Me holding up the book “The Working Class and Politics in Canada” Edited by Jacob Robbins-Kanter, Royce Koop, and Daniel Troup
Really good collection of academic studies in here about how the working class has systematically been excluded from electoral politics in Canada. The NDP, especially, is getting a good thrashing for its inability to actually tap into those concerns in a substantially transformative manner.
A cartoon by Ron Cobb (1975), showing a shadow of US B-52 bomber above cratered landscape. Two people who look like Vietnamese peasants look up; one says “they’re having problems with their economy again.”
This is from 1975.
Why was the insurance industry given a seat at the table to draft Alberta's two-tier health care legislation while doctors and patients were ignored?
Watch as Canadian Health Coalition Chairperson Jason MacLean exposes the influence industry lobbyists hold behind the scenes 👇 #Cdnpoli
Good piece about a transnational trend in reactionary politics
Following in Murdoch's footsteps, we have seen countless reactionary billionaires building media empires, almost always at a huge loss
Profit is not the point, power is and weakened democratic institutions are unable to resist
Signez SVP! Le projet de loi 9 va encore renforcer le racisme d'État en visant des travailleuses musulmanes, et va en plus nuire au système de garderies déjà à bout de souffle.
Recently, @k8ebrown.bsky.social and I outlined how the mainstream media has actively mainstreamed far-right politics through processes of exceptionalisation, amplification, deflectionand, euphemisation, trivialisation, humanisation and idealisation
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Thought-provoking read by Aurelien Mondon. Should be of interest to centrists, liberals, and lefties concerned about the far right.
The war on Iran likely brings a new oil price shock and windfall profits.
So, who stands to win?
Our research shows: Last time around (2022), the US reaped the largest fossil fuel profits of any country ($377bn). 50% went to the top 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵
The man who effectively invented the MASH unit.
This is less than 1/4 of the crowd, btw
Homemade protest sign that reads "Cuts to the Arts takes a toll." The ascenders on the letters L in toll and the exclamation mark are painted in red and white stripes like the Tufts Cove iconic smokestacks
A fine day for a big crowd celebrating and defending arts, culture, and heritage programs in N.S.
I am happy to report that there were no "counter-protesters" out there saying "F*** Museums"! "Down with Books!" "Nova Scotia music sucks"
Okay, I am being convinced away from my “it really sucks being interviewed” position.
«[...] les garçons qui expriment le plus à l’école leur intolérance à la diversité sexuelle sont les joueurs de hockey, les adeptes d’influences masculinistes, de même que les amateurs du nazisme… et du président américain, Donald Trump.»
www.ledevoir.com/actualites/e...
zohran increased the number of snow shovelers from 500 to 1,400 for this blizzard, paying them $30/hour to shovel sidewalks with at least a four-foot berth so that wheelchairs and strollers can get through. he didn't overhaul city government to do it, he just used the power given to him and did it!
BC legislators passed the law UNANIMOUSLY in 2019, when EVERY MLA from EVERY party voted for it as a route to reconciliation. Eby's plan to rewrite DRIPA and have the Supreme Court put limits on it is a shameful betrayal of First Nations and an unacceptable return to the colonial status quo.
DeSmog obtained audio of Mark Carney's former chief of staff describing key goals for the PM and it's a lot less radical-sounding than Carney's recent speech at Davos
Grow oil production, sell LNG, revive NAFTA 🙄
Read more from @marylouisestuart.bsky.social
www.desmog.com/2026/01/27/m...
In Québec immigration news, the pressure to resume the PEQ (PR route for QC migrants in-province for work/study) has increased, with a statement Monday from MTL, a newscast yesterday that 6,300 healthcare workers would have to leave, and a mayoral media tour.
ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/222...
Even the rich agree: extreme wealth inequality is a threat to democracy.
New on the Perspectives Journal Podcast: Extreme Wealth’s Threat to Democracy with @dylandusseault.bsky.social of @patmillscanada.bsky.social
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The earlier incident started when he stopped his car after observing ICE agents chasing what he described as a family on foot, and began shouting and blowing his whistle, according to a source who asked not to be named out of fear of retribution. Pretti later told the source that five agents tackled him and one leaned on his back – an encounter that left him with a broken rib. The agents quickly released him at the scene. “That day, he thought he was going to die,” said the source.
My gosh. Alex Pretti was notifying neighbors that Trump and Vance's agents were chasing a family. A mob of agents then tackled him and broke his rib.
He thought he was going to die.
Then the very next week, he came back out to support his neighbors.
And a mob of agents killed him.
"In its new quest for hemispheric dominance, the Trump administration has reached back to the Monroe Doctrine in its most belligerent version—a warrant for the complete repudiation of international law, in a world with no allies or equals, only vassals & foes." @alfatau.bsky.social @inthesetimes.com
I published This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate in 2014. Lots of serious people explained that we didn't have time to tackle capitalism, climate was too important. Let the market fix it for us.
The track record is 12 wasted years and a world on fire. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/17/c...
CJPME is alarmed that Carney has accepted in principle an invitation to join Trump’s so-called “Board of Peace,” which aims to oversee the governance of occupied Gaza. CJPME urges Carney to decline any role for Canada in the colonial outsourcing of Israeli occupation.
www.cjpme.org/pr_2026_01_1...
I've got a new piece for @canadiandimension.bsky.social about residential school denialism, the Making a Killing documentary, and the politics of Canada's anti-Indigenous industry: canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...
In NB, the Liberals have been ambivalent about pharmacare. Their reasons? @nikbarryshaw.bsky.social of the Council of Canadians (who identified lobbyist activity in Ottawa and Fredericton) notes industry talking points in remarks by Health Minister Dornan. nbmediacoop.org/2026/01/14/i...
Quisling chart
Wow. Nice continuity across multiple seasons. The scriptwriters are clearly paying attention, even if their scenarios seem a little implausible.
“If Canada was trying to chart across the future, we could go with the stuff that makes money, instead of losing money, stuff that makes us more independent, instead of dependent, stuff that would create jobs, instead of destroying millions of jobs.”
-Cory Doctorow
www.hilltimes.com/story/2026/0...
Canadian Net-Favourable Opinion Of:
🇫🇷 France: +50%
🇬🇧 UK: +50%
🇲🇽 Mexico: +37%
🇺🇦 Ukraine: +35%
🇮🇳 India: -34%
🇨🇳 China: -49%
🇺🇸 USA: -50%
🇷🇺 Russia: -86%
EKOS / Jan 14, 2026 / n=1012 / MOE 3.1% / IVR
"Do you support or oppose the actions taken by the United States in Venezuela?"
Oppose: 64%
Support: 22%
Neutral: 10%
EKOS / Jan 14, 2026 / n=1012 / MOE 3.1% / IVR
Can you be elbows up on bended knee?
