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Anyone want a Canadian version? Vote, and do so wisely www.bbc.com/news/article...

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⛔ NIH ended ALL of my grants mid-project, given LGBTQ health focus 🏳️‍🌈 ⚖️ So what am I doing? Suing RFK, Jr. As one team member shared in this story👇: "The threats to our work don’t just make me fear for my career — they make me fear for my safety.“ #SaveDemocracy #SupportScience #PublicHealth

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Dear Canada: tomorrow is Election Day. This is Mark Carney. Hint, hint.

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“According to a program director at the N.S.F., who asked not to be identified for fear of retribution, most of the awards that have been canceled so far are from the agency’s divisions of research on learning and equity for excellence in STEM.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/s...

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The typical Canadian has a higher standard of living than the typical American. We are healthier, live 3 years longer, face much less inequality and are happier. These outcomes are not accidents. They reflect deliberate policy choices.” @jimbostanford.bsky.social on Canada’s GDP per capita:

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“An analysis of 350,000 Twitter posts reveals a coordinated campaign to support Pierre Poilievre and attack Mark Carney’s reputation. This election isn’t about choosing a prime minister, or resisting Trump — it’s about fighting for democracy itself.” An editorial by @taylornoakes.com.

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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Are we still pretending this is about free speech?

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www.thenation.com/article/poli...

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Is it okay for judges to be arrested by the FBI? It depends on their political beliefs.

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Poilievre rushed to safety after actual journalist question makes it past security

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BC Federation of Students have the right idea.

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💥BOOM💥 “The preservation of one institution’s integrity is the concern of all, and an infringement against one member university of the Big Ten shall be considered an infringement against all.”

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They’re taking our investment—the money that we spent months writing grants for, the hours and hours we all spent reviewing each others’ work, the money that was supposed to go to libraries and community groups—and blowing it on this nonsense.

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www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/cc21826...

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Travelling to the US soon? CBP has broad authority to search your devices. Whether you're an American citizen or a visitor, here's a guide on how to protect yourself from phone searches at the US border.

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academeblog.org/2025/04/23/s...

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What Post-Secondary Students Want this Election via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/04...

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www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Murchie’s (Victoria, BC) tea blend. Not letting the PP Conservatives trash the CBC after almost 90 years.

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you know how the US government is scrubbing people of colour and queer people not just from its ranks but its histories? well pierre poilievre wants to bring that to canada

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At a recent conservative gathering, fossil fuel and tech executives mused with libertarians about how a Poilievre government would realize a Canadian DOGE. “For all sorts of constitutional legal reasons, the impediments to DOGE moving quickly, we don’t really have to worry about in Canada.”

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We must look up: Responding to our shared national moment: www.caut.ca/bulletin/202...

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“When you get politicians saying they’re going to come in and interfere with this on some basis of, I don’t know, ideological issues or political expediency, that’s the concern,” said Peter McInnis, the association’s president. Read more: www.ctvnews.ca/federal-elec...

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Happy St George's day to those who celebrate. A time for the English to ponder how much better life would be if they were released from their obligations to the Scots, Welsh and Northern Irish. Imagine the sovereignty, the freedom, the release of obligation. You could truly control your own border.

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www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

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Paper straws. Does this mean that those voting PP Conservatives will be reinstated with their right to plastic? Not much of a platform.

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In a stunning revelation, parents learn that ... www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

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A letter to Columbia by Mahmoud Khalil "The situation is oddly reminiscent of when I fled the brutality of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria and sought refuge in Lebanon." www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2025...

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A 19-year old U.S. citizen was traveling from Albuquerque to Tucson. He was arrested and detained by ICE for 10 days, before his family showed a judge his identification & he was finally released. news.azpm.org/p/news-artic...

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Two backpacking German teenagers who had obtained ESTA approval from DHS were detained by CBP at the Honolulu airport, strip searched, jailed overnight, and ultimately deported to Japan because immigration officials weren’t satisfied with their lodging arrangements. beatofhawaii.com/why-these-ha...

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In other news ... www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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'A society that can no longer read complex texts may soon find itself unable to think complex thoughts..reading becomes not just a cognitive act, but a civic one: rehearsal for the intellectual stamina democracy requires' Ace post @carlhendrick.substack.com carlhendrick.substack.com/p/ultra-proc...

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In sophistication and maturity, this is highly reminiscent of the Russian embassy accounts on X. Aiming to troll but just sounding completely juvenile.

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Forest Spires W.P. Weston 1931

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We must look up: Responding to our shared national moment: www.caut.ca/bulletin/202...

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Perhaps another reason, as Canadians, to buy Canadian?

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1/ 🚨 BREAKING: Just spoke to a source with inside knowledge of what is happening at the Air Force Academy. Here’s what we were told: Up to 340 faculty will be let go, starting with civilian PhDs. Plan to only keep minimum faculty to maintain accreditation, no more.

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“PEN America vehemently opposes Texas SB 37, a bill passed by the Texas State Senate on April 16 that, if enacted, would significantly curtail the content of general education courses and sideline faculty in every major aspect of university life..” pen.org/press-releas...

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CPJ has issued a safety advisory for journalists traveling to or entering the US: cpj.org/2025/04/cpj-...

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An urgent call to action, here about teaching History, but which is highly adaptable to English too @univeng.bsky.social @englishassociation.bsky.social. I chose a History & English degree because both made me think. Both can be about meaning-making: how others have made meaning + how we can too.

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The Trump regime is now using US Attorneys to intimidate academic journals by sending them letters demanding they explain how they ensure ‘viewpoint diversity.’ Journal editors should be public about this and coordinate to refuse to comply with these fascist tactics.

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Trump’s trade war could drive up soybean production in Brazil and destroy large portions of the Amazon rainforest.🧵 #OpCanary #EndAutogenocide

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We've now entered the "Mad King" phase of American politics.

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"I awoke to find my spirit had returned" (Rosalie Favell, Métis, 2018).

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My husband has taught human reproduction and development to the Cambridge medics for over three decades. When people start banging on about "only two biological sexes" he starts with "which sex: genetic, hormonal, or gonadal"? Biological sex is not binary. www.scientificamerican.com/article/sex-...

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