At a time when Canadians are feeling seduced by Conservatism, here's 10 reasons why they are awful for folks who don't remember 2006 - 2015 ma why they are awful, by remembering the Harper gov't which is moderate compared to PP: 1.) totally pro-genocide 2.) hate the environment

Big Oil raked in record-breaking profits. The companies that caused the climate crisis are getting rich as they fuel the fire. @ExxonMobil: $55.7 billion Shell: $39.87 billion Chevron: $35.5 billion @BP_plc: $27.7 billion Time to make the pay for the damage they've caused.

I was on Democracy Now! today: "We’re living in the increasingly shrill dissonance between the fact of climate change & the governments serving the petroleum industry & the investors dependent on keeping it in business." democracynow.org/2025/1/9/la_wi… #LAFireStorm #lafires

Here is a new documentary I co-produced based on my project on climate change preparedness in Black communities in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area. Funded by the McConnell Foundation. youtube.com/watch?v=NptN_M…

The news cycle might be done with California, but the fire weather isn't . . .

Mark Stoll charts a path through histories of energy, extraction and profit: youtube.com/watch?v=yTzzqI…

On April 17, Imre Szeman will be in Halifax to take part in a podcast recording & book launch to mark the release of Futures of the Sun, from U of MN Press. Before these events, I'll be hosting 3 reading group sessions on March 21, 28 & April 4 from 5-6p.m. tinyurl.com/futuresofthesun

Why isn't technology the answer? Because it offers itself as the sole answer to crisis. Imre Szeman, author of Futures of the Sun, talks about how technological solutions like EVs undermine the Left's insistence on radical social change. #TeslaTakedown tinyurl.com/futuresofthesun

Mark your calendars: on April 17 from 6-7pm, Imre Szeman and I will be at the Trident Cafe in Halifax to chat about the ideas in Futures of the Sun, and to give away copies of the book to the first 20 lucky attendees. Get details and food for thought at tinyurl.com/futuresofthesun.

Why does the future seem fixed yet uncertain? At the Trident Cafe in Halifax, on April 17 from 6-7pm, chat with author Imre Szeman about some of the most pressing concerns of our time. How do we change the future? Why do we accept the present? More at tinyurl.com/futuresofthesun.

Judy Haiven fights the imperialist logic that renders Palestinians disposable. The overwhelming destruction, the Zionist wrath, that has been inflicted upon Palestine is impossible to ignore now. We are living in the aftermath of a foreseeable slaughter. youtube.com/watch?v=k8mEF_…

Mark Bourrie rips Pierre Poilievre for being Canada's "Trump-lite” & sowing division. Bourrie shows how we arrived at this decisive moment in our history, one where rippers like Poilievre are poised to capitalize on conflict. Dr. Mark Bourrie Biblioasis creators.spotify.com/pod/dashboard/…

When oligarchs see that the “jig is up” and still let their deathly fear of wasting fossil fuel investments get in the way of sunsetting fossil fuel infrastructure, what do we do? Futures of the Sun book launch @Trident Booksellers & Cafe in Halifax🌎 tinyurl.com/futuresofthesun

Max Haiven is the author of books on finance capitalism and the politics of revenge. His latest project focuses on games as a major feature of everyday life under advanced capitalism. He's also designed a board game called Billionaires and Guillotines. youtu.be/hVV2A9reL2s

If you haven't heard of Billionaires and Guillotines, and you're totally fucking disgusted by the ecocidal rapaciousness of oligarchic capitalism, then you've just found your favorite new board game: youtube.com/shorts/RvMB9dC…

As massacres in Gaza escalate and survivors dwindle, I've made a decision: I will walk out of interviews that ask if I “believe the figures from Gaza.” As if incinerated children require proof, and their numbers mattered. Also, after scores of journalists were murdered, who’s

Caleb Wellum talks about how our energy habits, beliefs about lifestyle, convenience, war and nationalism, were formed by the high stakes ideological games that played out during the infamous 1970s "oil shocks." bit.ly/43p5bPR Hopkins Press UTM Historical Studies Petrocultures

Alexander Gallant and Sarah Swire walk us through the ecstatic discipline of making music youtube.com/watch?v=FsVdoB… In this interview, Gallant and Swire talk about why they think people tend to be more inspired by direct experiences of art, and why you should go see live music.

I talked to Kilian Jörg about Ecological Reasonings & why he thinks the AI boom is so hilariously dysfunctional. Jörg's book is essential reading for people that want to permanently defeat fossil capital, fascism, settler colonialism & ecocidal capitalism. youtube.com/watch?v=66E3wY…

"Canada was a British multinational company long before it was a country.... It was never purchased, treatied, or negotiated with any... Indigenous nations." - Shiri Pasternak, "Canada is a Bad Company"