#YorkUEUC's Professor Ilan Kapoor's comments on recent American & Canadian politics. Read. "Trump’s lurking assault on Canada rests on endless lies and irrational populism" The Conversation Canada 📰 #CDNPoli #YorkU 🔗 bit.ly/4bbbjP0

On the Green Majority Radio monthly best-of episode: ➡️The Energy Mix's mitchellbeer ➡️Matt Huber's Climate Change As Class War ➡️Alberta Advantage 🌾's infrastructure_enjoyer on tariffs and Calgary's municipal transit debacle ➡️ + more greenmajority.ca/the-podcast/20…

"Instead of new east-west pipelines, we need an east-west electricity grid that brings hydroelectricity from the four great hydro provinces — B.C., Manitoba, Quebec and Newfoundland Labrador — to their hydro-deficient neighbouring provinces." thestar.com/opinion/contri…

#YorkUEUC Professor Raju Das invites you to submit a paper to the Power of Marxist Thought Conference this Sept! If you are interested in Marxism's importance in the context of the wider intellectual realm & theory, this conference is for you 📄✏️. 🔗 | bit.ly/3PMLfA4.

York United for Equity and Against (reckless) Austerity. #WeAReYorkU #WeRiseTogether

What's striking about capitalist civilization is that it has no real direction. There's no vision for social progress, no commitment to improving human welfare or ecology. All we get is the chaos of profit-oriented production and accumulation as the world burns around us.

I think we’ll be seeing a lot of this over the next four years.

Trump says any car “not made in America” gets a 25% tariff. That means EVERY car gets a tariff, cuz there’s no such thing as a “car made in America.” Only cars made in NORTH America. Every one of which has a lot of 🇨🇦🇺🇸 and 🇲🇽 content in it. #cdnecon /2

The new book by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson is grand sketch of liberalism's future that ultimately fails to reach beyond the lean horizons of its present. My review of Abundance: lukewsavage.com/p/the-paucity-…

TMX as "disappearing pipeline." One of the args I elaborate in my diss is (1) that pipeline's materially/symbolically vanish once operational & (2) that TMX specifically became a symptomatic absence in the pro-fossil fuel/western alienation discourse. hilltimes.com/story/2025/05/…

Infrastructure Beyond Extractivism is hosting a webinar on May 23. More info + registration --> jurisdiction-infrastructure.com/panel-event-re…

“New fossil fuel export infrastructure such as pipelines or LNG terminals are not in any way compatible with a credible climate alignment plan for Canada... Canada’s over-reliance economically on oil and gas is a significant fiscal liability..." theenergymix.com/pipelines-ccs-…

"A blockade is a refusal of not knowing as a social and political principle: the interruption of trade routes by militant resistance groups, limbs linked and caked in plaster, bodies before a boarding dock." parapraxismagazine.com/articles/the-b…

Wow. Carney didn't consult with chiefs before passing the megaprojects law, said he would consult after. Now during "consultations" he says their feedback won't change the law.

No two words are used more and mean less than "socialist" and "Marxist" in American political discourse

In this existential 'Elbows Up' moment for Canada's economy, public discourse has been overly influenced by loud demands from corporations & their political backers to implement their age-old agenda: deregulate (especially environmental rules), cut taxes, build more pipelines. /2

To broaden the discourse over Canada's economic strategy under Trump, @policyalternatives and Centre for Future Work (Canada) have released a new 'Factbook'. See it at policyalternatives.ca/news-research/…. #canlab /4

This spin on things is extraordinary. Carney's government quite literally tried to crush the strike within hours of it beginning and impose a contract on flight attendants from above. Now that the union has won, he's pretending he supported its cause the whole time.