‘La Presse has reported the government is ready to set the rate at $12,000. But even $12,000 will price Quebec out of the market in the arts and sciences programs that welcome most out-of-province students, McGill says’ #canlab #cdnpse montrealgazette.com/news/local-new…

‘By giving unions the right to bargain to establish sectoral agreements for the child care sector, provincial & territorial govts would be supporting a viable workforce strategy that would support the retention of #childcare workers’ @ccpa #canlab #canfem monitormag.ca/articles/secto…

“We’re really trying to spark debate…As I say we’re the worst in Canada when it comes to funding our public universities and that’s shouldn’t be acceptable to anyone.” ⁦@CCPA_Ont⁩ ⁦@RandyFRobinson⁩ #canlab #onpse toronto.citynews.ca/2023/12/01/new…

‘whereas Canada previously was seen as a bridge-building country, the amendment was a “bridge-weakening exercise”. And it was unconscionable, in my view, in the context of efforts to curtail an unfolding humanitarian crisis of horrific dimensions”’aje.io/b3fk06

‘Too many people w/ #disabilities fall through the holes in Canada’s social safety net…Govts need to step up w/ programs that can meet the immediate needs of millions in the face of surging rents & the high cost of basics’ @ccpa ⁦@ScottKatherineJ⁩ monitormag.ca/articles/its-t…

'Going after individual operators of illegal short-term rentals is fine & important, especially in a moment of #housingcrisis like this. But a long-term fix to this problem means going after the actual platforms, & not just their users' monitormag.ca/articles/feder… @ccpa #canlab

“When a 3-year-old girl is killed in a home in Gaza, it’s because someone in the army decided it wasn’t a big deal for her to be killed…,Everything is intentional. We know exactly how much collateral damage there is in every home.” #cdnpoli 972mag.com/mass-assassina…

"As far as I know, none of them engaged in illegal speech in CDA. It was simply that people who disagreed with their views were able to put pressure on their employers to take actions against them. There's no place for that in a democratic society" #canlab ctvnews.ca/canada/ontario…

'Every single person who died in Vietnam between autumn 1968 & the Fall of Saigon — and all who died in Laos and Cambodia...died because of Henry Kissinger' rollingstone.com/politics/polit… #cdnpoli #canlab

'Over the last 3 decades, no province in Canada has moved more aggressively, or more consistently, to cut public funding to universities than ON. ON’s funding model...is simply less funding, year after year' shar.es/agbrXH @CCPA_Ont #canlab #onpse @RandyFRobinson

'The most curious omission from Bill C-50, the federal government’s proposed Sustainable Jobs Act, is its missing definition for the term “sustainable job.”' Have you subscribed to ShiftStorm yet? monitormag.ca/articles/what-… @ccpa @hadrianmk #canlab #JustTransition

‘the Israeli government set several conditions forbidding the released prisoners and their families from speaking to the press, receiving guests at home or distributing sweets in celebration.’ #canlab aljazeera.com/news/2023/11/2…

'Voters appear to be ready for change, but the govt has not offered a change agenda in this fiscal update. If anything, they are backing away from the ambitious changes required in times of crisis' monitormag.ca/articles/belea… @ccpa #canlab @hadrianmk @MarcLeeCCPA #cdnpoli

More progressivity needed in tax system as Canada sees resurgence in widening income gap between top 1% and bottom 50% taxfairness.ca/en/resources/n… #cdnpoli

“...when bargaining reaches an impasse, it can lead to job action. That’s sometimes viewed as a problem, but it’s an essential part of the process.” @ProfSmithSask #canlab @PresidentCLC #canlab monitormag.ca/articles/feder… @ccpa

"Your carpet explanations for your carpet bombing will not fly!" State of Palestine representative at the UN demolishes the genocidal rhetoric of Israeli politicians, exposing their genocidal intent for all the UN to see. Now it's time for Palestine to #InvokeGenocideConvention… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

@Lanampayne @torontolife Solidarity always, Lana ❤️

#canlab #inequality @ccpa @ScottKatherineJ

Threadity-thread thread about anti-scab legislation by someone who knows @ProfSmithSask #canlab twitter.com/ProfSmithSask/…

‘Does anti-scab legislation lead to more strikes? A look at the strike data from Quebec and British Columbia tells us a very different story than employer propaganda.’ @ccpa ⁦@ccpa_sk⁩ #canlab ⁦@ProfSmithSask⁩ monitormag.ca/articles/anti-…

'That’s right—one per cent of income earners collected 13.4 per cent of the total aggregate income in 2021. More than one out of every eight dollars went to just one per cent of tax filers.' monitormag.ca/articles/the-r… @ccpa @ScottKatherineJ #canlab #canfem #inequality

monitormag.ca/articles/fall-… ‘Real per-capita spending on post-secondary education has dropped by 11% since 2018’ @CCPA_Ont @SheilaBlockTO @RandyFRobinson #canlab #onpoli twitter.com/calphonso/stat…

‘That discrepancy raises questions about the government's imminent plans to expand the volume and scope of surgeries performed outside of hospitals, including the potentially lucrative field of hip and knee replacements.’ #canlab #onpoli twitter.com/CBCQueensPark/…

‘Israel says it is carrying out an “operation” against Hamas at al-Shifa Hospital as its forces raid the health complex in Gaza City.’ #canlab #gaza #alShifa aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/…

#BREAKING| The Israeli military is breaking into Al Shifa Hospital right now as part of its war on #Gaza's hospitals. The raid comes while there is no press coverage or international organizations from inside the hospital.

Labour Minister @DavidPiccini's Bill is a gift to Uber & Lyft. It's intended to distract us from the #ONPoli government's refusal to enact already existing—and much more robust—legislation that would actually protect workers. #Justice4Workers READ MORE: justice4workers.org/piccini_omnibu…