Dr Kat Manica

I wrote a piece for @thenacbs.bsky.social Pride Series on Queer Eschatology in William Burges’s designs at Cardiff Castle!

Who are we as a society or community if our gov’ts reintroduce vagrancy laws that cause direct harm to our most vulnerable community members? $10,000 fine or 6 months in prison? Heartless.

‘Enough is enough’: Doug Ford says Ontario could hand encampment drug users $10,000 fines, prison Ontario Premier Doug Ford says his government is introducing a suite of measures to help municipalities “address and dismantle” homeless encampments around the province, including steep fines for peop...

The Ontario Tories are criminalizing homelessness and drug use, whilst closing down safe-consumption sites. This will impact Indigenous communities negatively, who were not consulted on the SCS closures, and is a failure to consult on consumption sites.

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Lets be clear. #CUPW isn't delaying your mail - Canada Post's management, and the Government is.

The refusal of Canada Post to negotiate in good faith, and their insistence on creating a two tiered workforce is what is stopping mail from getting through.

I support CUPW.

It blows my mind that tech bros will continue to insist "Technological innovation" is the correct name for "Labour violations disguised as contract work." Privatisation has done serious damage to the US postal service. It seems unlikely that's what Canadians writ large want. #strike #union #CUPW

Amazon’s Anti-Union Model and the Damage Done Canadian postal workers are striking for fair wages and better working conditions. This is putting them in direct conflict with the business model Amazon champions, where workers are treated as dispos...

Postal workers in Canada are striking for fair wages & better working conditions.

This is putting them in direct conflict with the business model Amazon champions, where workers are treated as disposable & unions are crushed.

Great piece by @ParisMarx.com in @JacobinMag.bsky.social.

#canlab #CUPW

Birchbark boom with images of animals and their Anishinaabe names.

Kicking things off here with this 19th-century children’s book on birchbark, made by an Anishinaabe man named Soloman James, Sound of Thunder Ravens, for his son.

IMAGE: “I Support Canada Post” graphic with fist and link to CUPW’s website at http://CUPW.ca

Support Our Postal Workers!

55,000 members of CUPW have been forced to take strike action in recent days, after a year of failed bargaining with Canada Post.

Find a #CUPW picket line near you:

act-cupwsttp.nationbuilder.com/picket_lines

#canlab #SupportCUPW #1u #strike #CanadaPostStrike #cdnpoli

At least 67k small businesses on Shopify use Canada Post, and will be affected by them going on strike right on BFCM weekend. Canada Post has a government monopoly on delivering to P.O. boxes and is the only carrier supplying rural areas. This should not be allowed.

Shopify CEO Tobi Lutke is calling for the end of Canada’s public postal service because its workers have gone on strike.

The company’s leaders are increasingly pushing extreme right-wing positions in Canada. Gutting Canada Post would effectively end delivery in many rural and remote communities.

The provincial government has introduced proposed legislation today that will cut life-saving harm reduction healthcare services in the province, and prevent more harm reduction services from happening.

Meet the hereditary chief who Amnesty International calls Canada’s first prisoner of conscience In Northern British Columbia, a Wet’suwet’en chief is under house arrest for resisting a pipeline on his territory

Meet the hereditary chief who Amnesty International calls Canada’s first prisoner of conscience — The Wet’suwet’en chief is under house arrest for resisting a pipeline on his territory.

#Indigenous journalist Brandi Morin reports from #Wetsuweten territory:

ricochet.media/indigenous/m...

#cdnpoli

Laleh Khalili · Marts of All Commerce: Across the Indian Ocean There is much more that connects the people across the Indian Ocean than guns, oil and money. Food, music and human...

‘The Indian Ocean was an important hunting ground: more than a third of 𝘔𝘰𝘣𝘺-𝘋𝘪𝘤𝘬 takes place there. Melville recognised that whaling went hand in hand with colonial conquest.’

@lalehkhalili.bsky.social on the Indian Ocean’s geopolitics:

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Today’s special guest - @lexcroucher.bsky.social. Signed copies of Gwen and Art now loitering in the table stacks at Piccadilly 💖