Jen Dagsvik

Important insights from @jcyliew.bsky.social and Natasha Bakht on academic freedoms, intersectionality, missed opportunities for dialogue, and Jane Doe. A model for how to move through conflict and misjudgment, constructively and with care. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... 🤲

I will be giving this webinar for the Centre on Research and Education on Aging and Health (CERAH) on Wednesday. Anyone interested in older adult issues or elder rights is welcome.

cerah.lakeheadu.ca/event/cerah-...

Thunder Bay Facebook Marketplace’s greatest hits continue.

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Conflicting purposes: Guardianship law, mental health law and involuntary detentions Part 3 of British Columbia's Adult Guardianship Act provides a statutory framework for protecting adults who are abused or neglected and unable to see…

My most recent article was just published. It examines involuntary detentions under BC's Adult Guardianship Act. The topic is very relevant given the recent report on involuntary detentions by BC's Human Rights Commissioner.

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Against Technofeudal Education Pillars For Protecting Our "Core Infrastructure" From OpenAI

Great recs from @mattseybold.bsky.social on resisting technofeudal education: prioritize print, practice ungrading, "Luddify" the classroom; de-mobilize computer infrastructure (root technology in social place!); faculty governance over SaaS subscriptions; instructor choice re: ed-tech

Sadly, this is becoming true in Canada as well

Turns out "elbows up" means an incredible expansion of anti-migrant, policing, and surveillance powers under the guise of 'border security'. This is a must-read 🧵:

Newspaper clipping: MOBILE UNIT IN TERRACE BAY FRIDAY The Department of Manpower and Immigration Mobile Unit is making its last swing through the area, Tim Dodd, officer in charge of Thunder Bay's Immigration Centre said today. The mobile unit staffed by an immigration officer is travelling throught eh area to assist those people who are eligible to register under the immigration adjustment of status program. Anyone who is eligible to reghistere is urged to do so now, before the 15th of October. The fact that we have conditionally approved for landed status all who have been interviewed under the program is indicative of the relaxed regulations that are applied to people who are eligible for registration. Many of the early registrants, he said, were university or college students and able to interpret the new regulations for themselves. Our problem now, he said, is to get (continued on page 19....)

MOBILE UNIT - continued from page 16 the message to the rest of the people who are in Canada without proper status, and to convince them to register. They have Manpower Minister Robert Andras' assurance that no one who is eligible for registration that who registers by the 15th of October will be penalized for the manner in which they came to Canada. The mobile unit will be in Terrace Bay on Friday, October 5th.

I came across a clipping from the Terrace Bay (Ontario) News, Oct 3, 1973, inviting people without status to meet the immigration officer and do their paperwork for landing under the Adjustment of Status program.

No portal, no webform, no PDF forms that won't open. Just a human coming to town.

The so-called “Strong Borders Act” will significantly weaken Canada’s humanitarian tradition and commitment to human rights. Check out this statement from Canadian Council for Refugees:

🚨New Border Bill Raises Major Concerns for Civil Liberties, Privacy, and Refugee Rights!🚨 The
@iclmg-csilc.bsky.social coalition is calling for the withdrawal of Bill C-2, the "Strong Borders Act". 🧵1/23

Beautiful photos and great reporting. So many Thunder Bay places I live ten minutes away from and have never been to (😳).

Look @lakesuperior.bsky.social - it’s you!

I hope this email finds you no matter where you try to hide.

Check out this upcoming symposium querying: what is unique and important about human legal expertise and how should legal education support students in developing these capacities at this moment? educatinghumanlawyers.com Thrilled to present on some of the embodied work happening here at UVicLaw.

Check out the Lakehead Law Journal’s newest issue! @lakeheaduniversity.bsky.social

“we used to have a person who was paid to do this but now we have an online system which doesn’t work so every single employee of the university does this on top of their actual job”

A sneak peek while we wait for official photos:
The Chair is officially launched!
From bold ideas to honest dialogue, thanks to everyone who came, listened, & shared and made the room electric. Special shoutout to @jp-peacemaking.bsky.social & @vfernand1217.bsky.social of @uottawahrrec.bsky.social

I only got to stay for the first hour (by zoom), but it was such a wonderful launch! Such wonderful work you are all doing!

Oh man do I love this page in Harold Johnson’s book on his law school experience (hopefully a bit dated, but there are still some that fit ….)

Beyond the clear racist dog-whistling of these statements, what worries me is how Canadian & Australian PMs (both ostensibly left leaders) might follow KS's lead. We always compare & copy elements of each other's immigration policies...

V. upsetting that these leaders supposedly represent the left.

Oh but I should have said rates, not ratings!

LEAF to appear before Supreme Court to argue for access to subsidized childcare for refugee claimant women in Quebec Quebec excludes refugee claimants to access subsidized daycare. A refugee claimant and mother of three children is challenging the constitutionality of this policy.

Day 2 of the Kanyinda hearing at the SCC. LEAF will be making submissions later today on why refugee claimants with valid work permits should be entitled to subsidized childcare programs.

www.leaf.ca/news/leaf-to...

I have to stop watching Kanyinda because I have to go give a presentation on how health care coverage depends on the complexity of immigration status. Very much hoping to see immigration status recognized as an analogous ground.

Rowe J: Aren't there many people who are economic migrants, who present themselves as refugee claimants, and then aren't found to be refugees? Colin Grey for CCR does a wonderful job responding with evidence on the record about the high approval rating for refugees.

The AG Canada started out by making the troubling arguments that (1) it's ok to exclude some women from from a childcare benefit designed to help other women, and (2) immigration status is not deeply personal, it's only transitory, and therefore not an analogous ground.

The interveners are appearing this morning in the SCC for Quebec v Kanyinda: www.scc-csc.ca/cases-dossie...

For more on how dominant perceptions of time perpetuate inequality, see @yuvrajjoshi.bsky.social: chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/uclrev/vol90...

Côté J: People seeking asylum are going to either get refugee status and become eligible for the subsidy, or they're going to be refused and have to leave Canada. How is that immutable?

Ms. Kanyinda's second lawyer - M. Grenier. So much admiration for these advocates (and the interpreters who make it possible for me to follow).

Immigration status is an analogous ground, even if it is temporary, if you take a broad approach to the interpretation of immutability.

Ms. Kanyinda's lawyer citing a study: the lack of childcare services makes it more challenging for mothers to leave the home, work, learn French, run errands, integrate into society. Especially for single mothers.