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Charles Smith

@profsmithsask.bsky.social

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Teaching labour politics in Treaty 6 territory, the Paris of the Prairies. Co-Editor of Labour/Le Travail. Terrible guitarist. Even worse Pianist. Proud father of twins. Blue Jays nut. Fair weather runner. Opinions are my own.

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@billkittle.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 12:02 PMReposted by @profsmithsask.bsky.social

@mayor.nyc.govOct 12, 2026, 11:58 PMReposted by @profsmithsask.bsky.social

This morning, the federal government turned the full force of the Department of Homeland Security against a sitting member of Congress for the offense of disagreeing with the White House.

The path to citizenship should not be weaponized against anyone, including Rep. Ilhan Omar, a naturalized American who swore an oath to this country — the same one that I took.

The promise of citizenship should not be contingent on someone agreeing with the federal government.
IIlhan Omar@ilhanmn.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 4:01 PM

I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.

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@profsmithsask.bsky.socialOct 13, 2026, 12:03 AM

When you’re in Alberta you do two things: see the mountains and buy @readtheorchard.org new book.

@profsmithsask.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 3:31 PM

Capitalist democracy at its finest.

@profsmithsask.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 6:32 PM

Solidarity with other provinces? Nah. Environmental policies that work across the country? Nah. Indigenous rights to land? Also nah. I'm just baffled by this entire column and conservative strategy.

@profsmithsask.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 6:30 PM

I've been thinking about this column all morning. The politics behind it are bonkers. Conservatives in Alberta don't like Liberals in Ottawa. So you should vote (almost) for sovereignty to send Liberal Ottawa a message that Conservatives want the richest province in Confederation to be richer.

@profsmithsask.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 6:28 PM

Canada's voting system stinks.

@avilewis.caOct 9, 2026, 9:08 PMReposted by @profsmithsask.bsky.social

We won’t stand by while Mark Carney launches the biggest attack on workers’ rights, Indigenous rights, and the environment that we've seen since the Harper era.

Join our emergency town hall on October 14th, and let’s build the power to stop Bill C-39 together.

RSVP here: www.ndp.ca/stop-bill-c39

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@atrupar.comOct 9, 2026, 1:59 AMReposted by @profsmithsask.bsky.social

Ossoff: "I think Pete Hegseth is frankly a deeply unwell person who seems to relish this kind of brutality all the while he's running a department that is falling into chaos. The guy cannot run the military competently and is spending his time with this kind of obscene medieval spectacle."

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@profsmithsask.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 1:26 AM

This is bloody lunacy. Your democracy hangs on a thread and now you’re one step away from the Hunger Games. Reprehensible.

@profsmithsask.bsky.socialOct 5, 2026, 9:07 PM

Here's to 1984, Brave New World and the Handmaids Tale. Three books routinely banned by authoritarian governments and the three books that made me want to be a political scientist.

@profsmithsask.bsky.socialOct 2, 2026, 5:59 PM

Studying industrial relations for as long as I have, I've learned a allot about power and negotiation. But it is always fascinating how elites within government are obsessed with 3rd party intervention to solve disputes. There is this built in hostility to workers deciding things for themselves.

@profsmithsask.bsky.socialOct 2, 2026, 1:21 AM

It is almost as if the death penalty is immoral, wrong, a form of torture, and solves nothing.

@avilewis.caOct 1, 2026, 7:57 PMReposted by @profsmithsask.bsky.social

Throwing billions in public money behind a pipeline at a time of climate breakdown – while sweeping aside environmental protections, meaningful Indigenous consultation and workers’ right to strike – is absolutely not in the national interest.

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@profsmithsask.bsky.socialOct 2, 2026, 1:14 AM

Yeah, exactly. Which means its pure politics and designed to mitigate the separatists with the hope that the private sector will eventually jump in. Pure state capitalism at the expense of the environment and Indigenous rights.

@avilewis.caOct 1, 2026, 7:59 PMReposted by @profsmithsask.bsky.social

The oil industry is unwilling to pay for this pipeline because even they know the world is moving away from fossil fuels. This project leaves Canadians bearing all the risks of a bad investment without any of the rewards.

@profsmithsask.bsky.socialOct 1, 2026, 7:41 PM

Yeah, if you're a Republican campaigning in deep red areas, you're exceedingly scared. They should be cooked.

@profsmithsask.bsky.socialOct 1, 2026, 3:45 PM

No matter how many times I do it, 5am wake ups are just not natural.

@profsmithsask.bsky.socialOct 1, 2026, 3:44 PM

Jim, there's never no wind in the prairies ;)

@profsmithsask.bsky.socialSep 30, 2026, 7:40 PM

This is just bloody weird. What a fool.

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