David Arruda
@david-the-diabetic.bsky.social
Just a diabetic who loves to talk all things basketball, politics, pop culture and labour. All opinions are my own.
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The NDP's first official leadership debate did a disservice to the party, its members, to francophones, and to Quebec. After April's result, there needs to be real & substantive debate about what happened and what should happen next. This wasn't it.
www.lukewsavage.com/p/is-this-re...
www.lukewsavage.com/p/is-this-re...
Is this really what NDP renewal looks like?
The NDP's first official leadership debate did a disservice to the party, its members, to francophones, and to Quebec
www.lukewsavage.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:54 PM
The NDP's first official leadership debate did a disservice to the party, its members, to francophones, and to Quebec. After April's result, there needs to be real & substantive debate about what happened and what should happen next. This wasn't it.
www.lukewsavage.com/p/is-this-re...
www.lukewsavage.com/p/is-this-re...
I wrote about the current CUPE 2073 strike for Spring Magazine. I hope you all like it. springmag.ca/canadian-hea...
Canadian Hearing Service workers are standing up to a bully boss - Spring
Workers at the Canadian Hearing Service (CHS) have been on strike since April 28, following the expiration of their contract on March 31, 2025. The workers and their union, the CUPE Local 2073—which r...
springmag.ca
June 3, 2025 at 8:22 PM
I wrote about the current CUPE 2073 strike for Spring Magazine. I hope you all like it. springmag.ca/canadian-hea...
The way @zachlowenba.bsky.social and @howardbeck.bsky.social have talked about the MVP race between Shai and Jokic ,on the first episode of the Zach Lowe Show, makes we wonder if people will debate the 2024-25 MVP like 1961-62? Sure, some forget Wilt finished 3rd, but it’s led to 60 yrs of debates.
Bluesky
wayzachlowenba.bsky.social
April 8, 2025 at 11:58 AM
The way @zachlowenba.bsky.social and @howardbeck.bsky.social have talked about the MVP race between Shai and Jokic ,on the first episode of the Zach Lowe Show, makes we wonder if people will debate the 2024-25 MVP like 1961-62? Sure, some forget Wilt finished 3rd, but it’s led to 60 yrs of debates.
Wrote this for Spring Magazine, but also posted to my Substack. I hope y’all find it interesting. open.substack.com/pub/davidarr...
Elon's institutional capture and the failure of moral capitalism
This article was originally written for Spring Magazine (https://springmag.ca/elon-falling-profit-and-moral-capitalism)
open.substack.com
March 4, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Wrote this for Spring Magazine, but also posted to my Substack. I hope y’all find it interesting. open.substack.com/pub/davidarr...
Toronto’s Safe Injection Site Became a Model. Now It May Close www.nytimes.com/card/2025/02...
Toronto’s Safe Injection Site Became a Model. Now It May Close
Moss Park set the stage for New York and Ontario, where support for supervised injection sites shifted from outright opposition to growing support. Today, shifting politics have left the future of th...
www.nytimes.com
February 25, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Toronto’s Safe Injection Site Became a Model. Now It May Close www.nytimes.com/card/2025/02...
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Walgreens CEO says anti-shoplifting strategy backfired: ‘When you lock things up…you don’t sell as many of them’
Walgreens CEO says anti-shoplifting strategy backfired: 'When you lock things up…you don't sell as many of them’
Walgreens' CEO talked about the flip side of investing in increased security on a recent earnings call.
fortune.com
January 15, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Walgreens CEO says anti-shoplifting strategy backfired: ‘When you lock things up…you don’t sell as many of them’
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120+ Indigenous tribal leaders have sent a letter asking for Executive Clemency for Leonard Peltier
“A survivor of the federally funded boarding school system where he endured years of physical, emotional, and spiritual abuse”
ndncollective.org/120-tribal-l...
@ndncollective.bsky.social
“A survivor of the federally funded boarding school system where he endured years of physical, emotional, and spiritual abuse”
ndncollective.org/120-tribal-l...
@ndncollective.bsky.social
January 15, 2025 at 2:47 PM
120+ Indigenous tribal leaders have sent a letter asking for Executive Clemency for Leonard Peltier
“A survivor of the federally funded boarding school system where he endured years of physical, emotional, and spiritual abuse”
ndncollective.org/120-tribal-l...
@ndncollective.bsky.social
“A survivor of the federally funded boarding school system where he endured years of physical, emotional, and spiritual abuse”
ndncollective.org/120-tribal-l...
@ndncollective.bsky.social
Listening to #TheRingerNBAShow Festivus episode and hearing @bigwos.bsky.social talk about the contradictions between these libertarian owners and how they run the NBA is content created specifically for me.
December 24, 2024 at 5:12 PM
Listening to #TheRingerNBAShow Festivus episode and hearing @bigwos.bsky.social talk about the contradictions between these libertarian owners and how they run the NBA is content created specifically for me.
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As the oligarchy begins to take shape, this meme seems more prescient than ever. They have convinced you that immigrants are your enemy while they pick your pockets at the same time, you’ve been duped. It’s the billionaires who are ruining this country,not migrants. Always has been. #RiseAndResist
December 15, 2024 at 5:51 PM
As the oligarchy begins to take shape, this meme seems more prescient than ever. They have convinced you that immigrants are your enemy while they pick your pockets at the same time, you’ve been duped. It’s the billionaires who are ruining this country,not migrants. Always has been. #RiseAndResist
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“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist”
James Baldwin
James Baldwin
December 14, 2024 at 1:14 PM
“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist”
James Baldwin
James Baldwin
I wrote this for Spring Magazine last week. I hope you all find it interesting.
springmag.ca/wsibs-employ...
#justiceforinjuredworkers
#justforillworkers
springmag.ca/wsibs-employ...
#justiceforinjuredworkers
#justforillworkers
WSIB’s “employer surplus” is injured and ill workers’ deficit
On November 21st, the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) confirmed that they will be rebating $2.5 billion, with employers receiving the lion’s share of this rebate ($2 billion). The provinci...
springmag.ca
December 9, 2024 at 2:59 PM
I wrote this for Spring Magazine last week. I hope you all find it interesting.
springmag.ca/wsibs-employ...
#justiceforinjuredworkers
#justforillworkers
springmag.ca/wsibs-employ...
#justiceforinjuredworkers
#justforillworkers
I’m excited to see @zachlowenba.bsky.social on here. I’ve been missing his basketball content this year. Even if it’s not basketball related, seeing him post brings a sense of warm familiarity.
December 4, 2024 at 4:23 PM
I’m excited to see @zachlowenba.bsky.social on here. I’ve been missing his basketball content this year. Even if it’s not basketball related, seeing him post brings a sense of warm familiarity.
I refer to it as the wrapture.
it’s here. the wrappening
December 4, 2024 at 2:00 PM
I refer to it as the wrapture.
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it’s here. the wrappening
December 4, 2024 at 1:47 PM
it’s here. the wrappening
This is a stigma that impacts injured workers everywhere. It is all a part of a larger effort to extract value from anyone who is deemed to have the capacity to work. #aninjurytoone #injuredworkerjustice
Accusations that injured workers are engaging in workers' compensation fraud is a tactic commonly used by insurance carriers and self-insured employers to discourage injured workers from filing comp claims. The industry even runs PR campaigns shaming injured workers.
Occasionally it backfires. 1/
Occasionally it backfires. 1/
Walmart must pay $35 million to a truck driver it falsely accused of fraud, jury says
A jury ruled that Walmart must pay a former employee almost $35 million after finding that the retailer defamed him.
tinyurl.com
November 27, 2024 at 5:51 PM
This is a stigma that impacts injured workers everywhere. It is all a part of a larger effort to extract value from anyone who is deemed to have the capacity to work. #aninjurytoone #injuredworkerjustice
It’s also tough when it’s a kindle.
#therisksofreading
#therisksofreading
Reading in bed is all fun and games until the book falls on your face. 📚 #BookSky
November 26, 2024 at 9:55 PM
It’s also tough when it’s a kindle.
#therisksofreading
#therisksofreading
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Postal workers in Canada are striking for fair wages & better working conditions.
This is putting them in direct conflict with the business model Amazon champions, where workers are treated as disposable & unions are crushed.
Great piece by @ParisMarx.com in @JacobinMag.bsky.social.
#canlab #CUPW
This is putting them in direct conflict with the business model Amazon champions, where workers are treated as disposable & unions are crushed.
Great piece by @ParisMarx.com in @JacobinMag.bsky.social.
#canlab #CUPW
Amazon’s Anti-Union Model and the Damage Done
Canadian postal workers are striking for fair wages and better working conditions. This is putting them in direct conflict with the business model Amazon champions, where workers are treated as dispos...
jacobin.com
November 26, 2024 at 8:23 PM
Postal workers in Canada are striking for fair wages & better working conditions.
This is putting them in direct conflict with the business model Amazon champions, where workers are treated as disposable & unions are crushed.
Great piece by @ParisMarx.com in @JacobinMag.bsky.social.
#canlab #CUPW
This is putting them in direct conflict with the business model Amazon champions, where workers are treated as disposable & unions are crushed.
Great piece by @ParisMarx.com in @JacobinMag.bsky.social.
#canlab #CUPW
@bigwos.bsky.social take on Jokic is what I’m here for.
November 26, 2024 at 2:34 PM
@bigwos.bsky.social take on Jokic is what I’m here for.
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Why is CUPW on strike?
It’s about more than wages.
They’re also demanding improved health benefits, strengthened protections against contracting out work to subcontractors & improved protections for workers when technological changes improve efficiency so that workers can share in those benefits.
It’s about more than wages.
They’re also demanding improved health benefits, strengthened protections against contracting out work to subcontractors & improved protections for workers when technological changes improve efficiency so that workers can share in those benefits.
Why Canada Post workers are on strike
On the morning of November 15, 55,000 postal workers—members of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW)— walked off the job. It’s the latest in a series of large-scale public sector strikes that h...
monitormag.ca
November 26, 2024 at 4:07 AM
Why is CUPW on strike?
It’s about more than wages.
They’re also demanding improved health benefits, strengthened protections against contracting out work to subcontractors & improved protections for workers when technological changes improve efficiency so that workers can share in those benefits.
It’s about more than wages.
They’re also demanding improved health benefits, strengthened protections against contracting out work to subcontractors & improved protections for workers when technological changes improve efficiency so that workers can share in those benefits.
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Tim Houston’s Communications Director, Stephen Moore, defends using swastika flags and Nazi symbolism at political rallies, and the comparison of Canada’s government to Nazi Germany, while using far-right terminology such as “wokeism”.
What a guy.
www.TheCoast.ca/news-opinion...
#NSpoli #cdnpoli
What a guy.
www.TheCoast.ca/news-opinion...
#NSpoli #cdnpoli
Premier’s communications director defended Nazi symbols at Freedom Convoy protests
Stephen Moore wrote an op-ed for the National Post calling far-right symbolism a critique of Trudeau government.
www.TheCoast.ca
November 23, 2024 at 5:58 PM
Tim Houston’s Communications Director, Stephen Moore, defends using swastika flags and Nazi symbolism at political rallies, and the comparison of Canada’s government to Nazi Germany, while using far-right terminology such as “wokeism”.
What a guy.
www.TheCoast.ca/news-opinion...
#NSpoli #cdnpoli
What a guy.
www.TheCoast.ca/news-opinion...
#NSpoli #cdnpoli
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Lessons from Trump’s win that could help us stop Pierre Poilievre:
Many mainstream liberal explanations claim that Harris ran a flawless campaign and that racist & misogynist voters are to blame.
This analysis is not only wrong, it lays the ground for repeated defeats in the years ahead.
#cdnpoli
Many mainstream liberal explanations claim that Harris ran a flawless campaign and that racist & misogynist voters are to blame.
This analysis is not only wrong, it lays the ground for repeated defeats in the years ahead.
#cdnpoli
Lessons from Trump’s win that could help us stop Poilievre
It’s already two weeks since Trump’s decisive election win, but the battle of interpretation is still raging. Why did more than 76 million people vote for Trump, who won both the popular vote and the ...
springmag.ca
November 24, 2024 at 12:27 AM
Lessons from Trump’s win that could help us stop Pierre Poilievre:
Many mainstream liberal explanations claim that Harris ran a flawless campaign and that racist & misogynist voters are to blame.
This analysis is not only wrong, it lays the ground for repeated defeats in the years ahead.
#cdnpoli
Many mainstream liberal explanations claim that Harris ran a flawless campaign and that racist & misogynist voters are to blame.
This analysis is not only wrong, it lays the ground for repeated defeats in the years ahead.
#cdnpoli
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Canada's 55,000 Postal Strikers Refuse to Throw New Hires Under the Bus:
Canada Post wants to make new hires wait a year before they can receive benefits (worse than benefits current workers have) and exclude them from the defined-benefit pension plan.
LaborNotes.org/2024/11/cana...
#canlab #CUPW
Canada Post wants to make new hires wait a year before they can receive benefits (worse than benefits current workers have) and exclude them from the defined-benefit pension plan.
LaborNotes.org/2024/11/cana...
#canlab #CUPW
Canada's 55,000 Postal Strikers Are Refusing to Throw New Hires Under the Bus
The company wants to make new hires wait a year before they receive benefits, and to exclude them from the defined-benefit pension plan. Meanwhile the starting wage has risen only 6.7 percent since 20...
LaborNotes.org
November 23, 2024 at 1:55 AM
Canada's 55,000 Postal Strikers Refuse to Throw New Hires Under the Bus:
Canada Post wants to make new hires wait a year before they can receive benefits (worse than benefits current workers have) and exclude them from the defined-benefit pension plan.
LaborNotes.org/2024/11/cana...
#canlab #CUPW
Canada Post wants to make new hires wait a year before they can receive benefits (worse than benefits current workers have) and exclude them from the defined-benefit pension plan.
LaborNotes.org/2024/11/cana...
#canlab #CUPW
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