Kirsten Anker 🇨🇦 🇦🇺
@kirstenanker.bsky.social
Law Prof @ McGill (Indigenous & ecological law, govermentality), visitor who never left Tiotià:ke, reluctant soccer mum, mid-Pacific accent, choir gal, labour enthusiast.
Living through every word of this essay about the collapse of learning in higher ed: fractured attention... instrumentalized study…safety from intellectual challenge… remote writing functionally obsolete. Great solutions offered!
November 21, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Living through every word of this essay about the collapse of learning in higher ed: fractured attention... instrumentalized study…safety from intellectual challenge… remote writing functionally obsolete. Great solutions offered!
This is one way to deal with bureaucracy!
a big runoff last night, in New Orleans:
Calvin Duncan was exonerated after spending *28 years* in prison; he tried to get his own case records from the New Orleans city clerk—but the office dragged its feet.
So Duncan ran to become city clerk himself, and yesterday ousted the incumbent.
Calvin Duncan was exonerated after spending *28 years* in prison; he tried to get his own case records from the New Orleans city clerk—but the office dragged its feet.
So Duncan ran to become city clerk himself, and yesterday ousted the incumbent.
Calvin Duncan wins Orleans clerk of court race - Verite News New Orleans
Duncan, a political newcomer and former prisoner, defeated incumbent Darren Lombard by a wide margin in Saturday's runoff.
veritenews.org
November 16, 2025 at 9:18 PM
This is one way to deal with bureaucracy!
An historic first for Australia!
'Over the moon': Aboriginal activists, leader celebrate historic treaty
Leaders and activists say they are feeling the gravity of Australia's first treaty with Aboriginal people being signed and formalised as law.
www.abc.net.au
November 13, 2025 at 1:34 PM
An historic first for Australia!
Squid Game for real 🤬
November 12, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Squid Game for real 🤬
Reposted by Kirsten Anker 🇨🇦 🇦🇺
Oh FFS. Piss right off will you? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Milan prosecutors investigate alleged ‘sniper tourism’ during Bosnian war
Groups from Italy and elsewhere alleged to have paid Serb soldiers to shoot Sarajevo residents during siege
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Oh FFS. Piss right off will you? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Reposted by Kirsten Anker 🇨🇦 🇦🇺
“Since April's election, oil and gas lobbyists notched at least 177 meetings with federal officials — a third of which were in September alone. If Tuesday's budget is any indication, they successfully persuaded Prime Minister Mark Carney's government” www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/06/n...
Feds faced intense lobbying pressure before budget
Since April's election, oil and gas lobbyists notched at least 177 meetings with federal officials — a third of which were in September alone. If Tuesday's budget is any indication, they successfully ...
www.nationalobserver.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:30 AM
“Since April's election, oil and gas lobbyists notched at least 177 meetings with federal officials — a third of which were in September alone. If Tuesday's budget is any indication, they successfully persuaded Prime Minister Mark Carney's government” www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/06/n...
People can be good.
The people yearn for (democratic) socialism (this one will make you cry)
October 30, 2025 at 4:16 AM
People can be good.
Quebec just passed legislation to allow it to do the same. My union (#AMPL) is challenging it.
October 28, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Quebec just passed legislation to allow it to do the same. My union (#AMPL) is challenging it.
Super cringe and I’m here for it.
When the ICE agent is Canadian… 🇨🇦
❤️🍁🇨🇦TEAM CANADA FOREVER🇨🇦🍁❤️
❤️🍁🇨🇦VIVE LE CANADA 🇨🇦🍁❤️
❤️🍁🇨🇦TEAM CANADA FOREVER🇨🇦🍁❤️
❤️🍁🇨🇦VIVE LE CANADA 🇨🇦🍁❤️
October 22, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Super cringe and I’m here for it.
💯
Universities are at risk of creating a situation where AI busts, public sentiment craters, and they are still contractually obligated to push AI to hostile student bodies.
October 17, 2025 at 10:12 PM
💯
Massive general strike in Italy protesting Gaza
Italy faces nationwide strike over Gaza, several sectors affected
Local public transport, railways, schools, public services, ports affected by general strike - Anadolu Ajansı
www.aa.com.tr
September 22, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Massive general strike in Italy protesting Gaza
Wait… what?
A terrible call.
A terrible call.
Jesus Christ.
A standing ovation — from Liberals too — for Charlie Kirk in the Canadian House of Commons.
You can (and should) oppose political violence without doing all this, you know.
A standing ovation — from Liberals too — for Charlie Kirk in the Canadian House of Commons.
You can (and should) oppose political violence without doing all this, you know.
September 16, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Wait… what?
A terrible call.
A terrible call.
Reposted by Kirsten Anker 🇨🇦 🇦🇺
CANADA: The federal government’s repeated use of back-to-work powers undermines Canadian workers’ right to strike theconversation.com/the-federal-...
The federal government’s repeated use of back-to-work powers undermines Canadian workers’ right to strike
The federal government’s reliance on Section 107 to end strikes undermines collective bargaining and may violate workers’ constitutional right to strike.
theconversation.com
September 5, 2025 at 12:23 PM
CANADA: The federal government’s repeated use of back-to-work powers undermines Canadian workers’ right to strike theconversation.com/the-federal-...
Hard no.
Every single #LPC MP that sits in that party after this was unveiled is complicit. There are no good Liberals left.
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Project 2025 mastermind invited to speak at Carney's cabinet meeting | CBC News
A prominent conservative figure in American politics and the mastermind behind Project 2025 — the infamous policy blueprint that proposed a drastic overhaul of the U.S. government — will speak to Prim...
www.cbc.ca
September 3, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Hard no.
Reposted by Kirsten Anker 🇨🇦 🇦🇺
In news that is entirely unsurprising to faculty
University efficiency drives may have opposite effect, study finds.
The administrative burden in Australian universities is most keenly felt by teaching and research staff, according to a study from the University of Melbourne’s faculty of education.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-aust...
The administrative burden in Australian universities is most keenly felt by teaching and research staff, according to a study from the University of Melbourne’s faculty of education.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-aust...
University efficiency drives may have opposite effect, study finds - Research Professional News
Teaching and research staff say reforms mean more red tape for them, Australian survey reports
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
August 27, 2025 at 10:22 AM
In news that is entirely unsurprising to faculty
Solidarity from @apml-ampd.bsky.social and COFAM @ McGill!
This is absolutely enormous!
Gratitude to Canada's unions for showing our banker PM he just picked a fight he cannot win.
A chance now to build on the united union power that beat Doug Ford over the notwithstanding clause in 2022.
There is power in our unions!
canadianlabour.ca/canadas-labo...
Gratitude to Canada's unions for showing our banker PM he just picked a fight he cannot win.
A chance now to build on the united union power that beat Doug Ford over the notwithstanding clause in 2022.
There is power in our unions!
canadianlabour.ca/canadas-labo...
CANADA’S LABOUR MOVEMENT STANDS UNITED AGAINST GOVERNMENT VIOLATION OF WORKERS' RIGHTS | Canadian Labour Congress
Statement from Bea Bruske, President of the Canadian Labour Congress, following an emergency meeting of Canada’s Unions on the Air Canada Flight Attendants Strike ‘’Tonight, the heads of Canada’s uni...
canadianlabour.ca
August 18, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Solidarity from @apml-ampd.bsky.social and COFAM @ McGill!
Reposted by Kirsten Anker 🇨🇦 🇦🇺
🚨 Please share with your Alberta friends & family!
“This isn’t a pivotal moment for Canada. It’s a salvage operation for you. And you want to win, no matter what the cost to Battle River–Crowfoot, no matter what they lose in the offing.”
open.substack.com/pub/letterke...
“This isn’t a pivotal moment for Canada. It’s a salvage operation for you. And you want to win, no matter what the cost to Battle River–Crowfoot, no matter what they lose in the offing.”
open.substack.com/pub/letterke...
No Seat. No Shame. No Redemption
Pierre Poilievre’s $48 million grift runs through Battle River–Crowfoot.
open.substack.com
August 1, 2025 at 1:59 PM
🚨 Please share with your Alberta friends & family!
“This isn’t a pivotal moment for Canada. It’s a salvage operation for you. And you want to win, no matter what the cost to Battle River–Crowfoot, no matter what they lose in the offing.”
open.substack.com/pub/letterke...
“This isn’t a pivotal moment for Canada. It’s a salvage operation for you. And you want to win, no matter what the cost to Battle River–Crowfoot, no matter what they lose in the offing.”
open.substack.com/pub/letterke...
Perfect way of describing Canada’s new “nation-building” legislation: when that “red tape” is environmental protections and Indigenous rights, fast-tracking projects transfers costs from the rich humans to the poor, to future generations and to our non-human relatives.
Cutting "red tape" (aka public protections), as Reeves is doing, does not save money. Instead, it transfers costs from the rich to the poor. Other people pay for financial recklessness, filthy rivers, air pollution, lax building standards and consumer rip-offs.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reeves says rules and red tape are ‘boot on the neck’ of business
At the Mansion House dinner she calls for regulators to allow more risk to clear the way for economic growth
www.theguardian.com
July 16, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Perfect way of describing Canada’s new “nation-building” legislation: when that “red tape” is environmental protections and Indigenous rights, fast-tracking projects transfers costs from the rich humans to the poor, to future generations and to our non-human relatives.
Hold the line @mark-carney.bsky.social
Here's my latest on Trump's tariff bombshell against Canada and the EU.
Seems like he is trying to change the channel on the Epstein dumpster fire.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tid9...
Seems like he is trying to change the channel on the Epstein dumpster fire.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tid9...
CHARLIE ANGUS: Epstein, Trump and the Tariff Bombshell
YouTube video by Charlie Angus
www.youtube.com
July 15, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Hold the line @mark-carney.bsky.social
Montrealers: Solidarity rally for Kanesatake @ 5 pm, Place du Canada
July 11, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Montrealers: Solidarity rally for Kanesatake @ 5 pm, Place du Canada
There’s the spectacle but there’s also the banality of evil: boring bureaucratic registries OF TERMINATED PREGNANCIES!!!
Don’t ever underestimate how much they hate us 🫠
July 9, 2025 at 11:05 PM
There’s the spectacle but there’s also the banality of evil: boring bureaucratic registries OF TERMINATED PREGNANCIES!!!
Yes queens!
July 7, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Yes queens!
Solidarity with striking unions is Cool! #AFSCMEStrong
LL Cool J said that he will not perform at Wawa Welcome America in Philadelphia on July 4th because of union strike
“There is absolutely no way I can perform across a picket line”
“There is absolutely no way I can perform across a picket line”
LL COOL J drops out of Wawa Welcome America concert because of union strike
LL COOL J said that he is not going to perform at Wawa Welcome America on July 4th in light of the AFSCME District Council 33 strike in Philadelphia.
www.nbcphiladelphia.com
July 4, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Solidarity with striking unions is Cool! #AFSCMEStrong
Kayfabe
So, Trump didn’t get the Iranian nukes and Iran didn’t kill, wound or even cause damage to American troops. It’s like this whole performance was a WWF wrestling match choreographed by papa Putin.
June 23, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Kayfabe
Carney is embarrassing
Carney and Starmer reminding everyone, in the most craven way imaginable, that their foreign policy is effectively "lapdog of the US empire"
Pretty wild how similar the statements of the heads of 🇨🇦 & 🇬🇧 are today
June 22, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Carney is embarrassing