"At least 14 people were killed through Canadian police actions in July 2026. This is among the deadliest months of Canadian police violence recorded since 2015." mediacoop.ca/node/119365 #cdnpoli

“‘There has been a catastrophic and systemic failure at nearly every level and at nearly every step of this process,’ said Ontario Regional Chief Abram Benedict…” www.aptnnews.ca/national-new... #onpoli #cdnpoli

Chiefs of Ontario backs calls for public inquiry into wildfire response

The Chiefs of Ontario is backing calls from First Nation leaders to have a public inquiry into the province's response to the wildfires.

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In which I talk about *The Indignant Generation: A Narrative History of African American Writers and Critics, 1934-1960* by Lawrence P. Jackson, a book that has lots to say about writing and its relationship with grassroots struggles: scottneigh.ca/fiction-and-... #bookish #nonfiction #history

"As Japanese financial newspaper Nikkei Asia found in a recent investigation, just five US tech giants — Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle — are hiding an estimated $1.65 trillion in debt that doesn’t appear on balance sheets. futurism.com/artificial-i...

AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt

AI companies are pouring tens of billions of dollars into enormous data centers. They're being built on top of a mountain of hidden debt.

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Just a head’s up to everyone who hasn’t reassessed their relationship with Shopify yet: its CEO is actively pushing far-right politics in Canada, now with Elon Musk’s explicit support!

Rachel Gilmore@rachelgilmore.bsky.social · last wk.

lol, annnnnnnd there's the nail in the coffin, if there was still any doubt:

“Activist infrastructures are where the messy, grinding, generally invisible labour of ‘doing feminism’ takes place.” — Cait McKinney

The Grind is being sued for defamation. We intend to defending our reporting. We need your support to be able to fight this case and to continue publishing essential journalism in Toronto. See the full announcement for more info.

The Grind Is Being Sued By an IDF Reservist Soldier

This defamation case could sink one of the only publications closely covering the Palestine solidarity movement in Toronto and the repression it has faced. We need your help…

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Lemme tell you about the angel of history being blown backwards into the future: The shackles these people have been put in are Hiatt brand, same company founded in 1780 to mass produce shackles for slaver ships.

Joel S.@joelhs.bsky.social · 2w ago

The use of extremely online memetic aesthetics to support far-right political goals is like something out of Walter Benjamin’s nightmares.

It's that point in the middle of the year when I ask on social media what social movement and grassroots community victories people have seen over the last six months. What's going on in your town, your region? As always, I'm particularly interested in the Canadian context. #cdnpoli

The ongoing saga of cartoon villain-like corruption from the Ford government... globalnews.ca/news/1198665... #onpoli

Progressive Conservative caucus divided over Ontario hotel spending scandal | Globalnews.ca

Global News first reported hundreds of thousands of dollars in expenses billed by Willowdale MPP Stan Cho to taxpayers and donors over the course of three years.

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Yep www.hilltimes.com/2026/07/22/c...

Canada cozying up to fascism under false pretence of co-operation - The Hill Times

It’s easy to see the Canadian government engaging in deference to U.S. terrorism strategies as normal, but it’s only a matter of time before there’s a crack down on left-wing political speech, thought...

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"It is as if school shooters are running the state." spectrejournal.com/spectacles-o...

Spectacles of Fascism in an Age of Exhaustion – Spectre Journal

In a reading of Richard Seymour's Disaster Nationalism, Benjamin Balthasar argues that today's far right channels popular disillusionment into apocalyptic fantasies of destruction. The left, he insist...

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"I have an obligation to speak and I want to speak. But the world is big, and I am small. The horrors are many, and I am one. ... [So] what do I speak about?" scottneigh.ca/as-things-ge...

"Reading and writing can be the most insurgent of all human activities." robertjonesjr.substack.com/p/read-a-fuc...

Read a Fucking Book

Lessons I learned from my mentor Professor George Cunningham

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I am not a climate scientist but when I was a kid the number of times we couldn’t go outside because of Canadian wildfire smoke was zero times

“Prime Minister Mark Carney promoted his plan for a new Alberta pipeline on social media Wednesday while dozens of wildfires burned across northern Ontario, creating dangerously poor air quality across much of the province.” www.readthemaple.com/mark-carney-... #cdnpoli

Mark Carney Boosts Alberta Pipeline While Ontario Wildfires Rage

In northern Ontario, 180 wildfires were burning as of Wednesday evening, including 72 that were “not under control.”

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The wave of austerity hitting Canada’s university sector and the Australian consulting firm that’s profiting from it. breachmedia.ca/a-notorious-... #cdnpoli

A notorious consulting firm is selling austerity. Canada’s universities are buying ⋆ The Breach

The Nous Group, an Australian consulting firm, has raked in millions for “fixing” universities in financial freefall. Their solution? Corporatization

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Hmmm, yes, leading the charge to defeat a highly popular, community-based social movement…such a great look for a mayor who many years ago won her first council seat based on the name she made for herself as co-chair of the #HamOnt Days of Action. 🙄 Such a disgrace…

“Harsh words from chiefs, opposition on government’s First Nations Clean Drinking Water Act” www.aptnnews.ca/national-new... #cdnpoli

Harsh words from chiefs on federal clean water bill at AFN AGA

There were impassioned speeches as the focus of the AFN’s annual general assembly turned to federal clean drinking water legislation.

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Capitalists and the system itself will get more irrational and more “evil” as the climate crisis spirals out of control and we all start to ask serious questions. Petrocapitalism either dies or we all do.

We can all do something and that to me is the bottom line. Do something.

“Here’s How To Archive Online Content, And Why You Should - Archiving is essential for researchers, journalists and activists to do their work, and all of us can play a role in it” www.readthemaple.com/heres-how-to...

Here’s How To Archive Online Content, And Why You Should

Archiving is essential for researchers, journalists and activists to do their work, and all of us can play a role in it

readthemaple.com

Good article detailing the absolutely horrid conditions people are facing in the jail in Sudbury, Ontario. (It'll be important to push back hard against provincial efforts to turn reporting like this into an excuse to give jails more money!) www.sudbury.com/local-news/t... #onpoli

‘Treated like nothing’: Inmates paint dark picture of life inside Sudbury Jail

Inmates (most of whom haven’t been convicted of anything) and watchdog groups tell Sudbury.com pest infestations, rampant mold and filth, and severe overcrowding are the order of the day at the city j...

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"Historically, abandoning Google Search would have been commercial suicide, according to SEO consultant Lily Ray. It is simply too valuable...But the gradual erosion of search traffic in recent years has, paradoxically, given publishers more agency to consider walking away from the platform."

Rachel Holliday Smith@rachelholliday.bsky.social · 4w ago

I'm been wondering if it would come to this and apparently it has. huge move from cloudflare, which hosts a fifth of all websites on earth.

There are lots of serious takeaways here, of course, including crucial ones about misogyny among leftist men. But surely another is that when you discover your candidate has a Nazi tattoo, the time to give him the boot is immediately, not four months later…

"They just want to turn it off." A fascinating story of the librarians who have started teaching classes showing people how to remove AI "features" from their phones and apps. www.bangordailynews.com/2026/07/02/m...

These Maine librarians are helping patrons resist AI and Big Tech

Despite breathless reporting on how AI is going to change the world, Hannah Cyrus, a Bangor librarian, said that, in her experience, most library patrons aren’t finding it helpful.

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In this interview, I talk with Halifax-based student organizer Aaron Abogado. We speak about learning from Palestinian struggle, the power of student strikes, and the importance of on-the-ground organizing. mediacoop.ca/node/119363 #nspoli

Learning from Movements – Aaron Abogado

Aaron Abogado is a printmaker and a student at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University (NSCAD) in Halifax, as well as the president of the Student Union of NSCAD (SUNSCAD). Abogado, who g...

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The Left(s) should get onboard with a massive expansion of public libraries across the country over the next 25 years. This is an affirmative project.

"The RCMP can apply the lessons it learned at an Israeli military seminar last year to “Canadian law enforcement contexts,” according to a briefing document written by Canada’s defence attaché in Israel." www.readthemaple.com/rcmp-can-app... #cdnpoli

RCMP Can Apply Israel’s Gaza Tactics To Canadian Policing: Briefing

The RCMP can apply the lessons it learned at an Israeli military seminar last year to “Canadian law enforcement contexts.”

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"UBCIC questions if the proposed oil pipeline corridor has the consent of all impacted First Nations, and raises deep alarm over the irreversible climate impacts of the proposed projects..." www.ubcic.bc.ca/ubcic_respon... #cdnpoli

UBCIC Responds to Coordinated Government Push for Fossil Fuel Expansion in British Columbia

Working towards the recognition, implementation and exercise of our inherent Indigenous Title, Rights and Treaty Rights

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