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Kwantlen Polytechnic University fires president Bruce Choy Newly hired president Bruce Choy was absent for weeks and the Surrey school's faculty association didn't know why

Kwantlen fires no-show president.

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In the Spirit of H. Chandler Davis The essays collected in this book honor H. Chandler Davis (1926-2022), a University of Michigan faculty member who became a symbol of principled dissent when suspended and fired in 1954 for refusing t...

New book: In the Spirit of H. Chandler Davis: Activism and The Struggle for Academic Freedom
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We just did that in British Columbia, year round DST.

Peak oil on the way.

Sources Briefed on Iran War Say U.S. Has No Plans for What Comes Next “The administration doesn’t have a clue. They do not have an actual, real rationale, endgame, or plan for the aftermath of this.”

White House has no plan for what comes next in war on Iran … or anything else

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Threat of libel ‘chilling academic freedom’, say UK researchers Academics urge government to strengthen legal protections for scholars undertaking studies in controversial fields

Threat of libel ‘chilling academic freedom’, say UK researchers
Academics urge government to strengthen legal protections for scholars undertaking studies in controversial fields

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Condemnation as universities in Darfur come under attack Sudan’s Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research has condemned the drone strikes on Kordofan University in El-Obeid, the capital of Nort...

Condemnation as universities in Darfur come under attack

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Academic freedom under quiet siege Imagine a regional state university where a faculty committee spends months designing a new interdisciplinary course on environmental governance.

Phillippines: Academic freedom under quiet siege
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2026 🌊

The boycott of OpenAI(ChatGPT) has now surpassed 4 million. We’re also seeing many small businesses (and even some mid-sized companies) cancel their subscriptions. One of the most amazing things over the past year has been watching consumers remind big corporations just how much power they have.

Trump and His Soulless Cronies Have Managed to Suck the Joy Out of the World Cup Not even soccer is immune from Trump’s reverse Midas touch.

Dave Zirin: Trump and His Soulless Cronies Have Managed to Suck the Joy Out of the World Cup

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Rich Gibson: Another “Peace Candidate” just started another war.

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Vaughn Palmer: NDP set to weaken B.C.'s FOI law and keep public in the dark Vaughn Palmer: New bill would give public servants more power to refuse to supply requested information

Eby and NDP working to weaken BC's FOI law.

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It's genuinely insane that many of the newspaper columnists who cheered us into the war in Iraq are still employed at big legacy outlets cheering us into a new war with Iran.

Has the U.S. Been Set up for a Reichstag Moment? The Steady State | by J. William Leonard

The Steady State: Is Trump's attack on Iran part of a plan to induce a pre-text for suspension of civil liberties -- a US Reichstag moment?
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Nobel Peace Prize, my ass.

The Guardian: The death toll from a missile strike on a girls’ school in southern Iran has risen to almost 165, according to Iranian state media. The school, which was struck on Saturday morning, appears to be the worst mass casualty event of the US-Israeli-led bombing campaign on Iran so far.

Pro-Palestine International Students Have Won in Court. Why Hasn’t Mahmoud Khalil Won His Freedom? One of Trump’s tricks is to send people to Louisiana where they get harsher treatment. Mahmoud Khalil is pointing out the iniquity of it.

Pro-Palestine International Students Have Won in Court. Why Hasn’t Mahmoud Khalil Won His Freedom?

One of Trump’s tricks is to send people to Louisiana where they get harsher treatment. Mahmoud Khalil is pointing out the iniquity of it.

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Caught making a 'set of lies,' Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim offers no answers Sim is refusing to explain why and how he came to falsely accuse a rival politician of handing out illegal drugs.

Caught making a 'set of lies,' Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim offers no answers

Dan Fumano: What unfolded Friday, on camera, was one of the more bizarre exchanges in recent Vancouver political history.

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Trump urges Americans to just remember whatever bullshit let them support Iraq War WASHINGTON D.C. - With Trump's order to bomb Middle Eastern nuclear sites potentially drawing the United States into a war with Iran, the President urged all Americans to recall whatever rationalizati...

Trump urges Americans to just remember whatever bullshit let them support Iraq War

“Remember what I said…” Yeah. About that. It’s almost impressive how confidently wrong that prediction aged.

SFU Contract Workers Sounded the Alarm on Abuse. Nothing Changed | The Tyee Workers, faculty and students have called on the university to bring workers in-house for years.

Simon Fraser University Contract Workers Sounded the Alarm on Abuse. Nothing Changed -- Workers, faculty and students have called on the university to bring workers in-house for years. #ContractWorkerJustice #SFU

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Dept. of Defense shoots down Customs and Border Protection drone near El Paso: Officials Ranking members of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure released a statement on the incident on Thursday.

Not really surprising given the bozos running the place.

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Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim also made unsubstantiated claims about councillor distributing drugs | CBC News It has emerged that Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim accused a political opponent of distributing illegal drugs without evidence — days before a fellow councillor made similar claims that he later retracted.

Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim made unsubstantiated claims about councillor distributing drugs -- Sim had praised fellow councillor for apologizing and retracting similar claims — but made comments himself

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On the So-Called Reading Crisis as Class Warfare “A book is a powerful weapon, it can defend you in your mind.” —Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin French theorist Pierre Bourdieu once described photography as the art of the middle class. The wealthy know exp…

On the So-Called Reading Crisis as Class Warfare
Eunsong Kim Considers the Relationship Between Art and Capitalism

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Trump--Is the President a Sex Pest? BBC YouTube video by Steven D (plc)

Trump--Is the President a Sex Pest?
2018 BBC documentary (Panorama)

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Video Reveals Trump’s Sexual Misconduct With Children Newly resurfaced evidence.

Video Reveals Trump’s Sexual Misconduct With Children
Newly resurfaced evidence.

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Douglas Todd: Hundreds of quiet East Vancouver side streets upzoned for six-storey apartment blocks Douglas Todd: Many residents did not know the quiet streets of their residential neighbourhoods had been upzoned. Find out more.

City of Vancouver refuses to consider what academic experts and most city residents say is needed to create human scale & more affordable housing alternatives. Appears that VOC housing policies are crafted to serve the interests of real estate developers.

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