Lucia Iannantuono

The Decline and Fall of the Canadian State (w/ Nora Loreto) How austerity and privatization have killed state capacity

Take a listen to my conversation with @arshy.bsky.social about why politicians seem to be incapable of doing anything -- aside from enriching their friends. Enjoy!

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A huge THANK YOU to our Grow the #Greenbelt cyclists who pedaled over 40KM on Saturday to support Environment #HamOnt's work to protect and grow the Greenbelt and so much more!

The post office doesn't need to turn a profit.
The fire department doesn't need to turn a profit.
The water filtration plant doesn't need to turn a profit.
We receive common goods and services in exchange for taxation and citizenship, it's a crazy new idea called "government"

Cbc coverage of Canada post “losing” 841 million

Canada post stats show 62k employees

2025 subsidy estimates for oil and gas range from $3B to $30B annually, just from the federal level

Canada energy reports 147k direct jobs in the industry

Really frustrating to see CBC manufacturing consent to gut Canada Post!

<$1B invested in a 100% Canadian public service to deliver things coast to coast to coast & employ 62k ppl securely? “unsustainable”

$3-$30B /yr for 147k ppl to have boom-bust jobs for private, foreign oil & gas? “necessary”

Canada nation built (and built and built and built) until the 1970s, then began the great dismantling. I'd pin it to Mulroney era when rails were ripped out across country & Chretien/Harris pulling out of housing funding/backstopping. Canada Post stuff is just another dismantling moment.

Union members from PSAC and CUPW posing for a group photo with their union flags.

Deanna and Pascale taking a selfie at the protest. Pascale is wearing a sweatshirt that reads: YIMBY, yes in my backyard

A large crowd listening to a migrant worker speak at the protest

A large crowd listening to a speaker at the protest

#DrawTheLine in #HamOnt with @hamilton350org.bsky.social, allied groups and friends, including some of my fav union siblings from @cupwsttp.bsky.social local 548 ✊🏻🇵🇸

YouTube video by Movement Media Hub CTV National News | Draw The Line | People. Peace. Planet.

Terrific coverage here of yesterday's DRAW THE LINE protests from CTV National News:
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🧵 THREAD: Draw The Line - National Day of Action happening RIGHT NOW across Canada ✊

Today, communities from coast to coast are standing united for people, for peace, and for the planet. Here's what's happening on the ground...

#DrawTheLine @350canada.bsky.social

📍Toronto

16th Annual Calendar Photo Contest It’s time to vote for the GPO’s 16th Annual Calendar Contest! Deadline is midnight, October 5th. Winners will receive a free copy of the 2026 Calendar. Good luck! Pre-order your calendar Begin voting…

Amazing photos as always in this year's @ontariogreens.bsky.social calendar contest!

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Have you registered for an action near you yet? drawtheline.world/canada

Shocked by Epstein’s birthday book? That culture was everywhere before feminism | Rebecca Solnit Feminism exposed the ubiquity of child abuse, rape, sexual harassment and domestic violence – and helped fight that culture

I wrote a thing. As someone who survived the 1970s and kept the receipts.

Eastern white pine!

Build Canada Homes must prioritize 'right' kind of housing, affordability and green energy, say advocates The Build Canada Homes initiative, which aims to double national housing output to 500,000 new homes per year, is expected to launch this fall.

I was glad to be interviewed for this piece about the federal govt's new home building agency, addressing affordability but also climate - which is important because buildings are so polluting

I said it's "a huge opportunity to build homes well from the start"💡

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Israel committing genocide in Gaza, world’s top scholars on the crime say International Association of Genocide Scholars resolution backed by 86% of members who voted

Israel committing genocide in Gaza, world’s top scholars on the crime say www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Great video featuring Serena Mandizabal from Sacred Earth Solar 👇

Following in the footsteps of @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social trying to document some of my city's new cycle/ped infrastructure and trying to be a positive (but criticizing things that were forgotten or missed opportunities). I took a ride to see some of the new infrastructure in Hamilton this summer! A🧵

Great reporting as always from @brandimorin.bsky.social

“Action would start with acknowledging that communities like Tuktoyaktuk will soon be climate refugees created by our collective failure... It would mean fully funding not just coastal protection, but culturally appropriate relocation… treating the climate emergency like an emergency.”

Excerpt from a pdf of today's print Globe: After the Oct. 7, 2023, attack by Hamas that triggered a nearly two-year siege on Gaza by Israel, Tamimi wondered whether he should change the nar­rat­ive for the book, to make it more polit­ical. He stuck with the ori­ginal plan – to fill it with dishes inspired by the pro­duce of his grand­par­ents’ West Bank garden – and has used his other plat­forms to call atten­tion to the dev­ast­a­tion in Gaza, par­tic­u­larly the forced star­va­tion.

Screencap of the same passage as it appears in the online version of the story. The second sentence now reads: "He stuck with the original plan – to fill it with dishes inspired by the produce of his grandparents’ West Bank garden – and has used his other platforms to call attention to the devastation in Gaza."

Screencap of text that appears at the bottom of the article online: Editor’s note: A previous version of this article included an inaccurate description of the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. The restriction of aid to the region and other factors have caused widespread famine.

Today's Globe includes a Q&A with a Palestinian cookbook author who's been calling "atten­tion to the dev­ast­a­tion in Gaza, par­tic­u­larly the forced star­va­tion."

Online, the mention of "forced starvation" has been removed and a correction issued: www.theglobeandmail.com/life/food-an...

Canada wildfire season already second worst on record as experts warn of ‘new reality’ More than 470 Canadian fires classified as ‘out of control’ as scientists say climate change exacerbating the burning

As wildfires rage across 🇨🇦 – a unifying experience from Vancouver Island to Newfoundland and so many places in between – one thing is clear:

Approving new fossil fuel infrastructure is a willful act of arson.
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Two pie charts comparing Ontario’s 2025 provincial election results. The left chart, labeled “How Ontario Voted,” shows PCs 43%, Liberals 31%, NDP 23%, Greens 2%, Others 1%. The right chart, labeled “What Ontario Got,” shows PCs 65%, Liberals 20%, NDP 15%, Greens 0%, Others 0%. Title reads “How First Past the Post gives Doug Ford total control” with call to action “Learn more at fairvote.ca.” Background image is Doug Ford’s face.

Ontario’s last election showed how millions of votes went unrepresented, letting one party govern without majority support.

With proportional representation, every vote helps shape the government and fake majorities become a thing of the past.

It's me! No, seriously, he's talking about me.

For a little while, I've done graphic design and written newsletter content for Ward 1 Councillor Maureen Wilson as an advisor.

This fact is set to become the "Conspiracy of the Day". What fun!

So here's what I have to say about that (thread below):

History doesn't repeat, but I think the advent of Fascism, much more than Nazism, offers a framework to understand how these regimes can install themselves step by step withing a flawed or weakened constitutional system by eroding the democratic safeguards bit by bit.

Duffy to announce nuclear reactor on the moon This is the first major agency effort by the interim NASA administrator, who is also the Transportation secretary and a former Fox News host.

How about high-speed rail on earth?

The British media outlet ITV also went on a Jordanian airdrop and simply ignored the Israeli government’s illiberal demands:

www.itv.com/news/2025-08...

Sickening. There should be consequences at home for behaving like this in other countries.

After Wednesday we will have had 14 heat warning days this summer, and we aren't even to August yet!
Hard to imagine any argument against accelerating our climate mitigation/adaptation, given the trendline every councillor has been handed, in chapter 8 of their latest health report.. #HamOnt

Man Disrupts Hamilton City Council With Hate-Filled Rant Hateful statements contained anti-Semitic, Islamophobic, homophobic, racist, and transphobic comments.

City officials are reviewing, and denouncing, an hateful incident that occurred at Hamilton City Hall this morning
A man disrupted a meeting with anti-Semitic, Islamophobic, homophobic, racist, and transphobic comments
This is the second similar incident in recent months
More on TPR #yhmcc #HamOnt

People changing their mind and speaking out on the horrors of Gaza is a good thing. But if a person “changing their mind” is in power, and they do not subsequently use that power in accordance with the seriousness of the new conclusion they have arrived at, then that’s a problem.