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Enda Brophy

@enda-b.bsky.social
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Communication and Labour Studies prof at SFU. Forza Roma, ovunque e comunque.

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Taylor Noakes @taylornoakes.com · 28/07/2026
I have my doubts CBC News would have run this story had it not been for the attention @rachelgilmore.bsky.social brought to the issue Predictably CBC doesn’t mention the fact that an independent journalist got there first or even the journalist’s name #cdnmedia #cdnpoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Shopify CEO appears to endorse giving more votes to wealthy Canadians | CBC News
The billionaire CEO of one of Canada's largest companies has come under fire for seeming to endorse stripping voting rights from some and giving more votes to the ultra wealthy. Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke...
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Enda Brophy @enda-b.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
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The general intellect on the picket line: after the first strike in the Australian software industry - Overland literary journal
It would suit the interests of our would-be techno-fedual overlords for each of us to simply fret, individually and impotently, about the situation, while the economic foundations of our lives are hol...
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Enda Brophy @enda-b.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
DoorDash and Uber Try to Halt the Spread of Gig Worker Protection via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2026/06...
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DoorDash and Uber Try to Halt the Spread of Gig Worker Protection | The Tyee
After BC introduced safeguards, companies are lobbying Alberta and Saskatchewan.
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Enda Brophy @enda-b.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
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Walmart Workers Have Won A First-Ever Contract In North America
Unifor Local 252 in Mississauga announced that about 800 workers now have a collective agreement.
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Periodic Pareidolia @april-cotcobbler.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Huge win! 🍉 👏🏻
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Enda Brophy @enda-b.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
NEW: Uber Drivers Have Won A Contract For The First Time In Canada www.readthemaple.com/uber-drivers...
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Uber Drivers Have Won A Contract For The First Time In Canada
UFCW Local 1518 in Victoria announced that more than 1,000 workers now have a collective agreement
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Enda Brophy @enda-b.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
YVR people!: You're invited to a book launch+panel discussion for Notes Toward a Digital Workers’ Inquiry Thurs, Apr 30, 6–8pm SFU Vancouver HC 7000 Join us on the eve of May Day ✊ to talk research + organizing in the age of AI Register at: tinyurl.com/22zdmvdu
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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Just spotted this on the shelves at The Word Is Change in Brooklyn the other day @tamigraph.bsky.social @enda-b.bsky.social @gleemie.bsky.social
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Enda Brophy @enda-b.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
For those in Vancouver, April 16 at SFU Woodwards. Registration required, more info here: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-arcana...
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The Arcana of Digital Labour: Seminar with Leopoldina Fortunati
Radical feminist activist and theorist Leopoldina Fortunati leads a discussion on social reproduction and digital labour
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Enda Brophy @enda-b.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
A lot of people say AI isn't very good for the world and its outputs are routinely unreliable, but these haters fail to see how it's revolutionizing how we incinerate schoolchildren.
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William Fitzgerald @williamfitz.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
170 school children. Palantir, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, etc have made billions selling to the U.S. military a technology that promises an all-seeing eye to find all the bad guys and kill thousands of them instantly. You and me are paying for these murders.
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Tonight, two of the white nationalists I reported on in this piece showed up to attempt to intimidate me on a private night out at a small music venue. I’ll have more to say tomorrow. I’m safe. They also didn’t pay cover 🖕
Image of the white nationalists I reported on, Shawn Beauvais-MacDonald and Giulio Zardo, attempting to intimidate me at a small local music venue.Image of the white nationalists I reported on, Shawn Beauvais-MacDonald and Giulio Zardo, attempting to intimidate me at a small local music venue.Image of the white nationalists I reported on, Shawn Beauvais-MacDonald and Giulio Zardo, attempting to intimidate me at a small local music venue.
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Enda Brophy @enda-b.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
The company that launched this "news" site was supported by SFU’s tech accelerator fund. How did people at our university think an AI slop news outlet was a worthy startup? Inside a Surrey 'Local News' Site Run by AI via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2026/03...
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Inside a Surrey ‘Local News’ Site Run by AI | The Tyee
Surrey Speak published fake news about a mayoral candidate and an AI-generated picture of a real murder victim.
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BC Policy Solutions @bcpolicy.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
The group Contract Worker Justice has been sounding the alarm about poor working conditions at @sfu.ca and heavy-handed management since COVID19 started in 2020. Metro Vancouver's living wage is $27.85 says BC Society for Policy Solutions, but not all workers earn it.
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SFU Contract Workers Sounded the Alarm on Abuse. Nothing Changed | The Tyee
Workers, faculty and students have called on the university to bring workers in-house for years.
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Enda Brophy @enda-b.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
We've been telling SFU these contractors are bad actors for half a decade now. Admin's claim that food & cleaning services aren't core functions basically amounts to saying these workers are expendable. UBC, UVic, and UBCO employ service workers directly. When will SFU do the right thing?
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Enda Brophy @enda-b.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
We've been telling SFU these contractors are bad actors for half a decade. Admin's claim that food & cleaning aren't core functions basically amounts to saying these workers are expendable. UBC/UVic/UBCO employ service workers directly. When will SFU do the right thing? thetyee.ca/News/2026/02...
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SFU Contract Workers Sounded the Alarm on Abuse. Nothing Changed | The Tyee
Workers, faculty and students have called on the university to bring workers in-house for years.
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Enda Brophy @enda-b.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
WIN!!! ✊ Just got news SFU has decided NOT to renew its contract w/ @hootsuite.com. Our university made the right choice, choosing not to be associated with a tech company aiding and abetting fascism in the US.
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Enda Brophy @enda-b.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
The petition demanding SFU drop its @hootsuite.com contract has almost cracked 100 signatures. SFU community members, please sign and share with your friends and colleagues!!!
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Karen Dalton Beninato @kbeninato.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
"She posted pictures of her and teammate Alysa Liu with their Olympics team skate gold medals on TikTok with the caption: “They hate to see two woke bitches winning." [GOLD for Alysa!] www.usatoday.com/story/sports...
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For LGBTQ Winter Olympians, visibility matters just as much as medals
There's a record-breaking number of out LGBTQ+ athletes competing in the 2026 Winter Olympics, including medal winners for Team USA.
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No Tech Criminalization in Education @noticecoalition.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
🤩 NOTICE is back with another book rec! 🤩 This book blends research, worker testimony, and political analysis to ask: How is digital work organized? Who benefits? And how can workers build power within these systems? Dive in— pick up your copy today! 🔈 @gleemie.bsky.social @tamigraph.bsky.social
A bright, retro-style graphic promoting a NOTICE Coalition book recommendation. At the top, large white text reads “A NOTICE Coalition Book Recommendation” against a turquoise and red background with yellow horizontal lines. In the center, an illustrated book cover is displayed at a slight angle. The cover is blue with bold red semicircle shapes resembling a signal or broadcast icon. The title “Notes Toward a Digital Workers’ Inquiry” appears in bright yellow text, with “The Capacitor Collective” at the bottom. The background features layered red, yellow, and blue stripes, creating a vibrant, energetic design.
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Enda Brophy @enda-b.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Well this game arrived just in time for Family Day here in BC and we’re all very excited to play it! @maxhaiven.bsky.social @plutopress.bsky.social
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Enda Brophy @enda-b.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
SFU folks! Reminder to sign and share this petition. Let's all ties to Canadian companies abetting fascism
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roxanne panchasi @rpanchasi.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
signed because FUCK ICE ✔️
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Enda Brophy @enda-b.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
SFU community members: please sign and share this petition demanding the university terminate its relationship with @hootsuite.com. The company's refusal to cut ties with ICE is abhorrent, and SFU needs to hear from us on this. docs.google.com/forms/d/1LpQ...
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SFU Community Petition re Hootsuite
To: President Joy Johnson, Interim VP Finance and Administration (Acting) Karamjeet Heer, Provost and VP Academic Dilson Etcheverry Rassier, Associate VP Communications & Marketing Kristin Linklater W...
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Enda Brophy @enda-b.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Our friends at Revue Ouvrage have translated Notes Toward a Digital Workers’ Inquiry into French! Special thanks to Sandrine Bell for her work. www.revue-ouvrage.org/lenquete-ouv... @commonnotions.bsky.social @tamigraph.bsky.social @gleemie.bsky.social
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L’enquête ouvrière du numérique - revue Ouvrage
Par le Capacitor Collective — Un essor de la résistance au travail, du syndicalisme et de l’auto-organisation est en train de se produire à plusieurs endroits tout au long de la chaîne de valeur du ca...
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
I cannot sufficiently underline how despicable it is that the IOC has required Haitian Olympic athletes to remove an image representing the leader of the Haitian Revolution (against SLAVERY) from their uniforms.
MILAN (AP) — The troubled Caribbean country, Haiti, has fielded two athletes for the Milan Cortina Winter Games, and they will proudly wear Haitian symbols — although one less than intended after intervention by the International Olympic Committee.

The skiers will compete in uniforms designed by Italian-Haitian designer Stella Jean that originally featured an image of Toussaint Louverture, the former slave who led a revolution that created the world’s first Black republic in 1804. The IOC ruled that the image violated Olympic rules barring political symbolism, requiring Jean to come up with a creative solution: painting over the nation’s founding father.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”
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It Turns Out Waymos Are Being Controlled by Workers in the Philippines
During a Congressional hearing, Waymo's chief safety officer, Mauricio Peña, was grilled over the company's reliance on overseas workers.
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Jules Boykoff @julesboykoff.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Vice President JD Vance gets roundly booed at the opening ceremony of the Milano-Cortina 2026 Olympics. "Those are a lot of boos for him, whistling jeering," says the presenter. US athletes receive a warm welcome from fans, though.
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Helen Shang @helenshang.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
I'm at the Olympics and the entire stadium booed JD Vance. 😌
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
nazi bitches get kicked out of bars
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Border Patrol boss Gregory Bovino tossed from Las Vegas bar
Former U.S. Border Patrol Commander-at-Large Gregory Bovino was reportedly asked to leave a Las Vegas bar out of safety concerns for the venue’s customers.
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Louise Auerhahn :propride: @lauerhahn.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/02/2026
Happening now in Silicon Valley: marchers have surrounded the Palantir building and are holding a prayer vigil for victims of ICE, while video of ICE and Palantir crimes is projected on the building. #AbolishICE #ICEOut #Palantir #PaloAlto
Outside in the evening. An office building with video and the words "Palantir Powers Fascism" projected at top. Below, a crowd of people with signs and candles memorializing people who have died at the hands of ICE.
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Enda Brophy @enda-b.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Following @mortabasi.bsky.social's lead I’ve written to SFU Communications & Marketing Associate VP asking that we terminate our relationship with @hootsuite.com. The company’s refusal to drop its contract with ICE is utterly offensive and SFU should hear from community members about this.
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
A bus stop near Tesla's flagship store in London. Imagine a Super Bowl ad that showed only this.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/02/2026
Wow! What sounded like the entire AEW Dynamite audience in Las Vegas tonight chanted "Fuck ICE! Fuck ICE!" in unison before the main event
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
PSA: it is in fact possible for universities to address financial challenges by slashing (incredibly expensive and largely useless) admin positions. Memorial University just downsized VPs from 7 to 3. Yes we can! universityaffairs.ca/news/memoria...
Memorial University of Newfoundland (MUN) has announced a restructuring of its executive leadership team and the intention to sell multiple properties, as the university tries to address a shortfall of approximately $25 million. The changes are just two of several that are expected in the year ahead, as the university also contends with an upcoming tuition-fee freeze. 

In late January, MUN announced it will begin selling multiple properties in St. John’s that are “not closely aligned with its academic mission,” as well as its Harlow Campus in the United Kingdom. The announcement came just two weeks after the university announced executive restructuring, which saw it reduce the number of vice-presidents from seven to three.
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Enda Brophy @enda-b.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
This @thetyee.ca piece by former @sfucmns.bsky.social prof Donald Gutstein is essential reading on Big Tech's efforts to frustrate the development of an independent cloud in Canada. Read and share: thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
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How Big Tech Spearheads the US Threat to Canada | The Tyee
American digital giants are deeply entrenched here, making the building of Carney’s ‘sovereign cloud’ near impossible.
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irina cerić @irinaceric.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Turns out that the publisher of the property law textbook I use, Thomson Reuters, "holds a contract worth up to $22 million (U.S.) that began in May 2021 to provide ICE with access to a law enforcement investigative database subscription". Welp, new book time... www.thestar.com/business/mor...
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More than a dozen Canadian companies – including Thomson Reuters – have done business with ICE, Star analysis reveals
Such contracts have become controversial as concerns mount that products or services sold to ICE could be used by the agency in activities that may violate human rights.
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Emma Arkell @emmaarkell.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
A very determined crowd gathering in the pouring rain outside Hootsuite HQ in Vancouver for a Hootsuite Out of ICE protest
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Enda Brophy @enda-b.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Hey @hootsuite.com, how much does a soul go for these days?
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Melek Ortabasi @mortabasi.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
I just wrote to our Director of Communications at #SFU asking them to cancel our contract with @hootsuite.com unless they drop their contract with ICE. I've been asking them to stop using X for years, and asked again. You can do the same. #AcademicSky
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Common Notions Press @commonnotions.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Join Capacitor Collective as they celebrate the release of NOTES TOWARD A DIGITAL WORKERS' INQUIRY, "an exemplary demonstration of how inquiry can function simultaneously as a mode of collective action and a form of critical theory." 2/12/26 in Toronto and 2/13/26 Montreal. Save the dates!
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Steve Tornes @stevetornes.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
CNV Library just received a new copy after I requested one Excited to start reading "... the Capacitor Collective has conducted eleven illuminating interviews with platform workers and organizers whose efforts ... imagines new ways to produce knowledge with and for the movement." #booksky
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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Common Notions gift guide - for all the loved ones who know that labor creates all wealth @veronicagago.bsky.social @tamigraph.bsky.social @enda-b.bsky.social @gleemie.bsky.social
Common Notions Gift Guide - For the loved ones who know that labor creates all wealth

Why We Fear AI
The Home as Laboratory
Strike While the Needle is Hot
Digital Workers' Inquiry
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Enda Brophy @enda-b.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
We will be launching Notes Toward a Digital Workers' Inquiry in Toronto on Feb 12! Thanks to the Leo Panitch School for Socialist Education & the Digital Labour research Group at U of T for organizing: www.tickettailor.com/events/panit...
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Register – Notes Toward a Digital Workers’ Inquiry book launch – Friends House
Notes Toward a Digital Workers’ Inquiry book launch – Friends House, Thu 12 Feb 2026 - Join us as we celebrate the launch of Notes Toward a Digital Workers Inquiry, a brand new book full of first-hand...
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Enda Brophy @enda-b.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
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SFU Wants Only Non-Union Faculty at New Medical School
Simon Fraser contends that the med school is so new and different that its existing collective agreement with university faculty doesn't apply
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Enda Brophy @enda-b.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Some lovely words from Nick Dyer-Witheford for Notes Toward a Digital Workers' Inquiry, co-authored w/ Julie Chen, Alessandro Delfanti, Brian Dolber, @gleemie.bsky.social & @tamigraph.bsky.social, & published by @commonnotions.bsky.social. Get it at: buff.ly/9Li5A3U (DIGI-WORKERS-HOMIE for 25% off)
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Common Notions Press @commonnotions.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
"This brilliant text explains and exemplifies the practice of 'Workers Inquiry' as applied to Big Tech. Critical, self-reflexive, partisan, rich in radical analysis..." —Nick Dyer-Witheford, co-author of CYBERNETIC CIRCULATION COMPLEX (@versobooks.bsky.social)
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Enda Brophy @enda-b.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Inside the Labour Struggle at Massy Books via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Culture/2025...
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Inside the Labour Struggle at Massy Books | The Tyee
Nearly a year after unionizing, the beloved bookstore has few staff and no contract.
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Melek Ortabasi @mortabasi.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
#AcademicSky vancouversun.com/opinion/op-e...
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Opinion: The slow unravelling of higher education in B.C. has begun
The federal cap on international students triggered the crisis. Decades of provincial underfunding made it inevitable.
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