Our provincial government's response to public shaming also includes actively working to shield cabinet members from having to release records to the public.

Stack of books: di Lapedusa’s The Leopard, Stone’s The Agony and the Ecstasy, Lyamlahy’s Venice Requiem, Calvino’s Invisible Cities, Eco’s The Name of the Rose, Ferrante’s Neapolitan Quartet, Yourcenar’s Memoirs of Hadrian.

Homework ahead of spring travel 🇮🇹📚

White woman with short hair on a balcony, in a denim jacket that has THE PRETTIEST LITTLE FLOWERS stitched into the collar

Just in time for spring weather, a creative student vastly improved my jacket with the cutest flourishes 🌼

This is no way to live, man

Bob Rae: "We've got to stop normalizing the Trump administration. It's not a normal administration. It's corrupt."

Trump’s Genocidal Threats on Iran Are Enabled by a Vast Apparatus of Destruction “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again,” Trump threatened.

Trump is holding an entire nation hostage. But, somehow, the rest of the world continues on. The markets chug along. Congress continues to be in recess, with dissent confined largely to social media. It is hard not to feel like we have failed some critical test of the bounds of our own humanity.

“The courts have set a 20-day limit on how long children can be detained. However, the new data shows that since Trump retook office, ICE has detained more than 1,600 children for longer than 20 days.”

"The longer a child is in detention, the more trauma they are likely to endure.”

and fools say bluesky is dying

When you throw in the towel after a campaign loss or failure, you lose momentum for your cause. Remember, you're never building your own thing. You're building a means for others to move forward. You're part of things, not the culmination of them.

Francesca Albanese: "Israel has been emboldened by the impunity that has historically been granted to it, but particularly in the last 2 years.. Israel is accelerating the genocide against the Palestinian people.. the end game is the ethnic cleansing of Palestine"

The immediate status quo, centrist attacks on Avi Lewis are precisely why he is effective and needed.

In face of growing right wing escalation, an unbashadely left opposition that is anti capitalist & internationalist is both principled *and* realistic.

You don’t need criminal law to make cops: Reading carceral care work into reproductive healthcare policies in Vancouver This paper presents a critical review of the health and social policy regulating clinicians in Vancouver Canada. For this review the authors investiga…

New article, the first to come from my research team's SSHRC funded project: You don’t need criminal law to make cops: Reading carceral care work into reproductive healthcare policies

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Avi Lewis: "When Israel commits a genocide in Gaza, we call them out. When the US and Israel start an illegal and reprehensible war against Iran that sets the world on fire, we say Canada should have absolutely no role in it whatsoever."

Avi Lewis to lead NDP after successful populist, left-wing leadership campaign The 58-year-old democratic socialist, longtime activist and filmmaker will take on the job his grandfather held more than 50 years ago.

#Breaking: Avi Lewis to lead NDP after successful populist, left-wing leadership campaign

A screenshot of a post on X (formerly Twitter) by Mark Shearman MBE (@AthleticsImages). ​The text of the post reads: "After today's excellent decision by the IOC.,if the Rio 2016 women's 800m. was held today, the 3 medallists in my photo. Wambui, Niyonsaba & Semenya would be barred and the medals would go to Canada's Melissa Bishop, Poland's Joanna Jozwik & GB's Lynsey Sharp @AthleticsWeekly" ​Below the text is a photograph of several female track athletes running a race on a blue track. Prominently featured in the front pack are runners wearing race bibs that say Wambui (wearing a red Kenya uniform), Niyonsaba (wearing a green, white, and red Burundi uniform), and Semenya (wearing a green and yellow South Africa uniform). Several other runners, including one with the name Arzamasova, are visible trailing slightly behind them.

The push for sex verification tests is rooted in racism and they're explicit about it. Not a surprise they want to eliminate the 3 Black women in this photo.

apparently Wikipedia has more rigorous standards than every university on the planet, university administrators, edtech enthusiasts, (certainly more than) AI bros, several prominent academic journals, and too many professors and teachers

Canada abstained

"Over the last few years, American tech oligarchs have become the greatest argument against their own existence.
The sheer scale of their erratic behavior and political interference proves that extreme wealth concentration is a structural threat to society."
-Joni Askola

The latest round of austerity cuts by Carney will make all our lives harder while he plans to spend a half trillion on the military. Libraries, Canada Post, Via rail… these are not targets we voted to gut.

The Carney government brings us destruction. A full-frontal assault on Indigenous peoples, the integrity of the tax collection system, foreign aid, and, apparently, the country's rail system, among many other things.

To chop spending, Ottawa will cut science, tourism, foreign aid programs - National | Globalnews.ca While 40 departments will collectively spend $23 billion more next year, another 85 departments will spend $31 billion less in 2026-27.

🆕 from me: To chop spending, Ottawa will cut science, tourism, foreign aid programs globalnews.ca/news/1173746... #cdnpoli

Toronto police union says officers rights were violated in ‘offensive overreaction’ fuelled by Project South scandal Toronto Police Association called for the removal of the superintendent overseeing professional standards over alleged search of officers' belongings.

Toronto police really, really do not want to be investigated for corruption. The union represents the rank & file. This is their official stand.

This is not in the public interest, the public service, the public protection.

Another academic who does not have the slightest grasp of what the point of being a professor is. Anyone who views graduate students as hired labour and as means to serve their own goals should not be advising students at all. Shame on Science for platforming this.

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Breaking: Ontario's Al Quds Day injunction application has been denied. An anticipatory and blanket injunction that interferes with Charter rights is not justified.

Ontario to introduce bill exempting Premier, cabinet from FOI requests Government’s proposed changes follow its loss of court battle over call logs for Ford’s personal cellphone

The Ontario government will introduce legislation that would exempt the Premier, cabinet ministers and their offices from having to respond to freedom of information requests, allowing them to keep documents and emails about their decision-making secret.
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Ford government to end funding for supervised consumption sites — including two in Toronto In Toronto, Moss Park Overdose Prevention Site and the location at Fred Victor will lose their funding, according to letters sent to the site directors.

Ford government to stop funding all supervised consumption sites — including two in Toronto

How Doug Ford made the drug problem on the TTC worse If we want to see less public drug use and people sheltering on transit, we must begin by reopening and expanding supervised consumption sites and by addressing housing unaffordability.

How Doug Ford made the drug problem on the TTC worse

#Opinion from @dianachanmcnally.bsky.social

Absolutely horrific.

Canada’s massive border bill, C12, has been adopted after third reading at Senate.

C-12 will become the country's largest machinery of deportation: deporting refugees without hearings, retroactive bars, and mass status cancellation.

A mirror of anti-migrant ICE violence.

Grammarly Is Facing a Class Action Lawsuit Over Its AI ‘Expert Review’ Feature The feature, which Grammarly shut down Wednesday, presented editing suggestions as if they came from established authors and academics—without their consent.

I'm suing Grammarly over its paid AI feature that presented editing suggestions as if they came from me - and many other writers and journalists - without consent.

State law requires consent before someone's name can be used for commercial purposes.

www.wired.com/story/gramma...

this is not an amount of money any individual or household should be able to have and we have to abolish both billionaires as a group and the economic system that makes them possible