When it comes to disability, governments too often use a soft invocation of s. 33 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms: they know that, in effect, their legislation and practices breach rights, but they are unwilling to do anything to change this.

Are we going to hold AI companies accountable for their products? www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/arti...

Holy crap…. Check out how their senior associate vp for hr talks about education. High tenure density is ok where there is a need to maintain business continuity.

Bari Weiss tried to say the 60 Minutes report wasn’t ready because it didn’t advance the story, so she censored it, thereby advancing the story and elevating the reporting into something not just vital, but viral. What a news genius

This is what's happening to "news."

I have run computations on my laptop that have shut it down by overheating it.

I really didn’t think I’d be doing this story again in 2025, but here we are www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things

Congrats to Drs LizMcClymont and Deb Money 🎉🎉🎉 @ubcmedicine.bsky.social @bcchresearch.bsky.social @whrcluster.bsky.social

Right now on The Early Edition: New research out of UBC is looking at the developmental health of the children who were born during the pandemic. The study assessed more than 30 thousand kindergarteners in B.C. And the findings are concerning. Watch here:www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

As we mourn Rob Reiner, don’t skip this: he was, pretty much, personally responsible for overturning California’s Prop 8 banning same sex marriage. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

We are all part of a galactic reality entertainment show that has jumped the shark.

Universities do not lock doors to the buildings on campus during operational hours. This is because they are operational hours. “Freedom is when you have to have three of four layers of locked doors to study on campus without being murdered.”

This is truly horrible. A lot of those faith-based communities did a lot of damage to widows and orphans, but sure - let's just go back to Victorian excellence. Just in time for Christmas. 👀 🩼

As he celebrates his 100th Birthday this very day, can we all take a moment to acknowledge that time when Dick Van Dyke won the internet internet. Forever.

I was honoured and humbled to be invested into the Order of Canada by Her Excellency, Governor-General Mary Simon in the company of so many outstanding people. www.gg.ca/en/citations via @theglobeandmail.com #journalism

This is the total we walked into this morning. All of it going to the food banks of BC. Our donation site will remain open until Dec 31st. CBC.ca/kindbc Thank you, thank you, thank you!

The UCP believes Bill 14 court-proofs any referendum on separatism. Who's going to tell them that the federal Parliament has the ultimate say over the validity of a referendum question (see Secession Reference)? And that the federal government will likely refer their question to the courts?

'Tis the season....though today it was helping grandma move...at least she didn't die because of our calculus exam.

Jacques Nadeau was one of the great news photographers in Quebec. The article about his death highlights this iconic shot...

NEW POST: The parallels between Trump's pardons and Danielle Smith's use of the notwithstanding clause emmettmacfarlane.substack.com/p/the-parall...

Conservative member of Parliament Ellis Ross stood in the House of Commons Tuesday and took aim at the federal government’s “confusing” position on an oil pipeline to the B.C. coast. @amandafollett.bsky.social reports. #bcpoli

Not really much point in having a door then, is there?

Update on this staff proposal, which have been for 2026 only but suggested under the auspices of saving some money: it’s been pulled from this week’s agenda — and given the optics, I can’t see it coming back

Holy CRAP. Retired engineer takes random pics of *kids*, without consent or attribution, bins them into “autistic” or “not autistic”, and uploads that “data” for free on Kaggle. Well over a HUNDRED papers are published, 38 in Springer Nature, 25 in IEEE, using it. And no reviewers objected? WTF.🧪

If it smells like rotting fish.... www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/65d6ffc...

Good words in hateful times. "Turning Sideways Toward Truth: A Statement from the Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre" irshdc.ubc.ca/2025/12/03/t...

They died because they were women. December 6, 1989. National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women. www.cbc.ca/montreal/fea...

Breaking News: Frank Gehry, a titan of architecture, has died at 96. He designed some of the world’s most recognizable buildings — many widely regarded as masterpieces. nyti.ms/4rGCYiE

Another timely call out of this serial tormentor that landlords over many renters in our city. Plan A is quite literally one of the worst, and keeps successfully gaming the system. thetyee.ca/News/2025/12...

Here is what we are starting out with after kicking off our 39th annual food bank fundraiser. Thank you so much for all of the early donations! Make The Season Kind. Donate at cbc.ca/kindbc

Here’s my story on John Rustad’s very bad day, why his failures appear to be rooted politics rather than ideology, and what questions the party will have to quickly answer the moment they stop having two leaders

We got some new data on Vancouver's housing market today that doesn't really change our understanding of things, but does underline how we're in a new normal, and that the shoe is still falling for developers and landlords. Comes with charts!

"It's just not right, you know?" said Mason, who received a second notice in late November notifying her that her payment was almost overdue, even though she qualified for a free shot. "I've been diabetic since 2002 and had heart disease since 2002. What is going on with the government?"

In a world awash with negative science/health news this is unashamedly great news. connectsci.au/news/news-pa...

Today - December 3 - is Internationally Day of Persons with Disabilities. It is also another day when I am reminded how Universities, especially at Graduate level, are typically indifferent (at best) and hostile (at worst) towards learning disabilities. www.un.org/en/observanc...

Now, is this the kind of thing the UCP imagine when they think of appropriate reasons to recall MLAs? I guess if you dip yourself in enough crude oil, you can slip through anything.

My university has already eliminated approximately five percent of its workforce, with more cuts to come, in case you think the Doug Ford-created university budget crisis isn't real.

By McGill Assoc. Provost Indigenous Initiatives, Celeste Pedri-Spade "These heroes were largely created by settler-controlled industries like publishing, media and academia — not by us. Their success was sustained by gatekeepers who valued marketable versions of Indigeneity over authentic voices."

The acclaimed writer Tom Stoppard has died, at 88. For the award-winning playwright, “art is a game within a game—the larger game being life itself,” Kenneth Tynan wrote, in 1977. www.newyorker.com/magazine/197...

Another link. Public Safety Minister Mike Ellis appointed a former business partner of Sam Mraiche to the Edmonton Police Commission. 4 thetyee.ca/News/2025/02...