Mike Boisvert

Ontario government shows up late and brings little to post-secondary education crisis - CCPA Ontario is spending less on education than in 2018, despite "historical" new funding from the provincial government.

Ontario is spending less on education than in 2018, despite "historical" new funding from the provincial government. #onpoli www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

Ontario college strike enters 4th week with no new talks scheduled | Globalnews.ca Thursday marked the fourth week since workers represented by the Ontario Public Service Employees Union walked off the job without a deal from the College Employer Council.

10,000 support staff at our underfunded #ONpoli colleges, striking because they've been working under an expired collective agreement for almost two years, and now students are feeling the effects of the strike, missing critical services like accessibility support. globalnews.ca/news/1147221...

#OtD 1 Aug 1834 slavery in the British Caribbean officially ended, and the 800,000 enslaved were "freed". Govt compensated former owners, at taxpayers' expense, paying them £20 million, and the enslaved were forced to work for free for four more years stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8043...

How Doug Ford Plans to Dismantle Ontario’s Most Popular Provincial Park More than half of the Wasaga Beach shoreline could be opened to development

Doug Ford plans to dismantle Ontario’s most popular provincial park.

More than half the shoreline of Wasaga Beach could be opened to development.

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Good News!

Canadian Standards Association (CSA) has called for universal respirator use in healthcare settings & when performing patient care outside of healthcare settings (eg – in the home) in the latest edition of CSA Z94.4, Selection, use and care of filtering respirators.

A recent decision by the BC Human Rights Tribunal affirmed that immunodeficiency is a disability, and employers who fail to accommodate immunocompromised workers are discriminating against them on the basis of disability.

I dug into the case for @pressprogress.ca

USA: ‘He Is No Friend Of Labor’ - Trump ‘Pushes For Control Of NLRB By Morgan-Lewis Union-Buster’ www.wnylabortoday.com/news/2025/07...

The income gap in 🇨🇦 reached a record high in the first quarter of 2025.
#inequality

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Many children suffering ongoing Covid symptoms More than 20 per cent of children and young people in Aotearoa New Zealand are experiencing significant persistent health symptoms following Covid-19 infection, according to a new Otago-led study.

Big numbers. Bc of much less severe disease than in adults, authorities have gambled that COVID/long COVID in kids is of little concern. There's much evidence now to suggest that's wrong. There's a clear path to better protect kids. We should take it.
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After the Pandemic, We Can’t Go Back to Sleep David Graeber After the Pandemic, We Can’t Go Back to Sleep March 2021 See also: David Graeber Institute https://davidgraeber.institute/ &...

Graeber, from 2020:

"The crisis we just experienced was ... a confrontation with the actual reality of human life, which is that we are a collection of fragile beings taking care of one another"
#COVID

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"Now, by caving to Trump’s pressure, Canadian and European leaders have shown they are happy to sacrifice the interests of their own citizens, who desperately need the revenue to fund public services, to placate giant US corporations."

Flashmob Protest in Budapest: Hungarian Teachers Call for Real Investment in the Profession On Saturday 29 June, the Teachers' Union of Hungary (PSZ) and its National Youth Section (NÖKS) organised a flashmob protest in front of the Interior Ministry in Budapest. The action aimed to draw att...

HUNGARY: Flashmob Protest in Budapest: Hungarian Teachers Call for Real Investment in the Profession www.csee-etuce.org/en/news/memb...

#OtD 14 Jul 1896 Spanish anarchist, rail mechanic and Civil War fighter, Buenaventura Durruti, was born. Involved in strikes, uprisings and bank robberies across Europe and Latin America, he was killed during the civil war. 500k attended his funeral stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8575...

The Anarchist Library The Anarchist Library

Oodles of Anarchist works, including many from some of the OG's available online for free at the Anarchist Library
theanarchistlibrary.org/special/index

The US healthcare economy takeover
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BREAKING: London, Ont. hospital sues former staff, contractors for $50M in alleged fraud LHSC is suing several former employees and contractors, alleging a fraudulent scheme that defrauded the hospital of tens of millions of dollars over more than a decade.

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#OtD 1 Jul 1938 slum tenants in Quinn Sq, Bethnal Green, London, elected a committee to complain about rent and conditions. In Aug they went on rent strike, and defended themselves from fascists until landlords agreed to reduce rents and do repairs stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8081...

In the past 24 hours, Trump’s threatened Elon Musk, Thomas Massie, Japan, a judge in Israel, the CEO of AT&T, Jerome Powell, Canada, Thom Tillis, a Forbes reporter, Harvard, & migrants with being eaten by Burmese pythons in the Everglades, while releasing a new line of colognes.

President Trump’s FY26 budget for #NSF will slash funding for the agency by 56.9% and funding for Social, Behavioral, and Economic sciences by 67.6%

These cuts will end US STEM leadership, weaken national security, and set-back individual prosperity and well-being.

Update: moratorium GONE! Congress voted for amendment stripping it out

The French unions warn that the government’s plans would threaten editorial independence, degrade working conditions and jeopardize the diversity and quality of public service broadcasting.

Scientists think they found two key bacteria that cause multiple sclerosis A study of twins reveals two gut bacteria linked to multiple sclerosis, offering new targets for future treatments.

The study, which compared 81 pairs of genetically identical siblings, singled out Eisenbergiella tayi and Lachnoclostridium as the most likely triggers of the nerve‑damaging disorder.

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This Day in Labor History: June 27, 1905. The Industrial Workers of the World was founded in Chicago. The IWW would play a major role in the industrial warfare of the early twentieth century, scare the employer class, and capture the imaginations of late 20th century and early 21st century radicals.

#OtD 27 Jun 1880 deafblind American author, socialist, and lecturer, Helen Keller was born. A member of the @IWW union, she fought for women's suffrage, workers' rights, and socialism stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9918...

Ontario ‘unleashes’ climate catastrophe as scientists warn Paris Agreement ‘no longer attainable’ Ontario ‘unleashes’ climate catastrophe as scientists warn Paris Agreement ‘no longer attainable’

Burn more gas! Ontario's budget includes no funding for environmental protection, no climate strategy, and no plan for adaptation, even as Ontario faces yet another summer of climate extremes.
#onpoli
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You've been told.

These Canadian rocks may be the oldest on Earth Scientists have identified what could be the oldest rocks on Earth from a rock formation in Canada.

The Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt has long been known for its ancient rocks—plains of streaked gray stone on the eastern shore of Hudson Bay in Quebec.

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Bezos Wedding Guests Delighted By Amazon Worker With Ring Tied To Collar Crawling Down Aisle

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Aerosol transmission of SARSCoV2 virus is the dominant route for transmitting COVID-19.
👏'2025 Faraday Horizon Prize for advancing understanding of the physicochemical properties of exhaled aerosols, and their impact on transmissibility of respiratory pathogens.' @rsc.org
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