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 They claim a lack of resources are why huge numbers of charges are withdrawn against dangerous drivers, but that excuse is meaningless in the face of blatant anti-cyclist attitudes.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...

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.

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.

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.

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...

Somebody end the methodological scourge that is the “Systematic Literature Review” 😡😭

I need as many Heated Rivalry seasons as there are Drag Races

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...

It’s 2 o’clock, do you know where your emotional support spreadsheet is?

Why is pairing my sweet, old, crusty pug with early modern English so funny to me?

"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 #Technology #Policing

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.

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

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...

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.

Stop trying to make AI happen, it's not going to happen

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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every librarian I know would crawl over broken glass for the chance to fistfight an ebook company executive. the ebook policies are genuinely diabolical

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 😭

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...

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.

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.

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.

USEFUL: Generative Al License Tracker from Ithaca S+R sr.ithaka.org/our-work/gen... Tracking deals publishers have with companies licensing their scholarly content for use as training data for LLM (Noting the 'their content' aspect of this - read your publishing agreements folks before signing)

the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.

The notwithstanding clause has got to go.

Concept rendered meaningless through collision with the internet: third space

A key reminder right now, from @prisonculture.bsky.social: "We are actually in a consistent battle to unleash and free our imaginations in the face of unrelenting oppression... Imagination is an important terrain of struggle." prisonculture.substack.com/p/abolition-...

normalizing mask wearing makes criminalization, from this kind of surveillance to mask bans, way harder. you wearing a respirator to the grocery store, on transit, in healthcare is a practice of solidarity with the most marginalized in your community on more than one level.

".. capitalism has always required the social differentiation and hierarchization of race. [..] the social differentiation of race is not a secondary outcome of capitalism but, rather, the racial expropriation of land, labor, and life is innately constitutive of capitalism." @harshawalia.bsky.social

Vaid continues, quoting Frederick Douglass: “What I do believe is that power yields nothing without a demand & without some kind of countervailing power to win that demand. I believe that organizing to redistribute power & access more democratically is how we will bring about change.”

It worries me how often I am seeing "teach AI literacy" basically meaning "teach patrons how to use AI" as if those are the same thing.

For almost two decades, Nunavut has been working on the largest land use plan in the world — but the process appears stalled, while a renewed interest in northern development has led mining claims in proposed protected areas to spike. New from @chloewilliams.bsky.social thenarwhal.ca/nunavut-land...

I've been thinking a lot about how I really hate the implication that AI skeptics are luddites because most of the AI skeptics I know are relatively tech savvy while the biggest AI champions I know can barely use email

FWIW, your local library has probably been fighting EBook Central about these changes. I know we have been.

Library and Archives #Canada Announces Its First Creator In Residence www.canada.ca/en/library-a... #libraries

Prime Minister Mark Carney announces that Canada will recognize the state of Palestine at the 80th Session of the United Nations General Assembly in September. Carney says this move comes amid Israeli settlement building in the West Bank and its relentless war on Gaza.

Yeah, definitely nothing suspicious about Ex Libris of all companies selling us a tool that won't answer questions about Gaza

All those AI-powered tools library vendors are turning on by default (or your library is choosing to active)? Yeah, they aren't neutral, they aren't accurate, and the companies have no interest in providing clarity. 📚 acrlog.org/2025/07/21/w...

My @thestar.com column this week: More than a decade ago, Doug Ford helped usher in an era of outsourcing public services at city hall. The private sector contracts for services like garbage pickup were supposed to save a lot of money. The numbers say they haven’t. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

The fed gov cuts to pay for military and wealthy tax cuts have rapidly expanded. My new analysis shows that most of the cuts will now be on transfers to other govs, non-profits and people. A stunning 1 in 5 dollars is just cuts to FN govs for basic social programs. @policyalternatives.ca 🧵👇👇

in 2020, these guys who fancied themselves the world's true leaders bore witness to the power of a large-scale social movement so big that it could shift public policy and strip power from them within their own organizations. it undermined their entire sense of themselves and they lost their minds.

Glad to see diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives thriving at the nation’s top universities.

Carney is placing Canada on a collision course with fascism. My latest at Substack. noraloreto.substack.com/p/carney-to-...

The person in the video in the quoted tweet is Melanie Yazzie, speaking about decolonization. She did not deserve this response from Marina Medvin or Ann Coulter. That response is just gross. Full text response from Cherokee Chief Chuck Hoskin: www.krmg.com/news/local/p...

Philanthropy empowers mostly the philanthropists. "Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg stopped funding social causes. 400 kids lost their school. The closure of a school Chan opened in 2016 to help struggling families shows the risks for communities reliant on wealthy private donors."