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« The only way to fight a counterfeit revival is with the real thing: scripture that flat-out refuses the logic of power and profit. The gospel, at its heart, was never on the side of conquest or capitalism but of liberation. »

canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...
Reviving the gospel of liberation
As the far-right turns faith into a weapon, Canada’s left needs to rediscover the moral vision it once carried. The social gospel called Christians to organize love into policy—to fight inequality, de...
canadiandimension.com
November 27, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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Excusez mon français, mais illes peuvent bien manger de la marde.
Le respect, ça va dans les deux sens. »

La chronique de @judithlefebvre.bsky.social 👇
Boulet contre les syndicats : saper la démocratie et faire l’innocent – Pivot
Pendant que les médias s’insurgent des paroles de la présidente de la FTQ, le ministre du Travail démantèle ce qui reste des contre-pouvoirs de la société civile.
pivot.quebec
November 28, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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A recent visit home by a Ukrainian refugee living in St. John’s underscores the joys of her homeland amid the harsh reality of the ongoing war

Read the story of Katerina Gavrilyuk and her family, from Rhea Rollmann 👇
theindependent.ca/news/lji/ret...
Returning home brings mixed feelings for Ukrainians living in Newfoundland – The Independent
A recent visit home by a Ukrainian refugee living in St. John’s underscores the joys of her homeland amid the harsh reality of the ongoing war
theindependent.ca
November 28, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Deadline extended to December 15th for our annual Writing in the Margins contest! If you've been thinking about entering, this is your sign to do it! Full details below:
Deadline extended – Writing in the Margins: Briarpatch’s 15th annual poetry, creative non-fiction, and photography contest
Briarpatch is accepting submissions of original, unpublished poetry, creative non-fiction, and photography. Win prizes totalling $2,000, and be published in Briarpatch Magazine!
briarpatchmagazine.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Mark Carney presents himself as the steady hand Canada needs, but his politics amount to neoliberalism with a friendlier face. Canada needs more than tinkering around the edges of capitalism—we need a government willing to confront capital itself.
I read Mark Carney’s book so you don’t have to
Fortunately, we don’t have to rely on campaign literature to discern Mark Carney’s vision for the future. The decades he’s spent in both the private sector and the public service, as well as his 2021 ...
canadiandimension.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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The greatest irony of this comment is that it's actually fossil fuel companies (and the governments they've captured) who are living in the past. The rest of the world is moving towards renewables, and all this multi-billion dollar fossil fuel infrastructure is going to be worthless stranded assets.
People who care about climate change are “dreaming nostalgically about the past.” - Minister Hodgson

Gotcha. That explains a lot.
November 28, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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For two years, a Sudanese paramilitary force has been massacring civilians—with Canadian-made weapons.

@nisrinelamin.bsky.social and Ismail Adam join @desmondcole.bsky.social to discuss how decades of Canadian mining interests and weapons smuggling makes Ottawa complicit in the war in Sudan.
Canadian weapons are enabling Sudan’s ‘war against civilians’ ⋆ The Breach
Nisrin Elamin and Ismail Adam join Desmond Cole to discuss how decades of Canadian mining interests and weapons smuggling makes the country complicit in the war in Sudan
breachmedia.ca
November 28, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Shut out of #COP30, Indigenous climate leaders create new independent advisory council.

At the recent summit in Brazil, leaders launch global council to centre #Indigenous solutions and knowledge in addressing the crisis.

New from @brandimorin.bsky.social:

ricochet.media/climate/clim...

#climate
Shut out of COP30, Indigenous climate leaders create new independent advisory council
At the recent summit in Brazil, Indigenous leaders launch global council to centre Indigenous solutions and knowledge in addressing the crisis
ricochet.media
November 27, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Our 24th issue, ANNIVERSARY, is here!

Five years ago, in the chaos of the pandemic & collapsing music media, we started a co-op. Today we’re still here, organizing for something better.

www.newfeeling.ca/issue-24-ann...
ISSUE 24: ANNIVERSARY
On the occasion of our fifth anniversary, New Feeling features editor Tom Beedham considers the historical circumstances that produced the co-op and our place in the growing cooperatively organized la...
www.newfeeling.ca
November 28, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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As New Feeling turns 5, we zoom out by surveying the co-ops, solidarity economies, and platform alternatives that make our work possible and show how we can organize differently.

Featuring @flaminghydra.com, @subvert.fm & more!

www.newfeeling.ca/21st-century...
21st Century Co-op Ecologies
Cooperatives have always been more than a business model, they’re an experiment in how we might live, work, and create differently together.
www.newfeeling.ca
November 28, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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We’ve made it to five years thanks to the support of our subscribers, who co-own New Feeling with us. To mark our anniversary, you can now join the co-op and support our work for only $5/month, or $55/year.

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November 28, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Last night's NDP French language debate exposed a party that doesn't seem serious about rebuilding after the departure of Jagmeet Singh

The party's livestrteam links were faulty, and candidates weren't particularly engaging, mainly because the collective level of French was atrocious🧵
November 28, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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What is OneBC, the far-right party making headlines in British Columbia?

Its two MLAs were originally elected as Conservatives, and their constituents are not happy.

pressprogress.ca/onebc-far-ri...
What is OneBC, the Far-Right Party Making Headlines in British Columbia?
The party's two MLAs were both elected as Conservatives, and their constituents are not pleased
pressprogress.ca
November 28, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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🔥L'édito du collectif d'À bâbord! du numéro 106 est disponible sur notre site web!

« Les valeurs d’une société ne se décrètent pas par une loi, fût-elle constitutionnelle. Elles s’incarnent dans des pratiques, des relations, des luttes. »
November 28, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Je trouve toujours ça étrange quand des gens (y compris de gauche dite «traditionnelle») disent que la gauche d'aujourd'hui néglige les enjeux économiques.

Je ne dis pas qu'À bâbord représente toute la gauche mais ça reste un exemple intéressant: prochain numéro 👉 épiceries et austérité 🤷‍♂️
📣Le numéro 106 et son dossier « Épiceries. Faim de justice. » est bientôt disponible en kiosque ou sur commande. Sommaire dispo ici : surl.li/apejfs

❄️On vous invite à offrir un abonnement en cadeau ou vous abonner pour ne pas manquer les numéros inspirants de 2026.
www.ababord.org/abonnements/
November 27, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are collapsing, locking in multi-meter sea level rise.
Coral reefs continue to die off.
Atlantic ocean current collapse means Europe could soon enjoy Edmonton winters.
Our boreal forest continues to burn every summer.

But at least we'll have a strong economy.
The new Canada-Alberta MOU is a positive step for our energy future.

Meaningful investments in Pathways, clear measures to reduce emissions, and a stronger industrial carbon price give Albertans the certainty we need to move forward. /1
November 28, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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We should never underestimate the potential of Indigenous resistance in Canada. The Carney government will find that its drive to unleash oil and gas projects—steamrolling over Indigenous rights in the process—is a risky proposition.
Carney’s attacks will unleash major struggles
As Mark Carney’s government prepares a sweeping austerity agenda—gutting public services, fuelling militarism, and expanding fossil fuel projects—John Clarke argues that a new wave of resistance is em...
canadiandimension.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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Carbon capture and storage technology is, at its core, a calculated tactic by fossil fuel companies to perpetuate their environmentally destructive practices while giving the illusion that they’re addressing the very crisis they’ve been fueling for over a century.
The false hope of carbon capture and storage
Do we need carbon removal? Almost certainly, but not because we need to offset “hard-to-decarbonize” industries: we need it because we’ve already disrupted the climate to dangerous levels. Just ask an...
canadiandimension.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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Student accepted into UNB grad program stranded in Gaza awaiting Canadian study permit [video]

Advocates say Ottawa lacks the political will to evacuate more than 130 Palestinian students from Gaza following their admission to universities across Canada

Report by @davidgordonkoch.bsky.social
Student accepted into UNB grad program stranded in Gaza awaiting Canadian study permit [video]
It was a "dream come true" for Baraa, 23, when he learned that he'd been accepted into the Master of
nbmediacoop.org
November 26, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Trudeau-era environment minister Steven Guilbeault has published a resignation letter detailing the reasons for his departure from Carney's cabinet.

He directly cites today's MOU:
November 27, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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The AFB is a plain language, action oriented budget geared to build community for each of us. Would that the current federal budget be as good as the Alternative Federal Budget!! @policyalternatives.ca #cdnpoli #Budget2025 rabble.ca/columnists/c...
Carney’s budget pales in comparison to the Alternative Federal Budget
The Alternative Federal Budget offers a more hopeful and sustainable alternative to what Mark Carney's Liberals offered earlier this month.
rabble.ca
November 27, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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‘Their Conditions Worsened in Hospital’: Ontario Ombudsman Report Details Inhumane Conditions, Prolonged Hospital Stays for Severely Disabled People
‘Their Conditions Worsened in Hospital’: Ontario Ombudsman Report Details Inhumane Conditions, Prolonged Hospital Stays for Severely Disabled People
pressprogress.ca
November 27, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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"The way that the federal government ... talks about AI is very ideological … We need to adopt it for its own sake, independent of what that actually means … We’re rushing without having a clear sense of where we’re going.” @hadrianmk.bsky.social #cdnpoli rabble.ca/podcast/the-...
The AI hype-machine: Canada’s ill-advised ‘national sprint’ on artificial intelligence
Cynthia Khoo, Jeff Doctor and Hadrian Mertons-Kirkwood discuss the dangers of Canada’s accelerated approach to artificial intelligence.
rabble.ca
November 27, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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My latest for @canadiandimension.bsky.social

“All we are doing is conducting a scientific investigation...we are discovering new species for science, which could disappear if the Vizcachitas mining project were to go ahead," says Cádiz-Véliz, local biologist targeted for opposing the Canadian mine
The mineral-intensive energy transition in Latin America is advancing in ways that undermine human rights and nature, pushing into fragile ecosystems, overriding community consent, and placing environmental defenders at growing risk.

NEW from Viviana Herrera of @miningwatch.bsky.social:
Corporate pressure mounts on Chileans opposing Canadian copper mine
A Canadian mining company is escalating legal pressure against Chileans fighting to protect a fragile Andean ecosystem. As Vancouver-based Los Andes Copper pushes its Vizcachitas project, local offici...
canadiandimension.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Quebec’s CAQ government is launching a "shock and awe" assault on workers and civil society.

Activists are calling for mass mobilization against Premier Legault's dismantling of public services and erosion of democracy. breachmedia.ca/caq-waging-w...
Quebec’s government has launched a 'shock and awe' assault on workers and the vulnerable ⋆ The Breach
Premier François Legault is consolidating power and attacking civil society. Activists are calling for mass mobilization
breachmedia.ca
November 27, 2025 at 4:44 PM