The Grind is being sued by Jonathan Karten. Jonathan Karten works for Stephen Harper at AWZ.
The Grind@thegrindto.bsky.social · last wk.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.
Here's how to donate to First Nations that have been forced to flee their homelands due to the widespread wildfires. Please share!
Indigenous Climate Action@indigenousca.bsky.social · 3w agoWildfires are spreading across Turtle Island, destroying many Indigenous communities' homes. It is our time support in whichever ways we can in order to provide resources that they need during these difficult times. Please consider donating ! #MutualAid #WildfireResources
Wrote something about one of the worst experiences in my life. Attending the first “world symposium against anti-Zionism” near Toronto.
Mondoweiss@mondoweiss.net · 3w agoAt a Toronto-area summit, Zionists like Ben Shapiro and Gad Saad rebranded antisemitism fears around anti-Zionism, leaning on Islamophobia and far-right alliances while dismissing Palestinian dispossession as a "false expulsion." mondoweiss.net/2026/07/insi... #Palestine #Israel
This is a shocking story. Congrats to @thenarwhal.ca on exposing this. LNG Canada in Kitimat – 🇨🇦's first major LNG facility – is now one of the highest sources of GLOBAL emissions for flaring, undermining claims that we produce the cleanest natural gas in the world: thenarwhal.ca/lng-canada-b...
LNG Canada exceeds estimated 2024 global record for burned gas | The Narwhal
LNG Canada in Kitimat, B.C., burned more gas in 2025 than any other liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facility on record in 2024
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Klein: I agree that it is a revolutionary technology, that it is going to transform our economy on the scale of the Industrial Revolution. But unlike the Industrial Revolution, which created huge numbers of jobs, the goal of this revolution is to eliminate jobs.
Begging reporters to just ask one question about what this unit did that the regular force cannot and did not do. A massive underreported story is how the pro-Israel lobby is fueling a budget boom for police and expansion of police powers. www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/9ee71f6...
New counterterrorism unit helped arrest suspect in shooting targeting Jewish-owned restaurant, Toronto police say
A 35-year-old man was charged in the shooting that targeted the Old Avenue Restaurant in North York
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‘How many more have to die?’: Northern Ontario fires expose delays in human rights complaints for First Nations. After a child’s death and another home lost, First Nations leaders say delays are putting lives at risk. New from @jonthompson.bsky.social: ricochet.media/indigenous/h... #onpoli
‘How many more have to die?’: Northern Ontario fires expose delays in human rights complaints for First Nations
Learn how the Northern Ontario fires reveal significant delays in human rights complaints impacting First Nations firefighting resources.
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declassified RCMP files confirm Canada's domestic intelligence agency infiltrated and sought to disrupt legitimate political Indigenous organizations in the 1970s, in an extensive program of covert surveillance, informants and countersubversion www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...
How RCMP spies infiltrated the 1970s Indigenous rights movement | CBC News
A CBC Indigenous investigation has found the Cold War-era RCMP Security Service had a widespread and intrusive surveillance operation targeting at least 30 legitimate Indigenous political organization...
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Amazing reporting by Brett Forrester at CBC. He spent years fighting for access to these valuable documents, got thousands of pages of surveillance released, providing fresh new understandings of how indigenous political organizing internationally scared the hell out of the state.
The first "A" of ACAB includes past, present, and, by all indications, the future. www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...
How RCMP spies infiltrated the 1970s Indigenous rights movement | CBC News
A CBC Indigenous investigation has found the Cold War-era RCMP Security Service had a widespread and intrusive surveillance operation targeting at least 30 legitimate Indigenous political organization...
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Announcing a symposium at Princeton, April 9-10: The Long Arc of Fascism, w/keynotes @naomiaklein.bsky.social + Aaju Peter (GL/Nunavut), plus amazing organizers (Memphis, Minneapolis, Gitskan) and academics (Keeanga YT, Naomi Murukama, etc). Livestreamed. canadianstudies.princeton.edu/events/
Calendar of Events — Canadian Studies
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New piece with Tia Dafnos and Emma Bainbridge in @breachmedia.ca: The paramilitary pipeline police strike again. Now so clearly organized as a permanent counter-insurgency formation, here's what the Critical Response Unit (aka C-IRG) has been up to: breachmedia.ca/a-notorious-...
A notorious RCMP unit shaped B.C. universities’ reaction to Palestine encampments ⋆ The Breach
From Fairy Creek to university campuses, CRU-BC is positioning itself as the go-to police force for repressing dissent
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Use these cards to write love letters or ransom notes, writes @mollycrabapple.bsky.social. And remember: Every handwritten letter is a rebellion against Silicon Valley dystopia. https://bit.ly/4raWt26
Molly Crabapple's Time Capsule of Resistance
A new set of note cards by the artist and writer documents scenes of protest in the 21st century.
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“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?” There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.
Israel used weapons in Gaza that made thousands of Palestinians evaporate
US-made thermal weapons burning at 3,500C caused 2,842 people to "evaporate" in Gaza, Al Jazeera investigation finds.
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🚨 New injunction resources for organizers and land defenders from 8th Fire Rising! 🚨 First up, updated research by me and @shirip.bsky.social on injunction success rates for corporations, governments, and First Nations. See the stats and more at: 8thfirerising.ca/injunctions/
On the POD: We talk with Sheryl Nestel, co-author of a new report on a pattern of anti-Palestinian racism and genocide denial at the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs. @avilewis.ca @sherylnestel.bsky.social @ijvcanada.bsky.social @shirip.bsky.social tiny.cc/c2av001
Report exposes racism and genocide denial at Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs
Podcast Episode · Redeye · 2025-11-17 · 17m
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Saturday | 10:05 PT We talk with Sheryl Nestel, co-author of a new report on a pattern of anti-Palestinian racism and genocide denial at the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs. @avilewis.ca @sherylnestel.bsky.social @ijvcanada.bsky.social @shirip.bsky.social
In the name of "fighting antisemitism," Indiana University appointed a Christian scholar to tell Jewish scholars what they can and cannot say - all while they invited Tucker Carlson to speak on campus. www.jta.org/2025/11/07/u...
In Indiana, a vaunted Jewish studies program is upended by red-state politics over Israel and speech - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
A leadership shakeup, a defunded graduate student and political pressure from above have turned a storied program into a flashpoint for Trump-era campus politics.
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New piece: Private and public capital are flooding into mining and LNG development in the service of a war economy. Over 44 per cent of the Liberal budget is allocated toward defence spending that will eventually slap a Canadian flag on missiles and submarines. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Federal budget’s focus on extraction and fossil fuels does little to help average Canadians and First Nations
All of this spending and investment is justified as an urgent measure to protect the country against the tariff and trade wars with the United States. But Canada’s industrial policy
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If you’re worried about climate change and you’ve never heard of controlled burns by Indigenous nations, read this great piece.
Christy Kelly-Bisson@garlicbreath644.bsky.social · 9mo ago"Before settler colonialism, Indigenous nations across the continent regularly conducted low-intensity controlled burns, carefully planned to maintain and replenish the health of the land and its ecosystems." #TurtleIsland #CulturalBurning #Forestry #WildFires
We are in the throws of a battle over who is going to survive the future. A future marked by scarcity and disaster. A future these people are accelerating. That is what is driving the attacks on civil rights and basic equality. Supremacist beliefs are the tool needed to justify human culling.
Chicago cyclists are buying out tamale carts to keep vendors home and safe from ICE. blockclubchi.co/42KQ57O
Some good news
Andrew Kurjata@akurjata.ca · 10mo ago“Historically, this type of suspended sentence was akin to a form of judicial clemency,” said B.C. Supreme Crt Justice Michael Tammen. “In this case, it is appropriate to extend such judicial clemency, in part based on the need to foster reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples.” www.cbc.ca/9.6939560
the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.
Mark Misoshnik@misoshnik.bsky.social · 10mo agoLmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?
🚨 URGENT SOLIDARITY SUPPORT NEEDED IN MI’KMA’KI 🚨Mi’kmaw land defenders have been leading a resistance on Hunters’ Mountain in Unama’ki/Cape Breton for over a month now to block industrial developments that would destroy sacred grounds and harm the vulnerable moose population
Independent Investigations Office report says duty of care not met for 21-year-old who died in Williams Lake, B.C., RCMP cell Tŝilhqot'in First Nation member Surrance Myers died after collapsing in an RCMP holding cell and not being checked on for about two hours. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
21-year-old died in cell after guard failed to check on him after medical emergency, IIO report says | CBC News
Tŝilhqot'in First Nation member Surrance Myers died after collapsing in an RCMP holding cell in Williams Lake, B.C. and not being checked on for about two hours, an Independent Investigations Office r...
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I know this case is all over - & it should be - but Turning Point USA has waged a harassment campaign against faculty for more than a decade. I know of at least a half dozen other faculty, personally, who have received death threats and several of those who felt so unsafe they too left their homes
David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 10mo agoAre we great yet? Mark Bray, a Rutgers University professor and expert on anti-fascist groups, is fleeing to Spain with his family due to death threats that stem from a campaign by Turning Point USA and other conservative groups to get him fired, falsely labeling him as an antifa member.
