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Stuart Poyntz

@spoyntz.bsky.social
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Youth media and community-engaged research, parent, activist for media democracy and crazy sports fan.

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Gregory Taylor 🇨🇦 @gregorytaylor.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This little detail is buried far down in the article: "They wanted to be able to review and potentially dictate the terms for Canada’s trade agreements with other countries, a Canadian official said." How is that not the headline? www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/w...
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How U.S.-Canada Tariff Negotiations Turned Into an All-Out Trade War
Detailed accounts of the final hours of the negotiations show that, while the United States offered Canada what it said was the best deal of any country, what Canada had to give up in exchange was see...
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Gregory Taylor 🇨🇦 @gregorytaylor.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Free Speech is not absolute in Canada. Read the Charter Premier.
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Steve Anderson @steveanderson.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Worth a watch for all the Canadians. #Canada youtube.com/watch?v=9DEk...
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CBC fails to link wildfires to climate change
YouTube video by The Breach
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Seth Klein @sethdklein.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Exciting! I'll be there 👇
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Stuart Poyntz @spoyntz.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Happening next Tuesday in Vancouver. www.sfu.ca/publicsquare...
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Reimagining the Public University
How can we reimagine the role of the public university to meet this moment?
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Learning, Media and Technology @lmt-journal.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
🟨 New Publication in #LMT 🟪 Prue Miles, Kylie Boltin, @spoyntz.bsky.social and Jill Willis explored how #videostorytelling could be used to convey students' #affect toward #verticalschools, informing decision-makers in the process. Read more: tinyurl.com/y6s99nu2
Voices of young people are essential in civic discourse about thriving futures. Yet dialogue can be complicated when the experiences of adults and young people are vastly different, for example in school spaces designed by adults in cities designed for adults. Vertical, highrise inner city schools represent this intersection. A new genre of school in Australia, vertical schools symbolise aspirations for young people and livable cities as designed by adults. This paper draws from data collected in the Thriving in Vertical Schools project to explore the importance of affective learning atmospheres for students, and the value of digital stories to prompt dialogue between young people and adults. 204 secondary students created 96 one-minute digital stories about what it takes to thrive in vertical schools. A close analysis of 4 representative videos shows how students communicated a wide range of affective, embodied experiences and used the friction inherent within digital narratives to highlight issues of importance, which promoted dialogue with adults in audio-recorded screening discussions. The power of digital stories to mediate civic discourse with adults, and new insights like the importance of unscripted, edge spaces as spaces for young people to learn to thrive, have implications for thriving schools and cities.
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Stuart Poyntz @spoyntz.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Very happy to share a new article with friends in Australia. Schools, space and atmospheres: the value of student videos in negotiating contested spaces in new urban vertical schools www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Schools, space and atmospheres: the value of student videos in negotiating contested spaces in new urban vertical schools
Voices of young people are essential in civic discourse about thriving futures. Yet dialogue can be complicated when the experiences of adults and young people are vastly different, for example in ...
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Tabatha Southey🇨🇦 @tabathasouthey.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
God damn. Of course it’s Shakespeare making sunsetting medium stunningly relevant again.
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sfucmns @sfucmns.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Join SFU CERi in TWO WEEKS for the launch of Critical Futures: Community-Engaged Research in a Time of Crisis and Social Transformation, edited by School of Communication professor @spoyntz.bsky.social, Am Johal and Kari Grain. Register now: www.sfu.ca/ceri/events/...
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Crawford Kilian @crof.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
A Vital Bridge Linking Higher Ed to the Downtown Eastside via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
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A Vital Bridge Linking Higher Ed to the Downtown Eastside | The Tyee
When universities partner with underserved communities, both can win. The Carnegie Learning Centre is a model.
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Digital Democracies Institute @digitaldemocracies.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
🔊 Did you hear about SFU's Demshot Challenge yet? If you have an idea that could strengthen trust, participation, or social cohesion in Canadian democracy, SFU wants to hear from you! 📆 Launch event: Tuesday, Jan 27, 6–7 PM (all undergrad + grad students welcome) ✍️ Register: lnkd.in/gYgzKpzN
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LinkedIn
This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn
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Stuart Poyntz @spoyntz.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
This should be illegal for a Canadian company www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
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Vancouver company Hootsuite seeks business with ICE amid financial pressures
Company has secured a project with ICE that involves ‘social listening’ after cancelling a contract in 2020 over employee backlash
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Tabatha Southey🇨🇦 @tabathasouthey.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Many of us left the 60,000 or so followers who read & spread the work that is our livelihood (freelancers often drive their own traffic) because we won’t write the content that fuels a hate site. Yet my MP & Prime Minister still post on Musk’s Stormfront lite with integrated CSAM generator platform.
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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
It is to Canada's shame we have not spoken out or supported a Canadian judge being sanctioned by the US Her life is frozen. She cannot use credit cards, travel, move money, or access email. This is not sustainable www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
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‘It’s surreal’: US sanctions lock International Criminal Court judge out of daily life
Canadian judge Kimberly Prost is unable to use credit cards, transfer money or book everyday services in what she calls an attack on the independence of the judiciary
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Jenny Kwan @jennykwan.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
The Liberal government’s new immigration levels plan is a disappointing retreat from Canada’s history as a welcoming, inclusive country. Instead of strengthening families and communities, it closes doors and divides people. 1/
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 12/10/2025
Britain's youth clubs have been quietly decimated. What's most revealing is that few seem to care | John Harris
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Britain's youth clubs have been quietly decimated. What's most revealing is that few seem to care | John Harris
These vital spaces have been the first targets of cuts in a nation that favours age over youth – despite being the remedy for blights such as social division, polarisation and loneliness, says Guardian columnist John Harris
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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Despite the unending doubtmongering – especially from MAGA / MAHA universe – studies continue to show COVID vaccines have significant benefits & an impressive safety profile. Good sum by ‪@unbiasedscipod.bsky.social‬ of one recent study👇 Study: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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sfucmns @sfucmns.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Applications are still being accepted for the Postdoctoral position until this Friday!
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sfucmns @sfucmns.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Congratulations to CMNS professor Fred Lesage, an award recipient of the SSHRC Knowledge Synthesis Grants Competition - Envisioning Governance Systems that Work. His project is on Creating Data Publics for Governance in collaboration with Professor Daniel Ashton (University of Southampton).
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Reece Martin @rmtransit.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Canada has dramatically higher transit modeshare than the US is something people clearly need to hear much more often.
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sfucmns @sfucmns.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
There's still time to apply to this Postdoctoral job opportunity. Don't miss out!
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Stuart Poyntz @spoyntz.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
This is a shocking and disastrous development. www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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Revealed: Harvard publisher cancels entire journal issue on Palestine shortly before publication
As Harvard’s feud with Trump escalated, so did tensions over an ‘education and Palestine’ issue of a prestigious journal. Scholars blame the ‘Palestine exception’ to academic freedom
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sfucmns @sfucmns.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Representing SFU proudly at the IAMCR Conference in Singapore! Pictured left to right, front to back: Dr. Anis Rahman, Monica Yousofi, Hoornaz Keshavarzian, Jimena Abreu Fernandez, Diana Limbaga, Dr. Ahmed Al-Rawi, Dr. Taeyoung Kim, Dr. Byron Hauck, Katya Letunovskaya.
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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Written by my friend, Dr. Rena Bivens, please read: theconversation.com/why-queer-th...
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Why queer-themed shows evoke a bittersweet nostalgia for missed childhood moments
Media help us imagine parallel lives and even reconstruct our past. Late-bloomers may feel queer anemoia as they grapple with questions of what could have been.
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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
This framing is just malpractice from what was very recently one of the two greatest papers in America
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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
New CJC! cjc.utppublishing.com/journal/cjc
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Canadian Journal of Communication (CJC)
Research on digital inequality tends to collapse people above a certain age into one “older adults” category, seemingly assuming that this is one homogeneous group when it comes to internet uses. Drawing on national survey data of adults in the United ...
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Stuart Poyntz @spoyntz.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
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Canadian Journal of Communication (CJC)
Background: Technology-facilitated sexual violence (TFSV) is a significant problem for young people and is on the rise in Canada. Young people from marginalized groups are at greater risk of TFSV victimization, and urgent support from schools is needed.
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Gregory Taylor 🇨🇦 @gregorytaylor.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
I never thought C-11, which I have always supported, would be easy, but wow the streamers are kicking and screaming on this one. I'm sure other nations with similar policies will be watching closely. www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/article...
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Global streamers set to challenge CRTC rule requiring them to fund Cancon
The case will be heard by the Federal Court of Appeal in Toronto on Monday
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Stuart Poyntz @spoyntz.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
This is great to see
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 03/06/2025
Disappointed to see this CBC report on social media age limits contains false information. It says Australia is “using government-issued ID as a form of verification,” but not only has the ban not started, they haven’t decided on the enforcement mechanism yet.
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How social media age limits are being applied — and the risks they pose
YouTube video by CBC News
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HippieKayYay @hippie-kay-yay.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
If you aren't already, I suggest following @maxboot.bsky.social and adding him to your Starter Packs. wapo.st/43Fqdd4
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Opinion | We are witnessing the suicide of a superpower
The president’s assault on science dangerously undermines America’s superpower status.
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sfucmns @sfucmns.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Professor Siyuan Yin recently published a new book, "Contesting Inequalities: Mediated Labour Activism and Rural Migrant Workers in China". Learn more about the process of writing this book and her research in our feature story! www.sfu.ca/communicatio...
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Chinese Workers in Capitalist Globalization: Professor Siyuan Yin’s New Book on Migrant Worker Labour Activism in China
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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
We are pleased to invite you to the CCA/CJC co-sponsored Roundtable, “The Author Is Dying: AI and The Possible Futures For Academic Publishing” to be held as part of the CCA Conference @ Congress, June 2, 1:30-3:00, Room WF 210 at George Brown College.
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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
There is no hell deep enough to contain the people involved with this
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Gregory Taylor 🇨🇦 @gregorytaylor.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
the CBC should step in and give Sesame Street a new home. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/u...
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Department of Education Eliminates Grant for PBS Children’s Shows
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Will Garrett-Petts @wfgp.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Cultural Mapping as Cultural Inquiry Edited By Nancy Duxbury, W.F. Garrett-Petts, David MacLennan (Available now in a paperback edition) www.routledge.com/Cultural-Map...
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Cultural Mapping as Cultural Inquiry
This edited collection provides an introduction to the emerging interdisciplinary field of cultural mapping, offering a range of perspectives that are international in scope. Cultural mapping is a mod...
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Eugene McCann @ejmccann.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Part of the Filipino communities & supporters' week of mourning, a vigil at 6pm Wednesday April 30. Organized by students, at the #SFU #Burnaby campus, in the Student Union Building.
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Seth Klein @sethdklein.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Important message from @christineboyle.bsky.social & Jody Wilson-Raybould 👇 "Rather than fear mongering & promoting ignorance of our shared history, we need to embrace the true foundations of BC & Canada, and respond to real threats together & in true partnership." vancouversun.com/opinion/opin...
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Opinion: Understanding Indigenous sovereignty is a source of strength as B.C. confronts new threats
Rather than fear mongering and ignorance, we need to embrace the true foundations of B.C. and Canada, and respond to real threats together
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Gregory Taylor 🇨🇦 @gregorytaylor.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Not the source I expected to call for a mass uprising in the States, complete with closing Marx reference. But he's totally right. Your move, America. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/o...
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Opinion | Time for a Civic Uprising
It will take a concerted effort by every sector of our society to respond to Trumpism’s threat.
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Robert Jago @rjjago.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
I tuned out this Insurrection Act stuff, thinking it was fear mongering (because of the sources). But no, it’s a real thing. April 20th - Hitler’s b-day by coincidence, I guess Friday the 13th wasn’t available.
Screenshot of the White House website, showing part of an executive order, which says: (b)  Within 90 days of the date of this proclamation, the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Homeland Security shall submit a joint report to the President about the conditions at the southern border of the United States and any recommendations regarding additional actions that may be necessary to obtain complete operational control of the southern border, including whether to invoke the Insurrection Act of 1807
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
"the president defied a Supreme Court ruling to return a man mistakenly sent to a gulag... and spoke of sending Americans to foreign concentration camps. This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped" snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror
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State Terror
A brief guide for Americans
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Brandon Yan 甄念本 @brandonyan.com · 11/04/2025
Ah yes.
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Stuart Poyntz @spoyntz.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Followup - voter turnout was 15%, compared to 11% in last municipal by-lection. City of Vancouver claims it was overwhelmed by turnout. Really? Or was this the plan?
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Stuart Poyntz @spoyntz.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Wow, City of Vancouver has failed its citizens. See @jmcelroy.bsky.social for details on why. #Vanpoli
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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
I've heard back from the City of Vancouver. They confirmed that they have approximately 265 staff "currently in the field" working the byelection. That's a 79% dropoff from the 2017 byelection. Odd they didn't mention that in their original explanation to media as to why lines were so long.
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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
I've cracked the code of why byelection lineups are so long in Vancouver today. It's not just a turnout question. Compared to the 2017 byelection, the city decreased the number of election workers by EIGHTY PERCENT. From 1,250 in 2017 to 250 this time around. This was a staff recommendation.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 27/03/2025
"Kidnapped": 1,000+ Protest After Masked ICE Agents Abduct Tufts Ph.D. Student Rumeysa Ozturk
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“Kidnapped”: 1,000+ Protest After Masked ICE Agents Abduct Tufts Ph.D. Student Rumeysa Ozturk
Over a thousand protesters gathered near Tufts University on Wednesday after masked plainclothes immigration agents snatched Rumeysa Ozturk, a Tufts Ph.D. student and Fulbright scholar, from the streets...
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Stuart Poyntz @spoyntz.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Sharing the Canadian Journal of Communication's statement on the passing of Jonathan Sterne. Please circulate, with thanks. cjc.utppublishing.com
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Canadian Journal of Communication (CJC)
The CJC is an online, quarterly journal. Back issues are accessible with a 12-month delay as Open Access with a CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Access to the most recent year's issues, including the current issue, requires a subscription. Learn More
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Seth Klein @sethdklein.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
This Thursday 👇
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