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2025-12-17 20:49:34 CET

Nelson Tenths case update:-
3068 hectares of "Crown" land will be returned to descendants of the original Māori owners, including the Kaiteriteri Recreation Reserve and part of the Abel Tasman Great Walk, plus $420M compensation for lost earnings and land use
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/582055/south-island-maori-landowners-to-get-more-than-3000-hectares-returned-by-crown
#Aotearoa #NZ

2025-12-13 17:14:12 CET

YESSS!!
"Indigenous leaders in Manitoba are calling it a major step forward after a federal court ruling confirmed Canada has a legal duty to provide adequate housing on First Nations communities."
https://winnipeg.citynews.ca/2025/12/11/anada-legally-obliged-to-provide-first-nations-housing/
#Indigenous #CdnPoli #HousingForAll

2025-11-19 20:37:59 CET

it's happening. the conservative coalition government of NZ is cutting off access to new prescriptions for puberty blockers for trans youth in Aotearoa. on the eve of Transgender Day of Remembrance.
PATHA has condemned today's decision, saying it is an ideologically driven ban that will have a "devastating impact on the lives and wellbeing of our transgender and gender diverse young people". https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/579385/govt-halts-new-puberty-blockers-prescriptions-for-gender-affirming-care
#AntiTransNonsense #NZpol #ImportedCultureWars #LifeAndDeath

2025-10-29 22:30:26 CET

a pilot made a Blue Jays symbol with their flight path over Nova Scotia
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=5111224009102683
https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/115/459/581/929/761/554/original/ee6ec2774bf29816.png

2025-10-28 13:01:26 CET

sunrise on a window border
https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/115/451/683/281/782/212/original/020e9cf6e454c65e.jpeg

2025-10-25 01:28:43 CEST

a few yellow autumn leaves pics looking UP
https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/115/431/736/535/426/051/original/efeef49938b5b7e4.jpeg
https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/115/431/736/626/847/777/original/099ba70f77847de4.jpeg
https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/115/431/736/722/337/927/original/03f63fc8248199f7.jpeg

2025-10-20 14:00:45 CEST

unemployment is almost 33% higher than when Doug Ford got elected
— CBC Metro Morning
#ONpoli

2025-10-13 15:43:24 CEST

i ADORE this! 🤣
https://www.threads.com/@strongleton/post/DPoeO3HCBLj
#ProtestFrog #AmphifaStrong

2025-10-09 16:18:45 CEST

just published: new article!
“Scholasticide and resilience: The Gaza Genocide and the struggle for Palestinian higher education”
— by Chandni Desai, Sundos Hammad, Ahmed Abu Shaban & Abdel Razzaq Takriti.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03626784.2025.2558520?src=exp-la#abstract
#Gaza #Genocide #Scholasticide

2025-09-29 15:41:39 CEST

updated COVID-19 vaccines 💉 are being rolled out across Canada. anyone who hasn't had a 💉 (or the 🦠) in the past six months should be eligible.
personal note: as a scientist, i am humbly highly confident that COVID-19 vaccines are effective at preventing severe disease, hospitalization, and death — and can decrease the risk of Long Covid (which I have). Moderna vs Pfizer? I mix over time, or just get whichever is most available.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/covid-vaccines-fall2025-1.7645267

2025-09-26 18:05:49 CEST

"Don't worry about getting hit by space debris. This is not something that individuals really need to worry about, but as a society — is this really how we want to be using our orbit? We''re just throwing things away, burning them up in the atmosphere, dropping them on the ground. It's like billionaires dropping their garbage on our head."
— Professor Samantha Lawler
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/saskatoon-space-debris-satelitte-reentry-1.7643516

2025-09-20 01:26:05 CEST

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i have been really enjoying it too 😄

2025-09-16 14:31:11 CEST

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this is how small the landing area was for the pilot
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2025-09-16 14:14:30 CEST

a small plane crash landed in Monarch Park in Toronto and nobody in the plane or on the ground got hurt!! massive kudos to the pilot.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/small-plane-crash-toronto-1.7634799
#Aviation #Toronto

2025-09-13 00:45:06 CEST

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Jordan fucking Peterson got to say anything actually bigoted that he wanted to on his twitter, and the stupid #UofT upper administration DIDN'T DO DIDDLY SQUAT TO HIM. so why is my fascism expert colleague suspended and he never was?

2025-09-13 00:05:26 CEST

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presumably i haven't been called into the principal's office yet because UofT Strat Comm don't even bother reading Mastodon 🙃

2025-09-12 23:53:23 CEST

for the record: this suspension of one of my #UofT colleagues on the basis of a personal political tweet is a steaming pile of bullshit.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/university-of-toronto-professor-leave-charlie-kirk-tweet-1.7632736

2025-09-07 00:59:46 CEST

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sorry for being so literalistic ... hope the comment gave you a smile anyway :)

2025-09-06 20:25:22 CEST

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the Quantum part annoys physicist-me - a toothbrush is very much a classical object

2025-08-29 17:33:49 CEST

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada should add more staff - that would help international students like this one tangled up in the new federal rules to move on to graduate study
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/western-international-student-in-limbo-waiting-for-study-permit-1.7619249
#CdnPSE #CdnPoli

2025-08-28 20:00:04 CEST

hahaha 😂 #physics
https://xkcd.com/3134/

2025-08-23 23:21:30 CEST

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the actual quote (from freire.org):-
"Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate the integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and therefore bring about conformity to it, or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world."
— Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

2025-08-23 20:36:28 CEST

"Te reo is a taonga recognised by law. Under Te Tīriti o Waitangi, we have the right and responsibility to protect our language. We do so by exercising our waha to use te reo Māori as much as we can for the benefit of our ākonga. We do this because, as educational philosopher Paulo Freire teaches, education is never neutral. It either dominates or liberates. Choosing to diminish te reo Māori in our schools is choosing to dominate and silence."
https://e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-analysis/im-a-teacher-and-i-cant-ignore-this/
#ColonialNonsense #NZpol #TeReoMaori

2025-08-20 18:34:30 CEST

Montreal cops managed to fire chemical irritants onto *small children* as well as Rad Pride protesters
"Actually, we ended up being hurt by the police. ... I don't know how dangerous the march was, but [the protesters] were definitely not the ones that were attacking us."
- a Dad whose kids got affected
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/parents-baby-tear-gas-montreal-police-1.7612795
#AbolishThePolice #SPVM

2025-08-11 23:37:08 CEST

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passenger attendants?! somehow i doubt an AI can wheel me to an airplane or clean and jerk my wheeled carryon into the overhead bin but maybe im super behind on the latest news 🤨

2025-07-08 07:37:49 CEST

so does any clearly thinking adult paying attention
"Palestinians fear Israel is preparing to annex the West Bank"
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/9.6821076
#Palestine

2025-07-04 05:57:10 CEST

fancy-pants-class seats on this plane have AIRBAGS
https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/792/949/559/299/002/original/68c80643eaea0770.jpeg

2025-06-19 16:56:57 CEST

these First Nations kids played a song to attract grizzly bears — and it worked
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/squamish-nation-grizzly-bear-song-1.7564142
#IndigenousKnowledge

2025-06-14 18:10:11 CEST

the U.S. page we're onto now is ... political assassinations of key Democrats in a state legislature?! *shiver* #USpol
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/minnesota-lawmakers-shot-1.7561491

2025-06-04 00:16:43 CEST

"mRNA COVID vaccines are among the most tested & scrutinized medical products in human history. More than 13B doses have been given globally, with 650M given in the U.S. alone, demonstrating a remarkably safe profile. Despite constant surveillance & endless accusations from antivaxxers, no U.S. deaths have been shown to have been causally linked to an mRNA vaccine."
https://zeroes.ca/@EricCarroll/114621725166324192
#CovidIsNotOver #VaccinesWork #AutismCausesVaccines #ActuallyAutistic

2025-06-03 02:01:35 CEST

this article is top notch medical leadership from The Spinny - you should read it!
"ME/CFS patient estimates have doubled – but the disease is still ignored"
https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/02-06-2025/me-cfs-patient-estimates-have-doubled-but-the-disease-is-still-ignored
#NZ #ME #CFS #LongCovid

2025-05-18 00:40:38 CEST

yesterday at Gibraltar Point Beach - note how the dark coloured sand is **steaming** from earlier rainfall!
https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/525/575/160/193/360/original/87ef2d6eb9d65ecc.mp4

2025-04-30 00:20:38 CEST

big gay double rainbow over the Hwy 401 just now 🌈
https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/423/575/554/055/672/original/57eef040fd0a5279.jpeg

2025-04-25 18:58:17 CEST

"My friend Sarah Kendzior, who has spent many years studying authoritarian governments, recently told me that compassion, imagination and tenacity can’t be taken away from a person. They can only be surrendered. Our task, in this moment, above all else, is to refuse to surrender."
— Kelly M Hayes, U.S.-based organizer
https://organizingmythoughts.org/r/d3e133d2

2025-04-22 15:26:06 CEST

How well-intentioned white male physicists maintain ignorance of inequity and justify inaction, by Melissa Dancy and Apriel Hodari:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.03522
#Physics #Racism #Sexism

2025-04-11 17:55:10 CEST

why are right-wingers so obsessed with trans people?
just leave us the fuck alone and quit trying to restrict our access to health care, education, housing, food, sports, and other necessities of life
https://xtramagazine.com/power/politics/right-obsesssion-trans-people-election-272578
#CdnPoli #AntiTransNonsense

2025-04-08 03:59:47 CEST

in which xkcd explains Trump's tariffs 😂https://xkcd.com/3073/

2025-03-22 15:44:53 CET

visitors to the US from majority-white former-ally countries are discovering to their surprise that the Trump2 administration will also put them in immigration detention if it feels like doing so:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/us-travel-detentions-1.7489525
#FascistNonsense #USpol

2025-03-21 14:06:35 CET

Ontario roller derby teams cancel US trips because of the Trump2 administration's discriminatory two-genders rule: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/ontario-roller-derby-teams-cancel-u-s-trips-2-gender-rule-trump-1.7487621
#AntiTransNonsense #FascistNonsense #USpol

2025-03-08 19:58:39 CET

This week, the NZ government scrapped the Māori and Pacific age extension in the national bowel cancer screening programme.
Doctors who fought for the targeted extension say it’s a decision that will knowingly increase cancer deaths, and reduce life expectancy, in Māori and Pacific populations.
https://e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-analysis/bowel-screening-change-totally-unethical/
#NZpol #AntiMāoriRacism #AntiPasifikaRacism

2025-02-20 16:00:14 CET

Early Voting in the Ontario provincial election begins **right now**. Polling Stations are open 10am-8pm—and only for the next three days.
Head on over to Elections Ontario and plug in your postal code to figure out where to cast your ballot before election day:
https://voterinformationservice.elections.on.ca/en/election/search?mode=postalCode
#OnPoli #OnElxn

2025-01-18 15:20:05 CET

a lovely interview with co-founders of Brown Town, an Ōtautahi community collective carving space for Tangata Moana to thrive: https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/17-01-2025/pacific-profiles-meet-the-friends-behind-otautahi-collective-brown-town #Aotearoa #Ōtautahi

2024-12-15 22:00:36 CET

UBC faculty members speak out in support of instructor who says he was let go for pro-Palestine activism.
UBC faculty say the instructor's dismissal demonstrates an “alarming erosion of free expression at UBC.”
https://pressprogress.ca/hundreds-of-ubc-faculty-members-speak-out-in-support-of-instructor-who-says-he-was-let-go-for-pro-palestine-activism/
#CdnPSE #AcademicFreedom #FreeExpression #Gaza #Genocide 🍉

2024-11-28 20:04:45 CET

oh great. Ontario is going to put its big nuclear waste dump under *Wabigoon Lake Ojibway Nation* and the township of Ignace. [CBC]
#Environment #Colonialism #NuclearWaste

2024-11-18 00:40:32 CET

Please join me and over 122,000 others in urgently signing this e-petition:
To: The Parliament of Aotearoa/New Zealand:
Stop the Treaty Principles Bill
- TOITŪ TE TIRITI!!
https://our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/kati-stop-the-introduction-of-the-treaty-principles-bill
#ToitūTeTiriti #TogetherForTeTiriti #NZpol

2024-11-17 15:44:58 CET

separated bike lanes help a big group of people - people with disabilities who use wheels to get around and can go faster than pedestrians.
here’s one person speaking out against Doug Ford’s spiteful bill authorizing ripping out separated bike lanes in Toronto:
“… I feel like my safety is not being taken into consideration as a citizen, a person with a disability. … It makes me feel dispensable, like they don't care."
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/bike-lanes-wheelchair-user-1.7365991
#BikeTO #ONpoli #TOpoli #BikeLanesSaveLives #VisionZero

2024-11-15 15:00:21 CET

Human Rights Watch: the "massive" and "deliberate" forced displacement of Palestinians in Gaza carried out by Israeli forces equates to war crimes and crimes against humanity…[specifically] "the war crime of forcible transfer." It described the Israeli force's actions as "a grave breach of the Geneva Conventions and a crime under the Rome statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC)." https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/human-rights-watch-gaza-displacement-1.7383031 #Gaza 🍉

2024-10-20 15:07:10 CEST

woah.
“few people know that a considerable chunk of the VPN market—including three of the six most popular VPNs—is quietly operated by an Israeli-owned company with close connections to that country’s national security state, including the elite Unit 8200 and Duvdevan Units of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF).
those 3 VPNs are: ExpressVPN, CyberGhost, and Private Internet Access.
https://www.mintpressnews.com/exposed-how-israeli-spies-control-your-vpn/

2024-10-12 17:20:16 CEST

motion made to the U. of Windsor Board of Governors to **welch on the deal** the Administration made with student protest encampment participants. >:[
i seriously fail to comprehend the ethical code of supposedly educated people who think a university is morally tainted by **divesting** from what most of the world knows is a genocide in progress.
https://windsorstar.com/news/local-news/caused-some-harm-uwindsor-governors-to-consider-pausing-controversial-encampment-deal
#StudentProtests #Gaza 🍉

2024-10-01 13:56:45 CEST

it’s absolutely inhumane that there are over 10,000 homes sitting vacant in Toronto while unhoused people die on the streets.
raise the vacant home tax even higher than 3%/year. heck, why not take it even further and expropriate the home if it sits vacant for three years.

2024-10-01 13:52:10 CEST

a goat named Joshua living in Newfoundland saw a marathon going by. he decided to join the runners, did his longest run ever, and won a medal! 🏅🐐 #GOAT
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/cbs-marathon-joshua-goat-1.7337676

2024-09-28 23:15:00 CEST

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the world has got to develop the courage to stop the state of Israel’s blind fury revenge fantasy military onslaughts. letting the IDF do whatever the government wants [in this context] makes nobody safer, including Jewish Israelis

2024-09-28 16:47:14 CEST

oh no, oh fuck. the IDF taking out the Hezbollah leader and some other high-ups leaving a crater over 20 metres deep in a residential part of Beirut is the exact opposite of badly needed **de-escalation**. i mean, both Israel and Iran have nuclear weapons!! make it make sense

2024-09-27 15:26:03 CEST

fuck you, CBC. you post an article about the case against the kid who set another kid on fire in a high school and think it’s relevant that the public knows she’s autistic? that has nothing to do with the crime, it just serves to further stigmatize autistic people.

2024-09-23 15:15:11 CEST

a gay chief justice was appointed in Tonga. he's facing a rising number of people trying to oust him simply because he's gay, and they're not only lawyers. [Radio NZ] #Pasifika

2024-09-10 19:49:50 CEST

"We were all hired because of our academic training in questions of race and racism both in the US and abroad and we are now being targeted for drawing on our expertise to take a stand against militarism and genocide in Gaza, suggesting that our viewpoints are only welcome if administrators agree with us,"
— Prof. Araceli Esparza, one of the Cal State Long Beach professors targeted by their Administration: https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/09/10/cal-state-professors-targeted-for-exposing-schools-ties-to-israels-genocide-in-gaza/ #Gaza #StudentProtests

2024-09-07 15:22:41 CEST

Demonstrators at U of T condemn 'repressive' protest policies
“Anna Lippman, a student at York University, attended Friday's protest. Over the past 11 months, she said she has experienced antisemitism from counter-protestors while attending pro-Palestinian demonstrations.
"It's my fellow protestors here who have put their arms around me in sympathy when I experience those things," Lippman said.
She said it was difficult to "disentangle [her] Jewish identity from the state of Israel."
"I can't blame other folks who are having difficulty doing that, too," she added.
Lippman said students will continue protesting during the upcoming school year.
"So long as Palestinians in Gaza…are being slaughtered in mass numbers, we cannot remain silent," she said.”
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/u-of-t-protest-rules-1.7315867

2024-09-07 02:01:43 CEST

new T-shirt's message #CovidIsNotOver
https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/113/093/325/035/374/080/original/71da35777bfce4d3.jpeg

2024-08-27 14:31:34 CEST

my university has converted our office telephones to Microsoft Teams. when i grumbled about this to a favourite sysadmin, this is how they responded 🔥
“Microsoft has actually brilliantly leveraged the lousy security landscape -- for which they are in no small part responsible -- to capture even larger market-share, as we now need commercial entities to produce the software required to protect us from their failures, and therefore need a more uniform environment to achieve the necessary scale. The uniformity then guarantees an ever greater scale for the inevitable conflagration. Monocultures guarantee one big fire instead of a bunch of small survivable ones. We really have no interest in learning from evolution, in no small part because it would produce fewer billionaires.
— Local Cranky IT Guy” [shared with permission]
#Enshittification

2024-08-18 23:38:21 CEST

Canadians: *can't afford groceries*
Supermarket managers: *lock up cheeses* 👮‍♂️
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sudbury/grocery-prices-1.7295621

2024-08-18 16:03:36 CEST

The threat of climate change demands something more than thoughts, prayers and excuses
by Aaron Wherry
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/author/aaron-wherry-1.3396423
#Floods #Fires #ClimateChange #FossilFuels #Canada

2024-08-01 19:36:02 CEST

weaksauce from Canada in response to the war crime of destroying a civilian water supply in Gaza. our government should be outright condemning the bombing. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/ottawa-calls-for-probe-into-demolished-canadian-water-treatment-plant-in-gaza-1.7281666 #Gaza

2024-05-23 17:10:50 CEST

new study: mercury poisoning near Grassy Narrows First Nation worsened by ongoing industrial pollution 🤬 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/grassy-narrows-first-nation-methylmercury-study-1.7211750 #GrassyNarrows #Canada #Pollution #Indigenous https://www.freegrassy.net/

2024-04-23 01:31:52 CEST

governments full of cis people
have no business regulating
the bodies of trans people.
full stop, point final. 🏳️‍⚧️
#ProtectTransKids
#ProtectTransYouth
#ProtectTransAdults