Ryan Hillier
@ryanhillier.bsky.social
Marxist. Internationalist. Writer.
https://osedax-writer.blogspot.com/
“Capitalism carries war within it,
just like clouds carry rain.”
https://osedax-writer.blogspot.com/
“Capitalism carries war within it,
just like clouds carry rain.”
Pinned
Ryan Hillier
@ryanhillier.bsky.social
· Mar 28
Time for Premier Holt to rescind the IHRA definition of antisemitism
Last week, the Israeli media outlet Haaretz reported that Israel had “committed the largest child massacre in its history. Two
nbmediacoop.org
I wrote for @nbmediacoop.bsky.social on the need for New Brunswick to rescind the IHRA definition of antisemitism: nbmediacoop.org/2025/03/28/t...
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For nearly a year, the feds have been quiet about a scathing UN report on Canada's treatment of disabled people, including MAiD expansion and paltry financial supports
@spichaksimon.bsky.social presses the government for answers in our latest for @breachmedia.ca
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@spichaksimon.bsky.social presses the government for answers in our latest for @breachmedia.ca
breachmedia.ca/canada-sides...
Canada sidesteps UN scrutiny over assisted dying ⋆ The Breach
Calls by disability advocates and the UN to halt an expansion of medically assisted death have gone largely unacknowledged by the federal government
breachmedia.ca
February 11, 2026 at 8:00 PM
For nearly a year, the feds have been quiet about a scathing UN report on Canada's treatment of disabled people, including MAiD expansion and paltry financial supports
@spichaksimon.bsky.social presses the government for answers in our latest for @breachmedia.ca
breachmedia.ca/canada-sides...
@spichaksimon.bsky.social presses the government for answers in our latest for @breachmedia.ca
breachmedia.ca/canada-sides...
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NEW: A Mossad-linked Israeli lawfare organization is trying to shut down The Maple and get criminal charges laid against me.
Read, share and let Israelis know that they don’t get to decide what Canadian journalism looks like.
www.readthemaple.com/a-mossad-lin...
Read, share and let Israelis know that they don’t get to decide what Canadian journalism looks like.
www.readthemaple.com/a-mossad-lin...
A Mossad-Linked Israeli Org Is Trying To ‘Shut Down’ The Maple
The organization has sent demand letters to Ontario law enforcement and global payment processors.
www.readthemaple.com
February 11, 2026 at 1:57 PM
NEW: A Mossad-linked Israeli lawfare organization is trying to shut down The Maple and get criminal charges laid against me.
Read, share and let Israelis know that they don’t get to decide what Canadian journalism looks like.
www.readthemaple.com/a-mossad-lin...
Read, share and let Israelis know that they don’t get to decide what Canadian journalism looks like.
www.readthemaple.com/a-mossad-lin...
Once again Canada proves it has no interest in upholding international legal obligations.
Netanyahu again flies through Canadian airspace en route to Washington | CBC News
Online flight trackers show that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu flew hundreds of kilometres through Canadian airspace on his way to meet U.S. President Donald Trump this week — despite Prim...
www.cbc.ca
February 11, 2026 at 2:24 AM
Once again Canada proves it has no interest in upholding international legal obligations.
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Canada must help Cuba. Here is my latest about Canada's long and deep relationship with the island nation, and how Carney's Davos speech turned out to be all talk and no action.
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Canada must support Cuba
"You cannot ‘live within the lie’ of mutual benefit through integration when integration becomes the source of your subordination.”
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February 10, 2026 at 6:18 PM
Canada must help Cuba. Here is my latest about Canada's long and deep relationship with the island nation, and how Carney's Davos speech turned out to be all talk and no action.
noraloreto.substack.com/p/canada-mus...
noraloreto.substack.com/p/canada-mus...
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Hussam Qassem made a drum set from plastic, wood, and metal scraps.
Video shows him playing the drums and singing to his forcibly displaced family in their tent in Gaza while children around him sing and dance.
Video shows him playing the drums and singing to his forcibly displaced family in their tent in Gaza while children around him sing and dance.
February 10, 2026 at 11:33 AM
Hussam Qassem made a drum set from plastic, wood, and metal scraps.
Video shows him playing the drums and singing to his forcibly displaced family in their tent in Gaza while children around him sing and dance.
Video shows him playing the drums and singing to his forcibly displaced family in their tent in Gaza while children around him sing and dance.
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NEW: Canada’s top-paid CEOs made more in the first 33 hours of 2026 than the average worker will all year, writes Adam King.
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Top-Paid CEOs Made More In 33 Hours Than Workers Will In 2026
A new CCPA report found Canada is increasingly a country of exorbitant wealth alongside persistent poverty.
www.readthemaple.com
February 9, 2026 at 7:24 PM
NEW: Canada’s top-paid CEOs made more in the first 33 hours of 2026 than the average worker will all year, writes Adam King.
www.readthemaple.com/top-paid-ceo...
www.readthemaple.com/top-paid-ceo...
The Canadian government applauds Nazi collaborators and allows Israel to destroy the graves of its own soldiers.
Ottawa investigating report Gaza cemetery where Canadians were buried was destroyed
OTTAWA — Global Affairs Canada says it is "deeply concerned" by reports the Gaza War Cemetery where nearly two dozen Canadians were buried has been severely damaged or destroyed.
ca.finance.yahoo.com
February 9, 2026 at 6:25 PM
The Canadian government applauds Nazi collaborators and allows Israel to destroy the graves of its own soldiers.
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The February/March edition of The Brief is out!
In this edition:
⚡ Tantramar gas plant faces opposition
⚡ RCMP detachment shuttered ‘indefinitely’ after fatal police shooting, as Indigenous leaders call for action to address deadly pattern
⚡ And more!
Read it here: nbmediacoop.org/the-brief/
In this edition:
⚡ Tantramar gas plant faces opposition
⚡ RCMP detachment shuttered ‘indefinitely’ after fatal police shooting, as Indigenous leaders call for action to address deadly pattern
⚡ And more!
Read it here: nbmediacoop.org/the-brief/
The Brief / En Bref
En français ci-bas. The Brief is the NB Media Co-op’s two-page print publication. We distribute 1,500 copies of The Brief across the
nbmediacoop.org
February 9, 2026 at 5:37 PM
The February/March edition of The Brief is out!
In this edition:
⚡ Tantramar gas plant faces opposition
⚡ RCMP detachment shuttered ‘indefinitely’ after fatal police shooting, as Indigenous leaders call for action to address deadly pattern
⚡ And more!
Read it here: nbmediacoop.org/the-brief/
In this edition:
⚡ Tantramar gas plant faces opposition
⚡ RCMP detachment shuttered ‘indefinitely’ after fatal police shooting, as Indigenous leaders call for action to address deadly pattern
⚡ And more!
Read it here: nbmediacoop.org/the-brief/
"Fuhr said the federal government is prepared to act quickly, not only because the navy needs the boats, but Canadians need the jobs that will come with building the infrastructure that supports the submarines, such as the construction of dry docks on both coasts."
Exclusive: Inside Hanwha’s pitch for Canada’s lucrative defence deal
On a packed bullet train heading towards Seoul, the face of Stephen Fuhr, Canada’s secretary of state for defence procurement, suddenly appeared on monitors in each of the 18 train cars.
www.ctvnews.ca
February 9, 2026 at 2:41 PM
"Fuhr said the federal government is prepared to act quickly, not only because the navy needs the boats, but Canadians need the jobs that will come with building the infrastructure that supports the submarines, such as the construction of dry docks on both coasts."
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#BadBunny's performers continued to dance and party outside the stadium after the #SuperBowl #HalftimeShow
February 9, 2026 at 1:58 AM
#BadBunny's performers continued to dance and party outside the stadium after the #SuperBowl #HalftimeShow
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February 8, 2026 at 4:49 PM
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At the height of swine flu Indigenous bands in Canada were begging Stephen Harper for more resources and support and he sent them body bags
Tuned into CBC news to hear that Stephan Harper could be Captain Canada and save Canadian unity and also that he thinks that Canada was handed down by Providence.
February 7, 2026 at 6:34 PM
At the height of swine flu Indigenous bands in Canada were begging Stephen Harper for more resources and support and he sent them body bags
"[F]irst the bubble bursts, then a recession, and then there is a recovery based on AI-related applications – just as there was after the bursting of the railway mania in the mid-19th century. [T]his seems to be the view of Trump’s nominee for heading up the US Federal Reserve […], Kevin Warsh."
AI and creative destruction
Capital expenditure by the ‘hyperscalers’ and tech giants into AI data centres and chips etc continues to pour in. So far, the rise in AI-related investment is not particularly large by historical…
thenextrecession.wordpress.com
February 7, 2026 at 2:02 AM
"[F]irst the bubble bursts, then a recession, and then there is a recovery based on AI-related applications – just as there was after the bursting of the railway mania in the mid-19th century. [T]his seems to be the view of Trump’s nominee for heading up the US Federal Reserve […], Kevin Warsh."
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Heartbreaking testimonies from the Rafah crossing
Harsh interrogations and humiliation inflicted on women and children returning to Gaza
By Rizek Abdel Jawad
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Harsh interrogations and humiliation inflicted on women and children returning to Gaza
By Rizek Abdel Jawad
nbmediacoop.org/2026/02/06/p...
Heartbreaking testimonies from the Rafah crossing
This report was contributed by Rizek Abdel Jawad, a photojournalist from Gaza City whose work has previously been featured in
nbmediacoop.org
February 6, 2026 at 10:41 PM
Heartbreaking testimonies from the Rafah crossing
Harsh interrogations and humiliation inflicted on women and children returning to Gaza
By Rizek Abdel Jawad
nbmediacoop.org/2026/02/06/p...
Harsh interrogations and humiliation inflicted on women and children returning to Gaza
By Rizek Abdel Jawad
nbmediacoop.org/2026/02/06/p...
Absolutely depraved to make statements like this while supporting Israel as it continues genocide against Palestinians.
Anita Anand on the opening of Canada's new consulate in Greenland: "We're so pleased to be able to stand in solidarity with the people of Greenland to show them that we are partners, that we prefer partnership over pressure."
February 6, 2026 at 6:09 PM
Absolutely depraved to make statements like this while supporting Israel as it continues genocide against Palestinians.
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No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology
She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.
www.nature.com
February 6, 2026 at 9:09 AM
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
"When last fall’s federal budget was published, it did not contain a detailed year-by-year breakdown of defence spending going forward."
NATO's new defence target could mean $63B federal deficit, PBO warns | CBC News
The Parliamentary Budget Office estimates the federal Defence Department budget will have to increase by $33.5 billion annually in order for Canada to meet NATO's revised defence spending targets. The...
www.cbc.ca
February 5, 2026 at 5:55 PM
"When last fall’s federal budget was published, it did not contain a detailed year-by-year breakdown of defence spending going forward."
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#Breaking: Toronto police officers arrested in large-scale probe into organized crime and corruption
7 Toronto police officers arrested in large-scale probe into organized crime and corruption
York Regional Police are expected to release results of their investigation, dubbed Project South, at 10 a.m. The chiefs from York and Toronto police will “provide comment” on the probe.
www.thestar.com
February 5, 2026 at 3:18 PM
#Breaking: Toronto police officers arrested in large-scale probe into organized crime and corruption
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Love this excerpt from China Miéville’s “A Spectre Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto”
![As mentioned, an excerpt from a great book.
I’ve indicated highlighted portions with bookend parallel lines like so ||
“Stephen jay Gould, the evolutionary biologist, cheerfully allows that 'general nastiness' is a biological reality and
'represent[s] one subset of a possible range of behaviours.
But peacefulness, equality, and kindness are just as biological
- and we may see their influence increase if we can create social structures that permit them to Hourish? ||A sense that communism is a wager worth making doesn't imply the end of all individual bad behaviour", nor does it presume the innate goodness of humans: only their variability and changeability.||
And it's not, or should not be, controversial that selflessness and social solidarity exist as well as their opposites, that human behaviour is anything but rigid. ||The 'human nature' critics of the Manifesto, for all their cherished self-image as hard-headed realists, are negative sentimentalists who must pathologise vast ranges of actually existing human behaviour - kindness, unselfishness, decency - or at the very least dismiss them as epiphenomenal, on the basis of nothing but belief.||](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ke4hki3el2vwoyrlgyaicr6c/bafkreicekasfehnbajwjwjslkhiswpjjn2l7tspix27g2bgr4sod2edqea@jpeg)
February 5, 2026 at 2:02 AM
Love this excerpt from China Miéville’s “A Spectre Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto”
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I think it’s important for people to remember that Bluesky is not run very well and does not have your interests at heart, at some point Twitter is going to break down to the point where the RW floods Bluesky, and leadership will welcome that to increase user stats
Lol they suspended dril, great work to the morons running this place
February 4, 2026 at 4:27 PM
I think it’s important for people to remember that Bluesky is not run very well and does not have your interests at heart, at some point Twitter is going to break down to the point where the RW floods Bluesky, and leadership will welcome that to increase user stats
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NEW: CIJA has lobbied at least 20 per cent of MPs since the 2025 federal election. One MP has already been lobbied 8 times.
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CIJA Has Lobbied At Least 20% Of MPs Since 2025 Election
One session included 37 MPs and focused on police funding and “hate speech” policy.
www.readthemaple.com
February 4, 2026 at 2:00 PM
NEW: CIJA has lobbied at least 20 per cent of MPs since the 2025 federal election. One MP has already been lobbied 8 times.
www.readthemaple.com/cija-has-lob...
www.readthemaple.com/cija-has-lob...
"The KJA team has provided moral support and information to key political military and economic figures across Europe and North America […]."
In other words, an influence campaign designed to siphon money into a procurement system lacking any transparency whatsoever.
In other words, an influence campaign designed to siphon money into a procurement system lacking any transparency whatsoever.
February 3, 2026 at 3:30 PM
"The KJA team has provided moral support and information to key political military and economic figures across Europe and North America […]."
In other words, an influence campaign designed to siphon money into a procurement system lacking any transparency whatsoever.
In other words, an influence campaign designed to siphon money into a procurement system lacking any transparency whatsoever.
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On In Bed with the Elephant, @sandela.bsky.social explains how early encounters with police shaped her politics — and why expanding #police budgets fuels trauma, inequality, and a growing surveillance state.
Full discussion with @caradrianh.bsky.social here:
ricochet.media/justice/poli...
#IBWTE
Full discussion with @caradrianh.bsky.social here:
ricochet.media/justice/poli...
#IBWTE
Breaking down the 'myth’ of policing with Sandy Hudson
In a powerful discussion, Sandy Hudson advocates for police abolition. Discover her insights on policing and community-led safety resources.
ricochet.media
February 2, 2026 at 5:50 PM
On In Bed with the Elephant, @sandela.bsky.social explains how early encounters with police shaped her politics — and why expanding #police budgets fuels trauma, inequality, and a growing surveillance state.
Full discussion with @caradrianh.bsky.social here:
ricochet.media/justice/poli...
#IBWTE
Full discussion with @caradrianh.bsky.social here:
ricochet.media/justice/poli...
#IBWTE
Superbly articulated piece regarding the NDP leadership race. A party cannot be a vehicle for inclusive political change if it engages in exclusionary behaviour.
The NDP’s talk of renewal rings hollow after barring Bianca Mugyenyi from the leadership race.
As @nolore.bsky.social writes, ideological gatekeeping and internal bureaucracy stifle democracy and make the party hostile to the transformative politics it once embraced.
As @nolore.bsky.social writes, ideological gatekeeping and internal bureaucracy stifle democracy and make the party hostile to the transformative politics it once embraced.
By barring Bianca Mugyenyi, NDP shows it’s not interested in renewal
After the NDP barred Bianca Mugyenyi from its leadership race, the party’s claims of renewal ring hollow. As Nora Loreto writes, her disqualification exposes how ideological gatekeeping and internal b...
canadiandimension.com
February 2, 2026 at 2:35 PM
Superbly articulated piece regarding the NDP leadership race. A party cannot be a vehicle for inclusive political change if it engages in exclusionary behaviour.
"Of the market’s roughly $950 billion of debt issuance in 2025, about $170 billion was for data-center-related loans, an increase of 57% from the prior year […]."
The $3 Trillion AI Data Center Build-Out Becomes All-Consuming For Debt Markets
Not even the world’s biggest technology companies—not Amazon.com, not Microsoft or Meta Platforms—are prepared to foot the bill with only their own cash. The massive equity investments in private com...
ca.finance.yahoo.com
February 2, 2026 at 12:34 PM
"Of the market’s roughly $950 billion of debt issuance in 2025, about $170 billion was for data-center-related loans, an increase of 57% from the prior year […]."