Tyler Shipley
@shipster.bsky.social
Professor and purveyor of takes of all temperatures. All opinions my own but willing to share. Details: https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/canada-in-the-world and https://linktr.ee/TylerShipley
The irony of everyone fawning over how Mark Carney is 'standing up' for Canada is that he is simultaneously eroding the few institutions that actually distinguish the Canadian state from the US, and those which theoretically could be used to shield Canadians from the disaster area to the south.
Alarming news for Canadians: www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/artic...
Health Canada the latest federal department to issue layoff notices
More than 2,000 employees at Health Canada and Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada have been notified their jobs may be affected as federal departments continue to issue notices about possible layoffs in...
www.ctvnews.ca
January 23, 2026 at 6:25 PM
The irony of everyone fawning over how Mark Carney is 'standing up' for Canada is that he is simultaneously eroding the few institutions that actually distinguish the Canadian state from the US, and those which theoretically could be used to shield Canadians from the disaster area to the south.
Yeah no shit the "rules based international order" is a lie, it always was, and those of us not in kindergarten always knew it. Carney built his whole career pretending it was real now he wants to play hero for saying it's not. Oh and his solution? "Suck it up, you fucks, this is gonna suck."
January 21, 2026 at 3:59 AM
Yeah no shit the "rules based international order" is a lie, it always was, and those of us not in kindergarten always knew it. Carney built his whole career pretending it was real now he wants to play hero for saying it's not. Oh and his solution? "Suck it up, you fucks, this is gonna suck."
Canadian banks feeling great about attempted US overthrow of Venezuelan govt. This gets reported as news, because apparently we should all share in whatever joys Scotiabank is feeling. Elbows fly wherever and whenever the Canadian elite want to make money, an evergreen lesson.
January 14, 2026 at 8:10 PM
Canadian banks feeling great about attempted US overthrow of Venezuelan govt. This gets reported as news, because apparently we should all share in whatever joys Scotiabank is feeling. Elbows fly wherever and whenever the Canadian elite want to make money, an evergreen lesson.
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Paul Singer dropped $5.9 B on Citgo right before Trump’s coup in Venezuela, after bankrolling his campaign with millions.
Now he’s set to rake in billions as U.S. forces seize control of Venezuelan oil and industry for U.S. interests. buff.ly/k1tPzgY #HandsOffVenezuela
Now he’s set to rake in billions as U.S. forces seize control of Venezuelan oil and industry for U.S. interests. buff.ly/k1tPzgY #HandsOffVenezuela
Meet Paul Singer, the Billionaire Trump Megadonor Set to Make a Killing on Venezuela Oil | Common Dreams
Trump megadonor Paul Singer bought Citgo, the US subsidiary of Venezuela's state oil company, at a rock-bottom price last month. Now, the hedge fund "vulture" is expected to make a killing from…
buff.ly
January 8, 2026 at 6:32 PM
Paul Singer dropped $5.9 B on Citgo right before Trump’s coup in Venezuela, after bankrolling his campaign with millions.
Now he’s set to rake in billions as U.S. forces seize control of Venezuelan oil and industry for U.S. interests. buff.ly/k1tPzgY #HandsOffVenezuela
Now he’s set to rake in billions as U.S. forces seize control of Venezuelan oil and industry for U.S. interests. buff.ly/k1tPzgY #HandsOffVenezuela
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What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids?
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
January 5, 2026 at 4:12 PM
What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids?
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
empire wants a war,
drop those elbows to the floor
drop those elbows to the floor
January 3, 2026 at 10:19 PM
empire wants a war,
drop those elbows to the floor
drop those elbows to the floor
Hundreds of my colleagues at Conestoga just got fired after submitting their grades for the holidays. Meanwhile, the President is enjoying his raise to over $630k.
opseu.org/news/hundred...
opseu.org/news/hundred...
Hundreds of faculty and support staff at Conestoga College handed lay-off notices before the holidays – province has to step in, says OPSEU/SEFPO
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Toronto, ON – The union representing Ontario college faculty and support staff, OPSEU/SEFPO, is calling for immediate intervention by the province after Conestoga College issued ...
opseu.org
December 24, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Hundreds of my colleagues at Conestoga just got fired after submitting their grades for the holidays. Meanwhile, the President is enjoying his raise to over $630k.
opseu.org/news/hundred...
opseu.org/news/hundred...
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Mark “Elbows up” Carney’s $83 billion military spending spree has to get funds from somewhere: today it’s stripping libraries of mission-sustaining cost controls. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Libraries say budget proposal to end shipping program would be 'catastrophic | CBC News
Libraries across Canada say a proposed change in the federal budget bill would end their ability to ship books at
reduced rates, threatening interlibrary loan programs and possibly forcing the closure...
www.cbc.ca
December 15, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Mark “Elbows up” Carney’s $83 billion military spending spree has to get funds from somewhere: today it’s stripping libraries of mission-sustaining cost controls. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Least bewildering development
Carney’s fossil fuel pivot bewilders climate experts and business leaders on.ft.com/4rTF66V
Carney’s fossil fuel pivot bewilders climate experts and business leaders
Canadian prime minister’s legacy as one-time UN envoy and clean power advocate undermined by energy shift
on.ft.com
December 13, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Least bewildering development
'Watchlists' are used to harass and target marginalized people and community organizers. On the 'bright' side, AI is such garbage tech that it will inevitably make false identifications and lead to more arrests of random people who look a little bit like the targets (a bit of eugenics for a treat).
apnews.com/article/ai-f... police body cameras, once taboo, get tested on Canadian city's 'watch list' of faces
AI-powered police body cameras, once taboo, get tested on Canadian city's 'watch list' of faces
Police in Edmonton, Canada, have started a pilot project using AI-equipped body cameras to detect faces on a "high risk" watch list.
apnews.com
December 8, 2025 at 1:27 AM
'Watchlists' are used to harass and target marginalized people and community organizers. On the 'bright' side, AI is such garbage tech that it will inevitably make false identifications and lead to more arrests of random people who look a little bit like the targets (a bit of eugenics for a treat).
Will soon be digging back into offering non-credit courses without assignments or assessments, as a spiritual antidote to all of this
One of the worst things about do-called AI is that it pits my students against me. Over decades of teaching, I have built relationships of trust with my students, where I don't bs them about the world they live in, and they don't bs me about the work they do for me about it. "AI" interrupts this.
November 25, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Will soon be digging back into offering non-credit courses without assignments or assessments, as a spiritual antidote to all of this
One of the worst things about do-called AI is that it pits my students against me. Over decades of teaching, I have built relationships of trust with my students, where I don't bs them about the world they live in, and they don't bs me about the work they do for me about it. "AI" interrupts this.
November 25, 2025 at 8:40 PM
One of the worst things about do-called AI is that it pits my students against me. Over decades of teaching, I have built relationships of trust with my students, where I don't bs them about the world they live in, and they don't bs me about the work they do for me about it. "AI" interrupts this.
Anyone who trusts AI is a mark. It's no different from crypto in the sense that it is both idiotic and dangerous, a technology that exists to help people be more wrong more quickly
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November 22, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Anyone who trusts AI is a mark. It's no different from crypto in the sense that it is both idiotic and dangerous, a technology that exists to help people be more wrong more quickly
One of the hardest periods in history to teach properly is WWII, because - for one strange but significant moment - the Anglo-American powers turned against fascism. The war subsequently became a pillar of the self-image of those powers despite it being a complete anomaly that they opposed fascism.
Now that’s a lede.
Story by @taracopp.bsky.social and @michelleboorstein.bsky.social.
Read here: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Story by @taracopp.bsky.social and @michelleboorstein.bsky.social.
Read here: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
November 20, 2025 at 8:53 PM
One of the hardest periods in history to teach properly is WWII, because - for one strange but significant moment - the Anglo-American powers turned against fascism. The war subsequently became a pillar of the self-image of those powers despite it being a complete anomaly that they opposed fascism.
The NDP just propped up the most right-wing budget Canada has seen in, arguably, decades. Ask yourself why the NDP exists at all if it's going to do that. Just join the Liberal Party and stop wasting the energy of activists who want desperately to believe it is something better.
“But, at the same time, Canada [is] facing instability and overlapping crises ... in these challenging times, now's [not] the right time for an election.” (2/2)
November 19, 2025 at 6:24 PM
The NDP just propped up the most right-wing budget Canada has seen in, arguably, decades. Ask yourself why the NDP exists at all if it's going to do that. Just join the Liberal Party and stop wasting the energy of activists who want desperately to believe it is something better.
Canada actively supported the British war against the people of Kenya, supplying F-48 Sabre fighter jets and a host of military and police supports. A Winnipeg cop named John Timmerman tortured Kenyan prisoners in Nairobi earning the nickname "the Himmler of Kenya."
#OtD 18 Nov 1953 the British Royal Air Force began aerial bombing of Kenya in an effort to crush the "Mau Mau" anti-colonial insurgency. Over the next year and a half they dropped nearly 6 million bombs on the country stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9039...
November 18, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Canada actively supported the British war against the people of Kenya, supplying F-48 Sabre fighter jets and a host of military and police supports. A Winnipeg cop named John Timmerman tortured Kenyan prisoners in Nairobi earning the nickname "the Himmler of Kenya."
Stumbled upon this very fair and kind review of Canada in the World today. I don't know the reviewer or the publication but I'm glad people are still finding the book and getting something from it. www.itsallgeekto.me/2025/09/revi...
Review: Canada in the World by Tyler Shipley
A new classic, a must-read for Canadian leftists.
www.itsallgeekto.me
November 17, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Stumbled upon this very fair and kind review of Canada in the World today. I don't know the reviewer or the publication but I'm glad people are still finding the book and getting something from it. www.itsallgeekto.me/2025/09/revi...
Love to see this!
One of my favourite books I’ve read this year and already has an impact on my politics.
“Not only does Canada have a colonial history, it has a colonial present. Perhaps there is still time to prevent Canada from having a colonial future.”- @shipster.bsky.social.
“Not only does Canada have a colonial history, it has a colonial present. Perhaps there is still time to prevent Canada from having a colonial future.”- @shipster.bsky.social.
#NowReading: By @shipster.bsky.social. Admittedly I’ve been meaning to read this for a while but have been intimidated by the possibility of me being not smart enough.
October 9, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Love to see this!
Always love to hear this!
#NowReading: By @shipster.bsky.social. Admittedly I’ve been meaning to read this for a while but have been intimidated by the possibility of me being not smart enough.
September 20, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Always love to hear this!
You're allowed to just say nothing,
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September 11, 2025 at 9:10 PM
You're allowed to just say nothing,
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Carney & Canada's statements on Gaza are completely vacuous & shameless
Gaza doesnt need Canada's pity. Canada is still arming Israel. Canada must implement full and immediate arms embargo. And sanction Israel. And suspend all military and trade agreements.
Escalate to break imperialist consensus
Gaza doesnt need Canada's pity. Canada is still arming Israel. Canada must implement full and immediate arms embargo. And sanction Israel. And suspend all military and trade agreements.
Escalate to break imperialist consensus
August 25, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Carney & Canada's statements on Gaza are completely vacuous & shameless
Gaza doesnt need Canada's pity. Canada is still arming Israel. Canada must implement full and immediate arms embargo. And sanction Israel. And suspend all military and trade agreements.
Escalate to break imperialist consensus
Gaza doesnt need Canada's pity. Canada is still arming Israel. Canada must implement full and immediate arms embargo. And sanction Israel. And suspend all military and trade agreements.
Escalate to break imperialist consensus
Liberal PM Pierre Trudeau put the head of CUPW in jail for defying his strikebreaking legislation. But the postal workers arguably won that strike by holding the line. Carney may do the same, and I hope for all our sakes that these workers stand their ground. We owe them our support and our thanks.
Air Canada strike:
“We’re going to stay committed to making sure that those workers can do the job that they love doing and actually be able to afford a roof over their heads, to afford caring for their families,” CUPE president just said.
“If it means folks like me going to jail, then so be it.”
“We’re going to stay committed to making sure that those workers can do the job that they love doing and actually be able to afford a roof over their heads, to afford caring for their families,” CUPE president just said.
“If it means folks like me going to jail, then so be it.”
August 18, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Liberal PM Pierre Trudeau put the head of CUPW in jail for defying his strikebreaking legislation. But the postal workers arguably won that strike by holding the line. Carney may do the same, and I hope for all our sakes that these workers stand their ground. We owe them our support and our thanks.
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“Given the ongoing genocide in Gaza…we call on Sport Canada and Tennis Canada to forbid Canadian athletes to compete against Israeli athletes at the Davis Cup and all other international events.”
- 413 🇨🇦 academics, athletes + sports journalists, inc 3 former UN special rapporteurs + an Olympic 🥈ist
- 413 🇨🇦 academics, athletes + sports journalists, inc 3 former UN special rapporteurs + an Olympic 🥈ist
August 18, 2025 at 2:09 PM
“Given the ongoing genocide in Gaza…we call on Sport Canada and Tennis Canada to forbid Canadian athletes to compete against Israeli athletes at the Davis Cup and all other international events.”
- 413 🇨🇦 academics, athletes + sports journalists, inc 3 former UN special rapporteurs + an Olympic 🥈ist
- 413 🇨🇦 academics, athletes + sports journalists, inc 3 former UN special rapporteurs + an Olympic 🥈ist
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“No one should accept being forced to work for free, for hours and hours, every day. No one should accept being forced to work for poverty wages for years in a profession, just to earn a dignifying living. That’s what this is about,” said CUPE Air Canada Component president Wesley Lesosky.
August 16, 2025 at 5:33 PM
“No one should accept being forced to work for free, for hours and hours, every day. No one should accept being forced to work for poverty wages for years in a profession, just to earn a dignifying living. That’s what this is about,” said CUPE Air Canada Component president Wesley Lesosky.
Delete your fuckin bitcoins
The UK government has urged people to delete old pictures and emails as 'data centres require vast amounts of water to cool their systems'.
http://jrnl.ie/6788643
http://jrnl.ie/6788643
UK government advises people to delete old photos and emails as England faces water shortfall
The UK government has urged people to delete old pictures and emails as ‘data centres require cast amounts of water to cool their systems’.
jrnl.ie
August 12, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Delete your fuckin bitcoins