I am thrilled to see Jayden Nelson get out on the pitch. Big ❤️ from and for the childhood cancer community. 🥹 m.youtube.com/watch?v=Lqch...
Jayden Nelson's journey to the 2026 FIFA World Cup
YouTube video by TSN
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Kristen Thomasen
@kristenthomasen.bsky.social
Law things, robots, space, privacy || habitual misAInthrope || feministing || she/her || (afk - offline for a bit) (Profile pic from community art-making project in #YQG graffiti alley)
Female professors at post-secondary schools in Toronto earn significantly less than their male counterparts. In Ontario, every major university paid male professors more than female professors, with average wage gaps ranging from 5.7% (University of Ottawa) to 13.5% (McMaster University)
Female professors at post-secondary schools in Toronto earn significantly less than their male counterparts. Here’s why.
Female professors in Toronto are earning as much as $23,000 less than their male counterparts, according to Statistics Canada.
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“I reject the idea that we have to be slaves to surveillance capitalism in order to participate in the modern economy” Wab Kinew in his announcement that Manitoba would not be continuing with the Île-des-Chênes data centre.
A sober take from @shachikurl.bsky.social of Angus Reid Institute of how Canadians are not on side with Mark Carney’s enthusiastic approach to AI or data centres. They aren’t uninformed or illiterate; they simply experience the sides of AI the government prefers not to focus on.
‼️ This is a success in the long process of Hamilton #hamont resisting a proposed new data centre. Please share with anyone keeping tabs on community resistance to data centres.
Joey Coleman@joeycoleman.ca · 2mo agoDENIED Hamilton's Committee of Adjustment voted 3-0 to deny the Steelport land severance application. #yhmcc #HamOnt
Huge disconnect between the federal government’s ’AI for All’ announcement today and the many, many thoughtful and well informed voices of opposition to the proposed data centre in Hamilton. Almost as if the ‘All’ are not for ‘AI’. #hamont
I would also like to say that most of the government's emphasis on First Nations and AI (as well as the leading AI institutes) is on education. I think it is paternalistic to imply that distrust of these systems stems from insufficient understanding of them.
Peak Hamilton. 💕 I am one of over 1,000 who submitted comments in writing.
Bhaskar Mitra | ভাস্কর মিত্র@bmitra.bsky.social · 2mo ago"Chants of “f--k AI” filled Hamilton’s city council chambers ahead of a raucous planning meeting Thursday morning as dozens of people packed the public gallery and over a hundred waited in the halls outside." www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Reading through the government's AI marketing strategy. Notes as I go. Starting on a positive note, the NDP under Avi Lewis is already paying dividends and exerting influence -- in this case, on surveillance pricing.
I am once again asking on whose land is all this "AI" infrastructure gonna be dependant on? ised-isde.canada.ca/site/ised/en...
Canada’s national Artificial Intelligence strategy: AI for All
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In the strategy, First Nations are mentioned twice, once as a group vaguely consulted, then again as a group being served by health AI research. To be clear, all submissions made in the development of this strategy (not consultation) were analyzed by AI. www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/news...
Prime Minister Carney launches AI for All: Canada’s new national artificial intelligence strategy
Today, the Prime Minister, Mark Carney, launched AI for All, Canada’s new national AI strategy. Over the next five years, this strategy will introduce new legislation, investments, and programs that e...
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💥 A must read report on Bill C-22, the Canadian government's "lawful access" bill (the one that if passed would cause Signal to pull out of Canada because of the federal government's forced surveillance)👇🏻 Huge kudos for your work on this @cyn-k.bsky.social @kate-ro.bsky.social @digitalprivacy.ca
Cynthia Khoo@cyn-k.bsky.social · 2mo agoNew joint publication by @citizenlab.ca + @cancivlib.bsky.social! In which @kate-ro.bsky.social & I join forces w/ Tamir @digitalprivacy.ca to explain the federal govt's many... "(Un)forced Errors: Analysis of Proposed Surveillance Law Expansion under Bill C-22, An Act respecting lawful access" 🧵1/x
New joint publication by @citizenlab.ca + @cancivlib.bsky.social! In which @kate-ro.bsky.social & I join forces w/ Tamir @digitalprivacy.ca to explain the federal govt's many... "(Un)forced Errors: Analysis of Proposed Surveillance Law Expansion under Bill C-22, An Act respecting lawful access" 🧵1/x
The Citizen Lab (Un)forced Errors: Analysis of Proposed Surveillance Law Expansion under Bill C-22, An Act respecting lawful access -
This submission analyzes Bill C-22, the Lawful Access Act, which would enact broad surveillance obligations and reforms in Canada. Issues include: the bill’s sweeping scope, significant constitutional...
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Imagine how many faculty they could’ve hired. The administrators who argued for this have consistently argued against paying their faculty a living wage.
May-lee Chai (she/her)@mayleechai.bsky.social · 2mo agoSubhed from the NYT article on CSU adoption of ChatGPT: “California’s public universities spent $16.9 million on A.I. during a financial crisis, and the result has been chaos.” Gift link www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/m...
Litigation and lawsuits are extremely imperfect. And, I am very here for the use of litigation as one angle to disrupt corporate surveillance networks, where governments consistently fail, or are complicit in building them.
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2mo ago“Amazon was sued on Monday by a Virginia resident over what he said were privacy violations after the company's Ring doorbell cameras at friends and family members' homes collected and stored images of his face using facial recognition software.”
The preliminary ruling of the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal is a sobering reminder that the harms of colonialism are not confined to Canada’s past. (🧵1/4)
This is what I mean when I say that students often just need a permission structure to refuse AI. If you discuss the environmental, equity, political, economic, etc problems with them, many (in my experience) just say no. (And many are annoyed that universities are shoving it down their throats.)
Charles Logan@charleswlogan.bsky.social · 2mo agoSolidarity with these students who want no part in this experiment: "A small but vocal minority of Estonian students say they refuse to use AI on moral grounds, citing issues such as water consumption by data centers or political complaints about U.S. tech companies, teachers say.”
magic beans for everyone!
Kristen Thomasen@kristenthomasen.bsky.social · 2mo agoSaid with a grain of salt because this is a new story about just the draft strategy but… it remains unclear to me what the liberal government means when it refers to “AI” The focus of this strategy seems to get more generic over time. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Said with a grain of salt because this is a new story about just the draft strategy but… it remains unclear to me what the liberal government means when it refers to “AI” The focus of this strategy seems to get more generic over time. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Draft federal AI strategy aims to scale up adoption, offer literacy training by 2031 | CBC News
A draft version of Canada's national AI strategy outlines a drive to scale up business adoption and provide all Canadians access to free AI literacy training, but is short on specifics regarding how t...
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“If there is a failure of surveillance, it's never that the technology itself can't solve the problems…It's that we just don't have enough of it, right?"
Why Toronto’s Rosedale neighbourhood could be ground zero for AI-powered security in Canada
Toronto's most affluent neighbourhoods are signing up for AI-powered security in hopes of more protection against robberies and home invasions.
thestar.com
University administrators two years ago: we can’t allow social justice movements to change the university as we know it University administrators today: in order to accommodate the new probabilistic bullshit generator no one likes we must change everything about the university
Not just lobbying! our new paper maps 27 mechanisms of regulatory capture used by Big AI + 11 narrative framings that rationalise capture. “Big AI’s Regulatory Capture: Mapping Industry Interference and Government Complicity” will be presented at #FAccT2026 next month arxiv.org/abs/2605.068... 1/
Wrote about the proliferation of metaphors of "empire" and "colonialism" to describe digital capitalism and what it might get wrong about both empires and digital capitalism. I suggest there are three missing Cs: comprador, creole, counter-colonization. www.theideasletter.org/essay/digita...
“For three years, everything that happened in the entryway of Willie Banks’ Westbrook home was captured by his neighbor’s security camera.” “What he didn’t realize until recently was that a state drug officer was using the camera feed to watch him in real time without first obtaining a warrant.”
Police watched a suspect through a neighbor’s camera for 3 years
Until last week, an attorney believed the camera just happened to catch the shooting. Then she learned there was more to the story.
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