Roberta Lexier
@robertalexier.bsky.social
New book, Student Power: Canadian Student Movements From the Sixties to Today (https://link.springer.com/book/9783032109620) Professor of social movements and left politics. Proudly socialist, anti-fascist, anti-Zionist. All opinions my own.
Canadians overwhelmingly demand wealth tax after Kevin O’Leary says it will make him move away
Canadians overwhelmingly demand wealth tax after Kevin O’Leary says it will make him move away
OTTAWA - Pollsters report a split among Canadians over the idea of higher tax on the assets of wealthy individuals, though support skyrockets after noting that Kevin O'Leary has vowed that he will res...
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NEW: I attended today's protest against Meta's proposed hyperscaler data centre in Sturgeon County. People are not pleased. open.substack.com/pub/theorcha...
Guillotines, Dinosaur Costumes and Broken Trust: Alberta's Data Centre Revolt Begins
Critics warn of fossil gas reliance, power price hikes and wasted water as officials approve massive Meta facility with scant public debate.
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Solidarity with the striking flight attendants at WestJet! They deserve a fair contract (without govt interference) ✊🏻
Let’s be clear here, when scientists say mistakes were made at the start of the pandemic, we DO NOT mean that we did too much. We mean not socially distancing quickly enough, not making tests widely available, and not acknowledging COVID is airborne and distributing N95 masks to everyone.
Did a thing with my buddy David. Took us sixteen months and there’s no way we coulda done it on our own, so feeling glad we found each other along the way! breachmedia.ca/canadian-uni...
Canadian universities set up a secret network to crack down on student Palestine demonstrators ⋆ The Breach
Universities in Canada coordinated to spy on and violently clear student encampments. Then, they deleted the evidence
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NEW collab with @lilypolenchuk.bsky.social: Alberta's Ministry of Advanced Education removed references to the government's stated commitment to campus free speech from talking points about pro-Palestine encampments. www.readtheorchard.org/p/alberta-mi...
Alberta ministry removed campus free speech from encampment talking points
FOIP records withheld for 2 years show that the government also omitted language describing encampments as “illegal tactics” from key messages on the 2024 pro-Palestine protests.
readtheorchard.org
Big story out this morning by @lilypolenchuk.bsky.social and @readtheorchard.org 🔥 Coincidentally, David Slater and I will be citing this in a related scoop for @breachmedia.ca - watch for that soon! www.readtheorchard.org/p/alberta-mi...
Alberta ministry removed campus free speech from encampment talking points
FOIP records withheld for 2 years show that the government also omitted language describing encampments as “illegal tactics” from key messages on the 2024 pro-Palestine protests.
readtheorchard.org
Very cool that this is how our prime minister has been responding to a premier that is increasingly privatizing healthcare (just did another announcement to that effect, even!) and attacking trans youth rights. Really cool, really great!!
More worried about these conversations than separatism. For the record: immigrants are humans who deserve human rights (like everyone).
Richie Assaly@rdassaly.bsky.social · last wk.The upcoming Alberta referendum will include questions about immigration that critics say are misleading and clearly designed to scapegoat newcomers and refugees. If they pass, this will mark a massive victory for separatists. My latest for @forwardcanada.bsky.social
"If we ever intended to change anything, however, we had to begin by perceiving ourselves as citizens, rather than as consumers. It is consumption, after all, that’s kept us from taking meaningful action."
Ximena González@ximenaka.bsky.social · last wk.Canada’s hot, smoky summers seem to have become the norm. We know how we got here. We’ve spent the last few decades voting with our wallets, making more sustainable choices, but we can’t shop our way out of extinction. New from me 👇
Coming off of a sabbatical, I've been trying to articulate what I've been feeling about teaching in the age of LLMs. But I've come to realize that it's grief, pure and simple. The best part of my job has become the most demoralizing, and we've been abandoned by our university administrations.
Randall Stephens@randalljstephens.bsky.social · 2mo ago"In the past few years, I’ve spoken to a number of academics and instructors at the college and high-school level who have said similar things. They talk about a sense of loss and of despair, because the one thing that brought them meaning has been erased, or blotted out, by the arrival of A.I."
he’s gutting the public sector, he’s holding back on pharmacare deals, he tried to pull money out of daycare, he’s letting two-tier healthcare gain a foothold in alberta, and now he’s coming for public healthcare funding too
Canada Healthwatch 🍁@canadahealthwatch.ca · 2w agoPlanned changes to Ottawa’s Canada Health Transfer could slash more than $50B from public health care over a decade, David J. Climenhaga reports. This article and more at canadahealthwatch.ca #CdnHealth
Said it before, will say it again: if they’re gonna accuse you of being socialist or communist or whatever (and they will) you might as well go for it. Literally, what’s there to lose?
We’re calling for anti-lawfare legislation in Alberta to protect free speech, and we’re not alone on this pressprogress.ca/alberta-tori...
Alberta Tories Join Growing Calls For Anti-SLAPP Law to Protect Free Speech and Democracy in Alberta
Over 100 journalists and organizations sign open letter calling for an end to ‘frivolous, abusive and politically-motivated lawsuits’ in Alberta
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After two separate investigations into procurement corruption, and an ongoing RCMP criminal investigation of procurement, the UCP govt of Danielle Smith still awards a $300K contract to her former campaign advisor's company, claiming it was an open competition when there is no evidence of that.
Canada's National Observer@nationalobserver.com · 2w agoDanielle Smith's office has awarded a $300,000 government contract to an advertising agency co-founded by her former campaign advisor.
The entire country is on fire and he's boasting about how much he's wasting on the military industrial complex
Mark Carney@mark-carney.bsky.social · 3w agoCanada’s next fleet of armoured vehicles will be built right here in London, Ontario by GDLS-Canada. These will be feats of engineering — more than 6000 workers from more than 600 Canadian suppliers across the country will help design, build, and sustain them for years to come.
The fact that Carney is posting this today shows that he genuinely doesn't give a single solitary shit about the climate crisis that is BURNING SWATHS OF CANADA AS WE SPEAK
Mark Carney@mark-carney.bsky.social · 3w agoThe world wants to do more with Canada. Our MOU with Alberta will unlock those opportunities in energy — and create lasting benefits for Canadians.
"Fighting climate change is too expensive, actually. We need to build more pipelines." - Carney fans
Richard Waite@waiterich.bsky.social · 3w agoDangerous record-breaking heat linked to climate change could be somewhat moderated this week by the presence of dangerous wildfire smoke in the air linked to climate change. Do I have that right?
Sometimes you read something that tells you what you already know…but you feel as if for the first time. I read this searing piece through hot tears of rage and renewed determination. /1 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
In Israel’s prisons, torture and death have become a norm that it barely tries to hide | Nesrine Malik
The suffering of Dr Hussam Abu Safiya is no isolated case. The abuse of Palestinian detainees is happening in plain sight, yet nothing changes, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
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@pressprogress.ca is proud to join 100+ journalists, news publishers, academics and civil society groups in endorsing calls for anti-SLAPP legislation in Alberta Frivolous, abusive and politically motivated SLAPP lawsuits are a threat to free and democratic speech READ MORE: antislappalberta.ca
1. The newest anti-trans risk assessment map is here for transgender people. The situation continues to deteriorate for trans people in the United States. Idaho becomes the fourth "Do Not Travel" state, with up to 5 year prison sentences for bathroom usage. Subscribe to support our journalism.
Anti-Trans National Legal Risk Assessment Map: July 2026
Idaho becomes the latest "Do Not Travel" state for transgender people, raising the number of states transgender people should not travel through to 4.
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My guess is that world leaders worry no one will say anything nice about them when they are the ones who die (deservedly so) so they bend over backwards to fawn over these evil fuckwits.
Clare Blackwood@clareblackwood.bsky.social · 3w agoCarney calling Lindsey Graham a defender of democracy and freedom when the man made jokes on his official X account about taking over Canada is just the last straw of many last straws for me.
On ep114 of the 💫HARBINGER SHOWCASE💫 radio show join @seancarleton.bsky.social, Dawnis Kennedy, @robertalexier.bsky.social and Raymond Fronger for their panel 'Confronting and Debunking Residential School Denialism' from the March 28th PROGRESSIVE PUBLICS symposium. www.spreaker.com/episode/ep11...
Happy to see more people coming around to the right position but, sorry Justin, the foundational precepts of Zionism are colonial and imperialist. Getting rid of Netanyahu, while a good idea, doesn’t change that fact.
Justin Ling@justinling.ca · last mo.The Western world needs to show some nerve and make clear that the Israeli government can't keep violating international law — if we do it right, it could spell the end of Benjamin Netanyahu. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...
Oh, what I wouldn’t give for a real electoral alternative to the pipeline-obsessed losers