Out today!

Victoria man faces eviction over missed rent payment of $74.52 Victoria man faces eviction over $74.52 in missed rent increases that started in January, but didn't know he had to pay the extra rent

After 6 years of calling his apartment home, Mark is being kicked out because of greed and negligence.

BC is Canada’s eviction capital because of the corporate landlords who put profit over people.

Vacancy control, now.
Bargaining rights for tenants, now.
Ban REITS from owning homes, now.

Data centers consume massive amounts of water – companies rarely tell the public exactly how much In 2024, one data center in Iowa consumed 1 billion gallons of water, enough to supply all the state’s residences with water for five days.

The woman from Kentucky is my hero.

theconversation.com/data-centers...

And so I did. I asked how long this policy has been in place and whether it applies across government. Here’s what they said.

The Burdens of Love in Public Discourse in China Thu, Jan 29 2026, 4:30 - 6pm |

This looks wildly similar to my book. 1) who at Yale invited him 2) will anyone challenge him at the talk?

macmillan.yale.edu/eastasia/eve...

Chinese Universities Surge in Global Rankings as U.S. Schools Slip

🤷🏽‍♀️ Make America FAFO Again 🤷🏽‍♀️

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/u...

Opinion: Tall order to fly WestJet these days At six-feet, five-inches tall, I am already cramped seated in their older, more generous configuration, writes Bernie Swain.

Opinion: Tall order to fly WestJet these days
www.saltwire.com/nova-scotia/...

Intercepted communications link Indian government to B.C. Sikh leader’s assassination | Globalnews.ca British intelligence provided Canada with initial tip tying India’s government to temple leader's 2023 killing.

“Canadian authorities later obtained their own intercept corroborating the involvement of Indian officials, among them Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s right-hand man, Amit Shah.”

would be nice if PMMC could enter phylum chordata & start having a backbone

globalnews.ca/news/1151469...

LOL.

China intimidated UK university to ditch human rights research, documents show Sheffield Hallam University apologises to Professor Laura Murphy for restricting her academic freedom.

Amid many a silly “free speech” panic, here is a genuinely chilling case …

Sheffield Hallam professor accuses the institution of negotiating “directly with a foreign intelligence service to trade my academic freedom for access to the Chinese student market”

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Mandatory Installation of Solar Panels in Public Parking Lots to Apply Retroactively to Existing Facilities Starting at the end of November this year, public parking lots with more than 80 spaces will be required to install solar power generation facilities. ...

Meanwhile, in South Korea: "Starting at the end of November, public parking lots with more than 80 spaces will be required to install solar power generation facilities. This obligation applies not only to newly constructed parking lots but also to existing ones."

cm.asiae.co.kr/en/article/2...

Seeing Rivi Handler-Spitz's drawings paired with the words of Chinese graduate students struggling to decide what they should do next is incredibly moving—take some time with this graphic narrative at Inside Higher Ed today.

Take care, Mike, and recover quickly!

I'm excited to share that my first monograph, "China's Date Debate: How Manchurian Scholars Rewrote World War II," is available for preorder through the University of Michigan Press, China Understandings Today series!

China’s Date Debate press.umich.edu/Books/C/Chin...

Very proud to be able to publish among so many esteemed authors in War & Society. My thanks, also, to @kristenauthor.bsky.social and everyone involved in the editorial and review process!

is translation undervalued in Anglophone academe? In China, translation is considered proper academic outputs, with both formal (e.g. for performance review & promotion) and informal recognition (reputation in wider society). it reflects (and constitutes)

Canada’s national archives need more than just a facelift Library and Archives Canada will soon have a shiny new home, but historians say what it really needs is better – and faster – access to the documents that make up this country’s history

Charlotte Gray on the underfunding of Library and Archives Canada and what lies ahead in its upcoming move. Sigh. #cdnhist #cdnpoli Gift link: www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/5f5c26a...

The world’s largest emitter just delivered some good climate news—for now China may have met an important milestone ahead of schedule. We'll see if it persists.

China is the world’s largest single greenhouse gas emitter, emitting twice as much as the United States.

But now there’s been a key shift: China’s greenhouse gas emissions have fallen even as energy demand has gone up. This milestone is "ahead of schedule."

from @vox.com via @climatedesk.org

Absolutely grim. He got into a fight with shopkeepers at an electronics market, following a dispute over the agreed price to fix a mobile phone screen. He says he was forced to sign confessions he didn’t understand. Years of hell followed.

Same fraudulent strategy that brought on a disastrous Brexit.

Lost and Found: The Unexpected Journey of the MingKwai Typewriter | Made in China Journal It began as an innocuous inquiry on Facebook. Nelson Felix, a resident of New York State, posted in the group ‘What’s My Typewriter Worth?’ about a curious find he made while clearing out the basement...

A Facebook post unearthed a legend: the lost MingKwai typewriter, designed by Lin Yutang in 1947, resurfaced in a NY basement. Hailed as a marvel yet dismissed as a failure, its rediscovery revives debates over innovation, identity, and what it means to be Chinese, writes @yangyangcheng.bsky.social.

Why Are Trucks So Big? YouTube video by Donut

Really good video by Donut.

2025 Chevy is 5.5 ft longer & has 5.5 INCHES more cargo space. The Chevy ran over 6 (fake) children. Actual contractors can't afford them. Trucks are larger to get around fuel economy standards & roads are as deadly now as before drunk driving laws were enacted.

Murphy: "It's not designed as economic policy. It's designed as political policy. Because Trump gets really excited when people have to come to him, petition the king for relief. That's what he's doing with law firms, doing with universities. That may be what he's doing with businesses."

Trump is the gift that keeps on giving for media. Proposed annexation of Canada using “economic coercion,” ie, an illegal, aggressive takeover without citizens’ consent, is framed as “a proposal” to “discuss” and then the inevitable outrage such framing provokes brings this:

Ten Years In A Crumbling Industry There’s a screenshot from TikTok that recently caused me and a group of my writer friends to lose our minds.

I wrote about the early years
of my career and the experience of watching your expectations die: open.substack.com/pub/lindseya...

Absolutely agree on all these. I mean explainers about what a trade imbalance represents and what Canada contributes and so on, it all comes across as pleading with a bully. But with the date kicked back to Feb there will probably be more Canadian pleading.

One of those issues where to have the debate is to lose it.

Can’t comprehend how horrific this case and the public trial must’ve been for Mdm Pelicot, but her courage casts light on the crucial question below.

www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...

Marble memorial at Minto Park with the names of the 14 Dec 6 victims

I was 10 years old on December 6, 1989 and already a feminist. I have attended countless vigils and cried so many tears for the 14 women lost on that day, and the far-to-many thereafter. It’s 2024, and femicide is still a national epidemic.