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@pierrecloutier.bsky.social
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Some queer nb disabled settler prof and unionist. Research Green Theory/Law/Marine Biodiversity/A2J/Trans Justice. ⚖🐟🌱🏳‍🌈

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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 5h
The medicalised route being introduced in India, like the UK's, is designed to control and limit what being Trans+ looks like www.wearequeeraf.com/indian-legis...
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Indian legislation borrows UK's gatekeeping to limit what being Trans+ looks like
The medicalised route being introduced in India, like the UK's, is designed to control and limit what being Trans+ looks like
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The Breach @breachmedia.ca · 5h
No more dismissive comments about the Alberta referendum—like that Canada would be “better off without Alberta.” @harshawalia.bsky.social argues that the left must take the Alberta referendum seriously, as a sign of a growing far-right. breachmedia.ca/alberta-refe...
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The Alberta referendum is a serious sign of a growing far-right ⋆ The Breach
In Alberta and elsewhere, the far-right is using referendums to mainstream white nationalism
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Rine Vieth @rinewithoutacat.bsky.social · 5h
I missed this earlier—really, really great op-ed here on the Alberta referendum and the focus on migrants. Five of the nine questions are about immigration! The scapegoating of migrants happening in AB (and elsewhere) needs to be named.
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Pierre 🐟🦑🦀🦈🐋 @pierrecloutier.bsky.social · 6h
1. ugh, so sorry; 2. human rights complaint?
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Pierre 🐟🦑🦀🦈🐋 @pierrecloutier.bsky.social · 9h
"Lawyers in robes had also formed a human chain to protect teens following numerous allegations of police brutality at demonstrations." Cool direct action from French colleagues.
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Liam McHugh-Russell @xntl.info · 11h
A remarkable and beautiful article, that makes its points in a deeply readable style. Like a good detective story, it never goes quite where you expect but instead kept surprising me. It's likely I'll assign it to my seminar students as part of my teaching about writing scholarship.
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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 11h
Really don't think people outside the UK really understand how culturally and politically mainstreamed transphobia has become here.
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
"Why don't more women come forward" 🤔
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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Citing a lack of meaningful consultation, the Cold Lake First Nation in Alberta says it's filed a judicial review against the federal government over the Pacific Link pipeline. Hear more on APTN News Brief:
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APTN News Brief: Cold Lake First Nation files judicial review against Carney gov't over Pacific Link pipeline
Our featured story: citing a lack of meaningful consultation, the Cold Lake First Nation in Alberta says it's filed a judicial review against the federal government over its first designated 'proje...
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Arrête Mark Carney ⚜️ @lalegault.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The part of the students’ protest in France 🇫🇷 that British and American neglects to show you. Students returned to the protest sites over the weekend, to clean up the mess.
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Caroline Litman @alicemydaughter.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Your regular reminder that my daughter Alice’s death wasn’t counted in Appleby’s report, despite her meeting all the criteria. And when I emailed the Tavistock adult GIC to inform them they could take Alice off the waitlist, because she’d died by suicide, they never replied. It’s a disgrace.
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Le Devoir @ledevoir.com · 10/10/2026
Éditorial | Les débordements violents ne devraient pas faire perdre de vue le caractère singulier de la mobilisation lycéenne.
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Le péril jeune
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Jonny Wakefield @jonnywakefield.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
New from me: Lawyer quits Alberta Law Society board, citing 'silence' amid 'attacks' on rule of law edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...
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Lawyer quits Alberta Law Society board, citing 'silence' amid 'attacks' on rule of law
A member of the board that governs Alberta's independent legal regulator has resigned.
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West Coast Environmental Law @wcelaw.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
West Coast lawyer Anna Johnston was on Parliament Hill this week sounding the alarm over #BillC39, which aims to speed up major projects by creating Wild West zones where enviro laws don't apply & getting rid of independent reviews for many projects. Read more: www.wcel.org/blog/bill-c-... #cdnpoli
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Pierre 🐟🦑🦀🦈🐋 @pierrecloutier.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I'm trying to learn how to braid my hair and I'm giving myself a migraine ...
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Shane Glackin @eltorosolo.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
McGill are bigging her up after closing her department. Clownshow all round.
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Carl Meyer @meyer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
A document meant for a behind-closed-doors group of fossil fuel advocates earlier this year got right to the point: Canada’s policies to fight the climate crisis, protect nature and defend Indigenous Rights are a “problem” and environmental organizations are “opponents” thenarwhal.ca/fossil-fuel-...
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‘Knowing our opponents’: how a pro-oil-and-gas group tracks journalists, First Nations and environmentalists
New research by Greenpeace Canada lays out a web of pro-oil and gas groups working together to influence public opinion on climate change
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Larry Savage @profsavage.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
MPs are expected to vote on Bill C-39 today. The government says it will curb intervention in labour disputes. But it will likely do the opposite: make it easier for the minister to end strikes and shift power away from workers. theconversation.com/canadas-prop... #canlab #cdnpoli
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Canada’s proposed labour reforms could shift power away from workers in major disputes
Bill C-39 makes it easier for Ottawa to intervene when collective bargaining produces the very conflict that it is designed to manage.
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Jocelyn Downie @jgdownie.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is the kind of misinformation that the Committee invited. Wonder if she was part of closed door sessions with the Minister’s office this summer.
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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
In a Federal Court application, the council says the Canadian government ignored historical and genealogical evidence when it ended Indigenous rights talks with the group last month.
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NunatuKavut council fighting Canada in Federal Court
NunatuKavut Community Council is taking the federal government to court after Canada denied the group section 35 rights.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 07/10/2026
US Supreme Court hears challenge to air force UXO detonations in Guam aje.news/65tttt
US Supreme Court hears challenge to air force UXO detonations in Guam
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Jocelyn Downie @jgdownie.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Minister says Gov't decision grounded in the AMAD Cttee Report and private meetings throughout summer. That explains why it is such a bad decision (not grounded in evidence or logic and unspeakably cruel). 1/3
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JusticeTrans @justicetrans.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
(Français en bas) 🪙Fundraiser - Levée de fonds🪙 JusticeTrans needs your support! 🫠Alongside thousands of #nonprofits around the world, all of our data was erased from #Microsoft’s cloud. All of our institutional history went up in smoke, and we have spent months trying to regroup as a team.
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Romy S. Rasper @romluras.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Epistemicide is going on in the USA atm. Ressources, knowledge and access are destroyed with the primary goal of complete eradication of marginalized communities.
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Epistemicide" is a term you should become very familiar with in all discussions regarding trans oppression.
It sounds fancier than it is. The term is related to the concept of epistemic injustice. In essence, trans people have historically been subject to a form of epistemicide: our stories, histories, testimonials, ways of life, all erased and buried to maintain the patriarchal myth of dichotomous, naturalized, immutable sex.
We are then further marginalized through epistemic injustice, prevented from participating in the processes of knowledge-production, our testimonies devalued, our voices suppressed and our identities defined for us, not by us. The perception of us shaped by others, instead of ourselves. The conversation about us dominated by the voices of those who'd rather stamp us out, shouting over us constantly.
If you're not accounting for this as a central mechanism animating transphobia, you're missing a lot of the picture.
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Patrick Déry @patrickdery.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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irina cerić @irinaceric.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"Karen could love the complexity of law while remaining deeply suspicious of its claims to authority. She understood that legal change mattered enormously, while also understanding that law alone could never deliver justice." mcadamsfh.com/tribute/deta...
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Obituary of Dr. Karen Pearlston | McAdam's Funeral Home & Crematorium
Karen Frimet Pearlston, born 15 November 1958, daughter of Maryline and Harvey, died peacefully at her home in Ekpahak / Fredericton, NB, on 18 September 2026 at the age of 67. Karen is survived by h...
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Canada's National Observer @nationalobserver.com · 05/10/2026
The decision means that Canadians will not recoup the $40 billion in public funds spent on the project during the 20 year lifespan of its oil shipping contracts, according to regulatory filings.
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Energy regulator hands oil giants discount worth billions to use Trans-Mountain pipeline
The decision means that Canadians will not recoup the $40 billion in public funds spent on the project during the 20 year lifespan of its oil shipping contracts, according to regulatory filings. After...
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Marty Lederman @martylederman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Samuel Alito: We won't overturn Obergefell because it's engendered reliance interests. Jan Crawford: Well, many people had organized their lives around Roe v. Wade. Alito: No, they didn't. Women merely had an "abstract" interest in "ideas about the kind of society that they were going to live in."
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The Alito Court: A rare interview with the influential Supreme Court justice
Justice Samuel Alito discussed his opinion in the Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade, the leaked draft and its aftermath, same-sex marriage rights and why he's not retiring yet.
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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It’s not nearly as advanced as they want you to think….
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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 03/10/2026
We're gonna set fire to everything but don't worry we are also gonna spend money to polish a few fire extinguishers.
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Kevin Moorebidity @kevinwmoore.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
From this day on 2012: probably the most popular thing I’ve ever drawn.
TinTin discovers Edward Said.
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Guy Felicella @guyfelicella.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🚨 BREAKING NEWS: A B.C. Supreme Court judge has ruled in favour of DULF in its constitutional challenge. This is HUGE for harm reduction and the fight for a safer alternative to the toxic unregulated drug supply. More to come… www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Judge rules in favour of B.C. compassion club founders convicted of drug trafficking | CBC News
A British Columbia Supreme Court judge has ruled in favour of two harm-reduction activists convicted of drug trafficking who argued they were doing it to reduce the harms caused by toxic drugs.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 01/10/2026
“Alberta government and the federally owned Trans Mountain Corporation would each own 45% of the pipeline, with … Pembina Pipeline Corporation owning a 10% stake through the construction phase.” Mark Carney said a new pipeline had to be privately financed, but now taxpayers are on the hook again.
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West Coast oil pipeline becomes 1st project designated in national interest | CBC News
The federal and Alberta governments have announced that a proposed pipeline carrying one million barrels of oil a day from Alberta to the B.C. coast has become the first project designated in the nati...
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Ethel Tungohan @tungohan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Super excited to announce that @academicaunties.com is now on video (though you can also listen to the pod on your favourite podcast app). In our season premier, we talk to Deb Thompson and Yolande Bouka, asking the question - do our jobs still matter? youtu.be/RSGSdS_0St4?...
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Do our jobs still matter? | Academic Aunties | Episode 89
YouTube video by Academic Aunties
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Canada's National Observer @nationalobserver.com · 01/10/2026
Bill C-39 doubles down on habitat offsets, in which companies can "build" new habitat elsewhere to compensate for what they destroy in building a mine, a port, a pipeline or other project. The practice is highly contested by scientists. “This is our worst fear,” said biologist Misty MacDuffee.
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Offsetting for habitat loss almost never works. Ottawa wants more of it
New policy proposed in Bill C-39 will allow developers to buy credits or pay fees to compensate for the habitats they destroy.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Turns out we don’t have to invoke weapons of mass destruction when talking about ocean heat uptake. The ocean absorbed a record-breaking 23 zettajoules of heat last year, equivalent to 40 times the energy used by humanity. It’s not going to end well.
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World’s oceans absorbed record heat equal to 40 times annual global energy use
The injection of thermal energy comes amid an increasing rise in sea levels and continuing acidification
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The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 28/09/2026
More than 38,000 residential school survivors testified to the abuse they experienced as children. Next September, Canada plans to destroy their records.
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Canada plans to destroy thousands of residential school testimonies. These women are trying to save them
The 38,000 testimonies are the largest body of evidence about children’s experiences in these institutions. Journalist Connie Walker and lawyer Kimberly Murray say losing it would mean losing history — both painful and illuminating
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Wilderness Committee @wildernews.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
PRESS RELEASE: New Ocean Protection Plan Won’t Offset Carney Government’s Megaprojects And Cuts www.wildernesscommittee.org/news/12-bill...
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$1.2 billion for ocean protection won’t offset Carney government’s megaprojects and cuts
Pennies for ocean protection are a distraction amidst the feds bulldozing environmental lawsVANCOUVER / UNCEDED xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵ wx̱wú7mesh AND səlilwətaɬ TERRITORIES - Wilderness Committee is outrage...
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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
language model programs have no conscious intent or ethical understanding and they never will. you can program them to say they do, but they fundamentally cannot
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 26/09/2026
The latest High Court judge appointees are all white, and nine out of ten are men – no wonder the legal system fails to deliver justice 👀 goodlawproject.org/the-new-high-cou…
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The new High Court judges: 90% male, 100% white | Good Law Project
The latest High Court judge appointees are all white, and nine out of ten are men – no wonder the legal system fails to deliver justice
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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 22/09/2026
Happy mushroom season!
A comic titled "Types of mushrooms" with 12 mushroom species. A wrinkly-looking morel is labeled "creepy but tasty". A brownish deadly galerina is labeled "boring but deadly". A witch's butter on a branch is labeled "jiggles if you poke it". A large puffball is labeled "egg". A creepy red-dripping bleeding tooth fungus is labeled "deeply disconcerting". A fly agaric with a green treefrog sitting under it is labeled "frog umbrella". A black chanterelle is labeled "chalice for forbidden elixers". Three straight-stemmed entolomas are labeled "haha, nipples". A bright purple viscid violet cort is labeled "purple is nice". A birch polypore sticking out of a birch trunk is labeled "tree nose". A complex yellow-tpped coral fungus is labeled "cursed citadel where dwells a fairy queen". A Ravenel's stinkhorn is pixellated at the top for your safety, and labeled "NSFW".
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Michelle Cyca @michellecyca.com · 25/09/2026
bizarre to me that so much reporting on housing fails to interrogate the assumptions that homeowners (1) should always get to approve of changes to their neighbourhood (2) should be protected by government from any possible decline in property values www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Toronto needs more homes. These neighbours say they're paying the price | CBC News
An elderly downtown couple says they’re shocked and upset that the city has approved a duplex next door to their three-story Victorian home that they say will tower metres above their chimney and rend...
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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
today in Stop Romanticizing Canada: Quebec’s Bill 9 has just taken effect, barring women in veils from receiving public services. Public employees include university faculty, so professors have been instructed to require veiled women to uncover their faces or be removed from the classroom.
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irina cerić @irinaceric.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is so much more horrifying than I thought it would be
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Holly-ween III: Season of the Wooloo @mockwooloo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Gender is a performance
Photo of a sign a theatre somewhere, with an arrow pointing left and the text

"Ladies 
Gents
Understudy"
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Canadian Association for Work & Labour Studies (CAWLS) @cawls-acets.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Liberal labour reforms may be presented as a way to manage difficult disputes. But if Ottawa intervenes whenever a strike has major economic consequences, workers’ bargaining power will be weakened precisely when it matters most. theconversation.com/canadas-prop... #canlab #cdnpoli
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Canada’s proposed labour reforms could shift power away from workers in major disputes
Bill C-39 makes it easier for Ottawa to intervene when collective bargaining produces the very conflict that it is designed to manage.
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The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 23/09/2026
When Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government proposed overhauling environmental assessments and major project approvals last spring, they were warned against centralizing power and infringing on Indigenous Rights. Critics say Bill C-39 does just that.
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Canadians warned Carney not to sideline scientists. Bill C-39 does just that, critics say
When the Liberals proposed overhauling major project approvals, the public worried it would concentrate power and infringe on Indigenous Rights. Now, pipelines and nuclear development will be reviewed by an energy agency, instead of environmental
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Castanet.net @castanet.net · 23/09/2026
David Suzuki says Mark Carney is driving Canada 'into a ditch' with shift on climate (Canada)
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David Suzuki says Mark Carney is driving Canada 'into a ditch' with shift on climate - Canada News
David Suzuki said that when Prime Minister Mark Carney was first elected last year, he celebrated. Having met and interviewed the prime minister before, the national environmentalist icon said he knew Carney understood the challenges of climate change.
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Angella MacEwen @angella.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
My week has been wild - how about you? cupe.ca/news/cupe-wi...
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CUPE will defy Bill C-39’s unconstitutional limits on the right to strike if passed
The national executive board of Canada’s largest union, CUPE, has passed a unanimous resolution vowing to defy the Liberal government’s Bill C-39 limiting the constitutional right to strike if it is p...
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🔫🎃Scott Martian Invaders 🎃🛼 @youcaughtscott.com · 23/09/2026
“Hajdu says there are times in negotiations when employers or unions refuse to bargain in good faith and instead wait for the government to intervene.” Pretty much every time the government has intervened it has been because the employers are doing this. Both sidesing it is so fucking dishonest.
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