The acquisitions budget at MPOW would be very happy if the CAD moved closer to $1.30/USD... corpaycurrencyresearch.com/canadian-dol...

Canadian Dollar Market Snapshot: That which doesn’t kill you makes you stranger

The Canadian dollar has endured a series of consecutive blows that might reasonably have been expected to break it. The abrupt collapse of the shale boom, a worldwide pandemic, the unwinding of a g…

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Happy belated Statcan University faculty count day to all those who celebrate www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/t...

I very much felt this, voting in Guelph, which no longer has a "traditional" newspaper, and which isn't the home base of any of the CBC radio stations. You have to dig harder to find out more about your candidates and be more inherently invested in the electoral process.

Aaron Wherry@aaronwherry.bsky.social · last wk.

I think low turnout in municipal elections is pretty understandable considering the comparative lack of media attention and the relative lack of power and sovereignty that municipal governments are afford.

Still early in the vote counting for Guelph but it looks like no surprises for Mayor... though my ward is not going the way I'd like it to in the early going.

BC nobly sacrifices good governance to teach one man about hubris

BC nobly sacrifices good governance to teach one man about hubris

VICTORIA - The electorate of British Columbia – a province with a population of roughly 5.7 million – has officially and heroically voted against its own self-interest with the sole intention of teach...

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Guest Post — From an Accidental Title List to a Connected Supply Chain: My Years with KBART scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/10/16/g...

Guest Post — From an Accidental Title List to a Connected Supply Chain: My Years with KBART - The Scholarly Kitchen

Today's guest post reflects on how implementation, multilingual discovery, and cross-industry collaboration turned a metadata file into a map of the scholarly information supply chain.

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Being GenX/Millennial is such a trip. In our lifetimes, we saw people our age getting wild criminal penalties for pirating music and now have to sit and watch as companies gobble up our work with impunity.

Jen Taub@jentaub.bsky.social · 3w ago

Still trying to understand how Napster got shut down, but Anthropic is going public and still hasn’t paid us authors yet after stealing our work.

In which I lay out why Minister Quinn's decision to suspend all private institutions from OSAP is a desperate effort to distract attention from the fact that it is now clear that he lied about the reasons for the February OSAP cuts (and he knew he was lying). Those cuts need to be reversed. Now.

The Contemptible OSAP Cover-Up | HESA

If you have been paying only casual attention to the Ontario Student Assistance file over the past few months and seen headlines like this one from July, where the province suspended several private c...

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love the suggestion PE money might come in and consolidate the sector. Elsevier, Wiley, etc. aren't lacking $ to scoop up smaller pubs - they've been working hard at it for the last 30+ years. The pubs that are still independent are there by choice - I don't see PE succeeding ahead of the incumbents

Financial Times@financialtimes.com · 3w ago

Academic publishing is a study in fighting AI slop ft.trib.al/B7nsObf | opinion

Did you know #UofG researchers are behind a lot of the staples finding their way onto your holiday plates this season? Learn more about the work being done to make your food healthier, tastier and safer:

How U of G Helps Put Food on Your Harvest Plate

University of Guelph researchers are behind many of the foods we all enjoy over the fall holiday feast

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Canada is refusing to issue ISBNs to books primarily generated with AI. This illustrates both the urgency of the problem of the growing flood of slop books, and also the toothlessness of addressing it on the honor system without there also being consequences for lying

Quebec’s election saw one of the most distorted election results in Canadian history: the PQ won 46% of seats with 28% vote, while the CAQ got zero seats with over 500,000 votes. Read our write-up to see how proportional representation fixes this. www.fairvote.ca/06/10/2026/p...

Parti Québécois wins 46% of the seats with 28% of the vote

Quebec election 2026 with first-past-the-post. Parti Québécois wins 46% of the seats with 28% of the vote.

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I’m glad the PQ seems to be limited to a minority… And that the CAQ look to be wiped out…

"We were five Maurice Richards against five other Maurice Richards..." The story is great but the NFB film is even better...

Craig Baird-Canadian History Ehx@cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · last mo.

The Hockey Sweater is one of the most famous books in Canadian history. The story of a boy who received the wrong hockey sweater from Eaton's has been featured on our currency, gone to space, and been turned into an iconic NFB short. This is the story. 🧵 1/12

Trump becomes only object on Earth exempt from Canadian urge to apologize

Trump becomes only object on Earth exempt from Canadian urge to apologize

"Canadians will say they’re sorry, in that particular Canadian pronunciation, to literally anything, but they won’t say it to Donald Trump."

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When the Curiosity rover on Mars recently discovered the first known deposit of pure sulfur, it was thanks to an instrument designed by a University of Guelph physics professor. @uofgresearch.bsky.social Learn more: news.uoguelph.ca/2026/09/how-...

How U of G Physicists Helped Unlock a Mars Mystery

A Curiosity rover instrument developed by University of Guelph physicist Dr. Ralf Gellert helped discover pure sulfur on Mars

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This is great news! I think this will do a lot to grow the popularity of the league - it's super entertaining.

Devin Heroux@devinheroux.bsky.social · last mo.

PWHL HOCKEY NIGHT IN CANADA Hockey Night in Canada is returning. But it’ll be Professional Women’s Hockey League games on Saturday nights. Details here: www.cbc.ca/sports/hocke...

Taking a moment this morning to mark the passing of a legend. www.cbc.ca/news/enterta...

Trinidadian calypso king The Mighty Sparrow dead at 91 | CBC News

The Mighty Sparrow, the Grenada-born, Trinidadian-raised musician who helped export calypso to the masses beginning in the 1950s, has died. He was 91.

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This is now the middle of a city-region of 7.5 million. In any reasonable planning scenario, this pocket of houses would be getting high-density redevelopment to match what's happening 400m away. (The current compromise, allowing high-end townhouses, will lock in lowrise for generations.)

So many feels about this piece and our politics... and the massive inheritances many folks are going to get in the next 10-20 years... macleans.ca/longforms/th...

The Great Generational Rip-Off - Macleans.ca

Boomers are hoarding Canada's wealth. Millennials are fighting for scraps. A radical case for redistribution.

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How many MWh of wind/solar/battery could $26.4 Billion buy? Asking for a friend. Also, you'd think since we are subsidizing the construction of some batter plants we'd want to give them some business to stick around....

Fatima Syed@fatimabsyed.bsky.social · last mo.

As I reported last week in @thenarwhal.ca , the Ontario government is announcing today that Pickering nuclear plant, which produces 10% of the province's energy, is being shut down for refurbishments that will take 5-7 years Here's everything you need to know: thenarwhal.ca/ontario-pick... #onpoli

Very excited to see my forthcoming book on page one of the Winter 2027 @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social catalogue. Joe Clark: Progressive, Conservative, Canadian will be released in early 2027!

McGill-Queen's University Press@mcgillqueensup.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Our Winter 2027 catalogue is out! Check out our featured titles: buff.ly/ZBWzbgG Download the catalogue: buff.ly/XE0bIkv

I wrote something! It's called the "Quick-Start Guide for New Managers in Academic Libraries". It's meant for people in academic libraries starting or transitioning into middle management roles. And it's free and open! ecampusontario.pressbooks.pub/librarymanag...

Quick-Start Guide for New Managers in Academic Libraries

This short, practical guide covers concepts that are essential for any new manager in an an academic library. Topics covered include the role of the manager, change management, managing teams and indi...

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Let's hope these approvals translate into bricks and mortar...

City of Guelph@guelph.ca · 2mo ago

Yesterday, City Council approved development applications that could create up to 1,726 housing units across Guelph in the coming years. That includes 310 proposed units that would be priced at provincial affordability benchmarks. Learn more: https://ow.ly/TRHu50ZLYvu

One of my roommates in university was so prone to falling down StarCraft induced rabbit holes that he would ask us to take his computer away from him for days at a time...

Retro Tech Dreams@retrotechdreams.bsky.social · 2mo ago

StarCraft (1998)

NEW: Saddle Lake Cree Nation calls Alberta trans health-care laws a violation of Treaty rights, announces path to work around the legislation

Whether you’re new to U of G, or rejoining campus this semester, we have what you need to successfully reach your academic and research goals. Read this article to learn about what's happening at the library this semester: https://www.lib.uoguelph.ca/news/make-fall-2026-your-best-semester-yet/.

This is seismic news for fisheries scientists. Northern cod is *the* iconic symbol of total fisheries collapse due to overfishing (and other factors) *and* the iconic symbol of a complete failure to recover for decades afterwards. This is like announcing the complete recovery of bison on land.

UBC Oceans@ubcoceans.bsky.social · 2mo ago

For the first time in over 30 years, Newfoundland and Labrador’s Northern cod stock has been deemed “healthy” by Ottawa. www.canadianaffairs.news/2026/09/05/i...

Every few months the kids & I go ride various trains in Toronto. Today’s adventure was riding line 6 and not going to lie it’s not great. The Citadus trains aren’t as nice as the Flexities on other lines and I’m fairly certain we hit every red light. IMO the above ground bits of line 5 work better.