Stefan Kipfer
@skipfer.bsky.social
is into politics and urban questions. Professor, union member, inhabitant, author of Urban Revolutions https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2120-urban-revolutions
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Canada’s prime minister says trade talks with US will resume with decision to drop new levy.
Canada rescinds digital services tax after Trump suspends trade talks
Canada’s prime minister says trade talks with US will resume with decision to drop new levy.
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June 30, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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Among the many benefits of bike lines: fewer accidents, effective mobility, more cycling, boosted transportation equity for those without cars. From the York U team Mahtot Gebresselassie, Joanna Silva, and Steven Lum. theconversation.com/why-bike-lan...
Why bike lanes should remain on Ontario’s roads
Efforts to remove bike lanes in Toronto could result in more injuries and make transportation more challenging for people.
theconversation.com
June 17, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Among the many benefits of bike lines: fewer accidents, effective mobility, more cycling, boosted transportation equity for those without cars. From the York U team Mahtot Gebresselassie, Joanna Silva, and Steven Lum. theconversation.com/why-bike-lan...
No, building more market housing won't filter down to everybody. It will worsen the housing affordability crisis for many. Social housing is what we need. A fine study by Yaya Baumann and Hélène Bélanger. iris-recherche.qc.ca/publications...
Le filtrage comme mirage de solution à la crise du logement : analyse des limites de ses effets
La crise du logement
iris-recherche.qc.ca
June 12, 2025 at 12:36 PM
No, building more market housing won't filter down to everybody. It will worsen the housing affordability crisis for many. Social housing is what we need. A fine study by Yaya Baumann and Hélène Bélanger. iris-recherche.qc.ca/publications...
"Our treaty is not red tape. Our rights are not red tape". Grand Chief Alvin Fiddler, Nishnawbe Aski Nation.
www.thestar.com/politics/pro...
www.thestar.com/politics/pro...
Doug Ford says some First Nations will ‘never agree’ to proposed bill speeding up mine development
"People elected us to move quick, and that's exactly what we're going to do," Ford said in Orillia.
www.thestar.com
May 26, 2025 at 12:12 PM
"Our treaty is not red tape. Our rights are not red tape". Grand Chief Alvin Fiddler, Nishnawbe Aski Nation.
www.thestar.com/politics/pro...
www.thestar.com/politics/pro...
"Trump tariffs and US Imperialism". Gillian Hart unpacks the various camps struggling to define the meaning and objective of these tariffs within the Trump regime. africasacountry.com/2025/05/trum...
Trump tariffs and US Imperialism
Trump’s April 2025 tariff blitz ignited market chaos and deepened rifts within his own coalition. Beneath the turmoil lies a battle between technocrats, ultranationalists, and anti-imperial populists,...
africasacountry.com
May 14, 2025 at 5:09 PM
"Trump tariffs and US Imperialism". Gillian Hart unpacks the various camps struggling to define the meaning and objective of these tariffs within the Trump regime. africasacountry.com/2025/05/trum...
Meanwhile, in other developments, there is this important and unexpected announcement from France.
May 9, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Meanwhile, in other developments, there is this important and unexpected announcement from France.
Tomorrow @ York U, 1:30-3 519 Kaneff Tower
May 7, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Tomorrow @ York U, 1:30-3 519 Kaneff Tower
We're in fundraising mode at @cityinstitute.bsky.social to secure endowment funds to honour the inspiring work of our dear colleagues and CITY's former Directors @rkeil.bsky.social and Linda Peake. Please contribute if you can - those in 🇨🇦 will get a tax receipt: donate.yorku.ca/site/Donatio...
May 4, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Coming up in 2 weeks in Toronto. Looking forward.
On May 14, we’re thrilled to welcome Matt Thompson (@mattthompson.bsky.social) to the IIESL and to Toronto for a discussion of his research on conjunctural municipalism. He’ll be joined by Kanishka Goonewardena, Stefan Kipfer (@skipfer.bsky.social), and Rachel Bok as discussants.
May 2, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Coming up in 2 weeks in Toronto. Looking forward.
Well put: "Like Trump, Poilievre is aiming to divide the working class by [] presenting a [] clichéd image of what the working class is [] that [] ignores the fact that [] teaching assistants, sessional lecturers and contracted-out cleaning service workers [] are all part of the working class."
April 22, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Well put: "Like Trump, Poilievre is aiming to divide the working class by [] presenting a [] clichéd image of what the working class is [] that [] ignores the fact that [] teaching assistants, sessional lecturers and contracted-out cleaning service workers [] are all part of the working class."
Reposted by Stefan Kipfer
Reposted by Stefan Kipfer
Investors are asking questions about whether they can trust the US that would have been *ridiculous* a few months ago. IDK how/whether Uncle Sam can get the trust back.
Me on a bonkers/terrifying few days in markets and what it all means: on.ft.com/4ct5Qnv
(First 300 clicks free)
Me on a bonkers/terrifying few days in markets and what it all means: on.ft.com/4ct5Qnv
(First 300 clicks free)
Donald Trump has added a political risk premium to US assets
[FREE TO READ] Parking money in America is no longer the routine, fuss-free, neutral option
on.ft.com
April 11, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Investors are asking questions about whether they can trust the US that would have been *ridiculous* a few months ago. IDK how/whether Uncle Sam can get the trust back.
Me on a bonkers/terrifying few days in markets and what it all means: on.ft.com/4ct5Qnv
(First 300 clicks free)
Me on a bonkers/terrifying few days in markets and what it all means: on.ft.com/4ct5Qnv
(First 300 clicks free)
Reposted by Stefan Kipfer
Indigenous faculty at York University push back on enrolment suspension: Program suspensions are a shortsighted solution to managing school's financial crisis
Indigenous faculty at York University push back on enrolment suspension | CBC News
Professors of Indigenous studies and gender studies say they'd like to see York University reverse the decision it recently made to suspend enrolment in those programs.
www.cbc.ca
March 21, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Indigenous faculty at York University push back on enrolment suspension: Program suspensions are a shortsighted solution to managing school's financial crisis
Many thanks to Jordan Camp and Christina Heatherton for this sharp and generous production of Conjuncture.
In the new episode of Conjuncture, I speak with @skipfer.bsky.social about Gramsci, anti-fascism, and the right. We release in anticipation of Gramscian Studies panels at the @geographers.bsky.social meetings next week. Season co-sponsored by @antipodeonline.bsky.social: youtu.be/7CcRqnplfJU. 1/2
Conjuncture: Stefan Kipfer on Gramsci, Anti-fascism, and the Resurgence of the Right | S4 Ep4
YouTube video by Trinity Social Justice Institute
youtu.be
March 20, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Many thanks to Jordan Camp and Christina Heatherton for this sharp and generous production of Conjuncture.
'confidently wrong' = ai
Columbia Journalism Review tested eight generative AI search tools and found their answers were wrong 60% of the time, and the paid ones actually fared worse than the free ones.
Meanwhile, millions of people trust the way they present total bullshit with confident language.
Meanwhile, millions of people trust the way they present total bullshit with confident language.
AI search engines cite incorrect sources at an alarming 60% rate, study says
CJR study shows AI search services misinform users and ignore publisher exclusion requests.
arstechnica.com
March 19, 2025 at 1:36 PM
'confidently wrong' = ai
How to respond to Trump North of the border? Here is my attempt at an internationalist take on national questions in these lands often called Canada.
socialistproject.ca/2025/03/ansc...
socialistproject.ca/2025/03/ansc...
March 19, 2025 at 11:59 AM
How to respond to Trump North of the border? Here is my attempt at an internationalist take on national questions in these lands often called Canada.
socialistproject.ca/2025/03/ansc...
socialistproject.ca/2025/03/ansc...
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This is the end of society as we know it. It has to be resisted at all cost. Critical urbanists unite!
'freedom cities' are climate arson.
they will not be located in places set up to succeed. they will induce massive GHGs and VMTs.
a massive waste of public resources and land.
www.wired.com/story/startu...
they will not be located in places set up to succeed. they will induce massive GHGs and VMTs.
a massive waste of public resources and land.
www.wired.com/story/startu...
March 8, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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Mobilizing against AfD abroad. Anti-fascist protest against local sympathizers with Alice Weidel in Einsiedeln (Switzerland), one of Alice Weidel's place of residence.
www.srf.ch/news/schweiz...
www.srf.ch/news/schweiz...
Einsiedeln: AfD-Sympathisant schaltet Inserat in Lokalblatt
Ein Einsiedler Ex-Richter gratuliert AfD-Frau Alice Weidel im Namen der Bevölkerung. Der Bezirksrat sucht das Gespräch.
www.srf.ch
March 4, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Mobilizing against AfD abroad. Anti-fascist protest against local sympathizers with Alice Weidel in Einsiedeln (Switzerland), one of Alice Weidel's place of residence.
www.srf.ch/news/schweiz...
www.srf.ch/news/schweiz...
This coming Friday @ York U.
March 1, 2025 at 1:36 AM
This coming Friday @ York U.
Reposted by Stefan Kipfer
This is a really useful overview of the Ontario party election platforms.
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Armine Yalnizyan: Ontario’s economy is facing a Trump-induced crisis. This is how your next premier intends to fix it
Ontario’s economy is in a sink-or-swim moment.
www.thestar.com
February 24, 2025 at 2:26 PM
This is a really useful overview of the Ontario party election platforms.
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...