@camwheaton.bsky.social
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The purpose of austerity budgets is always to transfer public wealth into private hands. And in a country like Canada that always means a transfer to the same handful of domestic oligarchs and resource extraction multinationals.
November 5, 2025 at 12:52 AM
The purpose of austerity budgets is always to transfer public wealth into private hands. And in a country like Canada that always means a transfer to the same handful of domestic oligarchs and resource extraction multinationals.
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True for our whole 🇨🇦 apparatus of food banks.
They are essential, but they are also testimony to the inadequacy of wage incomes and income assistance
They are essential, but they are also testimony to the inadequacy of wage incomes and income assistance
Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.
October 27, 2025 at 12:01 PM
True for our whole 🇨🇦 apparatus of food banks.
They are essential, but they are also testimony to the inadequacy of wage incomes and income assistance
They are essential, but they are also testimony to the inadequacy of wage incomes and income assistance
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They had to reopen applications for Guelph’s Accessibility Advisory Committee.
Only one of the previous members reapplied, the rest of us quit, and the city obviously didn’t get enough new applicants.
It’s almost like if you ignore and lie to disabled people enough, we stop wanting to engage. 🤷🏼♀️
Only one of the previous members reapplied, the rest of us quit, and the city obviously didn’t get enough new applicants.
It’s almost like if you ignore and lie to disabled people enough, we stop wanting to engage. 🤷🏼♀️
May 23, 2025 at 2:04 PM
They had to reopen applications for Guelph’s Accessibility Advisory Committee.
Only one of the previous members reapplied, the rest of us quit, and the city obviously didn’t get enough new applicants.
It’s almost like if you ignore and lie to disabled people enough, we stop wanting to engage. 🤷🏼♀️
Only one of the previous members reapplied, the rest of us quit, and the city obviously didn’t get enough new applicants.
It’s almost like if you ignore and lie to disabled people enough, we stop wanting to engage. 🤷🏼♀️
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Combine that with the growing police state apparatus and the attacks on the very existence of whole swaths of American society and you have a recipe for chaos and violence.
May 22, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Combine that with the growing police state apparatus and the attacks on the very existence of whole swaths of American society and you have a recipe for chaos and violence.
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NEW: Trump’s takeover of the Library of Congress is about taking control of the legislative branch.
One expert says it’s “dangerous,” given agencies within the Library provide legal advice to lawmakers and police their misconduct.
One expert says it’s “dangerous,” given agencies within the Library provide legal advice to lawmakers and police their misconduct.
Trump Is Trying to Take Control of Congress Through Its Library
Donald Trump’s administration is pushing to take over the Library of Congress, its latest effort to subsume the legislative branch.
www.rollingstone.com
May 12, 2025 at 8:47 PM
NEW: Trump’s takeover of the Library of Congress is about taking control of the legislative branch.
One expert says it’s “dangerous,” given agencies within the Library provide legal advice to lawmakers and police their misconduct.
One expert says it’s “dangerous,” given agencies within the Library provide legal advice to lawmakers and police their misconduct.
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BREAKING: Provinces invite U.S. scientists to come be underfunded in Canada
April 8, 2025 at 5:28 PM
BREAKING: Provinces invite U.S. scientists to come be underfunded in Canada
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val kilmer’s turn in TOP SECRET is one of the single best comedy performances ever committed to film, both in terms of comic precision and mechanical virtuosity. just watch this whole clip in its entirety; it’s stunning
April 2, 2025 at 4:26 AM
val kilmer’s turn in TOP SECRET is one of the single best comedy performances ever committed to film, both in terms of comic precision and mechanical virtuosity. just watch this whole clip in its entirety; it’s stunning
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I’m devastated, but I’m also angry. I’m angry because this is an attack on press freedom.
If opportunities can be stripped from journalists simply because enough people repeat the same bad-faith narrative, how can anyone withstand the career impact of doing work that matters?
If opportunities can be stripped from journalists simply because enough people repeat the same bad-faith narrative, how can anyone withstand the career impact of doing work that matters?
April 1, 2025 at 11:02 PM
I’m devastated, but I’m also angry. I’m angry because this is an attack on press freedom.
If opportunities can be stripped from journalists simply because enough people repeat the same bad-faith narrative, how can anyone withstand the career impact of doing work that matters?
If opportunities can be stripped from journalists simply because enough people repeat the same bad-faith narrative, how can anyone withstand the career impact of doing work that matters?
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The endgame described here: The US will use tariffs to raise revenue and as a club to extort countries to continually negotiate market access in exchange for whatever the US decides it wants, which can change at any time. It’s a shakedown regime, a protection racket.
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
March 16, 2025 at 11:16 AM
The endgame described here: The US will use tariffs to raise revenue and as a club to extort countries to continually negotiate market access in exchange for whatever the US decides it wants, which can change at any time. It’s a shakedown regime, a protection racket.
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Voter turnout in the Ontario 2025 election wasn't the worst it has ever been, but the results should be disquieting even for Doug Ford and the Progressive Conservatives. Analysis from @spaikin.bsky.social and @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social on the #onpoli podcast www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS14...
March 4, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Voter turnout in the Ontario 2025 election wasn't the worst it has ever been, but the results should be disquieting even for Doug Ford and the Progressive Conservatives. Analysis from @spaikin.bsky.social and @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social on the #onpoli podcast www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS14...
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Vote him out.
A thriving public education system is the heartbeat of a compassionate society
#HigherEd
thewalrus.ca/inside-doug-...
A thriving public education system is the heartbeat of a compassionate society
#HigherEd
thewalrus.ca/inside-doug-...
Inside Doug Ford’s Plan to Starve Ontario’s Universities | The Walrus
What happens when a government stops believing in education?
thewalrus.ca
February 23, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Vote him out.
A thriving public education system is the heartbeat of a compassionate society
#HigherEd
thewalrus.ca/inside-doug-...
A thriving public education system is the heartbeat of a compassionate society
#HigherEd
thewalrus.ca/inside-doug-...
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For @thelocal.to I wrote about Doug Ford's record on colleges and universities. Ontario has the lowest funding in the country. Without immediate investment, we are compromising a generation of students, including skilled workers needed to build key housing, transit, infrastructure projects. #onpoli
After years of underfunding, the province’s colleges and universities are now in financial free fall—slashing staff, cutting programs, and shuttering campuses. @kunalchaudhary.bsky.social on the Ontario-made crisis in post-secondary education. thelocal.to/ontario-post...
How Ontario Sleepwalked into a Crisis in Higher Education | The Local
After years of underfunding, the province’s colleges and universities are now in financial free fall—slashing staff, cutting programs, and shuttering campuses.
thelocal.to
February 20, 2025 at 4:22 PM
For @thelocal.to I wrote about Doug Ford's record on colleges and universities. Ontario has the lowest funding in the country. Without immediate investment, we are compromising a generation of students, including skilled workers needed to build key housing, transit, infrastructure projects. #onpoli
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Keep hollowing out the public sector. It will soon own nothing but will pay forever. Clarivate/Proquest is a major ebook provider to many academic libraries (including the one I do collection development for). clarivate.com/news/clariva...
Clarivate Unveils Transformative Subscription-Based Access Strategy for Academia | Clarivate
New approach enables broad, simple and affordable access to trusted scholarly content for learning and research
clarivate.com
February 18, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Keep hollowing out the public sector. It will soon own nothing but will pay forever. Clarivate/Proquest is a major ebook provider to many academic libraries (including the one I do collection development for). clarivate.com/news/clariva...
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Looks like Clarivate/ProQuest is about to lose a lot of money from me. Because I've been transitioning us back to prioritizing ownership of what we spend money on at this library.
Not playing this game. A library that owns nothing isn't fulfilling its mission.
Not playing this game. A library that owns nothing isn't fulfilling its mission.
Here's the schedule of the end of title-by-title sales on the PQ website: support.proquest.com/s/article/Pr...
ProQuest & Ex Libris Support
support.proquest.com
February 18, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Looks like Clarivate/ProQuest is about to lose a lot of money from me. Because I've been transitioning us back to prioritizing ownership of what we spend money on at this library.
Not playing this game. A library that owns nothing isn't fulfilling its mission.
Not playing this game. A library that owns nothing isn't fulfilling its mission.
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CBC's Fifth Estate has traced a wide web of anti-LGBT hate working to censor or close down libraries in Canada to a right-wing U.S. movement
A shadow war on libraries
Some Canadian politicians and influencers, inspired by an American-born movement, are trying to roll back 2SLGBTQ+ rights in Canada — one book at a time.
www.cbc.ca
February 7, 2025 at 7:05 PM
CBC's Fifth Estate has traced a wide web of anti-LGBT hate working to censor or close down libraries in Canada to a right-wing U.S. movement
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I'm not going to the US so long as a fascist authoritarian is in the White House.
Are Canadian scholars forgoing their US conference attendances right now? I had planned on attending a conference in Chicago this year, but given the current tarriff conversations, I am wondering if this is a no-go... curious how others are approaching this.
January 31, 2025 at 8:24 PM
I'm not going to the US so long as a fascist authoritarian is in the White House.