"Nine times in 15 years: That’s how often the federal government has imposed either back-to-work legislation or binding arbitration." www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Air Canada has been “encouraged by the federal government’s pattern of intervention in labour disputes…there’s a ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ card now, with the use of section 107.”— @stephross.bsky.social #canlab

Defying an order to end the strike, the union's president proclaimed: "If we stick together, they can’t fire us all." Here's what Air Canada flight attendants are fighting for: pressprogress.ca/air-canada-f...

I'm at Vancouver Airport where CUPE's Air Canada Component is picketing. Air Canada flight attendants are still on strike, defying a back-to-work order from the federal government.

“Their small bodies are shutting down - they can’t breathe, their immune systems are collapsing.” - Scott Lea, International Rescue Committee. “A worst-case scenario is finally unfolding” Full Washington Post story below 👇

New, from me: a reflection on being a new mom: www.rumneekjohal.ca/post/trying-...

Some rando on Twitter tagged me in this today which is hilarious because they follow me and also think they owned me by... posting great pics of me? Sorry I'm a baddie and good at my job, go cry about it!

At least Poilievre won't have to worry about getting that security clearance he had been avoiding.

Me to @brucefanjoy.bsky.social right now:

Once again begging Canada to bring back "I voted" stickers as a reward for surviving politics.

What happened yesterday in Vancouver is absolutely gut wrenching. My thoughts and prayers are with the Filipino community and all those impacted by the senseless violence. 🙏🏽❤️

I've been very missing in action, especially during election szn, because I've been soaking in all the newborn cuddles. First ever time in life I'm oblivious to the news cycle and I'm glad it's for good reason. Don't forget to vote though yall having a baby isn't an excuse 😂💕

Journalists right now

Really incredible to have CTV, an entire broadcast news outlet, say they 'don't have the bandwidth' to deal with the type of harassment that Rachel Gilmore deals with as an individual journalist all the time.

NEW: CTV cancelled a fact-checking segment in response to political pressure from Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives An audio recording obtained by PressProgress shows CTV cancelled an ‘election misinformation’ segment with journalist Rachel Gilmore after online backlash from conservatives

tfw your maternity leave coincides with a federal election 🫠 Today marks my last day before my leave, I'll see yall in a bit, don't miss me too much 🤰🏽👋

“According to a source with top-secret clearance … the Canadian Security Intelligence Service learned that Indian agents were involved in raising money and organizing within the South Asian community for Mr. Poilievre during the leadership race, which he won handily”

I talked to an investigator who helped compile the UN's recent report on gender-based violence, including reproductive violence & other genocidal acts, committed by Israel across Palestine: “It can only be described as systematic, at this point."

Apropos of absolutely nothing, here is @rumneeek.bsky.social's story from last year about CSIS agents knocking on doors and asking questions about the Government of India and a Conservative Party nomination battle in Oxford County, Ontario:

“…the other candidate running for TEAM during the upcoming by-election attended a separate event two years later in 2024 organized by a far-right group called BC Rising, though Abbott claims this too was an accident. ‘I went to the town hall to support my grandma who was speaking at the event’”

“We don’t know where Hamdan [Ballal] is because he was taken away in a blindfold,” said 28-year-old Josh Kimelman, who was at the scene. apnews.com/article/no-o...

‘No Way to Please Everyone’ Says Only University Where Students Are Regularly Kidnapped

Canada Proud’s Jeff Ballingall worked for Pierre Poilievre’s leadership campaign I asked Poilievre's office multiple times if he condones these ads, which are inciting baseless comments calling the prime minister a pedophile or demanding he be jailed / executed – Poilievre's office gave no response

NEW: Canada Proud has launched attack ads linking Mark Carney to the ‘notorious pedophile’ Jeffrey Epstein Pierre Poilievre’s office won’t say if it condones the conservative group’s ads juxtaposing Canada’s prime minister with a “global child sex trafficking ring”

Canada’s Longest Strike Ends With Victory for Vancouver Hotel Workers “The message this sends is that workers who stick together, and are willing to fight side by side and for as long as it takes, can win.” pressprogress.ca/canadas-long...

Columbia Journalism Review tested eight generative AI search tools and found their answers were wrong 60% of the time, and the paid ones actually fared worse than the free ones. Meanwhile, millions of people trust the way they present total bullshit with confident language.

New, from me: People’s Party of Canada Leader goes on Christian Nationalist web show, echoes Trump policies pressprogress.ca/peoples-part... Action4Canada is a BC-based Christian Nationalist organization with chapters across the country. They often peddle anti-immigrant and anti-2SLGBTQ+ rhetoric.

People’s Party of Canada Leader goes on Christian Nationalist web show, echoes Trump policies Maxime Bernier doubles down on anti-immigrant and anti-DEI rhetoric ahead of upcoming federal election pressprogress.ca/peoples-part...

how did ICE know where to find Mahmoud Khalil, and who will they go after next? I wrote about the vast surveillance network that powers ICE arrests, and the Zionist groups making deportation wishlists for the agency: www.theverge.com/policy/62718...

A leaked report shows that Vancouver's mayor wants to make Vancouver a 'sunset community' where Native people aren't welcome. He has a plan to deport Indigenous residents of the city to their "home communities". www.bcafn.ca/news/regiona...

we are really living in the stupidest fucking timeline

HE'S LITERALLY READING A SALES PITCH

The pro-Palestine student was arrested without due process for exercising his right to free speech. He will not be the last. By Adam Serwer www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

REPORTER: Does this administration still consider Canada to be a close ally? LEAVITT: He believes that Canadians would benefit greatly from becoming the 51st state

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no this man is literally so happy to be done

"There’s a relative invisibility of this issue. There continues to be an enduring belief and stereotype that these are one-off instances that are between two people and that those people are then disconnected from the broader community.”

BC is removing all US alcohol products from government liquor store shelves, following the fate of red state liquor Premier Eby mentions Trump's continuing threats against Canada, including comments about water, says BC is happy to help the US president out and let him keep his watery beer #bcpoli

Trinity Western, a Christian university in B.C., is responding to allegations that the son of its president runs an influential white supremacist X account. "Regardless of its source, I have always and will continue to stand against racism in every form." thetyee.ca/News/2025/03...

anyway @emilylip.bsky.social (american) sent this to me yesterday

Despite Trade War Talk, A Canadian TV Network is Broadcasting Ads for American Apples Bell Media defends advertisements from American company amid ongoing trade war with the US pressprogress.ca/despite-trad...

At this point I think I need to block the SPCA from their emails because I want to adopt ALL of the dogs and I simply cannot given I have my hands full with the one rescue I do have but they are all SO DAMN CUTE

Maybe we could slow down on the stupid and bad things for five mins? I'm so sleepy

Fuck off with this headline, CNN. We didn't "escalate" anything by defending ourselves.

Tariffs this, 51st state that, can we go back to when our biggest national concern was winning the four nations tournament?

Soon: Trump announced policy of “infinity plus one” percent tariffs

Trudeau: "I want to speak first directly to the American people. We don't want this. We want to work with you as a friend and ally. We don't want to see you hurt either. But your government has chosen to do this to you. As of this morning, markets are down and inflation is set to rise dramatically."

new excerpt from SUCKER PUNCH 🍏🍏🍏

Got woken up out of my sleep with this last BC earthquake. Went to go check on my dog and he was more annoyed I walked into the room, sighing before putting his head back down in his bed 😂🤦🏽‍♀️ at least one of us noticed

No Other Land Co-Director Yuval Abraham: "The foreign policy in this country is helping to block this path. Why? Can't you see that we are intertwined? There is another way. It's not too late for life, for the living. There is no other way."