It's so hard for the public to viscerally understand how bad policy manifests for encampment residents. This is a stunning, albeit familiar portrait of the senselessness, duplicity, shiftlessness, and abandonment Canadian society forces you to endure. thelocal.to/toronto-encamp…

A national expert on mortality data says Alberta has been underreporting drug deaths on its dashboard and to PHAC for several years. This underreporting worsened in 2023 and may help explain the sudden drop in deaths seen so far in 2024. #ableg stalbertgazette.com/local-news/alb…

“It is mindblowing that what precipitated the enforcement against us was politicization.” DULF's Jeremy Kalicum & Erys Nyx, with their lawyers, speak out on how they'll fight charges for operating a compassion club to save lives. dustin reports: filtermag.org/dulf-strategy-…

Arfa Rana, only Muslim in the news room, resigned from Canada’s largest broadcasting corporation CBC Language Guide prohibits using the term “colonization" and a senior producer said Palestine is "outdated" term. Manufacturing consent for genocide. mondoweiss.net/2024/10/i-resi…

🚨New Crackdown podcast BC Election ep. I talk to Sam Fenn about the backlash against harm reduction, the coming of forced treatment, the mainstreaming of far right culture war ideas & the ominous possibility of a BC Conservative victory. crackdownpod.com/episodes/episo…

Yesterday, First Nations Leadership had a conversation on how to safeguard all First Nations children from Canada’s discrimination which has separated tens of thousands of First Nations children from their families, cultures, languages and hope. Canada’s discrimination has cost

In the last year, David Eby defunded DULF, gutted decrim, shut some harm reduction & talked up forced treatment. Instead of spending 12 months collapsing to the right, he could've called a snap election in October 2023. With a divided right, he would've scored an easy majority.

“The capitalist system doesn’t care if we die,” says Sarah Jaffe. Puff the Magic Hater talks with author and journalist Sarah Jaffe about how we experience and survive loss, and how grief is impacting our movements. truthout.org/audio/from-the…

Where Do We Go From Here? Join Naomi Klein, Chenjerai.bsky.social, Astra Taylor, and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor for a post-election assessment and conversation Thursday, November 21st at 7:00 pm ET RSVP to attend: tickettailor.com/events/haymark…

US elxn isn't in isolation - Trump, Bibi, Modi, Orbán, Meloni are tip of iceberg of growing fascism. Anti-migrant racism, wars of domination, transmisogyny, rising inflation are their glue. Defeating fascism requires defeating flaccid liberalism that keeps ceding ground to right.

Need some healing today? Puff the Magic Hater talked with radical therapist Dorian Ortega and healing justice practitioners Tanuja Jagernauth and Chiara Galimberti about trauma, and some of the tools and practices that can help us heal. truthout.org/audio/to-trans…

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Use of the notwithstanding clause isn't a "tool in municipal toolboxes" to help cities manage encampments, and it is far from benign; invoking it would give Ontario municipalities the power to eradicate homeless people's Charter-protected right to life. thestar.com/opinion/contri…

its on the political agenda because our cowardly weakass governments, ALL OF THEM, refuse to even *name* what's happening – instead, they lie to you saying it's aDDicTiOn, wave the notwithstanding magic wand so it disappears they are lying. #cdnpoli cbc.ca/news/health/in…

This has to stop. May he rest in power. Erixon Kabera, Black father of three killed by Hamilton police. thespec.com/news/crime/fat…

Good vibes won't protect us from fascism The high road won't protect us from fascism The legal system won't protect us from fascism The media won't protect us from fascism Liberal centrist politicians won't protect us from fascism. They prefer it to any challenge to capital

Where Do We Go From Here? Join Naomi Klein, Chenjerai.bsky.social, Astra Taylor, and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor for a post-election assessment and conversation Thursday, November 21st at 7:00 pm ET RSVP to attend: tickettailor.com/events/haymark…

As Israel ethnically cleanses Gaza, Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt replies, “I told you.” Interviewed by Negro Frolics, the UN expert says “I know Israel, under fog of war, uses the opportunity to forcibly displace Palestinians in order to take the land.” Full interview: youtu.be/tR9_cWkt-HA?si…

How Do Supervised Consumption Sites Work? Amazing piece on TVO. Learn about SCS and what actually happens there. Beautiful programs showing compassionate care. This site is slated to close. tvo.org/video/how-do-s…