As a researcher and even just as an inquiring human, I would take a basic search engine circa 2015 above any of today’s ai-addled machines.

Hoo boy is the t Swift wedding is making clear exactly how bad genAI can be.

Just out-- written with my colleague #AbigailBakan From the Globe and Mail: The Canadian Museum for Human Rights’ Nakba exhibit can serve as a site for solidarity - www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

I wish this wasn’t so on the nose.

Asking how people can partake in joyful acts during a period of immense suffering leads me to believe this is your first time at the suffering rodeo.

Powerlessnessmaxxing: watching the country careen toward unfettered oil and gas production as the country burns and drowns simultaneously, while people scream “yeah well he’s better than Poilievre” in your ear

On June 30, 2026, MP for Winnipeg Centre, Leah Gazan, issued the following statement about the Winnipeg Police drug sweeps. Read the statement here:

Who knew there was so much water in the sky.

I’m glad to have visited and sat with the Canadian Museum for Human Rights Palestine Uprooted exhibit. Hands up to the researchers, curators, leaders and communities for this crucial work.

Happy pub date to Sarah Carter's CROPPED. This long-awaited work exposes the stranglehold the DIA had on First Nations’ land, resources, and livelihoods and shows the deep roots of First Nations agricultural knowledge.

In the 4 years since Roe v Wade was overturned there have been over 400 pregnancy related prosecutions. Maternal mortality is up 33% nationwide and 50% in some states. We are being criminalized and murdered. That’s the legacy of Dobbs

System overhaul in a context of sustained underfunding is pretty much designed to fail, IMHO. We can note what went wrong with the route redesign without taking our eyes off the starving of transit.

the one pride billboard in southern manitoba (rural bible belt region, one of the towns only just had their first-ever pride march last week) was vandalized a few days ago, so they made tshirts of it. lmfao gettem

Spending this solstice listening to @rickharp.bsky.social & @candiscall.bsky.social crucial & thoughtful series drawing together Indigenous journalists, researchers & more to recenter stories of climate and colonialism, and it is 🔥🔥🔥, pardon the pun.

This from a few months ago, but worth revisiting. winnipeg’s transit route overhaul tells us a lot about policy decisions made without a sufficient commitment to justice.

Read along with me! A story about our ongoing fight to uphold the human right to clean water for First Nations.

After a long delay, Canada has finally reintroduced a federal water bill — which stops short of recognizing clean drinking water as a human right. Ontario First Nations say they weren't consulted. @meyer.bsky.social & @fatimabsyed.bsky.social have the story: thenarwhal.ca/canada-first...

Because banning kids and imposing curfews has always worked so well.

Great, more hail.

Nobody warned us that climate catastrophe would be so much work.

And its all heading towards neighbouring waters & communities to the north, most of them Indigenous: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

It’s all sewage all the time around here.

As the storm fades & we begin to count how much sewage was dumped into Winnipeg’s rivers - 8 million litres on 8 & 9 June alone - we need to talk about waste water & environmental racism. Here is Jocelyn Thorpe & myself back in december: www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/anal...

Isn't this precisely the sort of practice that's being contested by a First Nations-led legal action? Swear I heard of something underway...

Millions of litres of untreated sewage were dumped into Winnipeg rivers over the past 48 hours after Tuesday night’s massive storm caused power failures at pumping stations across the city.

On a day like today, let’s think about Winnipeg’s combined sewer system & the untreated sewage that is pumped into rivers & ultimately to our neighbours upstream: thenarwhal.ca/winnipeg-sew...

This is a win for community and climate! AI data centres use huge amounts of water and electricity, causing noise pollution and other local impacts. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

If you can’t tell the difference between an expert and a bot, what that tells you is that you can’t tell the difference between an expert and a bot. It doesn’t tell you anything whatever either about the bot or about the knowledge that you’re asking the bot to give you because you aren’t an expert.

It generates text based on its training data. It does not thoughtfully select the best sources or fret about getting them right or go out to learn new things by talking to researchers or visiting archives or dropping in on a conference or two. It generates text based on its training data. That’s it.

Uninterested in leading a pile-on but no, AI does not “have access” to everything ever published. Not archival material, obviously, but not secondary material either. Nor across times nor languages. AI is not human knowledge personified. It’s exactly not that, in fact. It’s not even a search engine.

A highlight of Charlottetown, PEI is the route 1 bus. It costs an elegant 2 bucks, not 1.85, not 2.35. There is no tapping, there are no transfers, though the drivers will radio to let their colleagues know that someone is transfering. The 1 runs every 10 minutes or so & is a thing of beauty.

1/ Cuba is out of fuel, strangled by the US fuel chokehold. People are dying, systems are breaking down. This is collective punishment against a people who have done absolutely nothing except live their lives under hard conditions imposed by the US blockade for decades.

Save this one for the next time someone tells you about how much better things have gotten for women in elected office.

The Great Vancouver Island Land Grab explores the history and legacy of the Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway land grant of the 1880s. This travelling exhibit looks at what happened, who was affected, and why the story still matters today #BCHistory #VancouverIsland youtu.be/xJ7P0rP95d8?...

A PhD student at Stanford noticed her classmates were asking Al to write their breakup texts. So she ran a study. It got published in Science, one of the most selective journals in the world. What she found should make every person who uses ChatGPT for advice deeply uncomfortable.

The desire for history without historians is strong.

What could possible go wrong ://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/ai-chatbot-manitoba-history-9.7207307

In this morning’s @winnipegfreepress.com Matt Henderson writes “In Imprinting Empire, Klassen carefully peels back the nuance of a media and capitalist oligarchy desperate for labour and investment…”

Canada’s second-sunniest province is running low on energy — but it's s turning to fossil fuels instead of solar panels. Why? @jsrutgers.bsky.social breaks it down: thenarwhal.ca/manitoba-sol...

Good lord.

today my thoughts are with the all time I have spent preparing marginally different forms of cvs for different reporting and application exercises. RIP all that time.

Virtual Event – The Grassy Narrows Living History Forum Friday, 22 May 2026 PT 12:30-13:30; MT 13:30-14.30; CT 14:30-15:30; ET 15:30-16:30; AT 16:30-17:30 Canadian Society for the History of Medicine (CSHM) Living History Forum niche-canada.org/2026/05/18/v... #envhist #indigenous #envjustice

Wednesday’s court ruling blocking Alberta separatists’ efforts to hold a secession referendum this fall is a reminder that treaties are foundational to Canada’s existence, write @ginastar.bsky.social and James Rowe. #canpoli

People will be like ‘Bluesky is all academics & historians’ & I’ll be like, ‘You mean the people who enthusiastically tell me the coolest shit I ever heard?????’

I know there’s a lot going on in the world, and we don’t have enough attention to pay to any of it. But the throttling of Cuba by the US should be a bigger story than it is. There are about 10 million people in Cuba, subjected to horrendous collective punishment. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Demonstrators brought a city bus Saturday to the stairs of the Manitoba Legislature, where about 100 people called on the province to better support transit through dedicated funding.

So much to chew on here, and the centrality of a small group of retired academics, almost all of them white and male, deserves some sustained consideration and accounting for: thetyee.ca/News/2026/05...

IMPRINTING EMPIRE, designed by David Drummond, was recently featured in Spine Magazine's University Press spotlight. Check out the link below for a peek into the design process. IMPRINTING EMPIRE launches this Friday at McNally Robinson! spinemagazine.co/art...