OMG, it's been awhile since I've looked at demographic projections for Canada. The number of 18 year-olds is projected to jump by 20% in the next five years. That should make for some interestinf times at universities. (numbers in thousands).

The Bell Chair and @cu_polisci welcomes Dr Debra Thompson @debthompsonphd back to Carleton University on November 8 to speak on her new book "The Long Road Home," in conversation with Nana aba Duncan and Jonathan Thompson. Dr Thompson is one of the first Bachelor of Public Affairs and Policy Management graduates.

GTA Population Density 2021

This statue is right out of the Book of Genesis

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Archivist David has a personal reason for choosing as his #BBC100 pick Stefan Westmann's stark account of World War One: Stefan was his great-grandad. David says: "His words here of war and of taking another man’s life are both horrifying and moving in the same breath." 🧵1/3

A List of Things People Blamed on Rock 🧵

A decade ago, I took interest in how management consultants influence the public sector and wrote one of the few studies on this. May be of interest to those following Canadian politics news on McKinsey co. Read study here: uwaterloo.ca/scholar/sites/…

Great thoughts from Ted Chiang on AI and writing.

A few thoughts on CCP interference in Canadian political activities, given the MANY stories we're seeing these days, and the leaks. Basically, a thread of caveats and warnings:

It's unclear who the ultimate person responsible for this is in Canada. It could be useful to consider the idea of some sort of foreign influence champion / deputy minister / anyone who will be accountable on this issue.

There’s a lot of intelligence docs being discussed these days, but not a lot of discussion about what intelligence actually *is* - and I think this is warping our conversation a bit. A few thoughts:

Soviet anti-religious poster, 1965, showing a woman throwing out her grandmother's religious icons. 'Grandmother said sternly: "Go nowhere without God!" 'The bright light of science has shown that God does not exist!'

Story by Eric Andrew-Gee appears to confirm what was suspected and reported with "sources." Hillary Clinton was involved herself in the Omar #Khadr case, urging his repatriation from #Guantanamo, but that Stephen Harper was blocking the move at the time: theglobeandmail.com/canada/article…

Bon Mois de la Francophonie! Quelques statistiques intéressantes selon La Francophonie 👇 #frcan #onfr

Apropos of nothing, two years ago I wrote a piece about how CSIS does targeting and warrants. Here is the piece but main take-away below: canlii.org/en/commentary/…

Early in the pandemic, CSIS had concerns that "threat actors are leveraging the COVID-19 pandemic to further their geopolitical aims and erode support for the values of democracy and human rights that underpin our society" apple.news/AeyVJl10AS2qxx…

Names. Really excellent Quaker names of the past. Lee Slinger

Join the @NOTLMuseum at Voices of Freedom Park to commemorate the passing of the Act to Limit Slavery and Chloe Cooley's resistance on Saturday, July 9th, 11 am. To learn more about Chloe Cooley and the enslavement of Black people in Niagara visit the museum to see their new