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Do good. #Brampton

[Faz 🇬🇾🇨🇦 @FazCDN]

@Reid4Ward9 Martin, what is going on with this parking lot. It's been sitting almost 3 months with nothing completed.

[Patrick Brown @patrickbrownont]

Very happy to welcome residents into their beautiful new homes built by Habitat for Humanity with support from our Housing Accelerator Fund. It was just 7 months ago that we were on-site helping with framing.

@HabitatGTA

[Patrick Brown @patrickbrownont]

Eid Mubarak Brampton.

Happy to join the local Muslim community at Chinguacousy Park this morning. In Brampton, we support and encourage expression of our religious freedoms. I was able to join in 4 congregations across the city this morning along with @RodPower7_8 @medeiros_martin @COBMPalleschi @pat_fortini and @Navjitkaurbrar

Thank you for welcoming us.

[Patrick Brown @patrickbrownont]

Peel Police Lead One of Canada’s Largest Extortion Crackdowns - Mayor Patrick Brown https://t.co/1c2wJA4r7n

[Patrick Brown @patrickbrownont]

Organized crime is using modern technology to target families and businesses, while police are often forced to wait weeks for critical digital evidence needed to stop violent crimes and extortion.

Bill C-22 would provide law enforcement with modern lawful access tools to help protect residents, prevent more victims, and keep communities safe.

Read More at Mayor Brown's remarks at the House of Commons Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security (SECU): https://t.co/mKzEfA4qe6

[Patrick Brown @patrickbrownont]

It’s National Police Week. Thank you to the dedicated members of Peel Regional Police for your courage, professionalism, and commitment to keeping Brampton safe. From combatting organized crime to responding to emergencies on the front lines, your service and sacrifice make a difference every single day. Together, let’s keep building a safer and stronger Canada!

[Patrick Brown @patrickbrownont]

We are laser focused on public safety in Peel Region — and we’re delivering real results.

Our mission is clear: Make Brampton and Peel the worst place in North America for organized crime to operate.

[Sportsnet @Sportsnet]

After a microphone issue in Buffalo, the entire crowd helps with the singing of O Canada ahead of Game 5 👏

[Patrick Brown @patrickbrownont]

We are laser focused on public safety in Peel Region — and we’re delivering real results.

Our mission is clear: Make Brampton and Peel the worst place in North America for organized crime to operate.

✅ Hired 785 new Peel Regional Police officers (2023 to 2026)— the largest frontline expansion per capita in Canada

✅ Building the new 23 Division — Peel’s first new police station in 40 years

✅ Deployed 360° high-resolution cameras and next-generation 911 technology

✅ Successfully lobbied Ottawa for auto theft scanners at intermodal hubs, advocated for the lawful access legislation which was presented in parliament and fought for real bail reform which has finally been approved.

We’re hitting organized crime where it hurts. Watch the video here for full @PeelPolice progresss report ☝🏼

#Brampton #PeelRegion #CombatCrime

[Patrick Brown @patrickbrownont]

You deserve to be safe in your neighbourhood, on your street, and in your home.

Here’s how we’re investing in more officers, better technology, more infrastructure and get real results as we combat crime across Peel Region.

Follow link for full progress report:
https://t.co/QLUZVoAgzs

[Gilly @GillysGuidance]

Diljit Dosanjh takes his Panjabi and Sikh roots wherever he goes. On @FallonTonight he tells Jimmy that Sikhs were not allowed to disembark in Vancouver from the Guru Nanak Jahaz Komagata Maru in 1914 and that in 2026 - 55,000 Sikhs in the same city filled a stadium to see him.

[Ihtesham Ali @ihtesham2005]

An MIT professor taught the same math course for 62 years, and the day he retired, students from every country on earth showed up online to watch him give his final lecture.

I opened the playlist at 2am and ended up watching three of them back to back.

His name is Gilbert Strang. The course is MIT 18.06 Linear Algebra.

Every machine learning engineer, every data scientist, every quant, every self-taught programmer who actually understands how AI works learned the math from this one man. Most of them never set foot on MIT's campus. They just opened a free playlist on YouTube and let him teach.

Here's the story almost nobody tells you.

Strang joined the MIT math faculty in 1962. He retired in 2023. That is 61 years of standing at the same chalkboard teaching the same subject to 18-year-olds.

The interesting part is what he did when MIT launched OpenCourseWare in 2002. Most professors were skeptical. They worried that putting their lectures online would make their classrooms irrelevant. Strang did not hesitate. He said his life's mission was to open mathematics to students everywhere. He filmed every lecture and gave it away.

The decision quietly changed how the world learns math.

For decades linear algebra was taught the wrong way. Professors started with abstract vector spaces and proofs about field axioms. Students drowned in the abstraction. Most never recovered. They walked out believing they were bad at math when they had simply been taught in an order that nobody's brain is built to absorb.

Strang inverted the entire curriculum.

He started with matrix multiplication. Something you can write down on paper. Something you can compute by hand. Something you can see. Then he showed his students that everything else in linear algebra eigenvectors, singular value decomposition, orthogonality, the four fundamental subspaces was just a different lens for understanding what the matrix was actually doing under the hood.

His rule was strict. If a student could not explain a concept using a concrete 3 by 3 example, that student did not actually understand the concept yet. The abstraction was supposed to come last, not first. The intuition was the foundation. The proofs were just confirmation that the intuition was correct.

The second thing Strang changed was the classroom itself. He said please and thank you to his students. Every single lecture. He paused mid-derivation to ask "am I OK?" to check if anyone was lost. He never used the word "obviously" or "trivially" because he knew exactly what those words do to a student who is one step behind. He treated 19-year-olds learning math for the first time the way he treated his own colleagues. With patience. With respect. With the assumption that they belonged in the room.

For 62 years.

The result is something that has never happened in the history of education. A single math professor became the default teacher of his subject for the entire planet.

Universities in India, China, Brazil, Nigeria, every country with a computer science department, started telling their own students to just watch Strang's lectures. The University of Illinois revised its linear algebra course to do almost no in-person lecturing. The reason was honest. The professor said they could not compete with the videos.

His final lecture was in May 2023.

The auditorium was packed with students who had never met him before. He walked to the chalkboard, taught for an hour, and at the end the entire room stood and applauded. He looked confused for a moment, like he genuinely did not understand why they were cheering. Then he smiled and waved them off and walked out.

His written comment under the YouTube video of that final lecture was four sentences long. He said teaching had been a wonderful life. He said he was grateful to everyone who saw the importance of linear algebra. He said the movement of teaching it well would continue because it was right.

That was it. No book promotion. No farewell speech. No legacy management.

The man whose teaching is the foundation of modern AI just thanked the audience and went home.

20 million views. Zero ego. The entire engine of the AI revolution sits on top of math that millions of people learned for free from one quiet professor in Cambridge.

The course is still on MIT OpenCourseWare. Every lecture, every problem set, every exam, every solution. Free.

The most important math course of the 21st century is sitting one click away from you. Most people will never open it.

[Patrick Brown @patrickbrownont]

Brampton has always cared about our environment. Thank you to everyone participating in park cleanups this spring, especially those doing their part to keep our city beautiful all year round.

[Patrick Brown @patrickbrownont]

Proud to welcome Prime Minister @MarkJCarney and Minister @gregorrobertson and grateful for partners who know investing in recreation is investing in a healthy Canada and that investing in our youth is investing in our future.

With $64M in federal funding and $148M approved by Council for the Embleton Community Centre, we’re building something special for generations to come.

Building public infrastructure creates immediate jobs and economic stimulus for the City. There will be no delay. We recognize the urgency of the moment and construction starts this summer.

Read More: https://t.co/BAyMvHyuyq

[Patrick Brown @patrickbrownont]

Whether you’re attending church, taking part in a Good Friday procession, or enjoying time with loved ones, I hope your weekend is filled with peace and joy.

With so many great events happening across the city, it’s also a wonderful time to get out and connect with our community.

From my family to yours, Happy Easter, Brampton.

[Patrick Brown @patrickbrownont]

A big thank you to the 225 participants of the annual @PeelPolice polar plunge Freezin’ for a Reason!

Together we raised over $170,000 this year, and over $700,000 in the last four years, to support thousands of @SOOntario athletes.

We have the best of the best with the @PeelPolice. They consistently step up for charity during their off hours.

@DC_Milinovich @DeputyAndrews @DeputyDapat @DeputyOdoardi @CAOLJackson @ChiefNish 👏🏼👏🏼

[Patrick Brown @patrickbrownont]

March is Epilepsy Awareness Month, and on March 26 we recognize Purple Day 💜
Epilepsy affects more than 300,000 Canadians of all ages and backgrounds. Today, we stand with those living with epilepsy and their families—raising awareness, reducing stigma, and showing support.

I’m proud to join @epilepsysco in encouraging our community to learn more, start conversations, and wear purple in support.

Learn more: https://t.co/hrBMx5IlJh
#PurpleDay2026 #EpilepsyAwareness #WearPurple #EndEpilepsy #EpilepsySupport

[Patrick Brown @patrickbrownont]

Eid Mubarak #Brampton.

Wishing you a joyful Eid filled with family, celebration, and well-earned moments together.

#EidalFitr #EidMubarak

[Patrick Brown @patrickbrownont]

From early mornings to shared evenings, our community came together in powerful ways during Ramadan. Celebrating each other throughout the year is what makes Brampton special. #Ramadan

[Patrick Brown @patrickbrownont]

Crimes like extortion, child exploitation and human trafficking leave digital footprints. Getting that information in Canada can take weeks or months and investigations go cold. Bill C-22 proposed by the Carney government aims to give police faster access to help stop crime and protect victims.

This bill is legislation which I, @ChiefNish and law enforcement across the country actively pleaded with the government to introduce as a necessary step for a safer Canada. We implore for the speedy passage of this legislation. Canada will be safer when it passes. I hope the legislation receives parliamentary priority by the government and all party consent from opposition parties.

Canada is the only Five Eyes county that doesn't provide this tool to law enforcement.

https://t.co/6QDrvQODIT