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Patricia Sutherland

@pasuther.bsky.social
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Librarian, educator

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datapoets @datapoets.com · 06/07/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/07/05/b...
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Wikipedia Is Battling for the Soul of the Internet
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Jared Wesley @jaredwesley.ca · 26/05/2026
The claim that organizers gathered roughly 300,000 signatures on a separation petition rests entirely on statements made by one individual: Mitch Sylvestre.... Yet, Mitch’s number has dominated public discourse as an accepted fact. thewalrus.ca/did-alberta-...
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Alberta Separatists Say They Have 300,000 Supporters. The Evidence Is Thin | The Walrus
The number rests largely on one man’s unverified claim
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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
I took a break from the daily history polls because they are a bit of work. Glad to say I am beginning a new poll this week. I have 96 fiction and 96 non-fiction Canadian books and we are going to find out what is Canada's Favourite Book. Contest starts tomorrow.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 25/11/2025
You know, I'm not sure I ever really read the Pond Rules at our local nature preserve all that closely before
POND RULES:

No swimming, jumping or gallivanting.
Do not disturb the pond witch.
No fishing with dynamite.
Sacrifices to water gods on alternate Wednesdays only - NO EXCEPTIONS!
Taunt the crows at your own risk.
If a hand comes out of the water to beckon you, turn and walk away.
Do not feed the weretrout.
Is the water burning with cold unholy fire? Report it to the ranger!
They’re not ducks. Run.
Have fun!
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Niigaan Sinclair @niigaanwewidam.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Latest @winnipegfreepress.com column www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/colu...
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Opinion: The inconvenient truth: Thomas King’s admission he isn’t Cherokee hits hard
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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
So many questions
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Should Women Work?
Should Women Have the Vote?
Should Women Be Allowed to Drive?
Should Women Choose Their Mates?
Should women run marathons?
Should women learn to box?
Should women vote?
Should Women Listen? Somtimes I think they should but sometimes I think they shouldn't.
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Patricia Sutherland @pasuther.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Calling all self-published Canadian mystery writers! Submissions are now open for the second annual Toby Award literary prize. For more details, visit: tobyaward.wordpress.com
Table with keyboard and mouse and coffee advertising open submissions for the Toby Award.
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
"Glaciers of the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) and the broader High Mountain Asia (HMA) region, which are vital water sources for nearly two billion people, could suffer catastrophic losses even under moderate global warming scenarios, according to a new global assessment by @iccinet.bsky.social"
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At 2°C warming, only 25% of Hindu Kush–Himalayan glaciers will survive, warns report | Dehradun News - The Times of India
Dehradun: Glaciers of the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) and the broader High Mountain Asia (HMA) region, which are vital water sources for nearly two bill.
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Nieman Lab @niemanlab.org · 06/11/2025
About half of the teens surveyed believe that journalists frequently “make up details, such as quotes” and “pay for sources.” More than a third of teens believe journalists could improve by simply “Telling the truth,” “Fact checking,” and “Not lying.” buff.ly/7vgO0ci
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“Biased,” “Boring,” “Chaotic,” and “Bad”: A majority of teens hold negative views of news media, report finds
About half of the teens surveyed believe that journalists frequently “make up details, such as quotes” and “pay for sources.”
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Yasir Naqvi 🇨🇦 @yasirnaqvicdn.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
The world is changing fast — but Canada is ready to lead. Budget 2025 invests in our people, our industries, and our future. Together, we’re building a stronger, more resilient Canada that can stand tall in an uncertain world.
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Peggy Boooooo!!!!! Blair @peggyjblair.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
My daughter wrote this essay about becoming a Blue Jays fan - it's terrific. Give it a read and a share, will ya? ethicalvacuum.substack.com/p/the-joy-of...
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The Joy of Being on the Bandwagon
Ahead of Game 6, I'm talking the only thing I've ever cared about (for the last three weeks).. the Blue Jays.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 21/10/2025
First World Series between two cities threatened with invasion or invaded by a U.S. president.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
What have the news media been thinking as they’ve normalized and empowered MAGA fascism over the last decade? I took an intrepid journey inside the media’s brain to find out. Read my free Stop the Presses newsletter.
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My exclusive Trump-era tour inside the media’s brain
What were America’s journalists thinking? I have strong suspicions.
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Spencer Callaghan @spencercallaghan.ca · 18/10/2025
I don’t know how any Ottawa city councillor can look themselves in the mirror when the city is functionally gridlocked from east to west.
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Jared Wesley @jaredwesley.ca · 17/10/2025
There are a few important petitions circulating these days. None more important to the future of society and the economy than this one. Please sign. www.bringbackblackberry.com
bringbackblackberry.com
Bring Back BlackBerry
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections
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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Really want to encourage libraries - especially school libraries - to put no-AI content into your collection development policy. At the very least, if you have a clause in there about requiring accurate information, you can use that to weed out or prevent genAI purchases.
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Catherine McKenna @cathmckenna.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
The wait is over! #RunLikeAGirl is available in bookstores and online today! This isn’t just about politics—it’s about possibility. From aspiring Olympian to Canada’s environment minister, my journey has been anything but linear. 🔗 Learn more: catherinemckenna.ca #WomenLeadingOnClimate
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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Autumn's Garland Tom Thomson 1915-16
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply." me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
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How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review
Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.
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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Everything is bad, but books are good. Get a book. Read the book. Cherish the book. Finish the book. Tell your friends about the book, and leave a review of the book. Hold the book close. Listen to what it tells you. Do as it commands. Place it on the dread altar and let it guide your every choice.
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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 29/08/2025
Them: “Cities are all rotting hellscapes!” Cities:
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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
CORRECTION. The UCP has not banned just over 100 books from Edmonton Schools. If this list is accurate, they have banned over 200. Here is the list we have been provided. 1/2 #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
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Steve Everitt @steve-everitt.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
New rule. A parent may only propose removing a book from the school library only after reading it in its entirety and delivering a book report to the librarian. Until then no discussion shall be entered into.
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Mark Gerretsen @markgerretsen.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
New Horizons for Seniors Program is now open! The federal government is accepting applications for grants of up to $25,000 to support local projects that empower seniors. 🔗 More info: bit.ly/3UQFUdm 🗓️ Apply by: September 17, 2025
A graphic for the "New Horizons for Seniors Program," which is now open. Key details include: project duration of up to 52 weeks, up to $25,000 in grants, and program priorities such as healthy aging, preventing elder abuse, diversity & inclusion, and financial security. A yellow "Apply Now" button is shown at the bottom, with a deadline of September 17, 2025. The name "Mark Gerretsen" appears at the bottom of the image.
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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
“Alberta’s order is precisely about banning books, as its direct effect is to force school authorities across the province to remove from their libraries a host of books deemed inappropriate by the state.” #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu...
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Opinion: In Alberta schools, books aren’t the threat — censorship is
The Alberta government should not be eroding the fundamental rights and freedoms of some of its most vulnerable community members.
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Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
if there's any truth to this, it's worth remembering that Gen Z grew up with leveled reading "benchmarks" and ELA assessments and and were for years asked to produce answers about "the main idea"/conflict/resolution/etc. instead of being encouraged to engage with & love literature on their own terms
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‘It’s so boring’: gen Z parents don’t like reading to their kids – and educators are worried
Screen time has increasingly replaced story time, and experts warn this could lead to children falling behind
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Geoffrey P Johnston😎🇨🇦🇺🇦 @geoffypjohnston.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
www.thewhig.com/opinion/conf... According to UNICEF, approximately 270 children are admitted for treatment of severe acute malnutrition every day in Sudan’s North Darfur state. #Sudan #FoodInsecurity #SAM
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Conflict and child suffering escalate in Sudan
The bloody conflict between rival military factions in Sudan has generated an ever worsening child protection crisis.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Google's AI summaries are - killing traffic to legitimate sites - producing summaries that can be wrong - in the long run probably making you a dumbass www.404media.co/googles-ai-i...
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Google’s AI Is Destroying Search, the Internet, and Your Brain
Google’s AI Overview, which is easy to fool into stating nonsense as fact, is stopping people from finding and supporting small businesses and credible sources.
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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
On this day in 1841, Upper Canada and Lower Canada were united into The Province of Canada through the Act of Union by the British Parliament. The capital of the province moved between Kingston, Montreal, Toronto, Quebec City and Ottawa until Canadian Confederation in 1867.
Photograph of an antique map titled "The Province of Canada" by James Wyld, published in London circa 1856. Hand-colored in outline, it depicts Upper and Lower Canada, the St. Lawrence River, Great Lakes region, county structures, towns, and hydrography, extending into parts of New England, New York, Nova Scotia, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Massachusetts.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
That was my point, yep. They just described a literature course, a library science course, a liberal arts program — all things that exist and that AI hollows out. Parasitic.
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Phil Bildner @philbildner.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Bad People Ban Books
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 12/07/2025
You should 💯% take a free fact-checking tutorial. Here are a few good ones: 1) story-maker.org/library/fact... 2) teacherscollegesj.edu/courses/eval... 3) digitalcourses.afp.com/collections/... 4) newslit.org/educators/re... 5) libguides.sdsu.edu/Factchecking
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Forrest Pass @forrestpass.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Despatches from the Ottawa IKEA, perhaps the only IKEA in the world where a fake computer monitor in an imaginary home office displays the Library of Parliament's "Historical Information about Parliament" page. Is @parlcharlie.bsky.social moonlighting on the staging team? #cdnhist
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Media Action Plan @mediaactionplan.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
The government of Canada has launched a website to help combat news disinformation! You can learn why disinformation affects you, how to spot it & ways to counter it. 👏 Check out their new ad below and the website here: canada.ca/disinformation
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 19/06/2025
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
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Peggy Boooooo!!!!! Blair @peggyjblair.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Thinking of writing a mystery/thriller novel? This Guide is full of practical tips for how to write compelling dialogue, interesting characters, and develop great plots plus marketing and other helpful advice for the aspiring author! Order exclusively from reboundpress.com!
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Yup. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The mainstream media has enabled Trump’s war on universities | Jason Stanley
For the past decade, the US press has fueled a moral panic over leftists on campus while failing to report on the right’s assault
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Jennifer Prokop @jenreadsromance.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
why is it so hard for people to understand that the work of the reader is fundamentally different than the work of the writer? that's what makes it art?
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Stephen Randle 🍁🍁🍁 @davethecamel.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Yes, it's official, I am thrilled to announce that my first ever novel will be published by Rebound Press in the near future! You may have seen me mention a working title before, but the actual title and perhaps cover art will be revealed soon! Thank you so much to Peggy for taking a chance on me!
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Ray Beckerman @raybeckerman.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Florida officials threaten librarians with criminal prosecution over Judy Blume book popular.info/p/florida-of...
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Florida officials threaten librarians with criminal prosecution over Judy Blume book
In a chilling meeting of the Florida State Board of Education last week, a school district superintendent was publicly browbeaten and repeatedly threatened with criminal prosecution.
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Matt @mattlibrarian.eurosky.social · 08/06/2025
If you missed the interview with former Librarian of Congress Dr Carla Hayden this morning, you can catch it here: 📚📜
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Former Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden speaks out on her firing by Trump
Last month, Carla Hayden, the first woman and first African American to hold the position of Librarian of Congress, received an email that announced, without explanation, her dismissal. It was one of ...
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Joshua Benton @joshuabenton.com · 04/06/2025
TIL that the CBC has a bigger global online audience than @wsj.com or @washingtonpost.com. CBC 🇨🇦: 103.2 million monthly visits WSJ 🇺🇸: 97.2 million WaPo 🇺🇸: 89.5 million (Overall top 3: @nytimes.com 657M, BBC 550M, @cnn.com 515M.) pressgazette.co.uk/media-audien...
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Top 50 news websites in the world: Tabloids take a tumble
Press Gazette lists the top 50 most popular news websites in the world. Monthly updated top 50 listing based on data provided by SimilarWeb.
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Aman Batheja @amanbatheja.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
New: TIME reporters were able to use Google’s AI video tool to make convincing videos of Muslims setting fire to a Hindu temple; Chinese researchers handling a bat in a wet lab; and elections worker shredding ballots. After TIME contacted Google, it began adding a visible watermark to Veo 3 clips
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Google’s Veo 3 Can Make Deepfakes of War, Riots, Election Fraud
Google’s Veo 3 lets users make hyper-realistic deepfakes—sparking fears about AI’s role in misinformation online.
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Connie Walker @conniewalker.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
RCMP says it’s probing potential war crimes related to Israel-Hamas conflict www.thestar.com/news/canada/...
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RCMP says it’s probing potential war crimes related to Israel-Hamas conflict
The police service told the Star it launched the investigation in early 2024.
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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
The “teach every student to code” era replaced by AI should be a reminder to university administrators that tethering university education to corporate demand is dumb
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Katie Ward @katiewardwriter.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
DEADLINE: 11.00 GMT on Wednesday 4 June 2025:
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Feeling like your civilization is about to collapse? This sheet-pan beer bread will make you feel like you're in late Bronze Age Egypt.
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