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Kelly Fritsch

@kellyfritsch.bsky.social
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Canada Research Chair in Disability, Health, and Social Justice. Author of Broken Worlds, Disabled Kin (2026); Disability Injustice (2022); We Move Together (2021); Keywords for Radicals (2016).

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tyson singh kelsall @tsk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
we have lost so many people while police & politicians created a spectacle, raided DULF, stopped the expansion of an alt to the toxic supply, and put its co-founders through the needless consequences of this process that took years. DULF saves lives bsky.app/profile/godf...
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Kelly Fritsch @kellyfritsch.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Non-medicalized safe supply for the win!
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Kelly Fritsch @kellyfritsch.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
See you tonight at Dominion Chalmers, Ottawa! @uminnpress.bsky.social @morsini.bsky.social @nataliekt.bsky.social @anneemcguire.bsky.social @remiyergeau.bsky.social @carleton.ca @carletonfass.bsky.social carleton.ca/cdash/event/...
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Broken Worlds, Disabled Kin: Strategies for Collective Survival Book Launch and Discussion - Carleton Disability and Access Studies Hub (C-DASH)
Authors Kelly Fritsch and Anne McGuire argue that we live in a world broken by design: a web of systems that debilitate and destroy through racist and ableist infrastructural neglect, socioeconomic ab...
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Exciting event! @kellyfritsch.bsky.social is coming to STU in Fredericton to discuss her co-authored new book in conversation with @celesteeorr.bsky.social and @tobinatrix.bsky.social.
Broken Worlds, Disabled Kin by Kelly Fritsch and Anne McGuire

Book launch and public lecture on October 1 at 11:30am in Rotunda - Room 318, Brian Mulroney Hall at St Thomas University
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Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
my favourite typo is, & will always be, ‘the literary cannon’
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"Pfas companies are launching a “tidal wave” of forever chemicals production to meet demand from the AI industry, a campaign organisation has warned...a survey of the 10 biggest manufacturers found most had plans to increase production." www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Tidal wave’ of Pfas being launched to satisfy AI industry, campaigners warn
Big manufacturers planning to produce more of the forever chemicals to meet demand from datacentres
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Kelly Fritsch @kellyfritsch.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Talking about Broken Worlds, Disabled Kin with @anneemcguire.bsky.social on the Good Robot Podcast thegoodrobotpodcast.buzzsprout.com/1786427/epis... @uminnpress.bsky.social
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Sustaining life in crisis with Kelly Fritsch and Anne McGuire - The Good Robot
What does it mean to live in a world that is already broken, and what can disability justice teach us about creating more livable futures? In this episode of The Good Robot, Eleanor Drage speaks with ...
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Kelly Fritsch @kellyfritsch.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Join @anneemcguire.bsky.social and I for the Ottawa book launch of Broken Worlds, Disabled Kin on Friday, Sept 25, 6-9 pm at Dominion-Chalmers Centre, 290 Lisgar St. We'll be in conversation with @remiyergeau.bsky.social, @morsini.bsky.social & @nataliekt.bsky.social carleton.ca/cdash/event/...
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Broken Worlds, Disabled Kin: Strategies for Collective Survival Book Launch and Discussion - Carleton Disability and Access Studies Hub (C-DASH)
Authors Kelly Fritsch and Anne McGuire argue that we live in a world broken by design: a web of systems that debilitate and destroy through racist and ableist infrastructural neglect, socioeconomic ab...
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Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I talked to a man who got stuck in an elevator, a wheelchair user who had to go on his balcony and shout to ask for food, a woman who had to sleep in her chair because she couldn't use her COPD machine. The crisis in Gary is the product of structural neglect and racism, but also climate change.
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Gary, Indiana, Is America’s Latest Climate Victim - The American Prospect
This community has already faced structural racism and disinvestment. A two-week blackout unleashed a humanitarian disaster.
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The Breach @breachmedia.ca · 30/07/2026
A new investigation by @drugdatadecoded.ca and David Slater reveals how universities in Canada coordinated to spy on and violently remove their students’ anti-genocide encampments. Then, they denied the existence of records, delayed their release, and deleted chats. breachmedia.ca/canadian-uni...
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Canadian universities set up a secret network to crack down on student Palestine demonstrators ⋆ The Breach
Universities in Canada coordinated to spy on and violently clear student encampments. Then, they deleted the evidence
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AK Press @akpress.org · 17/07/2026
It's Disability Pride Month. It's been a hundred degrees, the air's full of smoke, and we can't eat vegetables. All of this hits disabled people hardest. This month is a good time to reflect on how to incorporate disability analysis into our work. Need help? www.akpress.org/featured-pro...
A person wearing a t-shirt that reads "Hisssss at patriarchy" with a cartoon cat face holds a stack of books on disability including titles by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Alice Wong, Kelly Fritsch and Anne McGuire.
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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
The Backup Plan, a new podcast series exploring the use of DNA to store data (instead of tape or hard drives etc).
cover image for the podcast— each square represents one episode with an image concept. thebackupplan.net
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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
I don’t know why this post doesn’t give his name, but it’s Jo Nagai. This is a true story. medium.com/@zehraanjum2...
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How a 10-Year-Old Boy’s Butterfly Experiment Silently Rewrote What We Know About Memory
In the world of science, breakthroughs often come from state-of-the-art labs with million-dollar equipment. But sometimes, they begin in a…
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Scott Neigh @scottneigh.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
The wave of austerity hitting Canada’s university sector and the Australian consulting firm that’s profiting from it. breachmedia.ca/a-notorious-... #cdnpoli
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A notorious consulting firm is selling austerity. Canada’s universities are buying ⋆ The Breach
The Nous Group, an Australian consulting firm, has raked in millions for “fixing” universities in financial freefall. Their solution? Corporatization
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The Breach @breachmedia.ca · 09/07/2026
Mark Carney is overseeing a massive expansion of AI data centres in Canada, and it’s raising all kinds of concerns. Marcus Werner reports on the fast-growing movement that’s rising against the wave of planned data centre projects—and in some cases, already winning. breachmedia.ca/inside-the-r...
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Inside the rising country-wide movement against AI data centres ⋆ The Breach
Canada is getting hit with an AI data centre boom. But resistance is emerging, getting coordinated, and already clocking wins
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 24/06/2026
Liz Soto and Savanna Batten are 2 of those sentenced to 50 years in prison for Prairieland. I visited them in a north Texas jail—11 months into their incarceration over a July 4 noise demo—to meet the Trump admin’s “Antifa terrorists”. from behind glass, Soto said, “They didn’t like my book club.”
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‘This is injustice’: how leftist zines were used to sentence anti-ICE protesters to decades in prison
Advocates sound alarm after zines were used as evidence to convict protesters of terrorism charges tied to 2025 protest at Texas ICE facility
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Society for Disability Studies @disstudies.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Virtual Conference Announcement! The Society for Disability Studies is excited to announce our call for papers, themed Here and There, Then and Now: Disability Studies at the End of the World. sites.google.com/DisStudies.o...
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SDS Conference 2027
Call for Papers Note: A text-only version of the information below is available as a Google Doc at this link.
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Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
We will never know or properly appreciate how many lives have been saved by librarians. The right book in the right hands at the right time. Astounding.
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Alona Ferber @aloner.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
"Israel has razed large parts of the Gaza Strip since the war began in October 2023. The evidence points to systemic destruction" www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/middle...
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‘The directive was nothing left’: How Gaza’s cities were destroyed
Israel has razed large parts of the Gaza Strip since the war began in October 2023. The evidence points to systemic destruction
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Kelly Fritsch @kellyfritsch.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Today! Discussing Broken Worlds, Disabled Kin in Montreal at 4th Space, Concordia with Anne McGuire, Natalie Kouri-Towe, Nashwa Khan, and Gracen Brilmyer. @nataliekt.bsky.social @anneemcguire.bsky.social @gracenbrilz.bsky.social @uminnpress.bsky.social www.concordia.ca/cuevents/off...
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Broken Worlds, Disabled Kin | Events - Concordia University
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Lilah Sturges @lilahsturges.com · 15/05/2026
living in the future has been a real fucking disappointment
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The Conversation Canada @ca.theconversation.com · 26/04/2026
Coercion isn’t care, and new laws that enforce treatment and confinement are dangerous
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Coercion isn’t care, and new laws that enforce treatment and confinement are dangerous
Arguing that confining and treating people against their will is ‘compassionate’ greatly expands the role of policing in medical matters, often with few limits.
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Chris Dixon @withmovements.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
My book FOR THE LONG HAUL: HOW TO STAY IN THE FIGHT FOR A BETTER WORLD is now available for pre-order! In the U.S., order from @akpress.org. In Canada, order from @btlbooks.com. It will be out in September! Find all the info at www.writingwithmovements.com/long-haul/
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
“They’re targeting foreigners to establish the principle, but there’s no question it’ll be turned against all of us if they succeed.” - @jwdwerner.bsky.social Je suis Khalil. Incredible reflections from him. nymag.com/intelligence...
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University of Minnesota Press @uminnpress.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
New books released this week! -Broken Worlds, Disabled Kin: A call to remake our world through a new politics of disabled kin-making by @kellyfritsch.bsky.social and @anneemcguire.bsky.social -Two now in paperback: Beautiful MN biographies on architect Elizabeth Scheu Close and judge Miles Lord
Book cover for Broken Worlds, Disabled Kin: Strategies for Collective Survival by Kelly Fritsch and Anne McGuire. Against a white background, drawing of a plant with leaves of printed images of soil, water, wiring, and microscopy. Birds and a bee fly away.Book cover for Elizabeth Scheu Close: A Life in Modern Architecture by Jane King Hession. Woman pointing at architectural model upper left. Title in red square to the right. Modernist house in woods, lower right. Author in blue field to left.
Book cover for Miles Lord: The Maverick Judge Who Brought Corporate America to Justice by Roberta Walburn. Large black-and-white photo of man in judge’s robes before the Great Seal of the US. Title in large yellow letters across chest, subtitle in white below.
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Kelly Fritsch @kellyfritsch.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Thrilled that Broken Worlds, Disabled Kin: Strategies for Collective Survival, collaboratively authored with @anneemcguire.bsky.social is now published with @uminnpress.bsky.social An open access version of the book can be found here: manifold.umn.edu/projects/fri...
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https://manifold.umn.edu/projects/fritsch-mcguire-9781452976501Flyer showing US ordering info with 30% off using code MN94380 at the following link: 
https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517919733/broken-worlds-disabled-kin/Flyer for ordering from Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East with 30% off using promo code FFS26 at the following link: 
https://mngbookshop.co.uk/9781517919733/broken-worlds-disabled-kin/
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Kelly Fritsch @kellyfritsch.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Excited to be in conversation with @louhicky.bsky.social in Cambridge April 17!
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Audra Mitchell @audralmitchell.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Coming to @4sweb.bsky.social 2026? @kellyfritsch.bsky.social and I are organizing an open panel on 'Confronting Contemporary Eugenics" (see p. 72 of the accepted panels for details). We'd love to consider your submission! #STS #antieugenics #disabilityjustice #socialmovements
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🎃 scarecrowcialism 👻 @swolecialism.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
"Food Processor" might be the most ominous sounding kitchen appliance. What does it do? Subjects it to The Process. Your food will be Altered by the Process. Please do not resist.
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MiningWatch Canada @miningwatch.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Funny/not funny. Ontario government calls Ring of Fire minerals ‘the most ethical on Earth,’ while passing legislation that suspends treaty rights, species protections, and human rights — to benefit extractive industries. ricochet.media/indigenous/o... via @ricochetmedia.bsky.social
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Ontario government recycles oil sands propaganda for Ring of Fire mining development
Discover how the Ontario government recycles oil sands propaganda for Ring of Fire mining development and its implications.
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John Bowker @johnbowker.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
“In three known cases, palliative patients died without pain medications and one patient died without nutrition because supplies were delayed” #onpoli
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Gabrielle Peters @mssinenomine.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
"Almost a year after the report’s release, there is no plan to substantially act on any of the UN’s recommendations. Government officials guessed right: mainstream news outlets have largely ignored the report’s criticisms of MAiD. " @spichaksimon.bsky.social breachmedia.ca/canada-sides...
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Canada sidesteps UN scrutiny over assisted dying ⋆ The Breach
Calls by disability advocates and the UN to halt an expansion of medically assisted death have gone largely unacknowledged by the federal government
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King Algamemnon @adamrothman.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
I'd watch a muppet show movie where the muppets infiltrate an academic conference.
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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
If only sociologists would stop talking about structure & agency.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
I talked with three Minneapolis organizers, including Andrew Fahlstrom and Susan Raffo, about community defense in Minneapolis, the social fabric of collective care under federal occupation, and how people around the country should be gearing up for the long struggle ahead. Audio + transcript:
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Minneapolis Community Defense Is “Riding on the Learning Edge of a Whirlwind”
“We are becoming the people that we always knew that we needed to be,” says Minneapolis organizer Andrew Fahlstrom.
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Kelly Fritsch @kellyfritsch.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Available for pre-order from @uminnpress.bsky.social: Broken Worlds, Disabled Kin: Strategies for Collective Survival, co-authored with @anneemcguire.bsky.social www.upress.umn.edu/978151791973...
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Broken Worlds, Disabled Kin
A call to remake our world through a new politics of disabled kin-makingWe live in a world broken by design: a web of systems that debilitate and kill throug...
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JenniferD @juniperd.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
In news you may have missed in this miserable world, legislated poverty is real. The province (ODSP, OW) and the federal government (CPP-D, CDB, DTC) do not care. As one politician said to me, 'It would be easier if you didn't exist.' Such a nice thing to say and believe. Arsehat #OnPoli #CdPoli
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Number of homeless ODSP, OW recipients in Ontario surges 72% since 2019: report | CBC News
The number of people on Ontario Works and the Ontario Disability Support Program who are also experiencing homelessness has shot up 72 percent since 2019, according to a new report from human rights o...
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Everything old being new again all at once is not a coincidence
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Genetic Data From Over 20,000 U.S. Children Misused for ‘Race Science’
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Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Nothing new to say, plenty new to do, infinite solidarity with everyone else trying to do it
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
"I write about the 3 Americas: one built on AI speculation, one held together by healthcare, and one running on memes" Brilliant &brooding piece by @kyla.bsky.social that runs a thread through the american shatterbelt @katemac.bsky.social & I honored to be quoted! kyla.substack.com/p/how-ai-hea...
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Nikki M @powderedsugarbear.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Pickles are the bananas of a sandwich smoothie.
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 15/12/2025
Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
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Jen St. Denis @jenstden.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
We published our AI policy yesterday. It affirms our commitment to human-made writing, photography and illustrations. #journalism #localnews You can read more here: thetyee.ca/Tyeenews/202...
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The Tyee Has a New AI Policy | The Tyee
Long story short: We’re mostly taking a pass on the robots.
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Beatrice Adler-Bolton @reallandsend.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Alice Wong’s legacy is the political horizon she helped articulate. A horizon where disabled knowledge is central, and care is a shared commitment. She taught us to name grief & rage without collapsing under them, to celebrate disabled brilliance without ignoring the material conditions shaping life
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Kelly Fritsch @kellyfritsch.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
May we build worlds worthy of Alice’s memory. 💔 Rest in power @sfdirewolf.bsky.social
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The Local Magazine @thelocal.to · 09/11/2025
Nearly two decades of stagnant provincial funding, a seven-year freeze on domestic tuition, and federal cuts to international student visas have left many of Ontario's colleges and universities in dire financial straits.
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Ontario’s Post-Secondary Education Crisis in Five Figures | The Local
Stagnant provincial funding, a domestic tuition freeze, cuts to international students, and expensive capital projects—the numbers behind the emergency in higher education.
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The Breach @breachmedia.ca · 04/11/2025
Behind a 2018 mass eviction in Ottawa lies a broader shift in Canada’s housing system. Neal Rockwell investigates how rental housing has been transformed into a speculative asset class, driving up rents and displacing racialized tenants. breachmedia.ca/how-the-dism...
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The corporate blueprint behind the eviction of Ottawa’s most diverse neighbourhood ⋆ The Breach
Behind Heron Gate’s destruction lies a broader shift in Canada’s housing system—financial firms, pension funds, and private equity investors have transformed rental housing into a speculative asset cl...
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PressProgress @pressprogress.ca · 07/11/2025
Founders of groundbreaking Vancouver compassion club found guilty of drug trafficking Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum, who sold club members drugs they had tested for safety, plan to launch a constitutional challenge against Canada's drug laws on November 24. pressprogress.ca/founders-of-...
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Founders of groundbreaking Vancouver compassion club found guilty of drug trafficking
Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum, who sold club members drugs they had tested for safety, plan to launch a constitutional challenge against Canada's drug laws on November 24.
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Michelle Gamage @michellegamage.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Street drugs have killed more than 18,600 BCers. DULF worked with cops, health authorities, feds to try and source, test and sell drugs with a known purity and potency to reduce overdose deaths. Their strategy was saving lives. Today they were found guilty of trafficking. thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...
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DULF Founders Guilty of Drug Trafficking | The Tyee
Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum didn’t have permission to sell tested drugs despite good intentions, court finds.
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