Stephanie
@stephanie-eccles.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Fellow @ Food and Agriculture Institute, University of the Fraser Valley
Thinking about: agri-labour in a Just Transition | factory farm gas | farmed animals in disasters
#endbsl & <3 unions!
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
· Oct 21
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 :)
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/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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...
www.cbc.ca
November 12, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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.
gflc.ca
November 10, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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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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...
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.
www.policyalternatives.ca
November 5, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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...
An unexpected but unsurprising story of corn syrup, candy, farmed animals, and "corporate sustainability".
sentientmedia.org/farmers-feed...
sentientmedia.org/farmers-feed...
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.
sentientmedia.org
November 1, 2025 at 10:35 PM
An unexpected but unsurprising story of corn syrup, candy, farmed animals, and "corporate sustainability".
sentientmedia.org/farmers-feed...
sentientmedia.org/farmers-feed...
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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...
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...
October 21, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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...
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...
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 :)
October 21, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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 :)
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/....
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.
www.thestar.com
October 3, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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/....
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...
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
thenarwhal.ca
October 3, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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...
@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...
weanimals.org/project/a-ra...
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.
weanimals.org
October 1, 2025 at 9:44 PM
@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...
weanimals.org/project/a-ra...
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...
niche-canada.org/2025/08/20/c...
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.
niche-canada.org
September 26, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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...
niche-canada.org/2025/08/20/c...
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Two (2) MA fellowships at Concordia in deindustrialization studies.
September 15, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Two (2) MA fellowships at Concordia in deindustrialization studies.
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.
TULE was on summer break for a couple of weeks, but we are BACK! Please join us in this special event to discuss @alybatt.bsky.social's new book, Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature. October 6, 3pm EST via Zoom. Register here: yorku.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
September 23, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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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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.
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.
September 23, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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.
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.
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...
inthesetimes.com/article/is-s...
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.
inthesetimes.com
August 21, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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...
inthesetimes.com/article/is-s...
"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/....
www.epi.org/publication/....
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.
www.epi.org
August 21, 2025 at 3:43 PM
"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/....
www.epi.org/publication/....
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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.
There can be NO "solution" that demands disarmament of the resistance, maintains apartheid & occupation, denies the right of return for refugees.
July 30, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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.
There can be NO "solution" that demands disarmament of the resistance, maintains apartheid & occupation, denies the right of return for refugees.
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.
Canada has long been committed to a two-state solution — an independent, viable, and sovereign Palestinian state living side by side with the State of Israel in peace and security.
My statement on Canada’s recognition of a Palestinian state:
My statement on Canada’s recognition of a Palestinian state:
July 30, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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.
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
#Smithfieldagreement #wastemanagement #industrialanimalwaste #biogas
July 16, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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
#Smithfieldagreement #wastemanagement #industrialanimalwaste #biogas
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
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www.montrealgazette.com/news/article1026561.html#storylink=cpy
www.montrealgazette.com/news/article...
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.
www.montrealgazette.com
July 16, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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...
www.montrealgazette.com/news/article1026561.html#storylink=cpy
www.montrealgazette.com/news/article...
"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...
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...
addi.ehu.es
July 1, 2025 at 5:24 PM
"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...
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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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
the task of anti-imperialist left is not to litigate the veracity of these allegations, but to refuse racist premise for imperialist war
June 22, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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
the task of anti-imperialist left is not to litigate the veracity of these allegations, but to refuse racist premise for imperialist war
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.
ecojustice.ca
June 19, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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.
“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...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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
www.theguardian.com
June 19, 2025 at 12:58 PM
“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...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
"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...
www.vox.com/future-perfe...
This overlooked cause of PTSD is only going to get worse
What slaughtering animals all day does to your mind.
www.vox.com
June 19, 2025 at 12:51 PM
"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...
www.vox.com/future-perfe...
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.
June 16, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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.