#Niagara police crackdown on public substance use is only to give perception of safety to wealthy and privileged but is more dangerous for everyone, and de-humanizes marginalized as not counting as part of the community. www.stcatharinesstandard.ca/news/will-ni... via @matthewpbarker.bsky.social

The only shots fired were by Manchester Police. Got it.

Are temporary foreign workers unionizing? How do migrant workers' rights alliances help in that regard? I know that @canadiananglican.bsky.social has its Migrant Farmworkers Project at the Rock on Locke (St in #hamont) but how are structural inequities being addressed?

It's nice to hear that major grocery store chains are doing so well.

@kojoeasydamptey.bsky.social's opinion article in today's paper on @mayorandreahorwath.bsky.social's abdication of responsibilities is necessary reading as we lurch into the next news-cycle.

I do not share Ralph D'Angelo's positive outlook in today's letter to the editor. "Canadians" aren't trying to deal with historical racial injustice and inequality. This place's gov'ts are doubling down on ignoring the Indigenous peoples with whom it disagrees. We aren't better than the U.S. at all.

Instead of moving 'over-housed' tenants, could empty, unsold condos be expropriated for the 6,000 households waiting for subsidized housing?

Pace @policyalternatives.ca's editorial in this morning's news, as far as Indigenous peoples' sovereignty is concerned, 'Canadians' should be neither raising their elbows, nor bending their knees to the U. S., but raising their fists in the air. Power to the people.

'...incurious banter': a lovely turn of phrase....

"In a first coordinated African-led effort at the United Nations, leaders have declared the Transatlantic Slave Trade as 'the greatest crime against humanity.'" "We demand reparations for the enslavement of our people and the colonization of our land." #Ghana #USA #UK #Incarceration

"Both Google and Apple recently removed Red Dot, an app people can use to report sightings of ICE officials." "Google told 404 Media it removed apps because they shared the location of what it describes as a vulnerable group." #USA #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

N.S. legislature wraps after 8 days; bill limiting protests on logging roads adopted

The university compact being offered to universities requires colleges to eliminate the recognition of trans people and ban them from bathrooms, locker rooms, and gender segregated dorms. www.pbs.org/newshour/amp...

How many of our dues were spent on this?

OSSTF members everywhere take note

Agents of ICE, which is overseen by the Dept. of Homeland Security, zip-tied children together.

Apple removes ICE tracking apps after pressure by Trump administration reut.rs/4mIfztt

Good to see. 'Keep it in the ground'. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

So much of this province's air pollution can be found at the unregulated stacks of Dofasco and Stelco in so-called #hamont. The driving of private transit doesn't help the airshed either. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

That the Toronto Star thought it meet to ask, idly, whether Israel had warrant to seize boats in INTERNATIONAL waters is rather telling.

I wonder which Indigenous communities the premier 'heavily consulted' before drawing up the draft criteria for Bill 5.

Instead of doing what the poorest members of teachers' bargaining units have asked for repeatedly over the years, whether representation or material gains, @osstf.bsky.social thinks it's just super awesome to blow our union dues on monogrammed journals and pens for each and every branch's member.

"[C]urrently no independent oversight body to deal with Indigenous people's issues." "[S]ix years since the idea arose among the Calls to Action in the 2019 Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls." "[W]e haven't heard much response." #Ontario #Saskatchewan #Canada #Genocide

Millions in Skills Development Fund grants went to Ontario PC donors, fueling claims it’s a ‘slush fund’

The ‘Nahanni Must Go’ protest rally outside the Manitoba legislature on Wednesday heated up when counter-protesters showed up. As APTN's Sav Jonsa reports, the rally comes on the heels of smashed windows and firebombing at the minister's office.

Unlike policing services, fire personnel truly are 'community helpers'. Glad to hear they're opening the stations to the public.

Solidarity with striking CUPW members! Visited the @cupwsttp.bsky.social local 548 picket line this evening to drop off food and snacks on behalf of PSAC Hamilton. Stop by and show your support for CUPW and OPSEU members on strike if you can! ✊🏻 #HamOnt #canlab

Good on 'em. Solidarity. Students and the public at large deserve robust, fully-funded, public education.

I hope they win this one. Because if Ford wins, then our public college system will be defunded, privitised, and sold off. You can say hello and show your support here. It means a lot. 😊 opseupicketfinder.org

Tired of councillors who spend so much of their time, with access to $2.7B annual budget, celebrating the importance of local charities, rather than doing something about the city’s $300 million parks & recreational shortfall! #HamOnt

Councillor Cooper’s silence during speed camera discussions the other day, was deafening.

If you're local to #HamOnt & want to buy an art thing from me- pick-ups get 15% off for works on paper, & 20% off canvases (given the whole mail strike, US tariffs and general bullshit at the moment.)

A friend of mine just shared this with me. This is my first time hearing of and seeing it: www.instagram.com/humanbeingso....

Once again, taxes are increasing due to the increase in the policing services' budget.

It'd be interesting to see how Ashton does against McPherson and Lewis for the fed. NDP race.

Is the fact that the prov. regulatory body is approving builders with bad credit scores and open complaints against them just more indication that publicly-built and -overseen housing is necessary?

"Follow me upstairs via the golden escalator. It’s just like the one Trump had, except five workers died making it. It’s haunted."

This could be work like agreeing to add an elected seat for Indigenous peoples at #hamont Council, perhaps. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

It's interesting how CBC waited until the day after Nat'l Truth and Reconciliation Day to drop the news story that First Nations U.'s president fired the key whistle-blower. This is the only song by the Arkells that I like, so far, anyway: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNRS....

Could those 2,500 unsold condos in Vancouver have their walls taken out to form 2-, 3-, and 4-bdrm units and those given freely for dignified, public housing to vulnerable peoples? It'd be better that than them sitting empty. Right? Right?!

It's also okay not to watch the half-time show and continue to refuse to be woken up, as it were. 'The awake have a world in common, but each dreams in a world of their own' (Heraclitus).

@cllrbradclark.bsky.social does a nice job of putting the prov/fed cuts into perspective today. He even pleads with the media to draw voters' attention to it. Ford won't change receiving bigger mandates! That $130M, is about 5% of the city's $2.7B annual budget. www.youtube.com/live/zMXKL-M...