If, as you get older, you find yourself thinking that "kids today" are lazy or entitled or unwilling to work or just generally deficient in some special way they weren't when you "were that age," congratulations! You're not just an old human being, you're one of the oldest stereotypes in history.

Traveled for work, with significant delays, and I have to travel again twice this month. Already exhausted from the start of the term. Disability all over the place (last week was BAD). Can I just go hibernate instead?

BREAKING: Despite US President Trump’s call for Israel to cease its attacks on Gaza, at least 41 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks since dawn, medical sources told our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/1zszvd

American intelligence officials have now confirmed to CBS News that Netanyahu ordered the drone attacks on the Sumud flotilla while it was docked in Tunisia, an attack launched from Israeli Navy submarines off the Tunisian coast.

NEW: ICE is planning to hire a team of nearly 30 people to surveil social media 24/7, build dossiers on people, and flag them for arrest and deportation. @dell.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-so...

The financial struggles plaguing our postsecondary education sector are not a sudden development, nor are they solely a result of federal changes to international student permit caps.

It’s so fucking funny that we’re still getting five NYT op-eds a week calling for the left to tone down their rhetoric

“No self-respecting university could ever accept something like this,” said [fmr Columbia President] Lee Bollinger... “Trying to protect conservative ideas against being ‘belittled’ — that’s about as violative of the First Amendment interests as you can get.” www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

On a positive note, CBC's Ombudsman found a segment on a 2023 anti-LGBTQ+ rally did not violate CBC's journalistic standards The review concluded that yes, you can interview trans people about the impact of discrimination against their community without giving equal airtime to "the other side"

i looked at the methodology for this and it is a. sex addiction counseling group in texas did a surveymonkey and extrapolated the results to the entire us population which is the sort of research design that earns you an ff on an intro methods class (the extra f is for extra effort), and b. p-hacked

In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

Join us on the picket line! Today until 4pm - 1385 Woodroffe Avenue Fighting for the future of public colleges in Ontario! @opseusefpo.bsky.social @caut.bsky.social @algonquincollege.bsky.social

I got one of the best comments I could get from a student: you really changed the way I see and understanding the world, my whole way of thinking. ☺️

Is PM Carney abandoning women, girls, and queer people in his austerity agenda? My latest in the Hill Times. www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/0...

CUASA urges our community to join the picket line on Thursday October 2 in support of OPSUE workers at Algonquin College between 8am and 4pm. See you at 1385 Woodroffe Avenue as we fight for the future of public colleges in Ontario! #unionstrong @ottawalabour.bsky.social @opseusefpo.bsky.social

There’s something deeply impressive about people like Jamie Sarkonak frequently writing about the importance of free speech while also repeatedly trying to drum up outrage about what progressive professors post on social media in their free time—if not suggesting they should be disciplined.

I talked to the Canadian Press about the UofA situation.

Depuis 2022, les Innus d'Essipit travaillent à la création d’une aire protégée #autochtone sur leur Nitassinan, Essipiunnu-meshkanau, afin d’assurer la protection des valeurs culturelles de la communauté et de la #biodiversité de la forêt boréale. 👉 Visionnez la vidéo: youtu.be/nrR2CSuNLw0?...

BREAKING: WE WON!!! 💥 💥 💥 Federal Judge William G. Young ruled today in our lawsuit against the Trump administration that the policy of arresting, detaining, & deporting noncitizen students & faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the 1st Amendment. Full ruling here:

Five days ago, an ICE agent shoved a woman asking questions about the detention of her husband. Today they attacked two journalists. We cannot accept or normalize what has now become routine violence at 26 Federal Plaza. It has no place in our city.

A fascinating (in the details) & depressing post about just how ineffective & captured-by-industry the Alberta Energy Regulator is. Another overwhelming pattern of regulatory failure in the oil & gas sector revealed, failure that Albertans will pay for with their wallets & health for generations.

Important piece by Andrew Nikiforuk on Lemkin and the origins of the Genocide Convention. Thanks to Andrew for writing it and the Tyee for publishing. #cdnpoli #abpoli

Look the mayor of Vaughan and the Premier of Ontario have said drivers are hard done by. Give them a break.

A lot of folks who made "free speech" their whole bit have made it exceptionally clear that the only speech they care about keeping "free" is their own and that of those who think exactly like them

The whole outrageous story: www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Ian Lafrenière à Tout un matin: "On ne peut pas forcer les policier à ne pas porter la "thin blue line"." en réponse à la question de Masbourian. Mais votre parti on peut forcer les femmes musulmanes à retirer leur foulard? Bravo de porter vos préjugés à visage découvert!!

incredible choice for "victim of the Canadian housing crisis"

The bees have discovered Brutalism

This is a must-read for anyone in academia. While it focuses on administrative positions in certain parts, it's such an excellent resource with stats and critiques of all the indigenization/reconciliation rhetoric that it's got something for everyone. Highly recommend.

This is a highly concerning situation where a prof. was placed against their will on "non-disciplinary" leave for "safety" concerns because of a social media post that does not violate policy/law. It violates academic freedom and free speech, and is a capitulation and acquiescence to fascists.

"By placing me on leave, the University implicitly condoned and supported the targeted harassment of progressive academics across the United States and Canada for expressing a wide range of views critical of Charlie Kirk as part of a large-scale effort to have them terminated."

I started tracking the TRC's Calls to Action in 2016 and, since Eva Jewell and I stopped writing annual reports in 2023 out of despair, things have only become more bleak. No meaningful structural changes have been made. They were never even attempted. A clear-eyed take from @michellecyca.com

ummm

A man was just chased and arrested outside of the Broadview ICE facility in Chicago. When legal observers from the National Lawyers Guild asked why, an agent threatened to arrest them too.

🚨 New directive NSPM-7 targets "anti-capitalism," “anti-Christian,” and “anti-American" opinions as indicators of extremist violence, authorizing an army of 4,000 counter-terrorism officers to prevent crimes that haven't happened: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trumps-nsp...

If it wasn’t already clear the direction AI policy was going under Mark Carney and Evan Solomon, this task force makes it clear. The inclusion of the chair of Build Canada, whose members openly pushed for a Canadian DOGE and Poilievre government earlier this year, is just one of many examples.

Absolutely fucked.

Let that sink in "Despite its extreme population density, Gaza was mostly self-sufficient in vegetables and poultry, and met much of the population’s demand for olives, fruit and milk. But last month the UN reported that just 1.5% of its agricultural land now remains both accessible and undamaged."

Un texte qui documente très bien la dérape des New Atheists (Harris, Dawkins, Pinker, Shermer, Lindsay, etc.) vers l'extrême droite: Godless grifters: How the New Atheists merged with the far right (2021) www.salon.com/2021/06/05/h...

Hands up to colleagues at UVic and UBC, taking on this troubling narrative. vancouversun.com/opinion/op-e...

«Il faut répéter, mille trois cent douze fois si nécessaire : cette violence n’est pas un dérapage, c’est la norme. » 👀

*taps sign*

"A Mayor cannot end these atrocities. But they can speak for the values of this city: a commitment to human rights for all people, including Palestinians, and a yearning for peace and justice. Even if those values are anathema to those in power now, they will endure."

Comical levels of authoritarian genocidal villainy

As far as I understand this paper, our species, H. sapiens, could be 1 million years old, twice as old as previously estimated ! It came out in @science.org, and the proofs are still indirect, but wow 🤯 #PaleoSky 🧪 ⚒️ 🏺 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The government is reducing service standards and Canada Post’s biggest advantage: its nationwide network. This plan is about cutting back the postal service instead of investing to give it new revenue tools through things like postal banking. It’s shameful.

Despicable, hateful cruelty. Throwing a grieving mother in front of her children? Ripping a father who showed up to his court hearing away from his family? This is sinful, and fascist.

If you thought that the UK Government had actually begun to think coherently about constitutional identity and the sensitivity around national identity in Northern Ireland, the "Brit Card" should disabuse you of this notion...

A police officer in Longueil, Quebec shot and killed 15-year-old Nooran Rezayi on Sunday The govt office investigating the shooting has neither released the officer's name nor indicated why Rezayi was shot. Police took over 5 hours to notify his family www.montrealgazette.com/news/article...