Debra Thompson @debthompsonphd.bsky.social Political scientist (I guess) & CRC in Racial Inequality in Democratic Societies at McGill University. I read books and I write books and I teach students how to think. Most recent book: The Long Road Home: on Blackness and Belonging (2022)
Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social Toronto Star columnist, nice guy, jump shooter.
Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social Historian: White Flight; New Suburban History; Fog of War; One Nation Under God; Fault Lines; Voter Suppression; Myth America. CAMPAIGN TRAILS: campaign-trails.ghost.io
Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social Pulitzer prize winning Editorial Cartoonist
Open Windows at http://anntelnaes.substack.com
Archived work at http://anntelnaes.com
Arno Kopecky @arnokopecky.bsky.social Writer at large (but mostly Vancouver).
Environment, culture, politics...
All too earnest.
Stephanie Carvin @stephaniecarvin.bsky.social Former national security analyst, Associate Professor, Senior Fellow Centre for Strategic Statecraft. Research on national and international security based in Ottawa, Canada 🇨🇦
Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social Subverter of the dominant paradigm
Mathieu Carpentier @mathieucarpentier.bsky.social Professeur de droit public / Professor of Public Law (Université Toulouse Capitole)
Droit, philosophie, philosophie du droit
Law, philosophy, philosophy of law
Vanessa MacDonnell @vanessamacdonnell.bsky.social Constitutional law professor @uottawa.bsky.social | Co-Director @uodroitpublaw.bsky.social | Canadian team lead @ucnpproject.bsky.social. Executive branch constitutionalism, rights, interpretation, the unwritten constitution https://macdonnell.substack.com
Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social Your least favourite person's least favourite award-winning journalist✨
Follow for short-form videos on issues that matter! 💅
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Andrew Longhurst 🇨🇦 🍉 @alonghurst.bsky.social Senior researcher & political economist @policyalternatives.ca
Health services, public finance, care economy, privatization, policy solutions
SFU PhD candidate. Views mine
https://www.policyalternatives.ca/news-research/author/andrew-longhurst/
Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social Politics, geopolitics, psychology, etc.
Been called “brilliant but out there.”
Smith College BA, MSW | LSE
#AuDHD #LGBTQ #MECFS
Patreon: patreon.com/leahmcelrath
Yaroslav Trofimov @yarotrof.bsky.social Chief Foreign-Affairs Correspondent, The Wall Street Journal. 📕Author of No Country for Love, Our Enemies Will Vanish, Siege of Mecca and Faith at War 📕 Yarotrof.com
Taylor Owen @taylorowen.bsky.social Beaverbrook Chair of Media, Ethics & Communication, Director of the Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy, & Principal Investigator of the Media Ecosystem Observatory, McGill University. Host of the Machines Like Us podcast https://tinyurl.com/9yn836x
Anna Mehler Paperny @mehlerpaperny.bsky.social Reporter with the Investigative Journalism Bureau;
Author, Hello I Want to Die Please Fix Me: Depression in the First Person;
Nosy questions, mostly.
anna.mehler.paperny@gmail.com / amehlerpaperny@ijbureau.org
Bookstagramming/dogstagrammimg @mehlerpaperny
Aengus Bridgman @abridgman.bsky.social Political scientist @McGill studying online political participation, misinformation, and the information ecosystem. Director of the Media Ecosystem Observatory
Alison Killing @alisonkilling.bsky.social Visual investigations at the FT. Architect who won a Pulitzer.
PressProgress @pressprogress.ca Award-winning Canadian journalism that:
🔎 Holds the rich & powerful accountable
🔎 Exposes unsafe & unfair workplaces
🔎 Shines a light on hate & bigotry
Website: PressProgress.ca
Newsletter: PressProgress.ca/Newsletter
Laura Babcock 🇨🇦 @laura-babcock.bsky.social Passion for people, politics and progress. Proud Mom, advocate for social justice, PR communications expert @powergroup.ca, Current Affairs Pundit, former CBC Journalist, Host of The OShow Canada's Pro Democracy Podcast. Subscribe on YouTube and Spotify 🇨🇦
Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org Art, Activism and Accountability
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social Ukrainian patriot. Advisor to Internal Affairs Minister (2021-2023). Support my team of volunteer translators: http://patreon.com/TwitterAG
Jordan Heath-Rawlings @jordanhr.bsky.social Earned media account director at Burson/H&K. Audio, digital, print journalist. Media specialist. Host of Cancon, former host of The Big Story/The Gravy Train.
Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com Professor of political science. Author. Dad.
Constitutional law, rights, governing institutions, and Canadian politics.
Books: Legislating under the Charter; Constitutional Pariah; Governing from the Bench
Jennifer Howard @jenniferhoward.bsky.social Pragmatist. Progressive. Problem-solver.
Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social "Above all, we loved this country and loved exploring and painting it." ~ Lawren Harris
Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social Global advisor on better cities, city planning, transportation & urban change. City planner + urbanist leading @ToderianUW.bsky.social. Past Chief Planner for Vancouver BC. Past/founding President of @CanUrbanism.bsky.social. International speaker & media.
Jess Davis @jessmarindavis.bsky.social PhD. Social scientist and entrepreneur combining research and practice. Illicit finance expert, newsletter writer, consultant. Working to stop bad people from doing bad things with money. Co-host of Secure Line podcast.
Peter Elkind @peterelkind.bsky.social ProPublica Reporter. Books: Smartest Guys in the Room, Client 9, Death Shift. 'Pirate of Prague' podcast. Former Fortune Editor at Large. Repost = Worth reading.
Steve Saideman @smsaideman.bsky.social #CivMil relations; Director, @CdsnRcds; saideman.blogspot.com; Co-host, Battle Rhythm podcast cdsn-rcds.com/battlerhythm, International Relations professor. Used to study nationalism/ethnic conflict.
Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social Founder and creative director of Bellingcat and director of Bellingcat Productions BV. Author of We Are Bellingcat.
Panagonia 🇨🇦 🌎🌱 @panagonia.bsky.social Here for the scientists, historians and calm discussions - developing knowledge instead of opinion. Thoughtful people with integrity followed. Perpetrators of memes and disinformation are blocked - you're not trustworthy.
Elizabeth May @elizabethemay.bsky.social
@canadiangreens.bsky.social MP-Saanich-Gulf Islands, Activist, Author, Mother & Grandmother. Leader of the Green Party of Canada. (she, her)
Green Party of Canada | Parti Vert du Canada @canadiangreens.bsky.social Official page of the GPC | A voice for the voiceless. If you want change, vote for it! 🟢
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Page officielle du GPC | Une voix pour les gens que l’on n’écoute pas. Votez pour que ça change! 🟢
Jonathan Pedneault @jpedneault.bsky.social
Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/roxanegay
Writer, editor, publisher, professor. Some people call me a bad feminist and by some people I mean me.
@christoaivalis.bsky.social @christoaivalis.bsky.social Left Youtuber; Democratic Socialist; Historian
Nora Loreto @nolore.bsky.social Author, freelance journalist, socialist. Kryptonite to a certain type of man.
http://www.noraloreto.ca
Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social Local tosser
Books author (New: Stroll!)
Toronto Star column writer
Spacing Magazine co-founder
U of T instructor
Trying to do it a bit different here than the last place.
Links to books, etc:
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John Roscoe @johnroscoe.bsky.social "It's not easy having a good time...
even smiling makes my face ache."
I take photographs and crack jokes; a meditative creative. I used to be @JohnCRoscoe on Twitter; I'm John Roscoe all over the place.
Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social Journalists (Ed Krassenstein & Brian Krassenstein) - Fighting hate, lies and tackling conspiracy theories.
IMPORTANT Substack Updates: http://krassencast.com
Mike the Canuck @mikekraan.bsky.social Animal lover, Classic rock, Canadian! Hate Trump, Musk, Ford and PP.
Forming a really unhealthy disgust for what is happening in the former United States and the people who are just letting it happen.
Constructive DMs only!
Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social Berkeley professor, former Secretary of Labor. Co-founder of @inequalitymedia.bsky.social and @imcivicaction.bsky.social.
Substack: http://robertreich.substack.com
Buy my new book: https://sites.prh.com/reich
Visit my website: https://rbreich.com/
Reuters Pitchbot @reuterspitchbot.bsky.social International world news for the capitalist class. Satirical. Parody account. Not Reuters.
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Catherine Lu @catherinelu.bsky.social Professor of Political Science, Director of the Yan P. Lin Centre, and Coordinator of the Research Group on Global Justice, McGill. Co-editor of International Theory. Posts here speak only for myself.
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists @thebulletin.org The best thinking on existential threats since 1945. Nuclear risk, climate change, and disruptive technologies. We set the #DoomsdayClock. thebulletin.org
Marci Shore @marcishore.bsky.social Historian, Professor, Munk School, Toronto, CA. Author "The Ukrainian Night: An Intimate History of Revolution"; "The Taste of Ashes: The Afterlife of Totalitarianism"; "Caviar and Ashes".
(((Tendar))) @tendar.bsky.social Tyrants are my enemies | Si vis pacem para bellum |🇩🇪🇪🇺| Das Böse triumphiert allein dadurch, dass gute Menschen nichts unternehmen |Military & History
Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social Political science professor at McGill 🇨🇦⚜️Hiram Mills Chair; Co-Director, Jean Monnet Centre Montreal;
Russo-Ukrainian war; Rule of law, (anti)corruption; European politics 🇺🇦 🇧🇬 🇪🇺. Opinions mine.
https://linktr.ee/popovaprof
Birgit Umaigba-Omoruyi RN @birgitomo.bsky.social http://birgitumaigba.com
Award-Winning Registered Nurse. Keynote Speaker. Nurse consultant. Educator. Everything Equity. Everything Coconut.
CBC Pitchbot @cbcpitchbot.bsky.social Status-quo propaganda for the average upper-middle class white Canadian. Satirical. Parody account. Not the CBC.
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Tristan Snell @tristansnell.bsky.social Lawyer, commentator, fighter for democracy. Prosecuted Trump University @ NY AG. #NAFO Fella. Author of Taking Down Trump. Host of the Tristan Snell Show on Apple and Spotify.
Substack - tristansnell.com
evy kwong @evystadium.bsky.social 鄺文詠 | contributor @404media.co —evy@404media.co | formerly @wired.com and vice news | moving between the hellscape and food | THOUGHTS/OPINIONS MY OWN
Chantal Hébert @chebert18.bsky.social Journaliste politique/CBC At Issue/Les Coulisses du pouvoir et C est bien meilleur le matin-SRC/Good Talk-Sirius XM & YouTube
Dr. Jen Gunter @drjengunter.bsky.social Doctor, writer, Canadian Spice, lasso of truth, I speak for no one but me. 2X NYT bestsellers. More thoughts at TheVajenda.com
MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com The fastest growing independent news network in the world. We cover breaking news, politics, law and more. We are unapologetically pro-democracy.
Steve Boots (inactive) @steveboots.bsky.social Retired content creator
The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com Independent English-language journalism in Ukraine
Become a member: kyivindependent.com/membership
Mark MacKinnon @markmackinnon.bsky.social Senior International Correspondent for The Globe and Mail, Canada's national newspaper. Now based in London, after stops in Moscow, Beijing and the Middle East. Author of The New Cold War (the book, not the thing).
Add me to your top-secret group chats!
Heather e^-1/x^2 @heathermoandco.bsky.social ANTIFA Assistant to the Assistant Regional Manager - North Eastern division.
Don't sit idly by. Speak up. #Onpoli #ABleg #cdnpoli #uspolitics. #Disinformation decoder.
#OSINT #Politics, dogs, music.🇨🇦🇺🇸🌻
#MaîtresChezNous
Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social Staff writer at The Atlantic. Cat guy, Jeopardy champ. New Englander and curmudgeon. Speaker info: https://www.leighbureau.com/speakers/tnichols
Andrew Coyne @acoyne.bsky.social Explorer, founder of Lachine, seigneur of Cataracoui, discoverer of the mouths of the Mississippi.
The Breach @breachmedia.ca Journalism to map a just future.
Award-winning outlet launched in May, 2021.
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Jesse Hirsh @jessehirsh.com Futurist farmer
Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info Public health experts resisting harmful policies, fighting disinformation, and defending public health from within.
Not official CDC—but close enough for transmission.
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Kibitzer34 @kibitzer34.bsky.social Conor, Dublin 🇮🇪 🏴 🇪🇺 🇨🇦
Ex corporate, now smelling the roses
Photography; sea, land, sky ‘scapes
Movies, NYer cartoons
Chess; on a steep learning curve
Art, history of art
History, social geography, climate
Journalism, non toxic politics
🔵 in a 🟢 country
Richard Seymour @leninology.bsky.social Author of many books, Salvage editorial collective. Find my writings at Guardian, New Statesman, NYT, Jacobin, TLS, LRB, etc. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/richardseymourwtf
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor @keeanga.bsky.social historian, co-founder of Hammer & Hope, @NewYorker, DEI hire
https://www.keeangataylor.com/
Lisa @lisab0923.bsky.social Politics, commentary, coiner of ‘alt wrong’ because they are never right.
Politics Is Broken - every Sunday
https://www.youtube.com/@Lisab0923TikTok-e3n
The Walrus @thewalrus.ca Award-winning independent journalism, fact checking, national ideas-focused events, and podcasts. Stay connected: http://thewalrus.ca/newsletters
Shannon Gormley @shannongormley.bsky.social Journalist, dingo-attendant.
Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com Independent journalist, SnapStream brand ambassador, and publisher of the Public Notice newsletter https://www.publicnotice.co/subscribe
Ece Temelkuran @ecetemelkuran.bsky.social How To Lose A Country — Together — and coming soon Nation of Strangers https://www.canongate.co.uk/nationofstrangers ecetemelkuran.iletisim@gmail.com
Centre for Climate Justice @ccj-ubc.bsky.social Advancing public-facing, community-engaged research and interdisciplinary collaboration to address the climate crisis.
climatejustice.ubc.ca | linktr.ee/CCJ_UBC
Canadian Resistance 🇨🇦🇪🇺 @cdnresistance.bsky.social Made in Canada. I’m a senior citizen who is hard of hearing, and a centre-left liberal who is resisting right-wing populism and fascism. Je peux lire et écrire en français. Vive le Canada! The gloves are off! #Resistance
📍 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
LeslieMaggie🇨🇦🍁 @lesliemaggie.bsky.social Idealist who believes we can do better but at odds with current reality!
🇨🇦She/Her
Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social Amanda Katz said this was the cool kids table.
Shannon Proudfoot @sproudfoot.bsky.social Feature writer covering federal politics at The Globe and Mail. I love great beer, old art, all cheese, The Golden Girls and Gritty. I have too many cats, which is the correct number.
Connie Mc @conniemc.bsky.social settler in Unama'ki | eco socialist | ecyclist | married to DrStrangejob | retired educator | Cats rule our home but opine = mine 💉😷🚴♂️🏳️🌈🇵🇸 #RememberHiroshima #FreePalestine
#UBI
Carol Off @caroloff.bsky.social Author of At a Loss for Words: Conversation in an Age of Rage --"an instant #1 bestseller."
It's the story of how political words have been weaponized and who weaponized them.
caroloff.ca
Substack.com/@caroloff
Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social The official "Resistance" team of U.S. National Park Service. Our website: www.ourparks.org
Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social Editor and CEO, Zeteo
Author, ‘Win Every Argument’
British-American
Gerald Butts @gmbutts.bsky.social Chairman @EurasiaGroup. Board Director WWF. Climate, technology, and geopolitics. Priors: Principal Secretary to PM of Canada and Premier of Ontario, CEO WWF.
Barney Panofsky's Best Intentions @mynamesnotgordy.bsky.social Someone on Twitter ordered the Merlot. So here I am.
Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu staff writer @theatlantic.com and senior fellow @snfagora.bsky.social. author of GULAG, IRON CURTAIN, RED FAMINE, TWILIGHT OF DEMOCRACY and AUTOCRACY INC
https://linktr.ee/anneapplebaum
Mary Hart 🇨🇦 @citymice4.bsky.social I left the Blue Bird for Blue Sky ❤️
I’ve been a political animal since my teens, living in Viet Nam in the late 60s made me political pretty damn quick.
I am so worried about America. Also very very worried for my Canada.
VIMY not VICHY - Charlie Angus
CCPA — Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives @policyalternatives.ca The CCPA is Canada's leading progressive policy research institute. We offer independent, non-partisan research on social, economic & climate justice.
www.policyalternatives.ca
Instagram & FB: policyalternatives Also on Gander social: @ccpa.gander.social
Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social International-Affairs Columnist, The Globe and Mail. Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow at the Robert Bosch Academy. Author of Arrival City, The Myth of the Muslim Tide, Maximum Canada, etc. http://dougsaunders.net
Armine Yalnizyan @armineyalnizyan.bsky.social Economist.
Atkinson Fellow on the Future of Workers
https://atkinsonfoundation.ca/atkinson-fellows/atkinson-fellow-on-the-future-of-workers/
Donie O’Sullivan @donie.bsky.social CNN Senior Correspondent
www.instagram.com/doniecnn/
Stewart Prest @stewartprest.ca Recalcitrant Canadian. Political scientist at UBC in Vancouver. I research, teach and talk international relations, BCpoli, comparative democratic institutions, and contentious politics. stewartprest.ca | https://stewartprest.substack.com
Paris Marx @parismarx.com 💥 PREORDER MY NEW BOOK HYPERSCALE 💥
🎙️ @techwontsave.us
📬 https://disconnect.blog
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Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social Ex NY Times, now author of Substack Paul Krugman. Nobel laureate and, according to Donald Trump, "Deranged BUM". Also Research Professor at the City University of New York Graduate Center and senior scholar at the GC-CUNY Stone Center.- A alex himelfarb @alexhim.bsky.social Former federal public servant and academic, NGOs, writer. Most recent book Breaking Free of Neoliberalism in Trump times:Canada’s Challenge
Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social Temerty Professor of Modern European History, Munk School, University of Toronto; Permanent Fellow, IWM Vienna; Emeritus Levin Professor, Yale. Author of "On Freedom," "On Tyranny," "Our Malady," "Road to Unfreedom," "Black Earth," and "Bloodlands"
Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social Investigative journalist. Ex-Guardian/Observer. Now co-founder brand new all-women journalist collective, www.thenerve.news. Tech justice stuff: www.the-citizens.com. Personal newsletter: www.broligarchy.substack.com
The Conversation Canada @ca.theconversation.com Written by academic experts, edited by journalists, backed by evidence
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Canada's National Observer @nationalobserver.com Canada's National Observer delivers vital reporting on the defining crisis of our time: climate change. Through rigorous investigation and compelling storytelling, we expose the forces shaping Canada's climate future.
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zeynep tufekci @zey.bsky.social It is said that there may be seeming disorder and yet no real disorder at all