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Love that koirataivas tag 😆 I should use that too.

Enjoy your panel! Sounds very interesting

I spent a few days in Ottawa in July, and my daughter and I had quite a sensory experience walking in Byward Market before the heat and humidity broke for a thunderstorm. As the wind came at us like a blast furnace, we asked, is this what heat sounds like?

Not a Vancouver Island sound.

Catch is, you need to organize a seance to watch it.
Ok, I”m in.

Troops to Portland? Illegal and absurd. But the absurdity is the point. Trump policy is to ignore real threats to US security coming from abroad and use the armed forces to pursue imaginary threats from within, thereby creating an atmosphere suitable for personal rule. (1/2)

Soon the rainy, shorter days and higher daytime tides will make it hard to get to the dog beach. Until then, I will be lucky to take time off from screens to be here. #Nanaimo

Build Canada Homes is a step in the right direction, but we're here to present a 🧵on why building more homes will never be the silver bullet many Canadians are hoping for. Read on for info and links! (1/11)... #cdnpoli #buildcanadahomes www.gensqueeze.ca/build_canada...

Cool! It’s sure bright

This is Finny. He doesn’t go chasing waterfalls. He carefully studies their timing and arrives in advance. 14/10 very impressive (TT: jordancain70)

Ok its ‘feed it off an aux, speak, grunt no strength, the ladder start to clatter with fear fight down height, wire in a fire representing seven games, a government for hire and a combat site’.

Classroom workload a top issue for B.C. teachers as school year starts B.C. school teachers returning to classrooms this fall are facing a number of growing challenges, according to the B.C. Teachers' Federation. President Carole Gordon said trying to meet the needs of a...

"The education system needs to be fully funded. When we do that, we can teach [and] feel respected within that work." BCTF President Carole Gordon discussed the top issues for teachers on CBC News yesterday. Watch the full video here: www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

Dear people who are saying that the CDC directors who quit yesterday should have “stayed and fought”,

With all due respect, you do not grasp the magnitude of the problem of RFK Jr.

He is asking them to do unethical and immoral things that will actively harm the people of the United States. 1/3

Opinion: Donald Trump is on the brink of becoming a dictator. Can he be stopped? As the guardrails of American democracy fall one by one, it is no longer a question of where the President is going, but how fast he will get there

The latest from @acoyne.bsky.social arrives just in time to land on the syllabus of my contemporary threats to democracy course. Was looking for exactly this sort of up-to-the-moment summation of the state of play in the states. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

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This post = I made sure to catch Jays in 30 tonight. Thanks!

Thanks for your ongoing involvement in this!

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"General sense of doom."

Photo of Fisgard Lighthouse

Taking advantage of free access to National Historic Sites this summer. This is the Fisgard Lighthouse at Fort Rodd Hill.

Orange road sign demonstrating a zipper merge

Found this 2017 photo from the Malahat. This was a good idea.

Cool!

This was an amazing few minutes of baseball! What a story. Glad to have caught it on tv while it was happening.

With just a few messages, biased AI chatbots swayed people’s political views University of Washington researchers recruited self-identifying Democrats and Republicans to make political decisions with help from three versions of ChatGPT: a base model, one with liberal bias and....

Researchers (including some fantastic people at UW) found that chatbots can persuade people on political issues, and that they often do so by shifting the frames of the debate: www.washington.edu/news/2025/08...

Let's integrate AI in schools, they said.

BC Socials / Geography teachers!

#bcpoli

I am having trouble finding out information online about this fire. Is there a link you can share about the context?

When critical thinking isn’t enough: to beat information overload, we need to learn ‘critical ignoring’ Lateral reading, self-nudging and a persistent refusal to feed the trolls are some of the ways one can better manage information.

…. My students and I also read this article about “critical ignoring” as in addition to strategies like lateral reading, the authors recommend “self-nudging” in making our own choices in consuming online information theconversation.com/when-critica.... 2/2

This post resonates! I talk to my students - future teachers - about how to navigate being informed about distressing issues. We need to be, but must look after ourselves too. I share that it helps me to listen via news podcasts instead of visual images if I feel stressed, and… 1/2

on one hand, some folks online are being a tad uncharitable at the refurbished Granville Street Bridge's public spaces being in an interim state

on the other hand, if you do a political ribbon cutting ceremony after two years and $54 million, you're gonna get dunked on if this is the first result

Taking Care of the Truth: A Call for Collaborative, Community-Engaged Residential School Research The Squamish Nation’s Yúusnewas project demonstrates the importance of data sovereignty, big data analysis, and the need for collaborative, community-engaged residential school research as pa…

Having grown up near St. Paul’s Indian Residential School in North Vancouver, it’s an honour to be part of the Squamish Nation’s Yúusnew̓as Project. Adina Williams and I outline some of Yúusnew̓as's lessons for the future of residential school research: activehistory.ca/blog/2025/07...