Jamie Kneen
@jkneen.bsky.social
Let's not panic until there is some evidence. Oh, crap...
We always knew that university mucky mucks weren’t on the side of the students, but this is an astonishing betrayal of (even the pretence of) trust.
Brian K. Murphy@murphyslog.bsky.social · 5d agoCanadian universities operated 2 parallel covert networks—one national, and one in Alberta—of educational institutions, provincial government officials, and police to suppress Charter-protected political activity on their campuses. breachmedia.ca/canadian-uni...
This is the way. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
A concert to remember: Metal band rocks out at Ottawa hospital, granting patient's wish | CBC News
Hospitals aren't the usual venue for a high-energy hard rock concert, but that's exactly what took place at Ottawa's Bruyère Health last week, helping one longtime patient live out his dream of attend...
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Mark Carney promised "elbows-up" nation-building. What Canadians are getting instead is a carve-out economy—where environmental protections, Indigenous rights, and labour standards are treated as obstacles to growth, write @shirip.bsky.social and Eve Saint.
The new rules of Carney’s carve-out economy
It has been one year since Mark Carney introduced the Building Canada Act in Parliament. Since then, a succession of new laws has hollowed out legal protections for the environment, Indigenous rights,...
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EXCLUSIVE: First Nations Chief says government MPP is lying about meeting with him. Kevin Holland, an associate minister in the Ford government, told a reporter he met with the Gull Bay Chief. Wilfred King says it never happened. @jonthompson.bsky.social reports. ricochet.media/indigenous/f...
First Nations Chief says government MPP is lying about meeting with him
PC representative Kevin Holland told a reporter he met with the Gull Bay Chief. Wilfred King says it never happened.
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🗣️"We're seeing a worrying pattern of Canada not only increasing fossil fuel subsidies across a number of fronts, but creating new subsidies to transfer public dollars to the fossil fuel sector," says IISD's Nichole Dusyk. Read more from @davidthurton.bsky.social 👇 www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Public funding for fossil fuel industry breaks another Liberal climate promise, advocates say | CBC News
The Carney government's financial support for the oil and gas industry amounts to breaking a federal commitment to phase out fossil fuel subsidies, according to environmental advocates.
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New investigation from AI Forensics finds HuggingFace Spaces (which are subsidized) for "Image Editing" are primarily used to generate non-consensual intimate imagery of non-celeb real people, including CSAM, and lack even cursory "guardrails" (which are a scam). aiforensics.org/uploads/NCII...
Surreal. More than 500 Disney-style castles were built for $200 million in a luxury village. In Turkey. Today, the entire site is a ghost town with hundreds of empty villas timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/rest-o...
More than 500 Disney-style castles were built for $200 million in a luxury village. Today, the entire site is a ghost town with hundreds of empty villas
Rows of identical Disney-style castles rise from the hills near the Turkish town of Mudurnu, creating a scene that looks more like a fantasy film set than a real housing development. Known as Burj Al ...
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We know where declaring mining is an issue of 'national security' leads - this is extremely worrying for communities and environmentalists with legitimate concerns... www.dw.com/en/sweden-ea...
Sweden eases mining permits to cut China minerals reliance
Sweden has declared the mining of critical minerals and rare earths a national security interest. This will ease and expedite the permit process. The government said the step was needed to counter dep...
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Expect a lot more of this as the government insists its militarization spree is anything but more deeply integrating Canada with the US www.readthemaple.com/liberals-awa...
Liberals Award Millions To U.S. Company They Say Is Canadian
The government funded Pratt & Whitney, a subsidiary of defence giant RTX, formerly Raytheon.
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I think this passed under the radar (pun intended), but the world may have just recorded an all-time record in Commercial Flights (I think): 153,359 FLIGHTS! Yesterday alone!
I don’t think we need lessons on how to manage the known universe’s largest forest from people that haven’t figured out lettuce.
Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · 2w agoThe cyclospora outbreak has reached 7,400 cases across 9 states. The FDA just recalled 1.6 million eggs due to salmonella contamination. Screwworm cases continue to rise. And we’ve just surpassed 2,300 measles cases — breaking 2025’s record. “Make America Healthy Again.”
Canada has posted the text of the Ecuador FTA. #ISDS watchers will want to see the sleight of hand efforts to try and get around a Constitutional Court veto in Ecuador. www.international.gc.ca/trade-commer...
Canada-Ecuador Free Trade Agreement
Eliminating trade barriers and creating new opportunities for businesses in Canada and Ecuador.
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⚠️ Canadian Organizations Condemn Signing of High-Risk Ecuador Free Trade Agreement" 🔊 | Press release: tinyurl.com/2kha5m58 The #EcuadorCanada Free Trade Agreement, signed today, grants sweeping and undemocratic protections to Canadian investors while deepening Ecuador’s human rights crisis.
It’s so cool that the U.S. government posts like fucking psychos
Wait, what?!
yipeng ge 葛义朋@yipengge.bsky.social · 2w agoA 58 year old Swiss man is able to come to Ottawa and attend the CANSEC arms fair, and yell “I’m a fucking racist and I’m proud of it”, and punch a 21 year old Palestinian woman down to the ground, without any meaningful accountability. Appalling decision by the judge. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
NEW: At a certain point, one must inevitably concede that Carney's concessions to Trump aren't concessions at all, but shared priorities. open.substack.com/pub/theorcha...
Mark Carney, CEO of Canada Inc.
At a certain point, you've got to admit the prime minister is making all these unrequited concessions to Trump because he wants to.
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Oliver Jones, Montreal-born ja... www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Oliver Jones, Montreal-born jazz pianist, Canadian music icon, has died | CBC News
Oliver Jones, the Montreal-born legendary jazz musician who performed at the Montreal Jazz Festival every year from 1981 to 1999, has died at the age of 91.
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Also, #FordNation doesn’t do anything by accident. Doug’ll say “oops, I goofed” when forced to back down, but he really means “oops, I got caught.”
Canadian Dimension@canadiandimension.bsky.social · 2w agoThe wildfires currently ravaging the country are, in part, the product of a colossal failure by Canadian governments to effectively respond to the threat of climate change before the predicted impacts moved from the realm of modelling and projection into lived reality.
I’ll almost forgive him for writing a column in the NYT for that.
Standplaats Kraków could really use some cash!@standplaatskrk.pl · 2w ago
Tweet so good I printed it out and put it on my wall. I referred to it in a conference talk today @hypervisible.blacksky.app
Canada is trying to speed up mining project approvals and we've got big concerns. See why this is a terrible idea in our response to the federal govt's "Getting Major Projects Built in Canada - Discussion Paper on Proposed Legislative, Regulatory, & Policy Reforms". miningwatch.ca/2026/7/15/co...
Want a good primer on how the fossil fuel and mining industries use international arbitration #ISDS to block climate policy? Check out this webinar tomorrow! ↘️
Climate Action Network Canada@canrac.bsky.social · 3w ago📢 Reminder: Join us tomorrow for Part 1 of our Trade & Climate Webinar Series, now with French interpretation! 📅 Wednesday, July 15th 🕐 1pm ET / 10am PT 📍 Register: shorturl.at/md2Zc
This is what Kamloops looks like right now while the liberals are building more pipelines and data centers
Havasupai Tribe and environmentalists question Arizona decision to allow increased arsenic levels near Grand Canyon. It puts the sole water source for the Havasupai Tribe at risk.
Havasupai, environmentalists question Arizona decision to allow increased arsenic levels near Grand Canyon - ICT
The Pinyon Plain uranium mine operator has already detected higher arsenic levels above the aquifer that provides groundwater to the Havasupai Tribe and other communities
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The next Western leader who speaks of human rights and the rule of law should choke on their lies. #AbuSafiya
Really excited for this new podcast! Episode 1 just dropped featuring @quinnslobodian.com and @isabelestevez.bsky.social. open.spotify.com/episode/0Xk1...
CONTINENTAL SHIFT Ep 1: Free Market Fictions and Trade Frictions
The BREAK—DOWN · Episode
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The BREAK—DOWN@the-breakdown.bsky.social · 4w agoThe next global power struggle is for critical minerals. Resources like cobalt, copper, and lithium are reshaping geopolitics and the struggle to dominate critical minerals is a defining challenge of this political moment.
