The instinct for uniforms, for coded military dress is hard to kill. We’ve all seen it happen. Give someone a uniform, and they become another person.

With anti-immigrant sentiments ramping up more than usual in Alberta, thanks to the Alberta Premier herself, I’ve noticed a couple posts on my socials reiterating this crap. Instant block. Never surprising when from Maple MAGAs but always surprising when it’s from Indigenous people.

Funeral of Tumbler Ridge shooting victim cancelled as RCMP investigate threats against victims’ families

I love Canadian Tire & I don’t care who knows it. FRANK snacks are great & they make the only BBQ chips I can eat. My decor is mostly from their bargain bin at end of season. I am a small town Ontario girl when I am in a Canadian Tire. Also it smells like plastic shovels. Always.

anti-data center groups pivoting to anti-ICE concentration camp groups. we love to see it.

While resisting Trump, Carney is giving corporations a free-hand - rabble.ca rabble.ca/columnists/w...

Take your used and broken crayons to the Farmer's Market office. #hamont

Join us FEBRUARY 27 at 7:00 PM at the charming and historic Royal Coachman. Enjoy traditional fare and relax with friends in this cozy and beloved pub. RSVP by February 27 at 5:00 pm to: [email protected] The pub is at 1 Main St N in Waterdown. Details at: sofree.ca/events/pubni...

One of the best things ever: Summit Station's coffee milk. You can it up at a few locations in #HamOnt including their store in Copetwown and the Farmer's Market. It comes in several sizes and the bottles are returnable.

I'm 'breaking open the Word' at @newvisionunited.bsky.social, 1030 tomorrow.

Black communities are leading the resistance against AI data centers. pls go check out all the slides on Intersectional Environmentalist's instagram account. www.instagram.com/p/DU9Fgd0jWf4/

I think Ruth Wilson Gilmore acutely understood what Vine Deloria, Jr, was talking about in 'God is Red'.

An article about June Jordan’s critique of privacy and how the desire for privacy can work towards policing and maintaining the racial order, and against neighborliness. “June Jordan’s Political Theory of Redesign.” www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Anywhere social media intrudes and presses against meeting people in real life, it should be resisted. Anywhere it helps people meet face to face, it should be cautiously embraced simply as a tool toward a good, humane end.

a beautifully written thread for black history month.

Seems like time to re-up: There's a reason why sports teams don't chant "I believe that we will lose" before a game, a reason so obvious that I'm pretty sure it needs no explanation in that context. Words have power. They not only describe but shape reality....

I feel a type of erasure happening in the quoted thread that ignores Black radicals, going back to Frederic Douglass and W.E.B. Dubois traveling abroad and linking oppression in different geographies..

It may be worth considering the idea to spread the SAGE program at Strathcona and at Kanetskare, and the self-directed learning program at Westmount Sec., to every school in the Board. I can understand closing Fr. Immersion, though, due to lack of staffing, and then enriching core Fr. in schools.

#HamOnt Language is a bridge to culture & identity.🌏   Today, we celebrate Hamilton’s linguistic diversity & the power of communication to bring people together, share stories, & strengthen our community.   Let’s honour every language and the voices that make Hamilton vibrant, connected & alive.

Join visiting artist Syrus Marcus Ware as he shares his artistic and community practice, and explores how creative work can imagine and build more just, inclusive futures. 📆 February 26, 2026 ⏰from 7 - 10 PM 📍 Mackenzie Art Gallery.

The only library in Six Nations of the Grand River should be re-opened, after its repairs. It is also worth asking what happened to plans made in 2009 to build a new one. This place refuses to honour its treaty obligations.

For a place that prides itself on great health-care, we sure don't have it, though, of course, it could be a whole lot worse. The province intentionally under-funding hospitals isn't awesome.

the BCCDC estimates that 225,000 people in British Columbia use unregulated drugs, as occasionally as once a year to daily the majority of people who die from unregulated drugs do not use daily there's no finite number of people who use drugs, because everyone uses drugs only some are regulated.

When you’re no longer willing to pander.

Court clears way for Louisiana law requiring Ten Commandments in classrooms to take effect

North American Christians interested in Indigenous relationship to land might appreciate “Reflection and Revelation: Knowing Land, Places and Ourselves” by Vine Deloria Jr in the book below. Written in 1991, it’s short but gives lots to think about. (Non-Christians might find it interesting too)

— with deep knowledge of agriculture, engineering, astronomy, and governance. 1491 is rooted in research, science, & Native oral histories. It dismantles the tired myths & gives a fuller, richer view of our shared past. Read it with an open heart. #IndigenousHistory #DecolonizeYourBookshelf

Reading Vin Deloria Jr’s God is Red. A timeless statement.

Listen to God Is Red by Vine Deloria Jr. on Audible. www.audible.ca/pd/B0BQPPCT6...

if you're into american history or catholic theology, whether you find it insightful or hateful, you can actually read god is red for free, no donation required, and i recommend you do. (tw: genocide) ratical.org/many_worlds/...

(a) where a municipality or a local board thereof, other than an elected school board, expropriates lands for municipal purposes, the approving authority shall be the council of the municipality R.S.O. 1990, c. E.26, s. 5 (1): #hamont Council can expropriate land.

It actually is very important that you do things that you take pleasure in, regularly. That is part of how you survive the things that feel like they are going to destroy you.

youtube.com/watch?v=Vcjo... Muddy Waters You can't lose what you ain't never had

Not enough liberals understand that anti-leftism helped get us in this political mess.

Some shows posted in the Steel city music facebook group. #hamont #hamontevents #supportlivemusic #supportlivemusicvenues #hamontmusic @GoGunnersmith @gunner101 @933CFMU @INDI1015fm www.facebook.com/groups/steel...

Y’all this weeks edition of @thecontinent.org is so good! Yes I already skimmed most of it even though it *just* came out. A truly Pan African paper. And it’s free!

why musicians are...

SIU clears Toronto cop who punched man in face during arrest — but criticizes lack of body cam footage

I'm very interested in hearing the potential solution Tyler Dhaliwal has to homelessness, mental health concerns, and the opioid crisis, during his delegation to the #hamont GIC this coming Wednesday.

It'd be good if we could send mail postage-free to any elected official, not just MPs.

Allow me to translate: So basically, Trump is going to ignore the Supreme Court ruling on tariffs. You’re welcome.

Hamilton's paratransit system is knocked out by yet another IT failure. As the City continues to struggle to recover from the Feb 2024 cybersecurity failure, there are no backup systems, no internet backups. No other major municipality struggles like this. #HamOnt #yhmcc

I think that if all the money currently going to the CBC went to independent radio stations (and said CBC workers didn't lose a single job), I'd be perfectly alright with that. What's happening right now on ciut.fm is ineffable.

A house without books, plants, and (some) music is a house I do not wanna be in.

There's money and room for this, but not for the impoverished and unhoused?!

Dr. Joss Reimer is now the new Chief Public Health Officer of Canada.

Broken blender? Need your favourite jeans hemmed? Spots are still open for next Saturday's Repair Cafe taking place at Concession Branch (February 28, 1-4pm). Register at events.hpl.ca/event/15157688 to save your household items from the landfill and extend their use. #HamOnt #Libraries

"Democrats pushed forth training and oversight alongside short-lived lip service to Black Lives Matter as the pragmatic answer to stopping police-perpetrated killings." "We cannot let that happen again." "'Abolish ICE' is the floor, not the ceiling." #USA #Policing #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

Now they can turn them around and fly them right back, bearing fuel and humanitarian aid for people in need.