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1-Minute Read. The Research Is In. Research Reveals the Power of Small Wins. By Youki Terada & Stephen Merrill. Illustration of a student with a backpack climbing up a ladder into a bright yellow sun, with rays radiating from it and clouds behind them.

We tend to measure academic success by the big wins: Passing a test with flying colors, for example, or earning top grades in a demanding course.

But it’s the small wins that motivate students to keep going amid the inevitable academic struggles, new research shows.

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Inside the Bill C-5 First Nations summit | The Narwhal I was at the First Nations summit on Bill C-5. It’s clear Mark Carney isn’t listening to Indigenous leaders.

First Nations have raised concerns about the Building Canada Act since it was introduced as part of Bill C-5.

As @rjjago.bsky.social found when he attended the First Nations Summit last week, the federal government isn’t ready to heed them thenarwhal.ca/first-nation...

X did have a lot of reach, and as the journalist in B.C. with arguably the most reach on it, I would have preferred to stay.

But we all have agency, and I didn't want to post on a website whose owner said things like "Canada is not a real country", so I left.

Life is full of tradeoffs.

5 Popular Education Beliefs That Aren’t Backed by Research Making adjustments to these common misconceptions can turn dubious strategies into productive lessons, the research suggests.

Doodling, reading aloud, letter grades: All these practices are tangled up in commonly held misconceptions about education.

Our editors rounded up the research to dispel these myths—and explain the tweaks you can make to align your pedagogy with learning science. 🧑‍🔬

#EdResearch #EduSky

Is inclusive education more expensive?!

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The 20th anniversary of Jordan’s Principle parade in Winnipeg is a wrap but our advocacy to ensure the federal government obeys the legal orders continues- let your MP know you support Jordan’s Principle💙

Still funny. Hardly anything else is.

I could never be ideological. That would violate my set of beliefs and values in areas of economic, political and social life.

image of a tray of hot cross buns just out of the oven

Hot Cross Bun season

This is high art

I just want to be liberated one day from having to hear anymore about US politics.

United Nations report recommends Canada repeal MAID for people without terminal illnesses International committee also called on Ottawa to scrap the proposed expansion of MAID eligibility in 2027 to people whose sole underlying illness is a mental disorder

Last week UN CRPD committee released a report that among other things, called on Canada to repeal Track 2 MAiD.

Story here by @mikehager.bsky.social with comments from @trudolem.bsky.social and myself.

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YouTube video by Netflix CRIP CAMP: A DISABILITY REVOLUTION | Full Feature | Netflix

I'll share a few that I teach to start. First up, Crip Camp and the fight for 504 (which yes, is now under attack, suit up) youtu.be/OFS8SpwioZ4?...

Canadian universities have been facing across the board austerity for years. Talented Canadians can't get jobs because there aren't any. Why would we prioritize bringing in Americans (who already make up a significant proportion of faculty in Canada) rather than helping our own skilled academics?

What do you do when they target the schools?

A.I. may be a mid technology with limited use cases to justify its financial and environmental costs. But it is a stellar tool for demoralizing workers who can, in the blink of a digital eye, be categorized as waste. Whatever A.I. has the potential to become, in this political environment it is most powerful when it is aimed at demoralizing workers.

Actually, A.I. Is Pretty Mid www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/o...

Prepping for a talk and I came across this message from Chief Seattle to the Americans in 1854: "Your time of decay may be distant, but it will surely come, for even the White Man whose God walked and talked with him as friend to friend, cannot be exempt from the common destiny."

First Nations seek return of land used for popular South Surrey farm Kwantlen, Katzie and Semiahmoo Nations call for return of unceded territory in Surrey

With this election, for First Nations - it's heads we lose, tails we lose. But with this NDP land theft plan, we lose more. Here's some background on that land Jagmeet Singh wants to steal: www.peacearchnews.com/local-news/f... 3

Canadian national anthem in English: gosh what a neat place to live. We’re so far north. I love you guys.

Canadian national anthem in French: I arise each morning with a sword in my hand and rage in my heart. I have traced the borders of Saskatchewan in blood.

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YouTube video by KTVB 'Everyone Is Welcome Here' shirts made by the thousands opposing West Ada's decision

m.youtube.com/watch?v=C97V... #everyoneiswelcome

Before you put too much stock in Canadian political polls, remember almost all of them violate the necessary random condition, and their attempts to stratify are clunky at best.

yes it does, actually.

You're Dead to Me - Julius Caesar’s Rise To Power - BBC Sounds Join Greg Jenner in Ancient Rome to meet one of history’s biggest names, Julius Caesar.

Seeing as it’s the Ides of March, here’s our very fun guide to how Julius Caesar rose to power and then destroyed the stability of the state, ignored the law, undermined political institutions, and leveraged the wealth of the richest man in the nation… ahem…

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Yuriy’s Notebook: Canada Through Fresh Eyes | The Tyee Like thousands of Ukrainians since 2022, I tried a new life in BC. How’s that working out? First in a series.

“What drove me to leave my Crimea home was the fear felt living every minute knowing that armed enforcers might come for you. It matters zero that you are guilty of nothing. But safe in Canada, challenges lay ahead.”

Yuriy Umansky writes.

somehow bc ferries made “having internet that doesn’t work for 15 years, never fixing it despite constant outrage, and then just giving up” their second most pathetic wireless situation this century

Teaching has the potential to be an act of radical hope

I say this to myself every single day. 💛

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

A text from a White House advisor to me: