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Matthew Rowlinson @matthewrowlinson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If You Think Rising Oil Prices Are Bad, Just Wait for the Inevitable Crash www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/o... Maybe #canada should be planning ahead & not doubling down on pipelines to carry our very expensive and carbon-intensive oil.

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Opinion | If You Think Rising Oil Prices Are Bad, Just Wait for the Inevitable Crash (Gift Article)

An oil bust is on the horizon.

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Jim Stanford @jimbostanford.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is an outstanding refutation of PM Carney's double-speak on proposed Canada Labour Code amendments, from Colleen Bauman and Mark Rowlinson: www.thestar.com/opinion/cont.... Previous misuse of Section 107 would be codified & routinized, even though it's still facing court challenges. #canlab

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Mark Carney says he’s protecting Canadian workers. It’s Orwellian doublespeak

Subject to ministerial review, the right to strike is likely to be much weakened by Bill C-39.

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Victorian Review @victorianreview.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

We're excited to share the cfp for the joint VSAWC & VISAWUS conference: "Victorian Borders." Please circulate widely and submit your proposal by November 1st.

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Matthew Rowlinson @matthewrowlinson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

🚨The Canadian government wants to make it easier for companies to keep wages low and harder for workers to push back, by weakening the right to strike and collectively bargain. Not on our watch. Send a message to the government now. share.canadianlabour.ca/s/YuyIkjK2

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Don’t rig the rules against workers!

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Clare Blackwood @clareblackwood.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Can anyone smarter than me explain how the government aims to create new pre-strike binding mediation legislation (which essentially removes striking as an active tool), yet claims that it will "never interfere with a worker’s right to bargain or to strike?" Because this seems, uh, bad!

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Harris Feinsod @feinsod.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Finishing a first book in literary studies? Don't miss the Helen Tartar First Book Subvention Award. Applications due Nov 15. (You can submit with or without a contract, though in either event there is a brief publisher's application to join your author submission). www.acla.org/prize-awards...

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Helen Tartar First Book Subvention Award | American Comparative Literature Association

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 10/09/2026

broadly agree with this; it is orders of magnitude more likely, particularly in the next decade or so, that someone will be killed with a nuclear weapon fired in anger than by ai

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

when i worked at sbux in high school they kept scheduling me for like 35 hours a week and i kept saying i can't work this schedule i have to go to school. turned out they were hugely overscheduling kids to avoid giving enough hours to the adults that they would've qualified for health insurance

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Catherine McKenna @cathmckenna.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Help me find Alexandra who wrote me the loveliest note in 2017 when she was ten! That note really cheered me up on a particularly tough day. Clue: she was a member of the 12th Toronto Girl Guides and likes turtles!

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Joey Coleman @joeycoleman.ca · 28/08/2026

In 2014, London Ontario residents threw out one of the most councils in Ontario history. [Mayor Joe Fontana resigned after being convicted of fraud from his time as a MP] Two of the Fontana 8 are running this year, hoping nobody remembers the past Unbelievable #onmuni lfpress.com/news/local-n...

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One divisive city council era. Two would-be comebacks. Will London voters care?

Two members of the so-called Fontana 8 voting bloc from nearly a generation ago are trying to win back their old seats in the fall civic election.

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Tabatha Southey🇨🇦 @tabathasouthey.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

In the midst of cyclospora, there is also opportunity.

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

BREAKING: The union of Starbucks workers is officially calling for a boycott of the chain. @sbworkersunited.org has over 12,000 unionized baristas, and they're calling on customers to stop visiting Starbucks until they get a fair union contract.

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Lee Konstantinou @lkonstan.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

UMD's Department of English is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor with a specialization in Poetry. Please spread the word. Best consideration date October 15, 2026. If you have any questions about the position, don't hesitate to reach out.

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Assistant Professor

Job Description Summary Organization's Summary Statement: The mission of the College of Arts and Humanities (ARHU) is to prepare versatile and visionary leaders equipped to address the complexities of...

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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Of all the academic freedom challenges available to choose from in the year of our lord 2026, imagine being the 100s of people who say, right, let’s go with debunked 19th c. race science as retold by a philosopher.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I just want to also name Peter Singer, at the top of the list. The most famous philosopher in the world, many would say. Awarded so many prizes. Hosted as the big speaker at events around the world. He started espousing "the disabled would be better off dead" in the late 90s, I think.

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👻Milo BOO!-aynes👻 and the Centrists Scared of Socialism @milobaynes.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Glad to find out I’m not 100% super-mega-weird for thinking, when I first heard this news earlier today, that this would be a grand occasion for Canada to “do that @doctorow.pluralistic.net stuff”… (y’know, that STUFF)

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Jim Stanford @jimbostanford.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Turns out the ‘deal’ with Canada that Trump (not Carney) announced the other night was no more real than the 14 ‘deals’ he’s announced with Iran, or the dozens of others he trumpets with no underpinnings. He’s shown he’s desperate to proclaim a victory with someone, anyone. /2

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Nick Land Acknowledgement 🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈 @lonestartallboi.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I think, with a fair amount of regularity, that in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, while Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, and Chris Hitchens were all writing screeds one-handed about how Islam was incompatible with civilization, Gould simply got in his car and drove down to NYC and started helping.

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I have also been thinking of Aaron Swartz often —he downloaded scholarly essays in the hopes that information migbt be free & was hounded to death. Silicon Valley has stolen all scholarship and creative work with impunity, so that they might put it behind a moat in order to control the future.

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Aaron Swartz’s Legacy

The example of a young outsider—in his life, not his death—should make us question our own complacencies.

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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 21/08/2026

The opposition in Quebec is going to be enormously consequential. If this deal does, indeed, hinge on American booze returning to the shelves, and the deal leaves in place substantial aluminum tariffs, *and* in gives up our ability to regulate tech? It's going to be tough to sell that.

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Matthew Rowlinson @matthewrowlinson.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Also: make your machines operable with a credit card (no mandatory app) and post clear price info.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

A site created by his former students

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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

If you think intellectual diversity is a problem in the English department, but not the Finance department then you’re not a serious person

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Steve Perlstein @steveperlstein.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

What? No, there's no fucking way I'd ever read through an entire 54-post Bluesky thr—

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Matthew Rowlinson @matthewrowlinson.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

A reading of ‘Goblin Market’ that will keep you up at night.

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Matthew Rowlinson @matthewrowlinson.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

It’s a stellar issue—to read and sit with. Congratulations to everyone involved.

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Gregory Norminton @gregorynorminton.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Ever since Adolf Hitler was turned down by the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts, fascism has been a refuge and consolation for the talentless. AI is their revenge on human creativity.

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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

$3,000 is not nearly enough for each of my books that Anthropic stole. Each book took me almost a decade to research and write--yet I and other authors are receiving a pittance while the AI models based on our stolen labor are worth multiple billions.

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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

If Mark Carney wants Canada to walk the same energy and climate path as Norway, he has to do a better job of equipping us for the journey. First and foremost: give clean energy the same financial and political support as fossil fuels are getting. #cdnpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2026/07/21/o...

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Mark Carney wants to make Canada more like Norway. He has some work to do

The now-annual bouts of wildfire smoke are yet another reminder of the importance of reducing our use of fossil fuels and replacing them wherever possible with electrification. It's time for the prime...

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Jason Haslam @jasonhaslam.ca · 21/07/2026

I guess we’ll have to retaliate by refusing to purchase such quality US products as Diarrhea Lettuce and fascism.

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Margaret Morgan 🇪🇺🇳🇱🇦🇺 @margaretmorgan.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

“No company should use Australian books, music, art or news to build or train AI without the artist’s control. That includes the artist’s control of the price and value of their work. Anything less, is theft.” -- Australian Prime Minister Albanese grahamlovelace.substack.com/p/creators-a...

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Creators applaud Australia's 'crystal clear' commitment on creative copyright

#113 | PLUS: Publishers accuse Google of 'prolific' copyright violation | Music community unites on AI labels |✨AND: The 'treachery' of anthropomorphic AI

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The Biking Lawyer LLP @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Pedestrians & cyclists without auto insurance who are injured by hit & run or uninsured drivers used to be protected by the Motor Vehcile Accident Claims Fund. Thanks to Doug Ford's cuts to insurance, key coverages for hit & run victims are gone. www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti...

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Some people injured in hit and runs have benefits slashed under new Ontario insurance regime

An Ontario provincial government fund that pays insurance claims to people including those who were injured and killed hit and runs has scaled back the compensation it pays out to be in line with rece...

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 17/07/2026

Probably more helpful to think of them not so much as “Canadian wildfires” but rather “climate change wildfires currently consuming Canada”

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 15/07/2026

Posted while First Nations communities in Northern Ontario are literally being incinerated and the skies above Canada’s biggest cities are glowing orange

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James Greenwood-Reeves @jgreenwoodreeves.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

As an academic, I have decided to pre-empt AI taking my job, so I am going to take ITS job! I am going to start hallucinating, lying to my students, and drinking 700,000 litres of water

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 13/07/2026

Literally bragging about unconstitutional reverse onus provisions on bail, all in the name of co-opting Conservative penal populism. As I've said, Canadian voters flocked to Carney to avoid Pierre Poilievre, and what they got was Stephen Harper.

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Meredith Martin 🇨🇦 @meredithmartin.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

When a business faces a labour shortage, the free market says it should raise wages. So why is Canada’s government stepping in to make labour cheaper instead? Cara Stern & @MikePMoffatt explain:

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Matthew Rowlinson @matthewrowlinson.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

The logic of capitalism—they need to pump as much as possible of the stuff now before their wells become stranded assets. They may say ‘we’ll always need oil’ but their actions show they know the jig is up.

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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

The same Liberal government that's destroying the post office, ostensibly because it's not profitable, is willing to spend billions on a pipeline that will likely never be profitable, to join an existing pipeline that is also not profitable and likely never will be.

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