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Unrigged @unrigged.bsky.social · Jun 8
Don't miss the 3rd edition of Unrigged's academia/journalism conference 📢PROGRESSIVE PUBLICS📢 happening next week in Calgary!

Join @albertaadvantage.bsky.social @briarpatchmag.bsky.social @robrousseau.bsky.social @pressprogress.ca + more

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broadbent.bsky.social
PressProgress is at the centre of what could be one of the biggest, longest and most expensive media trials in Canadian history.

We’re not backing down. We'll defend their reporting against any and all legal threats.

Support @pressprogress.ca : journalismdefence.ca
November 10, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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pivot.quebec
BALADO | Les extrêmes droites ne sont pas toutes d’accord sur les questions environnementales. Certaines mènent des politiques carbofascistes, d’autres tentent d’offrir des réponses aux crises écologiques.

Écoutez le nouvel épisode du Bruit des bottes, notre balado sur l'extrême droite 👇
Épisode 7 - Écofascisme, ou quand l’extrême droite s’intéresse à l’environnement – Pivot
Les extrêmes droites ne sont pas toutes d’accord sur les questions environnementales. Il y en a qui mènent des politiques plutôt carbofascistes, alors que
pivot.quebec
November 10, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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thegrindto.bsky.social
Dozens of Canadian photographers and curators announced today they are boycotting the Scotiabank Photography Award to protest the bank’s continued investment in Israel’s largest weapons manufacturer.
Organizers Launch Boycott Scotiabank Photography Award
At least 70 photographers and curators will withdraw from participating in the prestigious award over Scotiabank’s ties to an Israeli weapons manufacturer.
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November 10, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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alexcullen.bsky.social
I chipped in to the @PressProgress.ca legal defence so journalists can keep holding the powerful to account. This case could set a chilling precedent across Canada. If you can, please donate and share. pressprogress.ca/journalism-defence/donate
Defend Canadian Journalism – Donate Form
Support Our Journalism Defence Fund PressProgress is at the centre of what could be one of the biggest, longest and most expensive media trials in recent Canadian history. A former star candidate for ...
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November 10, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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drugdatadecoded.ca
Also here’s what @zoedodd.bsky.social and I wrote for @breachmedia.ca, showing how the Globe and National Post editors used their opinion pages to advance violent drug policy ahead of the last BC election. What we’re watching now in Victoria is the fallout.
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Media, politicians are rebranding coercion against drug users as ‘care’ ⋆ The Breach
Governments are using forced abstinence to hide their failures—and our biggest papers are helping them
breachmedia.ca
November 8, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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canadiandimension.bsky.social
Doug Ford’s new housing law promises efficiency, but its real purpose is to clear the way for evictions and profits.

Leora Smith of Toronto's Community Justice Collective on why the "Fighting Delays, Building Faster Act" will protect financialized landlords, not tenants:
Landlords want your rent to go up. Doug Ford is making it happen
Ford may think that disappearing tenants and their unions from the LTB will disappear them from the city, but it won’t. Tenants and the growing tenant union movement in Ontario have been successfully ...
canadiandimension.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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ershaker.bsky.social
www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... 'With a greater push towards fast tracking major projects, including energy projects, these threats to responsible resource development from ISDS are even more profound in 2025.' @policyalternatives.ca @ccpa-tirp.bsky.social
Investment treaties, UNDRIP and the Building Canada Act - CCPA
“Build big things” has become a mantra of the current federal government. Partly in an effort to lessen our economic vulnerability to U.S. shocks, Prime Minister Mark Carney has been out luring foreig...
www.policyalternatives.ca
November 10, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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canadiandimension.bsky.social
Scapegoating newcomers has become a convenient distraction from policy failure in Canada.
The myth of the immigrant threat
Anti-immigrant sentiment is surging in Canada, with politicians and far-right pundits blaming newcomers for crises in housing, health care, and unemployment. But these problems stem from policy failur...
canadiandimension.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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redeyeradio.bsky.social
On the podcast! Hayley Postlethwaite joins us to talk about The Cleaning Coop and how the cooperative creates safe, fairly paid and equitable work with and for immigrant and racialized workers. tiny.cc/xctu001 @cooperatives.bsky.social @chf.bc.ca
Cooperative provides safe, equitable, fairly-paid work for cleaners
Podcast Episode · Redeye · 2025-11-08 · 12m
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November 10, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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rickharp.bsky.social
As an indie podcaster since 2016 with a day job, I found a lot of this discussion about the stark realities of making a podcast in Canada rather relatable (if not triggering 😏).
youcaughtscott.com 🔫Scott Martin🛼 @youcaughtscott.com · 6d
This week on The North State, I’ve got budgets on the mind. Not the federal budget, but how the hell independent journalists get paid. I sat down with @arshy.bsky.social of The Hatchet and then @nicolefroio.bsky.social of @theflytrapmedia.com to get the ins and outs of paying for news. #cdnnews
The Pay Wall of it All (The North State Podcast)
We're (not) in the money
readthecatch.ca
November 10, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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lukelebrun.ca
Hi Bluesky 👋

Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP

It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history

I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵
November 7, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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You still have time to give to CKCU's 2025 Funding Drive!

Please give, and let's get to $193,100!

Independent media matters. Let's support community news and culture in Ottawa and beyond.

www.canadahelps.org/en/charities...

#TeamCKCU #SupportCKCU #IndieMediaMatters #FreePress
A poster that says Independent Media Matters. You can donate to CKCU's funding drive by going to www.ckcufm.com/donate
November 8, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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ricochetmedia.bsky.social
A tale of two visions for Canada’s future — As Mark Carney’s budget doubles down on austerity, #ZohranMamdani’s victory in New York City shows what people-powered politics can look like, and how Canadians deserve better.

New column by Jared Walker:

ricochet.media/politics/a-t...

#cdnpoli
A tale of two visions for Canada's future
As Mark Carney’s budget doubles down on austerity, Zohran Mamdani’s victory in New York City shows what bold, people-powered politics can look like, and how Canadians deserve better
ricochet.media
November 7, 2025 at 4:51 PM
unrigged.bsky.social
@newfeelingcoop.bsky.social is running a special promotion to mark their 5th anniversary!

$5/month newfeeling.ca/nfisfive and $55/year newfeeling.ca/nfisfive360 earns you a copy of their forthcoming print anthology, featuring favourite articles from the last 5 years.

Find out more at newfeeling.ca
November 9, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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lukelebrun.ca
@pressprogress.ca needs your solidarity and support right now more than ever

We’re raising money to pay our legal bills – and to be blunt, we’re going to need a lot of help

If you’re able, please help us out and support our Journalism Defence Fund:

pressprogress.ca/journalism-d...
PressProgress: Defend Canadian Journalism
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November 7, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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canadiandimension.bsky.social
We can have a sober national conversation about how much immigration is suitable to meet our social and economic goals. But scapegoating immigrants for the state of housing and health care obscures the real causes of these crises and stokes resentment against vulnerable members of our communities.
The myth of the immigrant threat
Anti-immigrant sentiment is surging in Canada, with politicians and pundits blaming newcomers for crises like housing, health care, and unemployment. But these problems stem from policy failure and in...
canadiandimension.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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ricochetmedia.bsky.social
Doug Ford’s war on tenants: Ontario’s new housing bill is a gift to corporate landlords — and a warning shot at the rent strikers and organizers who dared to fight back.

New from @colewebber.bsky.social:

ricochet.media/justice/hous...

#HousingIsAHumanRight #onpoli
Doug Ford's war on tenants
Ontario’s new housing bill is a gift to corporate landlords — and a warning shot at the rent strikers and organizers who dared to fight back
ricochet.media
November 6, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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ricochetmedia.bsky.social
Ontario First Nations say it’s ‘now or never’ to stand up to resource extraction bills.

Legal experts warn laws are undemocratic and unconstitutional, while leaders call for a united front to defend lands and rights.

New from @jonthompson.bsky.social:

ricochet.media/indigenous/l...

#onpoli
Ontario First Nations say it's ‘now or never’ to stand up to resource extraction bills
Legal experts warn that laws are undemocratic and unconstitutional, while leaders across the north call for a united front to defend their lands and sovereignty
ricochet.media
November 6, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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policyalternatives.ca
In the hunt for billions in defence dollars, the federal government has chosen to follow the neoliberal playbook—shrinking government, cutting taxes and leaving more to the private sector. This leads to greater inequality. @kjscott.bsky.social #budget2025 www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
The path to prosperity set out in budget 2025 leaves millions behind - CCPA
The millions struggling to pay their rent and put food on the table were looking for relief in budget 2025—and they were disappointed.
www.policyalternatives.ca
November 6, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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thegrindto.bsky.social
Yesterday, two soldiers in the Israeli military were speaking at an off-campus event in Toronto organized by university student groups, before the event was disrupted.

Earlier this year, we obtained audio of two IDF soldiers speaking at a similar event.
Humour to Mask Israeli Atrocities: The Triggered Tour Stop in Toronto
Two IDF soldiers who were recently in Gaza cracked jokes and told the audience how to support Israel’s war effort. The Grind got a recording of the talk. Joey Nicholson-Landau with Jews Say No To…
www.thegrindmag.ca
November 6, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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thegrindto.bsky.social
Richard Linklater’s new film ‘Nouvelle Vague’ is more than an inside joke about Jean-Luc Godard’s 1960 Paris classic, ‘Breathless,’ writes @christostsirbas.bsky.social.

It's playing in Toronto again this month after its Canadian premiere at @tiffnet.bsky.social in September.
Linklater’s ‘Nouvelle Vague’ Is More than an Inside Joke about Godard’s ‘Breathless’
After its Canadian premiere at TIFF, Richard Linklater new film is showing around North America starting Oct. 31, including at select Toronto cinemas…
www.thegrindmag.ca
November 6, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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pivot.quebec
OPINION | « Encore une fois, la révérence des Médias des Gens de Bien envers les hommes de pouvoir a supplanté ce qui constitue, pour des millions de victimes de l’impérialisme états-unien, la réalité. »

La chronique de Martin Forgues 👇
Dick Cheney : « salut, pourriture! » – Pivot
Malgré les éloges et les vaines tentatives de nuancer son legs mortifère, rappelons que Cheney fut à l’avant-garde du fascisme qui s’est installé à Washington.
pivot.quebec
November 6, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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thegrindto.bsky.social
A group of North York nurses is on strike after provincial funding for retention and recruitment was directed elsewhere by their employer. The stagnant wages are especially hard to stomach after an exec there got a major salary bump last year, writes nurse Rita Ha. www.thegrindmag.ca/opinion-nort...
OPINION: North York Health Workers Need Fair Wages
Maintaining access to primary care requires fair wages for providers. My co-workers and I at North York Family Health Team workers have been on strike since our employer held our wages the same after…
www.thegrindmag.ca
November 6, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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policyalternatives.ca
Canadian climate policy a decade after the Paris Agreement
The good, the bad and the ugly. By @hadrianmk.bsky.social @marclee.bsky.social and Rachel Pettigrew #climatecrisis @policyalternatives.ca
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Canadian climate policy a decade after the Paris Agreement - CCPA
The Paris Agreement was signed in 2015 by 196 countries amid a wave of global urgency to confront the defining crisis of our time—climate change. Grounded in the best available science, it called for ...
www.policyalternatives.ca
November 6, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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canadiandimension.bsky.social
The deficit’s primary function is political: it is a cudgel used to enforce unpopular policies and coerce the public into accepting a diminished quality of life in the name of private profit. We must stop mistaking this political strategy for economic necessity.
The deficit is not an economic problem—it’s a political weapon
Mark Carney’s new budget exposes how Canada’s political class weaponizes the deficit to protect elites and justify austerity. Despite alarmist rhetoric, Canada’s debt is modest and self-financed. The ...
canadiandimension.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:48 PM