Actual map from City of Vancouver of all the locations the Vancouver Police want to begin recording you, with details of their access TBD
You won't be able to go anywhere in the city without being constantly surveilled
My op/ed: https://t.co/pqgZGF2T4o
🚨Confirmed: Statement from @ElectionsBC says it is allowing vote-by-phone today, but in limited circumstances. Assisted telephone voting is normally limited to voters with special needs, such as people with sight loss. Expanded today due to severe weather. #bcpoli#bcstorm
THREAD. I didn't fully know what to expect when I started digging into over a decade of records, statements, financial data, and other information about police body cameras. I suspected it to be troubling, but what I found shocked even me.
Lots of amazing folks have just started new faculty jobs, and it's prompted me to reflect on the last 5 years of my TT experience. So here are 15 lessons I wish I'd learned earlier as an academic:
BLSA Canada is excited to announce that renowned civil rights activist and scholar Dr. Angela Davis will be the keynote speaker at our annual conference gala on February 17, 2024 🎉
If, as a government, the only solution that you can come up with to deal with a difficult situation you’re facing is to override the constitutional rights of children then you’ve lost the fucking plot.
I am going to say something that is going to sit badly with a lot of academics in US and European institutions, but I’m tenured and senior and I give zero fucks.
I’ve read a lot of recent academic scholarship in English language journals that rehashes things Mexican and LatAm
A convicted drunk driver who was at fault in a vehicle accident that killed a young mom, and who never reached out to her motherless children for over two decades is now going to strip children of Human and Charter rights because he knows what’s best for kids? #skpoli
So now that the speaker has resigned over the Nazi in parliament, are we going to go back to pretending white supremacy isn’t a homegrown problem in Canada, or…
It was a great experience to bring moments of joy and physical activity to the students of Hamiota Elementary and Hamiota Collegiate in Hamiota, Manitoba, this week. I would like to express my gratitude to the Hamiota Centennial Library for organizing this event. It is truly inspiring to have the opportunity to visit schools in rural Manitoba and contribute joy to education.
The Kits Point Residents Association court challenge vs. City of Vancouver to try and stop the Sen̓áḵw Development by Squamish Nation was dismissed. No relief given. Case closed.
More than 500 children from 4 schools near the former site of the Shubenacadie Indian Residential School in Nova Scotia placed orange flags in the shape of a heart in honour of those who did not come home.
APTN’s @angelharksen was there to capture this photo.
For 4 yrs, University of Alberta (@UAlberta) has had a scholarship in Ukrainian Studies named in honour of Yaroslav Hunka -that same Nazi they invited to &applauded in parliament.
He didn't appear out of nowhere. Plenty in Canada must've known.
#NaziGate#CanadianParliament