Théo
@amloiandy.bsky.social
I'm into political economy, social justice and Quebec among other things.
And sometimes I ramble about these things here: https://substack.com/@theoamloi
And sometimes I ramble about these things here: https://substack.com/@theoamloi
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Imagine thinking this is secularism. 🤦♀️
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August 26, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Imagine thinking this is secularism. 🤦♀️
www.montrealgazette.com/news/provinc...
www.montrealgazette.com/news/provinc...
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As some of you know, I'm working on a project looking at anti-gender/anti-trans politics and its impacts on SOGI asylum/refugee policymaking in Canada and the UK.
I'm looking for interviewees to discuss their experiences as legal professionals, community supporters, and NGO workers.
Please share!
I'm looking for interviewees to discuss their experiences as legal professionals, community supporters, and NGO workers.
Please share!
August 19, 2025 at 3:47 PM
As some of you know, I'm working on a project looking at anti-gender/anti-trans politics and its impacts on SOGI asylum/refugee policymaking in Canada and the UK.
I'm looking for interviewees to discuss their experiences as legal professionals, community supporters, and NGO workers.
Please share!
I'm looking for interviewees to discuss their experiences as legal professionals, community supporters, and NGO workers.
Please share!
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"'We feel proud,' the spokesperson said. The feeling across the union is one of hope, and joy. She explained that across all of @cupescfp.bsky.social, their goal is to bring back power to unions, and to stand for their charter rights."
From @therovermedia.bsky.social: therover.ca/strike-ends-...
From @therovermedia.bsky.social: therover.ca/strike-ends-...
Strike 'Ends Unpaid Work' As Union Reaches Deal With Air Canada – The Rover
Low wages and unpaid labour led to flight attendants using food banks, sleeping in cars.
therover.ca
August 19, 2025 at 2:21 PM
"'We feel proud,' the spokesperson said. The feeling across the union is one of hope, and joy. She explained that across all of @cupescfp.bsky.social, their goal is to bring back power to unions, and to stand for their charter rights."
From @therovermedia.bsky.social: therover.ca/strike-ends-...
From @therovermedia.bsky.social: therover.ca/strike-ends-...
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"you taught the world about freedom and it's time for us to return the favor"
hot damn
hot damn
Mamdani turned up at BAYO at Barclay Center yesterday and said he was going to fight to get Haiti off the travel ban and he said Haiti correctly
June 29, 2025 at 11:59 PM
"you taught the world about freedom and it's time for us to return the favor"
hot damn
hot damn
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The piece takes a more nuanced position than this post makes it seem, but I have to say, we’ve known the solution to better, more affordable telecom service for over a century: it’s through public ownership and delivery.
From flights to cell phone bills, Canadians get a raw deal. This is why — and how Mark Carney can fix it
A Friday #opinion from @justinling.ca
A Friday #opinion from @justinling.ca
Justin Ling: From flights to cell phone bills, Canadians get a raw deal. This is why — and how Mark Carney can fix it
Protectionism and a lack of competition are making life expensive for Canadians.
www.thestar.com
June 29, 2025 at 12:31 AM
The piece takes a more nuanced position than this post makes it seem, but I have to say, we’ve known the solution to better, more affordable telecom service for over a century: it’s through public ownership and delivery.
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little known fact: the Q in LGBTQ stands for Québec, where being gay was invented
happy pride tabarnac
happy pride tabarnac
June 2, 2025 at 5:23 PM
little known fact: the Q in LGBTQ stands for Québec, where being gay was invented
happy pride tabarnac
happy pride tabarnac
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L’IRIS fête 25 ans de recherche engagée! Pour l’occasion, nous lançons une grande campagne de financement. Votre soutien est essentiel à la poursuite de notre mission!
Pour faire un don -> bit.ly/25ansIRIS
Pour faire un don -> bit.ly/25ansIRIS
May 15, 2025 at 12:25 PM
L’IRIS fête 25 ans de recherche engagée! Pour l’occasion, nous lançons une grande campagne de financement. Votre soutien est essentiel à la poursuite de notre mission!
Pour faire un don -> bit.ly/25ansIRIS
Pour faire un don -> bit.ly/25ansIRIS
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Wild that no one seems to remember that women are over represented in public service and therefore are over represented in the cohort of people with the most to lose when the boss is a dickwad.
May 20, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Wild that no one seems to remember that women are over represented in public service and therefore are over represented in the cohort of people with the most to lose when the boss is a dickwad.
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It takes very little time to realize that "Trade Barrier" is a euphamism for "public service" or "democratic expression of a way of doing things."
If we just put Loblaw in charge, there'd be no barriers to moving food across Canada!
If we just put Loblaw in charge, there'd be no barriers to moving food across Canada!
I can't wait to see how long it takes Canadians to realize that there is very little gold in the hills of "Interprovincial Trade."
May 13, 2025 at 5:22 PM
It takes very little time to realize that "Trade Barrier" is a euphamism for "public service" or "democratic expression of a way of doing things."
If we just put Loblaw in charge, there'd be no barriers to moving food across Canada!
If we just put Loblaw in charge, there'd be no barriers to moving food across Canada!
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ANALYSE | 📈 Une grande partie de la population ne gagne pas assez pour atteindre le revenu viable. #polmtl #polqc #economie
Un article de Francis Hébert-Bernier, pour Pivot 👇
pivot.quebec/2025/04...
Un article de Francis Hébert-Bernier, pour Pivot 👇
pivot.quebec/2025/04...
Travailler à temps plein ne suffit pas à vivre dignement – Pivot
Une grande partie de la population ne gagne pas assez pour atteindre le revenu viable.
pivot.quebec
April 30, 2025 at 11:00 AM
ANALYSE | 📈 Une grande partie de la population ne gagne pas assez pour atteindre le revenu viable. #polmtl #polqc #economie
Un article de Francis Hébert-Bernier, pour Pivot 👇
pivot.quebec/2025/04...
Un article de Francis Hébert-Bernier, pour Pivot 👇
pivot.quebec/2025/04...
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J'ai passé la journée d'hier à décortiquer le budget du Québec avec @fhbernier.bsky.social.
Pourquoi parle-t-on d'austérité alors qu'il y a un déficit? Quels (minimes) efforts le gouv. fait-il pour dégager des nouveaux fonds? Quels (maigres) fonds vont au logement et à l'environnement? 🧵
#polqc
Pourquoi parle-t-on d'austérité alors qu'il y a un déficit? Quels (minimes) efforts le gouv. fait-il pour dégager des nouveaux fonds? Quels (maigres) fonds vont au logement et à l'environnement? 🧵
#polqc
NOUVELLE |💰 Malgré un déficit, le budget du Québec est jugé austère par plusieurs observateurs.
L'article de Francis Hébert-Bernier et Claire Ross est disponible 👇
pivot.quebec/2025/03...
L'article de Francis Hébert-Bernier et Claire Ross est disponible 👇
pivot.quebec/2025/03...
Budget du Québec : généreux pour les entreprises, moins pour les services publics – Pivot
Malgré un déficit, le budget du Québec est jugé austère par plusieurs observateurs.
pivot.quebec
March 26, 2025 at 2:34 PM
J'ai passé la journée d'hier à décortiquer le budget du Québec avec @fhbernier.bsky.social.
Pourquoi parle-t-on d'austérité alors qu'il y a un déficit? Quels (minimes) efforts le gouv. fait-il pour dégager des nouveaux fonds? Quels (maigres) fonds vont au logement et à l'environnement? 🧵
#polqc
Pourquoi parle-t-on d'austérité alors qu'il y a un déficit? Quels (minimes) efforts le gouv. fait-il pour dégager des nouveaux fonds? Quels (maigres) fonds vont au logement et à l'environnement? 🧵
#polqc
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Happening tomorrow at 12 pm ET! @policyalternatives.ca's Ask Us Anything webinar: What do Trump tariffs mean for Canada’s economy? What kind of supports will exist for people who lose their job—is EI up to the task? Our panel of experts will be there! Register here ➡️ us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
An all Q&A webinar! Join in with your questions about the election, Trump, trade, tariffs, jobs…. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
CCPA non-partisan, independent policy experts will answer your questions about interprovincial trade barrier myths, jobs, getting social supports on the policy agenda and more!
us02web.zoom.us
March 25, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Happening tomorrow at 12 pm ET! @policyalternatives.ca's Ask Us Anything webinar: What do Trump tariffs mean for Canada’s economy? What kind of supports will exist for people who lose their job—is EI up to the task? Our panel of experts will be there! Register here ➡️ us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Roundup of pieces mostly about how to tackle the trade war from the left with progressive policies that centre workers and the environment.
Great long pieces from... the last three weeks
This covers the period from February 23 to March 15
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March 17, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Roundup of pieces mostly about how to tackle the trade war from the left with progressive policies that centre workers and the environment.
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NEW: free trade is dead, the current agreement with 🇺🇸 is worthless, and it’s time to imagine a very different future, economists tell @taylornoakes.bsky.social 👇
www.readthemaple.com/time-to-thin...
www.readthemaple.com/time-to-thin...
Time To Think Beyond ‘Worthless’ Free Trade Agreements: Economists
“Why should we feel constrained by a free trade agreement?”
www.readthemaple.com
February 20, 2025 at 3:39 PM
NEW: free trade is dead, the current agreement with 🇺🇸 is worthless, and it’s time to imagine a very different future, economists tell @taylornoakes.bsky.social 👇
www.readthemaple.com/time-to-thin...
www.readthemaple.com/time-to-thin...
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Empêcher les travailleurs et travailleuses de faire la grève : voilà la nouvelle idée scandaleuse du gouvernement de la CAQ. Les solidaires s’opposeront à cette attaque contre les droits des travailleurs et travailleuses.
#PolQC
#PolQC
February 20, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Empêcher les travailleurs et travailleuses de faire la grève : voilà la nouvelle idée scandaleuse du gouvernement de la CAQ. Les solidaires s’opposeront à cette attaque contre les droits des travailleurs et travailleuses.
#PolQC
#PolQC
"But there are costs—and they will be borne by workers, the public, and the environment while any economic gains from deregulation will flow directly into the pockets of corporate giants, both Canadian and American."
We keep being told that scrapping "interprovincial trade barriers" is the answer to Trump's threats.
But the barriers are so few you can list them on a paper napkin, writes trade expert Stuart Trew.
This isn't about trade—it's about deregulation. breachmedia.ca/freakout-abo...
But the barriers are so few you can list them on a paper napkin, writes trade expert Stuart Trew.
This isn't about trade—it's about deregulation. breachmedia.ca/freakout-abo...
The freakout about Canada’s ‘internal trade barriers’ is a corporate scam ⋆ The Breach
Business lobbyists and right-wing think tanks are exploiting Trump’s threats to push their deregulation agenda
breachmedia.ca
February 19, 2025 at 9:29 PM
"But there are costs—and they will be borne by workers, the public, and the environment while any economic gains from deregulation will flow directly into the pockets of corporate giants, both Canadian and American."
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Silicon Valley attracted very intelligent and creative people.
But the VC’s selected for those expected to generate extreme wealth not those producing socially beneficial knowledge.
Classic Veblenian sabotage.
But the VC’s selected for those expected to generate extreme wealth not those producing socially beneficial knowledge.
Classic Veblenian sabotage.
this is frankly one of the things i’m saddest about about tech, and i blame the culture of lawlessness in silicon valley for forcing a potentially-useful technology through the putrid and criminal culture of cryptocurrency
there’s an alternate universe where AI products were introduced in a measured way, workers thoughtfully figured out how to integrate them into extant workflows, and reasonable leaders didn’t use them as rationale for laying people off (and legally couldn’t)
unfortunately that’s not the one we’re in
unfortunately that’s not the one we’re in
February 14, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Silicon Valley attracted very intelligent and creative people.
But the VC’s selected for those expected to generate extreme wealth not those producing socially beneficial knowledge.
Classic Veblenian sabotage.
But the VC’s selected for those expected to generate extreme wealth not those producing socially beneficial knowledge.
Classic Veblenian sabotage.
"For the left in Canada, nationalism is a kind of defeatism: an acceptance of class rule, and a lack of vision for building a struggle that challenges the dominance of capital and capitalists’ interests, which aren’t reducible to our own interests."
Here’s my response to the resurgence of Canadian nationalism — left & otherwise — in the context of the tariff war: a political dead end, we need instead a much more far reaching, & internationalist, response animated by struggles from below.
www.midnightsunmag.ca/we-need-work...
www.midnightsunmag.ca/we-need-work...
We Need Workers’ Solidarity, Not “National Unity,” in Response to Trump’s Tariffs
Todd Gordon on why Canadian nationalism is a dead end, and on the need for a strategy centred around mass struggle and workers’ solidarity across borders.
www.midnightsunmag.ca
February 12, 2025 at 7:07 PM
"For the left in Canada, nationalism is a kind of defeatism: an acceptance of class rule, and a lack of vision for building a struggle that challenges the dominance of capital and capitalists’ interests, which aren’t reducible to our own interests."
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Créées à l’origine pour favoriser le maintien à domicile des aînés, les Habitations partagées de l’Outaouais proposent différents services, dont le service de cohabitation qui répond aujourd’hui aux besoins de gens de tous âges en quête d’un milieu de vie confortable et abordable.
La cohabitation : pour les économies et le mode de vie!
Créées à l’origine pour favoriser le maintien à domicile des aînés, les Habitations partagées de l’Outaouais proposent différents services, dont le service de cohabitation qui répond aujourd’hui aux besoins de gens de tous âges en quête d’un milieu de vie…
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February 8, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Créées à l’origine pour favoriser le maintien à domicile des aînés, les Habitations partagées de l’Outaouais proposent différents services, dont le service de cohabitation qui répond aujourd’hui aux besoins de gens de tous âges en quête d’un milieu de vie confortable et abordable.
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DEI needs to fix systems, not people
DEI needs to fix systems, not people
Experts argue that bias is systemic, and solutions should focus on changing policies and structures, not just individual behaviour.
theconversation.com
February 9, 2025 at 1:40 PM
DEI needs to fix systems, not people
“Designing pro-business policies and repackaging them as serving the 'national interest' is basically what the Business Council of Canada was created for in the 1970s.”
Canada’s corporate elite never let a good crisis go to waste.
While Trump’s tariff threats have sent the rest of us into panic, big business lobbies are exploiting the opportunity to push their longstanding wishlist, writes @nikbarryshaw.bsky.social.
breachmedia.ca/canadas-ceos...
While Trump’s tariff threats have sent the rest of us into panic, big business lobbies are exploiting the opportunity to push their longstanding wishlist, writes @nikbarryshaw.bsky.social.
breachmedia.ca/canadas-ceos...
Canada's CEOs want to cash in on Trump's tariff threats ⋆ The Breach
Corporate lobby groups are turning the trade chaos in their favour by pushing for tax cuts, deregulation, pipelines, and military spending
breachmedia.ca
February 11, 2025 at 4:01 PM
“Designing pro-business policies and repackaging them as serving the 'national interest' is basically what the Business Council of Canada was created for in the 1970s.”
February 10, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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This report examines the Canadian grocery industry to better understand what is driving retail profit growth, and as a result, higher supermarket food prices.
Canadian Grocery Profitability: Inflation, Wages and Financialization - Broadbent Institute
This report examines the Canadian grocery industry to better understand what is driving retail profit growth, and as a result, higher supermarket food prices.
broadbentinstitute.ca
February 9, 2025 at 12:26 AM
This report examines the Canadian grocery industry to better understand what is driving retail profit growth, and as a result, higher supermarket food prices.
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Ecosocialist Bookshelf, February 2025. Seven recent books on movement building, modern capitalism, evolution, ecology and colonialism. climateandcapitalism.com/2025/02/08/e...
Ecosocialist Bookshelf, February 2025 | Climate & Capitalism
Seven recent books on movement building, modern capitalism, evolution…
climateandcapitalism.com
February 8, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Ecosocialist Bookshelf, February 2025. Seven recent books on movement building, modern capitalism, evolution, ecology and colonialism. climateandcapitalism.com/2025/02/08/e...
"Les travailleur·euses sont la chair à canon de ce conflit entre les puissants, notre rôle c’est de nous sacrifier pour «sauver l’économie»."
"Les syndicats (...) favorisent la défense des intérêts de leurs membres au détriment de la solidarité entre tou·tes les travailleur·euses."
"Les syndicats (...) favorisent la défense des intérêts de leurs membres au détriment de la solidarité entre tou·tes les travailleur·euses."
OPINION | L’impact immédiat d’une guerre commerciale ne doit pas nous mener à défendre un système économique en faillite.
#polmtl #polqc #polcan #capitalisme #economie
La chronique de Judith Lefebvre pour Pivot 👇
pivot.quebec/2025/02...
#polmtl #polqc #polcan #capitalisme #economie
La chronique de Judith Lefebvre pour Pivot 👇
pivot.quebec/2025/02...
Les tarifs ou le capitalisme en décomposition – Pivot
L’impact immédiat d’une guerre commerciale ne doit pas nous mener à défendre un système économique en faillite.
pivot.quebec
February 9, 2025 at 3:39 AM
"Les travailleur·euses sont la chair à canon de ce conflit entre les puissants, notre rôle c’est de nous sacrifier pour «sauver l’économie»."
"Les syndicats (...) favorisent la défense des intérêts de leurs membres au détriment de la solidarité entre tou·tes les travailleur·euses."
"Les syndicats (...) favorisent la défense des intérêts de leurs membres au détriment de la solidarité entre tou·tes les travailleur·euses."