on any other night of the year. By focusing on imagined dangers, communities are failing to take action to actually protect children.”

Wonderful, rainy evening last night spent listening to @milleridriss.bsky.social discuss her new book on misogyny and radicalization. Get a copy! It's such important work.

"Tens of thousands of people were killed in the Sudanese city of Al Fashir in the days after it was captured by a paramilitary group, analysts believe. [...] new satellite images appear to show ground stained with blood and scattered corpses around Al Fashir." My God.

"Circumventing the rights of photographers makes it impossible for us to continue making a living, and demonstrates a devaluing of the crucial contribution photojournalists make to your publications." I hope everyone in Canadian media takes the time to read this.

I mean, we already *knew* that hating Bad Bunny as Superbowl half time show was strictly racist. But losers argued that "It's not racism. We just want it to be an American citizen", when Puerto Rico *is part of the United States* and now they have a UK citizen. We live in the stupidest timeline.

💯Every version of my book has been stolen by AI: English paperback, audiobook, e-book AND the French translation. And as a consent educator, I see that kind of theft for what it is : A violation of consent. I did not consent to my memoir of the worst moments of my life, being used to train robots.

It's becoming increasingly clear that the only people horny for AI are billionaires and governments.

I have not followed baseball since the early 90s but I want you all to know that your utter joy, enthusiasm and sense of community is downright beautiful to watch. Seeing an entire timeline covered in World Series posts rather than cynicism and doomerism takes? *chef's kiss*

Here's the speech! www.cpac.ca/headline-pol...

The federal government is currently making an announcement about new funding for women and 2SLGBTQIA+ organizations. This pre-budget announcement (and the new funding) is happening *entirely* because of all the public outcry and pressure we've mounted over the last few months re: cutting WAGE by 81%

Looking forward to this lecture tomorrow night! Tickets are still available.

Now THAT is how you do a season finale.

Yet again i want to remind everyone that Bill Gates and several other billionaires have invested in mining projects in Greenland that are only accessible because of melted land and sea ice, he and other billionaires are essentially shorting the planet

Immigrant women are overrepresented in jobs that have a higher exposure to chemicals that cause breast cancer, according to a new study by the Silent Spring Institute, a research organization focused on uncovering the environmental causes of breast cancer. https://bit.ly/4huUeTj