Prairie Harm Reduction gave so much more than it ever cost. It gave life. Community. And respect. Again and again. That deserves our grief, our anger, and our demand for a province that does better than this. #yxe #sask #HIV #overdose #housingcrisis #poverty #funding substack.com/@rloewenwalk...
Where are the protagonists of inclusionary politics to turn, if we have lost the once reliable class base for our politics?
Colin Crouch reminds us that exclusionary parties rarely achieve the support of a third of citizens.
politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/the-end...
90s, but still works: youtu.be/sb-gh6hJr30?...
A helpful glossary for Leavitt's press conferences is that "frankly insulting"=true.
When I started this research, I suspected that the inclusion era would not last but hoped something better would come to replace it. Some recent shifts in disability policy discourse (e.g. MAiD) and design (e.g. Canada Disability Benefit) seem to confirm my suspicions. What comes next? (4/4)
The paper analyzes and classifies the different ways the concept has been framed in all provincial and federal intellectual disability policies. (3/4)
In it, I label the last 25 years the "inclusion era" in Canadian disability policy, as inclusion and disability have become closely entwined in policy discourse (e.g. a federal minister of disability inclusion, the disability inclusion action plan, provincial accessibility policies, etc.) (2/4)
Thrilled to share this article I authored on how 'social inclusion' is framed in Canadian disability policy design. 🧵(1/4)
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#OpenAccess from @jpublicpolicy.bsky.social -
Framing social inclusion in Canadian intellectual disability policy - https://cup.org/4smpSGv
- @daniel-dickson.bsky.social
#FirstView
an important consideration in disability policy. It's not always the parents
the human body was not designed to know what the worst person in the world is doing every fifteen minutes
A picture of Mamdani saying “A contract with McKinsey at Department of Social Services?”
A picture of Mamdani pulling money from behind a picture saying “that’s 9 million that we won’t be spending next year”
Mamdani has a seemingly DOGE pitch, but is actually delivering on reducing wasteful spending. My favorite? He’s cutting all kinds of contracting out to private vendors—including, drumroll, McKinsey
This is bad, and the backlash against non-permanent residents has clearly gone way too far (though not as far as in some other countries, obviously).
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Scott Moe, Feb 24th: “A traditional data centre will employ four people: two electricians and two janitors … I’ll take a potash mine every day of the week.”
Scott Moe March 6th, "This data centre is an economic boon to the province." www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public.
I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are.
1/ Here's what I can share:
Very excited to listen to this! Toscano's Late Fascism is such a valuable resource in the struggle to make sense of contemporary global politics.
The Olympics bring amazing stories of perseverance, but I could really do without these narratives celebrating athletes for 'overcoming' impairment. For one, they encourage the type of dangerous hubris that convinces someone to ski on a blown ACL. Most importantly, ableism harms disabled people.
Palantir fasciitis
Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”
In the middle of a Depression he would be saying how great everything is and how much we should thank him.
Begin g today we will govern expansively and audaciously. We may not always succeed. But never will we be accused of lacking the courage to try. To those who insist that the era of big government is over, hear me when I say this: No longer will City Hall hesitate to use its power to improve New Yorkers’ lives.
Reagan, 1981: “In the present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.”
Clinton, 1996: “I say again, the era of big government is over. But we cannot go back to the era of fending for yourself.”
Mamdani, 2026:
“PhD-level intelligence” they said
This is the *federal* government paying for the *City* to take action on what is constitutionally Saskatchewan *provincial* govt responsibility - because the Saskatchewan govt will not act to provide adequate social housing.
It's officially out! City Politics in Canada, co-edited with @jacklucas.bsky.social and Martin Horak @westernupolisci.bsky.social is in print and available for course adoption. Thank you to all chapter authors for their contributions. bsky.app/profile/did:...
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
so, this right here? this is one of the absolutely most lawless, brazenly unconstitutional impeachable offenses ever committed by any president other than trump in the history of our country.
like, this is an open and shut case. and it's a case which targeted *republicans.*
I used to be a personal support worker, where a lot of my work was helping people overcome isolative barriers in an ableist society. PSWs are policy actors, but they are also social supports. Here is another great resource on MAID to complement the one you shared: cjds.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cj...
However, I recognize that proponents of MAID see it as an end to suffering for people with no other possibility for relief. This is also often experientially-informed, and tied to trauma and loss. My whole point was re: social supports, which are tied to social policy for some
It's a very complex topic because I think how you view it depends on personal experience/ ability to compartmentalize information. For people who see these policy failures less as the context within which MAID operates and more as a cause of their personal suffering, MAID means something different
