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Recovering academic, proud Canadian living in Calgary, critical thinker at large
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Take s standpoint in Canada....and it all becomes clear.

Doug Ford promised to fix Ontario’s universities. Instead, he made them worse. Former Laurentian University economics professor David Leadbeater takes a closer look at how corporatization is threatening the province’s post-secondary education system: thewalrus.ca/inside-doug-ford...

Him too....

@cbcradiocanada.bsky.social Let's have a cross-country discussion not to imagine compliance with tyranny but to Resist! That's where it's happening on the ground and in hockey games. We want you CBC....but Be Better. @ianhanomansing.bsky.social

Trump compared to mobster Tony Soprano by former envoy to Panama

#Accessibility Initiatives Are Taking a Hit Across the Sciences. Confusion has ensued about the future of programs and research supporting people with disabilities as a result of President Trump’s executive order, by @katrinamillerphd.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/s... via @nytimes.com

Rosanna Deerchild has spent decades broadcasting #Indigenous stories. Now she’s bringing her own to stages across Canada, by @aislingmurph.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/theatre... via @theglobeandmail.com #journalism

Paid for how?

i wrote about the impact of Trump’s DEIA shutdown across the sciences earlier this month. but i wanted to do a deeper dive into what it means to explicitly target accessibility — both for supporting scientists with disabilities & broader disability research itself: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/s...

Accessibility helps everyone. It's a Canada Thing.

The watchword of the day is coal, but we’re still working on another urgent #EasternSlopes threat: Critical habitat destruction from unsustainable forestry. ➡️ Our new report: ow.ly/42hR50UUx2P shows regulators & industry are failing to protect AB's “protected” at-risk species. Change is needed 📢

Outclassed.

Just to be clear, the United States wants to impose reparations on the victim of Russian aggression far more onerous than those the victors imposed on Germany after WWI. It's like presenting a rape victim with a bill for incurred police costs and demanding she pay before they, um, drop the case

The Walrus senior editor @harleyrustad.com can acknowledge that Thursday night’s 4 Nations matchup may have been the culmination of a made-up tournament, “a contrived faceoff with a Fisher-Price trophy.” But the win was real all the same. thewalrus.ca/first-the-tariff...

Just so. Made my day!

Canada’s ice hockey win over Trump’s America was her soft power laid bare | Colin Horgan

Job available for Full Professor Tier 1 Canada Research Chair (CRC) - Indigenous Health and Well-Being at the Faculty of Health Science, Simon Fraser University (RT 🙏🏼 please): www.sfu.ca/vpacademic/a...

Canada annexes 4 Nations Championship

Poilievre’s lead collapsing as he fumbles the Trump threat. While Carney slags Trump as a “bully,” Poilievre hails US president as “warrior.” #cdnpoli #onpoli #canlab www.thestar.com/opinion/star...

Just a neighbor....

That's $8,850,000 that should have gone to better care & fair wages, but instead went into the pockets of for-profit operators & shareholders! Alberta keeps allowing seniors to be treated like commodities. We deserve better! friendsofmedicare.org/continuingcare

Avian flu ‘would dwarf the COVID pandemic in terms of impact,’ researcher says www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... @jenniferyang17.bsky.social 𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗹𝘆 𝘂𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀: CanadaHealthwatch.ca/newsletter 🍁

"This is the exact wrong time not to invest in health care." Watch FOM's Chris Gallaway talking to Alberta Primetime about accountability in health care & the upcoming provincial budget: www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/alb...

Ozymandias.

Canada is always an option.

Yes yes yes

Trend setter!

Meaningful employment often eludes disabled Canadians, and when they do find work, recent data suggests they’ll still be at an economic disadvantage. thewalrus.ca/constantly-prove...

Trump is right to say Russia’s war against Ukraine “never should have started”—but the blame for it lies entirely with Putin, not with Ukraine and Zelensky, writes David J. Kramer.

Lacombe....AB.

Many good points here by @naheednenshi.bsky.social. But a few more points to consider. Premier Smith claimed AHS was wilfully stalling the implementation of chartered surgical facility contracts so it was ok for her chief of staff Marshall Smith to call AHS CEO Athana Mentzelopoulos. 1

Single is fabulous.

A profession dominated by women....patriarchy rules.

Multiple foreign intelligence agencies plotting to murder dissidents in Australia, warns security chief therecord.media/australia-as...

Farage calls for more births, rapidly followed by the sound of a million vaginas snapping shut. on.ft.com/4gKE727

Boycott all things American. "It's a Canada Thing".

Zelenskyy says Trump is living in a Russian ‘disinformation bubble’

Canada needs a plan to help struggling caregivers. Without this army of helping hands, the country’s health and welfare systems would be collapsing even faster, by @picardonhealth.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... via @theglobeandmail.com @cdncaregiving.bsky.social

Imagine one of your employees accused another of funneling half a billion of your dollars to their friends. Imagine the accused told you not to worry. They're looking into it for you. That's where we are in Alberta. The premier and her staff are telling taxpayers to let them handle it.

One of the positives of Newfoundland and Labrador’s stewardship fishery? It has amplified the voices of Indigenous participants—a group whose values and perspectives have long been ignored by decision makers. thewalrus.ca/will-reviving-th...

I hope you said 'You're looking at her."

Here's my latest reflection on a lesson I learned from a woman who was in the second tower on 9/11. When the world is turned upside down taking action is the only way to survive. Our democracy is under threat but politicians are still living in 2024. charlieangus.substack.com/p/no-return-...

Only with people who aren't really paying attention.

THANK YOU Alastair for recognizing that a conversation with @markcarneyforpm.bsky.social would be 'something you could do' to support Canadians as we struggle with the bully Kingdom to the south to protect our sovereignty. TRIP is the only Brit podcast in my collection to actually "see" Canada.

One year since Alexei Navalny was murdered by the Putin regime. Tomorrow his wife Yulia Navalnaya is our guest on @therestpolitics.bsky.social LEADING. At a time Trump can barely bring himself to say Putin caused the war in Ukraine her voice is more important than ever

Check out the situation in Quebec around the same issue....successful union formation and Amazon pulled out.

‘Fight for every penny’: the over-70s battling to achieve Scottish cohousing dream

Clearly you are not considering Canada.

A new Nanos Research poll for CTV and the Globe and Mail asked Canadians who they felt would do the best job negotiating with US president Donald Trump. Nationally, 40 percent of respondents chose Carney, compared to 26 percent who favoured Poilievre. thewalrus.ca/pierre-poilievre...