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Vancouver company Hootsuite seeks business with ICE amid financial pressures Company has secured a project with ICE that involves ‘social listening’ after cancelling a contract in 2020 over employee backlash

Hootsuite has been pursuing business with Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the United States, more than five years after employee backlash forced the Vancouver tech company to cancel a contract to provide social-media management services to the agency.
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Writing isn't easy and fun! It's more like a long drawn out death where the only positive thing anyone says is at least the will is still there! Sit up and write that book you were meant to! What are you even doing here? Doomscrolling for the answers? The answer is survive to tell the story.

Stan Rogers sort of did

Something I've noticed lately is how, in the shadow of America's increasing loud anti-trans rhetoric, every time there's a "here's what it means to be Canadian and fight back in the face of These Hard Times" there are also no trans people involved. Like our elbows don't go up the same way.

fellow authors, it’s our duty to financially ruin the AI industry

Strongly agree. Identities are not genres.

The Canadian Company Staffing ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ | The Tyee Carney’s government awarded GardaWorld millions in contracts and isn’t ruling out more.

"Clearly, this government is capable of speaking about spending decisions that don’t align with its priorities. So why is it clamming up in the face of big business behaving badly in the United States?"

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The Canadian Company Staffing ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ | The Tyee Carney’s government awarded GardaWorld millions in contracts and isn’t ruling out more.

“This wishy-washy stance when it comes to jaw-dropping cruelty tied to the U.S. is yet another stroke in an increasingly clear portrait: one of PM Mark Carney with his elbows firmly planted to his sides when it comes to big business.”

@rachelgilmore.bsky.social’s first column with The Tyee.

In real life, it is seniors who rent in crisis. Fastest growing group of homeless residents, almost no returns on savings due to low interest rates leading to collapse, almost no rental housing built in decades, rising rents at historic levels eating up fixed incomes, & stagnant disability supports

Globe and Mail article, headline reads, “The bitter truth is that cheaper housing means a retirement crisis for homeowners.”

“We can’t allow housing to get affordable because a chunk of the population relies on home equity to retire because capitalism & a move away from unions = no pensions anymore” is a diabolical take

any creative that talks to generative ai for ideas instead of to the shadows that haunt them or to the small animal bones under their bed isnt worthy of being read by human eyes.

The camp has raised almost $20K since yesterday, but they still have a ways to go. Donation link is in the reply to my original post.

a group of people protesting in front of a building that says bet on it ALT: a group of people protesting in front of a building that says bet on it

I am so tired of academia's entrenched "just get a job somewhere else" mentality. Like, "I'm sure there's something a few states/countries over."

What other workers do we ever say that to?

No. The tools of resistance are to fight for what we have here.

I'm going into the woods to scream for awhile, anybody wanna come with?

The women around terrible men aren’t secretly heroes of the revolution. They are collaborators.

Also to make an em dash all you have to do is put two dashes in a row in Word, and the program makes it for you. Wordpress too.

Anything an LLM is doing is stolen from actual writers and I'll be damned if I'll let a plagiarism machine dictate how I use language, grammar or punctuation.

Listening to Canadian news is basically just everything is on fire also we need to fast track approvals on resource extraction.

For once I wish I were in Toronto. This line up is🔥

You bet! My disability is a quintessential part of me - whether that makes other folks uncomfortable or not

Anyways.... Albertans, if you want to fill in an extremely leading survey that the government wants to use to ban books that hurt their feelings, that would be great. It has freeform boxes, which are always funnnnnn! 😈 #abed #abhealth #abpoli #ableg #BookBanning your.alberta.ca/school-libra...

‘Extremely graphic’ sexual content found in books at K-9 schools, province says Books found in some school libraries in Calgary and Edmonton had “explicit sexual content,” said the provincial government.

Let's be clear: three of the four books flagged by the Alberta government today as containing "inappropriate content" feature queer and trans people.

This is moral panic.

This is the same blueprint of book bans in the US.

And this is happening in Canada.

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Alberta to create standards for ‘age-appropriate’ school library books | Xtra Magazine Maia Kobabe’s “Gender Queer” and Alison Bechdel’s “Fun Home” are among the books flagged as “extremely graphic”

My story (with video!) on the announcement about Alberta's new plan to restrict school library books announced today, and how three of the four books they singled out as "inappropriate" were focused on LGBTQ2S+ themes.

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if you use AI secretly in your writing, which a lot of people seem to be doing? why are you a writer? The only two pleasures in writing are writing and having written, neither of which you will have done, so what pleasure will you have? The pleasure of being self-published and read by no one?

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

they're defunding the arts because the arts are a threat. make more art.

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Hello all!! I am raising money to go home and visit my stepdad with terminal cancer. I'd like to visit a few times while I still can. I have pins and bracelets in my ko-fi store, plus a few copies of TFOTS on hand. Can also send ebooks to ppl upon request 💖 ko-fi.com/lormaggot

supports & resources for anyone impacted by the terrible events at the Lapu Lapu Day festival in Vancouver, please share: vanfilemergency.my.canva.site

Filipino emergency response resources for anyone in need of support (Google doc): docs.google.com/document/u/0...