Scott Neigh

On deciding to be a writer, Dionne Brand said, “I thought of life itself as difficult, and writing about life as much easier. Living was hard, so writing was better.”

Look how much Canadians hate the United States now It’s not just about the trade war. Nearly half of America’s neighbors to the north now think the U.S. is a bigger threat to world peace than Russia.

Carney dragging Canada into a war it doesn’t want on the side of the US which Canadians view as a bigger threat to world peace than Russia and China COMBINED would be a death sentence for his government. The fact he’s even considering it is appalling.

Drax to stop burning controversial Canadian wood within next year Yorkshire plant has been criticised for taking material from some of British Columbia’s most environmentally important forests

20. In the face of a campaign by environmentalists (and other challenges), owners of a UK-based power plant announced they would stop burning trees from British Columbia within the next year. www.theguardian.com/environment/... #MovementWins2026

Far too many people on both (all) sides who really should know better are pretending that it is possible to know far more with certainty than has *ever* been possible through the fog of war, let alone in this moment when AI and disinformation campaigns run rampant.

Remember: if a government that is engaged in an armed conflict says something, it's automatically suspect.

Every government in a war lies. I see people reposting articles as facts and the first line says a particular government official.

It's even more ridiculous than believing cops at face value!

I've decided, as I settle into a new-ish spectrum of work practices, to go back to blogging. But I think I'm going to approach it a little differently. scottneigh.ca/blogging-aga...

this is not an amount of money any individual or household should be able to have and we have to abolish both billionaires as a group and the economic system that makes them possible

Almost like shutting down safe consumption sites and funneling money away from harm reduction and into abstinence grifting makes things less safe and increases harms. This is consistent with decades of data and was completely predictable.

19. After the Grand River Conservation Authority sold a chunk of land, community pressure pushed the Guelph, Ontario, city council to designate the land as open space/parkland, thereby protecting it from development. act.environmentaldefence.ca/page/email?m... #MovementWins2026

Nova Scotia has proposed a budget that would wipe out supports that independent publishers depend on. Fernwood, which has published all three of my books, will take a big hit if this passes. Here are things that both NS residents and the rest of us can do to act in solidarity! #nspoli #cdnpoli

How Can Canadians Show Solidarity With Cuba? By Travelling There! In defiance of the Canadian government's official travel warning, advocates are urging Canadians to continue traveling to Cuba.They note that tourism is vital to the island's economy and that it remai...

In the face of escalating US aggression, many Canadians want to show solidarity with Cuba. Advocates say that, notwithstanding the Canadian government's travel warning, a crucial way to show support is by travelling to Cuba. mediacoop.ca/node/119347 #cdnpoli

Learning from Movements – Melanie Andita Melanie Andita is an organizer based in the Vancouver area. An immigrant from Indonesia, Andita’s political journey started when she was a student at Simon Fraser University (SFU). She initially got i...

In my latest interview about learning in, from, and for social movements, Vancouver-based tenant & drug user organizer Melanie Andita talks about popular education, and about learning from revolutionary movements in the Global South and from the labour movement. mediacoop.ca/node/119346 #cdnpoli

Canadian Police-Involved Deaths in February 2026 At least three people were killed by Canadian police in February 2026. In January, Canadian police killed at least five people. One person was also killed by private security serving in a hospital in ...

At least three people were killed by police or in the course of police actions in Canada in February 2026.

mediacoop.ca/node/119345 #cdnpoli

TikTok’s new ownership = not only way more ads, but I have not been served any videos this morning about the US attack on Iran, except for a single one from a mainstream owned-by-the-right news network. Which is exactly why they bought it, I suppose…

Canada condemns Iran's retaliatory attacks Justin Li Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand said in a statement that Canada "strongly condemns the attacks of the Iranian regime against our partners in the Middle East." Anand further urged Canadians in Iran to shelter in place and said Ottawa will "provide all possible support to Canadians throughout the region." Canada currently has no diplomatic relations with Iran, nor does it have an embassy there.

The United States and Israel have the right to bomb and murder whoever they please.

The countries they attack have no right to fight back.

This is the exact double standard on international law Mark Carney was praised for calling out at Davos, but which he continues to participate in.

Hamilton cop charged with possessing child sexual abuse materials worked as school liaison officer, board says | CBC News Dave Hamilton, 43, has worked as an officer for 19 years and lives in Burlington, Ont. On Wednesday, he was charged by Halton police with one count of possessing child sexual abuse and exploitation ma...

Keep cops out of schools. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #HamOnt

White supremacist groups using other issues, conspiracies to grow support, warns Hamilton researcher | CBC News White supremacist groups are using issues of wider interest and disinformation to grow support — and that should be worrying, says a McMaster University professor in the wake of another demonstration ...

"White supremacist groups are using issues of wider interest — like pedophilia — and disinformation to recruit new members and build support, according to experts in Canada and the U.S.." www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #HamOnt #cdnpoli

Even as someone who is an ocean away and who is deeply ambivalent about electoral politics, it gives me great pleasure to see the travesty that is Keir Starmer’s Labour Party handed a by-election loss by a party running unapologetically to Labour’s left.

Indigenous Resistance Forces Brazil To Revoke Amazon Waterway Decree After 33 Days of Occupation | Amazon Watch “This proves that life – the river – has no price. It cannot be sold, it is not negotiable. That’s why we will never back down.”

18. From Brazil - Indigenous resistance forces the government to revoke a decree that would have opened several rivers to privatization and development. amazonwatch.org/news/2026/02... #MovementWins2026

After weeks of non stop international vilification of trans people there's evidence of potential AI psychosis or radicalization that was so bad employees at OpenAI wanted to alert the RCMP before the shooting.

They were silenced by the company.

Why are politicians protecting Sam Altman's empire?

In a historic vote, Tennessee Volkswagen workers get their first union contract Two years ago, the successful union drive at this plant was expected to spark victories throughout the South. But now, as members vote to make their contract official, momentum has fizzled.

17. From the US: Volkswagen workers in Tennessee get their first union contract. www.npr.org/2026/02/19/n... #MovementWins2026

Understanding the Bogus Allegations of Misuse of Funds by Elghawaby’s Office In December, Blacklock’s Reporter alleged that the office of Canada’s Special Representative on Combating Islamophobia, Amira Elghawaby, had misused public funds to support pro-Palestinian research. H...

NEW: Understanding the Bogus Allegations of Misuse of Funds by Amira Elghawaby’s Office

Shortly before her office was shut down, right-wingers were up in arms about an alleged misuse of funds. But as Tarek Tahan reports, there was really no scandal at all.

mediacoop.ca/node/119343 #cdnpoli

June 2024- May 2025 Total reported deaths: 32

Check out the latest tragic report, covering June 2024 to May 2025, on deaths of homeless people in #HamOnt. 32 homeless people died in Hamilton over that time, at an average age of 48. hamiltonhomelessmortality.weebly.com/june-2024--m...

People from African, Caribbean countries face harsher treatment by immigration system, study finds More than two-thirds of those held in detention for 270 days or more were from these regions, according to 2019 CBSA data

"Canada’s immigration detention system disproportionately ensnares people from African and Caribbean countries, a new study says."

www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... #cdnpoli #cdnimm

Winnipeg councillor backtracks on proposed 100-metre protest ban after community pushback | CBC News The chair of the City of Winnipeg's property committee is changing course on a proposed bylaw that would have created 100-metre buffer zones banning protests around schools, hospitals, community centr...

16. Grassroots pushback against a proposed anti-protest by-law in Winnipeg has resulted in it being withdrawn, at least for now. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #MovementWins2026

Environment Hamilton | After almost two hours of debate, a majority of #HamOnt Council voted down a proposal to cut the climate change reserve from the 2026... | Instagram 177 likes, 17 comments - environmenthamilton on February 13, 2026: "After almost two hours of debate, a majority of #HamOnt Council voted down a proposal to cut the climate change reserve from the...

15. In a victory for the climate movement, grassroots mobilization pushed Hamilton, Ontario city council to vote down a measure that would've cut important funding for climate measures from the 2026 budget. www.instagram.com/p/DUtRMlaiQV0/ hamilton350climate.org #MovementWins2026

Planning to be good to each other Preventing harm by building infrastructure – Preventing harm by building infrastructure

A thoughtful article by an Ottawa-based anarchist collective thinking through how we can go beyond just responding well when people in movements do harm to each other and can begin to build practices that help to prevent such harm. briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/vie...

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14. In a victory for the Palestine solidarity movement, Scotiabank subsidiary 1832 Asset Management seems (after years of grassroots pressure) to have divested all shares in Israeli arms company Elbit Systems. www.instagram.com/p/DUtjhGnki99/ #MovementWins2026

slavery is one of the rare things historically where the more you learn about it the more you realize your initial assessment was correct and it was in fact one of the most evil things ever to occur