Another announcement from the Ford government about expanding jails across Ontario. Communities are desperate for housing, food, transit, harm reduction, health care, recreational space, school-based resources... the list goes on. All we ever get is bigger jails.

You wouldn't know it by listening to @tsn1050.bsky.social, but the Scepters kick off Round 1 of the playoffs tonight. Some PWHL coverage wouldn't kill ya, pals.

So excited to see this article out in the world! A wonderful collaboration with several folks from @itds-csa.bsky.social about what it means to commit (to) digital sociology and how we can better support grad students/ECRs who engage digital research methods. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Oh ffs... 😩

going to a protest? worried someone is peeking at your messages? we’ve put together a @wired.com thread of guides to help you protect yourself from government surveillance:

i am failing to grasp why i should care that american hockey players might have their feelings hurt by the anthem booing. or why i need to hold their hand and explain geopolitics.

Join us and @haymarketbooks.org on 3/7 for an afternoon of poetry and film in honor of the launch of the anthology Like a Hammer: Poets on Mass Incarceration, with Diana Marie Delgado, John Murillo, @nicolesealey.bsky.social, @keeanga.bsky.social & Candace Williams. www.tickettailor.com...

Just imagine that after the last four weeks of campaigning, the only gain your party made was to defeat a Black woman who your party tried to destroy for supporting Palestine. Incredible stuff from the ONDP.

Me: "What's the weather going to be like today?" St. Catharines: "Everything."

SAVE THE DATE: Critical Perspectives 2025 will be held at the University of Victoria on May 14-16th, 2025 Call for papers linked below! crpoi.ca/critical-per...

The WPS has a bigger budget than ever - and is about to get tens of millions more every year - yet it's so clear that policing is not working as claimed. Actually addressing these issues requires providing people's basic needs. www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...

SAVE THE DATE: Critical Perspectives 2025 will be held at the University of Victoria on May 14-16th, 2025 Call for papers linked below! crpoi.ca/critical-per...

Maybe you feel like interrupting your doom scrolling to help my pal Casper raise funds needed for top surgery? gofund.me/906062f7

i can't believe i, a toronto maple leaf fan, would look at another cursed team and say yes. you too should get to dictate my sports emotions.

For new and old followers looking for analysis. Here’s @detentionwatchnetwork.org topline takeaways from the executive orders www.detentionwatchnetwork.org/pressroom/re...

SCOOP: Instagram blocked teens from searching LGBTQ-related content for months. Posts with LGBTQ+ hashtags were hidden under Meta's “sensitive content” policy which restricts "sexually suggestive content", Meta said they are fixing this “error” after I reached out for comment.

A federal court has ruled that Florida can detransition inmates. Some trans inmates are having estrogen pulled, hair shorn, and put through state-run conversion therapy. This is the cruelty of abandoning incarcerated trans people. The latest from Mira Lazine. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Well. I guess I'll just re-post this then: policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/se...

Another new year, another new Minister of Public Safety. 🫠

So, another shake-up at Public Safety, then? 🥹😫

It's a spicy morning on Parliament Hill.

One of the few joys I got out of the other app was that @raffic.bsky.social followed me... think I can get a follow back here? 😃 #BelugaGrad

This is a really great piece that actually explains what being a postal worker is like, both physically and psychologically, and what posties are fighting for beyond more money. globalnews.ca/news/1090840...

From recent research in the GTA, "Overall findings suggest that receiving subsidized housing improves mental health over a 6-to-18-month time horizon.... suggesting a need to reduce wait times and expand access to subsidized housing." @urbanhealthprof.bsky.social #affordablehousing

"During austerity, municipalities cut police shallowly and temporarily while cutting social services deeply and enduringly, accelerating welfare-to-carceral realignment." onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

The Dept. of Criminology at Saint Mary's University seeks candidates who can teach Quantitative Research Methods in Criminology. Preference to candidates who research in the area of corporate crime, prisons/carceral studies, green criminology, or crimmigration. universityaffairs.ca/search-job/

After the police killing of Joshua Papigatuk last month, Inuit are calling on Quebec to rein in a culture of violence and brutality that dominates policing in the north. Neha Chollangi spoke to relatives of the victim and experts about what needs to change. therover.ca/nunaviks-pol...

SAVE THE DATE! Socialism 2025 is happening in Chicago, IL on July 3-6! More info soon: socialismconference.org

‘We can’t police our way out of this crisis’: St. Catharines groups sign onto Solve the Crisis homelessness campaign. www.stcatharinesstandard.ca/news/niagara...

Canada’s immigration detention system discriminates against people with disabilities, @hrw.org says: www.hrw.org/news/2024/12...

I don’t care that he pardoned his son. Anyone would do that. I think he should be pushed to pardon and free a lot more people. As president, he hasn’t been concerning himself with who is unfairly incarcerated, or addressing those harms. He should be pushed hard to do that now.

Civil society is speaking up: four respected Canadian housing rights organizations have issued a joint statement against the use of the Notwithstanding Clause to clear encampments. Read it here: housingrightscanada.com/joint-statem...

"There are no barriers, we serve everybody.” Since June 2023, Pima County has been offering a transition center for people released from jail. The first report shows people who go through the program are less likely to be rearrested, @jwashing.bsky.social writes azluminaria.org/2024/11/25/c...

Help us send 2,000 books to readers who are incarcerated this winter through our Books Not Bars program

With SSHRC/OGS deadlines approaching for grad students, I wanted to share this piece I wrote a few years ago with some pals as we considered grant writing a more collaborative/collective project. The piece includes four condensed proposals: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1... #WorkingTheProject

Tonight!

A 17-year-old boy from the Norway House Cree Nation in northern Manitoba who died after he was shot by the RCMP has been identified as Elgyn Muskego. He is the 11th Indigenous person killed by police in Canada since August.

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Abolitionist: The carceral cup is constraining our radical imagination

"Ruthie Gilmore reminds us abolition is life in rehearsal, not a recitation of rules. Or as my kid reminds me, practice makes something else." --Harsha Walia Video of "We Grow the World Together" launch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiX6... @haymarketbooks.org @truthout.org @upendmovement.bsky.social

On #NationalHousingDay, meet Ontario's municipal human rights defenders. A coalition of now 72 Councillors stand united against the use of the Notwithstanding Clause to clear encampments and call on Ontario to respect the Charter and enact evidence-based solutions to homelessness.

I'm sharing this resource and short film in my abolition course today. I know it will encourage students to think more intentionally about the role of imagination and experimentation in creating safer communities. Excited for discussion!