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Daniel Dickson

@daniel-dickson.bsky.social
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Asst Professor, Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy, University of Saskatchewan. Social Policy/Public Administration, Intellectual/Developmental Disability and Aging.

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Angella MacEwen @angella.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Solidarity with health care workers in Saskatchewan, who voted overwhelmingly in favour of a strike: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Health-care workers vote 99% in favour of job action in 'largest strike vote' in Saskatchewan's history | CBC News
Health-care workers represented by CUPE Local 5430 have voted 99 per cent in favour of job action, a move the union is calling the "largest strike vote" in Saskatchewan's history. Members of the Canad...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
NEW: DHS's Inspector General releases a scathing report about the Everglades detention camp known as "Alligator Alcatraz." The OIG finds that the now-closed camp, violated multiple ICE standards. The OIG also confirms detainees were punished with placement in a metal cage in the Florida heat.🧵
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL
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Staff also reported that time spent in the small metal enclosures is closely monitored, and
detainees are not locked in, even though we observed locking mechanisms on the enclosures.
Figures 11 and 12. Small Metal Enclosures; Observed January 21, 2026

Underneath is a picture of a metal cage that is 4 feet 3 inches wide by 4 feet 3 inches long, and 7 feet 9 inches high. The cage itself is placed on a tiny spot of fake turf, and then surrounded by another chainlink fence with razor wire on top. The cage is covered by a roof, but it's entirely exposed to the outside otherwise, meaning mosquitos and no air conditioning.
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Daniel Dickson @daniel-dickson.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I fear that the type of global leader who would lead or even participate in this effort also doesn't exist yet
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Polling Canada @canadianpolling.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Those with a positive view of Capitalism: 🟡 All: 33% 🟡 18-29: 30% 🟡 30-44: 31% 🟡 45-59: 33% 🟡 60+: 37% 🟡 Men: 44% 🟡 Women: 23% 🔵 CPC: 43% 🔴 LPC: 35% ⚜️ BQ: 27% 🟠 NDP: 18% Abacus Data / July 15, 2026
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Daniel Dickson @daniel-dickson.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
They have definitely tested this message. I think it shows that MAGA has given up on having a horse in the affordability messaging race. Dems need to keep hammering them on this
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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Horrifying. A building where over 100 disabled people with developmental disabilities live in New York has allegedly not had functioning AC for three years. www.timesunion.com/capitol/arti...
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‘Oppressive heat’ at secure center for people with disabilities
A secure, state-operated facility in the Adirondacks operated by the Office for People With Developmental Disabilities has not had working air-conditioning for nearly three years.
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Daniel Dickson @daniel-dickson.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Aaron - thanks for all the work you do. Your posts will be an important historical record for future students of politics. With this in mind, I respectfully suggest you try to refrain from ableist tropes like "Trump is crazy/mad" or "belongs in an institution". No-one belongs in an institution.
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DuckDuckGo @duckduckgo.com · 29/05/2026
Since Google revealed its plans for an AI search overhaul, visits to our "No AI" search page have tripled…and they’re still rising! Want to make it your default on Chrome or Firefox? Grab our No-AI extensions and banish AI-assisted answers, chat, and AI images. (1/3)
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Daniel Dickson @daniel-dickson.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Damn, not the home of the King's Crown Nachos
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Ro Khanna @rokhanna.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Congratulations on your wedding Don Jr. Sorry for distracting your Dad with this important work.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 15/05/2026
Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered a 2,000-year-old mummy with a papyrus fragment of the “Iliad” sealed in a clay packet outside its wrappings. It is the first time a literary work has been found playing a functional, spiritual role in the mummification process.
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Archaeologists Find Egyptian Mummy Buried With the ‘Iliad’
For the deceased of Roman-era Egypt, Greek literature may have offered a cheat code to a more comfortable afterlife.
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Gabrielle Peters @mssinenomine.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
If anyone is interested, I've posted a longer version of my testimony to the Special Joint Committee on MAiD about Eligibility of Persons Whose Sole Underlying Medical Condition is a Mental Illness open.substack.com/pub/mssineno...
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My Testimony to Special Joint Committee On MAID.
Re: Eligibility of Persons Whose Sole Underlying Medical Condition is a Mental Illness
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SaskAttitude @saskattitude3.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Prairie Harm Reduction gave so much more than it ever cost. It gave life. Community. And respect. Again and again. That deserves our grief, our anger, and our demand for a province that does better than this. #yxe #sask #HIV #overdose #housingcrisis #poverty #funding substack.com/@rloewenwalk...
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More than it Ever Cost: Farewell to Prairie Harm Reduction
Prairie Harm Reduction, a nonprofit organization that served people at risk and affected by HIV and Hepatitis C in Saskatoon, closed its doors last week.
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Political Quarterly @politicalquarterly.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Where are the protagonists of inclusionary politics to turn, if we have lost the once reliable class base for our politics? Colin Crouch reminds us that exclusionary parties rarely achieve the support of a third of citizens. politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/the-end...
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The End of Policies of Social Inclusion?
For so long we have lived in societies where increasing inclusiveness was a taken for granted good.
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Daniel Dickson @daniel-dickson.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
90s, but still works: youtu.be/sb-gh6hJr30?...
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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
A helpful glossary for Leavitt's press conferences is that "frankly insulting"=true.
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Daniel Dickson @daniel-dickson.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
When I started this research, I suspected that the inclusion era would not last but hoped something better would come to replace it. Some recent shifts in disability policy discourse (e.g. MAiD) and design (e.g. Canada Disability Benefit) seem to confirm my suspicions. What comes next? (4/4)
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Daniel Dickson @daniel-dickson.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
The paper analyzes and classifies the different ways the concept has been framed in all provincial and federal intellectual disability policies. (3/4)
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Daniel Dickson @daniel-dickson.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
In it, I label the last 25 years the "inclusion era" in Canadian disability policy, as inclusion and disability have become closely entwined in policy discourse (e.g. a federal minister of disability inclusion, the disability inclusion action plan, provincial accessibility policies, etc.) (2/4)
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Daniel Dickson @daniel-dickson.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Thrilled to share this article I authored on how 'social inclusion' is framed in Canadian disability policy design. 🧵(1/4)
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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 08/04/2026
#OpenAccess from @jpublicpolicy.bsky.social - Framing social inclusion in Canadian intellectual disability policy - cup.org/4smpSGv - @daniel-dickson.bsky.social #FirstView
Logo for the Journal of Public Policy featuring gold text on a black background, with the hashtag "OpenAccess" at the bottom.
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Kathleen O'Grady 🇨🇦 @kathleenogradyca.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
an important consideration in disability policy. It's not always the parents
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Ygrene @ygrene.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
the human body was not designed to know what the worst person in the world is doing every fifteen minutes
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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Mamdani has a seemingly DOGE pitch, but is actually delivering on reducing wasteful spending. My favorite? He’s cutting all kinds of contracting out to private vendors—including, drumroll, McKinsey
A picture of Mamdani saying “A contract with McKinsey at Department of Social Services?”A picture of Mamdani pulling money from behind a picture saying “that’s 9 million that we won’t be spending next year”
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
This is bad, and the backlash against non-permanent residents has clearly gone way too far (though not as far as in some other countries, obviously). www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Canada's population shrank last year — a first for the country, StatsCan says | CBC News
Canada's population dropped last year, marking the first time the country has seen an annual net decline in residents since Confederation.
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Simon Enoch @simonenoch.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Scott Moe, Feb 24th: “A traditional data centre will employ four people: two electricians and two janitors … I’ll take a potash mine every day of the week.” Scott Moe March 6th, "This data centre is an economic boon to the province." www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Bell Canada announces plans to start construction on Canada's largest AI data centre near Regina this spring | CBC News
Bell Canada says 80-full-time jobs will be created to run the centre.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public. I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are. 1/ Here's what I can share:
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Cult MTL @cultmtl.com · 05/03/2026
Quebec cheese curds could soon be ‘protected’ to promote authentic poutine around the world
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Quebec cheese curds could soon be 'protected' to promote authentic poutine around the world
The Quebec dairy industry wants the province's cheese curds to be officially protected to promote authentic poutine around the world.
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Daniel Dickson @daniel-dickson.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Very excited to listen to this! Toscano's Late Fascism is such a valuable resource in the struggle to make sense of contemporary global politics.
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Daniel Dickson @daniel-dickson.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
The Olympics bring amazing stories of perseverance, but I could really do without these narratives celebrating athletes for 'overcoming' impairment. For one, they encourage the type of dangerous hubris that convinces someone to ski on a blown ACL. Most importantly, ableism harms disabled people.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Palantir fasciitis
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Arizona Right Watch @azrww.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
In the middle of a Depression he would be saying how great everything is and how much we should thank him.
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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Reagan, 1981: “In the present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.” Clinton, 1996: “I say again, the era of big government is over. But we cannot go back to the era of fending for yourself.” Mamdani, 2026:
Begin g today we will govern expansively and audaciously. We may not always succeed. But never will we be accused of lacking the courage to try. 
To those who insist that the era of big government is over, hear me when I say this: No longer will City Hall hesitate to use its power to improve New Yorkers’ lives.
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Jack Iwashyna @iwashyna.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
“PhD-level intelligence” they said
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Laurence Thompson @thompsonlg.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
This is the *federal* government paying for the *City* to take action on what is constitutionally Saskatchewan *provincial* govt responsibility - because the Saskatchewan govt will not act to provide adequate social housing.
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Zack Taylor @bigcitypolitics.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
It's officially out! City Politics in Canada, co-edited with @jacklucas.bsky.social and Martin Horak @westernupolisci.bsky.social is in print and available for course adoption. Thank you to all chapter authors for their contributions. bsky.app/profile/did:...
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Shane Anderson 🏳️‍🌈 @shaneanderson.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it!
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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
so, this right here? this is one of the absolutely most lawless, brazenly unconstitutional impeachable offenses ever committed by any president other than trump in the history of our country. like, this is an open and shut case. and it's a case which targeted *republicans.*
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Daniel Dickson @daniel-dickson.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
I used to be a personal support worker, where a lot of my work was helping people overcome isolative barriers in an ableist society. PSWs are policy actors, but they are also social supports. Here is another great resource on MAID to complement the one you shared: cjds.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cj...
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Vol. 13 No. 2 (2024): Medical Assistance In Dying: Resistance in Canada | Canadian Journal of Disability Studies
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Daniel Dickson @daniel-dickson.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
However, I recognize that proponents of MAID see it as an end to suffering for people with no other possibility for relief. This is also often experientially-informed, and tied to trauma and loss. My whole point was re: social supports, which are tied to social policy for some
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Daniel Dickson @daniel-dickson.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
It's a very complex topic because I think how you view it depends on personal experience/ ability to compartmentalize information. For people who see these policy failures less as the context within which MAID operates and more as a cause of their personal suffering, MAID means something different
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Daniel Dickson @daniel-dickson.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
So... just because someone does not report isolation or loneliness as a reason for accessing MAID - which would be a difficult thing to say at the end, when receiving (informal) support from family and friends, even if you still feel it - does not mean they are receiving adequate social supports.
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Daniel Dickson @daniel-dickson.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
For example, provinces don't share waitlist data (even after FOIA requests), but in many provs less than 50% of eligible applicants receive disability housing supports. Spectacular policy failure. Likewise with income supports, which are poverty traps.
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Daniel Dickson @daniel-dickson.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
I get what your point is here, but I encourage you to use a bit more nuance with this topic. Lots of folks involved with disability advocacy now have cherished friends who have died through Track 2 MAiD, and we know why. Austerity is hollowing health and social services for people w disabilities.
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Daniel Dickson @daniel-dickson.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
The use of 'social supports' here is misleading. Track 2 MAID is used by Canadians w disabilities who don't receive supports necessary to live. MAID opponents point to the hypocrisy of governments' willingness to administer MAID relative to the woeful inadequacy of disability supports.
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Frank Domenic @frankdomenic.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Doug Fords Conservatives used AI to create a report on intimate partner violence, one which used non-existent sources. This is after they refused to declare intimate partner violence an epidemic. The Ford Conservatives do not take women's safety seriously #onpoli #ontario #dougford #frankdomenic🍁
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Daniel Dickson @daniel-dickson.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Kurtis Boyer: Universities need Indigenous co-governance policyoptions.irpp.org/2025/12/reco...
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Universities need Indigenous co-governance
Structured partnerships are a better way to manage membership verification and other processes that affect Indigenous communities.
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Daniel Dickson @daniel-dickson.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Trump is the most ableist POTUS - this much is obvious. The harm his admin is inflicting on people w disabilities will take decades to undo. But, that he will incur no political damage for directing this extremely vulgar slur at an opponent exemplifies the depth of systemic ableism in the US.
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Daniel Dickson @daniel-dickson.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
It's non-binding legislation, and even if fully adopted by member states many youths would find workarounds. But, this is a good example of the symbolic function of public policy. Formal recognition of the dangers of social media use will inform and empower parents to protect their kids.
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