Trump's trans healthcare ban is affecting Americans in Canada • Celeste Trianon U.S. international students studying at McGill now need to contend with the fact that if they are transgender, they can't get trans-specific healthcare on campus until they turn 19.

SCOOP: McGill University's on-campus doctors are now refusing to prescribe hormones to trans youth and adults under age 19... if they're U.S. citizens.

They claim liability issues, but this isn't the first time U.S. EOs have interfered with Canadian doctors.

My report: celeste.lgbt/en/2026/04/d...

The EU’s Court of Justice has just ruled anti-LGBTQ+, including anti-trans, laws are ‘contrary to the very identity of the Union as a common legal order in a society in which pluralism prevails’.

British universities paid security firm to ‘spy’ on pro-Palestine students Investigation reveals how Horus, a company led by ex-military intelligence officials, was hired during protest movement.

Horus "trawled through student social media feeds & conducted secret counter-terror threat assessments" about Palestine solidarity & animal rights activists "on behalf of some of Britain’s most elite institutions", incl LSE, Oxford, UCL, Bristol, KCL & Leicester www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/...

An expanded version of my presentation on the case against the proscription of Palestine Action that I presented at the Socio-Legal Studies Association (SLSA) annual conference at University of Sussex has just been published in Critical Legal Thinking. criticallegalthinking.com/2026/04/10/t...

British universities paid security firm to ‘spy’ on pro-Palestine students Investigation reveals how Horus, a company led by ex-military intelligence officials, was hired during protest movement.

Horus "trawled through student social media feeds & conducted secret counter-terror threat assessments" about Palestine solidarity & animal rights activists "on behalf of some of Britain’s most elite institutions", incl LSE, Oxford, UCL, Bristol, KCL & Leicester www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/...

A Newly Discovered Recording Lets You Hear Delta Blues Legend Robert Johnson in Stunning Clarity Great swathes of rock music since the nineteen-sixties would never have existed, we're sometimes told, were it not for the recordings of Robert Johnson. Certainly the likes of Keith Richards, Eric Cla...

Holy SHIT someone found the test pressing of Robert Johnson's Cross Road Blues and it is clear as a PIN www.openculture.com/2026/04/reco...

ROB

Rob.

How Joseph Trutch Set the Stage for BC’s Indigenous Policies | The Tyee The ugly history of land dispossession continues to emerge in political decisions today.

"Trutch dismissed Indigenous title as a legal and moral fiction" but what made him "dangerous was his capacity to turn the colonial theory of Indigenous title into the policy of the land." Incredible piece by @adampolsen.bsky.social for @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...

Your goals are to replace human public sector workers with AI so you can slash public services and to make your buddies at Brookfield even richer by spending public funds on AI infrastructure for private profit.

And has excellent 🥨

I am cackling on the train thinking about that saleswoman clearing the display after we lingered a little too long

Third, so many gorgeous fountains with potable water (and labelled as such).

The combination of these three things made it so easy to just wander without having to worry about basic needs or getting back.

Other cities should take note...

Second, so many public bathrooms! They're clean and all the ones I used had soap and toilet paper. Some had free period products.

Just spent a few days in Geneva. Here are three things I loved. First, hotel bookings come with free transit! I got an email the day before my arrival with a link to create a Geneva Transit Card. The process was super easy -- it's meant to allow you to take transit from the airport/train station.

Guilt by Solidarity The conviction of Anti-ICE protestors on terrorism charges represents a dangerous new front in the Trump administration's war against the left. Yet it also highlights a longer history: over the past…

Today, @azohra.bsky.social explains how the recent conviction of Anti-ICE protestors represents a dangerous and increasingly common form of guilt by association that is antithetical to collective political action.

'The kids I teach in Parkdale gossip about rent increases, tenant meetings, evictions' These Toronto teachers say the effects of high housing costs are showing up in the classroom, from missed meals to outbursts.

One 75 Spencer resident whose child attends school in Parkdale, Lobsang Nyima, said he has lived in the building for 15 years.

He is on rent strike and faces eviction, he said, but his reason for striking is “easy” — “We don’t have enough money to pay (the AGI).”
www.thestar.com/news/gta/why...

Not even Salt Potatoes TM?

Event poster text: Centre for Law and Social Change (SOAS) Radical Legal Support as Anti-Authoritarian Praxis Join us for a discussion with Dr. Irina Ceric (University of Windsor Faculty of Law, Canada) and speakers from protests legal support in London. The poster has two photos: one of me and one from a protest with a banner reading Land Back

London (England) comrades! I’ll be in town giving a talk hosted by @lawsocialchange.bsky.social on Wedn, April 15, 4-6pm. S. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Paul Webley Wing, SOAS & online. Register: www.ticketsource.com/centre-for-l...

Great resource, WCEL! Just a heads up that the Yellowhead stats you cited have actually been updated twice since 2019. Our latest numbers are here: 8thfirerising.ca/injunctions/

B.C. Appeals Court sides with First Nation over Aboriginal title on Nootka Island The B.C. Court of Appeal has overturned a lower-court ruling after finding the judge used an “arbitrary boundary” to determine a First Nation’s Aboriginal title over a swath of Nootka Island off weste...

So glad to see this legal victory for the Nuchatlaht Nation! www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

I fucking hate it.

The very political ‘neutrality’ campaign to exclude equity, diversity, and social justice from higher education A coterie of Canadian academics claiming to support “merit” in university hiring have sued their employers, submitted briefs to parliamentary committees, co-authored reports for conservative think tan...

The claim to possess “objective” or “neutral” knowledge has long been employed by dominant groups to attack every progressive movement in academia. Far from being “objective,” the anti-EDI campaign is thoroughly political in its motivation, design, and dissemination, writes @laurieadkin.bsky.social.

Poilievre says government should cancel Toronto-Quebec City high-speed rail project | CBC News Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says the Liberal government should cancel the high-speed rail project planned to link Toronto and Quebec City.

do not let this man anywhere near the reins of power

SCOTUS, thinking about killing birthright, Knesset, legalized lynching -- what hath the nation-state wrought

Ontario fast-tracks mine despite Grassy Narrows First Nation’s concerns | The Narwhal Grassy Narrows First Nation has challenged a water permit for Kinross Gold’s Great Bear project, as well as the Ontario Mining Act

In February, the Ontario government added a third mine to the list of projects it plans to fast-track, despite concerns from Grassy Narrows First Nation downstream — a community still dealing with the legacy of industrial pollution. thenarwhal.ca/grassy-narro...

Emergency Pod: IOC Ruling on Banning Trans Athletes Trailblazing former pro hockey player Harrison Browne joins Edge of Sports to talk about the recent IOC ruling.

Pictured is anti-trans avatar Kristi Coventry, head of the IOC. I spoke to Harrison Browne, the first trans pro hockey player, about what Coventry’s ruling to ban trans athletes and “gender test” [their phrase] women, ultimately means www.thenation.com/podcast/soci...

The brother of the Heated Rivalry casting director is now leader of Canada’s left party.

A crowd of protestors with signs and flags, gathered around Windsor-Tecumseh MPP Andrew Dowie's office. Protestor signs include the following text: - "IF YOU'RE NOT ANGRY, YOU'RE NOT PAYING ATTENTION" - "Protect Ontario from Doug Ford: Secrecy! Corruption! Privatization! Scandals! Cuts!" - "DOUG FRAUD" In addition to the signs, a red CUPE (Canadian Union of Public Employees) can be seen rippling in the air from a flagpole held by a protestor.

A protestor holding a sign that says "shameful CRONY government", with an image of Ontario Premier Doug Ford's round face replacing the "O" in "CRONY" The protestor is wearing a light brown, corduroy, newsboy cap, with a Tartan scarf and aviator-style sunglasses.

A protestor sitting in a chair, holding a sign with text that reads: - "VOTE MAY 26 & 27" - "Stop Privatizing our Public Hospitals" - "Ontario Health Coalition" - "www.Public.HospitalVote.ca" The protestor is wearing a green knit headband, grey corduroy pants, and Chuck Taylor sneakers with three cherries embroidered on each shoe. Additionally, the protestor is holding a pair of walking canes. The background is comprised of several other protestors.

Three protestors, standing in front of Windsor-Tecumseh MPP Andrew Dowie's office, each holding a sign. The three signs' text reads as follows: - "DOUG FORD IS A NEPO $ BABY $ DROP OUT" - "Education Should Be a Pathway, NOT a Bill" - "CUT FORD, NOT OSAP" - "#dougfordresign" - "#firefordfebruary" The protestor on the left is smiling, holding a maroon red, insulated, stainless steel travel mug, and wearing black pants with a red and pink design. The protestor in the centre is holding a sign, and wearing dark jeans, light brown Timberlands, and a black baseball cap with a skull pattern. The protestor's right hand is extended with a "sign of the horns" hand gesture. The protestors on the right is holding a sign, smiling, carrying an orange penny cruiser board, and is wearing of black pants with grey runners.

"Fire Ford" Protest At Windsor-Tecumseh MPP Andrew Dowie's Office (Ontario, Canada)