Shawn Holland

Father, teacher, curler, and reluctant activist who is passionate about big ideas.

[John Cullen @cullenoncurling]

You’re just never gonna hear another athlete say “we wanted to win but they were the best team we could send to the Olympics”

Incredible stuff. You simply gotta love curling (and Christina)

[Adbusters @Adbusters]

@CNN This is one of the biggest crises of legitimacy that the UN has ever faced, and if they do not either force the issue or relocate their headquarters and start treating the US like a rogue state, they will lose any credibility they have as an organization devoted to global peace.

[Jeff Tiedrich @itsJeffTiedrich]

Trump is a genius but you can't see his grades
Trump is healthy but you can't see his medical reports
Trump is honest but you can't see his tax returns
Trump is innocent but you can't see the Epstein Files

[The Walrus @thewalrus]

For the parents of Montreal’s Westwood Junior High School, the theft of their children’s artwork raised serious questions. Had the art teacher really stolen their kids’ work to turn a profit? Would he come back? And, most importantly, what was his motive? https://t.co/eWYwbIfpQK

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

The Good Guys are building concentration camps in Rafah
and massacring civilians trying to obtain food.

The Good Guys are circling the planet with hundreds of military bases
and telling us we’re not allowed to oppose genocide.

Yesterday I saw a little girl playing
and I thought how nice it is that she has all her limbs
and that she is not lying still
covered in gray dust
while her father screams and cries
and calls out to God
while trying to kiss her back to life.

The world is changed now.
The moon is covered with powdered buildings.
The pigeons are weeping
and the wind sounds like drones.
Sometimes I cough and gray dust comes out.
Sometimes it’s a child’s shoe.
There’s a dead donkey lying in my backyard
that nobody wants to talk about.

The Australians chat about real estate investments
and how you can knock down one house
and replace it with two houses
and then make believe that neither house
smells like corpses.

The news man tells us the corporations
are just dumping the products directly into the Pacific now
while clinging tightly to the edge of the screen
so the black hole doesn’t pull him in.

Everything’s fine, the news man yells,
and the system is working perfectly.
We are the Good Guys after all.
We are, after all, the Good Guys.

[Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe,ARTUZ @ARTUZ_teachers]

It is a Silence Monday. Teachers in Zimbabwe are protesting against the ongoing State sponsored persecution aimed at silencing them. They have taken the silence to the classroom. Government is being urged to listen to the voices of teachers who are demanding a fair wage, state funded education for learners, recruitment of more teachers, right to collective bargaining and restoration of vacation leave. Respect our freedom of expression! Allow us to protest without fear of persecution! @eduint @NEHAWU @ilo @SadtuNational @SnatSwaziland @NewsHawksLive @zimlive @Afriteaching @FrontLineHRD @MoPSEZim @psczimbabwe @PoliceZimbabwe @taundoro @nickmangwana

[Shawn Holland @smirkyh]

@justinboone Thank you @justinboone for all of your great insight and advice. You have helped me to 6 league finals and 4 titles in 10 years. I look forward to seeing the next step in your journey.

[The Atlantic @TheAtlantic]

“For millions of American low-wage workers today, the problem is not overwork—it’s underwork,” @adellewaldman writes: https://t.co/lO1T4F1Ekj

[Rachel Gilmore @atRachelGilmore]

Very cool and definitely not anti-Indigenous video for a Conservative candidate to be sharing...........

[Ben Perrin @profbenperrin]

Today's CBC story on "crowd size" is enlightening.

My favourite part is when it shows what 15,000 people in a room actually looks like.

https://t.co/Jcmy9usPOH

[Adbusters @Adbusters]

@MorePerfectUS "yippy"

If Trump subsidiaries weren't directly investing in a triple-leveraged ETF tracking the Nasdaq this morning, we will be utterly shocked.

The art of graft.

[CityNews Vancouver @CityNewsVAN]

WATCH: Calls continue to grow for the Conservative Party of Canada to drop its candidate for North Island-Powell River, Aaron Gunn, over comments about residential schools. Lauren Stallone reports. https://t.co/eDnvrH1htt

[Stuart Benson @LeftHandStu]

That’s because we’re not allowed on the campaign bus.

[Christine Boyle @christineeboyle]

Rustad and his 2 MLAs defending residential school denialist views is disgraceful & offensive.

Gunn says the TRC made false claims about the occurrence of genocide. That’s not true.

No MLA should be defending these views, ever. #bcpoli

https://t.co/GRRB8di4V7

[Amber Mac @ambermac]

🇨🇦 4 reasons Pierre Poilievre isn't connecting with Canadian women 🤷‍♀️
1. Conflated a woman's biological clock with Canada's housing market
2. Joined Jordan Peterson in chat sponsored by pro-life group
3. Said no to making contraceptives free
4. Used misogynistic #MGTOW hashtags

[Dr. Angela Rasmussen @angie_rasmussen]

I don’t see how anyone can look at this Orwellian forbidden words list and think this is free speech

[tern @1goodtern]

I recommend reading the whole of this article thoroughly.

"Donald Trump is turning America into a mafia state"

https://t.co/6TwMu54N2s

[Shawn Holland @smirkyh]

@1goodtern A must read

[Emma Turner FCCT @Emma_Turner75]

This is such an important consideration when thinking about how learning happens.
It's not about being a luddite or a technophobe or being wedded to the past, or not embracing change; it's about recognising that handwriting has a markedly different impact on the brain.