I wrote about globalizing the intifada, how way more Palestinians died during the two Intifadas than Israelis, and how Canadian media is working overtime to give cops the tools to criminalize free speech.

My last piece for 2025.

noraloreto.substack.com/p/criminaliz...

Canada condemns Canadians bringing humanitarian aid into Gaza

BREAKING: Skate Canada is boycotting Alberta over the province's ban on Trans women competing in women's sports.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

OneBC is ripping itself apart, just a week after making residential school denialism its singular obsession, and you absolutely love to see it.

My constituent, Amu, is on Day 40 of their hunger strike in prison.

Last month, I requested an urgent meeting with the Justice Secretary to discuss their wellbeing.

He has now officially declined my request.

What an absolute disgrace.

I wrote up a rare Saturday column about the NDP leadership French-language debate. And osti de marde c'étiat merdique.

noraloreto.substack.com/p/is-the-ndp...

In early 2025, the Israeli military launched an operation that emptied three Palestinian refugee camps. They've blocked their residents from returning and razed many of their homes.

In a new report, HRW finds that Israeli forces carried out war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity.

If you're interested in the debate about whether Zohran Mamdani should keep Jessica Tisch as police commissioner — and in the future of policing in New York City — this @attackerman.bsky.social piece is very much worth a read.

www.forever-wars.com/mamdanis-nyc...

Zohran’s win is massive — and it’s just the beginning. It’s a moment of tremendous hope, and a moment that we can and must build on. We have the opportunity here to change course, but only if we seize it and turn our beautiful celebration into transformative change.

www.jphilll.com/p/zohran-mam...

AFB 2026 is live! Major public cuts are avoidable. Canadians need supports and services based on equality and solidarity. The CCPA’s Alternative Federal Budget offers just that: Building a True Canadian Sovereignty. www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

OpenAI wants to "help" Canadians by allowing another nation to support this fuckin Ponzi scheme. The return on initial capital investment is forever going to be negative, so new victims is the only way to support it.

It's not intelligence, it's just really fast googling, and it's pathetic.

I am once again asking Canadian journalists to ask the most basic-ass question of "on whose land will these be built?" How is it that every other major industry must consider Indigenous rights but with tech it's like "meh".
www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

If you were concerned about Kimmel, here's another for you…

Journalist Mario Guevara has been detained for 100+ days, ironically arrested as he reported on a "No Kings" protest.

The Trump-Vance admin just issued an order of final removal, to send him to El Salvador—where he fled from 21 years ago.

If there was one book that you would recommend to someone who is new to politics, but very keen to learn more, what book would that be?

This is insane:

Edmonton Police authorized a *7 month* surveillance operation targeting a journalist critical of police and followed his family doing mundane things

This covert operation was supposedly necessary to determine who vandalized a statue honouring a literal WW2 Nazi

I see a bad moon arising,
I see trouble on the way.