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Political philosophy prof at McGill
https://abizadeh.wixsite.com/arash
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I often tell my advanced graduate students who are looking to get their work published that, if you're not getting multiple journal rejections, you're not doing your job right. So, to provide continuing inspiration, I've uploaded the annual update to my CV of Journal Article Rejections:
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CV of Journal Article Rejections
I often tell my advanced graduate students who are looking to get their work published that, if you're not getting multiple journal rejections, you're not doing your job right. So, to provide inspirat...
https://abizadeh.wixsite.com/arash/post-1/cv-of-journal-article-rejections
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Academic CV pet peeve: Serious people listing edited volumes and monographs under the same category? I mean, yeah, theyโre both โbooks,โ but you only wrote one of them. Maybe Iโll start listing all the articles I referee under my list of โjournal articles.โ
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Google Fulfilled ICE Subpoena Demanding Student Journalistโs Bank and Credit Card Numbers
Amandla Thomas-Johnson didn't know how much information ICE requested in a subpoena now. Google never gave him a chance to fight it.
https://theintercept.com/2026/02/10/google-ice-subpoena-student-journalist/
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"A modern-day concentration camp ... People have been killed by the staff here." Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has been in ICE detention since September, despite having a valid work permit and his own business in the US.
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ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps. If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight.
www.ajc.com/politics/202...
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ICE to begin detaining immigrants inside Social Circle warehouse in April
Homeland Security plans to build warehouse detention facilities in other cities being met with opposition.
https://www.ajc.com/politics/2026/02/ice-to-begin-detaining-immigrants-inside-social-circle-warehouse-in-april/
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Boston Review
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โIn 2020, 3% of all TB in the U.S. occurred among incarcerated peopleโabout four times the rate you would expect based on population demographicsโand 327 people were diagnosed with TB in ICE custody.โ Public health scholar Katharine S. Walter on the role prisons play in fueling the spread of TB:
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โTwo ICE agents said that in Buffalo Culleton had signed documents agreeing to be deported. Culleton said he did not agree and that the signatures were not his. The judge noted irregularities in ICEโs court documents but sided with the agency.โ
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Irish man with valid US work permit held in ICE detention for five months
Seamus Culleton, who has lived in US for two decades, faces deportation after being arrested on way home from work
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/09/irish-man-seamus-culleton-ice-detention?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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โIf you are integrating yourself into the American sphere of influence, or whatever Mr. Trumpโs national security apparatus calls it, you are integrating yourself into antiquity โ or worse.โ
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Opinion | The Globalization of Canadian Rage
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/opinion/canada-america-anger-carney.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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The Washington Post downsized its motto. Itโs now just โDarknessโ
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Immigrants in USA: Paid more in taxes than received in benefits every year 1994-2023. Generated ~$10.6 trillion more federal/state/local taxes than the gov spending they induced. Saved $14.5 trillion in debt over 30y period (accounting for savings on interest payments on the national debt).
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Immigrantsโ Recent Effects on Government Budgets: 1994โ2023
Our analysis in this paper shows that immigrants generated a fiscal surplus of about $14.5 trillion from 1994 to 2023, that the average immigrant is much less costly than the average US-born American,...
https://www.cato.org/white-paper/immigrants-recent-effects-government-budgets-1994-2023
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There are no bounds to the Islamic Republicโs evil. After massacring thousands, they beat and now plot to murder doctors for having treated the wounded
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Iran accused of โcampaign of revengeโ as doctors arrested for treating protesters
US state department calls for the release of all detained healthcare workers as at least one arrested surgeon reported to be at risk of execution
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/jan/29/iran-doctors-arrested-treating-injured-protesters?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Ever wondered why separatists in both AB & QC echo MAGA these days? Straight line to far right US influence on Brexit (Cambridge Analytica/Robert Mercer/Breitbart). โThe [AB] separatist party has adopted similar themes to the UKโs Brexit movement.โ Bc Brexit has worked out so well for the Brits.
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Trump officials met group pushing Alberta independence from Canada
Separatists from oil-rich province try to capitalise on friction between White House and Mark Carney
https://www.ft.com/content/11dc2140-6a5d-4536-b766-52c920affcc7
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!! Prรจs de 6300 travailleuses de la santรฉ, dont beaucoup ont รฉtรฉ recrutรฉes ร lโรฉtranger dont en France et incitรฉes ร venir sโรฉtablir iciโฆ , menacรฉes dรฉsormais dโun dรฉpart forcรฉ du Quรฉbec ร cause de lโabolition du PEQ par le gouvernement Legault.
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6300 travailleuses en santรฉ menacรฉs dโun dรฉpart en 2026
Des milliers de prรฉposรฉs aux bรฉnรฉficiaires, dโinfirmiรจres et de travailleuses sociales รฉtrangers verront leur permis de travail arriver ร รฉchรฉance en 2026.
https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/2224253/sante-travailleurs-etrangers-caq-infirmieres
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Survey of Quebec students: 1/3 of students using AI get it to write part or all of their work; same proportion use it to summarize texts they donโt read.
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Un รฉtudiant sur 3 transgresse les rรจgles ร lโaide de lโIA
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https://ici.radio-canada.ca/recit-numerique/15239/sondage-intelligence-artificielle-ia-universite-cegep-etudiants?fromApp=appInfoIos
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Some background. And that is all I will say about MG.
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State of HATE 2025: The Opportunist Extremist: The Strange Radicalisation of Matthew Goodwin
Once a respected academic studying the far right, Matthew Goodwin has become one of its most influential figures. Now a GB News pundit and Reform UK fanboy, heโs traded scholarship for reactionary gri...
https://hopenothate.org.uk/state-of-hate-2025-matthew-goodwin/
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Le Canada est plus dangereux que Trump
Depuis sa naissance quรฉbรฉcoise, le mouvement souverainiste ajuste son argumentaire au grรฉ des conjectures ambiantes.
https://www.noovo.info/chroniques/article/le-canada-est-plus-dangereux-que-trump/
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After dismantling many of the climate policies put in place by the previous government, Mark Carney has quietly directed his government to craft a national electricity strategy. Expect PCO clerk Michael Sabia, the former Hydro-Quebec exec, to be heavily involved.
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Ottawa plotting a high stakes clean energy strategy
After dismantling many of the climate policies put in place by the previous government, Prime Minister Mark Carney has quietly directed his government to craft a national electricity strategy.
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/21/news/federal-electricity-strategy-ottawa-carney
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Prime Minister Carneyโs โMiddle Powersโ speech is about as substantial as they can get.
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PM Mark Carney speaks at World Economic Forum in Davos โ January 20, 2026
YouTube video by cpac
https://www.youtube.com/live/uStuQ-TbL9k?si=JYY83d-MGzHk_UFv
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The most interesting thing about this article? Average sentence length: 4-5 words. Written by โlanguage strategistโ and โpersuasionโ teacher. The key to persuasion, apparently, is to write for 4 year olds. The fat cat sat on a mat.
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LEE CARTER: Trump's approval ratings reveal what legacy media refuses to see
President Donald Trump's low approval ratings one year in don't signal failure, but delivery on campaign promises, creating unsettling stability without consensus in divided America.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/lee-carter-trumps-approval-ratings-reveal-legacy-media-refuses-see
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โPeople are emboldened in part by the weakness of the regime, but also because society has been brimming with energy from both previous national protests & daily claim-making by nurses, teachers, truck drivers, farmers, pensioners, oil workers & many others. These protests donโt exist in a vacuum.โ
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โAn Explosion Long in the Makingโ โข EQUATOR
A conversation about โthe most intense protestsโ since 1979, the prospect of American intervention, the surreal resurgence of Reza Pahlavi โย and the future of Iranian society
https://www.equator.org/articles/iran-explosion-long-in-the-making
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Max Bergmann
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Feels like something cracked today in the transatlantic alliance. Europeans have been swallowing their pride, bitting their tongues, and bending the knee. That strategy may have bought them time but it has now clearly failed. It also had a major cost - it has made the WH think Europe will cave. 1/
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof
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I have a bunch of reservations but theyโre not nearly as important as the bottom-line things this gets right. Didnโt expect David French to put The Dual State in the pages of the NYT.
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๐๐ Brazilian law allows you to reduce your sentence by reading books! Problem: Bolsonaro isnโt a bibliophile and approved reading list includes works on Indigenous rights, racism, environment, and violence of the 1964-85 dictatorship.
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Brazilโs Bolsonaro finds novel way to reduce 27-year sentence: reading books
Former president convicted for coup plot to take advantage of law that knocks four days off jail term for each book read
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/16/brazil-jair-bolsonaro-reduce-sentence-reading-books?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Texas A&M continues assault on free academic inquiry: after banning Plato passages, now cancelling ethics course (bc race and gender were to be discussed systematically)
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Texas A&M Administrators Will Cancel Your Course If You Donโt Tell Them Exactly Where And What Its Race And Gender Parts Are* - Daily Nous
Texas A&M University (TAMU) administrators cancelled "Ethics in Public Policy," a graduate course in the university's Bush School of Government and Public Service, because they rejected as too vague i...
https://dailynous.com/2026/01/16/texas-am-administrators-will-cancel-your-course-if-you-dont-tell-them-exactly-where-and-what-its-race-and-gender-parts-are/
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The Islamic Republic apparently exporting its ideology and tactics further abroad
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Montrรฉal | Le budget qui freine les cyclistes
En diminuant les sommes consacrรฉes ร BIXI, la Ville รฉvite de nourrir la culture du vรฉlo qui change petit ร petit le rapport de force รฉlectoral, estime lโauteur.
https://www.lapresse.ca/dialogue/opinions/2026-01-13/montreal/le-budget-qui-freine-les-cyclistes.php
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The president of a university actually defends forcing a professor to remove Plato from his course by saying, "We didn't ban ALL Plato." Um, first, no one said you did. Second...
dailynous.com/2026/01/13/a...
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A Dishonest Response from TAMU President Tommy Williams - Daily Nous
The interim president of Texas A&M, Tommy Williams, has publicly replied to last week's reports of his university telling a philosophy professor to remove readings by Plato and others from the syllabu...
https://dailynous.com/2026/01/13/a-dishonest-response-from-tamu-president-tommy-williams/
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The Islamic Republic has killed an estimated 12000-20000 of its people in just a few days.
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Over 12,000 feared dead after Iran protests, as video shows bodies lined up at morgue
Information trickling out of Iran suggests a far deadlier crackdown on protesters than previously reported.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/iran-protest-death-toll-over-12000-feared-higher-video-bodies-at-morgue/
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New Interview:
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Universal Language may be the most wonderful, batshit crazy love letter to any city, ever. The fact that it is specifically to Winnipeg, with inside jokes buried a mile deep (Rod Peeler bus stop ads in Persian, Revolutionary Modernist posters of Howard Pawley in Portage Place) just fills me with joy
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Bahram Beyzai, director of Bashu the Little Stranger, has passed.
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Iranian cinema giant, Bahram Beyzai, dies aged 87
A restored copy of his film, Bashu, the Little Stranger, won an award at this year's Venice Film Festival.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cde61jz5653o
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โElicitory Structural Power and Agential Powerโ is now out in ๐๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ๐ฏ๐ข๐ญ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ค๐ด ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐๐ฐ๐ค๐ช๐ข๐ญ ๐๐ฉ๐ช๐ญ๐ฐ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ฉ๐บ. I defend the notions of structural power as a species of โelicitoryโ power (which does not operate by way of oneโs intentional actions) and power efficaciously wielded without causing outcomes.
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Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy
Many theorists assume that social power operates only by way of agentsโ intentional actions and their causal influence on outcomesโwhere causality is understood to imply making a difference. This arti...
https://doi.org/10.26556/jesp.v30i7.4429
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Open Library of Humanities
2 months ago
Weโre excited to announce the launch of Philosophical Logic at the Open Library of Humanities. This follows another mass editorial resignation at Springer Nature (open letter linked in the announcement). Read more:
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Flagship Springer Nature journal flips to diamond open access at the OLH
Weโre excited to announce the launch of a major new journal, following news of another mass editorial resignation (read open letter) at Springer Nature. This week, the Editors-in-Chief and Associate โฆ
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CRAFT-OA project, aiming for Diamond Open Access
2 months ago
Do you work at an academic publishing house? This self-paced scholarly publishing training is for you, from
#CRAFT-OA
. It outlines the potential to automate certain stages of editorial work, e.g.,DOI registration & the use of Google Sheets as a publishing dashboard.
iblpan.gitbook.io/craft-oa_tra...
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Montreal gains 15th spot in the 2025 Copenhagenize Indexโs global ranking of bicycle-friendly cities, 1st in North America, and the only non-European country in the top 25.
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Montrรฉal โ Copenhagenize index
https://copenhagenizeindex.eu/index.php/project/montreal/
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Jacob T. Levy
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Quebec universities weather an unprecedented storm - University Affairs
The provinceโs institutes of higher learning are navigating immigration restrictions, language policies, budget cuts and challenges to academic freedom.
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/quebec-universities-weather-an-unprecedented-storm/
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Tu Thanh Ha
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Vietnamese food has a concept I don't often see in western cuisine - "ngรกn." It's translated as being bored but applies when your palate is dulled by the sameness in texture, taste. We want our food to hit different notes. A bรกnh mรฌ is simultaneously soft and crunchy, spicy and cool, fatty and sour.
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Arendtโs warning: โThough tyranny, because it needs no consent, may successfully rule over foreign peoples, it can stay in power only if it first of all destroys the national institutions of its own people.โ
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๐๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฆ & ๐๐ฒ๐ถ๐ข๐ญ: A Journal of Ethics and Public Affairs
3 months ago
Congratulations to Ryan Pevnick, whose article โThe Representation-Enabling Approach to Campaign Finance Reformโ has win the 2025 Rockwell Prize for the Best Article on Ethics, Leadership, and Public Policy.
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Groupe de recherche interuniversitaire en philosophie politique
3 months ago
Call for applications: The Groupe de recherche interuniversitaire en philosophie politique de Montrรฉal (GRIPP) invites applications for its 2026 manuscript workshop award.
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2026 Annual GRIPP Montreal Political Theory Manuscript Workshop Award | GRIPP Montrรฉal
https://grippmontreal.org/2025/11/2026-annual-gripp-montreal-political-theory-manuscript-workshop-award/
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Nyt article on randomly selected citizen assemblies in Belgium
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Democracy Is in Trouble. This Region Is Turning to Its People.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/world/europe/belgium-citizen-democracy-ostbelgien-model.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Misinformation, democratic breakdown, social identity: An excellent set of reflections from
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The Problem is Epistemic. The Solution is Not. | Blog of the APA
Doubts about the wisdom of the masses are as old as philosophy itself. Yet interest in democracyโs โepistemicโ merits has surged in the last decadeโand it is no mystery why. Democracy is collapsing ar...
https://blog.apaonline.org/2025/11/12/the-problem-is-epistemic-the-solution-is-not/
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O wow: Chrystia Freeland (Prairies & St Antonyโs 1991) has just been selected the next Warden of Rhodes House and CEO of the Rhodes Trust.
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I reviewed Thomas Holdenโs excellent new book, _Hobbesโs Philosophy of Religion_, in NDPR. TLDR;: theological expressivism yes, justified theism no, rational piety yes.
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Hobbesโs Philosophy of Religion
Commentators have traditionally assumed that the key interpretive question concerning Hobbes’s theology is whether he was a theist (as he proclaim...
https://ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/hobbess-philosophy-of-religion/
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Thank you for coming to my TED Talk ๐ค If youโve read this far and still need convincing, please check out our preprint
arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
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Stefanie Haustein
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Over the past months (and at least 11 versions!), I was lucky to work with 11 amazing colleagues on a call to action to reform academic publishing. Not another declaration, but an appeal to our powerful friends, research funders & institutions, to Stop the Drain of Scientific Publishing. 1/n
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Mark A. Hanson
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We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing: a ๐งต 1/n Drain:
arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Strain:
direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
Oligopoly:
direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
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Back to the future: 1934 ad for electric car charger
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Quebecโs brain drain: Universities warn CAQ foreign talent cuts threaten economic future
At National Assembly immigration hearings, universities are challenging what they call myths about international students โย and warning that the Legault government's attitude toward newcomers will lea...
https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/quebec-brain-drain-immigration-international-concordia-mcgill
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