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Connect the dots: School boards, democracy, and human rights
On a gray day last September, I attended a counter-protest at the Grand Parade in Halifax. I was there as part of “Education Saves Lives”…
From battleground to common ground
In the neverending right-wing-led campaigns against social progress, public schools are frequently targeted. And there’s a reason: while battered and underfunded, these institutions are still…
Whack-a-moles and hydra: Searching for a new privatization metaphor in education
Deleuze, G. & Guattari, F. (1987). A thousand plateaus: Capitalism and schizophrenia. (Trans. by Massumi, B.)., University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Kovach, M. (2021). Indigenous methodologies: Characteristics, conversations,…
School grounds turned battlegrounds: War, conflict and peace education
Months after the October 7, 2023 attacks by Hamas fighters on Israelis, and the ensuing and ongoing bombardment of Gaza by Israeli Defence Forces that…
Will Saskatchewan Fund the Future of its Universities?
It won’t surprise anybody that reads OS/OS that the costs of a university education is increasingly being transferred from governments on to the backs of…
Was Canada’s Online News Act compromise a last-minute win or a failure?
Public support for any kind of novel legislation is always difficult to predict. In the case of the Online News Act, Bill C-18, the starting point…
Critical mineral mining needs careful assessment
Previously published in the Winnipeg Free Press Feb 3, 2024
Despite the overblown AI hype, we’re not ready for what comes next
When OpenAI’s ChatGPT was released to the public in November 2022 it sparked a frenzy of hype and panic about the capabilities of generative artificial…
The Online News Act could have used a different model for bargaining
When the Canadian federal government introduced Bill C-18, the Online News Act, it was picking up where Australian legislation had left off. But first the governing…
Canada is cutting international student visas—and that’s bad policy
On Monday January 22, 2024 Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Marc Miller announced several major changes to the federal international student program. Amongst these…
Online News Act: Canada’s Big Tech regulation was inspired by other countries
In November 2023, just before Bill C-18—the Online News Act—came into effect, federal Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge announced that she had struck a deal with Google…
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