BC universities, reducing spending by eliminating duplication and getting serious about cost control. Makes you wonder why the provincial government thinks it needs to step in and make its own contribution via a PSE review.

UBCO Heat adding curling to competitive sport model #Kelowna

How is the trade war working out for you Mr. President? According to The Economist Magazine: Canada’s economy ranked 8th USA’s economy ranked 17th TSX has outperformed the Dow Canada has been adding jobs USA has been losing jobs #CanadaStrong #USA #Tariffs

👇🏼 2 of my favourite actors are also decent human beings. Thank you Harrison Ford and Mark Hamill for speaking the truth openly and consistently.

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American Indian Culture and Research Journal, ONLINE OPEN SOURCE, special guest editor Paulette Steeves. Pyroepistomology: Reclaiming Knowledge Histories, Lands and Relations escholarship.org/uc/aicrj

You mean… When… The first AI error happens

In Canada, the histories of residential school survivors are being challenged by a surge of denialism. Dismantling Denialism confronts those attempts to rewrite history and explores what it will take to defend truth and reconciliation. Watch here: youtu.be/y-Pv8-99Sp4

I am looking forward to receiving the prestigious, totally not made up, FIFA Taking Out The Garbage AND The Recycling Peace Prize tomorrow. It will truly be an honour!

If its Italy it will be a challenge...but yes👍🏽

This seems blindingly obvious but it's astonishing how often it's not observed.

More college cuts to come?

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In Canada, the histories of residential school survivors are being challenged by a surge of denialism. Dismantling Denialism confronts those attempts to rewrite history and explores what it will take to defend truth and reconciliation. Dismantling Denialism | By Christopher Read - Airing December 6

Anishinaabe artist, Norval Morrisseau is considered to be the grandfather of contemporary Indigenous art in Canada. The Mackenzie Art Gallery in Regina, SK took up the research into digitally collecting his work to create a free, public online database.

for @thewalrus.ca I wrote about birth sovereignty and the decades-long efforts of Indigenous midwives to reclaim the right to give birth in community. honoured to have Amber Bracken's incredible photos accompanying the story: thewalrus.ca/many-indigen...

I was pleased to join Carol Eugene Park and Jeevan Sangha on the "From Here Forward" University of British Columbia Magazine podcast for a conversation about UBC Okanagan’s 20th anniversary. You can have a listen at the link below.

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my kids are listening to Hawksley Workman on my iPod from 2006 & I can truthfully tell them there is no option to put on K-Pop Demon Hunters instead

Horror fiction, critical thinking and humanism with a strippery slant, my memoirs, and a little smut. #booksky #darkhumor #horror Check out all my books and bio, plus find links to my articles and interviews at erinlouis.com

Danielle Smith uses notwithstanding clause to declare herself premier of B.C.

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Who would gain status under proposed changes to Bill S-2? Senator Paul Prosper says the amendments wouldn’t open the floodgates – they’d end discrimination against people born after 1985 who didn’t marry another status person. Here’s what the changes would do. Full discussion tonight on N2N.

Proud to see UBC Okanagan research as part of the solution to wildfire resilience in BC. Thank you for your support, @rparmarbc.bsky.social! Read more: news.gov.bc.ca/releases/202...

The Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs (UBCIC) says it’s against the memorandum of understanding that Canada and Alberta Thursday morning. The MOU explicitly endorses the construction of a massive new bitumen pipeline from Alberta to the B.C. coast.

If the amendments are approved, they will mark a historic step toward ending decades of gender-based discrimination in First Nations status law—but they also risk delaying the bill’s original goal, resolving a Charter challenge. Watch the full show here:

Sweeping changes to Bill S-2 that would eliminate the second-generation cutoff from the Indian Act will face a crucial vote in the Senate on Tuesday. Read more about this weeks Nation to Nation on our website:

Worries tuition could spike www.castanet.net/news/Kamloop...

Last thought: everyone needs to remember that one of the biggest issues on the BC government's mind is the potential collapse of VIU. When it talks about "consolidation", you should all understand it as "how can we create political cover to radically shrink VIU and foist the rest on UVic"?

Sinclair believes those are numbers you would not have seen just 5 years ago, so, while movement may be slow, it’s also happening in ways never seen before. Can also catch this week's episode on YouTube: youtu.be/WSnwmTvBCII

“Ontario risks leaving billions of dollars on the table and in the ground and perpetuating economic disparities that have long persisted for First Nations.” #Indigenous #FirstNations #economy #ONpoli #Ontario

My first (probably too quick) read of this is that a) most of the report's conclusions have already been decided and b) a lot of the solution is going to be "re-distribute UBC's money to other institutions".

A redistribution of UBC funding could be an unfortunate consequence for UBCO as it often gets caught up in the wash. Thought-consolidate all student information systems for ecomonies and efficiencies.

if you worry about the decline of media, the rise in AI slop and the rampant misinformation circulating online — one small but meaningful way to do something about it is to support @thenarwhal.ca in reporting factual, original, investigative stories. plus you get a toque & a hand-written note!

Well indeed. Stay tuned I guess.

King says he made a concerted effort this year to find their origin, which brought him to a U.S. organization called Tribal Alliance Against Frauds.

In Red Skin, White Masks, UBC political scientist Glen Coulthard notes capitalism is based on theft: a theft of time (extracting value from labour) & a theft of land (dispossessing original owners). This idea of capitalism as theft unsettles any idea of ethical investment within capitalism.

Congratulations to UBCO's Dr. Mary Jung on her appointment as Scientific Director of the CIHR Institute of Nutrition, Metabolism & Diabetes. I'm so proud to see Mary's leadership and expertise recognized, and for @ubcokanagan.bsky.social to have attracted a national institute for the first time!

(everyone has known for years — years!! — that Thomas King is not Cherokee) www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/book...

Hm. Not the standard diagnosis.

Latest @winnipegfreepress.com column www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/colu...

This is the 2nd time a major government report from Deloitte has been found to contain errors likely generated by AI. First in Australia and now, as The Independent has confirmed, in a major healthcare policy paper for the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador #nlpoli #AI #deloitte

Alex-this is a great truth. I am so pleased you shared and remember.

Very often

It’s groundhog day

Black Friday sale for a company in British Columbia who manufactures cell phone cases right here in Canada, and they are on a mission to help climate change also. What's not to love! Canadians, need a phone case? Pela ships for free! Lets support them. 🍁🍁🍁 pelacase.ca

deer are cute but ecologically ruinous! we should be eating more of them: thenarwhal.ca/bc-gulf-isla...

A Deakin University study of mental health literature reviews found that ChatGPT (GPT-4o) fabricated roughly one in five academic citations, with more than half of all citations (56%) being either fake or containing errors studyfinds.org/chatgpts-hal...