The Longueuil police killed an unarmed 15 year-old on Sunday, Nooram Rezayi. The police were reportedly responding to a call about a group of racialized youth in the suburban neighbourhood, all of whom dispersed when the police arrived - except for Nooram. 1/

One of the key ways you refuse to comply with fascism is by becoming even louder and more fearless in supporting vulnerable people. You SHOW that you are unwilling to throw the "undesirables" under the bus if only for self-preservation because under fascism you will also become undesirable one day.

Our response to this copaganda should always be the same: how will locking someone in a cell, subjecting them to increased violence and isolation, and further undermining their access to employment and housing when they're released help to prevent harm from reoccurring?

How do you “come to the table” with the colonial regime that did this to you?

Ensemble Montréal's star candidate, Claude Pinard, gave a long interview in today's Gazette. It's a blast from the past. “We want to bring back an agility, a performance mindset, innovation. That’s very important to me.” It's like a young Republican running for student council in the 1980s.

Transition Montréal is the first party to take a position on Israel's genocide that reflects the feelings of most Montrealers. With a nod to Jean Doré's position on South African Apartheid in the 80s, Transition will implement a divestment plan targeting Israel and Russia. Bravo.

Ensemble Montréal's decision to bring Leslie Roberts into the party should be seen for what it is: an attempt to establish itself as the most anti-Palestinian party in the campaign. Roberts hasn't distinguished himself in any other way but his attacks on Palestine solidarity.

Festival Defund la Police Discussion avec l’auteur à l’occasion de la parution de La caméra d’intervention d’Alec Karakatsanis avec Ricardo Lamour ; animation Ted Rutland Dim. 21 sept. 15h 曲意中心跳舞学校 École de danse et culture chinoise 1012 Clark / Chinatown de Tiohtià:ke ruedorion.ca/la-camera-di...

The banal violence of community policing. An SPVM program introduced in the spring "adopts" racialized youth in order to "dispel their prejudices against the police, which are often transmitted by their families."

While PAJU (Palestinians and Jews United) is calling on Valérie Plante to exclude the Israeli team from this week's Grand Prix Cycliste, Plante announces she's renaming the St-Denis bike path after the late Robert Silverman ... a longtime member of PAJU.

«Voilà le portrait d’une administration qui se disait progressiste, mais dont l’héritage se résume à trois mots : opportunisme, imposture, lâcheté.» @emrical nous montre le bilan de l'admin Plante sur le racisme, le logement, l’itinérance et Gaza. pivot.quebec/2025/09/08/m...

«Nous condamnons inconditionnellement l'invitation et la participation de l'équipe Israel Premier Tech aux Grands Prix Cyclistes de Québec et Montréal». Signez la pétition !! Honte à @valplante.bsky.social - comme toujours !

You know the war on unhoused people is fully normalized when Ensemble Montréal promises a new anti-homeless program and calls it a "Groupe d'intervention tactique en matière d'itinérance." For anglos, "Groupe d'intervention tactique" is the French term for a SWAT team.

Essential investigation from Shiri Pasternak and Tia Dafnos. A widely-criticized RCMP unit is participating in provincial committees coordinating surveillance and policing of protest against resource projects the Carney gov't is shoving down our throats. breachmedia.ca/rcmp-unit-co...

One of the effects of Israel's starvation campaign has been to give Western leaders a way of gently criticizing Israel, while allowing the bloodshed to continue. Israel has begun an operation to wipe Gaza City off the map, and you won't hear a word from Carney, Anand, and co.

Valérie Plante's statement on homeless encampments yesterday: “I will always say the same thing. For us, dismantling encampments is part of our commitment to respecting human dignity and people’s safety.”

La violence du « nous » chez La Presse.

Abdaljawad Omar's latest piece excavates the psychic logic of humiliation that fuels and structures settler colonialism - in Palestine and around the world. It's about power, prisons, and the most pathetic political leaders (Ben-Gvir, Trump ...). mondoweiss.net/2025/08/marw...

I wrote a piece about PQ leader Paul St-Paul Plamondon’s recent comments on so-called ethnic criminality. His view has a long history in Quebec, which began with the fascist movements of the 1980s. Read at The Rover.

J’ai écrit un truc sur les propos de PSPP concernant la soi-disant criminalité ethnique. Ces propos s’inscrivent dans une longue histoire au Québec, qui débute avec les mouvements fascistes des années 80. À lire dans Le Rover (therover.ca).

The subject of youth violence is back in the news and Parti Québécois leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon seized the moment to offer his own analysis: "It’s linked to demographic changes, we can’t deny it." The latest at The Rover: @tedrutland.bsky.social on PSPP's comments and what the research shows

Et en français: @tedrutland.bsky.social trace les origines des propos du chef du Parti Québécois Paul St-Pierre Plamondon quant à l'immigration et la criminalité chez les jeunes.

"In the two days following Israel’s announcement of the tactical pause, Israeli forces killed over 160 Palestinians ... It was a lie crafted by Israel, amplified by Western media, declared without our knowledge, and never enforced." mondoweiss.net/2025/07/dont...

Columbia University has handed over its undergraduate admissions process to Donald Trump and his MAGA allies, who will now decide at their sole discretion whether the university has admitted enough white people. It's no longer an independent institution.

It's wild how different crime reporting looks when the police and their allies aren't trying to discredit BLM and the "union" isn't in contract negotiation. There have been more murders in Montreal so far this year than any Jan-July since 2007, but the copagandists are chill.

It's wild how different crime reporting looks when the police and their allies aren't trying to discredit BLM and the "union" isn't in contract negotiation. There have been more murders in Montreal so far this year than any Jan-July since 2007, but the copagandists are chill.

I can't stop thinking about how Canada issued its first big warning to Israel in May 2024, when it said invading Rafah would cross a red line. And then Israel destroyed Rafah, made it the hub of its "murder through aid" operation, and is now planning a concentration camp there.

« Détenu illégalement, voyant ses droits bafoués, il a vu chacune de ses tentatives de dénoncer l’injustice qu’il subissait accueillie par toujours plus de violence. » Mon texte avec @emrical sur le mort de Nicous Spring et le système carcéral anti-Noir.

«[E]n choisissant comme chef Craig Sauvé ... Transition Montréal signale un positionnement gauchiste assumé.» Oui, finalement, une option à gauche. www.ledevoir.com/opinion/libr...

This recording of the Toronto launch of the book, When Genocide Wasn't News, is so powerful and full of details about how the corporate Canadian media (including CBC) has whitewashed Israel's genocide. Thanks to the contributors and @TheBreachMedia. breachmedia.ca/why-we-publi...

This is the best local news in a long time. Craig Sauvé is running for mayor and leading a new progressive party, Transition Montréal. Sauvé, first elected in 2013, is the best city councillor we've got.

Very happy to see the prison supervisor who ordered the escalating and ultimately fatal violence against Nicous Spring in December 2022 charged with manslaughter and removed from the prison for the length of the trial. www.lapresse.ca/actualites/j...

Qassam Muaddi identifies what's at stake and what's so soul crushing about Israel's new war: it was meant to re-establish unquestioning Western support for Israel's genocide ... and it's working.

C'était une triste journée hier pour le maire anti-itinérant d'Hochelaga, Pierre Lessard-Blais. La cour a statué que l'envoi du bras armé de l’état pour détruire le campement de Notre-Dame constituerait une violation des droits des résidents et les mettrait en danger.

New data shows the populations of BC, Ontario, and Quebec declined by 9,000 people in the first quarter of 2025 due to anti-immigrant policies. I'm assuming that means the homeless population has declined by 9,000 as well since housing is about "supply and demand" - right? Right?

"Running roughshod over the environment. Spawning the next Idle No More movement. Picking economic winners and losers." This is how the Canadian Press begins its article on Carney's anti-Indigenous and anti-ecological Bill C-5. It's that bad.

"What drove the attack [on Iran]? It is a desperate attempt to rally the world behind Israel, just as preparations are made to deny it the absolute impunity it has enjoyed since its creation." www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

For 20 months the Liberals have backed a genocidal Israeli government, providing flimsy liberal justifications for actions that Netanyahu and company justify to their citizens in plainly fascist terms. It seems like they're digging their own grave, and I really hope that's so.

Years of priming Americans and other dupes to hate Iran and demonize Lebanese and Palestinian resistance are paying dividends for a genocidal state’s fever dreams. Genocidal brain rot is at the core of the American system.

Sanctioning Ben-Gvir and Smotrich is textbook Liberal theatre. Yes, those two are particularly heinous, but they are influential members of a government whose collective action (genocide) is far worse than anything they do *individually* – and which Canada continues to support.

Carney claims his historic increase in military spending expresses the "Canadian values" of standing up for "territorial integrity, whether it's in Ukraine, the West Bank and Gaza ... or the Canadian arctic." Do Carney's speechwriters have any idea how ludicrous this sounds?

Carney fights off harsh U.S. authoritarianism with slightly gentler Canadian authoritarianism

Solidarity with every single person showing up to defend and protect their loved ones, their neighbors, and their community against state violence. All we have is each other. We’re staring down fascism and authoritarianism; the only side to be on and to support unequivocally, is that of protesters.

This will likely be the greatest transfer of wealth upwards in Canadian history. www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...

New data shows the SPVM's use of tear gas increased 137% from 2023 to 2024 (from 41 times to 97 times), while the number of protests increased minimally (from 554 to 610). This confirms what people attending protests have been saying: the SPVM is totally out of control.

Carney's references to "nation-building" development projects initially sounded odd to me. I associate the term with US wars in the 2000s. But now that Carney says he will use emergency powers to shove resource projects down our throats, it makes sense. Time to re-read Naomi Klein.

18 days after the UK/France/Canada joint statement on Israel's genocide, Anita Anand finally takes a question about the promised "further actions." Her answer (after a long mind-numbing preamble): "We are looking at a variety of options."