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Judy Ameline 🌻🇨🇦

@jamelin.bsky.social
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Retired librarian. Chocoholic, Francophile, friend to animals. Covid cautious. I. am. Canadian. 🍁.

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Ian Weissman, DO @drianweissman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
A study from Common Sense Media says most safeguards in ChatGPT for Teens failed. The chatbot talks to teens like a friend and doesn't alert parents when users talk about self-harm and suicide. www.npr.org/2026/10/09/n...
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ChatGPT for Teens has special safeguards. A watchdog group finds most don't work
A study from Common Sense Media says most safeguards in ChatGPT for Teens failed. The chatbot talks to teens like a friend and doesn't alert parents when users talk about self-harm and suicide.
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Judy Ameline 🌻🇨🇦 @jamelin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Hostile Takeover: Inside the disastrous oversight of Canada’s largest school board - Toronto Life
Last spring, Doug Ford’s government seized control of the TDSB, promising to rein in wasteful spending, improve test scores and restore order to public...
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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Sobeys, Loblaws, Metro: All caught by the CBC mislabelling American food as Canadian. #cdnpoli www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBaa...
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Sobeys, Loblaws, Metro: All caught by the CBC mislabelling American food as Canadian
YouTube video by Tod Maffin
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It’s Still Me! @itsstillme1.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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Judy Ameline 🌻🇨🇦 @jamelin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
AC choosing Airbus may have nothing to do with Bombardier. Have you seen the Netflix documentaries on Boeing? Watch Downfall and Freefall. You might never want to board a Boeing plane again.
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Judy Ameline 🌻🇨🇦 @jamelin.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
www.thestar.com/opinion/star...
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Rosie DiManno: The very real fears about the rogue behaviour of artificial intelligence
America is a declining superpower. China is an ascendant superpower. India is a potential superpower.
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Judy Ameline 🌻🇨🇦 @jamelin.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
www.thestar.com/news/canada/...
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Canadian teens still rank among the world’s best in reading, math and science — but scores are slipping. Here’s why
Canada's decline in 2025 mirrors a global downward trend, according to findings from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
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Judy Ameline 🌻🇨🇦 @jamelin.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/9c555a4...
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The shocking and predictable threat posed by AI
The warning signs of AI agents going rogue should jolt companies and regulators out of their complacency
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Judy Ameline 🌻🇨🇦 @jamelin.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
www.thestar.com/politics/pro...
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Ontario teachers have to order school supplies from a Staples portal. They found cheaper prices on Staples’ regular website
Staples Canada said Tuesday night a dedicated phone line has been set up “to respond to any price differences” and they will price match.
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Sari Beth Rosenberg @sari.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
BIG education news in NYC: NYC Public Schools is putting a one-year moratorium on generative AI for students in 2-K through 8th grade while the city takes a closer look at how AI is impacting students and learning. 1/
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Forbes @forbes.com · 01/09/2026
Attacks on librarians, forced storytime cancellations and book bans are threatening the stability of public libraries
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Political Attacks Are Pushing Public Libraries To ‘Breaking Point,’ New Report Shows
Attacks on librarians, forced storytime cancellations and book bans are threatening the stability of public libraries
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Judy Ameline 🌻🇨🇦 @jamelin.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
And the TDSB distribution centre no longer exists. All the staff were declared surplus.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Yes 👇 Please 🙏.......
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Jenny Lee Shee @jennyleeshee.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I'll be teaching twenty Gr 3 students this fall. This partial back-to-school order would cost $290.38 through my school board and $668.98 at Staples. #DougFord loves talking tough about protecting us from Tr*mp, but he's taking $60M out of public education and handing it to an 🇺🇸 company. #OntEd
A chart of school supplies showing the price difference between ordering through the school board or ordering from Staples.A chart of school supplies showing the price difference between ordering through the school board or ordering from Staples.

The total for the school board is $290.38.
The total for Staples is $668.98.
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Jenny Lee Shee @jennyleeshee.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Thanks to Doug Ford and Paul Calandra, 80,000 elementary educators have to order classroom supplies from Staples this year instead of from their school boards. I decided to do a little comparison shopping for school supplies many of us will have to order over the course of a school year. 🧵 #OntEd
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Unapologetic Lee 🇨🇦 @ogcanada.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
We've crossed 170 000 signatures to have the US Ambassador to Canada, Pete Hoekstra, declared persona non grata. The highest ever petition had 387 000. We have two months left. #cdnpoli Sign here: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
📌I spent my professional life as a newspaperman, and it is impossible to overstate how dangerous and incompetent our inside the Beltway, mainstream media is right now. Well, today I blew a cork, and went there ... Dear Media: Please sit down and shut up, while I have a word with you ...
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BEAT THE PRESS
An open letter to the most incompetent mainstream media in American history ...
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Jerome Persaud @swingingbunt.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
So, in the end, it’s just a donation to a mega corporation, manufactured by the government.
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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
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Bluesky Fanatic @blueskyfanatic.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
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Judy Ameline 🌻🇨🇦 @jamelin.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
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Opinion: Universities should stop treating AI as a cheating problem
Educational leaders need to start creating a mixed model that includes both deep learning and instruction on AI tools
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Judy Ameline 🌻🇨🇦 @jamelin.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Add the price of insulin to that list.
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Judy Ameline 🌻🇨🇦 @jamelin.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
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Letter to My Fellow Americans: About Canada
We lost our oldest friend on purpose. How we start deserving them back.
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Tim O’Brien @timobrien.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
A sweeping new study has found that daily reading for pleasure in the United States has declined by more than 40% over the last 20 years — raising urgent questions about the cultural, educational and health consequences of a nation reading less. news.ufl.edu/2025/08/read...
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Reading for pleasure in free fall: New study finds 40% drop over two decades
Daily reading for pleasure in the U.S. dropped by more than 40% over the last 20 years
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Memento Mori @mementomori4950.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
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Librarian fired after refusing to censor 2SLGBTQ+ books wins $700K US settlement | CBC Radio
A former Wyoming library director who was fired amid an uproar over books with sexual content and 2SLGBTQ+ themes that some people complained were inappropriate for young readers will be paid $700,000...
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Larry Ferlazzo @larryferlazzo.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Reading for pleasure is sharply down among schoolkids, report shows www.nbcnews.com/data-graphic...
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Fewer kids and teens say they read for pleasure nearly every day compared with 2012.
New federal data shows double-digit percentage point drops in the shares of 9- and 13-year-olds who read for fun almost every day.
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tollerlover05.bsky.social @tollerlover05.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Study suggests more Canadian kindergartners are experiencing developmental vulnerabilities after COVID-19 www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti... Any elementary school teacher can testify. This is awful timing for the Provincial Government to be making such large cuts to the systems that help these kids.
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Study suggests more Canadian kindergartners are experiencing developmental vulnerabilities after COVID-19
Six years since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and new research suggests that more Canadian kindergartners are facing developmental vulnerabilities following some of the longest school closures in...
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Judy Ameline 🌻🇨🇦 @jamelin.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
It’s a good time for a pope with a math degree to sound the alarm on a threat to our ‘magnificent humanity’ www.thestar.com/gift-redeem?...
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Virginia Helena @v-helena.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Handwriting isn’t just “slower typing.” EEG studies show writing by hand recruits broader sensorimotor, visual, memory, and attentional networks than typing the same words. The brain learns through movement too, not only through information. 🧠✍️ #neuroskyence #neuroscience #brain #EEG #words
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Meta settles to avert trial over harm to children in school due to devices and screens. . www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Meta Settles School Suit Over Social Media, Averting First Trial
Meta Platforms Inc. reached an agreement to settle a landmark lawsuit alleging that addiction to Instagram and other top social media platforms upended learning across America and pushed US public sch...
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Judy Ameline 🌻🇨🇦 @jamelin.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
The epitome of floof.
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CCPA — Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives @policyalternatives.ca · 14/05/2026
Chronic underfunding, not financial mismanagement, is the problem in Ontario schools. Year after year they are asked to do more with less. By @ricardotranjan.bsky.social #onpoli www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
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Ontario school funding shortfall continues to grow, reaching $6.4 billion since 2018 | CCPA
Chronic underfunding, not financial mismanagement, is the problem in Ontario schools. Year after year they are asked to do more with less.
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
AI cannot replace teachers. Students need caring adults, strong relationships & opportunities to think critically, question, create and grow. AI doesn’t make educators less important, it reinforces how irreplaceable they are. www.aft.org/news/ai-alre...
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AI already failed at replacing teachers—a global panel explains why
Artificial intelligence is transforming education at a speed that outpaces policy, regulation and preparation, and the stakes for students could not be higher. At a recent panel hosted by Microsoft an...
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Judy Ameline 🌻🇨🇦 @jamelin.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
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Boys are falling behind in school, and some experts say it starts in kindergarten | CBC News
A new report submitted to the Quebec government says boys are "systemically disadvantaged" in their school system. Meanwhile, new Health Canada data shows higher rates of young men aged 15 to 24 suffe...
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Ryan T. Brown 🎮🩷 @toadsanime.lostincult.co.uk · 07/05/2026
A new study from researchers at MIT, Oxford, and more shows that AI assistance usage pretty much instantly negatively impacts people's ability to think, problem-solve, and makes users more likely to give up on tasks when AI is removed (AI Reduces Persistence and Hurts Independent Performance study)
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Whoa 🤯 in Slow-Mo @0lsi.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Chicago made it so every public school student can use their school ID as a #LibraryCard 📚. No forms, no extra steps. It gives over 300k students instant access to #books, #tutoring, and online resources 🙌
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Chicago Turns All Public School IDs Into Library Cards To Boost Student Access
Chicago Public Library and CPS announced the expansion of The 81 Club, building on a pilot launched in 2022 to give students access to the library system's vast collection and databases.
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
No one could have foreseen this.
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Thee NYC angry black latina mom! ♉️🇩🇴🗽 🐝💛 @urbanmodernism.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Children shouldn’t use AI until they understand what it is and what it isn’t. It’s being integrated as if it’s a learning tool, when it’s really a productivity tool. Children need to build thinking before outsourcing parts of thinking. Tech literacy before tech dependence.
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Judy Ameline 🌻🇨🇦 @jamelin.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
School trustees aren’t perfect, but the Ford government’s supposed fix is worse www.thestar.com/gift-redeem?...
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Judy Ameline 🌻🇨🇦 @jamelin.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
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Opinion: When schools ban politics, what are students really learning?
Not allowing students to express disagreement and dissent is undemocratic
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Judy Ameline 🌻🇨🇦 @jamelin.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Ontario to overhaul teacher training in move to fix educator shortage www.thestar.com/gift-redeem?...
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Muffin the cat visits the Dorval Library every day. Now he’s a card-carrying member #Montreal #Canada Link to video: www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/art...
Muffin the Cat visits Dorval Library in Quebec and is now a card carrying member
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Ian Weissman, DO @drianweissman.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real. Bixonimania doesn’t exist except in a clutch of obviously bogus academic papers. So why did AI chatbots warn people about this fictional illness? www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real
Bixonimania doesn’t exist except in a clutch of obviously bogus academic papers. So why did AI chatbots warn people about this fictional illness?
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Judy Ameline 🌻🇨🇦 @jamelin.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
School bathrooms have gone down the toilet – and that’s a serious problem www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/322dfff...
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School bathrooms have gone down the toilet – and that’s a serious problem
The dire state of bathrooms in Ontario’s public schools is a sad reflection of how the province handles education
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Judy Ameline 🌻🇨🇦 @jamelin.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
The public is being shielded from Donald Trump’s deranged blatherings www.thestar.com/gift-redeem?...
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Judy Ameline 🌻🇨🇦 @jamelin.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
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Live and work as a medical doctor in Canada
Learn how to immigrate to Canada as a doctor
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Judy Ameline 🌻🇨🇦 @jamelin.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
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‘No fail’ policies need to go, new poll on Canadian education says
A new survey suggests that more Canadians believe the nation’s education system is headed in the wrong direction and a return to more “traditional responses” toward unruly students may be needed.
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The Local Magazine @thelocal.to · 30/03/2026
Privatizing Toronto's crossing guard services was supposed to save the city money. It hasn't. Between 2017 and 2024, the number of locations with crossing guards went up 46 percent—but the budget in that time ballooned by 300 percent, reaching an annual $30 million. thelocal.to/crossing-gua...
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The New Reality for Toronto's Crossing Guards | The Local
Once a job for local retirees backed by the police, today's crossing guards are poorly paid contract workers employed by private companies. As they confront growing road rage and speeding drivers, the...
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Judy Ameline 🌻🇨🇦 @jamelin.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
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Annie E. Casey Foundation @annieecaseyfdn.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Even kids who were just babies and toddlers during the early years of the COVID-19 pandemic are scoring lower on math and reading exams than their pre-pandemic peers, suggesting that the pandemic led to fundamental changes in the U.S. educational system that continue to shape children’s learning.
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The ‘Pandemic Babies’ Are Now in 1st and 2nd Grade. How Are They Doing?
Achievement is still lower for kids who were toddlers during the pandemic—even though they didn't experience school closures.
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