Something that doesn’t seem to be making its way into coverage of these university protests: they are voicing what is the overwhelming majority American opinion

It’s now a media circus, which will attract the idiot brigade. But this is not fringe stuff.

news.gallup.com/poll/642695/ma…

What is 'Kenneyism'? Does Jason Kenney still matter?

Check out the latest episode of Open to Debate, in which Jeremy Appel - @jeremyappel.bsky.social joins me to talk about his excellent new book!

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This is a real 'bring the war home' moment. Or to be more exact, 'bring the occupation home'

‘What happened in those schools has direct impacts to our people.’

A ground-penetrating radar search for possible unmarked graves begins in Whitehorse, Yukon at the sites of two church-run dormitories. Hear more on APTN News Brief: podfollow.com/e/234628

It's astonishing how much of the anti-protestor discourse is bullshit. This is a bald example but much of it falls apart on close examination. But centrist liberals are going all in on this because it helps them evade the reality of what is happening in Gaza & West Bank.

I sure hope these radio shows aren't aware of the peer reviewed paper that just came out that's specifically about how bad you are at journalism! That would be embarrassing! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

New from me in Damage Magazine.

Environmentalists have recently discovered we can't just 'block' dirty infrastructure, we also need a 'politics of building.' But such a politics must center the builders (workers/unions) needed for such transformation. damagemag.com/2024/04/24/cla…

Well this will be disastrous—expect AI systems, well known for exporting racial biases into output, to do the same on police reports. Serious errors will be entered into the legal record. And one part of the job that forces cops to reckon with their conduct will be automated away

Columbia’s own website has a page about how the last time they called for a mass arrest of student protesters, they were in the wrong and fucked up their reputation for decades

In Canada, calls are growing to boycott Loblaws for the month of May, but how do you boycott an oligopoly?

Still, boycott or not, Canadians are paying for Galen Weston’s castle.

NEW from Luke Savage:

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Thunder Bay Indigenous group wants province to dissolve the municipal police force theglobeandmail.com/canada/article…

As Biden cheers TikTok ban, the White House is quietly courting TikTok influencers as 2024 election nears, visitor logs reveal:
theintercept.com/2024/04/23/tik…

The WSJ opinion pages are like a drug experience

Happy St George’s Day to all who celebrate

I'm teaching a section of a journalism course at U of T, with a group of talented journalists. You can enroll for a spring/summer section of the course (which begins soon) or a section in the fall

Big thanks to Shenaz Kermalli for making this possible
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Today the Supreme Court is hearing a case on whether or not homeless people can be punished for sleeping outside when there's no shelter space available.

This is the biggest case on the issue of homelessness in decades, and could de facto criminalize being homeless.

Can anyone of the Boomer-persuasion explain to me why it's good to base your entire identity on protesting the Vietnam war on campus--often in ways far more violent than anything we're seeing now--but protesting the genocidal war going on now is evil and wrong?

Youth Are Calling for Free Public Transit Across BC via The Tyee thetyee.ca/Opinion/2024/0…

[as I drop a 2000 pound bomb on a hospital] protesters of this have gone too far