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Roger Keil
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Roger Keil @rkeil.bsky.social · 9d
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Fragments de banlieue | « Je veux rester en banlieue ! »
Les couronnes de Montréal se métamorphosent sous nos yeux. Pour en témoigner, notre journaliste est allée à la rencontre des banlieusards. Ceux qui y sont nés et ceux qui les ont bâties. Ceux qui les ...
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Roger Keil @rkeil.bsky.social · 9d
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Fragments de banlieue | « Notre chemin, c’était d’arriver ici »
Les couronnes de Montréal se métamorphosent sous nos yeux. Pour en témoigner, notre journaliste est allée à la rencontre de banlieusards : ceux qui les ont bâties ou adoptées, qui veulent y rester ou ...
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Roger Keil @rkeil.bsky.social · 9d
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Fragments de banlieue | « C’est la meilleure place au monde »
Les banlieues telles qu’on les connaît sont apparues après la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Ceux qui les ont vues naître achèvent leurs vieux jours. Leurs enfants profitent de leur retraite. À Saint-Bruno-...
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Roger Keil @rkeil.bsky.social · 17d
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Sign the Petition
York University - We Demand An Open & Consultative Presidential Search
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Roger Keil @rkeil.bsky.social · 20d
www.bostonreview.net/forum/the-re...
The Responsibility of Intellectuals in the Age of Fascism and Genocide - Boston Review
Speaking the truth and exposing lies is not enough.
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Roger Keil @rkeil.bsky.social · 20d
About time!
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The Globe and Mail @theglobeandmail.com · 20d
Canada officially recognizes state of Palestine
Declaration marks a significant shift in the country’s foreign policy
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Roger Keil @rkeil.bsky.social · 20d
Genau!!
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Daniel Mullis @daenumullis.bsky.social · 20d
Sollten uns nicht darüber lustig machen, dass sie mit Antifa Organisation verbieten wollen, die es gar nicht gibt. Im Gegenteil, das wissen sie natürlich. Es geht genau darum, diffuses Feindbild und scheinbar gesetzlichen Rahmen zu schaffen, um alles zu verfolgen, was neuem Faschismus im Wege steht.
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Folha de S.Paulo @folha.com · Sep 11
STF tem maioria contra anulação de julgamento de Bolsonaro
STF forma maioria para negar anulação de julgamento de Bolsonaro
Cármen Lúcia se juntou a Moraes e Dino e rejeitou argumentos de Fux para anular processo
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · Aug 31
Why do you appreciate unions?

I’ll start:

Weekends off
Paid vacations
Work breaks
Sick leave
Paid holidays
No child labor
Safer working conditions
Health care and retirement benefits
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Navneet Alang @navneetalang.com · Aug 22
Here's @justinling.ca on how things in the U.S. have somehow gotten far worse, for more quickly, than even most pessimists imagined. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Justin Ling: Mark Carney was once ‘concerned’ about Trump. Now things have gotten worse than anyone could have guessed
Canada can no longer afford to take half measures when it comes to dealing with the the U.S.
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Roger Keil @rkeil.bsky.social · Aug 22
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Glaubwürdigkeit verlangt Aufarbeitung
SPD, Grüne und Union vollziehen eine vorsichtige Kehrtwende in der Israel-Politik. Glaubwürdig ist das nur, wenn sie jetzt Verantwortung für ihre Repression der Palästina-Solidarität übernehmen.
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Urban Affairs Review @urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social · Aug 21
From Guest Editors @bigcitypolitics.bsky.social @rkeil.bsky.social, we’re delighted to announce the publication of this collection of essays celebrating the late great Warren Magnusson on our website!

www.urbanaffairsreview.com/warren-magnu...
Warren Magnusson Festschrift — Urban Affairs Review
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Roger Keil @rkeil.bsky.social · Aug 21
Warren, of course!:)

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Zack Taylor @bigcitypolitics.bsky.social · Aug 21
Roger Keil @rkeil.bsky.social and I are proud to announce the release of an @urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social collection celebrating the life and work of the late political theorist and scholar of cities Warren Magnusson, who passed away earlier this year. www.urbanaffairsreview.com/walter-magnu...
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Roger Keil @rkeil.bsky.social · Aug 20
In which I review 2 superb books on suburbanization & suburbanisms: The suburban frontier: Middle-Class construction in Dar es Salaam by Claire Mercer & The right to suburbia: Combating gentrification on the urban edge by Willow Lung-Amam, Journal of Urban Affairs www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The suburban frontier: Middle-Class construction in Dar es Salaam, by Claire Mercer, Oakland, California, University of California Press, 2024; The right to suburbia: Combating gentrification on the urban edge, by Willow Lung-Amam, Oakland, California, University of California Press, 2024
Published in Journal of Urban Affairs (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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Roger Keil @rkeil.bsky.social · Aug 18
New article by S. Harris Ali, Creighton Connolly & myself on the relationship of infectious disease and urban peripheries Governing infectious disease in the urban periphery: marginality, informality and vulnerability: City: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Governing infectious disease in the urban periphery: marginality, informality and vulnerability
This paper works toward building a theoretical framework to understand the role that extended urbanisation and peripherality played in the COVID-19 pandemic, with a specific focus on conceptualisin...
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Breen Ouellette (he/him) @breeno.bsky.social · Aug 15
Shame on you, @aircanada.bsky.social.

"Canada's flag carrier" should pay fairly for all time worked by workers that it employs.
Worker crashing an Air Canada new conference and holding a sign that reads: Unpaid work won't fly CUPE
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Roger Keil @rkeil.bsky.social · Aug 8
New article: A manifesto for Urban Political Ecology journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Special Issue – Imagining with UPE for a Burning World - Yannis Tzaninis, Maria Kaika, Tait Mandler, Roger Keil, 2025
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Roger Keil @rkeil.bsky.social · Aug 7
My experience as well. As you note in your thread, the news value here is minimal and inconsistent.
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Roger Keil @rkeil.bsky.social · Aug 7
The algorithms on this platform seem to be working against the occasional user (of course). I tried several tactics to be heard but usually there is little to no response. There is little exchange of ideas, often just singular statements. That was certainly different on twitter during its good days.
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Roger Keil @rkeil.bsky.social · Aug 7
The extent and scale of these crimes are unfathomable.
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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · Aug 5
Israel’s war in Gaza combines a staggeringly high death rate, shocking violence toward children, unparalleled physical destruction, and now a world-historical famine.

The world has, by objective measure, never seen anything like this.
Israel’s Gaza War Is One of History’s Worst Crimes Ever
Israel’s war in Gaza combines a staggeringly high death rate, shocking violence toward children, unparalleled physical destruction, and now a world-historical famine. The world has, by objective measure, never seen anything like this.
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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · Aug 5
Israel’s war in Gaza combines a staggeringly high death rate, shocking violence toward children, unparalleled physical destruction, and now a world-historical famine.

The world has, by objective measure, never seen anything like this.
Israel’s Gaza War Is One of History’s Worst Crimes Ever
Israel’s war in Gaza combines a staggeringly high death rate, shocking violence toward children, unparalleled physical destruction, and now a world-historical famine. The world has, by objective measure, never seen anything like this.
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Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · Mar 8
'freedom cities' are climate arson.

they will not be located in places set up to succeed. they will induce massive GHGs and VMTs.

a massive waste of public resources and land.

www.wired.com/story/startu...
‘Startup Nation’ Groups Say They’re Meeting Trump Officials to Push for Deregulated ‘Freedom Cities’
The architects of projects like Próspera are drafting legislation to create US cities that would be free from federal regulations.
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Nathan Ellstrand @nellstra.bsky.social · Mar 19
Check out this new important piece on the history of sanctuary cities by @smgonzalezwi.bsky.social and @elprofebarba.bsky.social:

time.com/7264323/sanc...
Sanctuary Cities Are Not New
Since the 1980s, communities have challenged deportations by crafting sanctuary city policies.
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Montreal Gazette @mtlgazette.bsky.social · Mar 21
Mayors call on feds to stop airport expansion into green space https://www.montrealgazette.com/news/article829246.html?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky
Mayors call on feds to stop airport expansion into green space
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Luisa Sotomayor @luisasotomayor.bsky.social · May 3
We're in fundraising mode at @cityinstitute.bsky.social to secure endowment funds to honour the inspiring work of our dear colleagues and CITY's former Directors @rkeil.bsky.social and Linda Peake. Please contribute if you can - those in 🇨🇦 will get a tax receipt: donate.yorku.ca/site/Donatio...
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Roger Keil @rkeil.bsky.social · May 6
Toronto politicos and planners: Come to the @cityinstitute.bsky.social at YorkU on Thursday to hear about the state of affairs in our city from our visiting scholar Sébastien Lambelet: www.yorku.ca/cityinstitut...
Research Seminar: Sébastien Lambelet - The City Institute at York University (CITY)
Revisiting Toronto's growth machine (1990s-2020s): from a neoliberal regime to a regime of "throwntogetherness" Abstract: Sébastien Lambelet will present preliminary results of the field research he i...
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Jagoda Marinić @jagodamarinic.com · Jul 16
„Frauen haben lange um ihre Rechte gekämpft, doch der Umgang mit Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf zeigt: Nun wollen Männer ihnen wieder die Welt erklären. Zurück zu den eigenen Privilegien um jeden Preis!“ meine neue kolumne @stern

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Die Rückkehr der Mansplainer
Frauen haben lange um Selbstbestimmung gekämpft, doch nun wollen Männer ihnen wieder die Welt erklären. Unsere Kolumnistin Marinić sieht das kritisch.
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