Kelly Fritsch
@kellyfritsch.bsky.social
Canada Research Chair in Disability, Health, and Social Justice. Author of Broken Worlds, Disabled Kin (2026); Disability Injustice (2022); We Move Together (2021); Keywords for Radicals (2016).
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“In three known cases, palliative patients died without pain medications and one patient died without nutrition because supplies were delayed” #onpoli
'Pain crisis': Inside the supply shortage that devastated Ontario’s home care system
'Pain crisis': Inside the supply shortage that devastated Ontario’s home care system
Documents reveal how a cost-cutting merger led to palliative patients dying without medication or nutrition
dlvr.it
February 13, 2026 at 12:06 AM
“In three known cases, palliative patients died without pain medications and one patient died without nutrition because supplies were delayed” #onpoli
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"Almost a year after the report’s release, there is no plan to substantially act on any of the UN’s recommendations. Government officials guessed right: mainstream news outlets have largely ignored the report’s criticisms of MAiD. " @spichaksimon.bsky.social
breachmedia.ca/canada-sides...
breachmedia.ca/canada-sides...
Canada sidesteps UN scrutiny over assisted dying ⋆ The Breach
Calls by disability advocates and the UN to halt an expansion of medically assisted death have gone largely unacknowledged by the federal government
breachmedia.ca
February 11, 2026 at 7:04 PM
"Almost a year after the report’s release, there is no plan to substantially act on any of the UN’s recommendations. Government officials guessed right: mainstream news outlets have largely ignored the report’s criticisms of MAiD. " @spichaksimon.bsky.social
breachmedia.ca/canada-sides...
breachmedia.ca/canada-sides...
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I'd watch a muppet show movie where the muppets infiltrate an academic conference.
February 7, 2026 at 2:45 PM
I'd watch a muppet show movie where the muppets infiltrate an academic conference.
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If only sociologists would stop
talking about structure & agency.
talking about structure & agency.
I do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors.
Great work everyone.
Great work everyone.
February 7, 2026 at 2:32 AM
If only sociologists would stop
talking about structure & agency.
talking about structure & agency.
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I talked with three Minneapolis organizers, including Andrew Fahlstrom and Susan Raffo, about community defense in Minneapolis, the social fabric of collective care under federal occupation, and how people around the country should be gearing up for the long struggle ahead. Audio + transcript:
Minneapolis Community Defense Is “Riding on the Learning Edge of a Whirlwind”
“We are becoming the people that we always knew that we needed to be,” says Minneapolis organizer Andrew Fahlstrom.
truthout.org
February 5, 2026 at 2:55 PM
I talked with three Minneapolis organizers, including Andrew Fahlstrom and Susan Raffo, about community defense in Minneapolis, the social fabric of collective care under federal occupation, and how people around the country should be gearing up for the long struggle ahead. Audio + transcript:
Available for pre-order from @uminnpress.bsky.social: Broken Worlds, Disabled Kin: Strategies for Collective Survival, co-authored with @anneemcguire.bsky.social
www.upress.umn.edu/978151791973...
www.upress.umn.edu/978151791973...
Broken Worlds, Disabled Kin
A call to remake our world through a new politics of disabled kin-makingWe live in a world broken by design: a web of systems that debilitate and kill throug...
www.upress.umn.edu
February 2, 2026 at 8:48 PM
Available for pre-order from @uminnpress.bsky.social: Broken Worlds, Disabled Kin: Strategies for Collective Survival, co-authored with @anneemcguire.bsky.social
www.upress.umn.edu/978151791973...
www.upress.umn.edu/978151791973...
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In news you may have missed in this miserable world, legislated poverty is real. The province (ODSP, OW) and the federal government (CPP-D, CDB, DTC) do not care. As one politician said to me, 'It would be easier if you didn't exist.' Such a nice thing to say and believe. Arsehat
#OnPoli #CdPoli
#OnPoli #CdPoli
Number of homeless ODSP, OW recipients in Ontario surges 72% since 2019: report | CBC News
The number of people on Ontario Works and the Ontario Disability Support Program who are also experiencing homelessness has shot up 72 percent since 2019, according to a new report from human rights o...
www.cbc.ca
January 25, 2026 at 9:32 PM
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Everything old being new again all at once is not a coincidence
Genetic Data From Over 20,000 U.S. Children Misused for ‘Race Science’
www.nytimes.com
January 24, 2026 at 12:57 PM
Everything old being new again all at once is not a coincidence
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Nothing new to say, plenty new to do, infinite solidarity with everyone else trying to do it
January 24, 2026 at 4:45 PM
Nothing new to say, plenty new to do, infinite solidarity with everyone else trying to do it
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I've read most of the scholarship about US policing since the early 20th century. What you learn from this is that violence is inherent. You cannot "separate" out violence from policing. Police in the U.S. are violence workers.
January 15, 2026 at 2:33 AM
I've read most of the scholarship about US policing since the early 20th century. What you learn from this is that violence is inherent. You cannot "separate" out violence from policing. Police in the U.S. are violence workers.
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"I write about the 3 Americas: one built on AI speculation, one held together by healthcare, and one running on memes"
Brilliant &brooding piece by @kyla.bsky.social that runs a thread through the american shatterbelt
@katemac.bsky.social & I honored to be quoted!
kyla.substack.com/p/how-ai-hea...
Brilliant &brooding piece by @kyla.bsky.social that runs a thread through the american shatterbelt
@katemac.bsky.social & I honored to be quoted!
kyla.substack.com/p/how-ai-hea...
August 7, 2025 at 7:53 PM
"I write about the 3 Americas: one built on AI speculation, one held together by healthcare, and one running on memes"
Brilliant &brooding piece by @kyla.bsky.social that runs a thread through the american shatterbelt
@katemac.bsky.social & I honored to be quoted!
kyla.substack.com/p/how-ai-hea...
Brilliant &brooding piece by @kyla.bsky.social that runs a thread through the american shatterbelt
@katemac.bsky.social & I honored to be quoted!
kyla.substack.com/p/how-ai-hea...
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Pickles are the bananas of a sandwich smoothie.
December 18, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Pickles are the bananas of a sandwich smoothie.
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Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
December 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
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We published our AI policy yesterday. It affirms our commitment to human-made writing, photography and illustrations. #journalism #localnews You can read more here: thetyee.ca/Tyeenews/202...
The Tyee Has a New AI Policy | The Tyee
Long story short: We’re mostly taking a pass on the robots.
thetyee.ca
December 6, 2025 at 6:07 PM
We published our AI policy yesterday. It affirms our commitment to human-made writing, photography and illustrations. #journalism #localnews You can read more here: thetyee.ca/Tyeenews/202...
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Alice Wong’s legacy is the political horizon she helped articulate. A horizon where disabled knowledge is central, and care is a shared commitment. She taught us to name grief & rage without collapsing under them, to celebrate disabled brilliance without ignoring the material conditions shaping life
November 15, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Alice Wong’s legacy is the political horizon she helped articulate. A horizon where disabled knowledge is central, and care is a shared commitment. She taught us to name grief & rage without collapsing under them, to celebrate disabled brilliance without ignoring the material conditions shaping life
May we build worlds worthy of Alice’s memory. 💔 Rest in power @sfdirewolf.bsky.social
November 15, 2025 at 2:44 PM
May we build worlds worthy of Alice’s memory. 💔 Rest in power @sfdirewolf.bsky.social
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Nearly two decades of stagnant provincial funding, a seven-year freeze on domestic tuition, and federal cuts to international student visas have left many of Ontario's colleges and universities in dire financial straits.
Ontario’s Post-Secondary Education Crisis in Five Figures | The Local
Stagnant provincial funding, a domestic tuition freeze, cuts to international students, and expensive capital projects—the numbers behind the emergency in higher education.
thelocal.to
November 9, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Nearly two decades of stagnant provincial funding, a seven-year freeze on domestic tuition, and federal cuts to international student visas have left many of Ontario's colleges and universities in dire financial straits.
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Behind a 2018 mass eviction in Ottawa lies a broader shift in Canada’s housing system.
Neal Rockwell investigates how rental housing has been transformed into a speculative asset class, driving up rents and displacing racialized tenants. breachmedia.ca/how-the-dism...
Neal Rockwell investigates how rental housing has been transformed into a speculative asset class, driving up rents and displacing racialized tenants. breachmedia.ca/how-the-dism...
The corporate blueprint behind the eviction of Ottawa’s most diverse neighbourhood ⋆ The Breach
Behind Heron Gate’s destruction lies a broader shift in Canada’s housing system—financial firms, pension funds, and private equity investors have transformed rental housing into a speculative asset cl...
breachmedia.ca
November 4, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Behind a 2018 mass eviction in Ottawa lies a broader shift in Canada’s housing system.
Neal Rockwell investigates how rental housing has been transformed into a speculative asset class, driving up rents and displacing racialized tenants. breachmedia.ca/how-the-dism...
Neal Rockwell investigates how rental housing has been transformed into a speculative asset class, driving up rents and displacing racialized tenants. breachmedia.ca/how-the-dism...
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Founders of groundbreaking Vancouver compassion club found guilty of drug trafficking
Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum, who sold club members drugs they had tested for safety, plan to launch a constitutional challenge against Canada's drug laws on November 24.
pressprogress.ca/founders-of-...
Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum, who sold club members drugs they had tested for safety, plan to launch a constitutional challenge against Canada's drug laws on November 24.
pressprogress.ca/founders-of-...
Founders of groundbreaking Vancouver compassion club found guilty of drug trafficking
Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum, who sold club members drugs they had tested for safety, plan to launch a constitutional challenge against Canada's drug laws on November 24.
pressprogress.ca
November 7, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Founders of groundbreaking Vancouver compassion club found guilty of drug trafficking
Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum, who sold club members drugs they had tested for safety, plan to launch a constitutional challenge against Canada's drug laws on November 24.
pressprogress.ca/founders-of-...
Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum, who sold club members drugs they had tested for safety, plan to launch a constitutional challenge against Canada's drug laws on November 24.
pressprogress.ca/founders-of-...
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Street drugs have killed more than 18,600 BCers. DULF worked with cops, health authorities, feds to try and source, test and sell drugs with a known purity and potency to reduce overdose deaths.
Their strategy was saving lives.
Today they were found guilty of trafficking.
thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...
Their strategy was saving lives.
Today they were found guilty of trafficking.
thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...
DULF Founders Guilty of Drug Trafficking | The Tyee
Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum didn’t have permission to sell tested drugs despite good intentions, court finds.
thetyee.ca
November 8, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Street drugs have killed more than 18,600 BCers. DULF worked with cops, health authorities, feds to try and source, test and sell drugs with a known purity and potency to reduce overdose deaths.
Their strategy was saving lives.
Today they were found guilty of trafficking.
thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...
Their strategy was saving lives.
Today they were found guilty of trafficking.
thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...
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The truth is this is a moment where many different possibilities for the future are opening, and they are opening at an extremely high cost. Solidarity to everyone who is trying to build a path to a better world for us all right now, amidst every loss and grief we are carrying. Solidarity forever.
September 30, 2025 at 8:50 PM
The truth is this is a moment where many different possibilities for the future are opening, and they are opening at an extremely high cost. Solidarity to everyone who is trying to build a path to a better world for us all right now, amidst every loss and grief we are carrying. Solidarity forever.
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This moment where everything is being broken is a moment about what we build to replace it, too.
October 1, 2025 at 1:00 AM
This moment where everything is being broken is a moment about what we build to replace it, too.
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AMTRAK CUSTOMER SURVEY: What could we have done better during your recent travel delay?
ME: Seize America's rails back from private control.
ME: Seize America's rails back from private control.
August 15, 2025 at 12:19 PM
AMTRAK CUSTOMER SURVEY: What could we have done better during your recent travel delay?
ME: Seize America's rails back from private control.
ME: Seize America's rails back from private control.
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“Perhaps most strikingly of all, he warned the worsening climate crisis appears to be on track to destroy capitalism.”
"“If this volume just grows even more, we simply have a societal situation that is not bearable anymore because it is just too much risk that is no longer covered,” Thallinger told CNBC..."
whatever politicians pretend to believe about climate, this is what they know
www.cnbc.com/2025/08/08/c...
whatever politicians pretend to believe about climate, this is what they know
www.cnbc.com/2025/08/08/c...
Why insurers worry the world could soon become uninsurable
Günther Thallinger, a board member at Allianz, one of the world's biggest insurers, says the climate crisis could make adaptation economically unviable.
www.cnbc.com
August 10, 2025 at 11:08 AM
“Perhaps most strikingly of all, he warned the worsening climate crisis appears to be on track to destroy capitalism.”
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Fun fact: even as UCLA is being extorted for $1B by a fascist government, its administration is requiring all faculty to install a “security” program that surveils everything we do and shares that information with the federal government.
Summary of our concerns
1. Implementation Timeline
We have learned that the UC system has suffered numerous and increasingly frequent cyber attacks and security breaches. For years, the administration has done little to stud...
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August 9, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Fun fact: even as UCLA is being extorted for $1B by a fascist government, its administration is requiring all faculty to install a “security” program that surveils everything we do and shares that information with the federal government.