Clare
@clarehitchens.bsky.social
Reader, writer, singer, student of yoga, granny!
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We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
October 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM
We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
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Firearm access is one of the main reasons why rural women represent less than 16% of the Canadian population but make up almost 1/2 of all femicides.
Most of the firearms are owned legally, proving we need true prevention strategies to stop the epidemic of femicides in Canada.
Most of the firearms are owned legally, proving we need true prevention strategies to stop the epidemic of femicides in Canada.
New gun law protections target domestic violence, but real prevention must start earlier
Without comprehensive legislative and societal reforms to address intimate partner violence, the measures in Bill C-21 risk being little more than a bandage on a gaping wound.
theconversation.com
September 3, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Firearm access is one of the main reasons why rural women represent less than 16% of the Canadian population but make up almost 1/2 of all femicides.
Most of the firearms are owned legally, proving we need true prevention strategies to stop the epidemic of femicides in Canada.
Most of the firearms are owned legally, proving we need true prevention strategies to stop the epidemic of femicides in Canada.
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Let’s start with the fact that dude is doing Digital Blackface and calling it his “sidekick”
A ‘world first’: New AI teaching ‘sidekick’ to debut at this Canadian university in the fall
An upcoming course at Simon Fraser University is setting a precedent by helping students learn using a live, 3D artificial intelligence tool named Kia.
www.thestar.com
August 29, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Let’s start with the fact that dude is doing Digital Blackface and calling it his “sidekick”
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Today we launch Community of Praxis, a new podcast with Brenna Clarke Gray. Twice monthly Brenna sits down for critical chats about teaching and learning to invite a more care-centred, student-focused approach into classrooms, while still minding structural limitations like time and precarity.
August 28, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Today we launch Community of Praxis, a new podcast with Brenna Clarke Gray. Twice monthly Brenna sits down for critical chats about teaching and learning to invite a more care-centred, student-focused approach into classrooms, while still minding structural limitations like time and precarity.
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This weekend I wrote about Doug Ford’s plan to sell off a large chunk of Wasaga Beach Provincial Park. Exactly the opposite of what should be happening: parkland expansion.
Shawn Micallef: Doug Ford’s plan to sell off chunks of this popular beach threatens something we should hold dear
If Doug Ford wanted to create a real legacy, he’d start an aggressive expansion of public parkland in Ontario to keep up with its massive population.
www.thestar.com
August 2, 2025 at 8:14 PM
This weekend I wrote about Doug Ford’s plan to sell off a large chunk of Wasaga Beach Provincial Park. Exactly the opposite of what should be happening: parkland expansion.
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I looked into "orange cat core" for Nat Geo. Turns out, it might actually be a thing. 🧪
www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...
www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...
Are orange cats really the goofiest cats? Genetics may have an answer.
The best science on ginger feline behavior hints, yeah, there might be something special about them.
www.nationalgeographic.com
July 28, 2025 at 4:18 PM
I looked into "orange cat core" for Nat Geo. Turns out, it might actually be a thing. 🧪
www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...
www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...
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"Pre-election, the Liberals promised to “never” compromise women’s rights in Canada. Now the government is talking about cuts so deep that they will exceed those that laid waste to the women’s sector during the Harper years."
Cuts to Women and Gender Equality Canada will take us back to the Harper days - CCPA
On April 28, women voters delivered a major victory for the Liberal party, turning around the electoral fortunes of a party that had been trailing its major opponent by 25 points in the year leading u...
www.policyalternatives.ca
July 29, 2025 at 2:03 PM
"Pre-election, the Liberals promised to “never” compromise women’s rights in Canada. Now the government is talking about cuts so deep that they will exceed those that laid waste to the women’s sector during the Harper years."
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Congress eliminated public media funding, and the president signed it into law. At a time of deep division, public media brings us together.
Help keep it strong. Join our monthly donors today: n.pr/458sOhq
Help keep it strong. Join our monthly donors today: n.pr/458sOhq
July 28, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Congress eliminated public media funding, and the president signed it into law. At a time of deep division, public media brings us together.
Help keep it strong. Join our monthly donors today: n.pr/458sOhq
Help keep it strong. Join our monthly donors today: n.pr/458sOhq
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Caleb Zakarin interviewed Amie Souza Reilly on New Books Network about her book Human/Animal. Listen here: newbooksnetwork.com/human-animal
June 10, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Caleb Zakarin interviewed Amie Souza Reilly on New Books Network about her book Human/Animal. Listen here: newbooksnetwork.com/human-animal
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New Release! Graphic Refuge: Visuality and Mobility in Refugee Comics, by Dominic Davies and Candida Rifkind is available now at your favourite bookseller.
UK readers can purchase Graphic Refuge at
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UK readers can purchase Graphic Refuge at
uk.bookshop.org/p/bo...
June 11, 2025 at 9:20 AM
New Release! Graphic Refuge: Visuality and Mobility in Refugee Comics, by Dominic Davies and Candida Rifkind is available now at your favourite bookseller.
UK readers can purchase Graphic Refuge at
uk.bookshop.org/p/bo...
UK readers can purchase Graphic Refuge at
uk.bookshop.org/p/bo...
If you're at Congress at George Brown, please come say hi! Happy to also sepp you a book!
June 2, 2025 at 2:27 PM
If you're at Congress at George Brown, please come say hi! Happy to also sepp you a book!
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They routinely pretend they have no actual influence but are somehow standing behind a glass partition just quietly observing what happened, so they takes no responsibility for outcome, even as they exhibit huge biases and overt agendas, up to and including major impact on American elections....
"I'm the Problem; It's Me": On the Confession the Mainstream Media Won't Make
An unnamed source says that at an earlier point in time it was thought that a octogenarian might come to need to use a wheelchair at a future date, but the person in question has as of press time not ...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
May 17, 2025 at 9:31 PM
They routinely pretend they have no actual influence but are somehow standing behind a glass partition just quietly observing what happened, so they takes no responsibility for outcome, even as they exhibit huge biases and overt agendas, up to and including major impact on American elections....
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Featured this week in The New Quarterly is Ronna Bloom's "The Needs of Strangers", from our latest Issue 174! Click here to read the full story: tnq.ca/story/the-needs-of-strangers/
May 9, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Featured this week in The New Quarterly is Ronna Bloom's "The Needs of Strangers", from our latest Issue 174! Click here to read the full story: tnq.ca/story/the-needs-of-strangers/
I was enjoying learning Spanish but the app is now deleted.
Duolingo will replace contract workers with AI
Duolingo will replace contract workers with AI
Duolingo is making some AI-focused changes.
buff.ly
April 30, 2025 at 4:00 PM
I was enjoying learning Spanish but the app is now deleted.
The news I needed
Slow news: Cumbria tortoise found a mile from home nine months after going missing
Slow news: Cumbria tortoise found a mile from home nine months after going missing
Leonardo, who went on the run from his home in Ulverston, covered distance at pace of about 6 metres a day
When Leonardo the tortoise went missing from his home in Cumbria nine months ago, his owners feared the worst.
But the intrepid testudine has been found about a mile from his home in Ulverston – covering the distance at an average pace of 6 metres a day. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
April 29, 2025 at 12:29 PM
The news I needed
Loved the book!
Is this river alive? Robert Macfarlane on the lives, deaths and rights of our rivers
Is this river alive? Robert Macfarlane on the lives, deaths and rights of our rivers
As pollution levels hit record highs and fresh water becomes ‘the new oil’, is it time to radically reimagine our relationship to the natural world?
www.theguardian.com
April 26, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Loved the book!
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April 24, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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If you saw someone being sexually harassed on the train, would you know how to help? If you saw transphobia at your local coffee shop, would you know how to intervene without making things worse?
Let me teach you effective bystander intervention - for free!
Register : zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Let me teach you effective bystander intervention - for free!
Register : zoom.us/webinar/regi...
April 18, 2025 at 4:45 PM
If you saw someone being sexually harassed on the train, would you know how to help? If you saw transphobia at your local coffee shop, would you know how to intervene without making things worse?
Let me teach you effective bystander intervention - for free!
Register : zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Let me teach you effective bystander intervention - for free!
Register : zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Guys, I love all of you, but the answer to RFK, Jr. is not that autistic adults hold jobs, pay taxes, and get laid, it's that everyone deserves to live even if they can't work, pay taxes, or get laid.
April 17, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Guys, I love all of you, but the answer to RFK, Jr. is not that autistic adults hold jobs, pay taxes, and get laid, it's that everyone deserves to live even if they can't work, pay taxes, or get laid.
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A 450-yo oak is felled without permission by a Toby Carvery (don’t eat there), who falsely claimed it was "dead".
A tree alive when The Gunpowder Plot was hatched, which supports a web of 2000+ species, is in pieces.
Legal protection for heritage trees needed.
enfielddispatch.co.uk/toby-carvery...
A tree alive when The Gunpowder Plot was hatched, which supports a web of 2000+ species, is in pieces.
Legal protection for heritage trees needed.
enfielddispatch.co.uk/toby-carvery...
Toby Carvery admits felling ancient Whitewebbs oak tree
The owner of the pub chain falsely claimed the tree was dead as justification for the felling which has shocked local people and prompted outrage from conservationists across the country
enfielddispatch.co.uk
April 15, 2025 at 6:01 PM
A 450-yo oak is felled without permission by a Toby Carvery (don’t eat there), who falsely claimed it was "dead".
A tree alive when The Gunpowder Plot was hatched, which supports a web of 2000+ species, is in pieces.
Legal protection for heritage trees needed.
enfielddispatch.co.uk/toby-carvery...
A tree alive when The Gunpowder Plot was hatched, which supports a web of 2000+ species, is in pieces.
Legal protection for heritage trees needed.
enfielddispatch.co.uk/toby-carvery...
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Dr. Hedy Fry 🇨🇦 -
Strange to see Pierre Poilievre suddenly talking about enticing municipalities to get housing built. He voted against Liberal housing, partnering with municipalities, and forbade his MPs to help their mun get LIb gvt housing grants. Funny what u do when u are desperate. #cdnpoli
Strange to see Pierre Poilievre suddenly talking about enticing municipalities to get housing built. He voted against Liberal housing, partnering with municipalities, and forbade his MPs to help their mun get LIb gvt housing grants. Funny what u do when u are desperate. #cdnpoli
April 12, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Dr. Hedy Fry 🇨🇦 -
Strange to see Pierre Poilievre suddenly talking about enticing municipalities to get housing built. He voted against Liberal housing, partnering with municipalities, and forbade his MPs to help their mun get LIb gvt housing grants. Funny what u do when u are desperate. #cdnpoli
Strange to see Pierre Poilievre suddenly talking about enticing municipalities to get housing built. He voted against Liberal housing, partnering with municipalities, and forbade his MPs to help their mun get LIb gvt housing grants. Funny what u do when u are desperate. #cdnpoli
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RFK Jr: "By September we will know what has caused the autism epidemic and we will be able to eliminate those exposures."
April 11, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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This is literally how the Holocaust started, and honestly I'm tired of saying so
This is the literal destruction of knowledge.
Mississippi libraries are being ordered to remove academic research on race and gender from library databases.
mississippitoday.org/2025/04/08/m...
Mississippi libraries are being ordered to remove academic research on race and gender from library databases.
mississippitoday.org/2025/04/08/m...
Mississippi libraries ordered to delete academic research in response to state laws - Mississippi Today
The two research collections state officials ordered for deletion included material from professional journals, conference papers, books, student dissertations, periodicals and newspaper articles.
mississippitoday.org
April 9, 2025 at 1:45 AM
This is literally how the Holocaust started, and honestly I'm tired of saying so
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FACT CHECK: Canada Proud is run by Jeff Ballingall.
These aren’t grassroots movements — they’re well-funded propaganda pipelines built to smear opponents and flood your feed with rage bait and falsehoods.
They’re part of the same operation Poilievre’s team has brought on to run digital comms.
These aren’t grassroots movements — they’re well-funded propaganda pipelines built to smear opponents and flood your feed with rage bait and falsehoods.
They’re part of the same operation Poilievre’s team has brought on to run digital comms.
April 8, 2025 at 4:00 PM
FACT CHECK: Canada Proud is run by Jeff Ballingall.
These aren’t grassroots movements — they’re well-funded propaganda pipelines built to smear opponents and flood your feed with rage bait and falsehoods.
They’re part of the same operation Poilievre’s team has brought on to run digital comms.
These aren’t grassroots movements — they’re well-funded propaganda pipelines built to smear opponents and flood your feed with rage bait and falsehoods.
They’re part of the same operation Poilievre’s team has brought on to run digital comms.
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I cannot overstate the crisis in basic access and inclusion rights the disability community is facing right now as Trump shreds all the agencies and entities responsible for upholding the laws tha protect us.
Trump’s DEI Undoing Undermines Hard-Won Accommodations for Disabled People - KFF Health News
From halting diversity programs that benefit disabled workers to making federal staffing cuts, the Trump administration has taken a slew of actions that harm people with disabilities.
kffhealthnews.org
April 3, 2025 at 7:25 PM
I cannot overstate the crisis in basic access and inclusion rights the disability community is facing right now as Trump shreds all the agencies and entities responsible for upholding the laws tha protect us.