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U of A looks to remove EDI from hiring policy | CBC News The University of Alberta is proposing to eliminate Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) from its hiring policy, a year after the school initially said it was moving away from the term.

New emails obtained by CBC through access of information show that before announcing the end of EDI at the University of Alberta, the president sent his announcement to the UCP before publication.

How's that for institutional neutrality?

There is an old word to describe going to a foreign power and asking for their assistance in breaking up a sovereign country — it’s treason.

Canadians are standing together in defence of this beautiful land. 🇨🇦

"we are united in our concerns about recent actions of our provincial Government. We feel it is important to call out unacceptable behaviour & demand that our elected representatives protect our rights, & work for all Albertans."

From the open letter in the Camrose Booster.

Jordan Peterson’s School Isn’t Accredited. Smith Offered Alberta’s Help | The Tyee The premier met with the controversial psychologist and tried to help his business, finds a Tyee investigation.

“Smith, and her chief of staff, Rob Anderson, directly intervened with Alberta’s Advanced Education Ministry in an attempt to help Peterson’s higher-education business venture.”

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

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Danielle Smith Goes Nuclear on Trans Rights | The Tyee Alberta’s premier is overriding Charter protections. Here’s a fact check on her claims.

@melwoods.me: We must not overcomplicate what’s going on here.

This is the Alberta government saying the rights of trans kids to receive life-saving health care, go by their own pronouns at school or play on sport teams don’t matter as much as the Smith government’s right to dictate their lives.

Alberta to invoke notwithstanding clause to shield 3 transgender bills from court challenges | CBC News The Alberta government has tabled legislation that seeks to invoke the notwithstanding clause to shield a suite of bills that affects transgender youth and adults from legal challenges.

I am pretty sure that when Merv Leitch and Peter Lougheed first created the notwithstanding clause, they didn’t mean it to be deployed to bully and oppress literal school children. #ableg #abpoli #TransRightsAreHumanRights #Alberta #notwithstandingclause

Don’t be fooled by the Ontario Ring of Fire ads aired during Blue Jays games | The Narwhal Doug Ford’s ads during Blue Jays World Series games suggest mines are up and running in the Ring of Fire in northern Ontario, but that’s not true

Those Ring of Fire ads during World Series broadcasts might have you thinking mines are up and running in the remote region in northern Ontario, but that's not the case and the Ford government should be upfront about it, writes @elaineanselmi.bsky.social thenarwhal.ca/opinion-blue...

Alberta is the richest province in the country — except where it really counts How does the province with the highest fiscal capacity in the country also have the lowest per-capita funding for students in its public schools? Because it wants it that way

Alberta is the wealthiest province in Confederation, but you'd never know that by looking at the way it funds its public schools and their students. At some point, voters might want to think about what that says — and means — @maxfawcett.bsky.social writes.

AI Is the Bubble to Burst Them All I talked to the scholars who literally wrote the book on tech bubbles—and applied their test.

There's been endless talk about an AI bubble, but less about exactly how, why, and how much it's a bubble. So I turned to the framework put forward by scholars Brent Goldfarb and David A. Kirsch, authors of "Bubbles and Crashes," for assessing tech bubbles.

Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8

456,365 signatures!

This is a historic mobilization of Albertans by @lukaszukab.bsky.social and his team with #ForeverCanadian!

More than needed by HALF!!!

This is more than a full quarter of votes cast in the last provincial election!

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

Safety of JN.1-Updated mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines This cohort study investigates the association between booster vaccinations containing the JN.1 lineage and 29 serious adverse events in Denmark.

COVID vaccines available in AB (though many barriers, sigh).

Remember, large body of evidence: safe & effective.

For example, recent study involving approx 1 million adults: "NO increased risk of 29 adverse events was observed after vaccination..."

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What will the AI data centre boom mean for Canada? | The Narwhal Sprawling AI data centres — hungry for land, water and power — are coming. Plans the world’s largest, called Wonder Valley, are underway in Alberta

Water-hungry data centres are planned for drought-stricken regions across Canada. What will the AI data centre boom mean for communities? By @savannahridley.bsky.social: thenarwhal.ca/ai-data-cent...

‘Shameless’: How the Alberta Next Panel Blamed Immigrants | The Tyee Divisive scapegoating, including showing a slanted video, fits the populist playbook, says an expert.

“It is hard to know who to blame, but if you can embody it in immigrants, then you have somebody who people can grasp as a target, as a kind of cause of their hardship.” #abpoli

What Happened to the University’s Commitment to Free Expression? Charley Kirk, uAlberta, and Me | Centre for Free Expression I was shocked when the University of Alberta administration informed me, one of its law professors, that I was being placed on non-disciplinary leave for my social media comments in the wake of Charli...

"Why would it bow to antidemocratic pressures by placing a professor on leave without their request, consent, or involvement? That any university would do this is beyond comprehension and is cause for alarm about the future of academic freedom in Canada."

New SIECCAN Issue Brief!

Preventable negative sexual and reproductive health outcomes, including sexually transmitted infections, unintended pregnancies, sexual assault, and intimate partner violence, are costing Canada over $13.7 billion every year.

Alberta Used Lists of America’s Most Banned Books to Target ‘Inappropriate’ School Material | The Tyee Internal emails show how education ministry staff compiled book titles subject to new content restrictions.

Internal emails throw light on the sources used by Government of Alberta staff to search for “inappropriate” materials in school libraries, including an index of America’s most banned books and a website linked to the rise in attempts to ban books in the U.S. #abpoli

First Nations chiefs say Alberta premier is trying to 'manufacture a national unity crisis' | CBC News Many First Nations in Alberta are denouncing Bill 54, the Election Statutes Amendment Act tabled in the provincial legislature Tuesday, saying it disregards treaty rights.

"It's impossible for Alberta to think it can claim the land without involving Indigenous peoples," said Matthew Wildcat, director of Indigenous governance at the University of Alberta, and a member of Ermineskin Cree Nation.

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Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation ain’t having the separatists rhetoric from Smith or her ilk…

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

‘We’re hurting.’ Trans scientists call for recognition and support from research community “Rigorous science demands” it, authors write in landmark commentary

I don’t think this is really a matter of doing “rigorous science”. It is just a matter of moral decency and humanity.

My mixed emotions on Transgender Day of Visibility Around the world, trans people are under attack. So, while Transgender Day of Visibility is a celebration, we need to talk about the dread as well, says a University of Melbourne expert.

It's Transgender Day of Visibility, and I have mixed emotions. So I wrote something about it 😊

(this is the first in a series; the next one is in a few weeks and is about disinformation campaigns)

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Danielle Smith applies for refugee status in USA COUTTS, AB - Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has arrived on foot at the Coutts-Sweet Grass border crossing station, petitioning for refugee status in the US on the grounds of being persecuted in her ho...

Danielle Smith applies for refugee status in USA

How it started:
We don’t need anything from Canada!

How it’s going:
• Wait, they’re our main source of aluminum?
• Oil too? Seriously?
• Potash? So farms need that?
• They spend billions in tourism?
• They make American cars?
• My house is basically Canadian?
• WTF, we rely on them for electricity?

I’ve been a green card holder since 2005. I am a social scientist researching racism + DEI, and my entire research is listed in this list. I go to protests. Tho I’m afraid of speaking up, I’m much more privileged than most at this moment so I can’t be silent. If you can, speak up for those who can’t

Mark Carney is no ally of the oilpatch, says Alberta Premier Danielle Smith as she calls for election | CBC News 'He's been on a warpath against the energy industry for his entire career,' Smith said Monday at the CERAWeek energy conference in Houston, Texas.

All my friends know how much I loathe the current UCP provincial government…but FFS Danielle read the fucking room. I’ve never supported the federal Liberals and even I know we’ve got bigger fish to fry than supporting the few big oil company donors lining your wallet 🇨🇦💪

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Love the cheeky nod to the great Bruce Cockburn in the last lines “Gotta kick at the darkness until it bleeds daylight”

Love the cheeky nod to the great Bruce Cockburn in the last lines “Gotta kick at the darkness until it bleeds daylight”

It makes the Monday after daylight savings time so much better to learn my favourite fascist-smashing thrash band from Winnipeg 🇨🇦 are releasing another (timely) new album. Listen on max volume and remember to forcefully confront/resist MAGA-idiocy on all fronts.🏴🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🏴

McGill with this, Calgary and York both cancelling a wide range of programs that include Languages, Religious Studies, and others, and tons of colleges just eradicating entire campuses and departments.

It's *dire* up here, folks.

Alberta Health Services CEO was advised to contact RCMP over contracts The Alberta Health Services board advised its CEO to talk to the RCMP about her concerns – then the CEO was fired and the board was dismissed.

Amid allegations of pressure to sign shady contracts with private surgery firms, AHS CEO was advised to involve RCMP, then abruptly terminated. #abpoli

The only way to win is not to play | Andrew Perfors You all realise we’re in an abusive relationship with MAGA, right?

Sadly I think I should share this post again. 😢 When I wrote it in November I'd hoped it wouldn't be as prescient as it is turning out to be.

People need to realise we're in an abusive relationship with Trump and MAGA. We can't appease them into treating us well.

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