Interesting article on how cultural trauma informs community life and heritage preservation, with a focus on Chinatowns in Calgary and other North American cities, in ASR. (by @yyz2yyc.bsky.social and team.) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

A thoughtful reflection on bisexuality, family relationships and acceptance, by Tarek Ziad. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/15/o...

Some great ideas for visiting Montreal.

This is a nice article by Dakshana Bascaramurty about AI recipes with a quiz to test your knowledge. (I failed!) A few months ago my social media feed was flooded with AI recipes but it seems to have subsided now, perhaps because I didn't click any of them. www.theglobeandmail.com/life/style/f...

"more needs to be done to improve the teaching of French as a second language across Canada" Je suis tout à fait d'accord. www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/909ce72...

A nice overview by Andrew Coyne on misguided anti-migrant proposals in Canada: www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/909ce72...

Reporting this story in Cameroon, I met people who were blind because larval worms died in their eyeballs: NTDs cause immense suffering and disability. But they're preventable! And treatable! And eliminatable!

Time to bring back the trains in Canada! 👏 🚆 Great article by @taras-grescoe.com www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/909ce72...

I like this platform and the direction it is heading.

I was reading the Montreal Gazette (@mtlgazette.bsky.social) on the weekend and noticed an error in a column. So, I wrote them a little note and my letter is in the paper today! montrealgazette.com/opinion/lett...

Une belle initiative: Les élus montréalais réclament à l’unisson une « clause grand-père » www.lapresse.ca/actualites/g...

A nice reflection about an unexpected intergenerational friendship. www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/909ce72...

To Their Shock, Cubans in Florida Are Being Deported in Record Numbers, via @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/u...

AI and Hollywood and entertainment: an interesting episode of The Daily @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/p...

Des infirmières plongées dans l’incertitude, dans @lapresse.ca www.lapresse.ca/actualites/a...

From late last year, some thoughtful reflections from Filippo Grandi as he completed ten years as the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/o...

"ICE is violence-prone because its main purpose has become theatrical. Under present leadership, ICE is less a law-enforcement agency than it is a content creator. from David Frum: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Nice op-ed by Bob Rae from last month on the importance of investing in post-secondary education and research. It is true across Canada! www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

A step in the right direction. www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/909ce72...

"Quebec universities weather an unprecedented storm" in @universityaffairs.bsky.social. universityaffairs.ca/features/que...

Indigenous fertility rates in Canada have begun to decline over the past decade. Only the Inuit have replacement level fertility among Indigenous peoples in the country. policyoptions.irpp.org/2025/10/indi...

After a long life together, an underlying tension remained. Interesting article. www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/909ce72...

Nice @theglobeandmail.com op-ed: "let’s not lose track of our rich tradition of helping refugees". www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/909ce72...

An interesting episode of the Daily on weight loss drugs and marital relationships: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/p...

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Unfortunately, fewer Canadian companies are willing to respond to a survey about commitments they made to to have a more diverse workforce and leadership. www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/909ce72...

On driving in Beirut. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/o...

US 25 year-olds who were married In 1980: 63% In 2021: 22% https://pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/05/23/young-adults-in-the-u-s-are-reaching-key-life-milestones-later-than-in-the-past/

Lovely photos. I was fortunate to visit Burgeo last year but didn't get the chance to go to Francois or Grey River (or Ramea, though they have roads). www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Entre pistes cyclables, arbres plantés et parcs-éponges, on dresse le bilan de ses deux mandats.

Nuns on the run. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/w...

VIA Rail’s regular dayliner passenger train service between Calgary and Edmonton ended 40 years ago today. (Source: Edmonton Journal, September 6, 1985)

On the benefits of spending time outdoors - a lesson relevant for all ages. www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/909ce72...

This article, about the preponderance of gay males in the extreme-right movement surrounding Trump, is both fascinating and also an extremely difficult form of journalism to produce. It reads light but McCreesh must have pulled teeth to get these on-record moments www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/s...

Disease prevalence in US states before & after vaccine introduction 🧪 From Edward Tufte & graphics.wsj.com/infectious-d...

A touching reflection on names and identity in the context of family and marriage by Chidambarakumari Ponnambalam. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/s...

On alternatives to credit cards and the influence of the American financial sector, a nice article by Vass Bednar. www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/909ce72...

Join us at the next Work and Family Researchers Network conference. 📅 When: June 17-20, 2026 📍Where:  Concordia University, Montreal ➡️Theme: Centering Care Across the Life Course ❗️Submission deadline: October 1, 2025 @wfrn.bsky.social wfrn.org/2026-work-an...

What makes a desirable spouse in China? Our @jmfncfr.bsky.social paper (w/ Jia Yu, @yueqiansoc.bsky.social, Yang Zhou & Yu Xie) draws on a national survey experiment to net out and examine mate preferences among unmarried Chinese & their roles in shaping assortative mating doi.org/10.1111/jomf...

Un prof de français (avec un doctorat et 29 ans d'expérience) empêché de travailler au Québec à cause d'un manque de certification provinciale. Il a donc trouvé un travail en Ontario. Reportage dans @lapresse.ca par Vincent Brousseau-Pouliot. www.lapresse.ca/dialogue/chr...

This report from @geoffreyyork.bsky.social describes how Russia is using influencers to recruit Africans to work in drone-manufacturing factories. A promise of a better life leads to dangerously manufacturing weapons for Russia's unjust war. Very sad. www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/909ce72...

This is cool! Discovering another moon with a clearer picture of what's happening far far away. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/s...

@nedasoc.bsky.social responds to living amid deportations, ICE seizures, and Israel’s attack on Tehran.

Nice explainer by @eidlin.bsky.social on the Air Canada strike from a historical perspective. "if workers are to be told through repeated invocations of Section 107 that they can never strike, one may be precipitating the very thing one is trying to prevent." www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/909ce72...

Blessures au travail : pourquoi les personnes immigrantes mettent plus de temps à guérir, par @daniel-cote.bsky.social theconversation.com/blessures-au...

📣 Équipe complète pour Verdun - Île-des-Sœurs ! 🗳️ Stefana Lamasanu – Desmarchais-Crawford 🗳️ Logan Littlefield – Champlain – Île-des-Sœurs 🗳️ Jean-Pierre Serra – Champlain – Île-des-Sœurs Elle et ils rejoignent ainsi Céline-Audrey Beauregard, Benoît Gratton, Véronique Tremblay et Sterling Downey. 💚

An interesting read on Spain's openness (so far) to immigration: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/o...

Merci, @quebecreunifie.ca, d'avoir partagé mon article qui a paru la semaine dernière dans @lapresse.ca !