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next few years of Cdn history will be an interesting social experiment: What happens when a country's politicians, media, & academics explicitly reject the moral basis for their own national

.@MountAllison suspends a prof for racism, even tho no one is even pretending that they've identified any actual racist statementall they can pin on her is that she doesn't think

yesterday was orange shirt day at my 8-year-old's school. she watched videos about how bad the residential schools were, with kids as the protagonists. she came home, & couldn't stop

i periodically have to remind followers that just bcuz I refuse to drink progressive kool-aid on CRT & the genderbender teddybear, doesn't mean i'm a Trump fan. So many ppl

I was just forwarded some internal correspondence from one of the innumerable Toronto arts groups that is melting down under internal racism accusations. Apparently, we're not supposed to say BIPOC

i just read @DavideMastracci's (4K-word!) take on the ongoing @jonkay/@BarbaraRKay journalistic reign of terror. given his politics, I was skeptical. but it's actually well-researched—even if davide's implicit theory of media

I share the disgust at scenes of police brutality and acts of murder (not too strong a word). But it isn't helpful to use "police officer" as a term of

Social distancing is important. But Toronto's collective brain meltdown over Trinity Bellwoods also seems connected to the city's teetotalling roots. It's like the Toronto Telegram publishing images of men &

some Dutch COVID-19 data. i know it's unpopular to make this point (bcuz it's associated with lockdown opponents), but unless you've got hypertension/diabetes/obesity or other comorbidities, death risk for men

For @Quillette, I created a database of COVID19 superspreader events in 28 countries. The underlying activities turned out to be very similar. There's a defined set of human behaviors that

hilarious thread about biology denialism at @UniKent. I noted in a previous tweet that there's been a sharp decline in SJ cocoa-puffery in recent days. yet there still remains a

I wrote a book about conspiracy theories and I'm quite familiar with the damage that misinformation can do. Laws like this are counterproductive, as they only fuel distrust. And inevitably,