We passed 2000 signatures since Wednesday. Sign below to get The Littlest Hobo a star on Canada's Walk of Fame 👇 change.org/p/a-star-for-t…

Only 11 days until our 2024 conference kicks off at Concordia University in Montreal! You can find conference info and our updated conference program here: american-studies.ca/cfp-on-botheri…

I can’t tell if this is either inexperience/undereducated or unhinged bordering on conspiratorial 😬🤦‍♀️ In the real world of PH enforcement, there is occasionally exceptional need for protective action - think about the emerging #H5N1 #epidemic on farms (where flocks had to be

The Undergrowth In the Forest of Saint-Germaine by Claude Monet

Me [doing homework at 15]: WHEN AM I EVER GOING TO NEED TO FIND THE COORDINATES OF TWO INTERSECTING POINTS ON A GRAPH IN REAL LIFE?! [40 years later] My 15-yr old [doing homework]: Can you help me with finding the coordinates of two intersecting points on a graph? Me: Sonofa-

Not surprising. 73% of Cdns open to major reform of health systems. Let’s do what hasn’t been done in Canada. Let’s design/implement a system of universal access to primary care - a health home for every neighbourhood. Other countries do this. We can too. theglobeandmail.com/canada/article…

Prof Dr Kevin Fong giving the most devastating and moving testimony to the Covid Inquiry of visiting hospital intensive care units at the height of the second wave in late Dec 2020. The unimaginable scale of death, the trauma, the loss of hope. Please watch this 2min clip.

Today's must-read: "lobbyists working for major North American oil and gas companies were key architects of anti-protest laws that increase penalties and could lead to non-violent environmental and climate activists being imprisoned up to 10 years." theguardian.com/us-news/2024/s…

Deepest apologies to any of my supporters who have been cut in half.

Oh for the love of God make it stop... “The House has lost confidence in the government and offers Canadians the option to axe the tax, build the homes, fix the budget and stop the crime,” the motion reads. After 1st failed attempt, Conservatives table another non-confidence

In the House Elizabeth May asked me my thoughts on why Pierre Poillievre doesn't have or can't get national security clearance. Serious questions being raised at the foreign interference inquiry. youtube.com/watch?v=uxvjRA…

Today I gave a speech calling out the cynicism and fundamental unfitness for public leadership of Pierre Poilievre. He called a non-confidence motion to force an election this morning and then never even showed up. It speaks volumes. youtube.com/watch?v=B6DGRC…

Just remember that the same Eric Adams who’s been indicted for stealing millions of dollars from New Yorkers and now demanding due process recently told us all it was ok for NYPD to shoot 4 people over $2.90 in unpaid subway fare.

the backlash against Chappell Roan for saying “fine, I’ll vote for the Democratic Party, but I don’t like them” is so bizarre as a Canadian because it’s understood here that everyone votes begrudgingly for whomever they hate least in order to defeat someone worse

Yesterday, 2 Conservative MPs made homophobic slurs in the House of Commons. I won't repeat them, but they are recorded in Hansard. Parliamentarians should know better. It's as simple as that.

This post was removed from a FB mommy group for violating the rules. It is truly concerning that scientific fact about the prevalence of COVID is considered either a “vaccine” or “drama” post.

I dunno, dude. Maybe you should just do your job?

when your parents ask you about something they found in your browser history

UCLA english invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position in postcolonial literature—especially interested in applicants with expertise in literature from africa, south asia & the arab world. deadline nov 1. pls share widely!! recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF09851

“To totally eschew the mask in an era of unending COVID waves is to believe that burying fear is the equivalent of burying what we fear. It is the strange alchemy of toxic positivity, the belief that belief is reality and reality is nothing.” My latest: thegauntlet.news/p/fear-itself