assistant to the way life is shaking out, @bertaadvantage lower canada correspondent, alleged historian, actual trade unionist (they/them)
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my latest, in which I: 1) talk about cape breton; 2) try and make queer/deindustrialization make sense; 3) see how much mileage I can get off of a Simpsons gag
"Just because queer community did not exist in the way we might think it always does in urban centres, that doesn’t mean it did not exist at all." Next post in our @deindustrialpol series, from @Concordia's @liamjdevitt, is live now.
activehistory.ca/2023/06/is-…
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Reading is one of the best things you can do and costs like $20 for six hours, tops. In many cases it's free. The people who make it possible live in penury and the whole modern economy is organized against it.
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Grand Theft Auto: Republic of Doyle
Total War: 1812
Red River Redemption
Battlefield 1917
Call of Duty: Seven Years' Warfare
Sims' Convenience
OHL Manager 26
Mineralcraft (identical game but w environmental impact assessments)
Phoenix Wright: Grassy Narrows first nation Attorney
Avi Lewis said gamers rise up
This is private equity, this is what it does.
Buy up businesses, run them into the ground, and rip them apart for short-term profit.
The developers at BioWare know how to run the studio. They know how to make the games we all love. They should be given the first opportunity - and the federal support - to buy it and run it themselves.
And if we want to avoid the Mass Effect effect in Canada, we should be keeping private equity out, not welcoming it in.
pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/…
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Let's not lose sight of the fact that Roman Shukhevych was, in fact, a Nazi collaborator, as is documented extensively.
Comments like these show how much Kinney's idiotic stunt undermined the cause of pushing for historical truth.
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Avi Lewis: "Everybody across the political spectrum seems to be in favour of publicly owned pipelines. How about a steel mill?"
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Canada cannot afford to lose its steel industry. It's time to nationalize Stelco.
Stelco’s American owners have broken their commitments. Their CEO supports Trump’s tariffs, which are designed to deindustrialize our economy and destroy our manufacturing base.
More than 500 workers in Hamilton are facing layoffs.
If we’re serious about saving these jobs and the Canadian steel industry, Canada must nationalize Stelco.
Read my full statement here: ndp.ca/news/ndp-leader-prime…
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NEW EP: Is voting on doing racism and xenophobia a good idea? Could it maybe be a bad idea? @JeremyAppel1025 weighs in: albertaadvantagepod.com/2026…
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Selling off the airports is a dumb idea. It’s going to be like the 407.
Canadians will need to pay an extra $100 or whatever when we take a flight. Some foreign company like Ferrovial will pocket our money.
Not to do Kenney gayvestigation but like 34 year old Brazilian pediatric oncologist who speaks 5 languages is really only the kind of guy you meet while being a homosexual
I know a brilliant 34 year old Brazilian paediatric oncologist with degrees from top European universities, who speaks English, French, Portuguese, Spanish, and Italian.
Literally the ideal immigrant.
He was doing a research fellowship in Toronto. But even with my help (a former Immigration Minister,) he couldn’t get permanent residency last year, so left for a top hospital in Texas.
Consider the opportunity cost for Canadian kids with cancer, or his potential fiscal and research contributions. Gone forever.😡
Meanwhile, folks who came here on dodgy study permits and as low skilled TFWs who barely speak basic English get PR to deal with the huge overhang of temporary residents and overstayers from the Trudeau years.
It is impossible to overstate the catastrophic damage done to our immigration system by the Trudeau government.
So could someone explain to me why people like @SeanFraserMP, who presided over one of the greatest policy failures in modern Canadian history, are still in Cabinet?
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mel b, victoria and geri answer a fan's question (from the first issue of the spice magazine)
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NEW EP: We joined forces with Unmaking Saskatchewan to dig into just what is wrong with our provincial wings of the NDP. @sbirlios @warmandpunchy
albertaadvantagepod.com/2026…
no contest, bill cronon forever my goat
i'm actually more interested in popular history works that historians universally agree "yeah, that's a solid one."
first one that comes to mind is "1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus" by @CharlesCMann
