www.caut.ca CAUT advises academics against non-essential travel to the U.S. | CAUT
Given the rapidly evolving political landscape in the United States and reports of individuals encou
I am capable of feeling empathy for ordinary people who got swept up in something, fucked around and found out. But a senior Maga politician? Hahaha hahaha hahahahahaha hahahaha, roast bitch.
Poilievre is a fucking idiot.
Ever seen a movie called V for Vendetta?
The word "means" is also used for logical entailment, in which case it's not symmetric. The dog's coat is wet which means it's raining. And of course, a man is a featherless biped, but not every featherless biped is a man.
But the way, we are not arguing about the same thing. You think I'm defending the stupid ruling. I'm not, I'm just saying that language is not algebra.
In fact to paraphrase Nish Kumar, if we're going about precisely characterizing things, a more interesting precise characterization than the meaning of the word woman is the characterization of the people who obsess about it as transphobic idiots.
LMDE because it's Mint and a recent Debian stable.
I don't think anything in the ruling hinged on the semantics if the world "means". That said, there is nothing ambiguous in saying that a logical relation is not symmetric. Symmetry, like reflexivity, transitivity etc, are well defined in algebra.
Rapist doesn't understand that "No means no".
The American mind cannot comprehend this.
Only if you assume that the word "means" defines a symmetric relation.
Next: German authorities name Haaretz an antisemitic publication.
Honestly and unironically the quebeckification of the ROC would be awesome.
Really? Just google "Poilievre deport" and the first two hits are literally:
https://www.timesofisrael.com/canadas-tory-leader-vows-to-deport-foreigners-for-antisemitic-crimes/
https://m.jpost.com/diaspora/article-850082
It's barely a dogwshitle at this point.
Excellent. Eloquent, to the point, devastating. Fantastic.
Don't cherry pick the phrase, give the rest of the context of what he said.
Given the rapidly evolving political landscape in the United States and reports of individuals encountering difficulties crossing the border, [the Canadian Association of University Teachers] strongly recommends that academic staff travel to the U.S. only if essential and necessary.
That's a silly american-centric way of understanding Canadian politics. There are ridings where the LPC is the spoiler in an NDP-CPC race or in a BQ-CPC race. Use your brain, don't parrot Americanisms.
Help a tired brain out. Are you making the stupid argument that pro-Palestine advocacy is incitement to discrimination and hatred and war propaganda for Hamas?
When it comes to opposing Israeli apartheid itself, sure, almost no. I guess the difference is the Liberals will not oppose the ICJ and ICC, whereas the Conservatives would align with Trump in smashing them. That's a low bar.
When it comes to crushing the opposition here in Canada, hell yea, there is a difference: Poiliievre wants to deport activists, ICE style.. The Liberals haven't gone to any such extreme.
Ultimately, look, we don't have a presidential election, we have 343 MP elections in as many ridings. If the Conservatives have any chance at winning your riding, rally around whoever is not a fascist to defeat them, be that NDP, Liberal or Bloc. KEEP THE MAPLE MAGA OUT. In any other riding, do vote for Palestine. A Liberal minority is still a great outcome for Canada anyway.
www.palestinechronicle.com Echoing Trump, Canada's Conservative Leader Vows to Deport Pro-Palestine Activists
Canada’s Pierre Poilievre, adopts Trump-style rhetoric as he targets foreign protesters for their pro-Palestine activism.
It is utterly shameful for Germany to be doing shit like this. Disgraceful.
therover.ca Opinion: Radio-Canada Silences, Ridicules Green Party Leader – The Rover
If it's the duty of a public broadcaster to present a range of perspectives in this election, Radio-Canada is falling short.
In 1996 three activists planted a garden at the Ontario legislature and were charged with criminal mischief
"CTV Cancelled a Fact-Checking Segment in Response to Political Pressure." It was mine. - Rachel Gilmore
I'm 74, still working and can't afford new teeth. Dental care is my election issue
deanblundell.substack.com Canada’s Quiet Coup: U of T Snags Yale Professors as We Start Raiding America’s Brain Trust
If we do this right, America won’t be our neighbour—it’ll be our talent farm.
Columbia student flees to Canada after ICE showed up at her door
Columbia student flees to Canada after ICE showed up at her door
video.canadiancivil.com Canada is Under Attack. We Need to Build.
In the most disturbing geopolitical shift of my lifetime, the new US government is siding with dictators and lashing out at allies, waging economic war on Canada with the repeated stated goal of en...
Trump is ‘blowing things up to put them back together’: former U.S. ambassador to EU
I am actually furious at Rosemary Barton for not pushing back at the frankly astonishing rhetoric we are getting from Gordon Sondland. Going on Canadian TV and saying that "everything is up for negotiation" when it comes to what Canada is willing to discuss? And Barton just sits there saying "I have no opinion"?! And then saying telling us we should not take him serious because that's Donnie's personality after our own fucking Prime Minister has basically told us the threat of annexation is actually real?? And then talking about forcing us into a customs union or "common passport"?
Sondland was talking down on us, scolding us for taking his shitty president seriously, and Rosemary Burton was just letting him go unchallenged. What is this bullshit?
Trudeau carries a chair from the House of Commons on Parliament Hill on Monday. (Carlos Osorio/Reuters)
Source: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/mark-carney-day-1-1.7479519
A Reuters photographer snapped a picture of Trudeau later carrying a House of Commons chair out of the West Block chamber as he winds down his time in government. Under parliamentary rules, an outgoing MP can purchase a replica of their chair in the chamber.
noraloreto.substack.com A Carney in charge of the circus
Canadians in the bottom 50% income bracket should buckle up
The reality is that the next federal election will not save us, and regardless of what you think of my writing, you certainly know this deep down. Even a Carney reprieve is unlikely to stave off an even more rabid Conservative party in the next election after this one. But if we aren’t clear-eyed about what is happening, then we sure as hell cannot see where we’re going. And to have a banker, a CEO’s man in the office of Prime Minister, it is going to bring with it a world of challenges that near certainly will pave the road for someone worse than Poilievre.
daily.jstor.org Gender Incommensurability In Sports - JSTOR Daily
Cultural systems have historically defined sex segregation. The imperfect science has led to failures in policing gender in sports.
What if the separation of competitions, “said to be a natural consequence of the differences between men and women,” is actually is “just a tool to create those differences”?
newrepublic.com Trump Press Secretary Lashes Out at Reporter in Bizarre Tariff Defense
Karoline Leavitt snapped at a reporter who dared question Donald Trump’s decisions.
A 2000 percent increase in fentanyl sounds super scary until you realize that what we're really talking about is going from 1 kilo to 21 kilos.
A closer union is necessary
We are fast approaching a point where is no way to preserve the kinds of democratic, liberal, tolerant, multicultural, humanistic and socially just standards that define our standards of what's good in Western civilization than to form a closer European Union.
The European far right, from Meloni to the AfD and the RN in France is poised to establish a MEGA hellscape in the next election cycle. Only a liberal social democratic revolution, basically, can stop this.
An EU with common eurobonds, with a common nuclear capable Union Army, with the French UNSC permanent position becoming a European one, with common European taxation of wealth to reduce inequality and a common European welfare state. We should also establish universal jurisdiction for human rights abuses and put some teeth behind it.
We have already taken what is good from the American federalist tradition, and we have built new ones. We should forge a closer union while avoiding American mistakes like the imperial preside
www.middleeasteye.net Prominent Canadian activist and author arrested for pro-Palestinian activism
Yves Engler's arrest in Montreal has been labelled an 'attack' on free expression in Canada
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/26284554
By Syma Mohammed
Published date: 20 February 2025 21:44 GMTAlex Tyrrell, party leader of the Green Party of Quebec, who accompanied Engler to the police station on Thursday, spoke to the Middle East Eye about Engler’s arrest.
“I think it’s a shocking attack on free expression and democratic rights and criticism of Israel in Canada - a country that’s supposed to be a free, democratic society. We’re supposed to speak out about a genocide," Tyrrel told MEE.
www.thebeaverton.com Editorial: Trump underestimates how proud, united and, most importantly, petty Canadians are
By: Chris Standin President Trump has gone ahead with his long rumoured plans to put a 25% tariff on all Canadian goods sold in the United States (other than energy, which got 10%). He believes he can use brute economic force to make us bend the knee, and possibly even annex us. But he does […]
At the end of the day, Canada is many things. But above all else, we’re a bunch of grudge holding motherfuckers. You’ve taken your shot at us, so now we won’t rest until we get you back.