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Labour Law Alex

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Book loving, film loving, dog loving socialist lawyer. Father of 2.

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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 17/04/2026
Humble Premier buys private jet second-hand
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Humble Premier buys private jet second-hand
QUEEN'S PARK - Salt-of-the-earth Ontarian Premier Doug Ford acknowledged that the province had made the ultimate sacrifice of getting him a used private jet for the discounted price of just $28.9 mill...
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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 23/12/2025
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
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Labour Law Alex @labourlawalex.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
So Emilia Perez is bad bad...I have watched 45 minutes and just wow. I don't have time to watch much so may just bail. I can't imagine anyone portrayed liking what is on screen and the music is really outrageously horrible
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James F. McGrath (ReligionProf) @religionprof.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Meredith Warren on the new movie about Mary.
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Mary: as a Biblical scholar, I can’t recommend this right-wing funded Netflix biopic
My critiques of Mary centre around two themes. One is the way it perpetuates conservative ideals around women and gender. The other is its misrepresentations of Jews and Judaism.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 03/12/2024
during a canada post strike is when you really see the consequences of having virtually no labour journalists at major publications in canada, but a load of business journalists ready to parrot the corporate line
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Lisa Richter (she/her) @lisarichter.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
The devastation and harm that Ford's government is wreaking on our province - and the city of Toronto - is astounding. They KNOW these decisions will cost cyclists' lives which is why they're scrambling to preempt accountability. Proud of my MPP Jessica Bell for fighting the good fight.
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Labour Law Alex @labourlawalex.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
I don't know if Bluesky will ever reach peak twitter but I go onto X and within minutes feel like shit...that hellscape is done
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Bluesky has made it. I can once again explain very online things to my not very online wife and have her stare at me, bewildered. We’re back baby!!!!
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Labour Law Alex @labourlawalex.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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In My Good Books Podcast @inmygoodbookspod.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Anyone for a #Giveaway? For a chance to win a copy of Intermezzo just follow me, like, and re-post! Feel free to tag some friends too! Giveaway closes Friday 29th November 6pm, UK only. 💙📚
A copy of the book Intermezzo by Sally Rooney
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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
I don’t always have good news to share first thing in the morning BUT… IT’S BOOKS WE LOVE DAY!!!!! apps.npr.org/best-books/#...
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Books We Love
Here are 350+ great reads from 2024 hand-picked just for you by NPR staff and trusted critics.
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Whoops!
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Labour Law Alex @labourlawalex.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Lessons from Trump’s win that could help us stop Poilievre springmag.ca/lessons-from...
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Lessons from Trump’s win that could help us stop Poilievre
It’s already two weeks since Trump’s decisive election win, but the battle of interpretation is still raging. Why did more than 76 million people vote for Trump, who won both the popular vote and the ...
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Michelle J @maej43.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Phoebe wins nincompoop of the day. She made it to the Beaverton 🤣
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Myriam Gurba (Serrano through my mom) @lesbrains.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
I’m proud to never have read a damn thing by Cormac McCarthy. I’ve got my own pretty horses.
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Huda Fakhreddine @hudafakhreddine.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
My “Palestine in Modern Arabic Poetry” class ends with a unit on Arab-American poetry. Today our session was centered @lenakt.bsky.social’s @nationalbook.bsky.social acceptance speech. It was history. It was resistance. It was integrity. It was courage. It was poetry.
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Amplify Palestine @amplifypalestine.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Poetry in a Time of Genocide, a two-episode special of the IMEU's This Is Palestine podcast. Host Diana Buttu speaks with National Book Award finalists Fady Joudah and Lena Khalaf Tuffaha (@lenakt.bsky.social) on genocide and defying cultural erasure pod.link/1509337661/e...
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This Is Palestine
'This Is Palestine' is a podcast that highlights people, issues, and events around Palestine. We bring you stories from the ground in Palestine, and we speak with experts and activists to bring you un...
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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
The 49 times the US used veto power against UN resolutions on Israel - www.middleeasteye.net/news/49-times…
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The 49 times the US used veto power against UN resolutions on Israel
In the past year alone, Washington has vetoed four Security Council resolutions calling for a Gaza ceasefire
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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Francesca Albanese: ICC should seek more arrest warrants for Israeli leaders - www.middleeasteye.net/big-story/un-…
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Francesca Albanese: 'International law is on a knife's edge' over Gaza inaction
The outspoken Italian human rights lawyer accuses British politicians of genocide denial and urges the EU to cut trade ties with Israel
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Labour Law Alex @labourlawalex.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Are we getting the @nytimes 100 notable books of 2024 today?
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Labour Law Alex @labourlawalex.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Very happy to see Percival Everett, one of our living greats, win the National Book Award!
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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
IT'S PERCIVAL EVERETT! Percival Everett, author of JAMES, is the winner of the 2024 National Book Award for Fiction! "Hope is really no substitute for strategy." bookshop.org/a/169/978038...
Percival Everett stands at the podium. The text "PERCIVAL EVERETT, James, Winner, 2024 National Book Award for Fiction" is overlaid.Percival Everett smiles as he's patted on the back and lit up in a spotlight.
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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Percival Everett’s James wins the National Book Award for Fiction!
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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
WOW! The winner of the National Book Award in Poetry is WWB contributor Lena Khalaf Tuffaha! @lenakt.bsky.social!!! wordswithoutborders.org/contributors... Lena is the guest editor of our issue "Against Silence: A Palestinian Writing Series": wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...
Lena Khalaf Tuffaha is hugged at her table.Lena Khalaf Tuffaha and Richard Blanco take a photo together on the stage.Lena Khalaf Tuffaha stands at the podium. The text "LENA KHALAF TUFFAHA, Something About Living, Winner, 2024 National Book Award for Poetry" is overlaid.
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Labour Law Alex @labourlawalex.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
First Alice Munro and now Cormac McCarthy. Literary heroes who covered up sexual crimes or engaged in grotesque predatory behavior.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 20/11/2024
1. I reiterate that I don't think bots/trolls get how comprehensive the "block" function here is. 2. I also think they don't quite get how prevalent "don't engage, just block" is as an ethos here. 3. Bluesky is a neighborhood party: everyone is welcome until they're a jerk. Then out they go.
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 20/11/2024
Israel’s Apartheid Wall stretches across Palestinian land, separating families, cutting off communities, and turning daily life into a struggle. www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3is...
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Israel's APARTHEID Wall EXPLAINED
YouTube video by Mondoweiss
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Sam Hersh @samhersh01.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
There are few things these days as important as standing up for and with your trans friends and neighbours as they show extreme strength in the face of increasingly absurd far-right attacks on their right to exist and thrive. The fight continues #TransDayofRemembrance
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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 20/11/2024
Poilievre denies he’d be a Canadian Trump: “I’ll be more like a Canadian JD Vance”
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Poilievre denies he'd be a Canadian Trump: "I'll be more like a Canadian JD Vance"
OTTAWA – Pierre Poilievre continues to refute all Liberal Party attempts to tie him to President Donald Trump, insisting that if people pay close attention they’ll see he’s way more of a JD Vance type...
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Mairéad Hearne | Swirl and Thread Book Blog @maireadhearne.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
To Save The Man by John Sayles publishes Jan 23rd and I'm looking forward to reviewing it for the blog tour with @melvillehouse.bsky.social 'Sheds light on an American tragedy: The Wounded Knee Massacre....' This sounds truly fascinating, a book I expect will have a huge impact on every reader.
A book leaning against a wall
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Labour Law Alex @labourlawalex.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
My response to Ian Williams comments on Commotion accusing protestors of bullying
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burn it all down @russbengtson.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
man I see a lot of people trying to diagnose "why bluesky" and I can't speak for anyone else but I just want a place to talk shit with friends that isn't overrun by maga choads or brands, it's not fuckin rocket science
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Alicia Elliott @wordsandguitar.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Sooooo, did y'all see the statement the winner of the Giller made? I know the Giller sent an email to publishers last year saying that they should only submit books from authors willing to show up at all booked events, but did they say those authors couldn't say "Palestine," too?
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Ok well, this killed me.
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Labour Law Alex @labourlawalex.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Ann Michaels is a writer of stature who didn't need to be part of the Giller charade that refused to take meaningful action against genocide. Her speech may sound powerful but her calls for solidarity with writers who bare witness are empty and meaningless.
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Richie Assaly @rdassaly.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
#NEW: CanLit Responds has formed a picket line outside of the Giller Prize Gala at the Park Hyatt hotel in Toronto. There will also be a "Boycott Giller" counter-gala
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Sam Hersh @samhersh01.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
How does this make students, particularly Arab and Palestinian students, feel safe? The insiuation here is that Arabic isn't a "Canadian value" whatever that means. We need to see more political and community leaders start calling out MacLeod's vitriloic actions.
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Seth Klein @sethdklein.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Canada is out of excuses. Europe slashes climate pollution while we flounder. Great analysis as always from @nationalobserver.bsky.social's @bsaxifrage.bsky.social www.nationalobserver.com/2024/11/18/a...
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Canada is out of excuses. Europe slashes climate pollution while we flounder
Canadians are running out of excuses for our sky-high emissions. Not only is the EU cutting emissions as a group, but every one of its 27 member nations (except the tiny island nation of Cyprus) has a...
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The Breach @breachmedia.ca · 15/11/2024
Arts organizers have been putting pressure on Canada’s cultural institutions to divest from Israel’s war machine—and it's working. Nour Abi-Nakhoul writes on how last year's Giller Prize protests kicked off a year of organizing for a new Canadian literary sector. breachmedia.ca/giller-prote...
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Giller protests sparked a literary movement to end ‘art-washing’ of Israeli crimes ⋆ The Breach
Arts organizing helped massively reduce Scotiabank’s investment in Israeli weapons maker. Now, activists are pushing for more
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Amsterdam's mayor was one of those who described events there as a 'pogrom'. She has now publicly renounced what she said, and offered regret for erasing Maccabi violence - and how the narrative whipped up anti-Muslim and anti-Arab violence. The story continues to fall apart youtu.be/4H_ozYgHpoM
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 18/11/2024
Ed Yong you legend
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Labour Law Alex @labourlawalex.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
after Bergen's powerful stance, I finally picked up the novel that won him the prize. A powerful work on the horrific consequences of war. Why I won’t be attending the Giller Prize gala this year www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/anal...
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Opinion: David Bergen: Why I won’t be attending the Giller Prize gala this year
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Labour Law Alex @labourlawalex.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
So much respect for Thien. Not only did she write one of the most important and powerful Canadian novels of the last twenty years, she has been steadfast opposing the genocide in Gaza and prior to this war speaking out against the occupation.
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Former Giller Prize winner Madeleine Thien steps up protest ahead of gala
TORONTO - Madeleine Thien wants organizers of the Giller Prize to remove her name, image and work from its website and promotional material amid ongoing controversy over the lucrative book
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Labour Law Alex @labourlawalex.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
The Giller Prize happens tonight, in the shadow of an incredibly effective movement against its association with Scotiabank and the genocide in Gaza. Please find our recent episode of the @hamrevofbooks.bsky.social podcast talking about what happened and why we should boycott the Giller.
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Hamilton Review of Books Podcast – Season 4, Episode 1 "Wither Giller" — Hamilton Review of Books
We talk with three writers involved in the campaign to pressure the Giller Prize to drop its primary sponsor.
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Tony Tracy @tonytracy.ca · 18/11/2024
Tell Canada Post CEO Doug Ettinger that you support CUPW in negotiations, that the post office cannot cut its way to growth, and that it must agree to solutions that benefit everyone – including workers: www.CUPW.ca/en/campaign/... #CUPW #canlab #1u #SupportCUPW #cdnpoli #CanadaPostStrike #Strike
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Support CUPW in Negotiations with Canada Post
Tell Canada Post CEO Doug Ettinger that you support CUPW in negotiations, that the post office cannot cut its way to growth, and that it must agree to solutions that benefit everyone – including worke...
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
If you’re having a debate inside the Democratic Party about the role of pressure groups & special interests in determining your agenda, & making you take unpopular positions that cost you swing states, & you’re not mentioning AIPAC then you’re not actually having a real debate.
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Adriano Caporusso @adricaporusso.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
I’ll pay cold hard cash to see this right now
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