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alex.station @alexstation.bsky.social · 17d

This week, Quebec police shot and killed a 15-year-old in Longueuil, sparking renewed outrage over racial bias, lethal force, and whether oversight can deliver true justice.

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Montreal Police Face Renewed Scrutiny After Teen Killed

Quebec police shot and killed a 15-year-old in Longueuil, sparking outrage over racial bias, lethal force, and whether oversight can deliver true justice.

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alex.station @alexstation.bsky.social · 17d

At Montreal’s Hippodrome, modular trailers highlight both the promise and limits of “pre-housing,” foreshadowing debates over Carney’s $26B national plan.

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Montreal’s Modular Stopgap Meets Carney’s National Plan

At Montreal’s old Hippodrome, refurbished trailers now serve as modular “pre-housing,” offering 27 rooms for unhoused people waiting on social housing.

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alex.station @alexstation.bsky.social · 20d

How quick wealth and colonial expansion made British Columbia the most secular region in North America.

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How Colonial Land Grabs Shaped Western Canada!

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alex.station @alexstation.bsky.social · 20d

Empire has never been about belief, but about power. From Constantine’s church to colonial “God wills it,” from Manifest Destiny to secular capitalism, the costumes change, but the body remains the same. Canada illustrates how empire adapts.

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From God to Capital: Empire’s Changing Costumes

Religion and secularism didn’t drive empire; they disguised it. Canada shows how conquest adapted from holy mission to market logic.

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alex.station @alexstation.bsky.social · 20d

Religion isn’t the root problem — empire and power are. Colonialism, the slave trade, genocide, and land theft didn’t come from divine command; they came from material interests and racial supremacy.

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Is Religion Really to Blame for History's Wrongs?

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SparkSolidarity @sparksolidarity.bsky.social · 22d

Behind patriotic slogans, Canada’s Arctic buildup secures corporate access to a thawing frontier, prioritizing profits over Indigenous needs and climate action.

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Canada’s Arctic Militarization Masks Resource Grab

Behind patriotic slogans, Canada’s Arctic buildup secures corporate access to a thawing frontier, prioritizing profits over Indigenous needs and climate action.

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SparkSolidarity @sparksolidarity.bsky.social · 22d

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s $26B modular housing plan mirrors his past work at Brookfield, raising conflict of interest concerns and fueling profit-over-people fears.

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Carney’s $26B Modular Plan: Housing Fix or Profit Scheme?

PM Mark Carney’s $26B modular housing plan mirrors his past work at Brookfield, raising conflict of interest concerns and fueling profit-over-people fears.

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alex.station @alexstation.bsky.social · 22d

Quebec’s Crossroads: BRICS Sovereignty vs Green Empire

King Charles’s throne speech promised “unprecedented transformation,” but beneath the pageantry lay subsidies for extraction and U.S. supply chains.

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Quebec’s Crossroads: BRICS Sovereignty vs Green Empire

King Charles’s throne speech promised “unprecedented transformation,” but beneath the pageantry lay subsidies for extraction and U.S. supply chains.

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SparkSolidarity @sparksolidarity.bsky.social · Aug 27

Russia was exiled from global sport after Ukraine, while Israel, despite far greater civilian deaths in Gaza, faces no sanctions — exposing sport’s true politics.

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Sports Aren’t Neutral: Russia Punished, Israel Protected

Russia was exiled from global sport after Ukraine, while Israel, despite far greater civilian deaths in Gaza, faces no sanctions — exposing sport’s true politics.

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SparkSolidarity @sparksolidarity.bsky.social · Jul 14

Zohran Mamdani’s primary win triggered backlash across the spectrum, not for failure, but for proving a bold, left vision can defeat the machine.

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Mamdani’s Victory Shakes NYC’s Political Establishment

Zohran Mamdani’s primary win triggered backlash across the spectrum, not for failure, but for proving a bold, left vision can defeat the machine.

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SparkSolidarity @sparksolidarity.bsky.social · Jul 14

Over 4.3 million hectares have burned across Canada by July 2025, making this the second-worst wildfire season in recorded history.

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Canada’s Wildfire Crisis Is Only Getting Worse

Over 4.3 million hectares have burned across Canada by July 2025, making this the second-worst wildfire season in recorded history.

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SparkSolidarity @sparksolidarity.bsky.social · Jul 14

Trump’s 35% tariff on Canadian imports wasn’t a rupture in trade—it was a calculated humiliation, revealing the asymmetry Canada chose to ignore.

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Trump’s Tariff Exposes Canada’s Subordinate Role

Trump’s 35% tariff on Canadian imports wasn’t a rupture in trade—it was a calculated humiliation, revealing the asymmetry Canada chose to ignore.

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SparkSolidarity @sparksolidarity.bsky.social · Jul 10

Critics of Zohran Mamdani’s run misunderstand how power works in U.S. politics—he’s not hijacking the Democrats, he’s beating them at their own game.

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Why Zohran Mamdani’s Campaign Actually Matters

Critics of Zohran Mamdani’s run misunderstand how power works in U.S. politics—he’s not hijacking the Democrats, he’s beating them at their own game.

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SparkSolidarity @sparksolidarity.bsky.social · Jul 10

The removal of Shen Yun from Montreal’s Place des Arts isn’t censorship, it’s accountability. Here’s why more cities should follow suit.

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Montreal’s Shen Yun Cancellation Sets a Needed Precedent

The removal of Shen Yun from Montreal’s Place des Arts isn’t censorship, it’s accountability. Here’s why more cities should follow suit.

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SparkSolidarity @sparksolidarity.bsky.social · Jul 10

Mark Carney didn’t just win the 2025 election—he absorbed the Conservatives and revealed that Liberalism now functions as Canada’s ruling system.

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Mark Carney’s Liberals Are Tories in Disguise

Mark Carney didn’t just win the 2025 election—he absorbed the Conservatives and revealed that Liberalism now functions as Canada’s ruling system.

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SparkSolidarity @sparksolidarity.bsky.social · Jul 10

Behind the Canada Day parades and patriotic slogans lies a violent colonial history that continues to deny Indigenous sovereignty and suppress resistance.

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Canada Day Pride Masks a Legacy of Colonial Violence

Behind the Canada Day parades and patriotic slogans lies a violent colonial history that continues to deny Indigenous sovereignty and suppress resistance.

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SparkSolidarity @sparksolidarity.bsky.social · Jun 4

Today marks 36 years since the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, yet we're still asking: what happened? And why does the world cling to a massacre narrative that even Western journalists and diplomats on the ground say never occurred in the square itself?

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Rethinking Tiananmen: What Really Happened?

What really happened at Tiananmen Square? Why the world clung to a story of massacre that even eyewitnesses and leaked cables say never occurred there?

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SparkSolidarity @sparksolidarity.bsky.social · May 31

Walk With Israel isn’t a cultural celebration; it’s a public display of support for apartheid and genocide.

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The Truth Behind the Walk with Israel Event!

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SparkSolidarity @sparksolidarity.bsky.social · May 31

A feel-good spectacle for genocide, Walk With Israel masks colonial violence as culture, and those who march aren’t neutral.

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Walk With Israel Is About Complicity, Not Community

A feel-good spectacle for genocide, Walk With Israel masks colonial violence as culture, and those who march aren’t neutral.

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SparkSolidarity @sparksolidarity.bsky.social · May 25

This work means a lot to me, and I’m not giving up—but I’d be lying if I said it wasn’t struggling more and more. Between the daily grind and the push to create and inform, it’s easy to feel stretched thin. Lately, the best I can do is just good enough, which is well below my creative standards...

SparkSolidarity @sparksolidarity.bsky.social · May 1

On May 1, 1977, gunmen opened fire on leftists in Istanbul’s Taksim Square. At least 34 were killed. No one was held accountable. Suspicions fell on Turkey’s Counter-Guerrilla, echoing familiar Strategy of Tension tactics used to crush leftist movements across Europe.

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SparkSolidarity @sparksolidarity.bsky.social · May 1

Every May 1st, workers from around the world rise up in marches, strikes, and protests, not just to celebrate, but to confront the forces that exploit, erase, and repress them.

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From Haymarket to Gig Work: May Day Fights On

Every May 1st, workers around the world rise up in marches, strikes, and protests—not to celebrate, but to confront the forces that exploit, erase, and repress them.

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SparkSolidarity @sparksolidarity.bsky.social · Apr 30

This election campaign saw tens of thousands march on Ottawa in one of the largest pro-Palestinian demonstrations in Canadian history, demanding justice, not just votes.

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Don’t Just Vote for Palestine, Organize to Fight Zionism

This election campaign saw tens of thousands march on Ottawa in one of the largest pro-Palestinian demonstrations in Canadian history, demanding justice—not just votes.

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SparkSolidarity @sparksolidarity.bsky.social · Apr 29

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SparkSolidarity @sparksolidarity.bsky.social · Apr 28

While movements like VotePalestine offer a necessary demand for Palestinian rights, their cautious strategy risks reinforcing the very systems it seeks to challenge.

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Why Electoralism Won’t Free Palestine

VotePalestine.ca offers necessary demands for Palestinian rights, but its cautious strategy risks reinforcing the very systems it seeks to challenge.

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