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Cynthia Khoo
9 days ago
Maybe fix all the above first & implement recs TF/GBV & MMIWG experts have called for over decades, THEN we can maybe consider starting to think about contemplating the idea of possibly discussing if LE really needs new "technical capabilities" to investigate crimes their own buddies are committing.
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Woman’s advocacy group requests review to halt RCMP’s ‘shocking’ misogynistic violence
A women’s advocacy group is calling for an external review to halt human rights abuses perpetrated by the RCMP against women.
https://www.aptnnews.ca/national-news/fafia-external-review-rcmp-misogynistic-violence/
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Sonja Drimmer
9 days ago
3) it cynically exploits social justice issues to claim that preventive measures against a product will necessarily be discriminatory 4) it claims that educators must adapt to the rules of commerce, which, if subject to regulation necessarily results in the discrimination cited in number (3)
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Sonja Drimmer
9 days ago
This is a fake problem. The research cited here makes four classic moves in tech boosterism: 1) it cites w/o evidence the inevitably wide uptake of a product 2) it prematurely frames a narrative of tech progression in terms of waves ("2nd-wave AI challenge") to make this future a fait accompli
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Erica Ifill
9 days ago
“While Trump’s trade war is hitting the Canadian economy, Mark Carney is insisting on a devastating round of austerity to ensure it is workers who pay, not profits”
www.counterfire.org/article/aust...
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Austerity is class war amidst the trade war
While Trump’s trade war is hitting the Canadian economy, Mark Carney is insisting on a devastating round of austerity to ensure it is workers who pay, not profits, reports John Clarke It becomes cl...
https://www.counterfire.org/article/austerity-is-class-war-amidst-the-trade-war/
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Rebecca Colesworthy
9 days ago
AI produces MORE editorial labor, not less. “[To weed out slop] the journal doubled its deputy editors from 6 to 11 & nearly doubled its sr editors from roughly 30 to 60. All of this is volunteer labor, unpaid academics donating time to maintain scientific quality.“
www.forbes.com/sites/johndr...
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AI Slop Is Flooding Academic Journals. A Top Journal Measured It
A top management journal measured AI’s impact on submissions and reviews. Submissions rose 42%, writing quality declined and AI reviews proved uninformative to editors.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/johndrake/2026/04/30/ai-slop-is-flooding-academic-journals-a-top-journal-measured-it/
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Ben Williamson
12 days ago
Once academics were told to upload teaching materials to digital learning platforms, universities and tech firms alike were always going to monetize it. Now AI is being used to amplify the assetization of those digital archives of academic content.
codeactsineducation.wordpress.com/2026/04/29/a...
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AI and the amplification of academic content assetization
Photo by Viktor Forgacs on Unsplash A new AI-driven digital learning platform launched by Arizona State University has set off alarm bells among academics for its exploitation of scholarly work. AS…
https://codeactsineducation.wordpress.com/2026/04/29/ai-and-the-amplification-of-academic-content-assetization/
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Chantal James
13 days ago
A Day in the Life of a Palestinian Lawyer: “In Gaza, missiles don't just destroy stone; they attempt to erase legal history. Families lose homes along with title deeds under rubble. A client asks: How will I prove this land is mine? With official archives destroyed, I fight to reconstruct the truth.
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UAINE
16 days ago
Indigenous land defenders are being killed and criminalised at alarming rates, AI systems scrape traditional knowledge without consent, while Indigenous women face escalating rates of violence, crises that Indigenous leaders confronted this week at the UN.
www.teaonews.co.nz/2026/04/25/i...
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Indigenous land defenders are being killed, AI is scraping their knowledge
UNPFII highlights crises: killings and Indigenous land defenders, AI-driven data exploitation, and severe violence against Indigenous women; calls for rights and data sovereignty.
https://www.teaonews.co.nz/2026/04/25/indigenous-land-defenders-are-being-killed-ai-is-scraping-their-knowledge/
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Apoorva Mandavilli
20 days ago
The acting head of the CDC has canceled the publication of a study that found that the Covid vaccine sharply cut the odds of hospitalizations and emergency visits last winter
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/u...
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C.D.C. Cancels Publication of Study Showing Benefits of Covid Vaccines
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/us/politics/cdc-covid-vaccine-study.html?unlocked_article_code=1.c1A.MJOW.g_jN0hG0kYYp&smid=url-share
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Will Beaman
22 days ago
There is no dustbin of history. For better and for worse, archives can always be reactivated in new combinations
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Mikell Taylor
about 1 month ago
If you’re an engineer in the US with Iranian colleagues, they probably graduated from here. It’s MIT caliber. What the fuck are we doing.
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Adam Rogers
about 1 month ago
Yeah that’s cool
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Shawn Micallef
about 2 months ago
This is an epic Ford failure and he should lose the GTA over it., Over to you, Ontario voter.
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They were promised two-way, all-day GO train service. Confidential Metrolinx documents show these lines may actually get slower
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.
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/metrolinxs-27b-go-expansion-delayed-and-scaled-back-confidential-report/article_901a9780-eddf-4d13-8876-0cccd3a765af.html
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌
about 2 months ago
GET HER, VARIETY 😍
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This is just a tactic to desensitize people in Toronto to police openly carrying weapons. There is already so much police brutality and violence without this in public spaces and public life.
www.tps.ca/media-centre...
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Toronto Police Service Enhances Public Safety Readiness with New Counter-Terrorism Security Unit and High Visibility Deployments
https://www.tps.ca/media-centre/news-releases/65502/?fbclid=IwY2xjawQzYfZleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFXOUhQMml2c1lnUXo1d09Wc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHnLIKzJnA8Cyl4D2Z1PEda4VlNGFp7F4MGus7-VuqQqFMLS-_UpbF16EVtu5_aem_jgYgWcPnyo3UKQ6TXdoung
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Maria Haskins
about 2 months ago
O M G 🦐 Shrimp bowl (close-up). Bowl. Peru: Ica, Nasca. 100 B.C.E.-800 C.E. MOA Collections 2990/180. Photo by Joshua Doherty.
myvancity.ca/2026/02/27/m...
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infoDOCKET
2 months ago
Now Available Online (Full Text): Special Issue of IFLA Journal (March 2026) Devoted to
#Indigenous
#Knowledge
repository.ifla.org/items/cce7bc...
#libraries
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God gives the loudest snores to his fastest sleepers 😞
2 months ago
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Think of this when you think of Carney and Canada
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Mary Grace
2 months ago
Borders are colonial constructs and the Jay Treaty gives free passage across that line dividing a once undivided land that has belonged to Indigenous peoples since time immemorial.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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'The border doesn't exist to us': How one Mohawk community balances fears of ICE with its inherent rights | CBC News
For Mohawks in Akwesasne, crossing international borders is a way of life. But now, many are worried about what the possibility ICE agents might be coming to the region could mean for their inherent r...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/akwesasne-mohawk-territory-immigration-ice-fears-9.7105852
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Sean Carleton
3 months ago
The residential school denialism movement is fracturing because (unsurprisingly) it has a Nazi problem - and you just love/hate to see it.
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Temu Tisha Campbell
3 months ago
Another example of AI & Racism harming the Black community.
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Incalculable, immeasurable loss. You will be missed so dearly, Fobazi.
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3 months ago
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My colleague Mikayla and I have an article in this issue that defends imperfect solutions as an ethical framework toward justice work! If you're intrigued, you can read more here!
cjal.ca/index.php/ca...
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The Biking Lawyer LLP
4 months ago
We have a major issue on our hands at the Toronto Prosecutor's office. They claim a lack of resources are why huge numbers of charges are withdrawn against dangerous drivers, but that excuse is meaningless in the face of blatant anti-cyclist attitudes.
www.thestar.com/news/gta/she...
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She was thrown under a streetcar when a car driver knocked her off her bike. Her case was withdrawn — one of thousands tossed each year by a ‘system in shambles’
The mass withdrawal of road safety-related charges has become routine, the result of an overwhelmed court system that is leaving millions in fines on the table and letting dangerous drivers off the ho...
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/she-was-thrown-under-a-streetcar-when-a-car-driver-knocked-her-off-her-bike/article_65a1d0ff-7efa-4b71-93ca-f7ae54345116.html
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Paris Marx
4 months ago
Quite frankly, it’s outrageous that Mark Carney is cutting Statistics Canada. If he was Stephen Harper or Pierre Poilievre, I feel like this would be getting a lot more backlash. Carney of all people should know the importance of high-quality data and information about the country.
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Statistics Canada to cut 850 jobs in 'dark time' for public service, union says
Federal statistics agency entered its workforce adjustment period Monday, sending notices to thousands of employees.
https://ottawacitizen.com/public-service/statistics-canada-cuts-public-service-union
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Judah Grunstein
4 months ago
We think of the postwar world order as having been built by the US. But as Getachew makes clear, that world order was completed by the intellectual giants of the African, pan-African and African diaspora liberation movements. It is no coincidence Trump & Miller are targeting its fundamental tenet.
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Jordan Roberts
4 months ago
Draw your own conclusions, but the president of Palantir Canada sits on Carney's council for Canada/US relations. And the feds also did a deal with Palantir, via a homegrown proxy.
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Shawn Micallef
12 months ago
Elsa Lam continues to prove & document how corrupt & full of lies the Doug Ford closure of the science centre was & is. Read & share widely - not that it matters in Ontario, a province that seems ok w a high level of this.
www.canadianarchitect.com/draft-engine...
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New documents reinforce that Science Centre closure was not supported by engineers
The Ontario Science Centre was shuttered on June 21, 2024, with the Ontario government claiming that a structural roof issue made it unsafe. New documents suggest that the engineers inspecting the roo...
https://www.canadianarchitect.com/draft-engineering-reports-didnt-suggest-closure-of-ontario-science-centre-new-documents-reveal/
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Nicole Chung
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Renee Nicole Good, murdered by ICE, was a prize-winning poet. Here’s that poem.
Renee Nicole Good, 37, mother to a six-year-old boy, was murdered earlier today by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, a few blocks from her home. According to the Minnesota Star Tribune: [An ICE agent] s…
https://lithub.com/renee-nicole-good-murdered-by-ice-was-a-prize-winning-poet-heres-that-poem/
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Somebody end the methodological scourge that is the “Systematic Literature Review” 😡😭
4 months ago
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I need as many Heated Rivalry seasons as there are Drag Races
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Isis Naucratis
5 months ago
Wonder what Archaeologists and Antiquity Scholars did (or not) about Palestine in 2025? Here's a 80-item timeline!
everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2025/12/27/a...
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Archaeologists and Antiquity Scholars on Palestine in 2025: An Archive
cover art and post: Katherine Blouin How are Antiquity scholars and organizations responding to Israel’s campaign of annihilation of Palestine’s past, present and future? What do archaeologists and…
https://everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2025/12/27/archaeologists-and-antiquity-scholars-on-palestine-in-2025-an-archive/
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It’s 2 o’clock, do you know where your emotional support spreadsheet is?
5 months ago
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Why is pairing my sweet, old, crusty pug with early modern English so funny to me?
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Harms Committed
5 months ago
"Canada is one of Palantir's top funders." "Public Sector Pension Investment Board and the Canadian Pension Plan are major shareholders." "[I]ncentive for governments to look the other way. Jeopardize oversight? That might hurt pension returns."
#Ontario
#Canada
#Surveillance
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When a company names itself after a mythical foreboding object — take it as a warning
Peter Thiel's Palantir borrowed its name from The Lord of the Rings, and two decades later, it's living up to the metaphor by quietly embedding itself in the machinery of government.
https://ricochet.media/labour/billionaire-watch/when-a-company-names-itself-after-a-mythical-foreboding-object-take-it-as-a-warning/
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Tressie McMillan Cottom
5 months ago
I have come to the idea that we have to collectively, brutally, ritualistically kill Target just to show capital that we truly aren’t fucking around.
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dr. caitlin m. green
5 months ago
a lot of people debating the merits of that dogshit essay meanwhile the girl’s mom is retweeting demands to ban all trans people from teaching at any level. it’s forest for the trees shit
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Adam Rothman aced his cognitive test
5 months ago
From Frederick Douglass's 1867 "Composite Nation" speech, a defense of Chinese migration to the United States at a time when anti-Chinese sentiment was intensifying.
teachingamericanhistory.org/document/our...
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The Ontario Conservatives have a unique talent of seeing problems in public infrastructure and service and doing the utmost to make it infinitely worse while also enriching their buddies. It is beyond time to dump Doug Ford.
6 months ago
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Stop trying to make AI happen, it's not going to happen
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Adele Perry
6 months ago
The HBC, ending as it began: putting profit before this land and its people. What a history lesson for all of us.
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🌷Lys🌷
6 months ago
every librarian I know would crawl over broken glass for the chance to fistfight an ebook company executive. the ebook policies are genuinely diabolical
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We have entered the part of the year where I won’t have volume in my hair for like 6 months because I’m always wearing a hood or hat 😭
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KGE hockey fan 🇨🇦🍁
6 months ago
Provinces are responsible for health and education - let's start talking to voters who keep voting to defund these essential services.
www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
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Ontario has underfunded schools by $6.3 billion since 2018 - CCPA
The 2025 Ontario budget has lots of big numbers, but fails to address funding shortfalls in core program areas. CCPA’s same-day budget analysis examined the broad trend, and in an article for The Toro...
https://www.policyalternatives.ca/news-research/ontario-has-underfunded-schools-by-6-3-billion-since-2018/
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Rebecca Nagle
6 months ago
After losing in state court, the company behind Line 5 tried to move the case to federal court. The problem with that move is that it was illegal. An appeals court rejected the bid, but now the pipeline company is appealing to the Supreme Court.
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Michigan Tribes Tell Supreme Court: Don’t Bail Out Enbridge
Ten Michigan Tribal Nations have filed an amicus brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to reject Enbridge’s “underhanded procedural tactics” in the ongoing legal fight over the Line 5 oil pipelines.
https://nativenewsonline.net/environment/michigan-tribes-tell-supreme-court-don-t-bail-out-enbridge
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Robbie Richardson
8 months ago
Tlingit artist Nicholas Galanin, “Architecture of return, escape (The British Museum)”, a deerskin map a floor plan of the British Museum and possible escape routes for various Indigenous cultural belongings held there.
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Keith W. Dickinson
7 months ago
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
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