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Amanda Shendruk @not-ship.com · 02/09/2026

If you love them, tell them they're wrong. My argument for why we need to get better at fact-checking those closest to us. www.not-ship.com/normalize-de...

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Let's normalize debunking each other

The spread of misinformation has become an epidemic, but information hygiene can help.

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Dan Cohen @dancohen.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

This is horrible. It's hard to explain how much this place stands out among the stale, corporate offerings on Queen's campus. It feels like another blow to the soul of a place that is being ground down by the consultant-led homogenization of universities.

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Fatima Syed @fatimabsyed.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

The Doug Ford gov't has passed its 2026 budget bill, which officially removes Ontario's right to know. How he governs, why decisions get made—we'll never know. The same bill consolidates conservation authorities. That's your democracy & your drinking water being impacted #onpoli

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Dan Cohen @dancohen.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Very low on the list of concerns, but why are data centers so ugly? You are spending untold billions on these things, spend a bit more and at least make them vainglorious monuments to our tech oligarchy rather than drab rectangles. We used to be a society - do our elites have no pride!?!

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Fatima Syed @fatimabsyed.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

This long weekend, consider the future of Wasaga Beach: a provincially protected environment, home to the endangered plovers, that the Doug Ford gov't wants to transfer to the town's ownership to boost tourism. It's a complicated and possibly precedent-setting tale. thenarwhal.ca/wasaga-beach...

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The uncertain future of Wasaga Beach | The Narwhal

The Ontario government is handing part of Wasaga Beach Provincial Park over to the town, leaving many wondering what will be left to protect it

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Idealistic Pragmatist @justip.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

This podcast docuseries about the dark side of Canadian hockey is something I learned a lot from when it aired in 2023. It didn’t stop me from enjoying the game, but it helped me to contextualize the game within these awful cultural trappings that aren’t discussed nearly enough.

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COMMONS: Hockey

From violence and racism on the ice, to corruption, cover-ups, and abuse off of it. Bringing you stories from inside the cult of hockey.

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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 28/04/2025

I do not believe there are any fundraisers to raise funds for the victims and their families, but I understand they will be posted here when they are available: vanfilemergency.my.canva.site

vanfilemergency.my.canva.site

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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 18/04/2025

1. False www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... 2. False pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... 3. True! 4. False foreignpolicy.com/2021/06/15/l... 5. It has! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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The virus possesses a biological characteristic that is not found in nature.

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Data shows that all COVID-19 cases stem from a single introduction into humans. This runs contrary to previous pandemics where there were multiple spillover events.

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Wuhan is home to China’s foremost SARS research lab, which has a history of conducting gain-of-function research (gene altering and organism supercharging) at inadequate biosafety levels.

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Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) researchers were sick with COVID-like symptoms in the fall of 2019, months before COVID-19 was discovered at the wet market.

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By nearly all measures of science, if there was evidence of a natural origin it would have already surfaced. But it hasn’t.

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mohawkemotions @mohawkemotions.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

As a part of the Akni’ho:gwa:s Collective artist residency Hart House @jeff.doctor and I are hosting Dwaihwaohe:s Tgaǫ́doʼgeh "We Are All Researching Toronto Together", an event reflecting on Haudenosaunee land tenure in Toronto. March 18 + 19 at Hart House harthouse.ca/events/unmap...

Information on the event with a QR code. https://harthouse.ca/events/unmapping-community-gathering

March 18 & 19 at Hart House

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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 22/11/2023

Many recommendation letters written by humans are subtly sexist. Letters written by AIs amplify and expose that sexism. In a new study, male candidates' words include "thinkers" "expert" "integrity" & female candidates' are "emotional" "grace" "delight" 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/chat...

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ChatGPT Replicates Gender Bias in Recommendation Letters

A new study has found that the use of AI tools such as ChatGPT in the workplace entrenches biased language based on gender

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