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Shiri Pasternak

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Shiri Pasternak @shirip.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Me tooooo
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Shiri Pasternak @shirip.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This weekend we organized a counter-summit to Carney's fire sale of resources & public infrastructure. The rooms were overflowing and alive with movement energy. Then we marched, led by Indigenous leaders, took the barricades for hours and danced. Colonialism, neoliberalism, fascism: NO to it all.
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Shiri Pasternak @shirip.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"Since Canada began cutting corporate taxes in the 1980s, dividends, which are disproportionately paid out to the richest one percent of Canadians, have increased from five percent of GDP to over 12 percent of GDP today."
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Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
“The McCarthy blacklist did not even require civil or criminal prosecution—it was public opinion that could deal the harshest blow to those suspected of ‘un-American’ activities.” @shirip.bsky.social on the function of the list:
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A Theory of the List
From runaway slave lists to Canary Mission, the state has long deputized citizens to enforce its will.
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Shiri Pasternak @shirip.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Let’s declare war www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/bd0558d...
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Trump signs executive order to rename Lake Ontario as Lake America
Order comes just hours after Canada’s trade minister suggested a deal may still be possible
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Rick Harp @rickharp.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Lovingly hosted, produced + edited by yours truly, this Indigenous climate fight retrospective includes the insights of: @irinaceric.bsky.social @shirip.bsky.social @trinaroache.bsky.social @kimtallbear.bsky.social @candiscall.bsky.social @karynpugliese.bsky.social
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Shiri Pasternak @shirip.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
The hot fascism of the U.S. govt makes Canada seem cool in response, as Carney reassures the country that our nationalism is righteous. But the cost of hyper extractivism, austerity, and defence spending will devastate climate, indigenous rights, and the working class. www.manyvsmoneysummit.ca
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The Many vs. The Money - Counter-Summit & Demo
A counter-summit and protest against the privatization of Canada's public infrastructure and resources. Toronto, September 12–13, 2026.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Plenty to reflect about re: the Arday affair, but I'm going to repeat this one thing. The playbook the right used here is effective even though it's not especially sophisticated, as it relies on the audience to do the dirty work. I've been calling it "Trojan horse propaganda", let's go with that. 1/
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CTV News Vancouver @ctvnewsvancouver.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
The RCMP’s commanding officer in British Columbia has been relieved of his duties following allegations dating back to 2016, the force announced Thursday.
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B.C. RCMP commander relieved of duties as allegations under investigation
The RCMP’s commanding officer in British Columbia has been relieved of his duties following allegations dating back to 2016, the force announced Thursday.
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Canadian Dimension @canadiandimension.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Mark Carney promised "elbows-up" nation-building. What Canadians are getting instead is a carve-out economy—where environmental protections, Indigenous rights, and labour standards are treated as obstacles to growth, write @shirip.bsky.social and Eve Saint.
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The new rules of Carney’s carve-out economy
It has been one year since Mark Carney introduced the Building Canada Act in Parliament. Since then, a succession of new laws has hollowed out legal protections for the environment, Indigenous rights,...
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Jordan Roberts @corruptario.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
The Grind is being sued by Jonathan Karten. Jonathan Karten works for Stephen Harper at AWZ.
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UAINE @mahtowin1.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Here's how to donate to First Nations that have been forced to flee their homelands due to the widespread wildfires. Please share!
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Shiri Pasternak @shirip.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Wrote something about one of the worst experiences in my life. Attending the first “world symposium against anti-Zionism” near Toronto.
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Seth Klein @sethdklein.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
This is a shocking story. Congrats to @thenarwhal.ca on exposing this. LNG Canada in Kitimat – 🇨🇦's first major LNG facility – is now one of the highest sources of GLOBAL emissions for flaring, undermining claims that we produce the cleanest natural gas in the world: thenarwhal.ca/lng-canada-b...
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LNG Canada exceeds estimated 2024 global record for burned gas | The Narwhal
LNG Canada in Kitimat, B.C., burned more gas in 2025 than any other liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facility on record in 2024
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Shiri Pasternak @shirip.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
What an incredible picture.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Klein: I agree that it is a revolutionary technology, that it is going to transform our economy on the scale of the Industrial Revolution. But unlike the Industrial Revolution, which created huge numbers of jobs, the goal of this revolution is to eliminate jobs.
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Shiri Pasternak @shirip.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Begging reporters to just ask one question about what this unit did that the regular force cannot and did not do. A massive underreported story is how the pro-Israel lobby is fueling a budget boom for police and expansion of police powers. www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/9ee71f6...
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New counterterrorism unit helped arrest suspect in shooting targeting Jewish-owned restaurant, Toronto police say
A 35-year-old man was charged in the shooting that targeted the Old Avenue Restaurant in North York
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Ricochet Media @ricochetmedia.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
‘How many more have to die?’: Northern Ontario fires expose delays in human rights complaints for First Nations. After a child’s death and another home lost, First Nations leaders say delays are putting lives at risk. New from @jonthompson.bsky.social: ricochet.media/indigenous/h... #onpoli
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‘How many more have to die?’: Northern Ontario fires expose delays in human rights complaints for First Nations
Learn how the Northern Ontario fires reveal significant delays in human rights complaints impacting First Nations firefighting resources.
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Robyn Maynard @policingblack.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
declassified RCMP files confirm Canada's domestic intelligence agency infiltrated and sought to disrupt legitimate political Indigenous organizations in the 1970s, in an extensive program of covert surveillance, informants and countersubversion www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...
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How RCMP spies infiltrated the 1970s Indigenous rights movement | CBC News
A CBC Indigenous investigation has found the Cold War-era RCMP Security Service had a widespread and intrusive surveillance operation targeting at least 30 legitimate Indigenous political organization...
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Shiri Pasternak @shirip.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Amazing reporting by Brett Forrester at CBC. He spent years fighting for access to these valuable documents, got thousands of pages of surveillance released, providing fresh new understandings of how indigenous political organizing internationally scared the hell out of the state.
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Leonard Smalls @tsuri.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
The first "A" of ACAB includes past, present, and, by all indications, the future. www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...
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How RCMP spies infiltrated the 1970s Indigenous rights movement | CBC News
A CBC Indigenous investigation has found the Cold War-era RCMP Security Service had a widespread and intrusive surveillance operation targeting at least 30 legitimate Indigenous political organization...
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Shiri Pasternak @shirip.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Announcing a symposium at Princeton, April 9-10: The Long Arc of Fascism, w/keynotes @naomiaklein.bsky.social + Aaju Peter (GL/Nunavut), plus amazing organizers (Memphis, Minneapolis, Gitskan) and academics (Keeanga YT, Naomi Murukama, etc). Livestreamed. canadianstudies.princeton.edu/events/
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Calendar of Events — Canadian Studies
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Shiri Pasternak @shirip.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
New piece with Tia Dafnos and Emma Bainbridge in @breachmedia.ca: The paramilitary pipeline police strike again. Now so clearly organized as a permanent counter-insurgency formation, here's what the Critical Response Unit (aka C-IRG) has been up to: breachmedia.ca/a-notorious-...
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A notorious RCMP unit shaped B.C. universities’ reaction to Palestine encampments ⋆ The Breach
From Fairy Creek to university campuses, CRU-BC is positioning itself as the go-to police force for repressing dissent
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The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 13/02/2026
Use these cards to write love letters or ransom notes, writes @mollycrabapple.bsky.social. And remember: Every handwritten letter is a rebellion against Silicon Valley dystopia. bit.ly/4raWt26
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Molly Crabapple's Time Capsule of Resistance
A new set of note cards by the artist and writer documents scenes of protest in the 21st century.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?” There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.
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Israel used weapons in Gaza that made thousands of Palestinians evaporate
US-made thermal weapons burning at 3,500C caused 2,842 people to "evaporate" in Gaza, Al Jazeera investigation finds.
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irina cerić @irinaceric.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
🚨 New injunction resources for organizers and land defenders from 8th Fire Rising! 🚨 First up, updated research by me and @shirip.bsky.social on injunction success rates for corporations, governments, and First Nations. See the stats and more at: 8thfirerising.ca/injunctions/
An infographic titled January 2026 update: A review of over 160 Injunction cases involving First Nations across Canada. The success rates for injunctions filed by governments, corporations, and FNs are compared
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Redeye @redeyeradio.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
On the POD: We talk with Sheryl Nestel, co-author of a new report on a pattern of anti-Palestinian racism and genocide denial at the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs. @avilewis.ca @sherylnestel.bsky.social @ijvcanada.bsky.social @shirip.bsky.social tiny.cc/c2av001
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Report exposes racism and genocide denial at Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs
Podcast Episode · Redeye · 2025-11-17 · 17m
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Redeye @redeyeradio.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Saturday | 10:05 PT We talk with Sheryl Nestel, co-author of a new report on a pattern of anti-Palestinian racism and genocide denial at the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs. @avilewis.ca @sherylnestel.bsky.social @ijvcanada.bsky.social @shirip.bsky.social
Large group of people wearing t-shirts with Jews for a Free Palestine written on them. This is part of a report Cover titled The CIJA Report: A Pattern of Anti-Palestinian Racism and Genocide Denial at the Centre for
Israel and Jewish Affairs, published September 2025. Photo Credit: Kerri North.      published by the Jewish Faculty Network
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
In the name of "fighting antisemitism," Indiana University appointed a Christian scholar to tell Jewish scholars what they can and cannot say - all while they invited Tucker Carlson to speak on campus. www.jta.org/2025/11/07/u...
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In Indiana, a vaunted Jewish studies program is upended by red-state politics over Israel and speech - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
A leadership shakeup, a defunded graduate student and political pressure from above have turned a storied program into a flashpoint for Trump-era campus politics.
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Shiri Pasternak @shirip.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
New piece: Private and public capital are flooding into mining and LNG development in the service of a war economy. Over 44 per cent of the Liberal budget is allocated toward defence spending that will eventually slap a Canadian flag on missiles and submarines. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
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Federal budget’s focus on extraction and fossil fuels does little to help average Canadians and First Nations
All of this spending and investment is justified as an urgent measure to protect the country against the tariff and trade wars with the United States. But Canada’s industrial policy
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Shiri Pasternak @shirip.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
If you’re worried about climate change and you’ve never heard of controlled burns by Indigenous nations, read this great piece.
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
We are in the throws of a battle over who is going to survive the future. A future marked by scarcity and disaster. A future these people are accelerating. That is what is driving the attacks on civil rights and basic equality. Supremacist beliefs are the tool needed to justify human culling.
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Block Club Chicago @blockclubchi.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Chicago cyclists are buying out tamale carts to keep vendors home and safe from ICE. blockclubchi.co/42KQ57O
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Shiri Pasternak @shirip.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Some good news
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.
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350 Canada @350canada.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
🚨 URGENT SOLIDARITY SUPPORT NEEDED IN MI’KMA’KI 🚨Mi’kmaw land defenders have been leading a resistance on Hunters’ Mountain in Unama’ki/Cape Breton for over a month now to block industrial developments that would destroy sacred grounds and harm the vulnerable moose population
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Andrew Kurjata @akurjata.ca · 10/10/2025
Independent Investigations Office report says duty of care not met for 21-year-old who died in Williams Lake, B.C., RCMP cell Tŝilhqot'in First Nation member Surrance Myers died after collapsing in an RCMP holding cell and not being checked on for about two hours. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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21-year-old died in cell after guard failed to check on him after medical emergency, IIO report says | CBC News
Tŝilhqot'in First Nation member Surrance Myers died after collapsing in an RCMP holding cell in Williams Lake, B.C. and not being checked on for about two hours, an Independent Investigations Office r...
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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 10/10/2025
I know this case is all over - & it should be - but Turning Point USA has waged a harassment campaign against faculty for more than a decade. I know of at least a half dozen other faculty, personally, who have received death threats and several of those who felt so unsafe they too left their homes
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Seth Klein @sethdklein.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
This is extremely alarming. Prime Minister @mark-carney.bsky.social won the federal election promising to make us *less* depending on the US. Now we are hearing reports that he is offering up a CLOSER energy and military partnership in exchange for a trade deal... 🧵 www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Carney raised Keystone XL pipeline revival in meeting with Trump | CBC News
Relief for Canada from U.S. tariffs on steel and aluminum may come thanks to renewed interest in a pipeline project first proposed more than 15 years ago.
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David Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Watching the way the Trump administration is using criminalization as a weapon ought to make clear how criminalization works even in normal times.
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Shiri Pasternak @shirip.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
If you've ever found your name on a list, or feared landing there, you're not alone. Today, doxxing is imbued with terrifying state powers, but it's an old strategy of deputization that has terrorized people for centuries. The power of lists is division, but we can draw from histories of refusal.
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Shiri Pasternak @shirip.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Avi is direct, committed, and building a political base that is grounded in movements for justice. I have never been a member of this party, but I will become one to make sure he becomes leader. Let's seize this moment for real change.
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Climate Emergency Unit @climateunit.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
In light of BC approving the Ksi Lisims LNG terminal, we feel the need to reshare one of our most important podcast episodes: The Costs of LNG. We dig into the climate, health, and financial impacts, and cover (almost) everything you wanted to ask about LNG (but were too afraid). 🎧 Listen here 👇
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Shiri Pasternak @shirip.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Really excellent piece that provides important diagnostic on the legal dangers of how we define antisemitism in this moment.
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UBCIC @ubcic.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
"We reject any process that tramples our inherent and constitutionally protected title and rights, ignores free, prior and informed consent, and sacrifices the climate for foreign corporate profits. True nation-building requires working with us, not against us.” GCSP www.ubcic.bc.ca/first_nation...
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First Nations Consent Ignored as Canadians Asked to Subsidize LNG Expansion
Working towards the recognition, implementation and exercise of our inherent Indigenous Title, Rights and Treaty Rights
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 11/09/2025
Mark Carney continues to use the phrase “decarbonized oil” to try to greenwash a new oil pipeline for Alberta. It’s so shameless and I would argue it even shows contempt for the public to be so dishonest.
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irina cerić @irinaceric.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
This is an injunction application to watch: the logging company looking to remove protesters in the Walbran is partly owned by the Huu-ay-aht FNs thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
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How the Walbran Blockade Echoes Another Famous Stand in the Forest | The Tyee
Thirty-five years ago, BC attempted to saw the Carmanah in half.
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