Every semester, there are a handful of student complaints filed because I wouldn’t let students cheat in my classes “like the other instructors.” Yes, really. They put it in email with their names! I also consistently have The Longest waitlists in my business school. Not a coincidence! 😏

This is a great time of year to cook anything with dried beans because I’m home every day and can both put them to soak and cook them in the pressure cooker afterwards. My 13yo is complaining how he’s pooping more and doesn’t know why; yet, starts groaning any time I try to explain fibre to him. 😆

I still find it interesting that the NHL thinks it will just shoot its shot to get romance book/tv aficionados to convert into fans. We're not teenage swifties. We know that you banned pride tape 2 years ago and Canadian hockey did this: www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

I love this time between Xmas and new years every year because it feels like time stands still and calories from cheese doesn’t count 😂

Back from an awesome, long outside walk in the cloudy sunshine and +5 weather with my hubby. The former Yukoner inside me and the kid who grew up in southern Ontario with the blizzards continues to be amazed and in love with the weather in metro Vancouver. I love the local rainforest fairies 🧚

Slept 12 hours two nights in a row now. What’s up with that? 🤷 Not complaining, I’m simply surprised because I wasn’t aware of being sleep-deprived.

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Merry Christmas from my family to yours 🧡🎄

Watching “The nightmare before Christmas” (1993) and I forgot how absolutely fantastic and absurd and impressive this movie really is! No one else in the house likes it though. 🤷 Their loss.

I didn’t have that we Canadians are also treacherous on my bingo card, did you? Damn because that’s a good one that we can be proud of! Go Canada 🇨🇦 I did, however, have down that Canadian media professionals can make some American media folks look silly simply by showing up and doing their jobs.

"Since they are Canadian, I would not rule out treachery" is such a hilarious line because it is in fact 100% backwards. You can't be a traitor to a country you're not from??????

There are two gifts stashed somewhere in this house, one for my husband and one for my son, and I can’t remember where I hid both of these gifts. 🎁 🎁 Again, I question why I couldn’t get a dual diagnosis for both ADHD and autism because I obviously have both 🤷

In honour of my mom’s family, supper tonight is Tourtière, steamed French green beans, and a platter with four different types of cheese surrounded by fresh fruits and veggies. My late grandma would serve with dried fruits, not fresh. And the beans would have loads of butter topped with almonds.

He got away with being an incompetent and deadly professional by bullying anyone competent around him who tried to expose his incompetence. Yes, bullying is a career strategy of incompetent people. www.propublica.org/article/thom...

Quick list of the 26 Alberta politicians facing citizen recall petitions www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/art...

Could scholarships be the key to Canada’s brain gain? https://macleans.ca/society/canada-can-be-a-refuge-for-americas-grad-students/

You know things are getting serious when Canadians stop apologizing.

AI is a goddamn disaster on every level and every time someone tells me they use ChatGP for something, I immediately lose respect for them.

Loved “The Great Flood” on Netflix. It was so much better than I expected. I’m still thinking about it two days later. ⭐️ I can’t think of another movie that better reflected my deep intense love for my son while also acknowledging just how hard and scary it is to be a mother like this movie did.

Now that I’m really thinking about it. Once this is all over, trans people will never be given a proper apology. That teacher will still be out of a career, and those of us who were punished unfairly by unjust systems will just be discarded and forgotten. We must demand accountability.

Pilots are dying. Toxic “fume events” on planes are nearly 10x higher than a decade ago. Doctors now see possible links to ALS, brain cancer, dementia & acute depression—though causation isn’t proven. Formaldehyde found in cabin air has shorturl.at/cOsYV #BlueSky #MedSky #NewsSky #ToxSky #NurseSky

It will be interesting to see herring eventually spawn in the area. Kelp is essential for herring too. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

“Centering the perspectives of people with disabilities, we can more easily spot the vulnerability points in our planning. And when we correct for these vulnerability spots, many more people will benefit.”

“Schools have become cesspools for cold and flu [AND COVID], but they don’t have to be: Ontario School Safety” ottawa.citynews.ca/2025/12/21/s...

Portage la Prairie teams up with 2 First Nations for powwow competition

Mass deportations don’t protect working people—they weaken labor standards, silence organizing and empower bad employers. An attack on immigrant workers is an attack on ALL workers. @jimmy-iupat.bsky.social

For future reference, borrowing and reading books from the public library does not in fact give you menopause as much as you might hope. So frustrated that my period cramps are just as awful as they were when I was 11yo. When will this end? 😩

I’ve been a member of many panels. I’ve chaired panels. In all cases we put our names on the reports. There are no names on this report.

As a Canadian, this is nightmarish for us and our families because diseases don’t recognize borders.

More layoffs and a second campus closure announcement at work.

lol sorry I'm not done, one last thing is part of the reason this happens is some employers think that Black people are less productive than white people and they'll observe that over time. This is used to justify not hiring Black people and/or the racial wage gap. 🙃

lol one group of researchers sent 80,000 RESUMES across some of the largest employers in America and found that white people still get callbacks because they're white. 80,000 resumes. #blacksky

lol so evidence dating back to the 1970s has made one consistent conclusion over and over and over again: Employers definitely hire white people because they're white.

I really dislike it when people frame children’s books & media entirely in terms of how it will affect their development & adult life. I get that it’s important, but a lot of adults could do to remember that kids need to just exist & enjoy stuff in the moment, without any expectations or weight.

Doctor watching medical drama: "That detail is wrong." Regular viewers: Interesting! Cop watching crime drama: "That detail is wrong." Regular viewers: Interesting! Historian watching history drama: "That detail is wrong." Regular viewers: It iS NoT A DoCuMeNtArY!

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I did read a short piece about this in The Guardian yesterday, which included the detail that 46 days was the point at which one of the Irish hunger strikers did die in 1982. This is horrifying. I’m glad The Good Law project has made it easy to email.

Yeah, as I've been saying, we overcompensated because the media ran with the stupid 'GDP per capita' and 'immigrants hurt housing' framing. This is long-run damage to the economy by short-term thinking, feeding xenophobia, and helping to further destroy Canada's world class universities.

Continuing my saga of trying out new cookbooks from the public library, tonight’s dinner is homemade Swedish meatballs. Never made it before and it’s so incredibly good! 😊 Made in my instant pot, which I haven’t used in many years. There’ll be no leftovers for the freezer. Oh well.

If I was a mayor, or ran a city’s transportation dept, I’d be meeting frequently with the local police chief/deputy chiefs, explaining the MANY public interest reasons why we want as many people as possible riding bikes, and how their approach to bike theft, ticketing, etc makes a BIG DIFFERENCE.

@jlphistory.bsky.social The series of daily memes tailored for you has begun and you have to stick around for tomorrow to learn what happens next!

Being autistic is learning the hard way that “Which seasonings?” is the wrong thing to say when someone introduces themselves as a “seasoned professional.”

An interview with Rebecca Kelliher, whose book "Just Pills" traces the history of abortion pills, starting with misoprostol’s whispered origins among Brazilian women in the 1980s as a “pill that makes your period back” through decades of clinical trials and widespread use in almost 100 countries.

Conspiracy theories I believe: 1. Amazon is paying Cdn politicians to destroy Canada Post 2. Big Automotive paying off politicians for decades is why our public transit and cross-prov/country trains are not free (like driving on the road is free), and nowhere near what they used to be or could be!!

I typically don’t like to give advice here, but I am comfortable stating—Do not have your child with autism spectrum disorders inject or ingest bleach or related liquids. Hard to believe, but this is where we are.

"The newspaper industry served as a feeder for our entire news media ecosystem. So when we lose those newspapers, we've lost that journalism. In the early 2000s, we had 40 journalists per 100,000 people. We're now down to 8 journalists per 100,000 people," says @victorpickard.bsky.social.

Neurotypical, I have a question for you - Am I allowed to say to people that they’ve proven themselves untrustworthy when they ask me why I won’t engage with them anymore or is this yet another unwritten rule where I’m required to lie? If so, what lie am I supposed to tell? (Inclusion is a lie)

Exciting news!! My 13yo son is now taller than me!! He’s def going to be taller than 5’8”! I’m 5’2” & my hubby is 6’1”, so kiddo has been very worried he would turn out shorter. But I’m convinced I never reached my full potential because I had undiagnosed celiac & untreated anemia growing up.

Watching a YouTube video about how to set something up in my moodle course sites for next week and the Ed Developer keeps pronouncing the word algorithm as “a-log-a-rhythm” and it has me wondering 🤔 Is this like how Amns say “pedagogy” like “peda-Go-gee”? Or something else? I’m so curious 🧐

I don’t know how anyone of Irish ancestry could ever be okay with how very, very badly immigrants are being treated on this continent. The dehumanization is exactly what was done to our ancestors. 🇮🇪 How could we ever be okay with history being repeated on other groups??