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David Kahane

@davidkahane.bsky.social
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YEG-based permaculture gardener and political theory prof teaching about climate emotion, mutual aid, anarchism, democracy and systems change. Free Palestine.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"Ripping out these protected bike lanes against the will of Toronto city council is a colossal waste of $48 million. The province’s own experts know it will not ease traffic congestion, it will put people’s lives at risk…” One of the stupidest things I’ve ever seen any politician do to any city.
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Ontario will officially begin removing Toronto bike lanes on Tuesday | CBC News
Ontario will begin removing bike lanes from a stretch on Bloor Street W. in Etobicoke on Tuesday, the Ministry of Transportation says.
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Conrad Nobert @conradnobert.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Casually throwing away a decade of work, probably 10s of millions of dollars worth, and making Edmonton start from scratch. Stopping a building boom in its tracks too. Red tape reduction my ass.
Edmonton will be required to adopt rules for high-density infill development that revert to the parameters in place before its 2024 zoning changes for housing types, density and height, and to restore minimum on-site parking requirements in place before 2020. Edmonton will have three months from Oct. 8 to amend its bylaw.
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Keith Gerein @keithgerein.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Guess we'll see what the details are tomorrow, but it appears the UCP gov't has found another way to gut the autonomy of city councils. There's not much left for them to conquer. The disrespect to local voters is real. #yeg #ableg
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David Kahane @davidkahane.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I hear you! And thanks for all that you've contributed to political discourse at this sad-assed institution. This is my last year too: I'm treasuring my teaching swan songs and my departmental colleagues. But the broader institution and especially its upper echelons? Not so much....
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 03/10/2026
Higher ed leaders are doing "decline of public trust" discourse in order to avoid talking about all the things they've done to undermine their institutions, including exploiting contingent faculty labor, attacking student protest, and underfunding the humanities
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David Kahane @davidkahane.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is really good.
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MEDIA INDIGENA @mediaindigena.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
White supremacy isn't just some masked pissbags rallying near a rez—it is also the wanton destruction of lands + waters
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/09/2026
I love this paper so much. If I had my way every single journalist, pundit, analyst, and politician in the US would read it & then read it again. I want to quote all of it. www.frontiersin.org/journals/soc...
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Frontiers | The problem with polarization research in an age of extremism
"I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block i...
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David Kahane @davidkahane.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I heard high praise for Marie Gordon in Edmonton, but she wasn't cheap. I ended up choosing Jeremy Wiebe, who does Alberta wills virtually, at what felt like a really lean price; I found him patient and skilled with questions and advice.
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David Kahane @davidkahane.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Heartily endorse this #yeg garage sale, on today! Cool stuff, good prices, good people (just met them). The scroll saw and oscillating sander are now MINE, though! 8543 88 Ave NW.
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Nora Loreto @nolore.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Winnipeg Jewish man arrested for leafleting outside of a synagogue, asking his fellow congregants to stop supporting prayers for the IDF. jewishpostandnews.ca/faqs/rokmicr...
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Incident at Asper Campus today leads me to wonder: Are members of Winnipeg Police Service overreacting to threats of antisemitism?
By BERNIE BELLAN (Posted Sept. 23, 8:49 pm) I was coming out of the Asper Campus today around 5:30 pm when I saw a familiar figure – my second cousin Marty Green (son of the late Sid Green) standing o...
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David Kahane @davidkahane.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This is beautiful and righteous. Please contribute. www.gofundme.com/f/saddle-lak...
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Donate to Saddle Lake Cree Nation Treaty Health Legal Defense Fund, organized by James Makokis
Help Saddle Lake Cree Nation Defend Treaty Health Rights and Pr… James Makokis needs your support for Saddle Lake Cree Nation Treaty Health Legal Defense Fund
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Conrad Nobert @conradnobert.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Best argument for bike lanes in Edmonton that I’ve ever seen. Bravo @apaquette.bsky.social aaronpaquette.ca/mng
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Movin and Groovin — Aaron Paquette
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David J. Climenhaga @djclimenhaga.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Voters everywhere in North America turn against AI data centres with a vengeance. So what’s Alberta’s UCP going to do, having bet heavily on wooing up to 40 of the things? albertapolitics.ca/2026/08/vote...
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Voters everywhere in North America turn against AI data centres with a vengeance - Alberta Politics
Now that voters everywhere in North America are turning against Artificial Intelligence data centres hard and fast, what’s Alberta’s United Conservative Party going to do? They’ve spent two years plan...
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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
oh look, another company begging to be boycotted
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Doctors for Safer Drug Policy @dsdp.ca · 26/07/2026
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Episode 57: We Ain’t Dead Yet
Podcast Episode · Crackdown · July 22 · 48m
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Conor Curtis @conorcurtis.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
We're financing the burning of gas... for a U.S. tech giant... to benefit U.S. owned/aligned oil and gas corporations... When we could be financing sovereign renewables. And the country is on fire. #CDNpoli #ABpoli #Wildfires #DataCentre #Carney
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Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
We are given only a limited number of truly perfect summer days in our time on Earth. One of the more insidious cruelties of fossil fuel greed is how it slowly strips those days from us, more and more throughout our lifetimes, perhaps without us even realizing what we have lost.
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Another stolen summer day
What are we still waiting to learn?
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David Kahane @davidkahane.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Lovely thread.
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Leah ProudLakota (she/her) @leahgazan.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
The Liberal government has been watching silently as Trump flagrantly violates international law by waging an economic war on Cuba. The Cuban people are facing a humanitarian crisis, and Canada needs to come to Cuba’s aid. (1/2)
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...
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Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning
Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 14/05/2026
incredible and shameful there isn’t international condemnation of the united states for collective punishment of 10 million people
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David Kahane @davidkahane.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
This interview with Dyab Abou Jahjah of the Hind Rajab Foundation is really good. www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2Nl...
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Impunity and the Global Order, with Dyab Abou Jahjah
YouTube video by Jadaliyya
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4RESTKC @coldcollective.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Just ticket more of the unhoused, that'll solve the problem 🙄 No mention of the removal of supervised consumption sites. No mention that police educating people on drug use is not what they are trained for. It does nothing. People understand what drugs do, what they need is a home. #abpoli #YEG
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Hundreds of tickets given out in Edmonton for public drug use
In 2025, Edmonton city council revamped its public spaces bylaws. Some of the changes introduced, such as fines for spitting, panhandling, visible drug use and loitering in transit spaces, have been m...
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Trump created a crisis that could end the American Empire and destroy the global economy. Now he’s looking at a no-win situation and hoping someone or something will bail him out. This is what happens when you hand power to a monster like Trump. jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/the-plot-i...
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The Plot is Lost: Leaderless at the Limits of Empire
Trump has never known what he was doing. Now, he knows even less.
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David Kahane @davidkahane.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
My coping mechanisms and habits are on heavy rotation in these shitstorm times. Loved this podcast episode from @deanspade.bsky.social and Holly Whitaker on bringing compassion (and a harm reduction lens) to our and others' addictive patterns. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/l...
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Holly Whitaker
Podcast Episode · Love in a F*cked Up World · 2026-01-08 · 55m
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Sally Rooney: "I would like to ask my fellow writers & artists.. not to dwell too exclusively on what we stand to lose. There is another more important side to the story. To join in something greater than ourselves, to participate in.. a struggle for human liberation"
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Nora Loreto @nolore.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Canada must help Cuba. Here is my latest about Canada's long and deep relationship with the island nation, and how Carney's Davos speech turned out to be all talk and no action. noraloreto.substack.com/p/canada-mus...
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Canada must support Cuba
"You cannot ‘live within the lie’ of mutual benefit through integration when integration becomes the source of your subordination.”
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Dr Yannick Veilleux-Lepage @yveilleuxlepage.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
🧵“How do seemingly ordinary people become agents of state murder?” This is one of the guiding questions I ask students in my graduate class on genocide/state violence. With recent events, it is a question many Americans are asking. I do not have a definitive answer, but here is a reading list: 1/
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David Kahane @davidkahane.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
My coping mechanisms and habits are on heavy rotation in these shitstorm times. Loved this podcast episode from @deanspade.bsky.social and Holly Whitaker on bringing compassion (and a harm reduction lens) to our and others' addictive patterns. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/l...
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Holly Whitaker
Podcast Episode · Love in a F*cked Up World · 2026-01-08 · 55m
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David Kahane @davidkahane.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
(I shoveled my roof, but it's low-slope with a door onto it. This snow's surprisingly heavy, so it seems prudent not to let it sit. I lived in a house in Quebec that had a roof collapse due to snow accumulation -- giant job to fix....)
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David Kahane @davidkahane.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Happy to lend you a roof rake. Riverdale. DM me.
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David Pugliese @davidpugliese.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
apnews.com/article/ai-f... police body cameras, once taboo, get tested on Canadian city's 'watch list' of faces
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AI-powered police body cameras, once taboo, get tested on Canadian city's 'watch list' of faces
Police in Edmonton, Canada, have started a pilot project using AI-equipped body cameras to detect faces on a "high risk" watch list.
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karen ward @kwardvancouver.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
The solution to homelessness is housing The solution to poverty is reducing economic inequality through the redistribution of wealth The solution to the unregulated drug deaths is drug regulation bsky.app/profile/kwar...
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Jeff Doctor @jeff.doctor · 27/11/2025
cuz Canadian spies and law enforcement certainly remember jeff.doctor/blog/canada-...
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Canada's (Capital's) Counter-Insurgency Plan
LandBack, CashBack, Databack
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Jeff Doctor @jeff.doctor · 27/11/2025
seems like an important question the media should ask bsky.app/profile/jeff...
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Petra Schulz @msthpetra.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Forced abstinence it’s not the solution and will result in more deaths. Putting somebody through forced detox who is not seeking treatment or abstinence is akin to torture. #MBpoli #Drugsky www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Vulnerable people could 'come out worse' after stay in 72-hour detox facility, advocate says | CBC News
Advocates say the Manitoba government's plan to detain people intoxicated with long-lasting drugs like methamphetamine at a Winnipeg detox facility for up to 72 hours could put marginalized people at ...
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David Kahane @davidkahane.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
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Euan Thomson @drugdatadecoded.ca · 21/11/2025
DULF winning this challenge could advance people’s liberation so quickly, all the SCS and service closures of the last years to appease police and profiteer tantrums will soon be laughed at as the final bleatings of the drug war in Canada. But first, funding: www.zeffy.com/en-CA/donati...
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DULF LEGAL AID II - The Final Push
Our fundraising just hit a wall: we keep maxing out our incoming daily e-transfer limit of $50,000. But the Drug User Liberation Front (DULF) urgently needs your help to keep the fight for drug user r...
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David Kahane @davidkahane.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Thread.
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Kim TallBear @kimtallbear.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Trump admin acting like ancestor settlers, traders who refused to give hungry Dakota (denied their hunting lands) supplies in warehouses. "Let them starve." Starving Dakota lashed out. The greedy settler state was happy to massacre & imprison while claiming to be moral & civil. Nothing is new.
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USDA Tells Grocery Stores They Can't Give Discounts to People Hit by Trump's Food Stamp Freeze | Common Dreams
As the Trump administration illegally withholds food assistance from 42 million Americans, it's also telling stores it's against the law for them to provide discounts to those struggling after being r...
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David Kahane @davidkahane.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
I retired early from @ualberta.bsky.social out of disgust at how senior administrators and BoG have attacked Palestine solidarity activism and are fleeing accountability for investments in ethnic cleansing and genocide. @laurieadkin.bsky.social gives a tiny glimpse of how rancid things are.
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Guest Post (Laurie Adkin, Professor Emerita): Divestment campaigns at the University of Alberta confront an increasingly privatized and securitized university “commons”
Banner at the 17 October 2025 divestment rally at the University of Alberta; Photo by author The University of Alberta executive is not known for its sense of irony, so perhaps it missed entirely t…
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David Kahane @davidkahane.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
If folks want to know more about Edmonton school trustee candidates, there's this from Support Our Students: www.supportourstudents.ca/edmontonvote...
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Edmonton Public School Board EPSB Elections Candidate Guide
On October 20, vote for public education. Edmonton Public School board trustee candidate guide, based on their open advocacy potential.
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David Kahane @davidkahane.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Excellent new report: "Palestine at Canadian Universities: How Institutional Complicity in Colonial Genocide is Maintained." A reminder of the enduring shame of institutions like @UAlberta, which invest in genocide and apartheid while clamping down on opposition. www.institutionalcomplicity.ca
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Palestine at Canadian Universities
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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Searing truths about Israel, the West and complicity in genocide from @nesrinemalik.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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While the perpetrators of Gaza’s genocide pose as its saviours, survivors return home – to a wasteland | Nesrine Malik
Western leaders attending the Sharm el-Sheikh summit have enabled and sponsored this slaughter. They are in no position to build a Palestinian future, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
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Jonathan Stegall @jonathanstegall.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Cool to see that @policingblack.bsky.social will be making a quarterly newsletter for @interruptcrim.bsky.social Canada. Sign up here: form.jotform.com/252826314847...
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