What even is a “hart hub”? From what I can gather it’s system navigators and outreach workers doing exactly what? I couldn’t tell you because they aren’t up and running and won’t be april 1 and they don’t replace a supervised consumption site where people get wrap around care.

"WAGE is now under Heritage! Don't worry!" 🤨 1) Where was the heads-up to feminist civil society? 2) A re-named department of "Canadian Culture and Identity" doesn't entirely make that clear. 3) Partisanship is a killer of critical thinking. #cdnpoli

Ottawa's "progressive councillors" saying the same shit about harm reduction that Ford does

"Our current criminological imagination seems uninterested in the remaking of the social order. However, an abolitionist perspective allows us to develop alternate analyses to what might be possible." Another brilliant piece from mitra 🔥

Molly Wickham of the Wet'suwet'en nation will soon be sentenced for blockading a pipeline project A judge said the RCMP violated her rights when arresting her, but the cops have faced no consequences I sat down with Wickham for The Breach breachmedia.ca/wetsuweten-lea…

The 9 organizations that have closed their supervised consumption sites have not received the funding for the hart hubs that the government is claiming are open. They are not. And there is no systems plan to deal with the uptake in ODs, public use etc. news.ontario.ca/en/release/100…

The sites the Ontario government said it would create after closing safe consumption sites are not running. There are no written agreements for them yet, and no funding has flowed cbc.ca/news/canada/to…

If Pollievre is elected, it will be devastating for trans folks, Black, Indigenous folks, migrants, and all poor and working class people, not to mention things taken for granted, like access to large news & media that is not owned by US hedge funds. It's THE worst timeline.

English media is barely covering Pollievre’s threats, direct from Trumps playbook, to defund universities who “don’t do enough to combat antisemitism.” Threats of deportation. It is a direct threat to higher education and to our students ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/21587…?

Whoever is elected we will need to fight against imperialism and extraction, and to defend Black, Indigenous, Palestinian, racialized, poor, and unhoused people from border violence brutal policing and prisons and murderous austerity. (1 of 2)

Can we talk about it yet? How so much movement work and energy gets co-opted by electoral politics (and I participated and facilitated in this)? Can we talk about how those who enter these spaces and try to take their principles with them get eaten alive?

An important component of this song is that Fiona Apple spent years as part of a community group just watching what judges, prosecutors, and police do in court. My mother also did this when she retired. It's an incredible service to the possibility of a democratic society.

The #Madleen is an incredible effort to get food and medicine to the starving people of Gaza. It is an unarmed, civilian effort to do good in the midst of devastation & catastrophic humanitarian conditions.

Israel being afraid of this vessel shows the world how afraid they are of outsiders showing the world more truths about their atrocities.

People do not have be peaceful rising up against their oppressors and/or FACISM. You will never be a perfect victim in the face of state violence. There’s nothing peaceful about the state. Solidarity with those rising up against ICE.

For the past few years, front-line workers in Toronto have relied on private donations of bottled water to keep homeless people alive and healthy during the summer — all because City of Toronto 🇨🇦 refuses to enact a water strategy. This year, there is no donated water. This is bad.

NEW PUB 🚨 “Abolitionist considerations and anti-carceral propositions for the carceral university: Examining higher education in prison and systems-impacted students” Many thanks to Dr. Erin Corbett, AG of Wakanda and Brother Maurice for bringing this to life. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

the ottawa carleton district school board is choosing to suspend a graduating student for speaking out on colonial genocide in her valedictorian speech. shame on you, bell high school and shame on you ocdsb. shame on you, Ottawa. you are all complicit.