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Steven Tufts @stufts.bsky.social · 6h

Knew this would eventually surface.

www.thestar.com/politics/pro...

Government secrecy clouds $237 million in funding to groups that endorsed Doug Ford

Seventeen trade unions and industry groups that endorsed Premier Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservatives in the February election received $237 million from the government’s controversial Skills Develop...

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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 1d

Have you registered? We are going to make some necessary sounds — together.

Join us.

In person or online.

October 30. Sound—at the Interregnum.

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Steven Tufts @stufts.bsky.social · 10d

That feeling when you are surprised a student is not aware of a specific text. Then you realize it came out a decade before they were born.

Steven Tufts @stufts.bsky.social · 12d

Great show tonight in Windsor - John Kameel Farah

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Steven Tufts @stufts.bsky.social · 17d

I think I can argue that @viarailcanada.bsky.social is driving passengers into cars. Rail travel in this country is sophomoric - at best.

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Steven Tufts @stufts.bsky.social · 20d

Sums it up.

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Larry Savage @profsavage.bsky.social · 23d

The 2026 Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Work and Labour Studies takes place June 3-5 in Winnipeg.

This year's theme is Solidarity Unbound: Work and Labour in an Age of Intersecting Crises. Check out the CfP for proposal deadlines.

cawls.ca/en/2026-annu...

#canlab #LabourStudies

2026 Annual Conference - Canadian Association for Work & Labour Studies

The Canadian Association for Work and Labour Studies (CAWLS) is an academic association for scholars interested in work, workers, and labour.

cawls.ca

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Steven Tufts @stufts.bsky.social · 26d

Drawing the Line

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Round 2. Please fasten your seatbelts.

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Steven Tufts @stufts.bsky.social · Sep 15

11000 steps in lecture today

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irina cerić @irinaceric.bsky.social · Sep 15

Being a @viarailcanada.bsky.social passenger sometimes feels like a cruel joke. I’m on a train that is running an hour late *on top* of a scheduled 40 minute delay. We’ve done a detour and waited for multiple freight trains. Unless we’re a full hour late (from the revised schedule)…

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Steven Tufts @stufts.bsky.social · Sep 8

I know I am a moving target when I lecture. I didn’t know that I do around 10000 steps. Thanks to @irinaceric.bsky.social for the fit bit.

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irina cerić @irinaceric.bsky.social · Sep 4

When even the 7th Earl of Grantham is on the right side of history

Lilly ⭐️ @mothcub.bsky.social · Sep 4

Iconic moment at the Downton Abbey premiere

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Steven Tufts @stufts.bsky.social · Aug 31

Great launch in Hamilton today of the new Rob Kristofferson and @stephross.bsky.social book!

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Dalhousie Faculty Association @dalfaculty.bsky.social · Aug 28

With yesterday’s stunts by the @dalhousieu.bsky.social Board, this rally will be electric!! The place to be Fri, Aug 29 at 12 noon. See you there! #keepdalstrong

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irina cerić @irinaceric.bsky.social · Aug 26

Toronto! Join the Community Justice Collective on Sept 18th for a conversation about Copaganda with @equalityalec.bsky.social, lawyer, author, and founder of @civrightscorps.bsky.social
Tickets and more info here: www.eventbrite.ca/e/copaganda-...

White text on a blue background reading:
copaganda
how police and the media manipulate our news

a discussion with Alec Karakatsanis
September 18, 2025, 6-9pm

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Steven Tufts @stufts.bsky.social · Aug 25

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Steven Tufts @stufts.bsky.social · Aug 25

Two Beer Stores closed down near my home this summer. This is only the beginning. Once the Ford pulls the cash (hundreds of millions) payoff to keep stores open - it’s over.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · Aug 22

I was on Global News in Toronto today talking about why athletic boycott of Israel is necessary.

Spoiler: it is because they are committing genocide.

globalnews.ca/video/113458...

Calls to bar Israel from tennis tournament in Halifax | Watch News Videos Online

Watch Calls to bar Israel from tennis tournament in Halifax Video Online, on GlobalNews.ca

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Steven Tufts @stufts.bsky.social · Aug 20

It's been quite a media week. After 40+ interviews about Air Canada flight attendants, I wanted to weigh in on an issue that was less addressed: Air Canada’s weak management www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...

Opinion: A big failure for Air Canada’s weak management. Are its days numbered?

The clumsy handling of its labour dispute raises question of whether leadership is up to the job of handling worker relations

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Steven Tufts @stufts.bsky.social · Aug 19

My first reactions to the news of a flight attendant tentative agreement: 1) CUPE likely has a pretty good deal, 2) the breaks may be put on S107, and 3) @aircanada.bsky.social CEO Michael Rousseau should probably update his resume.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · Aug 18

“Given the ongoing genocide in Gaza…we call on Sport Canada and Tennis Canada to forbid Canadian athletes to compete against Israeli athletes at the Davis Cup and all other international events.”

- 413 🇨🇦 academics, athletes + sports journalists, inc 3 former UN special rapporteurs + an Olympic 🥈ist

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (FREDERICTON, August 18th, 2025) A group of 413 Canadian and Canadian-based scholars, athletes, sports journalists, and sports officials have signed a public letter calling on Tennis Canada to cancel the Davis Cup tournament with Israel this September in Halifax. Signatories include three United Nations Special Rapporteurs, four-time Olympian distance runner Mohammed Ahmed, two members of the Palestinian women’s soccer team who compete for York University, a former Canadian Olympic beach volleyball coach, sports journalists Shireen Ahmed and Ian Kennedy, public intellectuals and activists Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis and some of Canada’s most distinguished and internationally-recognized scholars. The letter is signed by prominent individuals from 46 different academic institutions in Canada, as well as by Canadians at prominent global institutions. One hundred and six of the signatories are based in Atlantic Canada, where the event is slated to occur. The call to cancel the Davis Cup event comes amidst rising condemnation of Israeli conduct in Gaza and the West Bank, which leading legal scholars, activists and human rights groups have described as a genocide. Given the ongoing genocide in Gaza, the letter says that allowing the competition to go ahead is “unconscionable” and calls on the Canadian government to prevent Canadian athletes from competing against Israeli athletes in all international sporting competitions. Despite Tennis Canada’s claims that the event isn’t political and is just about playing tennis, the letter states in part that Canada should follow the lead of other nations who “refuse to legitimize Israel’s crimes” by withdrawing from international sporting competition. “This includes Jordanian tennis player Abdellah Shelbayh, who recently withdrew from a tennis competition in Greece after being slated to play an Israeli athlete,” the letter says. The letter points to the use of sporting sanctions in South Africa as a meaningful …

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Steven Tufts @stufts.bsky.social · Aug 18

On The National talking about flight attendant lockout/strike last night www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

Air Canada labour dispute: What comes next?

For The National, CBC's Christine Birak asks York University labour geographer Steven Tuffs about the Air Canada labour dispute and the decision by the flight attendants' union to defy a federal back-...

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Steven Tufts @stufts.bsky.social · Aug 18

Burning question.

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irina cerić @irinaceric.bsky.social · Aug 17

"Air Canada has to learn not to call mommy and daddy every time they reach an impasse at the bargaining table. They have to actually sit down and get a deal done with their workers." - @stufts.bsky.social Solidarity with flight attendants! www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Air Canada flight attendants to defy back-to-work order, remain on strike: union | CBC News

Air Canada flight attendants will defy the back-to-work order and remain on strike after the federal government ordered binding arbitration to end the work stoppage, the Canadian Union of Public Emplo...

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