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courtney @courtums.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Devastated to hear about the passing of Dr. Karen Pearlston, who I was incredibly lucky to call both a friend in real life and a mentor in academia. 1/7

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courtney @courtums.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

“A sentence of imprisonment should not become a sentence of information poverty. If we believe, as librarians, that access to information is a fundamental right, then that commitment cannot end at the prison gate.” Thank you, @emgeekay.bsky.social for inviting me to speak to the CCHAC!

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courtney @courtums.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Attendance incentives don’t solve disengagement. They just measure it. We see that in university undergrad classrooms. Not sure why Doug Ford’s government thinks high schools will be different.

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Dr. Manhattan @thenewthinker.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

#ImSoFarLeft i think every prison should be turned into a library, and every hedge fund into a public kitchen.

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courtney @courtums.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Ive been searching for any sort of employment, to work alongside completing my PhD (bc the cost of living is impossible). After 2 years of searching & over 400 applications sent out, I finally got offered a gig that will end in August with no possibility of renewal. This is what hell looks like.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

This is so real.

The reason the Canadian government and Hockey Canada are so keen to embrace Heated Rivalry is that it’s the best PR campaign the federally-funded governing body has received since they used children’s registration fees to pay for a sexual assault settlements. Only 4 years ago.

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courtney @courtums.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

"That's the thing about history. Once you realize that changes have happened, the imagination grows. And you realize that nothing has to remain the way it is." - Angela Davis (www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSqH...)

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Voices for a Just World | A Conversation with Professor Angela Y. Davis

YouTube video by Black With No Chaser TV

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Um…bit bold to call the story I broke on Tuesday a “Star analysis” with zero credit to me! This is such a bummer. I worked really hard on this one.

A list of Canadian companies profiting off of
ICE and Trump's violent mass deportation regime
Several Canadian companies appear to be pocketing profits as this horrific agenda rolls out.
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Thomson Reuters
What? Headquartered in Toronto, the technology and media giant has three active contracts with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. One, awarded in 2021, covers a "law enforcement investigative
database subscription. Another, awarded in 2023, is for "risk mitigation services." A third, awarded in 2025, is for a "maritime analysis tool" and "subject matter expert support services to the support the homeland security investigations, operation national initiative for illicit trade enforcement program."
How much? The 2021 contract is worth
US$22.8 million. The 2023 contract has seen Thomson Reuters awarded US$2.7 million to date, and has a potential award amount of US$4.6 million. The 2025 contract has so far garnered the media giant US$1.8 million, with a potential award amount of $3.6 million.
Together, the three contracts are worth a potential US$31 million.

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courtney @courtums.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

The company that owns Thomson Reuters also owns the Globe and Mail. Reminding you once again that Reuters has US$31 million in contracts with ICE.

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courtney @courtums.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

We are witnessing genocide in real time and watching ICE terrorize communities across the U.S., all captured in HD by countless bystanders. And yet we’re still told that police body-worn cameras will somehow ensure “accountability.” The evidence has never been missing. The will to act has.

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acabforcutie @ahemnason.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Out here with an exlibris problem and an oclc problem (that’s an ai one) and a big 5 problem and a Vichy-style university admin capitulation to right wing pressure problem and I’m starting to think… I dunno. Maybe this is crazy but like maybe capitalism has some flaws?

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courtney @courtums.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

It’s ok to seek joy in times of despair.

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courtney @courtums.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

#AcademicSky The Canadian academic publishing company Thomson Reuters has US$31 million worth of contracts with ICE. Now is the time to remove or retract any published pieces you have with them. Contact your campus library for assistance with this. And maybe also stop using their services.

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courtney @courtums.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

The bar is so low that “progressives” have become impressed of a speech from a white, neoliberal, rich, bloke politician. As Contra Tenore pointed out, it was a speech a technocratic banker from the 90s would give. It was an economists view of international relations.

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WIRED @wired.com · 08/01/2026

We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.

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courtney @courtums.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Unsure why so many media sources are stating ICE “killed” Renee Nicole Macklin Good when they actually murdered her. Because ICE are murderers.

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courtney @courtums.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

PSA: Many of my acquaintances have started playing Hogwarts Legacy this week, because it's currently free in the Epic Store. Their justification is that accessing the game for free does not support JK Rowling. This is factually inaccurate. 1/3

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courtney @courtums.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

@brendonstuff.bsky.social second month in a row where I’ve had to email the London Police Service Board to ask for their meeting minutes from the previous month because they never posted them online 🥲. And the “policies” section on their website leads to a broken link hahahahah.. 😭

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courtney @courtums.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

You know what would be great? If Michael and Susan Dell actually paid their taxes.

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Jason Haslam @jasonhaslam.ca · 29/11/2025

Meanwhile, our faculty is being nickel-and-dimed into removing TA assistance from already too-large classes even as we are harangued about retention, and the university is sitting on massive cash reserves that they say they can’t spend even as they redirect operating $ to “strategic” slush funds.

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courtney @courtums.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

anyways, for everyone watching stranger things this weekend: remember that Will Byers (Noah Schnapp) is a zionist.

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Ardath Whynacht @ardathjean.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

So the most ridiculous thing just happened at Point Pleasant Park. The Conservative who ran in my federal riding is walking his dog in a bright blue CPC logo jacket. Ho’s making deals on his phone and tries to scurry away after seeing his dog take a dump in the middle of the walkway…

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courtney @courtums.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Naming an award after Vickery Bowles is a special kind of hell. Screw that pandering bootlicker.

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Mel Woods @melwoods.me · 18/11/2025

I'll have a full story and video coming tomorrow about Alberta using the notwithstanding clause on its three anti-trans laws. Just know that Danielle Smith said "If you don't become sexually mature, you can't have kids. And that's what we're trying to preserve" during the press briefing on Monday.

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courtney @courtums.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... I’ve had the honour of working alongside Serena during my many advocacy visits to Nova Institution. Her experience is not an isolated case—it reflects a broader pattern of state violence inside prisons across Canada. 1/8

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Should one of Canada’s longest-serving female inmates be granted ‘mercy’? | CBC News

Behind bars for murder since she was 15 years old, Serena Tobaccojuice has amassed a record of prison hostage-takings. A judge will sentence her this week for unlawfully confining two prison guards at...

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courtney @courtums.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

socialism isnt a dirty word

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courtney @courtums.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Bean and I spent the early afternoon at #LdnOnt ‘s Bones&Brews market, where a portion of all proceeds are being donated to Anova (www.anovafuture.org) Anova is a NPO in London, that provides support & shelter to survivors of family based violence, including domestic and sexual violence. 1/3

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Leah ProudLakota (she/her) @leahgazan.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Locking people up for being poor, sick, or in crisis doesn’t solve the problem and in fact makes it worse. When people are detained instead of supported, they often lose housing, jobs, and vital connections. That instability drives desperation, which fuels crime and social harm. (1/6)

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Carleton University is implementing the most restrictive policy on speech at any university in Canada.

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courtney @courtums.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

In New Brunswick, seclusion rooms are used instead of intensive care units because of inadequate healthcare funding—this is what happens when ‘public safety funding’ is prioritized over collective community care. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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Psychiatric patients assaulted while restrained, left soiled in seclusion, N.B. ombud says | CBC News

New Brunswick's ombud says Restigouche Hospital Centre staff have been restraining and secluding psychiatric patients improperly.

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courtney @courtums.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Plotting/Planning my first winter balcony garden. cc: @emgeekay.bsky.social

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courtney @courtums.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Pierre Poilievre says Canada’s top politicians all need protection. Meanwhile, Charlie Kirk had six private security guards when he was shot in the neck — a spot no bulletproof vest could cover. Maybe the issue isn’t a lack of bodyguards, but a lack of critical thinking.

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courtney @courtums.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

the skillset you need to survive is not the same skillset you need to love and be loved. - leanne betasamosake simpson

Picture of the Bay of Fundy from Cape Spencer Lighthouse in Mispec, New Brunswick. The image was taken at sunset and you can see lots of foliage and trees surrounding the Bay.

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courtney @courtums.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

"On Labor Day it's important to remember that police unions arent part of the labor movement. One of the basic purposes of modern police has been to crush every attempt by the working class to organize for social, labor, environmental, racial, gender, & immigrant justice." @equalityalec.bsky.social

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courtney @courtums.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

In harm work, there’s no such thing as a “perfect victim.” People have histories, contradictions, coping strategies that don’t always make sense from the outside. Support and care can’t be conditional on someone fitting an impossible standard. Harm is harm.

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courtney @courtums.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... I changed my PhD dissertation research topic a while back, but this was my bread and butter for many years. It’s frustrating to see the NB government dismiss library workers as if they don’t matter for student learning. 1/6

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N.B. government fights court order to bring back library workers | CBC News

The New Brunswick government has applied for a judicial review and a stay of a labour board decision ordering the province to rescind layoff notices for library workers in three school districts and r...

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Dean Spade @deanspade.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Conversation with @prisonculture.bsky.social about how the "conciergification" of our lives is de-skilling us for organizing with each other. Listen to the whole episode wherever you get your podcasts.

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courtney @courtums.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

You know the world is on fire when Marjorie Taylor Greene becomes more of an advocate for Palestinians than Hakeem Jeffries.

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courtney @courtums.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

ACAB also means the "cop in your head and heart".

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courtney @courtums.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

"I understand the mice, the rats, you know, maybe a rabbit, but these poor little beagles — you just look at their faces," Ford told a news conference in Windsor on Tuesday. Yeah, screw those mice, rats, and rabbits. They got ugly faces. 🙄🙄🙄🙄 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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Premier Ford vows to start 'hunting down' Ontario scientists doing medical research on dogs | CBC News

Premier Doug Ford warned Ontario scientists who use cats and dogs in research experiments that he would be "hunting" them down to end such work after an investigative article revealed beagles had been...

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courtney @courtums.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Insisting on peaceful protest is a neoliberal talking point. It’s less about peace and more about preserving the status quo. It asks oppressed people to protest in ways that don’t disrupt business, property, or power — even while they’re being brutalized by violent systems. 1/2

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courtney @courtums.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Respectability doesn’t keep people safe. People are brutalized every day without laying a hand on police — for being in the wrong place, for looking the wrong way, for simply existing while Black, Indigenous, Palestinian, poor, or homeless. 1/2

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courtney @courtums.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

I hope Mark Carney steps on Lego today.

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