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On Tuesday Oct 19th, 2SLGBTQIA+ events and programming were cancelled out of an abundance of caution based on information received by Waterloo Region Police Services. These details have been relayed publicly by the organisations that were contacted. There is no ongoing investigation at this time 1/

Look at what happened to divorce rates in Mexico when some areas extended the school day by 3.5 hours!

Why did divorce rates go up as a result of the change?

"The availability of childcare...translate[d] into increased bargaining power and economic independence for women."

The Canadian Standards Association (CSA) has released a draft standard requiring masks (like N95s) in health care settings to stop airborne infections.

There is a strong attempt to push back against this, so need your public comments to get this through: publicreview.csa.ca/Home/View/22...

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PROTECT BLACK & ALL STUDENTS- Rally next Thursday June 26 at queen’s park at noon, against the provincial govt motion to mandate police back into Ontario schools. Kids welcome! #NotGoingBack docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Your seasonal allergies are getting worse. A thread on why. 1/n

Koyo Kouoh, 2026 Venice Biennale Curator, Dies Suddenly | Artnet News Koyo Kouoh, executive director and chief curator of Zeitz MOCAA and curator of the next Venice Biennale, died suddenly overnight.

You cannot imagine how devastating this is.

Rest in Perfect Peace Koyo Kouoh🙏🏾

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Why I Published the Shooter Manifesto VIDEO: watch me defend my decision to publish suspect Luigi Mangione's manifesto

The notion that reading a shooter’s statement will cause people to snap to attention and become homicidal maniacs, like some kind of Manchurian Agent trigger word, is media paternalism at its worst.
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Sheriffs often play a huge role in helping carry out deportations, whether it's being deputized as a deportation agent, turning people over to ICE, using county jail for immigration detention, and more. Follow @safetybound.bsky.social and join the webinar next week: safetybound.org/stop-deportations

Congress Keeps Trying to Hide the True Gaza Death Toll Tucked into a $895 billion Pentagon bill is a little-noticed provision to further conceal the death toll in Gaza — the latest effort by U.S. policymakers to cast doubt on casualty figures reported by Palestinian health officials.

A little-noticed provision tucked into the $895 billion defense bill would bar the Pentagon from citing the Gaza Health Ministry as an authoritative source.

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Who made this graph? Because the police budget line should be 14 TIMES LONGER than the second-highest line item, housing support, at $2.9
Are we ready to talk seriously about defunding the police yet?

Woke this morning thinking about Charles Mills’s notion of the “epistemology of ignorance,” the collective agreement, on the part of some, to see the world wrongly and through distorted, delusional lenses.

Riding the red wave: November 10 update — Susan Raffo “The fluidity of our memory, our capacity to forget, is the most haunting trait of our species. It accounts for why we are able to adapt to almost any degree of environmental or moral degradation.”&nb...

I am spending a year walking across Turtle Island holding the question: can we live on this land in a good way together? Because I am not walking through cities, I am spending more time talking with Trump voters than I do in my regular life. Writing about it here www.susanraffo.com/blog/riding-...

the Adults in the Room keep telling me we need to put as much money as possible into the police in order to reduce crime but the police themselves don’t seem to really give a shit about solving any crime whatsoever

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About to get thrown out of here for obvious reasons

100% agree. Number of people I have ever, personally, seen convinced of anything by debate: 0. Number of debate fetishists whom I have seen using insistence on debate as an attempt to derail actual efforts at substantive change aimed at justice: all of them.