Members of Canada's military may have been involved in planning U.S. strikes on Iran, retired general says | CBC News A retired Canadian major-general says personnel on exchange with U.S. Central Command were likely involved in planning and targeting airstrikes on Iran unless Ottawa explicitly barred participation. A...

"It is highly likely that members of Canadian military, on exchange with the US, were involved in planning and co-ordinating of airstrikes on Iran. It is long-standing policy to have Canadian service members participate in exchanges with US Central Command."

www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

good morning new followers here are some resources for humanities classrooms

against-a-i.com

Hundreds of people are walking towards the federal paramilitary who *just murdered a guy this morning* with their hands raised. The courage of people who live here is stunning.

Canada In The World: Settler Capitalism and the Colonial Imagination An accessible and empirically rich introduction to Canada’s engagements in the world since confederation, this introductory textbook charts a unique path by locating Canada’s colonial foundations at t...

For those unaware, Canada has always been an imperialist country.

United States involvement in regime change in Latin America - Wikipedia

"United States involvement in regime change in Latin America"

A Prairie alliance of trans advocates and unions should be a national model ⋆ The Breach Right-wing premiers are using the notwithstanding clause to target trans kids, workers, Muslims, and drug users. Saskatchewan shows how a united front could stop them

Right-wing premiers across Canada are using the notwithstanding clause to target trans kids, public sector workers, and people who use drugs with laws that violate their rights.

@desaima.bsky.social writes about how Saskatchewan has shown you can build unlikely alliances to try to stop them.

Thank you!

reading this makes me ache to teach close reading again.

Essential essay by @iliasalami.bsky.social on new configurations of state ownership + state investment funds being deployed in the race for military, AI, and energy supply chain dominance. The trend rhymes with earlier eras of Great Power conflict but updated for a networked global economy.

Check out our "New Voices in Environmental Modernisms" Roundtable CFP (for MSA 2026, Loughborough): share widely with emerging and contingent modernist scholars, makers, and activists please! (DL 2/1/26): sites.google.com/risd.edu/mod...

BREAKING: ‘Empty Deal’ at COP30 as Petrostates Block Progress on Fossil Fuel Phaseout A dramatic, last-minute intervention by Colombia at the closing session of the COP30 climate summit Saturday afternoon failed to derail what one veteran negotiator called an “empty deal” on countries’...

#COP30 ends with an “empty deal,” dropping any fossil fuel phaseout despite backing from 80+ countries. Colombia objected after pushback from petrostates.

Some wins on adaptation, forests & just transition, but no roadmap for the urgent fossil phaseout the science demands.

Working Nature Working Nature offers a history of the energy economy and its representations over the 19th and 20th century.Russ argues that “Energy” is not a thing nor an ability, but a social relation to nature fo...

the most anticipated book of 2026:
bravo @ueberdruss.bsky.social !!

www.versobooks.com/products/334...

Mega Pipelines, Mega Resistance Mega Pipelines, Mega Resistance - Tar Sands, Social Movements, and the Politics of Energy Infrastructure; Mega Pipelines, Mega Resistance reveals how and why social movements have frustrated major pip...

I awoke to the headline this morning that Ottawa and Alberta are reportedly “close” to a deal that includes a new heavy oil pipeline to the northwest coast of BC…

It feels timely to share that my book is out now with UBC Press, available open access

www.ubcpress.ca/mega-pipelin...

📢 Upcoming Event!

💻 A "What is Happening in Canada?" seminar: On Disability Arts & Culture with Dr. Emilia Nielsen (Associate Professor
Health & Society, York University)

9 December 2025 | 12:00 - 1:00 pm EST

🔗 Register here: yorku.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

@csnrec.bsky.social

Undercover Worker: Workers Inquiry after the End of the Working Class

A repost as we begin a unit on workers' inquiry in my work class
www.unemployednegativity.com/2017/02/if-n...

Thanks to @modamhist.bsky.social for publishing my conversation with @imreszeman.bsky.social, Bob Johnson, Cara Daggett, and Jennifer Wenzel on history and the energy humanities. We hope it is helpful! Check it out here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Ksi Lisims LNG Makes Federal List of ‘Nation-Building’ Projects | The Tyee The prime minister sidestepped questions about US ownership and First Nations opposition at a northern BC presser.

While PM Carney’s fast-tracking initiative has been touted as a response to U.S. President Trump’s trade war, critics have pointed out the projects are largely backed by foreign-owned corporations — and include substantial U.S. investment.

@amandafollett.bsky.social reports. #uspoli #canpoli #LNG

Remember our fallen soldiers...
The Everett Massacre - Nov.5, 1916
The hanging of the Haymarket Martyrs - Nov.11, 1887
The Centralia Tragedy - Nov.11, 1919
The hanging of Louis Riel - Nov.16, 1885
The execution by firing squad of Joe Hill - Nov.19, 1915
The Battleford hangings - Nov.27, 1885

Yes, this is correct. And the reason is because our capitalist classes have decided that it is not sufficiently profitable, so they're not going to do it.

We must understand this reality. Capital *cannot* be relied upon to address the climate crisis.

Sharing my first published article from my PhD research!

It draws from my ethnographic experiences at ‘future of work’ conferences and completing online courses on the subject, particularly how the discourses I observed shape a narrow vision of the ‘ideal worker.’ 

doi.org/10.1016/j.ge...

Volume 124 Issue 4 | South Atlantic Quarterly | Duke University Press

new special issue of South Atlantic Quarterly

FILMING CAPITAL

read.dukeupress.edu/south-atlant...

The Sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald, 50 Years Later YouTube video by New York Times Podcasts

Listen to "The Sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald, 50 Years Later" - www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gRk...

Read "Finding Environmental History in 'The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald'" by @danielmacfarlane.bsky.social - niche-canada.org/2025/11/07/f...

#envhist #greatlakes #waterhistory

📖 I'm excited to convene a virtual reading group on #EnergyHeritage with @energy-ethics.bsky.social! Engaging w/ scholarship, fiction & artistic projects, we'll meet monthly from Nov-April for discussion and creative responses. Details + registration: energyethics.st-andrews.ac.uk/cee-reading-...

Carney scraps anti-greenwashing law, even as research shows Canadians want fewer climate lies online Most Canadians want the federal government to do more about climate disinformation, especially during extreme weather, new research shows, even as the Carney government scraps Canada's laws against gr...

Tuesday's federal budget proposes to weaken the truthfulness standard companies must meet to back environmental claims and prevent third-parties greenwashing complaints to the Competition Bureau.

Oil and gas trumps climate action in brutal federal budget The budget makes clear that fossil fuel production for export is a central pillar of this government’s economic strategy — and that it won’t let climate measures get in the way.

The budget makes clear that fossil fuel production for export is a central pillar of this government’s economic strategy — and that it won’t let climate measures get in the way.

My take in @nationalobserver.com: www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/04/o...

Public service braces for billions in spending cuts ahead of Tuesday’s budget The finance minister has hinted at shrinking the size of the public service, a move union leaders say could put up to 70,000 jobs at risk

.@policyalternatives.ca senior economist David MacDonald predicts specific cuts will be made via “stealth” over the coming months. He does not expect them to be clearly laid out on Tuesday. #budget2025 #cdnpoli www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...

Oil and gas trumps climate action in brutal federal budget The budget makes clear that fossil fuel production for export is a central pillar of this government’s economic strategy — and that it won’t let climate measures get in the way.

Oil and gas trumps climate action in brutal federal budget. By senior @policyalternatives.ca researcher @hadrianmk.bsky.social #budget2025 #cdnpoli #ClimateCrisis www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/04/o...

This government's signal legacy in higher education is going to be "we torched whatever we could right across the country because we couldn't figure out how to control the southern Ontario housing market".

Ford can't/won't build houses? Better knife some more rural colleges in NB or BC.

Melanie Dennis Unrau Excavates History and Language in the Poetics of GOOSE In the exciting new collection, Goose, poet and researcher Melanie Dennis Unrau reimagines the language of industry as poetry, unearthing new meanings ...

Poet and scholar Melanie Dennis Unrau excavates history and language in GOOSE (@pressassembly.bsky.social). Check out our interview with the author today!
#AmReading #Poetry #CanLit #PoetryinPerspective
open-book.ca/News/Melanie...

everyone including me is feeling the post blue jays emptiness. too bad I don't understand any other sports, or not to the same degree.