The more I think about this the funnier it is...

IMO the point about competing pressures:
"Everything you do is too expensive... AND I need you to do 100 other things that you're not doing now which are all labour-intensive and technology-intensive"
is the critical tension esp. for the kinds of mission driven publishers we want to support.

Metrolinx ‘blocked’ key tasks, then fired partners for missing deadlines: report Internal emails and minutes hint at what a source called 'pure chaos' behind the scenes

Metrolinx said it fired the German partners who were supposed to take over GO trains because they couldn't meet deadlines.

Internally, however, the group found they were waiting on several key tasks being "blocked" by Metrolinx.

#onpoli

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Even larger schools like MPOW have issues finding the resources to support an OER program. It works best at scale and tbh seems to me to be one area where working at a national scale (if it could ever be organized) would be even more beneficial!

Liberal bouncers tell MPs to wait in line to join party OTTAWA - With Mark Carney's Liberals finally achieving a majority, bouncers outside the Liberal party have instructed numerous MPs who are now rushing to cross the floor to "wait in line".

Liberal bouncers tell MPs to wait in line to join party

Guest Post - From Open Access to Preprints: Are We Repeating the Same Mistakes in Scholarly Publishing? - The Scholarly Kitchen Guest blogger Jonny Coates looks at Richard Poynder's post-mortem on the Open Access movement, and uses it as a framework to ask questions about the future of preprints.

Guest Post — From Open Access to Preprints: Are We Repeating the Same Mistakes in Scholarly Publishing? scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/04/14/g...

Alberta's access restrictions threaten privacy and democratic role of libraries, critics say | CBC News Critics of Alberta's proposed rule changes to public libraries say the true danger lies in giving the province power to dictate access and potentially snoop on which books people are checking out.

There's just so much about this that makes me furiously angry... Privacy isn't even at the top of the list...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Comic. [Sign above four people. A person sits at a desk working on a laptop. A person with ponytail is talking to person with white hat. A person with short hair walks away.] SIGN: It has been [-0.00000000000000044] days since our last floating point error

Day Counter

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Last chance to apply to be the next Head, Collections & Content at University of Guelph! Posting closes April 6 (i.e. tonight) at midnight!

🚀 Kicking off CRKN Conference on May 12 with Dr. Cheryl Thompson! Her keynote explores how storytelling is redefining gaps in Black Canadian archival history. Don't miss it! Join us May 12–14!

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@drcherylt.bsky.social

'British Airways left us on a freezing Canadian island for days' Jon Shipman says it was "ridiculous" that passengers were left in Newfoundland for two days.

He was in St. John's.

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don't know whether this is true but it does feel like it might have at least a kernel of truth... Canadian institutional modesty is definitely a thing I've experienced.

I was in a meeting that was related to comms and someone made the point that Canadian University comms focuses too much on the small scale here and now... unlike our American friends who send a lot of time and money investing in ad campaigns selling their institutions greatness to the general public

My latest at TVO, on how the bigger housing announcement yesterday was the one the Premier wasn't at.

Max Plank issued the white paper 10 years ago famously saying "there is enough money in the system to go fully #openaccess" -- Now there is recognition that there might be at the macro level, but not necessarily at the local level. #UKSG2026

Reupping this. Posting closes April 6, 2026.

My first professional paper was on our attempts to implement federated search… it was terrible for users and even worse for those of us trying to keep it running

A smiling mascot with a bellybutton for a nose, a yellow hat, a blue coat, and sandals strolls through a department store.

Hesomaru-kun is the mascot for the Furano Bellybutton Festival, where people paint faces on their midriffs. He has a big belly face with a bellybutton nose.

Metrolinx’s $27B GO Expansion delayed and scaled back: confidential report Internal Metrolinx report show the provincial transit agency is considering a delayed timeline for its promise of two-way, all-day, 15-minute service on the core GO network.

An internal report obtained by the NDP reveals that Metrolinx’s 10-year plan for GO Expansion no longer includes electrifying the Stouffville, Kitchener & Barrie lines, with longer, less frequent trips www.thestar.com/news/gta/met... #onpoli

What I love most about these designs that @lanefab.com has been sharing is how flexible they can be. Same shell but inside could be large “luxury” flats, could be a bunch of 1br student digs, could be custom multi-generational units… so many possibilities if we just legalized the form everywhere

ANALYSIS: Is Doug Ford waging a war on cars? | TVO Today Soaring gas prices. Worsening congestion. Fewer options. Are drivers better off than eight years ago?

New from me at TVO, on Doug Ford's war on the car. www.tvo.org/article/anal...

Reupping this. Posting closes April 6, 2026.

DT asked for some of my thoughts on multiplexes…

A few clarifications and bits of additional context below. 🧵

Not carpooling? You may soon be able to use HOV lanes anyway in off-peak hours | CBC News Highway lanes designated for carpoolers will soon be opened up to solo drivers at certain times of the day, Ontario's transportation minister said Tuesday.

An induced demand experiment…

My guys one day you will just need to just accept that if you want less gridlock build more public transit… www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

I appreciate someone took the time to write this. I profoundly disagree with their view, but if I take the spirit of what they're saying as a good faith attempt to raise a mental issue, there's at least a conversation to be had.

Let's have it 1/🧵

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#AcademicChatter

From Principles to Practice: Developing AI Applications for Discovery in the Academic Library Space YouTube video by CNI: Coalition for Networked Information

[Watched] www.youtube.com/watch?v=rW0X... From Principles to Practice: Developing AI Applications for Discovery in the Academic Library Space by Stony Brook University, San Diego State University and Ebscoh about their implementations which involve using LLM to convert natural language to Boolean(1)

It didn't make it into today's press release but congrats to @crkn-rcdr.bsky.social for getting CFI funding for Open Science Infrastructure for Canad(ian)a: Digital Collections of the Future. Big step towards an exciting future for the Canadiana platform.

See Figure 5B here... journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

So I'm guessing from the weather right now that a bunch of you took off your snow tires yesterday? You can confess your sin I won't judge... much.

We're hiring! University of Guelph is looking for a Head, Collections & Content. The role reports to me and manages a team of about 20. careers.uoguelph.ca/job/Guelph-H...