Dennis Raphael

Dennis Raphael

@dennisraphael.bsky.social

Canadian, university professor, Bertolt Brecht admirer, Raptors fan, South Riverdale enthusiast/resident, critic of capitalism. More info about me here: https://discover.academics.yorku.ca/Dennis.Raphael/about

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Dennis Raphael
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In upsets, progressive Curran Stikuts defeated sitting incumbent Chris Moise in Ward 13 (Toronto Centre), and Chiara Padovani won Ward 5 (York South-Weston), unseating the council's longest-serving member, Frances Nunziata. Sara Ehrhardt was also newly elected to represent Ward 14 (Toronto–Danforth)

Dennis Raphael
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"The night has twelve hours, and then comes the day" (German: "Die Nacht hat zwölf Stunden, dann kommt schon der Tag") is a profoundly hopeful and enduring line by the German Marxist playwright and poet Bertolt Brecht

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1. Chiara Padovani is projected to be the next city councillor for York South—Weston, defeating incumbent Frances Nunziata. 2. Sara Ehrhardt projected to win in Toronto-Danforth, replacing retiring councillor Paula Fletcher 3. Olivia Chow elected as Mayor. Trifecta!

Dennis Raphael
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1. Chiara Padovani is projected to be the next city councillor for York South—Weston, defeating incumbent Frances Nunziata. 2. Sara Ehrhardt projected to win in Toronto-Danforth, replacing retiring councillor Paula Fletcher 3. Olivia Chow elected as Mayor. Trifecta!

Dennis Raphael
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Yes, bicycle riders in Ontario have the legal right to ride in the middle of the lane (known as "taking the lane") when it is unsafe to share the lane side-by-side with a motor vehicle.

Dennis Raphael
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www.thedailybeast.com/ally-throws-... Any Norwegian wanting to move from Norway to the USA needs to take the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA). A brief, 30-point screening tool designed to detect mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and early signs of Alzheimer’s disease or other dementias.

thedailybeast.comAlly Throws Trump’s Foul-Mouthed Insult Back in His FaceDonald Trump threw a swearing, campaign-trail temper tantrum because he didn’t get the Peace Prize.

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Nicholas Slayton
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Lula's win means so much, for rights, geopolitics, the Amazon and climate and more. But it also blocks the US from gaining a new partner in its expanding and unchecked war in Latin america where it has been killing people without charge or public evidence.

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Today, injustice goes with a certain stride, The oppressors move in for ten thousand years. Force sounds certain: it will stay the way it is. No voice resounds except the voice of the rulers And on the markets, exploitation says it out loud: I am only just beginning. chtodelat.org/b8-newspaper...

chtodelat.orgBertold Brecht /// In Praise of Dialectics – chtodelat.orgToday, injustice goes with a certain stride, The oppressors move in for ten thousand years. Force sounds certain: it will stay the way it is. No voice resounds except the voice of the rulers And on the markets, exploitation says it out loud: I am only just beginning. But of the oppressed, many now say: […]

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Writer @naomiaklein.bsky.social says the rapid rise of artificial intelligence is part of a much longer project of privatization. "After 50 years of outsourcing and hollowing out of public functions of the state, the very last stage is the outsourcing of thinking, of intelligence itself."

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chtodelat.orgvideo film /// Angry Sandwich people or in a Praise of Dialectic – chtodelat.orgAngry Sandwich people or in a Praise of Dialectic / Хвала диалектике [2006] from dmitry vilensky on Vimeo. a video project by Chto Delat realised by Tsaplya [Olga Egorova], Nikolay Oleinikov, Dmitry Vilensky Text: Bertolt Brecht In this new piece, we decided to try to imagine protest in form of theatrical happening in urban space. This action was carried out in close collaboration with two local activist groups, namely “Worker’s Democracy and The Pyotr Alexeev Resistance Movement”. In fact, these activists have a great deal of experience in street politics; they participate in demonstrations of protests and picket-lines, and hand out flyers. As such, they have retained that basic form of grass-roots political culture that has an entire aesthetic of its own. Together, we defined the goal of the piece. We wanted to visualize “In Praise of Dialectics”, one of Bertolt Brecht’s most striking poems.

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Scott Robertson
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Avi Lewis: "The right has not been afraid of rage. And what they've done is redirected it to immigrants, to trans kids, to people living on the street. Instead of directing that rage upward to the people who are amassing vast fortunes on our economic misery."

Dennis Raphael
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A Non-comprehensive List of Brad Bradford’s Endorsements October 20, 2026 A billionaire, conservative media moguls and public figures with a history of sharing Islamophobic statements are lining up behind Toronto mayoral hopeful Brad Bradford www.thegrindmag.ca/brad-bradfor...

thegrindmag.caA Non-comprehensive List of Brad Bradford’s EndorsementsA billionaire, conservative media moguls and public figures with a history of sharing Islamophobic statements are lining up behind Toronto mayoral hopeful Brad Bradford…
Dennis Raphael
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The contemporary Low-Income Measure, After-Tax (LIM-AT) rate for Quebec stands at approximately 15.8% to 16.2% based on recent Statistics Canada Canadian Income Survey data.

Dennis Raphael
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While Quebec continues to record the lowest absolute poverty rate in Canada via the Market Basket Measure (7.4%), its relative low-income rate remains elevated because median household incomes in the province trail the national median.

Dennis Raphael
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All those who have thought about the bad state of things refuse to appeal to the compassion of one group of people for another. But the compassion of the oppressed for the oppressed is indispensable. It is the world’s one hope. – Bertolt Brecht, 1938/1979