Steven Tufts

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October 30. Sound—at the Interregnum.

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That feeling when you are surprised a student is not aware of a specific text. Then you realize it came out a decade before they were born.

Great show tonight in Windsor - John Kameel Farah

I think I can argue that @viarailcanada.bsky.social is driving passengers into cars. Rail travel in this country is sophomoric - at best.

Sums it up.

2026 Annual Conference - Canadian Association for Work & Labour Studies The Canadian Association for Work and Labour Studies (CAWLS) is an academic association for scholars interested in work, workers, and labour.

The 2026 Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Work and Labour Studies takes place June 3-5 in Winnipeg.

This year's theme is Solidarity Unbound: Work and Labour in an Age of Intersecting Crises. Check out the CfP for proposal deadlines.

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#canlab #LabourStudies

Drawing the Line

Round 2. Please fasten your seatbelts.

11000 steps in lecture today

Being a @viarailcanada.bsky.social passenger sometimes feels like a cruel joke. I’m on a train that is running an hour late *on top* of a scheduled 40 minute delay. We’ve done a detour and waited for multiple freight trains. Unless we’re a full hour late (from the revised schedule)…

I know I am a moving target when I lecture. I didn’t know that I do around 10000 steps. Thanks to @irinaceric.bsky.social for the fit bit.

When even the 7th Earl of Grantham is on the right side of history

Great launch in Hamilton today of the new Rob Kristofferson and @stephross.bsky.social book!

With yesterday’s stunts by the @dalhousieu.bsky.social Board, this rally will be electric!! The place to be Fri, Aug 29 at 12 noon. See you there! #keepdalstrong

White text on a blue background reading: copaganda how police and the media manipulate our news a discussion with Alec Karakatsanis September 18, 2025, 6-9pm

Toronto! Join the Community Justice Collective on Sept 18th for a conversation about Copaganda with @equalityalec.bsky.social, lawyer, author, and founder of @civrightscorps.bsky.social
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Two Beer Stores closed down near my home this summer. This is only the beginning. Once the Ford pulls the cash (hundreds of millions) payoff to keep stores open - it’s over.

Calls to bar Israel from tennis tournament in Halifax | Watch News Videos Online Watch Calls to bar Israel from tennis tournament in Halifax Video Online, on GlobalNews.ca

I was on Global News in Toronto today talking about why athletic boycott of Israel is necessary.

Spoiler: it is because they are committing genocide.

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Opinion: A big failure for Air Canada’s weak management. Are its days numbered? The clumsy handling of its labour dispute raises question of whether leadership is up to the job of handling worker relations

It's been quite a media week. After 40+ interviews about Air Canada flight attendants, I wanted to weigh in on an issue that was less addressed: Air Canada’s weak management www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...

My first reactions to the news of a flight attendant tentative agreement: 1) CUPE likely has a pretty good deal, 2) the breaks may be put on S107, and 3) @aircanada.bsky.social CEO Michael Rousseau should probably update his resume.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (FREDERICTON, August 18th, 2025) A group of 413 Canadian and Canadian-based scholars, athletes, sports journalists, and sports officials have signed a public letter calling on Tennis Canada to cancel the Davis Cup tournament with Israel this September in Halifax. Signatories include three United Nations Special Rapporteurs, four-time Olympian distance runner Mohammed Ahmed, two members of the Palestinian women’s soccer team who compete for York University, a former Canadian Olympic beach volleyball coach, sports journalists Shireen Ahmed and Ian Kennedy, public intellectuals and activists Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis and some of Canada’s most distinguished and internationally-recognized scholars. The letter is signed by prominent individuals from 46 different academic institutions in Canada, as well as by Canadians at prominent global institutions. One hundred and six of the signatories are based in Atlantic Canada, where the event is slated to occur. The call to cancel the Davis Cup event comes amidst rising condemnation of Israeli conduct in Gaza and the West Bank, which leading legal scholars, activists and human rights groups have described as a genocide. Given the ongoing genocide in Gaza, the letter says that allowing the competition to go ahead is “unconscionable” and calls on the Canadian government to prevent Canadian athletes from competing against Israeli athletes in all international sporting competitions. Despite Tennis Canada’s claims that the event isn’t political and is just about playing tennis, the letter states in part that Canada should follow the lead of other nations who “refuse to legitimize Israel’s crimes” by withdrawing from international sporting competition. “This includes Jordanian tennis player Abdellah Shelbayh, who recently withdrew from a tennis competition in Greece after being slated to play an Israeli athlete,” the letter says. The letter points to the use of sporting sanctions in South Africa as a meaningful …

“Given the ongoing genocide in Gaza…we call on Sport Canada and Tennis Canada to forbid Canadian athletes to compete against Israeli athletes at the Davis Cup and all other international events.”

- 413 🇨🇦 academics, athletes + sports journalists, inc 3 former UN special rapporteurs + an Olympic 🥈ist

Air Canada labour dispute: What comes next? For The National, CBC's Christine Birak asks York University labour geographer Steven Tuffs about the Air Canada labour dispute and the decision by the flight attendants' union to defy a federal back-...

On The National talking about flight attendant lockout/strike last night www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

Burning question.

Air Canada flight attendants to defy back-to-work order, remain on strike: union | CBC News Air Canada flight attendants will defy the back-to-work order and remain on strike after the federal government ordered binding arbitration to end the work stoppage, the Canadian Union of Public Emplo...

"Air Canada has to learn not to call mommy and daddy every time they reach an impasse at the bargaining table. They have to actually sit down and get a deal done with their workers." - @stufts.bsky.social Solidarity with flight attendants! www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

I wonder if the Minister knows @aircanada.bsky.social is the 40 year old playing video games that won’t move out of the basement.

@aircanada.bsky.social management has no imagination, innovation or creativity in dealing with CUPE. They have one strategy - call mommy and daddy.

Union solidarity with flight attendants

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As labour strife continues at Air Canada and the post office, Mark Carney may be the one to watch Airlines and the postal service are federally regulated, and the prime minister will undoubtedly help shape negotiations.

My two cents on current labour negotiations at Canada Post and Air Canada www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...