Will MacGregor (he/him)
@wmacg.bsky.social
PhD Candidate at York U, with focus on Health & Disability Policy, with emphasis on Political Economy. Ex-pat Maritimer, Part Time Theatre Artist, and Sci Fi Nerd
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My statement from @americanprogress.bsky.social on disability justice activist, author, MacArthur fellow, and cyborg oracle Alice Wong.
November 15, 2025 at 5:54 PM
My statement from @americanprogress.bsky.social on disability justice activist, author, MacArthur fellow, and cyborg oracle Alice Wong.
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Canada’s right-wing has become obsessed with hating on the brown people who work at Tim Hortons.
Katia Lo Innes explains how the racist scapegoating of migrant workers aims to divide and distract us from our real enemy — the corporate elite. youtu.be/SRjQ-MJinFg
Katia Lo Innes explains how the racist scapegoating of migrant workers aims to divide and distract us from our real enemy — the corporate elite. youtu.be/SRjQ-MJinFg
Tim Hortons’ migrant workers are being scapegoated to distract from corporate greed
YouTube video by The Breach
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October 30, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Canada’s right-wing has become obsessed with hating on the brown people who work at Tim Hortons.
Katia Lo Innes explains how the racist scapegoating of migrant workers aims to divide and distract us from our real enemy — the corporate elite. youtu.be/SRjQ-MJinFg
Katia Lo Innes explains how the racist scapegoating of migrant workers aims to divide and distract us from our real enemy — the corporate elite. youtu.be/SRjQ-MJinFg
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The UCP’s use of the NWS clause to end the teachers strike is sinking in. This is a terrible precedent for *all* groups with protected rights. Why would the government ever not use s 33 now in any case where they can’t make a credible s 1 argument?
"Bill 2 is perfectly legal."
"The kids need to go back to class."
I agree.
That doesn't mean the premier should've done an endrun around the legislature and the courts.
If the back-to-work law was defensible, why didn't she defend it before leaving the country?
open.substack.com/pub/drjaredw...
"The kids need to go back to class."
I agree.
That doesn't mean the premier should've done an endrun around the legislature and the courts.
If the back-to-work law was defensible, why didn't she defend it before leaving the country?
open.substack.com/pub/drjaredw...
Alberta Strong and Free, Notwithstanding
The UCP's Bill 2 skirts the legislature and the courts, leaving it up to the public to push back swiftly
open.substack.com
October 28, 2025 at 1:52 PM
The UCP’s use of the NWS clause to end the teachers strike is sinking in. This is a terrible precedent for *all* groups with protected rights. Why would the government ever not use s 33 now in any case where they can’t make a credible s 1 argument?
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To get buy-in from all 10 provinces (which it didn't), Canada's constitution has a clause allowing provinces to override its fundamental rights and freedoms. The framers -- I've spoken to some -- imagined it used in existential-crisis cases. Well, a province just used it to break a teachers' strike
October 28, 2025 at 2:59 PM
To get buy-in from all 10 provinces (which it didn't), Canada's constitution has a clause allowing provinces to override its fundamental rights and freedoms. The framers -- I've spoken to some -- imagined it used in existential-crisis cases. Well, a province just used it to break a teachers' strike
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Mark Carney’s austerity, militarism and fossil fuel expansion plan is setting the stage for a wave of resistance. From Indigenous blockades to public sector strikes, workers and communities are already pushing back against Ottawa’s new class offensive.
Carney’s attacks will unleash major struggles
As Mark Carney’s government prepares a sweeping austerity agenda—gutting public services, fuelling militarism, and expanding fossil fuel projects—John Clarke argues that a new wave of resistance is em...
canadiandimension.com
October 27, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Mark Carney’s austerity, militarism and fossil fuel expansion plan is setting the stage for a wave of resistance. From Indigenous blockades to public sector strikes, workers and communities are already pushing back against Ottawa’s new class offensive.
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“Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch. It is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency.Hope should shove you out the door, because it will take everything to steer the future away from endless war and grinding down of the poor.Hope gives a future."
-Rebecca Solnit
-Rebecca Solnit
October 22, 2025 at 9:40 PM
“Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch. It is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency.Hope should shove you out the door, because it will take everything to steer the future away from endless war and grinding down of the poor.Hope gives a future."
-Rebecca Solnit
-Rebecca Solnit
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The system works, but not for most Canadians
www.thespec.com/opinion/cont...
@futurism.bsky.social @mrpeterjulian.bsky.social
@patrioticmillionaires.org @profsmithsask.bsky.social
@chloelewis.bsky.social @larryneufeldsk.bsky.social
@broadbent.bsky.social @jimbostanford.bsky.social
www.thespec.com/opinion/cont...
@futurism.bsky.social @mrpeterjulian.bsky.social
@patrioticmillionaires.org @profsmithsask.bsky.social
@chloelewis.bsky.social @larryneufeldsk.bsky.social
@broadbent.bsky.social @jimbostanford.bsky.social
The system works, but not for most Canadians
Too little attention is being paid to the inequities of our economic system.
www.thespec.com
October 20, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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PWD (Persons With Disabilities) in Canada CALL upon @mark-carney.bsky.social & @liberalparty.bsky.social to remove DTC requirements to access the Canada Disability Benefit immediately.
The CDB should be available to all medically assessed & designated PWD in EVERY Province!
#NoMorePovertyPWD
The CDB should be available to all medically assessed & designated PWD in EVERY Province!
#NoMorePovertyPWD
October 17, 2025 at 4:05 PM
PWD (Persons With Disabilities) in Canada CALL upon @mark-carney.bsky.social & @liberalparty.bsky.social to remove DTC requirements to access the Canada Disability Benefit immediately.
The CDB should be available to all medically assessed & designated PWD in EVERY Province!
#NoMorePovertyPWD
The CDB should be available to all medically assessed & designated PWD in EVERY Province!
#NoMorePovertyPWD
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Happy to share Vol. 21 of Reflections on Research featuring PhD student @wmacg.bsky.social: "Canadian Disability Poverty, Policy, and Marginalization: Critical Analysis, Neoliberal Influence, and Lived Experiences within the Context of Canada's Liberal Welfare State"
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October 15, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Happy to share Vol. 21 of Reflections on Research featuring PhD student @wmacg.bsky.social: "Canadian Disability Poverty, Policy, and Marginalization: Critical Analysis, Neoliberal Influence, and Lived Experiences within the Context of Canada's Liberal Welfare State"
➡️ www.yorku.ca/research/rob...
➡️ www.yorku.ca/research/rob...
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Barrie #Ontario recently declared a "state of emergency" over homelessness.
But for its mayor, the risk to human lives is not the emergency. The visibility of poverty is.
New op-ed from Nir Hagigi:
ricochet.media/justice/hous...
#onpoli #Barrie #housingisahumanright
But for its mayor, the risk to human lives is not the emergency. The visibility of poverty is.
New op-ed from Nir Hagigi:
ricochet.media/justice/hous...
#onpoli #Barrie #housingisahumanright
In Barrie, poverty is the crime and visibility the emergency
The Ontario city’s so-called ‘state of emergency’ is a manufactured crisis built on cruelty, not care
ricochet.media
October 8, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Barrie #Ontario recently declared a "state of emergency" over homelessness.
But for its mayor, the risk to human lives is not the emergency. The visibility of poverty is.
New op-ed from Nir Hagigi:
ricochet.media/justice/hous...
#onpoli #Barrie #housingisahumanright
But for its mayor, the risk to human lives is not the emergency. The visibility of poverty is.
New op-ed from Nir Hagigi:
ricochet.media/justice/hous...
#onpoli #Barrie #housingisahumanright
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Identity politics that obscures class politics and ignores economic inequality only makes the many miseries around us worse.
Identity Politics Is a Poor Substitute for Socialism
In No Politics but Class Politics, Walter Benn Michaels and Adolph Reed show how an identity politics that obscures class politics and ignores economic inequality only makes the many miseries around us worse.
jacobin.com
October 3, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Identity politics that obscures class politics and ignores economic inequality only makes the many miseries around us worse.
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The new $ 17.60-an-hour minimum wage is an arbitrary figure that could and needs to be much higher. Why is it not?
Because the Ontario government is making the political choice to keep minimum wage workers poor.
My latest @thestar.com
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Because the Ontario government is making the political choice to keep minimum wage workers poor.
My latest @thestar.com
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Ricardo Tranjan: Here comes the new minimum wage — with the same problem as the old one
Doug Ford is choosing to keep workers poor when the minimum wage could be and needs to be much higher
www.thestar.com
October 2, 2025 at 2:00 PM
The new $ 17.60-an-hour minimum wage is an arbitrary figure that could and needs to be much higher. Why is it not?
Because the Ontario government is making the political choice to keep minimum wage workers poor.
My latest @thestar.com
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Because the Ontario government is making the political choice to keep minimum wage workers poor.
My latest @thestar.com
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
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My piece on how the Jimmy Kimmel firing is indicative of the growing authoritarian nature of the American regime.
The American century is over and it collapsed so quickly.
charlieangus.substack.com/p/jimmy-kimm...
The American century is over and it collapsed so quickly.
charlieangus.substack.com/p/jimmy-kimm...
Jimmy Kimmel, Charlie Kirk and the Fall of America
How easily they crumbled.
charlieangus.substack.com
September 19, 2025 at 7:15 PM
My piece on how the Jimmy Kimmel firing is indicative of the growing authoritarian nature of the American regime.
The American century is over and it collapsed so quickly.
charlieangus.substack.com/p/jimmy-kimm...
The American century is over and it collapsed so quickly.
charlieangus.substack.com/p/jimmy-kimm...
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General pattern in regime change: the comedy gets better and then it gets banned.
September 18, 2025 at 12:05 AM
General pattern in regime change: the comedy gets better and then it gets banned.
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Extremist murders by ideology, 2013 to 2022. www.pbump.net/o/reassessin...
September 13, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Extremist murders by ideology, 2013 to 2022. www.pbump.net/o/reassessin...
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Canada loses an astonishing $15 billion every year to tax havens.
Jared Walker & @silasxuereb.bsky.social argue that this money could fund public services, but successive governments have let corporations shift profits offshore—while regular Canadians pay the price.
breachmedia.ca/canadas-hidd...
Jared Walker & @silasxuereb.bsky.social argue that this money could fund public services, but successive governments have let corporations shift profits offshore—while regular Canadians pay the price.
breachmedia.ca/canadas-hidd...
Canada’s hidden tax crisis is stripping $15 billion from the economy every year ⋆ The Breach
For decades, Liberal and Conservative governments alike have incentivized corporations and wealthy individuals to shift profits overseas.
breachmedia.ca
September 4, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Canada loses an astonishing $15 billion every year to tax havens.
Jared Walker & @silasxuereb.bsky.social argue that this money could fund public services, but successive governments have let corporations shift profits offshore—while regular Canadians pay the price.
breachmedia.ca/canadas-hidd...
Jared Walker & @silasxuereb.bsky.social argue that this money could fund public services, but successive governments have let corporations shift profits offshore—while regular Canadians pay the price.
breachmedia.ca/canadas-hidd...
Universities Are Selling Themselves Off Piece by Piece
American higher ed has become a mesh of corporate contracts and outsourced services. From dining halls to student records, private vendors now run many institutions’ most basic operations — atomizing ...
jacobin.com
September 10, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Carney’s first 100 days: Unpacking the new prime minister’s ‘disappointing move to the right’ with Linda McQuaig: ricochet.media/politics/car...
Carney’s first 100 days: Unpacking the new prime minister’s ‘disappointing move to the right’ with Linda McQuaig
‘If it comes to a U.S. invasion, no amount of military spending on our part is going to defend us from that’
ricochet.media
September 10, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Carney’s first 100 days: Unpacking the new prime minister’s ‘disappointing move to the right’ with Linda McQuaig: ricochet.media/politics/car...
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Simeon Brown is forcing Health NZ to sign 10 year contracts with private hospitals - meaning it will be very difficult for a future government to back out of the contracts. But the evidence is clear, privatised healthcare costs more and delivers worse outcomes: www.rnz.co.nz/news/on-the-...
NZ’s shift to more private healthcare will likely raise costs and reduce quality: what the evidence tells us
Analysis: Studies show public healthcare is more likely to lead to better health outcomes, and diverting public funds to private healthcare erodes the quality of public care.
www.rnz.co.nz
September 3, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Simeon Brown is forcing Health NZ to sign 10 year contracts with private hospitals - meaning it will be very difficult for a future government to back out of the contracts. But the evidence is clear, privatised healthcare costs more and delivers worse outcomes: www.rnz.co.nz/news/on-the-...
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A reminder that if we hope to ever rebuild an economy that works for everyone, we need a much stronger labor movement.
September 1, 2025 at 1:00 PM
A reminder that if we hope to ever rebuild an economy that works for everyone, we need a much stronger labor movement.
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The Air Canada flight attendant strike was illegal. It was also profoundly Canadian.
As Jen Hassum explains in a new column, Canada’s democracy depends on defiance, not obedience.
Read it here: ricochet.media/labour/the-a...
#AirCanada #cdnpoli @hassum.bsky.social
As Jen Hassum explains in a new column, Canada’s democracy depends on defiance, not obedience.
Read it here: ricochet.media/labour/the-a...
#AirCanada #cdnpoli @hassum.bsky.social
The Air Canada flight attendant strike was illegal. It was also profoundly Canadian
Canada’s democracy depends on defiance, not obedience
ricochet.media
August 21, 2025 at 4:50 PM
The Air Canada flight attendant strike was illegal. It was also profoundly Canadian.
As Jen Hassum explains in a new column, Canada’s democracy depends on defiance, not obedience.
Read it here: ricochet.media/labour/the-a...
#AirCanada #cdnpoli @hassum.bsky.social
As Jen Hassum explains in a new column, Canada’s democracy depends on defiance, not obedience.
Read it here: ricochet.media/labour/the-a...
#AirCanada #cdnpoli @hassum.bsky.social
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Fascism begins the moment a ruling class, fearing the people may use their political democracy to gain economic democracy, begins to destroy political democracy in order to retain its power of exploitation and special privilege.
Tommy Douglas
Tommy Douglas
August 19, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Fascism begins the moment a ruling class, fearing the people may use their political democracy to gain economic democracy, begins to destroy political democracy in order to retain its power of exploitation and special privilege.
Tommy Douglas
Tommy Douglas
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Check out the @policyalternatives.ca analysis highlighted in this article. “productivity” [is not] "the solution to the affordability crisis...[because]...affordability isn’t just about how much we produce, it’s about how the gains are shared. (Link in article.)
thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
Rethinking Canada’s ‘Productivity Problem’ | The Tyee
Mark Carney says weak productivity limits government spending. Jasmine Ramze Rezaee says that’s not the whole story. A Tyee Q&A.
thetyee.ca
August 14, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Check out the @policyalternatives.ca analysis highlighted in this article. “productivity” [is not] "the solution to the affordability crisis...[because]...affordability isn’t just about how much we produce, it’s about how the gains are shared. (Link in article.)
thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...