Emma Arkell
@emmaarkell.bsky.social
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Emma Arkell
@emmaarkell.bsky.social
· Oct 24
Bike mechanics want the government to recognize the job as a distinct profession and skilled trade.
Right now, they're officially grouped with workers who repair accordions, jukeboxes and the safety valves on pipelines.
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Right now, they're officially grouped with workers who repair accordions, jukeboxes and the safety valves on pipelines.
pressprogress.ca/bike-mechani...
We Don’t Know How Many Bike Mechanics Are in Canada. That’s a Problem.
Workers who service bicycles want the government to recognize the job as a distinct profession and skilled trade
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Bike mechanics are vital to the shift to greener transportation, but they typically do work that’s precarious, low-pay and not backed up by formal training.
Mechanics want that to change, but they’ve got a bureaucratic hurdle in the way: a dedicated NOC code.
my latest for @pressprogress.ca ⬇️
Mechanics want that to change, but they’ve got a bureaucratic hurdle in the way: a dedicated NOC code.
my latest for @pressprogress.ca ⬇️
introduce yourself with five animals you have seen in the wild
red and white giant flying squirrel
malayan leaf frog
beaver
monitor lizard
pine marten
red and white giant flying squirrel
malayan leaf frog
beaver
monitor lizard
pine marten
Introduce yourself with five animals you have seen in the wild
Goliath bird eating spider
Galapagos giant tortoise
Moose
Three-toed sloth
Canadian lynx
Goliath bird eating spider
Galapagos giant tortoise
Moose
Three-toed sloth
Canadian lynx
Introduce yourself with five animals you have seen in the wild
Guanaco
Brown tarantula
Eastern newt
Caribou
Western blue jay
Guanaco
Brown tarantula
Eastern newt
Caribou
Western blue jay
November 29, 2025 at 5:26 AM
introduce yourself with five animals you have seen in the wild
red and white giant flying squirrel
malayan leaf frog
beaver
monitor lizard
pine marten
red and white giant flying squirrel
malayan leaf frog
beaver
monitor lizard
pine marten
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My friend @harshawalia.bsky.social was arrested and charged, and another protester was brutalized today in Vancouver at a protest targeting Apple for profiting from death and exploitation in its supply chain. The protesters also called out Apple's support of Friends of the IDF.
November 29, 2025 at 5:08 AM
My friend @harshawalia.bsky.social was arrested and charged, and another protester was brutalized today in Vancouver at a protest targeting Apple for profiting from death and exploitation in its supply chain. The protesters also called out Apple's support of Friends of the IDF.
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Been covering DULF's constitutional challenge for @thetyee.ca this week. Crown prosecutors have tried to poke lots of small holes in what founders Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum were doing. Nyx and Kalicum have largely defended themselves saying they were doing the best they knew how at the time.
November 29, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Been covering DULF's constitutional challenge for @thetyee.ca this week. Crown prosecutors have tried to poke lots of small holes in what founders Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum were doing. Nyx and Kalicum have largely defended themselves saying they were doing the best they knew how at the time.
omggg if Sami Landri goes home this week on canada's drag race.......
November 29, 2025 at 4:58 AM
omggg if Sami Landri goes home this week on canada's drag race.......
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Might be thinking about this more than usual because of a project that will probably be announced next year, but I am ALSO thinking about the rapid invisibilization of survivors of both these things, and the fact that history has largely forgotten about encephalitis lethargica.
Been thinking a lot about how the pandemic fundamentally broke our brains and our collective response; in a way it reminds me of the frenzied excess of the 1920s as people reeled from WWI and the influenza pandemic, and the hard fall we took at the end of that decade is coming for us this time too.
November 29, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Might be thinking about this more than usual because of a project that will probably be announced next year, but I am ALSO thinking about the rapid invisibilization of survivors of both these things, and the fact that history has largely forgotten about encephalitis lethargica.
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Kneecap is suing Canadian MP Vince Gasparro for his lies and defamatory comments.
I couldn’t possibly love this any more.
I couldn’t possibly love this any more.
November 28, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Kneecap is suing Canadian MP Vince Gasparro for his lies and defamatory comments.
I couldn’t possibly love this any more.
I couldn’t possibly love this any more.
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
finally listening to Fat of the Land because it came up on the qobuz discover page and was not expecting to hear a Kool Keith verse
November 26, 2025 at 2:59 AM
finally listening to Fat of the Land because it came up on the qobuz discover page and was not expecting to hear a Kool Keith verse
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Meanwhile back in the real world... I'm up in Kitsumkalum First Nation tomorrow - the furthest north I've ever been to in Canada. While everyone's been losing their minds about Cowichan getting 5km's of landback, Kitsumkalum just got 500km.
November 26, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Meanwhile back in the real world... I'm up in Kitsumkalum First Nation tomorrow - the furthest north I've ever been to in Canada. While everyone's been losing their minds about Cowichan getting 5km's of landback, Kitsumkalum just got 500km.
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A new kind of rapid Chotining. Please appreciate the alt-text.
November 25, 2025 at 1:09 AM
A new kind of rapid Chotining. Please appreciate the alt-text.
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Today, DULF co-founders launch their constitutional challenge to Canada’s drug laws that criminalize possession for the purposes of trafficking.
“[The law] is over broad in that it prohibits non medical safer supply programs no matter how efficacious” - lawyer Tim Dickson
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“[The law] is over broad in that it prohibits non medical safer supply programs no matter how efficacious” - lawyer Tim Dickson
@pressprogress.ca
November 24, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Today, DULF co-founders launch their constitutional challenge to Canada’s drug laws that criminalize possession for the purposes of trafficking.
“[The law] is over broad in that it prohibits non medical safer supply programs no matter how efficacious” - lawyer Tim Dickson
@pressprogress.ca
“[The law] is over broad in that it prohibits non medical safer supply programs no matter how efficacious” - lawyer Tim Dickson
@pressprogress.ca
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Yesterday my partner and I counted all the ads along Chicago's Brown Line for "Friend," a company selling an AI chatbot pendant, and tallied how many of those ads were defaced.
Still working on a longer piece on this, but here's the quick and dirty: we counted 104 "Friend" ads total, 42 defaced.
Still working on a longer piece on this, but here's the quick and dirty: we counted 104 "Friend" ads total, 42 defaced.
November 23, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Yesterday my partner and I counted all the ads along Chicago's Brown Line for "Friend," a company selling an AI chatbot pendant, and tallied how many of those ads were defaced.
Still working on a longer piece on this, but here's the quick and dirty: we counted 104 "Friend" ads total, 42 defaced.
Still working on a longer piece on this, but here's the quick and dirty: we counted 104 "Friend" ads total, 42 defaced.
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TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that?
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
November 21, 2025 at 9:25 PM
TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that?
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
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November 21, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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Coastal First Nations say the federal government hasn't been talking to them about Alberta's pipeline proposal, despite multiple requests for nation-to-nation meetings
"We are tired of learning about these discussions regarding our traditional territories in the press," reads a press release
"We are tired of learning about these discussions regarding our traditional territories in the press," reads a press release
November 19, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Coastal First Nations say the federal government hasn't been talking to them about Alberta's pipeline proposal, despite multiple requests for nation-to-nation meetings
"We are tired of learning about these discussions regarding our traditional territories in the press," reads a press release
"We are tired of learning about these discussions regarding our traditional territories in the press," reads a press release
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Big news! Ricochet has become just the fourth English-language media outlet in Canada to earn para-charitable RJO status!
This makes us a qualified donee in tax parlance, and means all donations are fully tax deductible — just like donations to charities.
Read more:
ricochet.media/announcement...
This makes us a qualified donee in tax parlance, and means all donations are fully tax deductible — just like donations to charities.
Read more:
ricochet.media/announcement...
Big news! Ricochet earns para-charitable RJO status
We are the fourth English-language outlet in Canada to qualify as a Registered Journalism Organization
ricochet.media
November 19, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Big news! Ricochet has become just the fourth English-language media outlet in Canada to earn para-charitable RJO status!
This makes us a qualified donee in tax parlance, and means all donations are fully tax deductible — just like donations to charities.
Read more:
ricochet.media/announcement...
This makes us a qualified donee in tax parlance, and means all donations are fully tax deductible — just like donations to charities.
Read more:
ricochet.media/announcement...
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Appreciate @nationalobserver.com underlining the threat these lawsuits pose to our democracy:
“One way to help preserve an independent media is to protect them from vindictive US-style lawsuits… we must be free to report fairly without the threat of expensive lawsuits designed solely to shut us up”
“One way to help preserve an independent media is to protect them from vindictive US-style lawsuits… we must be free to report fairly without the threat of expensive lawsuits designed solely to shut us up”
Alberta lawsuit is trying to silence the messenger
Former UCP candidate Caylan Ford's scattergun defamation lawsuit against the media and others sends a free press chill through Alberta
www.nationalobserver.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Appreciate @nationalobserver.com underlining the threat these lawsuits pose to our democracy:
“One way to help preserve an independent media is to protect them from vindictive US-style lawsuits… we must be free to report fairly without the threat of expensive lawsuits designed solely to shut us up”
“One way to help preserve an independent media is to protect them from vindictive US-style lawsuits… we must be free to report fairly without the threat of expensive lawsuits designed solely to shut us up”
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Here is Alberta premier Danielle Smith seemingly suggesting that a mastectomy is a surgery that “prevents you from being able to have children.” 😵💫
November 19, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Here is Alberta premier Danielle Smith seemingly suggesting that a mastectomy is a surgery that “prevents you from being able to have children.” 😵💫
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There’s a wave of violence targeting Canadian Sikhs, and the government seems powerless to stop it.
"It’s a feeling of helplessness."
pressprogress.ca/wave-of-viol...
"It’s a feeling of helplessness."
pressprogress.ca/wave-of-viol...
There’s a Wave of Violence Targeting Canadian Sikhs, and the Government Seems Powerless to Stop It
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November 18, 2025 at 6:06 PM
There’s a wave of violence targeting Canadian Sikhs, and the government seems powerless to stop it.
"It’s a feeling of helplessness."
pressprogress.ca/wave-of-viol...
"It’s a feeling of helplessness."
pressprogress.ca/wave-of-viol...
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I love mess but man this whole thing underlines how much it sucks that all the worst journalists somehow end up with flashy high-paying media jobs
November 18, 2025 at 5:15 AM
I love mess but man this whole thing underlines how much it sucks that all the worst journalists somehow end up with flashy high-paying media jobs
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Hi, folks. I wrote about my buddy @leslieleeiii.bsky.social. He had #LongCOVID and passed away this week. Thanks for reading. adamumak.medium.com/leslie-lee-i...
Leslie Lee III: Funeral for a Friend
Explaining the one important lesson that he wanted you to learn.
adamumak.medium.com
November 15, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Hi, folks. I wrote about my buddy @leslieleeiii.bsky.social. He had #LongCOVID and passed away this week. Thanks for reading. adamumak.medium.com/leslie-lee-i...
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Here is an obituary for Alice Wong from The Sick Times, a publication aligned with disability rights and disability activism, if you are looking for an alternative to reading the nyt one: thesicktimes.org/2025/11/15/a...
Alice Wong, disability activist and luminary, dies at 51 - The Sick Times
Alice Wong platformed and uplifted people with Long COVID in her final chapter as a lifelong disability advocate and storyteller.
thesicktimes.org
November 16, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Here is an obituary for Alice Wong from The Sick Times, a publication aligned with disability rights and disability activism, if you are looking for an alternative to reading the nyt one: thesicktimes.org/2025/11/15/a...
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It was announced on October 16, 2025 that VIBE was "joining forces" with Rolling Stone. As a result, the majority of VIBE employees were laid off. If you have the means to give, this team could use the support! www.gofundme.com/f/support-vi...
Donate to Support VIBE Staff After Sudden Layoffs, organized by Mya Abraham
It was announced on October 16, 2025 that VIBE was "joining forces" with Rolling S… Mya Abraham needs your support for Support VIBE Staff After Sudden Layoffs
www.gofundme.com
November 14, 2025 at 6:02 PM
It was announced on October 16, 2025 that VIBE was "joining forces" with Rolling Stone. As a result, the majority of VIBE employees were laid off. If you have the means to give, this team could use the support! www.gofundme.com/f/support-vi...