My new book, WE BREED LIONS: Confronting Canada’s Troubled Hockey Culture, is coming this fall.
Hockey in Canada is at a crossroads.
Over the past three years, I have interviewed current and former junior hockey players, as well as parents, player agents, hockey coaches and executives, team owners, legal experts and sociologists about hockey culture in Canada. Their stories are shocking and offer insights into so much about our national game that is broken.
Yet there are reasons to be optimistic. I’ve also spoken to men and women who want to see hockey get to a better place and are working hard to help young players become the best versions of themselves playing the game they love.
Coming in November 2025 via @randomhouseca.
Pre-order your copy today:
https://t.co/w3QXGQbgwE
CKMS News: Cambridge manufacturer to be protested in Canada-wide day of action targeting war plane supply chain.
Locally at least 6 manufacturing facilities are linked to the F-35, including local protest target, the PCC Aerostructures’ Centra plant.
https://t.co/u3cKGF3jtZ
The horrific reality in Gaza that has steadily killed 70% of women and children (since the beginning) is a genocidal army significantly funded and supported by Western states. Innocent Palestinian civilians are being butchered. Starved. Rounded up,to then be executed or stripped naked, kidnapped and taken to Israeli detention centres, already known as torture centers for the Palestinians.
In this situation, it is hard to imagine how the hostages themselves can survive.
What is the world waiting to intervene?
Thank you to the 400+ people who joined the #ArmsEmbargoNow webinar on Monday night! We heard from powerful speakers about Canada's ongoing role in arming Israel, laid bare the F-35 supply chain, & announced a big day of action on Nov 16. Watch it here: https://t.co/5MfYyi7SPX
It is wild how we can see Israeli forces massacring and shredding children every day, livestreamed on our screens, and then go over to the NYT, Guardian or BBC and find no mention of it whatsoever. Just a normal day for Western journalists.
The Breach analyzed thousands of sentences from The Globe and Mail's coverage of pro-Palestine student encampments.
We found Canada's paper of record often negatively characterized student protesters while typically casting police violence as neutral.
https://t.co/mkMhEqrkec
On 9/11, we say #NeverForget.
Never forget those who were killed.
Never forget how quickly Democrats and Republicans joined forces to shred our basic liberties, usher in a secretive regime of mass surveillance, unconstitutional detention, and torture, and drag us into illegal wars based on lies that have killed millions of people and squandered trillions of dollars.
Never forget how millions of us stood up against the hijacking of our national grief to serve the neocons’ agenda of global military domination, and how we were ignored and demonized by the political elite.
Never forget how our Muslim friends and neighbors were targeted, smeared, surveilled, and falsely charged with crimes in the name of "protecting our country".
Never forget how “patriotism” was weaponized to dismantle the First Amendment and crack down on dissent, journalism, whistleblowers and activists to this day, as we face ongoing efforts to criminalize our freedom to protest injustice, war and genocide.
Never forget how both Democrats and Republicans set us on this course to fascism, which has culminated in our government openly supporting genocide of the Palestinian people.
Never forget that being a good American means having the courage to fight for justice - not “just following orders”.
Only by standing up to resist both war parties can we reverse the descent into fascism and win a peaceful, just, livable future for our children.
When people lament how disorganized the left is in this country, do they understand the role that rightwing forces have played to make it nearly impossible to do broad-based organizing in this country?
Let's start with the concrete wall within mainstream media
Saturday, July 13
Trump assassination attempt.
Tuesday, July 16
69 people infected with H5N1.
Wednesday, July 17
Biden tests positive for C0Vid.
Thursday, July 18
We learn the world is not absorbing CO2.
Friday, July 19
Massive IT outage takes everything down.
Tomorrow?
12-hour timelapse of American Airlines, Delta, and United plane traffic after what was likely the biggest IT outage in history forced a nationwide ground stop of the three airlines.