Cheryl Dueck

If you have kids, I recommend this graphic novel: "Primates: The Fearless Science of Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Biruté Galdikas" by Jim Ottaviani. Jane Goodall's research and global impact are an inspiring legacy.

I know this exists, but having a kid in high school and looking at the grade outcomes of diploma exams, I don't think that grade inflation is very pronounced in Alberta. www.alberta.ca/system/files...

Stripping Away Rights Using the Notwithstanding Clause. - Alberta Views After a week of rancorous debate, Klein announced he would not invoke the notwithstanding clause on the landmark gay rights decision...

The first time an Alberta government invoked the notwithstanding clause, public outrage forced a reversal in less than 24 hours. I wish to God Albertans would show the same moral fury now, when school children are outed & bullied by the government that is supposed to protect them. #ableg #abpoli

A compilation of some of movie legend ROBERT REDFORD's best moments thanks to "All The Right Movies" on Twitter.

I'll play! Wings of Desire (Wenders), Jesus of Montreal (Arcand), Do the Right Thing (Lee) #Filmtalk

Signs in the downtown Central Calgary Library that says "Literature" and "Washrooms" on the same sign, with an arrow.

literature washrooms are underrated

The Excellence Dividend  - University Affairs How Diversity and Inclusion Strengthen Research Ecosystems

A concise op ed by @malindasmith.bsky.social, with links to evidence, on what many of us know, but is increasingly undermined: diversity drives research innovation and impact. universityaffairs.ca/opinion/the-...

"The rate at which popular AI services amplify or fail to flag falsehoods has doubled in a year, per NewsGuard."

Picked up tickets for #CIFF Calgary International Film Festival, including Petzold's "Mirrors No. 3," Palme d'Or winner "It was just an accident," and "Mr. Nobody against Putin." Check out the great lineup for this year, Sept 18-28 www.ciffcalgary.ca/festival/202...

Arundhati Roy on How to Survive in a ‘Culture of Fear’

"Whether it’s in the Soviet Union or whether it is in East Germany or in the darkest places and times, writers have managed to survive. Their work has survived." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/m...

Should Certain Books Ever Be Banned in School? - Open to Debate In Florida, Governor Ron DeSantis passed a state education reform package meant to restrict certain books and how gender, sexuality, and race are taught in public schools. In Texas, school administrat...

Alberta introduced policy in July 2025 on disallowing books with "inappropriate sexual content" from school libraries. It's a U.S. playbook. The list of 200 books to be pulled from Edmonton school libraries overlaps considerably with U.S. lists. Background here: opentodebate.org/debate/shoul...

The Handmaid's Tale among more than 200 books to be pulled at Edmonton public schools | CBC News A list confirmed by CBC News shows titles like The Handmaid's Tale and Brave New World are among books to be pulled. The development comes after a policy from Alberta's education minister outlines new...

In the CBC story: Beyond the full removal of titles including The Handmaid’s Tale, the K-9 list of books to be removed from Edmonton school libraries includes 1984 and The Great Gatsby. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Alberta school boards are moving aggressively to remove books from school libraries, including Margaret Atwood (Handmaid’s Tale), Margaret Laurence, Judy Blume and more. See Edmonton’s list below.

The precipitous dismantling of humanities - Classics, Religion, Languages and Cultures - is a huge loss for our communities and will limit future grads' global skills. U of Oregon's case makes even less sense than others, since they managed to secure a $25 million donation in 2025. bit.ly/4mjCmwh

AGAINST AI

teachers!

excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone.

take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE
against-a-i.com

Infographic from Statistics Canada, searchable under the heading "Criminal justice outcomes of police-reported sexual assault in Canada, 2015 to 2019"

The #HockeyCanada verdict today is no exception. The justice system fails victims of sexual assault on a remarkable scale. Most instances are not reported to police. Of the few that are, 1 out of 19 results in the accused person being sentenced to custody. See the Statistics Canada data:

Fascinating thread about Lohana and #Ismaili migration history

vota CDU PCP-PEV. Picture contains a hammer and sickle.

I guess CDU is different in Portugal 🤨

University of Aberdeen's plans to cut modern language degrees were 'rushed' - review The University of Aberdeen says it accepts there were

A review by @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social into how their consultation on Modern Languages programmes has been handled last year, found decision-making was unstructured and dominated by finances. The university said it accepted there had been "missteps".
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

🔴 ⚠️ 🔥 😷 After a journey of more than 7000km over the Atlantic Ocean, a new huge smoke plume has reached Europe from #Canada where more than 200 wildfires are burning across multiple provinces, from British Columbia to Ontario. ⬇️ The CO map over Europe with Sentinel-5P data on June 9th.

👇New Nature Cities (@nature.com) paper on the impact of protected bike lanes in getting more people cycling.

Comparing 28 US cities over 6 years, it found areas that installed protected lanes saw 𝟭.𝟴𝘅 growth in cycling vs painted lanes alone.

And 𝟰.𝟴𝘅 the growth of areas with no bike lanes at all.

Satellite data shed light on Russia’s modern-day gulags for Ukrainian children A Canadian-funded effort is tracking the movements of Ukrainian children taken during wartime

Mykola Kuleba, SaveUkraine: “It’s very similar to the gulags, with different goals. In the gulags, they massively killed Ukrainians who did not obey the regime.Today, they massively indoctrinate Ukrainian children to turn them into Russian children.” #Ukraine

www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/2d401aa...

Marcel #Orphüls, one of the greats. Known for The Sorrow and the Pity (1969), exposing blind spots of collective memory in wartime France, also made November Days (1990). A master observer, Orphüls talks with with East Germans at a complicated time of reflection, a year after the fall of the Wall.

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

"A quarter-century ago, when the United States was attacked by Islamist terrorists on 11 September 2001, the editor of Le Monde wrote a famous banner headline: “We are all Americans!” Today, friends of liberty the world over should say: “We are all Canadians!”"

The source of in-migration for Hungary as an example: 71,000 of the total 93,900 Meta users who moved to Hungary in 2022 are from Europe. 32,000 from Ukraine. 11,200 from Germany. These numbers would include Hungarians returning home after a year or more away.

Recent Immigration Surge Has Been Largest in U.S. History (Gift Article) Under President Biden, more than two million immigrants per year have entered, government data shows.

Another NYT story from Dec 2024 reports government data for the U.S., for comparison. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/11/b...

Unsurprisingly, countries with strong anti-immigration public opinion and politics showed low levels: Hungary net immigration at 0.4% of population in 2022, France 0.6%, Italy 0.5%.
#GlobalMigration

Spain's 2022 migration stats from Meta's user data:
In 1,026,400
Out 280,200
Net 746,000. 1.6% of population
#GlobalMigration