A judge just tossed out Columbia University's disciplinary actions against 22 students over the 2024 Hamilton Hall occupation, finding the school relied on sealed arrest records and held individuals responsible for group actions, violating its own rules. iapps.courts.state.ny.us/fbem/Documen...

Wow, what a terrible headline. He didn’t “apologize 18 times,” he said 18 times that he’d already apologized (which, given his behaviour so far, is clearly a claim that should be verified before it’s reported).

BC Is No Longer Sending Trans Patients to Montreal for Surgery via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2026/02...

One to watch: As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries and misidentified body parts www.reuters.com/investigatio... ⤷ canadahealthwatch.ca/featured 🍁

We can't let this happen

Currently.

This scandal presents Carney and Solomon the perfect opportunity to pivot away from the AI boosterism that has defined this Liberal government to recalibrate their AI policy and start taking on the harms that have come of generative AI (and other digital tech). I do not expect them to take it.

The Tyee has republished my post on Danielle Smith's fear-sowing, xenophobic, unconstitutional 'referendum' plans. thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...

www.cma.ca/about-us/wha... Thank fuck it is not DBH.

"In the decade-long, high-profile saga of the beleaguered Thunder Bay Police Service, no officer had faced more public scrutiny without conviction than former Staff Sgt. Michael Dimini." "That changed on February 20, when a court found him guilty." #Ontario #Canada #Policing #Courts

What have they done to our cardamom?

just an an addendum to this, last storm he offered $19/hour with a possible increase to $28/hour after a certain amount of time worked, but i imagine that number wasn’t attractive enough so this time he was just like, $30 for everyone. adaptability!

Two things are being overlooked in the #EpsteinFiles The complicity of doctors The extent of violence My new piece @bmj.com #IWD #Epstein #Healthwashing #VAW

I feel this in my bones. It's why Jon Kay called me a Woke Banshee and Mark Bourrie calls me "Dial a quote Lalonde." It's easy to snarl and roll your eyes at the person who is "never satisfied" than it is to recognize they're just seeing writing on the wall that you missed or ignored.

'Exporting fracked gas as LNG will increase GDP, even if it loses money!' (So would digging up coal and burning it in open fires - even the stupidest uneconomic activity is counted towards 'growth' in GDP). #bcpoli

The view from my window this morning is uninformative. And no we are not on the ground floor.

“The Liberals, Conservatives and New Democrats are attempting to grant themselves the right to do whatever they want with your personal information, without your knowledge or third-party oversight, Althia Raj writes.” apple.news/ANBs339z5Sdm...

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... Has he tried closing his eyes.

Getting Zohranification surgery to become a charming young man.

In the late 1960s, James Boggs said, "All over the country today the police are organizing themselves into independent political organizations, outside the control of elected civilian officials, and challenging the right of civilian administrations and the public... to control them."

filtermag.org/bc-knew-safe... “Rather than publicize the evidence early in 2025 to correct loud claims of safe supply diversion flooding communities, the BC government opted to sit on the information and retreat from safe supply as a policy.” #bcpoli #harmreduction #medsky

first they came for Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, and I said nothing, but i did laugh quite a lot

The Tumbler Ridge newspaper puts it better than I could

When BC's consumer carbon tax was first introduced, it was accompanied by tax cuts to both personal and corporate taxes to make it revenue-neutral. But when it was eliminated last spring, these tax cuts were not reversed. The result is a $2 billion hole in BC's finances. #BCBudget

I discovered Israeli government procurement documents showing a Canadian group that's sending right-wing media personalities on free trips to Israel was granted funds from Israel's foreign ministry The funding came through an arm of the ministry focused on managing “public perception of Israel”

"zoomers are killing the bar industry" oh interesting was it zoomers who decided a drink should cost seventeen dollars

if you're an older person who finds words like mogg and maxxing annoying, just starting using them. people over the age of 30 have the superpower to end trends by simply adopting them

unfortunately there is a significant portion of our population who I do believe think dogs have more rights than children

yea i work out. im trying to work out how i can own a home in this economy.

same as it ever was

I left Google during the wave of fall-in-line maneuvers and layoffs in the Gemini era. It was very easy to use HR maneuvers to purge staff who raise ethical concerns by making even the weakest of cases that they "block launches."

Never thought I'd get to say this without opening myself up to legal action, but I'm going to start prefacing any reference to my former boss Andrew Wilkinson, who is in the Epstein files, with: "My former boss Andrew Wilkinson, who is in the Epstein files,"

Why Anita? Care to provide context?

Now you may ask yourself, "How did i get this land?" And you may tell yourself, "This is now my beautiful land"

Just shocking bullshit at the Chamber of Commerce. On the one hand, the "CEO" of the Chamber, John Wilson, wants to cut taxes. On the other hand, he and the new police chief want to increase police funding. Funding for the dept has increased by 30% over 5 years or so.

My doomer-worry about AI is not that the LLMs become omnipotent and take over the world but that the wealthy and powerful use it as a means to consolidate power and marginalize or lay off skilled workers and also everything about our technological and political and social life gets worse

thetyee.ca/News/2026/02... Let’s fucking goooooooo!!!!!!

I just read a well written, creative post on Facebook and my first though was "I wonder if AI wrote this". Along with all of the other things that generative AI has destroyed, it has taken away the sense of wonder and desire to congratulate an author for something as simple as a social media post.

Next time somebody tries to get me to justify the existence of the humanities, I’ll just point out how for the past two Super Bowls we’ve all jumped online and engaged in collective semiotics and hermeneutics of the half-time show as text.

Love that wants only to get, to possess, is a monstrous thing.

65 years is a hell of a run for single family values in Victoria 3.8% average annual increase after inflation

So I heard we’re posting super bowls. Here’s a Fatimid lusterware bunny. Islamic lusterwares originate in Iraq to emulate the sheen of Chinese porcelain, but the combo with highly animated-looking Fatimid animal motifs is my favorite. He even has a little snack. www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation: