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Canadian Dimension @canadiandimension.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Carney promised to protect Canada from Trump. Why does his agenda look so much like Reaganomics?
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Carney promised to protect Canada from Trump. Why does his agenda look so much like Reaganomics?
Mark Carney’s Liberal Party won the last federal election on a platform largely built around protecting Canada from Donald Trump’s imperialism. Eighteen months later, the prime minister’s strategy loo...
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Nick Tsergas @nicktsergas.ca · 07/10/2026
Datacentre fights are increasingly about more than datacentres canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...
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The fight over AI data centres is a fight over local democracy
A reckoning is coming between municipalities and upper levels of government, and today’s AI data centre fights are the opening salvo. As provincial and federal governments race to build data centres, ...
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Canadian Dimension @canadiandimension.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Monday’s Québec election offered one of the most egregious examples of first-past-the-post failure in modern Canadian history. We must be rid of this broken system, which gives far too much power with far too little of the vote, writes @christoaivalis.bsky.social.
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Quebec election shows urgent need for electoral reform across Canada
The recent Québec election narrowly averted a crisis of democracy, but only partially and barely so. As the votes were being counted, the prospect of the Parti Québécois winning an outright majority w...
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Canadian Dimension @canadiandimension.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Canada’s notwithstanding clause has become a ready-made cudgel for governments looking to bypass debate and Charter protections. As its use expands, so too does the need for stronger organized resistance to abuses of political power.
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Notwithstanding rights and freedoms
Section 33 of the Charter, or the notwithstanding clause, has been used dozens of times in recent years by elected politicians to pass several unpopular measures. As authoritarianism rises, its use hi...
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Canadian Dimension @canadiandimension.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Across Canada, unregulated pregnancy centres pose as health or counselling services while spreading abortion disinformation, often through religious pressure and emotional manipulation. Why are these centres still allowed to operate without oversight? NEW from @abortionrightscan.bsky.social:
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Unregulated pregnancy centres cause lasting harms—we need transparency
Should organizations serving pregnant people be allowed to use disinformation and pressure to prevent them from accessing abortion care? About 160 unregulated pregnancy centres (UPCs) operate across C...
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Joyce Arthur @joycearthur.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
My new co-authored piece with Ashna Hudani! The government must act now to ensure that unregulated pregnancy centres are not allowed to continue harming people who need prompt and reliable reproductive health care. @canadiandimension.bsky.social
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Unregulated pregnancy centres cause lasting harms—we need transparency
Should organizations serving pregnant people be allowed to use disinformation and pressure to prevent them from accessing abortion care? About 160 unregulated pregnancy centres (UPCs) operate across C...
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Global Abortion Rights News @globalabortionnews.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Canada's government must act now to ensure that unregulated pregnancy centres are not allowed to continue harming people who need prompt and reliable reproductive health care. @canadiandimension.bsky.social
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Unregulated pregnancy centres cause lasting harms—we need transparency
Should organizations serving pregnant people be allowed to use disinformation and pressure to prevent them from accessing abortion care? About 160 unregulated pregnancy centres (UPCs) operate across C...
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Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada @abortionrightscan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Check out ARCC's piece in Canadian Dimension! The government must act now to ensure that unregulated pregnancy centres are not allowed to continue harming people who need prompt and reliable reproductive health care. @canadiandimension.bsky.social
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Unregulated pregnancy centres cause lasting harms—we need transparency
Should organizations serving pregnant people be allowed to use disinformation and pressure to prevent them from accessing abortion care? About 160 unregulated pregnancy centres (UPCs) operate across C...
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Canadian Dimension @canadiandimension.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The LNG industry is an economic loser for Canada that deepens our economy’s structural problems rather than resolving them. It’s also an active front in the private equity takeover of this country that Mark Carney is orchestrating, writes @nickgottlieb.bsky.social.
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Who is Carney’s industrial policy really for?
There’s no doubt that the Carney government’s combination of foreign policy pressure, public statements, loan guarantees, direct finance, and aggressive mobilization of private investment in support o...
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evin collis @evincollis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Latest for cartoon <Trump the Scrump> for @canadiandimension.bsky.social regarding the US interference in the upcoming elections in Brazil. #brazil #cartoon #satire #imperialism
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Canadian Dimension @canadiandimension.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"Trump the Scrump," Evin Collis, 2026
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Canadian Dimension @canadiandimension.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
What a country builds with public money is a statement of what it values. We must build for those already living through fires, floods, and extreme weather—not for the balance sheets of companies unwilling to risk their own capital on a new pipeline.
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Stop the West Coast pipeline. Not even the oil companies are asking for it
Seniors for Climate Action Now! is calling on the Carney government to reject the proposed West Coast oil pipeline, arguing the project has no credible economic, moral, reconciliation, or climate case...
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
At the end of the day, the Canadian government's Campus Antisemitism and Student Experiences (CASE) study is propaganda politics laundered as legitimate social science by Canadian scholars. We break down all the methodological flaws in this work of professional malpractice 👇.
To make definitively broad generalizations grounded in a small, biased selection sample is an unacceptable error, yet this is something the authors of this report repeatedly do, such as when they assert, “95.7% said they had experienced or witnessed at least one instance of antisemitism over the previous 12 months” without providing a caveat such as “of those surveyed” or a strong note on the limitations of the report’s methodology. This finding of 95 percent has, predictably, been repeated ad nauseam in the media. In fact, the authors of the report have admitted that among the very small number of respondents who indicated Zionism was not important at all to them, 92 percent said their campus was safe and inclusive for Jewish students, a finding that directly contradicts the thesis that it is Jewishness, rather than the state policy of Israel, that is the object of critique on campuses.

The 95 and 92 percent figures, taken together, index a larger problem: the incentive for participants to articulate experiences that align with broader political projects in a moment of profound polarization. It is clear beyond doubt that students with Zionist proclivities reported discrimination and those with anti-Zionist leanings reported none. So, what the study seems to reveal above all is the political orientation of its participants. It is not really possible to falsify any of the findings beyond that. If Zionist students consider critique of Israel to be a form of harm, that is what they will report. But this is not an objective measure, as evinced by the testimony of anti-Zionist students.
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The End of Sport @endofsportpod.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Discourse on ‘antisemitism’ in Canada and the US has reached a fever pitch. But, when you dig into the substance of the claims, it becomes clear that what is really being denounced is critique of genocide and antizionism. The CASE report is a paradigmatic example.
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Derek Silva @derekcrim.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
1/9 We cannot accept the findings of the federal CASE report. The methodology is fundamentally broken. Its data is highly questionable, but the resulting political weaponization is actively harmful. We unpack why for @canadiandimension.bsky.social. canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...
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Campus antisemitism report is based on fundamentally flawed methodology
Students deserve protection from bigotry. Antisemitism exists in Canadian society and must be confronted, and this study documents real examples. However, its methodology is flawed: by merging critiq...
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Canadian Dimension @canadiandimension.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A federal report on campus antisemitism makes sweeping claims from a self-selected, unweighted sample. It also repeatedly blurs the line between antisemitism and criticism of Israel, write @nkalamb.bsky.social, @derekcrim.bsky.social, @dansailofsky.bsky.social, and @privaricate.bsky.social.
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Campus antisemitism report is based on fundamentally flawed methodology
Students deserve protection from bigotry. Antisemitism exists in Canadian society and must be confronted, and this study documents real examples. However, its methodology is flawed: by merging critiq...
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Canadian Dimension @canadiandimension.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Despite its lofty promises, the Carney government's AI strategy is unlikely to protect Canadian sovereignty or safeguard democracy. We need a model of technological development that moves beyond extractivism, resource colonialism, concentrated corporate power, and ecological sacrifice.
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Digging a deeper hole: AI and critical minerals will not benefit most Canadians
It is unlikely that the AI for All strategy will do anything to advance Canadian sovereignty, empower Canadians, or safeguard democracy. It is time for Canadians to demand that the government move bey...
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Sean Carleton @seancarleton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Given recent events, @niigaanwewidam.bsky.social and I worked with Canadian Dimension to publish an excerpt of Truth Before Reconciliation’s conclusion - to help meet the moment and keep us focused on putting truth before reconciliation 👇
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Canadian Dimension @canadiandimension.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Residential school denialism is "part of a willful strategy to create chaos and confusion about the truth so as to block the path to healing, justice, and reconciliation." Read an excerpt from TRUTH BEFORE RECONCILIATION, out now from @umanitobapress.bsky.social.
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Residential school denialism and the backlash against reconciliation
To mark the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation—and following a gathering of white nationalists near Kamloops, where members of Second Sons Canada displayed a banner invoking residential school ...
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Canadian Dimension @canadiandimension.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Carney promised to protect Canada from Trump. Why does his agenda look so much like Reaganomics?
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Carney promised to protect Canada from Trump. Why does his agenda look so much like Reaganomics?
Mark Carney’s Liberal Party won the last federal election on a platform largely built around protecting Canada from Donald Trump’s imperialism. Eighteen months later, the prime minister’s strategy loo...
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Canadian Dimension @canadiandimension.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Canada is preparing to spend tens of billions building a pipeline the oil companies themselves won’t finance. If this project made economic sense, industry would be leading it. Instead, the public is being asked to take the risk while foreign-owned oil companies collect the returns.
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Stop the West Coast pipeline. Not even the oil companies are asking for it
Seniors for Climate Action Now! is calling on the Carney government to reject the proposed West Coast oil pipeline, arguing the project has no credible economic, moral, reconciliation, or climate case...
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John Clarke @johncke.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
My review for @canadiandimension.bsky.social of Chris Dixon's book on sustaining movements of social resistance. canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...
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Building movements for the long haul
With his new book, For the Long Haul: How to Stay in the Fight for a Better World, Chris Dixon provides a useful study of the varied factors that undermine the capacity of movements and activists to m...
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James Adair📙 @jameshasaface.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
What happens when private equity buys your home team? For me it’s been months of a sinking feeling since the Owen Sound Attack was bought. I wrote about that feeling for @canadiandimension.bsky.social and what the future of sports under could look like. canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...
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When private equity buys the home team
As Owen Sound lost factories, jobs, and other gathering places, the Attack became one of the few institutions left that still brings the community together. The team’s economic value comes partly from...
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Canadian Dimension @canadiandimension.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
At a time when there is an intense drive to privatize public services and assets, the LCBO makes the inconvenient case that public ownership can be efficient, profitable, innovative, and serve the public interest.
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Public ownership and booze: Raise a glass to the LCBO
At a time when there is an intense drive to privatize public services and assets, the LCBO makes the inconvenient case that public ownership can be efficient, profitable, innovative, and serve the pub...
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Canadian Dimension @canadiandimension.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The Carney government is using legal tricks to chip away at workers’ hard-won rights. The right to strike is being systematically enfeebled through legal manoeuvring. The working class has had tougher enemies. It will fight back. canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...
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MondoAB @mondoab.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Good old neoliberal transfer of wealth to the rich. "We already have one year of data from the prime minister’s latest round of corporate handouts. Investment has not budged. What has increased is corporate profits, which have once again reached record highs." canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...
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Trickle down hasn’t worked for the last 40 years. Why does Carney want to try it again?
Instead of ensuring our sovereignty, the Carney government is auctioning off more and more control over Canada’s economy to whichever foreign oligarch has the deepest pockets. If Canada wants to incre...
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Shiri Pasternak @shirip.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"Since Canada began cutting corporate taxes in the 1980s, dividends, which are disproportionately paid out to the richest one percent of Canadians, have increased from five percent of GDP to over 12 percent of GDP today."
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Canadian Dimension @canadiandimension.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Mark Carney is selling his “productivity mega deduction” as a way to boost investment. But decades of corporate tax cuts have instead fuelled record profits, rising dividends, and historic wealth inequality, write Jared A. Walker and @silasxuereb.bsky.social of @c4tf.bsky.social.
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Trickle down hasn’t worked for the last 40 years. Why does Carney want to try it again?
Instead of ensuring our sovereignty, the Carney government is auctioning off more and more control over Canada’s economy to whichever foreign oligarch has the deepest pockets. If Canada wants to incre...
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Canadian Dimension @canadiandimension.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Mark Carney’s airport privatization gambit risks becoming “Highway 407 of the skies”: selling out public property for private gain, privatizing profits while leaving risks public, and creating new opportunities for capitalists to gouge Canadians, writes @christoaivalis.bsky.social.
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Carney’s airport privatization is a looming disaster: ‘Highway 407 of the skies’
Mark Carney took another giant step in his right-wing crusade Tuesday, announcing a plan to effectively privatize four of Canada’s largest airports. The deal risks becoming “Highway 407 of the skies”:...
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christoaivalis.bsky.social @christoaivalis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
My NEW article for @canadiandimension.bsky.social, where I explore Carney's looming airport privatization disaster: canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...
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Carney’s airport privatization is a looming disaster: ‘Highway 407 of the skies’
Mark Carney took another giant step in his right-wing crusade Tuesday, announcing a plan to effectively privatize four of Canada’s largest airports. The deal risks becoming “Highway 407 of the skies”:...
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evin collis @evincollis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Latest cartoon “Billionaires Buffet” for @canadiandimension.bsky.social critiquing the Carney governments sell off of public assets to the global billionaire class. #cdnpoli #cartoon #satire
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Canadian Dimension @canadiandimension.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"Billionaire's Buffet," Evin Collis, 2026
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Canadian Dimension @canadiandimension.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The benefits of privatization are routinely asserted with great confidence, although rarely with any proof. The evidence suggests that privatization costs us dearly while eroding public control over key parts of our economy—and, with it, our collective power and democratic capacity as a nation.
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How privatization became the economic dogma of our time
The doctrine of privatization has become so pervasive that it is rarely questioned or challenged, becoming a driving force in our politics. The benefits of privatization are routinely asserted with gr...
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Ian @ianagp.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
All this. We have never actually had a reckoning about our involvement in that conflict. The war and Afghanistan itself was written off by the Canadian general public before our troops were even out of the country.
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Canadian Dimension @canadiandimension.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Canada’s role in Afghanistan is nothing to celebrate. Canadian troops bombed civilians, killed children, and delivered Afghans to torture chambers. Our government and media should reckon with that history, not commemorate it, writes Owen Schalk.
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Canada’s role in the disastrous ‘War on Terror’ should not be celebrated
Our government and media have taken the wrong lessons from Canada’s role in the Afghanistan war. We cannot demand that our sovereignty be respected while celebrating our role in the occupation of anot...
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Canadian Dimension @canadiandimension.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Congo sits at the heart of the global race for critical minerals. After 30 years of war, it should use that leverage with China and the West to defend its sovereignty—and demand the removal of Rwandan troops and proxies from eastern Congo, writes Judi Rever.
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Congo is at the centre of a critical minerals race between China and the West
The rise of artificial intelligence and the global transition to green energy are inextricably linked to conflict minerals in central Africa. Rwanda has used a well-oiled international network of elit...
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Canadian Dimension @canadiandimension.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The AI and tech boom runs on critical minerals. In Congo, their extraction is bound up with smuggling, exploitation, and war. As the United States and China compete for Congo’s vast mineral wealth, Judi Rever investigates the bloody underside of the global supply chain.
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Congo is at the centre of a critical minerals race between China and the West
The rise of artificial intelligence and the global transition to green energy are inextricably linked to conflict minerals in central Africa. Rwanda has used a well-oiled international network of elit...
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Canadian Network on Corporate Accountability - RCRCE @cnca-rcrce.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Two decisions by the Canadian government, made just weeks apart, lay bare Canada’s approach to corporate accountability: strengthening protections for investors while scrapping its corporate accountability watchdog. @miningwatch.bsky.social canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...
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Canada protects mining investors while scrapping its corporate accountability watchdog
Canada is strengthening legal protections for Canadian investors abroad while abandoning any pretense of holding those same corporations to account at home for their conduct. The Canada-Ecuador Free T...
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Canadian Dimension @canadiandimension.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Canada’s future should not be shaped through an invite-only gathering of the ultra-wealthy. It should be determined democratically by the people who live here, with the public good and long-term sustainability taking precedence over private profit.
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Carney’s CEO summit could put public assets on the table
This September, a who’s who of global finance will descend on a luxury hotel in downtown Toronto for an invitation-only event, the first-ever Canada Investment Summit. As Bianca Mugyenyi writes, the s...
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MondoAB @mondoab.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
"..Canada is strengthening legal protections for Canadian investors abroad while abandoning any pretense of holding those same corporations to account at home for their conduct. It’s Carney’s “principled and pragmatic” approach to global engagement in action." canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...
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Canada protects mining investors while scrapping its corporate accountability watchdog
Canada is strengthening legal protections for Canadian investors abroad while abandoning any pretense of holding those same corporations to account at home for their conduct. The Canada-Ecuador Free T...
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Trapdinawrpool @trapdinawrpool.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Canada protects mining investors while scrapping its corporate accountability watchdog Ecuadorians have repeatedly rejected investor-state arbitration. Canada’s new trade deal would bring it back canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...
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Canada protects mining investors while scrapping its corporate accountability watchdog
Canada is strengthening legal protections for Canadian investors abroad while abandoning any pretense of holding those same corporations to account at home for their conduct. The Canada-Ecuador Free T...
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Above Ground @abovegroundngo.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
"The message is clear: Canada is strengthening legal protections for Canadian investors abroad while abandoning any pretense of holding those same corporations to account at home for their conduct." @miningwatch.bsky.social @cnca-rcrce.bsky.social canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...
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Canada protects mining investors while scrapping its corporate accountability watchdog
Canada is strengthening legal protections for Canadian investors abroad while abandoning any pretense of holding those same corporations to account at home for their conduct. The Canada-Ecuador Free T...
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
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Canada protects mining investors while scrapping its corporate accountability watchdog
Canada is strengthening legal protections for Canadian investors abroad while abandoning any pretense of holding those same corporations to account at home for their conduct. The Canada-Ecuador Free T...
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SUNY UFS President Bruce Simon @sunyufspresident.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
If you read one thing this Labor Day weekend, read this by @blacklikewho.bsky.social canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...
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The university is the crisis
The crisis of the university is its inability to be honest about the nature of its self-induced crisis. Its leaders or senior managers often share the perspectives of those who wish the university to ...
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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
“The truth of the situation is that Nathan Cofnas and figures like him are more representative of the university than the raging leftists of the media fantasy” canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...
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The university is the crisis
The crisis of the university is its inability to be honest about the nature of its self-induced crisis. Its leaders or senior managers often share the perspectives of those who wish the university to ...
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Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
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The university is the crisis
The crisis of the university is its inability to be honest about the nature of its self-induced crisis. Its leaders or senior managers often share the perspectives of those who wish the university to ...
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rom comrade @savasavasava.myatproto.social · 05/09/2026
important from @blacklikewho.bsky.social. those of us within these structures are aware of how our acceptance is predicated on performing our identities in particular ways for particular audiences and that excessive scrutiny and disavowal is swift and brutal when it comes.
meme of a space person looking at what appears to be earth from orbit saying "the university is in crisis" with another space person pointing a space gun at them from behind saying "always has been".
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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
“Ego & narcissism are significant drivers of the uni, & senior managers exploit those characteristics gleefully, w/ the profound effect of keeping its foundational conservatism in place…Cofnas & figures like him are more representative of the uni than the raging leftists of the media fantasy.”
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(Mar)Chella Ward @luxmea.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
This piece managed to do a sensible critique of the racist neoliberal university and DEI without feeling the need to make the cowardly concession to white supremacist lies that has become dogma in every other article I’ve read about Jason - and I think that’s impressive.
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