alex d.
@alexdacosta.bsky.social
Sociology of Education | Cultural Studies | Anti-Racism | Professor at UAlberta Faculty of Education |
amiskwacîwâskahikan (Edmonton)
#PolicingFreeSchools
Free Palestine
amiskwacîwâskahikan (Edmonton)
#PolicingFreeSchools
Free Palestine
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It's rare for a police officer in Canada to be criminally charged for shooting someone, and then to plead guilty
Andrew Davis shot Devon Fowlin in 2023 and pleaded guilty. He was sentenced on Friday: no jail time and one year of probation
www.thestar.com/news/gta/tor...
Andrew Davis shot Devon Fowlin in 2023 and pleaded guilty. He was sentenced on Friday: no jail time and one year of probation
www.thestar.com/news/gta/tor...
Toronto police officer who shot man in park gets suspended sentence, conditional discharge
Expert tells court police should have used de-escalation in February 2023 incident. Because of his sentence, Const. Andrew Davis will have a chance to keep his job.
www.thestar.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:13 PM
It's rare for a police officer in Canada to be criminally charged for shooting someone, and then to plead guilty
Andrew Davis shot Devon Fowlin in 2023 and pleaded guilty. He was sentenced on Friday: no jail time and one year of probation
www.thestar.com/news/gta/tor...
Andrew Davis shot Devon Fowlin in 2023 and pleaded guilty. He was sentenced on Friday: no jail time and one year of probation
www.thestar.com/news/gta/tor...
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"'They tricked us and said war was over; they made us feel safe,' she sobbed. 'Then they killed my mother.'"
"Haven't they had enough of us dying every day? When will all this end?"
#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Genocide #Military
"Haven't they had enough of us dying every day? When will all this end?"
#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Genocide #Military
Israel kills 33 Gazans in a single night. It's part of a new deadly status quo, Palestinians say.
On Wednesday, Israel killed 33 Palestinians, including 12 children, in its latest violations of the Gaza ceasefire.
mondoweiss.net
November 21, 2025 at 1:30 PM
"'They tricked us and said war was over; they made us feel safe,' she sobbed. 'Then they killed my mother.'"
"Haven't they had enough of us dying every day? When will all this end?"
#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Genocide #Military
"Haven't they had enough of us dying every day? When will all this end?"
#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Genocide #Military
Super important thread. 👇🏻
I know people are closely following what's going on the US and the horrors of ICE, but do you know how Canada is quickly and quietly is growing its deportation machinery?
Canada plans to increase deportations by 25 percent over the next two years. 25 PERCENT!!!
Here are 5 other things to know:
Canada plans to increase deportations by 25 percent over the next two years. 25 PERCENT!!!
Here are 5 other things to know:
November 21, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Super important thread. 👇🏻
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Cbsa offices have been shut down!! No more detentions, no more deportations
November 21, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Cbsa offices have been shut down!! No more detentions, no more deportations
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Breaking we have shut down Cbsa!
November 21, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Breaking we have shut down Cbsa!
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Ice melts in the South
November 21, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Ice melts in the South
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Hey guys if you're Canadian and you think our healthcare here in the US is better or cheaper I'd like to advise you to talk to actual American citizens, and not the rich ones.
November 20, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Hey guys if you're Canadian and you think our healthcare here in the US is better or cheaper I'd like to advise you to talk to actual American citizens, and not the rich ones.
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I think there are a lotta people who think the system #alberta is now trying to get through will be better for “them” personally. Private and for profit healthcare has to prioritize one thing only. Profits. The service isn’t better. The care isn’t better. It usually gets worse and more expensive
I want every Canadian on here to read this 🧵 I can’t believe some of the shit I hear from y’all about healthcare. The out-of-pocket costs will bankrupt you. So I encourage every Canadian who thinks it’s better down there to move to the U.S. and experience if a private system gives better care
November 20, 2025 at 12:15 PM
I think there are a lotta people who think the system #alberta is now trying to get through will be better for “them” personally. Private and for profit healthcare has to prioritize one thing only. Profits. The service isn’t better. The care isn’t better. It usually gets worse and more expensive
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Alberta’s education legislation erodes gender-based violence prevention in K-12 schools
Alberta’s education legislation erodes gender-based violence prevention in K-12 schools
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s legislation attacks critical gender-based violence prevention in the province.
theconversation.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Alberta’s education legislation erodes gender-based violence prevention in K-12 schools
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Doing this two days before TDoR is particularly vile.
Alberta invokes notwithstanding clause on trio of transgender laws
The Alberta government has invoked the Charter’s notwithstanding clause for the second time in less than a month in this case to protect from legal challenge a trio of laws affecting transgender youth...
www.ctvnews.ca
November 18, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Doing this two days before TDoR is particularly vile.
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Who's next?
Now that the notwithstanding clause has become a routine policymaking tool for the UCP, we need to look ahead to their next targets.
This month's AGM will provide clues.
Now that the notwithstanding clause has become a routine policymaking tool for the UCP, we need to look ahead to their next targets.
This month's AGM will provide clues.
November 19, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Who's next?
Now that the notwithstanding clause has become a routine policymaking tool for the UCP, we need to look ahead to their next targets.
This month's AGM will provide clues.
Now that the notwithstanding clause has become a routine policymaking tool for the UCP, we need to look ahead to their next targets.
This month's AGM will provide clues.
Haven’t heard much about a general strike in at least a week?
Cower we all will, with union leadership in tow.
But good job on that strongly worded letter you sent.
The fascists will use it to wipe their asses.
Cower we all will, with union leadership in tow.
But good job on that strongly worded letter you sent.
The fascists will use it to wipe their asses.
I can’t say any of the things I want to say without risking being arrested.
I am fucking livid.
Fuck the ATA leadership for running and hiding when the opportunity was there to take these UCP fuckers down.
And fuck everyone who said that calling the UCP fascists was an over-reaction.
I am fucking livid.
Fuck the ATA leadership for running and hiding when the opportunity was there to take these UCP fuckers down.
And fuck everyone who said that calling the UCP fascists was an over-reaction.
November 19, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Haven’t heard much about a general strike in at least a week?
Cower we all will, with union leadership in tow.
But good job on that strongly worded letter you sent.
The fascists will use it to wipe their asses.
Cower we all will, with union leadership in tow.
But good job on that strongly worded letter you sent.
The fascists will use it to wipe their asses.
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To protect Alberta children, the UCP is removing their human rights and the ability of their parents, teachers, and physicians to protect them.
The UCP knows best.
This is a classic populist trope.
The UCP knows best.
This is a classic populist trope.
November 19, 2025 at 4:00 AM
To protect Alberta children, the UCP is removing their human rights and the ability of their parents, teachers, and physicians to protect them.
The UCP knows best.
This is a classic populist trope.
The UCP knows best.
This is a classic populist trope.
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Anyhow, Edmonton has an alarming rate of killings by police and Alberta is a national leader on police shootings per capita.
November 19, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Anyhow, Edmonton has an alarming rate of killings by police and Alberta is a national leader on police shootings per capita.
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🧵 On the LRT today across from a teenage girl with her feet up across three priority seats.
A cop storms onto the train and barks at her to take her feet off the seats. Girl does so, doesn't say anything.
Cop barks at her: "I can take you off this train right now and write a bylaw infraction."
A cop storms onto the train and barks at her to take her feet off the seats. Girl does so, doesn't say anything.
Cop barks at her: "I can take you off this train right now and write a bylaw infraction."
November 19, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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"50,000 people took to the streets of Belém do Pará, Brazil on Saturday [..] holding a 'Great People's March' and makeshift 'Funeral for Fossil Fuels.'"
"1,600 lobbyists from the fossil fuel industry are present at [COP30]." "[S]econd-largest delegation."
#Brazil #Climate #FossilFuels #Protest
"1,600 lobbyists from the fossil fuel industry are present at [COP30]." "[S]econd-largest delegation."
#Brazil #Climate #FossilFuels #Protest
50,000 March in Brazil to Celebrate Death of Fossil Fuel Industry at COP30
"It is time to put these old fuels where they belong—in the ground of history."
www.commondreams.org
November 16, 2025 at 4:40 PM
"50,000 people took to the streets of Belém do Pará, Brazil on Saturday [..] holding a 'Great People's March' and makeshift 'Funeral for Fossil Fuels.'"
"1,600 lobbyists from the fossil fuel industry are present at [COP30]." "[S]econd-largest delegation."
#Brazil #Climate #FossilFuels #Protest
"1,600 lobbyists from the fossil fuel industry are present at [COP30]." "[S]econd-largest delegation."
#Brazil #Climate #FossilFuels #Protest
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A federal appeals court upheld the hate crime convictions of three white men who chased Ahmaud Arbery with pickup trucks before one of them killed him with a shotgun
US appeals court upholds hate crime convictions of white men in Ahmaud Arbery killing
A federal appeals court has upheld the hate crime convictions of three white men who chased and killed Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia more than five years ago
abcnews.go.com
November 15, 2025 at 1:16 PM
A federal appeals court upheld the hate crime convictions of three white men who chased Ahmaud Arbery with pickup trucks before one of them killed him with a shotgun
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It’s funny that Harvard has been a consistent target for reactionary campaigns, and not one has been dedicated to ousting Larry Summers, an openly political figure who was friends with Jeffrey Epstein; meanwhile, it’s a fine-toothed comb for *checks notes* Black women.
November 12, 2025 at 6:24 PM
It’s funny that Harvard has been a consistent target for reactionary campaigns, and not one has been dedicated to ousting Larry Summers, an openly political figure who was friends with Jeffrey Epstein; meanwhile, it’s a fine-toothed comb for *checks notes* Black women.
These guys are among the greats of hip hop.
OutKast is inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame:
“We started in a little room. Great things start in little rooms”
“We started in a little room. Great things start in little rooms”
November 9, 2025 at 3:03 PM
These guys are among the greats of hip hop.
Hey Media! want to talk to a Canadian physician working hard to make change at COP30?
There are five of us!
Learn more about what we are doing there, and how to reach us, in the link below.
There are five of us!
Learn more about what we are doing there, and how to reach us, in the link below.
Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment (CAPE) Delegation at COP30 to protect people’s health and confront climate disinformation - CAPE
The Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment (CAPE) delegation of physicians and program team will be in Bélem from November 11 to 20. While the federal budget 2025 may have fallen short...
cape.ca
November 8, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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Hey Media! want to talk to a Canadian physician working hard to make change at COP30?
There are five of us!
Learn more about what we are doing there, and how to reach us, in the link below.
There are five of us!
Learn more about what we are doing there, and how to reach us, in the link below.
Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment (CAPE) Delegation at COP30 to protect people’s health and confront climate disinformation - CAPE
The Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment (CAPE) delegation of physicians and program team will be in Bélem from November 11 to 20. While the federal budget 2025 may have fallen short...
cape.ca
November 8, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Hey Media! want to talk to a Canadian physician working hard to make change at COP30?
There are five of us!
Learn more about what we are doing there, and how to reach us, in the link below.
There are five of us!
Learn more about what we are doing there, and how to reach us, in the link below.
Open AI is a pestilence in so many ways.
Capitalism’s culture of speed, profit, war and surveillance is not conducive to careful development of such technology.
This is a tragic story.
Capitalism’s culture of speed, profit, war and surveillance is not conducive to careful development of such technology.
This is a tragic story.
November 8, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Open AI is a pestilence in so many ways.
Capitalism’s culture of speed, profit, war and surveillance is not conducive to careful development of such technology.
This is a tragic story.
Capitalism’s culture of speed, profit, war and surveillance is not conducive to careful development of such technology.
This is a tragic story.
Nothing has convinced me that AI is helpful to the majority of what social sciences & humanities students & researchers do. I see deep damage in relation to research skills, critical thinking, & writing.
The tools are being created to replace us.
They are awful for the earth.
Why participate?
The tools are being created to replace us.
They are awful for the earth.
Why participate?
November 8, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Nothing has convinced me that AI is helpful to the majority of what social sciences & humanities students & researchers do. I see deep damage in relation to research skills, critical thinking, & writing.
The tools are being created to replace us.
They are awful for the earth.
Why participate?
The tools are being created to replace us.
They are awful for the earth.
Why participate?