The migrant women who care for Canada deserve a future here If the workers who enable others to work cannot remain safe or healthy, the economic system they sustain becomes unstable. As Nathania Ebegbare writes, migrant care providers deserve straightforward p...

The migrant women who care for Canada deserve a future here
Ottawa must treat care labour as crucial social and economic infrastructure
canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...

Just what we need - unchecked power in the hands of plutocrats who will shove even more austerity, resource extraction, militarism and union-busting down our throats. Halleluljah.

Thread detailing Mark Carney’s war on libraries, knowledge, and culture throughout so many parts of society.

His deep cuts to the public service are not in line with the vision he presents of a bold and more independent Canada.

The notion that working-class people can't be good writers without AI is a deeply condescending and cynical lie. If the tech giants flooding the internet with AI slop cared about helping people become writers, they'd pay taxes so we could fund schools and libraries.

I bet you did not read the whole story and so you missed this amazing picture of some of the astonishing baskets created by Spencer Lunham Jr. of the Chippewas of Kettle and Stony Point First Nation, northwest of London. Ontario / #ldnont.

Just look at these beauties...

Sticker with Loblaws logo that says “steal groceries”.

The Problem With Greg Bovino’s Overcoat Isn’t What You Think The head of Border Patrol isn’t referencing the Nazis — but he is sending a message.

This can have consequences for how agents see themselves. If they put on clothes designed for war, they are more likely to see cities as hostile terrain and citizens as enemy combatants, which can increase the chance of violence. Link to the story here:

www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Dr. Gladys West, Mathematician Whose Work Made GPS Possible, Dies at 95 ALEXANDRIA, VA — Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She passed away

Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.

Imagine being this badass

Financialized landlords disproportionately apply to evict in Black neighbourhoods, study finds Findings show the eviction applications rates were five times higher in high-income, majority Black neighbourhoods than financialized landlords’ citywide average.

www.thestar.com/real-estate/...

Cutting taxes, cutting services, weakening labour laws, enriching corporations - none of this is in service of Canadians. You have no vision for a viable future and you're actively making working people poorer. I have nothing but contempt for you. #austerity #canpoli

Ubisoft Shuts Down Assassin's Creed: Rebellion Developer Halifax Studio Just Weeks After It Unionized - IGN Ubisoft has shut down its Halifax Studio, just one month after 61 of its 71 workers voted to unionize.

Solidarity with the workers of Ubisoft Halifax.

Just weeks after they formed the company’s first union in North America, Ubisoft has shut down the shop rather than bargain in good faith. 71 talented folks thrown out of work.

Outrageous!

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The US has attacked a country, kidnapped its head of state, and is seizing its oil. Trump has invoked the Monroe Doctrine.

This is a moment for Canada to stand up: condemn this act of imperialism. Reject impunity and the politics of brute force.

Abysmal statement from Canada on the illegal US action in Venezuela.

It doesn’t matter how much you dislike Maduro, that doesn’t justify a violation of international law and the UN Charter. You can’t call on “all parties” to respect international law and not call out US lawlessness.

There's no legal difference between kidnapping Maduro and kidnapping Mark Carney.

You have to actually point people to the organizing that you say they should do. Where should they plug in? What is the SPECIFIC organizing that you want them to do? BE SPECIFIC.

Lawmakers Want to Ban VPNs—And They Have No Idea What They're Doing It's unfortunately no longer enough to force websites to check your government-issued ID before you can access certain content, because politicians have now discovered that people are using Virtual

Attacks on VPNs are attacks on digital privacy and digital freedom. And that battle is being fought by people who clearly have no idea how any of this technology actually works. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

This is your reminder to

USE YOUR LOCAL LIBRARY

THERE'S BOOKS THERE
AND MOVIES
MUSIC
PUBLIC COMPUTERS W/ INTERNET

IT'S ALSO FREE

Worst words to hear in a discussion about library reorganization: "Consultants were involved"

With the economic statement coming out today expect a ton of caterwauling over the deficit. Don't fall for it, those who love starving gov't of revenue use deficits they create to justify cutting services we all need.
The only things that matter regarding deficits are how they are created #cdnpoli

Legislating postal workers back to work undermines their right to collective bargaining. Shame on the Canadian government for pulling this shit time and again.

'We're not going back:' Calgary postal workers defiant in face of impending back-to-work order Calgary posties rallied in the city's northeast Saturday in the face of an impending back-to-work order.

“We must determine the content of our next contract … we weren’t out here four weeks for nothing.
“On Monday, our picket lines will be up and running and we will not kowtow to an employer who uses the government to legislate us back … we are not going back.”
calgaryherald.com/news/local-n...

We shouldn’t accept that a CEO killer must get a national manhunt when cops don’t solve most murders at all. A migrant teenager was just murdered in NYC, cops just killed a guy here — the lives of these other people are worth just as much as that CEO.

We joined @cupwsttp.bsky.social Scarborough workers on the picket line. We fight together, we win together.

#Posties #ISupportPostalWorkers #OnLab #CdnPoli

Does binding arbitration undermine worker's rights? @jeyantvo.bsky.social asks @waltonmomof2.bsky.social (@oflabour.bsky.social), Ian Lee (@carletonu.bsky.social), Rafael Gomez (@uoft.bsky.social), and Steven Barrett (@gpllp.bsky.social) tonight at 8/11pm #canlab #cdnpoli

This Union-Owned Vegas Hotel is Hiring Scabs to Break a Strike In her 17 years as a guest room attendant, Isabel Gonzalez has scarcely had a moment’s rest. Gonzalez is responsible for cleaning 15 hotel rooms per day—stripping dirty linens, taking out the trash, m...

More than a year into bargaining, Virgin Hotels Las Vegas was still proposing a $0 raise for the first three years of a five-year contract.

“We’re not going to accept that. It’s a joke," Isabel Gonzalez, a guest room attendant, told @nataschaelena.bsky.social: labornotes.org/2024/11/unio...

Government of Canada lists Ansarallah as a terrorist entity From: Public Safety Canada News release December 2, 2024 Ottawa, Ontario

Another win for the Israel lobby!

This year they have gotten three of their-long time wishes on terror designations, with the IRGC, Samidoun and now Ansarallah being added to the list.

Read more about their plan to punish pro-Palestine advocacy: www.readthemaple.com/the-israel-l...

Media Coverage of the Canada Post Strike is Centering Business Interests, Not the Interests of Workers Canadian media coverage of the postal strike promotes anti-worker narratives

Media Coverage of the Canada Post Strike is Centering Business Interests, Not the Interests of Workers

Canadian media coverage of the postal strike promotes anti-worker narratives
pressprogress.ca/media-covera...