If you’re worried about climate change and you’ve never heard of controlled burns by Indigenous nations, read this great piece.
"Before settler colonialism, Indigenous nations across the continent regularly conducted low-intensity controlled burns, carefully planned to maintain and replenish the health of the land and its ecosystems."
#TurtleIsland #CulturalBurning #Forestry #WildFires
#TurtleIsland #CulturalBurning #Forestry #WildFires
Indigenous firekeepers come together for inaugural gathering | The Narwhal
First Nations experts attend first National Indigenous Fire Gathering on syilx homelands in B.C., joining counterparts from Canada, Australia and the U.S.
thenarwhal.ca
November 10, 2025 at 2:05 PM
If you’re worried about climate change and you’ve never heard of controlled burns by Indigenous nations, read this great piece.
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We are in the throws of a battle over who is going to survive the future.
A future marked by scarcity and disaster.
A future these people are accelerating.
That is what is driving the attacks on civil rights and basic equality.
Supremacist beliefs are the tool needed to justify human culling.
A future marked by scarcity and disaster.
A future these people are accelerating.
That is what is driving the attacks on civil rights and basic equality.
Supremacist beliefs are the tool needed to justify human culling.
October 21, 2025 at 4:39 PM
We are in the throws of a battle over who is going to survive the future.
A future marked by scarcity and disaster.
A future these people are accelerating.
That is what is driving the attacks on civil rights and basic equality.
Supremacist beliefs are the tool needed to justify human culling.
A future marked by scarcity and disaster.
A future these people are accelerating.
That is what is driving the attacks on civil rights and basic equality.
Supremacist beliefs are the tool needed to justify human culling.
In case Canadians haven’t heard, the US government has discovered Bluesky. This is important because previously on Visa applications US homeland security asked for social media handles to Instagram, X, Facebook but not bluesky. I thought it was flying under the radar. Apparently not.
October 18, 2025 at 3:29 PM
In case Canadians haven’t heard, the US government has discovered Bluesky. This is important because previously on Visa applications US homeland security asked for social media handles to Instagram, X, Facebook but not bluesky. I thought it was flying under the radar. Apparently not.
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Chicago cyclists are buying out tamale carts to keep vendors home and safe from ICE. blockclubchi.co/42KQ57O
October 17, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Chicago cyclists are buying out tamale carts to keep vendors home and safe from ICE. blockclubchi.co/42KQ57O
Some good news
“Historically, this type of suspended sentence was akin to a form of judicial clemency,” said B.C. Supreme Crt Justice Michael Tammen.
“In this case, it is appropriate to extend such judicial clemency, in part based on the need to foster reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples.”
www.cbc.ca/9.6939560
“In this case, it is appropriate to extend such judicial clemency, in part based on the need to foster reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples.”
www.cbc.ca/9.6939560
Trio given suspended jail sentences, community service following Wet'suwet'en blockade | CBC News
A Wet'suwet'en leader and two other pipeline opponents have been given suspended jail sentences and community service for breaking an injunction against blocking work on the Coastal GasLink pipeline.
www.cbc.ca
October 17, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Some good news
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the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.
October 13, 2025 at 1:01 AM
the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.
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🚨 URGENT SOLIDARITY SUPPORT NEEDED IN MI’KMA’KI 🚨Mi’kmaw land defenders have been leading a resistance on Hunters’ Mountain in Unama’ki/Cape Breton for over a month now to block industrial developments that would destroy sacred grounds and harm the vulnerable moose population
October 10, 2025 at 4:41 PM
🚨 URGENT SOLIDARITY SUPPORT NEEDED IN MI’KMA’KI 🚨Mi’kmaw land defenders have been leading a resistance on Hunters’ Mountain in Unama’ki/Cape Breton for over a month now to block industrial developments that would destroy sacred grounds and harm the vulnerable moose population
Reposted by Shiri Pasternak
Independent Investigations Office report says duty of care not met for 21-year-old who died in Williams Lake, B.C., RCMP cell
Tŝilhqot'in First Nation member Surrance Myers died after collapsing in an RCMP holding cell and not being checked on for about two hours.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Tŝilhqot'in First Nation member Surrance Myers died after collapsing in an RCMP holding cell and not being checked on for about two hours.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
21-year-old died in cell after guard failed to check on him after medical emergency, IIO report says | CBC News
Tŝilhqot'in First Nation member Surrance Myers died after collapsing in an RCMP holding cell in Williams Lake, B.C. and not being checked on for about two hours, an Independent Investigations Office r...
www.cbc.ca
October 10, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Independent Investigations Office report says duty of care not met for 21-year-old who died in Williams Lake, B.C., RCMP cell
Tŝilhqot'in First Nation member Surrance Myers died after collapsing in an RCMP holding cell and not being checked on for about two hours.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Tŝilhqot'in First Nation member Surrance Myers died after collapsing in an RCMP holding cell and not being checked on for about two hours.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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I know this case is all over - & it should be - but Turning Point USA has waged a harassment campaign against faculty for more than a decade. I know of at least a half dozen other faculty, personally, who have received death threats and several of those who felt so unsafe they too left their homes
Are we great yet?
Mark Bray, a Rutgers University professor and expert on anti-fascist groups, is fleeing to Spain with his family due to death threats that stem from a campaign by Turning Point USA and other conservative groups to get him fired, falsely labeling him as an antifa member.
Mark Bray, a Rutgers University professor and expert on anti-fascist groups, is fleeing to Spain with his family due to death threats that stem from a campaign by Turning Point USA and other conservative groups to get him fired, falsely labeling him as an antifa member.
Antifa expert at Rutgers University says he is moving to Spain because of death threats
An expert on anti-fascist groups who teaches at New Jersey’s flagship state university is moving his family overseas.
apnews.com
October 9, 2025 at 11:49 PM
I know this case is all over - & it should be - but Turning Point USA has waged a harassment campaign against faculty for more than a decade. I know of at least a half dozen other faculty, personally, who have received death threats and several of those who felt so unsafe they too left their homes
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This is extremely alarming. Prime Minister @mark-carney.bsky.social won the federal election promising to make us *less* depending on the US. Now we are hearing reports that he is offering up a CLOSER energy and military partnership in exchange for a trade deal... 🧵
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Carney raised Keystone XL pipeline revival in meeting with Trump | CBC News
Relief for Canada from U.S. tariffs on steel and aluminum may come thanks to renewed interest in a pipeline project first proposed more than 15 years ago.
www.cbc.ca
October 8, 2025 at 4:07 PM
This is extremely alarming. Prime Minister @mark-carney.bsky.social won the federal election promising to make us *less* depending on the US. Now we are hearing reports that he is offering up a CLOSER energy and military partnership in exchange for a trade deal... 🧵
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
More antifa. Everyone antifa.
October 9, 2025 at 12:48 AM
More antifa. Everyone antifa.
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Watching the way the Trump administration is using criminalization as a weapon ought to make clear how criminalization works even in normal times.
October 9, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Watching the way the Trump administration is using criminalization as a weapon ought to make clear how criminalization works even in normal times.
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Another new piece out today at Boston Review. The rate of publication there has picked up considerably at a time when we need this magazine the most. Please read and support them.
www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-t...
www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-t...
A Theory of the List - Boston Review
From runaway slave lists to Canary Mission, the state has long deputized citizens to enforce its will.
www.bostonreview.net
September 25, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Another new piece out today at Boston Review. The rate of publication there has picked up considerably at a time when we need this magazine the most. Please read and support them.
www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-t...
www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-t...
If you've ever found your name on a list, or feared landing there, you're not alone. Today, doxxing is imbued with terrifying state powers, but it's an old strategy of deputization that has terrorized people for centuries. The power of lists is division, but we can draw from histories of refusal.
From runaway slave lists to Canary Mission, the state has long deputized citizens to enforce its will.
New from Shiri Pasternak:
New from Shiri Pasternak:
A Theory of the List - Boston Review
From runaway slave lists to Canary Mission, the state has long deputized citizens to enforce its will.
www.bostonreview.net
September 25, 2025 at 5:39 PM
If you've ever found your name on a list, or feared landing there, you're not alone. Today, doxxing is imbued with terrifying state powers, but it's an old strategy of deputization that has terrorized people for centuries. The power of lists is division, but we can draw from histories of refusal.
Avi is direct, committed, and building a political base that is grounded in movements for justice. I have never been a member of this party, but I will become one to make sure he becomes leader. Let's seize this moment for real change.
Canada's true crisis is the everyday emergency of just trying to get by in an impossible economy.
I’m running for NDP leader so we can transform a system rigged for the rich—together.
We need a government that serves the many, not the money.
Join in. lewisforleader.ca/
youtu.be/IVy99oiYszY
I’m running for NDP leader so we can transform a system rigged for the rich—together.
We need a government that serves the many, not the money.
Join in. lewisforleader.ca/
youtu.be/IVy99oiYszY
Why I’m running for NDP leader
YouTube video by Avi Lewis
youtu.be
September 19, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Avi is direct, committed, and building a political base that is grounded in movements for justice. I have never been a member of this party, but I will become one to make sure he becomes leader. Let's seize this moment for real change.
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In light of BC approving the Ksi Lisims LNG terminal, we feel the need to reshare one of our most important podcast episodes: The Costs of LNG.
We dig into the climate, health, and financial impacts, and cover (almost) everything you wanted to ask about LNG (but were too afraid).
🎧 Listen here 👇
We dig into the climate, health, and financial impacts, and cover (almost) everything you wanted to ask about LNG (but were too afraid).
🎧 Listen here 👇
🎙️ In our latest Break In Case of Emergency episode, Kiki Wood (Stand.earth) explains how fracking leaves frontline communities with birth defects & toxic exposures like benzene.
🎧 Listen to the full episode: www.climateemergencyunit.ca/podcast
🎧 Listen to the full episode: www.climateemergencyunit.ca/podcast
September 17, 2025 at 9:51 PM
In light of BC approving the Ksi Lisims LNG terminal, we feel the need to reshare one of our most important podcast episodes: The Costs of LNG.
We dig into the climate, health, and financial impacts, and cover (almost) everything you wanted to ask about LNG (but were too afraid).
🎧 Listen here 👇
We dig into the climate, health, and financial impacts, and cover (almost) everything you wanted to ask about LNG (but were too afraid).
🎧 Listen here 👇
Really excellent piece that provides important diagnostic on the legal dangers of how we define antisemitism in this moment.
I wrote a short piece on definitions that conflate anti/semitism with (anti)-Zionism and the dangers that their adoption poses specifically for international lawyers, including for our Palestinian colleagues and students: voelkerrechtsblog.org/defining-awa...
Defining Away Palestine
voelkerrechtsblog.org
September 12, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Really excellent piece that provides important diagnostic on the legal dangers of how we define antisemitism in this moment.
Reposted by Shiri Pasternak
"We reject any process that tramples our inherent and constitutionally protected title and rights, ignores free, prior and informed consent, and sacrifices the climate for foreign corporate profits. True nation-building requires working with us, not against us.” GCSP www.ubcic.bc.ca/first_nation...
First Nations Consent Ignored as Canadians Asked to Subsidize LNG Expansion
Working towards the recognition, implementation and exercise of our inherent Indigenous Title, Rights and Treaty Rights
www.ubcic.bc.ca
September 11, 2025 at 8:04 PM
"We reject any process that tramples our inherent and constitutionally protected title and rights, ignores free, prior and informed consent, and sacrifices the climate for foreign corporate profits. True nation-building requires working with us, not against us.” GCSP www.ubcic.bc.ca/first_nation...
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Mark Carney continues to use the phrase “decarbonized oil” to try to greenwash a new oil pipeline for Alberta. It’s so shameless and I would argue it even shows contempt for the public to be so dishonest.
September 11, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Mark Carney continues to use the phrase “decarbonized oil” to try to greenwash a new oil pipeline for Alberta. It’s so shameless and I would argue it even shows contempt for the public to be so dishonest.
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This is an injunction application to watch: the logging company looking to remove protesters in the Walbran is partly owned by the Huu-ay-aht FNs thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
How the Walbran Blockade Echoes Another Famous Stand in the Forest | The Tyee
Thirty-five years ago, BC attempted to saw the Carmanah in half.
thetyee.ca
September 11, 2025 at 9:39 PM
This is an injunction application to watch: the logging company looking to remove protesters in the Walbran is partly owned by the Huu-ay-aht FNs thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
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Reminder that the feds can’t “approve” LNG Canada phase 2 — it’s been approved for years.
Federal support would mean sweetening the deal for the company through things like subsidies.
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Federal support would mean sweetening the deal for the company through things like subsidies.
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Carney recommending 5 'nation-building projects' for approval, including LNG expansion: sources | CBC News
Prime Minister Mark Carney is set to unveil several “nation-building” projects Thursday morning that his government has identified as part of a promise to bolster Canada's economic independence amid a...
www.cbc.ca
September 11, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Reminder that the feds can’t “approve” LNG Canada phase 2 — it’s been approved for years.
Federal support would mean sweetening the deal for the company through things like subsidies.
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Federal support would mean sweetening the deal for the company through things like subsidies.
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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It turns out that protecting hate speech did not create the conditions to protect other kinds of speech; instead, it protected hate and allowed hate movements to take over all the institutions of that might have defended the rest of us.
September 9, 2025 at 11:51 AM
It turns out that protecting hate speech did not create the conditions to protect other kinds of speech; instead, it protected hate and allowed hate movements to take over all the institutions of that might have defended the rest of us.
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[W]hen governments are ramming through laws that sideline Indigenous rights and environmental protections, BC is putting a disgraced policing unit in charge of enforcing them—turning struggles for Indigenous sovereignty & climate justice into criminal matters. #bcpoli
breachmedia.ca/rcmp-unit-co...
breachmedia.ca/rcmp-unit-co...
Controversial B.C. RCMP unit to police opposition to fast-tracked resource projects ⋆ The Breach
A widely-criticized police unit is participating in provincial committees coordinating surveillance and policing of protest against major resource projects—including those fast-tracked under new legis...
breachmedia.ca
September 3, 2025 at 7:45 PM
[W]hen governments are ramming through laws that sideline Indigenous rights and environmental protections, BC is putting a disgraced policing unit in charge of enforcing them—turning struggles for Indigenous sovereignty & climate justice into criminal matters. #bcpoli
breachmedia.ca/rcmp-unit-co...
breachmedia.ca/rcmp-unit-co...
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🚨Windsor Law is hiring! 🚨
@windsorlaw.bsky.social is looking for 4 asst/assoc profs who bring social justice & critical perspectives to our core curriculum, esp environmental law, torts, constitutional, family, evidence, int'l trade & Indigenous law. Deadline: Sep 24
www.uwindsor.ca/faculty/recr...
@windsorlaw.bsky.social is looking for 4 asst/assoc profs who bring social justice & critical perspectives to our core curriculum, esp environmental law, torts, constitutional, family, evidence, int'l trade & Indigenous law. Deadline: Sep 24
www.uwindsor.ca/faculty/recr...
Four (4) Tenure-Track Assistant or Tenured Associate Professor Positions - Faculty of Law
www.uwindsor.ca
September 3, 2025 at 2:22 AM
🚨Windsor Law is hiring! 🚨
@windsorlaw.bsky.social is looking for 4 asst/assoc profs who bring social justice & critical perspectives to our core curriculum, esp environmental law, torts, constitutional, family, evidence, int'l trade & Indigenous law. Deadline: Sep 24
www.uwindsor.ca/faculty/recr...
@windsorlaw.bsky.social is looking for 4 asst/assoc profs who bring social justice & critical perspectives to our core curriculum, esp environmental law, torts, constitutional, family, evidence, int'l trade & Indigenous law. Deadline: Sep 24
www.uwindsor.ca/faculty/recr...