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Ameil J. Joseph Ph.D.

@ameil-joseph.bsky.social
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Ameil J. Joseph Ph.D. @ameil-joseph.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Far-right Austrian white nationalist, permanently banned from U.K., plans to attend Hamilton conference | CBC News
A far-right, white nationalist from Austria who has been permanently banned from the United Kingdom for promoting extremist narratives said this week he hopes Canada won't deny him entry ahead of a co...
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Ameil J. Joseph Ph.D. @ameil-joseph.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/loca...
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Anti-immigration speaker banned from U.K. still planning to attend conference in Hamilton, Ont.
An Austrian man who has been permanently banned from the United Kingdom for promoting extremist narratives said this week he hopes Canada won’t deny him entry ahead of a conference he’s set to speak a...
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Ameil J. Joseph Ph.D. @ameil-joseph.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Book Review - Abolition in social work and human services: visions, possibilities, and challenges. Ian Hyslop and Bob Pease (eds) academic.oup.com/bjsw/article...
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Book Review - Abolition in social work and human services: visions, possibilities, and challenges. Ian Hyslop and Bob Pease (eds)
Abolition in Social Work and Human Services arrives at a moment when social work can no longer hide behind discourses of benevolence, technical neutrality
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Ameil J. Joseph Ph.D. @ameil-joseph.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Neglect for human rights cannot be laundered into “safety.” www.thespec.com/opinion/cont...
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Is HPL’s card policy a step toward safety or exclusion?
While this may not be police carding, it reproduces its logic.
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Joey Coleman @joeycoleman.ca · 25/06/2026
RESIGNATION Council citizen appointee Anjali Menezes resigned from the Police Board at the beginning of today's meeting. She is calling on the Solicitor General to step in, disband the Hamilton Police Board, have provincial oversight. She states the Board is failing to address major issues 🧵(1/x)
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Semester in Residence at CityLAB @semester-citylab.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Innovation in 2019: SIR guest visits recorded for podcast content. By '21 the experience was the basis for a new podcast for a Community Engaged course at @mcmasteruniversity.bsky.social: The Art of Change with SIR alumni producing. Listen to how we got started: creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...
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Ameil J. Joseph Ph.D. @ameil-joseph.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
www.thespec.com/opinion/cont...
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Hamilton must not wait for another hate-fuelled atrocity to respond
What we are facing is not a lack of awareness. It is a lack of co-ordination, resourcing and political will.
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Niagara Region Anti-Racism Association @thenrara.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Coverage of the danger of white supremacists rallying across #Niagara "“They’re pretty forward about what they are up to,” @ameil-joseph.bsky.social said. “What’s worrying is how little is being done in response to it.”" www.stcatharinesstandard.ca/news/niagara...
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Ameil J. Joseph Ph.D. @ameil-joseph.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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White supremacist groups using other issues, conspiracies to grow support, warns Hamilton researcher | CBC News
White supremacist groups are using issues of wider interest and disinformation to grow support — and that should be worrying, says a McMaster University professor in the wake of another demonstration ...
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Disability Justice Network of Ontario @djno.ca · 20/02/2026
Join us on Thursday, March 5th on Zoom with Dr. Moyo Mutamba for a participatory workshop to build both the mindsets and skill sets needed to navigate interpersonal conflict with greater awareness, confidence, and care. Moyo is a therapist, mediator, and equity and conflict transformation 1/3
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Ameil J. Joseph Ph.D. @ameil-joseph.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Discrimination based on race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, sex, age or mental or physical disability cannot be assessed without historical analysis. Historical impacts and outcomes are why those forms of discrimination exist.
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Ameil J. Joseph Ph.D. @ameil-joseph.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
From the overt racism at the top, to those who do it in secret, all the way to those in our everyday that do and say nothing to intervene, all of it harms. For those who live it, it is awful everyday, everytime.
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Ameil J. Joseph Ph.D. @ameil-joseph.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
For those (of us) who have researched, published books, chapters, Journal articles, conference papers on racist immigration violences, including deportation and detention, your work is needed now more than ever. Share it, wield it, care with it.
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Ameil J. Joseph Ph.D. @ameil-joseph.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
www.thespec.com/news/crime/p...
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Hamilton police board rejects motion calling for independent review into hate and extremism
HARRC says rejected review sends ‘deeply concerning’ message to marginalized communities
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Ameil J. Joseph Ph.D. @ameil-joseph.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
So he made up a board, invited mostly war criminals to be on it, called it a board of peace, which does not exist as anything right now. Then, un-invited Canada...and that is international mega news? Free Palestine.
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Partners In Health Canada 🇨🇦 @pihcanada.org · 22/01/2026
What would you do if you had one day to design a solution to a real tuberculosis challenge? On Feb 6, students come together at @mcmasteruniversity.bsky.social for a global health case competition grounded in real TB challenges. 🏆 Big prizes 🎟️ Limited spots Register 👉 bit.ly/FEB06
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Ameil J. Joseph Ph.D. @ameil-joseph.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
There is nothing novel about calling the rules-based order a useful fiction. Postcolonial, TWAIL, and critical race scholarship built this critique. What’s novel is watching it reappear stripped of names, histories, and accountability.
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Ameil J. Joseph Ph.D. @ameil-joseph.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
I wonder if he understands that the useful fiction he is referring to is colonial capitalism. Yes, it does not and cannot work.
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Ameil J. Joseph Ph.D. @ameil-joseph.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Over 10000 people fired over the last year and this happening again, and again until 2029. Anyone that tells you this is good is a liar and a terrible human. globalnews.ca/news/1161996...
globalnews.ca
Thousands of federal government workers receive layoff notices - National | Globalnews.ca
The Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada said federal government workers are being forced into a 'Hunger Games-style fight for jobs.'
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Ameil J. Joseph Ph.D. @ameil-joseph.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
I am going to add more acts of kindness to may days and hope that it spreads. The world needs everything it can get.
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Ameil J. Joseph Ph.D. @ameil-joseph.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
When killing dissent is defended from the top and accountability is erased, democracy ends and authoritarianism advances
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Joey Coleman @joeycoleman.ca · 08/01/2026
Just posted moments ago The City of Hamilton's internal audit report: "Barton-Tiffany Temporary Shelters Investigation and Lessons Learned" Part of the audit has been labelled "confidential" and is not being released to the public. #yhmcc #HamOnt pub-hamilton.escribemeetings.com/Meeting.aspx...
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AUD26002 - Audit, Finance and Administration Committee - January 15, 2026
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Ameil J. Joseph Ph.D. @ameil-joseph.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Blaming innocent people for when cops kill or brutalize them is and has always been a deeply dishonourable, repugnant gaslight.
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Ameil J. Joseph Ph.D. @ameil-joseph.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
There are enough people who want things to be different to stop all of this.
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Ameil J. Joseph Ph.D. @ameil-joseph.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
It is deeply worrying how startled so many are when racist colonial capitalism violently advances as it was designed to as though something else was before them. Conquest via supremacy is its project. We need to educate in ways that help more see this and to imagine differently.
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Ameil J. Joseph Ph.D. @ameil-joseph.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
“He’s unleashed something that cannot be stopped,” And it hasn't. All of this continues unaddressed. "Althorpe also recruited a small group of neo-Nazis in the Greater Hamilton area to train them as a militia, taking them on hikes and engaging in mixed martial arts" www.thespec.com/news/ontario...
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Canadian neo-Nazi was ‘man behind the curtain’ of global terror attacks, Crown says, calling for 20-year sentence
Niagara man Matthew Althorpe “unleashed something that cannot be stopped,” a prosecutor told the judge.
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Ameil J. Joseph Ph.D. @ameil-joseph.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
I guess appeals for Nations like England, France, The Netherlands, or Spain, to intervene on the current attempt from the US to attack and steal from South America would be a stretch, as they made themselves via doing the same.
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Ameil J. Joseph Ph.D. @ameil-joseph.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
White supremacist organizing, training, policy making, country leading, deporting, imprisoning, banning, all need to be stopped. We cannot live like this, work like this, breathe like this.
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Ameil J. Joseph Ph.D. @ameil-joseph.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
There are not enough chocolated salted caramels in this world.
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Ameil J. Joseph Ph.D. @ameil-joseph.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
www.thespec.com/news/hamilto...
thespec.com
Opioid crisis: Board of health demands more info amid record overdose calls
Opioid reports to include effect of provincial policy changes including the shut down of the city’s supervised consumption site.
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Ameil J. Joseph Ph.D. @ameil-joseph.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Crowdfunding for racists, training and recruiting, it is happening everywhere and advanced at leadership levels. More people need to step up together to stop this.
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Ameil J. Joseph Ph.D. @ameil-joseph.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
I mean, maybe the hunting down & criminalizing of people living outside, trashing their encampments, & closing safe consumption sites needs their action instead of declaring an emergency of their making. www.chch.com/chch-news/ma...
chch.com
Mayors urge Ontario to declare state of emergency to address homelessness, addiction
The mayors of Ontario's 29 largest cities are calling on the province to declare a state of emergency as municipalities deal with what they call a "community safety and humanitarian crisis" created by...
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Ameil J. Joseph Ph.D. @ameil-joseph.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
For the past 3 budget cycles, the HPS has requested year-over-year budget increases that were higher (in percentage terms) than the City of Hamilton’s overall tax-supported budget increase across ALL other progs & services combined. HPS expanding faster than anything www.thespec.com/news/hamilto...
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Ward 2 Hamilton @ward2hamilton.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
November 15 marked a full three years in my role as Councillor for Ward 2. Every year, around this time, I write about another year gone by, what I’ve learned in this job, what people tell me when they see me at a meeting, stop me in the street, or share their thoughts with me in an email. #HamOnt
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Ameil J. Joseph Ph.D. @ameil-joseph.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Join us for an evening of critical community conversations on how we respond to hate and racism through solidarity, care, and shared knowledge. 📍CityLAB Hamilton (58 Jackson St W) 🕕 Nov 24 | 6–8 PM 🔗 Register now: tickettailor.com/events/mcmaste…
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Ameil J. Joseph Ph.D. @ameil-joseph.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Robyn Maynard Book Launch: Policing Black Lives Revised & Expanded Fri 7 Nov 2025 4:00 PM - 6:00 PML.R. Wilson Concert Hall, McMaster University, L8S 4L8 www.tickettailor.com/events/afric...
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Ameil J. Joseph Ph.D. @ameil-joseph.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Racism, hating the poor, attacking those without housing, destroying the environment, gender based hate, and eugenic policies do not make life any better. One day, people will remember that.
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Ameil J. Joseph Ph.D. @ameil-joseph.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Sycophantic service to racists makes you that too.
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Ameil J. Joseph Ph.D. @ameil-joseph.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
We have become desensitized to non-sense leaders saying and doing non-sense and running out of energy to try to convince them of things they are incapable of getting. There needs to be a minimum bar. We have no bar right now.
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Ameil J. Joseph Ph.D. @ameil-joseph.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Playing Not Like Us for their entrance is dirty. #LetsGoBlueJays
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Ameil J. Joseph Ph.D. @ameil-joseph.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
How can people help? Post replies below and share. apnews.com/article/hurr...
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Hurricane Melissa bears down on Jamaica and threatens to be the island's strongest recorded storm
Hurricane Melissa has intensified into a Category 5 storm as it draws closer to Jamaica, where forecasters say it will unleash catastrophic flooding, landslides and widespread damage.
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Ameil J. Joseph Ph.D. @ameil-joseph.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
For those unfamiliar with the school-prison pipline literature, who are gasping at the thought of this & attempting to target those who speak about it (especially when analyses of racism, coloniality, & eugenics are, named), I will provide a few pieces here for background 1/10
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Ameil J. Joseph Ph.D. @ameil-joseph.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Congratulations Dr. @maddiebrockbank.bsky.social !!!! An excellent defense and dissertation. It was an honour to be on your supervisory committee.
Photo of newly minted Dr. Madison Brockbank! With a sign that says, "The Doctor is IN"Photo of Maddie in her Doctoral defense.
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Ameil J. Joseph Ph.D. @ameil-joseph.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
The ways public racists harass, surveil, and stalk racialized women in this city needs to be addressed.
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Ameil J. Joseph Ph.D. @ameil-joseph.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
The outward, impunity with which some are advocating for white supremacist systems, policies, practices and laws in Hamilton is a problem that requires a collective response.
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Ameil J. Joseph Ph.D. @ameil-joseph.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
McMaster is 3rd best in Canada for securing SSHRC funding. You would never know it by the way those disciplines are treated here.
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Ameil J. Joseph Ph.D. @ameil-joseph.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
So we have calls for inquiries into white supremacist activities in HPS, calls to end the criminalization of unhoused people, conerns over ever rising policing budgets, etc., etc. and they choose the new board member by......drawing names from a hat.
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Ameil J. Joseph Ph.D. @ameil-joseph.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Genocide, authoritarian rule & far-right leaders weilding its permissions across sectors, while people die living outside. Policing & militarization increasing. The language of "safety" is weilded to justify violence toward those who suffer &/or resist. This has to be stopped.
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Disability Justice Network of Ontario @djno.ca · 02/10/2025
📢Introducing the incredible speakers joining us on Friday, Oct. 10th at our event, “Policing-Free Schools Is Disability Justice: Knowledge Mobilization & Calls-to-Action”! Meet our amazing panelists for:“School-Prison Nexus & Carceral ‘Care’”⬇️ 1/3
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