Will MacGregor (he/him)
@wmacg.bsky.social
PhD Candidate at York U, with focus on Health & Disability Policy, with emphasis on Political Economy. Ex-pat Maritimer, Part Time Theatre Artist, and Sci Fi Nerd
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"The problem is not too much public spending. It is too little."
Broadbent fellow Danyaal Raza debunks the myth that "health-care costs are unsustainable, and the government cannot afford more."
Health-care sustains us, and the Carney government can afford to pay more.
www.hilltimes.com/st...
Broadbent fellow Danyaal Raza debunks the myth that "health-care costs are unsustainable, and the government cannot afford more."
Health-care sustains us, and the Carney government can afford to pay more.
www.hilltimes.com/st...
February 13, 2026 at 12:00 AM
"The problem is not too much public spending. It is too little."
Broadbent fellow Danyaal Raza debunks the myth that "health-care costs are unsustainable, and the government cannot afford more."
Health-care sustains us, and the Carney government can afford to pay more.
www.hilltimes.com/st...
Broadbent fellow Danyaal Raza debunks the myth that "health-care costs are unsustainable, and the government cannot afford more."
Health-care sustains us, and the Carney government can afford to pay more.
www.hilltimes.com/st...
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The left doesn’t have a policy problem—it has a power problem. Shifting intellectual firepower from wonkery to collective action means rebuilding parties as more than just electoral brands, writes @aliterrenoire.bsky.social.
The NDP and the parliamentary illusion
Parties are a necessary tool for connecting individuals and transforming shared interests into collective power. The left will not win by simply electing better politicians, but by forging a political...
canadiandimension.com
February 3, 2026 at 1:24 PM
The left doesn’t have a policy problem—it has a power problem. Shifting intellectual firepower from wonkery to collective action means rebuilding parties as more than just electoral brands, writes @aliterrenoire.bsky.social.
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Pay attention folks. Danielle Smith and the Alberta MAGA machine are using the Donbas playbook.
This isn't about "independence" it is about sedition and subservience to Trump.
This isn't about "independence" it is about sedition and subservience to Trump.
January 27, 2026 at 1:05 PM
Pay attention folks. Danielle Smith and the Alberta MAGA machine are using the Donbas playbook.
This isn't about "independence" it is about sedition and subservience to Trump.
This isn't about "independence" it is about sedition and subservience to Trump.
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To teach today is to choose sides: between memory and amnesia, democracy and authoritarianism, justice and organized forgetting. The future will be shaped not only by those who wield power, but by those who decide whether education remains a force for critical consciousness and democracy.
Critical education in an age of authoritarianism
At its best, education refuses to accept the world as presented by the powerful, the financial elite, or the enablers of fascism. This is why authoritarian regimes relentlessly target teachers, univer...
canadiandimension.com
January 27, 2026 at 3:15 PM
To teach today is to choose sides: between memory and amnesia, democracy and authoritarianism, justice and organized forgetting. The future will be shaped not only by those who wield power, but by those who decide whether education remains a force for critical consciousness and democracy.
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"There is no refuge in neutrality. Silence is never innocent; it is pedagogical. To retreat from public life, avoid controversy, or reduce education to mere technique is to surrender cultural terrain to those who weaponize ignorance and cruelty,” write Henry Giroux and William Paul.
Critical education in an age of authoritarianism
At its best, education refuses to accept the world as presented by the powerful, the financial elite, or the enablers of fascism. This is why authoritarian regimes relentlessly target teachers, univer...
canadiandimension.com
January 21, 2026 at 10:17 PM
"There is no refuge in neutrality. Silence is never innocent; it is pedagogical. To retreat from public life, avoid controversy, or reduce education to mere technique is to surrender cultural terrain to those who weaponize ignorance and cruelty,” write Henry Giroux and William Paul.
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The danger is not that neoliberalism is ending, but that it is being replaced by something worse: a world of militarized competition, eco-fascism, and technocratic management of permanent crisis. Acknowledging the collapse of the old order is not the same as building a democratic alternative to it.
What Mark Carney gets wrong about the end of the rules-based order
To re-establish power, defend sovereignty, and strengthen democratic values, Canada and its allies must do more than challenge the American state. We must also confront the influence of US corporate p...
canadiandimension.com
January 21, 2026 at 12:49 PM
The danger is not that neoliberalism is ending, but that it is being replaced by something worse: a world of militarized competition, eco-fascism, and technocratic management of permanent crisis. Acknowledging the collapse of the old order is not the same as building a democratic alternative to it.
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Alberta renters don’t need more ‘supply’ — they need non-market housing options
Governments keep chasing the market while community housing providers deliver stable, affordable homes that won’t disappear when profits rise.
New from @ximenaka.bsky.social:
ricochet.media/justice/hous...
#abpoli
Governments keep chasing the market while community housing providers deliver stable, affordable homes that won’t disappear when profits rise.
New from @ximenaka.bsky.social:
ricochet.media/justice/hous...
#abpoli
Alberta renters don’t need more ‘supply’ — they need non-market housing options
Governments keep chasing the market while community housing providers quietly deliver stable, affordable homes that won’t disappear when profits rise
ricochet.media
December 18, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Alberta renters don’t need more ‘supply’ — they need non-market housing options
Governments keep chasing the market while community housing providers deliver stable, affordable homes that won’t disappear when profits rise.
New from @ximenaka.bsky.social:
ricochet.media/justice/hous...
#abpoli
Governments keep chasing the market while community housing providers deliver stable, affordable homes that won’t disappear when profits rise.
New from @ximenaka.bsky.social:
ricochet.media/justice/hous...
#abpoli
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The Trump admin is not enforcing labor laws as strongly as they should be. Workplace health and safety penalties are down 45%, while Wage and Hour Division penalties are down 94%.
President Trump is putting workers’ health, safety and wages at risk. https://bit.ly/490IB2U
President Trump is putting workers’ health, safety and wages at risk. https://bit.ly/490IB2U
Worker Protections in Freefall: The Collapse of Federal Labor Enforcement under the Second Trump Administration - Good Jobs First
Worker Protections in Freefall: The Collapse of Federal Labor Enforcement under the Second Trump Administration - Good Jobs First
goodjobsfirst.org
December 17, 2025 at 6:20 PM
The Trump admin is not enforcing labor laws as strongly as they should be. Workplace health and safety penalties are down 45%, while Wage and Hour Division penalties are down 94%.
President Trump is putting workers’ health, safety and wages at risk. https://bit.ly/490IB2U
President Trump is putting workers’ health, safety and wages at risk. https://bit.ly/490IB2U
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My statement from @americanprogress.bsky.social on disability justice activist, author, MacArthur fellow, and cyborg oracle Alice Wong.
November 15, 2025 at 5:54 PM
My statement from @americanprogress.bsky.social on disability justice activist, author, MacArthur fellow, and cyborg oracle Alice Wong.
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Canada’s right-wing has become obsessed with hating on the brown people who work at Tim Hortons.
Katia Lo Innes explains how the racist scapegoating of migrant workers aims to divide and distract us from our real enemy — the corporate elite. youtu.be/SRjQ-MJinFg
Katia Lo Innes explains how the racist scapegoating of migrant workers aims to divide and distract us from our real enemy — the corporate elite. youtu.be/SRjQ-MJinFg
Tim Hortons’ migrant workers are being scapegoated to distract from corporate greed
YouTube video by The Breach
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October 30, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Canada’s right-wing has become obsessed with hating on the brown people who work at Tim Hortons.
Katia Lo Innes explains how the racist scapegoating of migrant workers aims to divide and distract us from our real enemy — the corporate elite. youtu.be/SRjQ-MJinFg
Katia Lo Innes explains how the racist scapegoating of migrant workers aims to divide and distract us from our real enemy — the corporate elite. youtu.be/SRjQ-MJinFg
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The UCP’s use of the NWS clause to end the teachers strike is sinking in. This is a terrible precedent for *all* groups with protected rights. Why would the government ever not use s 33 now in any case where they can’t make a credible s 1 argument?
"Bill 2 is perfectly legal."
"The kids need to go back to class."
I agree.
That doesn't mean the premier should've done an endrun around the legislature and the courts.
If the back-to-work law was defensible, why didn't she defend it before leaving the country?
open.substack.com/pub/drjaredw...
"The kids need to go back to class."
I agree.
That doesn't mean the premier should've done an endrun around the legislature and the courts.
If the back-to-work law was defensible, why didn't she defend it before leaving the country?
open.substack.com/pub/drjaredw...
Alberta Strong and Free, Notwithstanding
The UCP's Bill 2 skirts the legislature and the courts, leaving it up to the public to push back swiftly
open.substack.com
October 28, 2025 at 1:52 PM
The UCP’s use of the NWS clause to end the teachers strike is sinking in. This is a terrible precedent for *all* groups with protected rights. Why would the government ever not use s 33 now in any case where they can’t make a credible s 1 argument?
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To get buy-in from all 10 provinces (which it didn't), Canada's constitution has a clause allowing provinces to override its fundamental rights and freedoms. The framers -- I've spoken to some -- imagined it used in existential-crisis cases. Well, a province just used it to break a teachers' strike
October 28, 2025 at 2:59 PM
To get buy-in from all 10 provinces (which it didn't), Canada's constitution has a clause allowing provinces to override its fundamental rights and freedoms. The framers -- I've spoken to some -- imagined it used in existential-crisis cases. Well, a province just used it to break a teachers' strike
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Mark Carney’s austerity, militarism and fossil fuel expansion plan is setting the stage for a wave of resistance. From Indigenous blockades to public sector strikes, workers and communities are already pushing back against Ottawa’s new class offensive.
Carney’s attacks will unleash major struggles
As Mark Carney’s government prepares a sweeping austerity agenda—gutting public services, fuelling militarism, and expanding fossil fuel projects—John Clarke argues that a new wave of resistance is em...
canadiandimension.com
October 27, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Mark Carney’s austerity, militarism and fossil fuel expansion plan is setting the stage for a wave of resistance. From Indigenous blockades to public sector strikes, workers and communities are already pushing back against Ottawa’s new class offensive.
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“Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch. It is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency.Hope should shove you out the door, because it will take everything to steer the future away from endless war and grinding down of the poor.Hope gives a future."
-Rebecca Solnit
-Rebecca Solnit
October 22, 2025 at 9:40 PM
“Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch. It is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency.Hope should shove you out the door, because it will take everything to steer the future away from endless war and grinding down of the poor.Hope gives a future."
-Rebecca Solnit
-Rebecca Solnit
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The system works, but not for most Canadians
www.thespec.com/opinion/cont...
@futurism.bsky.social @mrpeterjulian.bsky.social
@patrioticmillionaires.org @profsmithsask.bsky.social
@chloelewis.bsky.social @larryneufeldsk.bsky.social
@broadbent.bsky.social @jimbostanford.bsky.social
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@futurism.bsky.social @mrpeterjulian.bsky.social
@patrioticmillionaires.org @profsmithsask.bsky.social
@chloelewis.bsky.social @larryneufeldsk.bsky.social
@broadbent.bsky.social @jimbostanford.bsky.social
The system works, but not for most Canadians
Too little attention is being paid to the inequities of our economic system.
www.thespec.com
October 20, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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PWD (Persons With Disabilities) in Canada CALL upon @mark-carney.bsky.social & @liberalparty.bsky.social to remove DTC requirements to access the Canada Disability Benefit immediately.
The CDB should be available to all medically assessed & designated PWD in EVERY Province!
#NoMorePovertyPWD
The CDB should be available to all medically assessed & designated PWD in EVERY Province!
#NoMorePovertyPWD
October 17, 2025 at 4:05 PM
PWD (Persons With Disabilities) in Canada CALL upon @mark-carney.bsky.social & @liberalparty.bsky.social to remove DTC requirements to access the Canada Disability Benefit immediately.
The CDB should be available to all medically assessed & designated PWD in EVERY Province!
#NoMorePovertyPWD
The CDB should be available to all medically assessed & designated PWD in EVERY Province!
#NoMorePovertyPWD
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Happy to share Vol. 21 of Reflections on Research featuring PhD student @wmacg.bsky.social: "Canadian Disability Poverty, Policy, and Marginalization: Critical Analysis, Neoliberal Influence, and Lived Experiences within the Context of Canada's Liberal Welfare State"
➡️ www.yorku.ca/research/rob...
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October 15, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Happy to share Vol. 21 of Reflections on Research featuring PhD student @wmacg.bsky.social: "Canadian Disability Poverty, Policy, and Marginalization: Critical Analysis, Neoliberal Influence, and Lived Experiences within the Context of Canada's Liberal Welfare State"
➡️ www.yorku.ca/research/rob...
➡️ www.yorku.ca/research/rob...
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Barrie #Ontario recently declared a "state of emergency" over homelessness.
But for its mayor, the risk to human lives is not the emergency. The visibility of poverty is.
New op-ed from Nir Hagigi:
ricochet.media/justice/hous...
#onpoli #Barrie #housingisahumanright
But for its mayor, the risk to human lives is not the emergency. The visibility of poverty is.
New op-ed from Nir Hagigi:
ricochet.media/justice/hous...
#onpoli #Barrie #housingisahumanright
In Barrie, poverty is the crime and visibility the emergency
The Ontario city’s so-called ‘state of emergency’ is a manufactured crisis built on cruelty, not care
ricochet.media
October 8, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Barrie #Ontario recently declared a "state of emergency" over homelessness.
But for its mayor, the risk to human lives is not the emergency. The visibility of poverty is.
New op-ed from Nir Hagigi:
ricochet.media/justice/hous...
#onpoli #Barrie #housingisahumanright
But for its mayor, the risk to human lives is not the emergency. The visibility of poverty is.
New op-ed from Nir Hagigi:
ricochet.media/justice/hous...
#onpoli #Barrie #housingisahumanright
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Identity politics that obscures class politics and ignores economic inequality only makes the many miseries around us worse.
Identity Politics Is a Poor Substitute for Socialism
In No Politics but Class Politics, Walter Benn Michaels and Adolph Reed show how an identity politics that obscures class politics and ignores economic inequality only makes the many miseries around us worse.
jacobin.com
October 3, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Identity politics that obscures class politics and ignores economic inequality only makes the many miseries around us worse.
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The new $ 17.60-an-hour minimum wage is an arbitrary figure that could and needs to be much higher. Why is it not?
Because the Ontario government is making the political choice to keep minimum wage workers poor.
My latest @thestar.com
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Because the Ontario government is making the political choice to keep minimum wage workers poor.
My latest @thestar.com
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Ricardo Tranjan: Here comes the new minimum wage — with the same problem as the old one
Doug Ford is choosing to keep workers poor when the minimum wage could be and needs to be much higher
www.thestar.com
October 2, 2025 at 2:00 PM
The new $ 17.60-an-hour minimum wage is an arbitrary figure that could and needs to be much higher. Why is it not?
Because the Ontario government is making the political choice to keep minimum wage workers poor.
My latest @thestar.com
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Because the Ontario government is making the political choice to keep minimum wage workers poor.
My latest @thestar.com
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
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My piece on how the Jimmy Kimmel firing is indicative of the growing authoritarian nature of the American regime.
The American century is over and it collapsed so quickly.
charlieangus.substack.com/p/jimmy-kimm...
The American century is over and it collapsed so quickly.
charlieangus.substack.com/p/jimmy-kimm...
Jimmy Kimmel, Charlie Kirk and the Fall of America
How easily they crumbled.
charlieangus.substack.com
September 19, 2025 at 7:15 PM
My piece on how the Jimmy Kimmel firing is indicative of the growing authoritarian nature of the American regime.
The American century is over and it collapsed so quickly.
charlieangus.substack.com/p/jimmy-kimm...
The American century is over and it collapsed so quickly.
charlieangus.substack.com/p/jimmy-kimm...
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General pattern in regime change: the comedy gets better and then it gets banned.
September 18, 2025 at 12:05 AM
General pattern in regime change: the comedy gets better and then it gets banned.
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Extremist murders by ideology, 2013 to 2022. www.pbump.net/o/reassessin...
September 13, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Extremist murders by ideology, 2013 to 2022. www.pbump.net/o/reassessin...
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Canada loses an astonishing $15 billion every year to tax havens.
Jared Walker & @silasxuereb.bsky.social argue that this money could fund public services, but successive governments have let corporations shift profits offshore—while regular Canadians pay the price.
breachmedia.ca/canadas-hidd...
Jared Walker & @silasxuereb.bsky.social argue that this money could fund public services, but successive governments have let corporations shift profits offshore—while regular Canadians pay the price.
breachmedia.ca/canadas-hidd...
Canada’s hidden tax crisis is stripping $15 billion from the economy every year ⋆ The Breach
For decades, Liberal and Conservative governments alike have incentivized corporations and wealthy individuals to shift profits overseas.
breachmedia.ca
September 4, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Canada loses an astonishing $15 billion every year to tax havens.
Jared Walker & @silasxuereb.bsky.social argue that this money could fund public services, but successive governments have let corporations shift profits offshore—while regular Canadians pay the price.
breachmedia.ca/canadas-hidd...
Jared Walker & @silasxuereb.bsky.social argue that this money could fund public services, but successive governments have let corporations shift profits offshore—while regular Canadians pay the price.
breachmedia.ca/canadas-hidd...