🌡️ Beat the heat! City Hall is OPEN as a cooling centre (9 AM–7 PM) today. Extended hours: 🏊 Pools: 10 AM–8:30 PM 💦 Splash pads: 9 AM–9 PM Check on neighbours, stay hydrated, and cool off as needed. Regional cooling spaces https://tinyurl.com/3xsfzrbh

JOB: 1 Year Limited-Term in Women and Gender Studies @ Wilfrid Laurier University (Waterloo, ON, Canada): www.academicwork.ca/jobs/full-ti...

I'm reading Habermas' STPS for the first time and I'm here for all the incoming intellectual biographies in memoriam. But before that, the first thing I'm going back to re-read is Wendy Willems on the coffee house and the colonial underpinnings of the public sphere. academic.oup.com/ccc/article/...

JOB: 1 Year Limited-Term in Women and Gender Studies @ Wilfrid Laurier University (Waterloo, ON, Canada): www.academicwork.ca/jobs/full-ti...

BREAKING: Minnesota, Minneapolis, and St. Paul sue Noem and others over DHS immigration enforcement surge in Minnesota, seeking TRO to block the surge and stop unlawful actions detailed in the complaint.

AI is perpetuating unrealistic body ideals, objectification and a lack of diversity — especially for athletes

Ontario’s Bill 5 erodes good governance in the province

and people questioning whether Alberta is acting in good faith on the topic. 2/2 www.thestar.com/politics/fed...

Important deep dive into the nuance of current and proposed carbon pricing regimes for Alberta/Canada. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... 1/2

Alberta separatists have no intention of paying attention to legal rulings or the supreme law of the land. albertapolitics.ca/2025/12/albe... #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli

We published our AI policy yesterday. It affirms our commitment to human-made writing, photography and illustrations. #journalism #localnews You can read more here: thetyee.ca/Tyeenews/202...

Thoughts with the people of the Caribbean and in particular Jamaica https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/oct/27/hurricane-melissa-jamaica-cuba-caribbean-haiti-dominican-republic-live-news-latest-updates #hurricanemelissa #jamaica #cuba #haiti #dominicanrepublic

1-3'+ rain possible in S #Haiti #Jamaica SW #DominicanRepublic E #Cuba SE #Bahamas 8-12”+ #TurksandCaicos LETHAL #flooding/ #Mudslides likely to occur #Wxx #Wxtwitter #tropicswx #Blueskywx #hurricaneseason #Melissa #Hurricane #Hurricaneseason2025 #HurricaneMelissa

NEW: The entire staff supporting ACIP was laid off, and most working groups haven't met in months. That means the US may not make routine vaccine recommendations for more than half of children in 2026, and it could halt new vaccines in the pipeline. My latest: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

10/27 5am EDT: #Melissa has strengthened to a Category 5 hurricane with 160 mph winds and a 917 mb central pressure, confirmed by the Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunters. Conditions in #Jamaica will rapidly deteriorate later today and tonight. See hurricanes.gov for the latest details.

French border police accused of causing shipwrecks and deaths of migrants from Comoros

she slayed www.cnbc.com/2025/08/29/b...

From belonging to becoming, Villa Maria is reshaping the student experience

"...more than 200 books deemed sexually explicit are slated for removal from library shelves for students in kindergarten to Grade 12" #cdnpoli #CanadaSky www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Four Al Jazeera staff, including reporter Anas Al Sharif, were killed in an Israeli attack on a tent for journalists outside the main gate of Gaza's al-Shifa hospital aje.io/onll19

"People didn’t sleep last night from overthinking… about what’s going to be left of Gaza." Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud reports on how Palestinians in Gaza are reacting to Israel’s plan to occupy Gaza City.

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

a targeted Israeli strike on a tent housing journalists in Gaza City. www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

Tim Parlatore was a star lawyer in Trump world, @shaneharris.bsky.social writes. So, it’s more than a little surprising that, in the fall of 2022, “he hired a close associate of one of the most notorious villains in the extended MAGA universe: Jeffrey Epstein”:

"It is the same story playing out in Washington—the only significant difference is that Canadian policymakers are doing it without the hateful rhetoric." www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... #cdnpoli

“I believe that Google is trying to import American law into Canada and is willfully ignoring Canadian human rights law that protects women from pregnancy discrimination.” nationalpost.com/news/google-... #onpoli

Video doorbell, I don't even have an old fashioned doorbell. That would just encourage people to PRESS them and expect a response. I don't want to answer the door.

"It is the same story playing out in Washington—the only significant difference is that Canadian policymakers are doing it without the hateful rhetoric." www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... #cdnpoli

Read @shannonmattern.bsky.social's beautiful, heartbreaking reflection on abandoning her tenured full professorship for a system that better reflects her values and doesn't demand unending life sacrifices. The Metropolitan New York Library Council and all the people it serves are lucky to have her.

This is an EXCEEDINGLY beautiful book.

Tonight on APTN National News: Community members of the Innu Nation set up a road blockade in Labrador, pausing work on a proposed hydro-electric dam on land the Innu say is theirs. Commemorating 35 years since the 1990 Siege on Kanehsatake began.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford has pulled back from his crusade to weaponize the province’s energy in retaliation against Donald Trump. Did Ford realize his threats would do little to contain the US president’s mercurial impulses? thewalrus.ca/ontario-energy-t...

Canadian dies in ICE detention: "Despite having Canadian citizenship, Noviello had been in the U.S. since 1988 and became a lawful permanent resident in 1991" ici.radio-canada.ca/rci/en/news/...

"Your clothing should tell a story about you! Just not who you are or that you are acting in any kind of official capacity." @petridishes.bsky.social on the ICE dress code:

‘Youths everywhere were spitting over tinny beats playing off a Nokia’: great grime photographer Simon Wheatley

"Tim Burke did what any good journalist would do. He found the truth, and he exposed it."

Drake’s new track gives Ontario cities, like Waterloo, a shoutout www.cp24.com/news/enterta... #Waterloo

Drake's new collab with Smiley shouts out small cities in Southern Ontario, including Waterloo. I talk about that here: www.ctvnews.ca/kitchener/ar...

11 of 12 Fulbright board members resign in protest over Trump-era meddling. Hundreds of awardees canceled; 1,200 foreign scholars face extra review. A pillar of U.S. academic diplomacy is under threat. zurl.co/o2mgg #StandUpForScience #Fulbright

If only somebody wrote a book about this.

Sudan, Palestine, South Sudan, Haiti and Mali face immediate risk as extreme hunger rises in 13 locations.

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More than 400 Manitoba infants got measles vaccine since eligibility expanded www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... @cbcnews.ca 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca

"YouTube, the world's largest video platform, appears to have changed its moderation policies to allow more content that violates its own rules to remain online." www.cbc.ca/news/enterta...