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@stephanie-eccles.bsky.social
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Postdoctoral Fellow @ Department of Criminology, Toronto Metropolitan University Thinking about: agri-labour in a Just Transition | factory farm gas | farmed animals in disasters #endbsl & <3 unions!

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Stephanie @stephanie-eccles.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
"What lies behind the allegations of officers in Montreal North cutting the locs of Black men to keep as “trophies”? montrealgazette.com/opinion/op-e...
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Opinion: Black hair, identity and policing
What lies behind the allegations of officers in Montreal North cutting the locs of Black men to keep as “trophies”?
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Stephanie @stephanie-eccles.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Three-part series about the workers leading a historic strike at JBS: in Greely, Colorado haitiantimes.com/2026/02/13/h...
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Hired on day one: In a Colorado meatpacking town, immigrant labor sustains the economy as Trump pushes deportations
As the Trump administration intensifies immigration enforcement, Midwest cities like Greeley, Colorado—dependent on immigrant labor for meatpacking, retail and tax revenue—face a widening gap between ...
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Stephanie @stephanie-eccles.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
GOOD NEWS - The suit has been certified (can move forward) that Canada has violated the Charter rights of migrant farmworkers employed under SAWP & acknowledges massive wage theft in Employment Insurance (EI) premiums paid by SAWP workers www.globenewswire.com/news-release...
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Migrant workers fight to reclaim hundreds of millions in EI benefit
TORONTO, Feb. 25, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- On February 23, 2026, Justice Edward Morgan of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice released a...
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David Macdonald @davidmaccdn.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
We just put up the application for this summer's progressive economics fellowship. Its a paid 4 month term to work with me at @policyalternatives.ca and 100 other progressive policy experts to create this year's Alternative Federal Budget. Apply now: ccpa.bamboohr.com/careers/48
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Research Assistant - 4 Month Term
Research Assistant Research · Ottawa, Ontario The Organization: The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) is an independent, non-partisan research institute concerned with issues of social, ...
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Stephanie @stephanie-eccles.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
So important as the left grapples with if we are *in* fascism or not..? just shows the need to study Black radical thinkers like George Jackson, Angela Davis, & Aimé Césaire etc., that situate fascism in relation to colonialism/capitalism & not just a reaction to socialism/communism gathering speed.
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Stephanie @stephanie-eccles.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Kat Hutton's miniseries is a glimpse into cherry picking in the Okanagan (BC). It was great to have her put this in conversation with the workforce changes since the pandemic/endless climate catastrophes increasing rates of migrant & undocument domestic labour. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Loz...
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Harvest moon | Cream of the Crop - Episode 2 | CBC Creator Network
YouTube video by CBC British Columbia
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Stephanie @stephanie-eccles.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
"A common front means weaving the fightbacks together... The strategic question now is how to build a mass, multiracial, working-class resistance to Carney at the scale required, capable of sustained confrontation. " Great piece as always by Mostafa Henaway www.midnightsunmag.ca/crisis-as-cl...
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Crisis as Class Strategy
Mostafa Henaway on the emergence of the Carney doctrine in Canadian politics: elbows up and austerity for the many.
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Stephanie @stephanie-eccles.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Did not appreciate the 3-day-late automated msg from @hydroquebec.com after days w/o electricity, telling me: there is a blackout (well, duh); & secondly, that it is our responsibility to reduce our usage during a cold snap when, really, it is an infrastructural failing!? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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An aging substation caused Montreal’s latest blackout. Its replacement is still years away | CBC Accessibility
The equipment failure that left thousands of Montrealers without power during this weekend’s bitter cold originated at a substation that Hydro-Québec has been aiming to replace since at least 2018.
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Jennifer Clapp 🇨🇦 @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Property controls are yet another way that grocery chains exert their market power in ways that raise prices and undercut people's agency and choice in food systems. @keldonb.bsky.social @clairek.bsky.social See link in comments for recent analysis on same... www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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How grocery giants control who can sell food in your neighbourhood | CBC News
Canada’s biggest grocery giants — including Loblaws, Sobeys and Metro — are using property law to control how other grocery stores, dollar stores, pharmacies and gas stations can compete with them, an...
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Stephanie @stephanie-eccles.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Rereading this as it marks 11 yrs since my mom's death attributable to working on the assembly-line at GM for ~ 30 years. Would love to return to St.Catharines to work on a project to tell the workers stories even if it means being told by those of us left behind. thenarwhal.ca/st-catharine...
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Former GM plant in St. Catharines is leaking toxic chemicals | The Narwhal
St. Catharines residents waiting for Bayshore Groups to clean up former GM plant learned province, city kept suspicions of leaks quiet for years
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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
I started throwing together background research to share with folks who wanted more details on the U.S.-Venezuela-Guyana oil triangle I wrote about in @drilledmedia.bsky.social last week, and then figured I should make it public. Hope it helps! drilled.media/news/venezue...
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Showing Our Work: The Real U.S. Oil Payoff in Venezuela, a Timeline
The U.S. invasion of Venezuela was at least partly driven by oil, but not in the ways most people are talking about.
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Stephanie @stephanie-eccles.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Kinda wild that poultry and agricultural workers are not included in Canada's HVAI vaccine eligibility despite working directly with animals, and thus having increased rates of exposure. www.ufcw.ca/index.php?op...
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UFCW Canada, the food workers’ union, calls for stronger protections as avian influenza flu cases grow | UFCW Canada - Canada’s Private Sector Union
As avian influenza cases continue to spread across the country, United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Canada, the poultry workers’ union, is calling for strong protections and government action fo...
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Stephanie @stephanie-eccles.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
"The US and Europe have long used unilateral sanctions as a tool of imperial power, to discipline and even destroy Global South governments that seek to shake off Western domination, chart an independent path, and establish any kind of meaningful sovereignty." www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
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US and EU sanctions have killed 38 million since 1970
Far from a peaceful tool, these measures weaponise hunger and deprivation to enforce Western dominance.
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Stephanie @stephanie-eccles.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Brilliant report from @cjpme.org on Policing Palestine Solidarity: A Crisis of Civil Liberties in Canada (2021-2025). Without confronting this, "...the machinery of repression built today will remain." FOREIGN POLICY = DOMESTIC POLICY. www.cjpmefoundation.org/re_2025_12_2...
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Policing Palestine Solidarity: A Crisis of Civil Liberties in Canada (2021-2025)
Since October 7, 2023, Canada has witnessed one of the most sustained mass mobilizations in its history. From coast to coast, hundreds of thousands of citizens—students, workers, families, and seniors...
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Stephanie @stephanie-eccles.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Good writing days feel like playing Tetris; everything glides into place. I am always curious about people's writing habits. What do you do?
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Stephanie @stephanie-eccles.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
This Thursday is National Day of Migrants. Join the @nfudc.bsky.social for a viewing & discussion of My Friend Omar: The Struggles of a Seasonal Worker. in the evening Register here: www.nfu.ca/event/intern...
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International Day of Migrants Film Screening - My Friend Omar: The Struggles of a Seasonal Worker | National Farmers Union
Start Time by Time Zone: 4pm PST / 5pm MST / 6pm SK-MB / 7pm EST / 8pm AST On December 18th, the UN International Day for Migrants, the National Farmers Union invites you to a virtual public film…
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Stephanie @stephanie-eccles.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Unionizing is the fastest way to improve working conditions. In Canada, unionized workers make ~ $7+/hr more than non-unionized workers. The attacks on organized labour from federal & provincial governments signal how they have zero interest in the working class. canadianlabour.ca/get-into-a-u...
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| Canadian Labour Congress
The labour movement was created by people standing up together for fair wages, safe workplaces and decent work hours.
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Stephanie @stephanie-eccles.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
What a sad day for labor organizing in Quebec. The early enforcement of Bill 89 (deem any service 'essential' barring strike actions), STM maintenance workers return to work. "The STM no longer had any incentive to negotiate with us," union president Bruno Jeannotte. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Montreal transit strike over as STM maintenance workers' union suspends work stoppage | CBC News
A day before Quebec's labour minister is set to table a bill that would give the provincial government the power to end the ongoing public transit strike, the union representing maintenance workers wi...
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Stephanie @stephanie-eccles.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Raluca Bejan & research team have published "Decent Work and Temporary Stay: An Overview of the ILO Agri-Food Guidelines Affecting Migrant Workers in Canada" gflc.ca/wp-content/u... Key findings include how Federal & provincial supports like labour subsidies have strengthened agri-food enterprises.
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CCPA — Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives @policyalternatives.ca · 05/11/2025
Check out responses to the 2025 federal budget from progressive policy organizations. (Keep an eye on this page, as it will continue to be updated in the coming days.) @policyalternatives.ca #Budget2025 www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
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2025 federal budget analysis roundup - CCPA
This page exists to bring together progressive policy organizations' responses to the 2025 federal budget. Keep an eye on this page, as it will continue to be updated in the coming days.
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Stephanie @stephanie-eccles.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
An unexpected but unsurprising story of corn syrup, candy, farmed animals, and "corporate sustainability". sentientmedia.org/farmers-feed...
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Farmers Feed Candy Waste to Animals, but There Are Better Solutions
The practice may encourage companies to keep producing more than we humans actually consume.
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Climate Social Science Network @cssn.org · 21/10/2025
What exactly is climate obstruction—and how does it differ from denial? Chapter 1 of “Climate Obstruction” explains in short: the science is clear—but powerful actors are slowing action. Read and download our book here: cssn.org/news-researc...
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Stephanie @stephanie-eccles.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Our @tulenetwork.bsky.social Call for Papers is out for the 2026 @sasemeeting.bsky.social mini-conference! MC07: Rethinking Labour on a Troubled Planet: Just Transitions, Trade Unions, and Labour Environmentalism - find more information here: sase.org/events/2026-... Can't wait :)
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Stephanie @stephanie-eccles.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Unaddressed wage theft amongst temporary foreign workers is one of the many reasons why these programs should be abolished. Extra wild to read that Alek Thompson owed $60,000, worked for a construction company, 'Polat' that had federal contracts. www.thestar.com/news/canada/....
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This temporary foreign worker is owed $60,000 in unpaid wages from his time in Canada. He may get nothing
Migrant workers who prove wage theft are increasingly unable to recover the money they are owed even when Ontario government is trying to collect it.
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Stephanie @stephanie-eccles.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Got distracted by US politics & overlooked the passing of Bill C-5 "Protect Ontario by Unleashing our Economy Act," which gives the green light for the creation of special economic zones that sound a lot like those under structural adjustment programs. Major YIKES. thenarwhal.ca/ontario-bill...
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Ontario’s draft rules for special economic zones limit oversight | The Narwhal
The Doug Ford government’s draft regulations for special economic zones under Bill 5 empower ministers and dismiss First Nations’ request for oversight
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Stephanie @stephanie-eccles.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
@weanimals.bsky.social stepped inside Canada's prison animal production farms. Consider that "Incarcerated people at Joyceville and Collins Bay penitentiaries are paid under 46 cents an hour to work on these federally funded prison farms." weanimals.org/project/a-ra...
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A Rare Glimpse Inside Canada's Prison Farms - We Animals
Low wages, high costs, hidden cruelties. Incarcerated people at Joyceville and Collins Bay penitentiaries in Ontario are paid under 46 cents an hour to work on federally funded prison farms.
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Stephanie @stephanie-eccles.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
To all my comrades researching 'just transitions,' check out this call for papers from @deindustrialpol.bsky.social. Due October 1st! niche-canada.org/2025/08/20/c...
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Call for Papers - (Un)just Transitions?: Deindustrialization and the Environment
The 2026 DePOT conference will explore intersections of deindustrialization and environment, focusing on transitions, justice, remediation, energy, heritage, and global perspectives.
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Stephanie @stephanie-eccles.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Really looking forward to this! Battistoni's text develops Marx's concept of the "free gift" questioning why it is that capitalism fails to or fumbles to value nature.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 23/09/2025
Mark Carney keeps talking about “decarbonized oil.” Today he admitted that’s bullshit. At the Council on Foreign Relations, he started saying BC’s new LNG project was “zero carbon,” before adding a key caveat: “before the Scope 3 obviously.” That’s where the bulk of the emissions come from.
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Stephanie @stephanie-eccles.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
To any fellow salters out there 👀 Excited to read: Get on the Job & Organize by Jaz Brisack. I do hope there is a bit of an analysis of the limitations of salting, b/c it can feel a bit too vanguard-y. inthesetimes.com/article/is-s...
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Is “Salting” the Future of Organized Labor?
Founding member of Starbucks Workers United, Jaz Brisack, shares the hard-won lessons they learned taking on a multinational corporation.
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Stephanie @stephanie-eccles.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
"Unions don’t just improve workers’ paychecks—they shape the social and political fabric of the communities they operate in, lifting standards for union and nonunion workers alike," regardless of taking an intentional social justice union position. www.epi.org/publication/....
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Unions aren’t just good for workers—they also benefit communities and democracy
Rebuilding worker power by strengthening unions is not just good policy—it is a democratic imperative in the face of authoritarian backsliding.
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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Recent announcements by France, EU, Arab League, Canada is not them 'changing' - it is another two-state attempt at Oslo pacification and normalization. There can be NO "solution" that demands disarmament of the resistance, maintains apartheid & occupation, denies the right of return for refugees.
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Stephanie @stephanie-eccles.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Read what "recognizing" a Palestinian state means to Carney's administration. Absolutely disgraceful, disillusioned, & ONLY advances the interests of the colonial, apartheid state of Israel.
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Stephanie @stephanie-eccles.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Glad to see my article, Factory farm gas: Rendering industrial animal waste as renewable energy on North Carolina pig farms published today! You can read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.... #Smithfieldagreement #wastemanagement #industrialanimalwaste #biogas
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Stephanie @stephanie-eccles.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
In "2022, the Quebec government invested $300m into GardaWorld through Investissement Québec," and is now trying to distance itself from any responsibility for GardaWorld's actions. www.montrealgazette.com/news/article1026561.html#storylink=cpy www.montrealgazette.com/news/article...
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Montreal-based ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ security contractor posts jobs for armed guards
Listing advertises US$25 an hour for up to 60 hours per week, with flights, meals and accommodation included.
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Stephanie @stephanie-eccles.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
"When two movements collide: Learning from labour and environmental struggles for future Just Transitions" by my comrade Becca Wilgosh et al., remains a solid reminder of the fleeting possibilities of & slippery slopes of the Just Transition framework. addi.ehu.es/bitstream/ha...
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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
The occupation of Iraq was justified through same rhetoric we hear now about Iran: weapons of mass destruction, saving women & queers, clash of civilizations etc the task of anti-imperialist left is not to litigate the veracity of these allegations, but to refuse racist premise for imperialist war
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Stephanie @stephanie-eccles.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
And on Bill C-5, Building Canada Act (BCA), a solid primer by @ecojusticecanada.bsky.social on how it will give the federal cabinet sweeping powers to designate “national interest” projects, grant upfront approval, & weaken or bypass critical reviews under environmental, & health and safety laws.
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Stephanie @stephanie-eccles.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
“Elbows up” turned into stares of disbelief at the measures posited by Carney’s Lib. government. It’s one of the most profound political reverses on the Cdn. public, proving that while Carney charms us in the front, he is stripping our rights behind our backs." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Canadians said no to Trump – so why is Mark Carney pushing a Maga-inspired border bill? | Erica Ifill
If it goes ahead we will see the construction of a surveillance state that is in some ways worse than the US, writes political columnist Erica Ifill
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Stephanie @stephanie-eccles.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
"I suffer with PITS as a result,” Tom said, referring to perpetration-induced traumatic stress, a subcategory of PTSD, in which the cause of the trauma is being a perpetrator of violence — in this case, slaughtering animals for food — rather than being a victim of it." www.vox.com/future-perfe...
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This overlooked cause of PTSD is only going to get worse
What slaughtering animals all day does to your mind.
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Stephanie @stephanie-eccles.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
For those in Denver, Colorado, next Monday Brave New Life project is joining @co-lib-collective.bsky.social for an evening to engage with what it means to work in animal agriculture from the workers' perspective, & how to support those interested in transitioning into other forms of employment.
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TABLE @tabledebates.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
What does the future of alternative protein look like? Join us Tues 24 June at 4pm BST for a webinar on the drivers, investments, trends & regulation of alternative proteins. More info and registration here: buff.ly/EIxSaxi This is part 1 of our 3-part series on alt proteins.
A flyer for the first webinar in a summer webinar series from TABLE called "Alternative proteins and better food futures". The first webinar is on 24 June from 4-5:30pm BST and focus on the drivers, investments, trends and regulations around alternative proteins.
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Stephanie @stephanie-eccles.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
"The comforting dream that energy conservation would improve while fossil fuels would be replaced by renewables, thereby averting climate catastrophe, has evaporated and been replaced with a technological horror show."
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Stephanie @stephanie-eccles.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
If you've yet to get this sorted out, nows a good time.
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Stephanie @stephanie-eccles.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
We always got money for bailing out industries wrecking havoc on our planet + communities, for war, for genocide. Never for the people.
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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
I don't care what people on the street did or didn't do, I dont care who did or didn't engage in violence, I don't care whether you approve or not. ICE is having a hard time conducting raids, and *that* is the point. All the rest is noise. Serve the people, always. www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...
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Trump's border czar says protests are making immigration raids more ‘difficult’ and ‘dangerous’
In an interview with NBC News, Tom Homan described how protests in Los Angeles have affected Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations in recent days.
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Stephanie @stephanie-eccles.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
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Stephanie @stephanie-eccles.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
What will be the 1st of many actions against Bill C-2, The Strong Borders Act. Another example of how the US/Canada are the same, just Canada approaches issues through bureaucracy/palatability & benefits from years of having distanced itself as the benevolent side of the border compared to the US.
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EMERGENCY RALLY: LET’S FIGHT AGAINST MARK CARNEY’S XENOPHOBIC AND ANTI-MIGRANT BILL
Please share widely CALL FOR AN EMERGENCY RALLY: LET’S FIGHT AGAINST MARK CARNEY’S XENOPHOBIC AND ANTI-MIGRANT BILL Rally June 8 at 2 p.m. Complexe Guy-Favreau, 200, boul René-Lévesque …
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
“Tasted a little tear gas— tasted like fascism”
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