Alison Kemper
@profalisonk.bsky.social
Org theory, bus & soc, indigenous rights, CO2, She/her. Asso. Prof at Toronto (Tkaronto) Metropolitan U.🏳️🌈 🇨🇦 Not into hate. I don’t follow back until you have posts. No DMs unless I follow you.
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'Extremely rare' First Nation-owned mine in #Manitoba may be more viable than Ontario's Ring of Fire: expert
100% First Nations ownership would be 'unicorn event' in mining sector, business association president says
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
100% First Nations ownership would be 'unicorn event' in mining sector, business association president says
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
'Extremely rare' First Nation-owned mine in Manitoba may be more viable than Ontario's Ring of Fire: expert | CBC News
A northern Manitoba mining project fully owned by a local First Nation could turn Manitoba into the "centre for clean magnesium in North America," but proponents say it needs help to reach production.
www.cbc.ca
November 20, 2025 at 2:48 PM
'Extremely rare' First Nation-owned mine in #Manitoba may be more viable than Ontario's Ring of Fire: expert
100% First Nations ownership would be 'unicorn event' in mining sector, business association president says
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
100% First Nations ownership would be 'unicorn event' in mining sector, business association president says
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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I'd like to see @warren.senate.gov challenge Schumer for leadership. She'd be an excellent Majority Leader once we take back Congress.
a woman in a red jacket is saying " i am ready to get back in the fight "
ALT: a woman in a red jacket is saying " i am ready to get back in the fight "
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November 17, 2025 at 8:05 PM
I'd like to see @warren.senate.gov challenge Schumer for leadership. She'd be an excellent Majority Leader once we take back Congress.
If you’re a professor away from academia, in a social setting in which you have no status, you can act like a person with a completely different job. But in an academic setting, you need to be considerably more responsible, respectful and circumspect. Academia is full of creepy behaviour.
Counterpoint: You can bring up pregnancies, engagement rings, and even new haircuts—like a normal human being. You also don't have to leave the elevator if a woman is entering. It just takes a minimum level of human decency to handle these situations.
Tip on being human for faculty men:
Things never to mention to any student, unless directly asked: their clothing, their bodies, their romantic lives. Ever. (Even new hair and outfits, obvious pregnancies, engagement rings, etc.) They will bring it up if they want your opinion. It's not that hard.
Things never to mention to any student, unless directly asked: their clothing, their bodies, their romantic lives. Ever. (Even new hair and outfits, obvious pregnancies, engagement rings, etc.) They will bring it up if they want your opinion. It's not that hard.
November 17, 2025 at 4:52 PM
If you’re a professor away from academia, in a social setting in which you have no status, you can act like a person with a completely different job. But in an academic setting, you need to be considerably more responsible, respectful and circumspect. Academia is full of creepy behaviour.
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Luckily Carney is absolutely aware of this and thus will not make any dumbass decisions with our tax dollars... Right? Viva!
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Oversupply of oil could create glut of 4m barrels a day, says energy watchdog
Warning comes as scenario in which global demand continues to grow until 2050 is included in IEA outlook report
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Luckily Carney is absolutely aware of this and thus will not make any dumbass decisions with our tax dollars... Right? Viva!
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en... Go sign this petition if you care about Indigenous history, residential schools, or the importance of data.
Petition e-6909 - Petitions
www.ourcommons.ca
November 12, 2025 at 11:25 PM
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en... Go sign this petition if you care about Indigenous history, residential schools, or the importance of data.
Perhaps somebody forgot to tell the PM that China doesn’t look like an expanding market for LNG if they’re burning less carbon year over year.
so cool that mark carney is gutting climate policy to make a very expensive bet that asia will buy a ton of additional oil and gas from canada over the next few decades
"Far from a peak, China's gasoline demand is estimated to have fallen 9% in October on the year to 12.5 million tons, with average daily use roughly flat with September..."
China's oil demand is entering structural decline.
China's oil demand is entering structural decline.
November 12, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Perhaps somebody forgot to tell the PM that China doesn’t look like an expanding market for LNG if they’re burning less carbon year over year.
But wait! Alberta wants to sell you bitumen! Canada needs you to make us an energy superpower! Don’t stop using carbon!
China’s CO2 emissions have now been flat or falling for 18 months, starting in March 2024.
This trend continued in the third quarter of 2025, when emissions were unchanged year-on-year.
If this trend starts to move into sustained carbon emissions reduction it would be hugely significant.
This trend continued in the third quarter of 2025, when emissions were unchanged year-on-year.
If this trend starts to move into sustained carbon emissions reduction it would be hugely significant.
November 11, 2025 at 9:19 PM
But wait! Alberta wants to sell you bitumen! Canada needs you to make us an energy superpower! Don’t stop using carbon!
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It’s #WorldVentil8Day! 🌬️
Clean indoor air is a fundamental pillar of school safety.
Effective ventilation drastically reduces the spread of airborne illnesses (flu, RSV, COVID) and is crucial for maintaining healthy Ontario classrooms.
#OntEd #SchoolSafety #CollaborateToVentilate
Clean indoor air is a fundamental pillar of school safety.
Effective ventilation drastically reduces the spread of airborne illnesses (flu, RSV, COVID) and is crucial for maintaining healthy Ontario classrooms.
#OntEd #SchoolSafety #CollaborateToVentilate
November 8, 2025 at 12:24 PM
It’s #WorldVentil8Day! 🌬️
Clean indoor air is a fundamental pillar of school safety.
Effective ventilation drastically reduces the spread of airborne illnesses (flu, RSV, COVID) and is crucial for maintaining healthy Ontario classrooms.
#OntEd #SchoolSafety #CollaborateToVentilate
Clean indoor air is a fundamental pillar of school safety.
Effective ventilation drastically reduces the spread of airborne illnesses (flu, RSV, COVID) and is crucial for maintaining healthy Ontario classrooms.
#OntEd #SchoolSafety #CollaborateToVentilate
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BREAKING: Colorado voters approved a ballot measure that would raise state income taxes on higher-earning households to fund free meals for all public school students.
Follow AP for live updates.
Follow AP for live updates.
Live updates: US voters head to the polls in first general election since Trump's return to power
One year after Donald Trump retook the presidency, 2025 Election Day includes closely watched races for New York City mayor, New Jersey governor and California's Proposition 50.
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November 5, 2025 at 3:33 AM
BREAKING: Colorado voters approved a ballot measure that would raise state income taxes on higher-earning households to fund free meals for all public school students.
Follow AP for live updates.
Follow AP for live updates.
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Tuesday's federal budget proposes to weaken the truthfulness standard companies must meet to back environmental claims and prevent third-parties greenwashing complaints to the Competition Bureau.
Carney scraps anti-greenwashing law, even as research shows Canadians want fewer climate lies online
Most Canadians want the federal government to do more about climate disinformation, especially during extreme weather, new research shows, even as the Carney government scraps Canada's laws against gr...
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November 4, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Tuesday's federal budget proposes to weaken the truthfulness standard companies must meet to back environmental claims and prevent third-parties greenwashing complaints to the Competition Bureau.
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Tomorrow marks the beginning of Treaties Recognition Week.
To celebrate, Doug Ford is trying to bully Indigenous communities into letting him build roads and mines to dig up crucial minerals in their communities.
And lying about it in expensive ads. Obvi.
thenarwhal.ca/opinion-blue...
To celebrate, Doug Ford is trying to bully Indigenous communities into letting him build roads and mines to dig up crucial minerals in their communities.
And lying about it in expensive ads. Obvi.
thenarwhal.ca/opinion-blue...
Don’t be fooled by the Ontario Ring of Fire ads aired during Blue Jays games | The Narwhal
Doug Ford’s ads during Blue Jays World Series games suggest mines are up and running in the Ring of Fire in northern Ontario, but that’s not true
thenarwhal.ca
November 2, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Tomorrow marks the beginning of Treaties Recognition Week.
To celebrate, Doug Ford is trying to bully Indigenous communities into letting him build roads and mines to dig up crucial minerals in their communities.
And lying about it in expensive ads. Obvi.
thenarwhal.ca/opinion-blue...
To celebrate, Doug Ford is trying to bully Indigenous communities into letting him build roads and mines to dig up crucial minerals in their communities.
And lying about it in expensive ads. Obvi.
thenarwhal.ca/opinion-blue...
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This Physicist Says We Don’t Take COVID Seriously Enough stillcoviding.ca/en/news/this...
This Physicist Says We Don’t Take COVID Seriously Enough
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November 1, 2025 at 1:21 AM
This Physicist Says We Don’t Take COVID Seriously Enough stillcoviding.ca/en/news/this...
This movie was scary when it came out. Why did we make it prescient?
AI models may be developing their own ‘survival drive’, researchers say
AI models may be developing their own ‘survival drive’, researchers say
Like 2001: A Space Odyssey’s HAL 9000, some AIs seem to resist being turned off and will even sabotage shutdown
When HAL 9000, the artificial intelligence supercomputer in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, works out that the astronauts onboard a mission to Jupiter are planning to shut it down, it plots to kill them in an attempt to survive.
Now, in a somewhat less deadly case (so far) of life imitating art, an AI safety research company has said that AI models may be developing their own “survival drive”. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 25, 2025 at 4:39 PM
This movie was scary when it came out. Why did we make it prescient?
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GoFundMe CEO Tim Cadogan said users are coming to the platform to fundraise for groceries.
October 14, 2025 at 4:43 PM
GoFundMe CEO Tim Cadogan said users are coming to the platform to fundraise for groceries.
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Went on WNYC’s On the Media to talk about Apple and Google’s crackdown on ICE spotting apps, including one that just archived videos of ICE abuses to use as evidence later.
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Big Tech is Silencing the ICE Watchers. Plus, Why a Scholar of Antifa Fled the Country.
Podcast Episode · On the Media · 10/17/2025 · 51m
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October 18, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Went on WNYC’s On the Media to talk about Apple and Google’s crackdown on ICE spotting apps, including one that just archived videos of ICE abuses to use as evidence later.
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I think that we may come to see Chinese EVs as the norm, with German and other EU cars in niche markets. (Assuming there’s some movement on charging infrastructure.) But outside the USA, will the Big 3 be able to maintain market share without NAFTA?
A weekend column from me, related to the Stellantis news, but also a lot of other stuff that’s happened over the past couple of decades. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
Canada needs to start thinking about an auto sector without U.S. automakers
Stellantis’s decision to shift Jeep production south of the border highlights the challenge of keeping a thriving domestic industry
www.theglobeandmail.com
October 18, 2025 at 5:20 PM
I think that we may come to see Chinese EVs as the norm, with German and other EU cars in niche markets. (Assuming there’s some movement on charging infrastructure.) But outside the USA, will the Big 3 be able to maintain market share without NAFTA?
Researchers all too often create fictional results. This one sold his as snake oil.
But here’s the kicker: UBC lied for him!!
How are giant, powerful, respected universities called to account?
But here’s the kicker: UBC lied for him!!
How are giant, powerful, respected universities called to account?
I've tried for years to access an investigation report about misconduct during a clinical trial for spinal cord patients.
Michelle Ghoussoub and I can now tell the full story about how data was fabricated to make near-miraculous claims about a treatment for bed sores.
theijf.org/ubc-misconduct
Michelle Ghoussoub and I can now tell the full story about how data was fabricated to make near-miraculous claims about a treatment for bed sores.
theijf.org/ubc-misconduct
Report says UBC researcher fabricated data, gave patients ‘false hope.' The public was not alerted
Aziz Ghahary ‘abandoned his scholarly integrity’ in clinical trial for patented treatment, investigation found
theijf.org
October 16, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Researchers all too often create fictional results. This one sold his as snake oil.
But here’s the kicker: UBC lied for him!!
How are giant, powerful, respected universities called to account?
But here’s the kicker: UBC lied for him!!
How are giant, powerful, respected universities called to account?
Think about the amount of carbon being burned to generate the electricity to make this happen. We’re hastening the destruction of the planet to have unlimited quantity and scope of sexts. We shoulda known.
Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults
Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults
ChatGPT is about to get flirty.
buff.ly
October 16, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Think about the amount of carbon being burned to generate the electricity to make this happen. We’re hastening the destruction of the planet to have unlimited quantity and scope of sexts. We shoulda known.
The commodification of everything applies to AI, too. In the long run, everything is porn.
I see that OpenAI has pivoted from ‘Our mission is to supersede human intelligence for the greater good. We‘re going to cure cancer lads!‘ to ‘The Internet is for porn, give us a trillion dollars!‘. To be fair to them, the first claim was always a lie so at least they‘re being honest now.
October 16, 2025 at 1:05 AM
The commodification of everything applies to AI, too. In the long run, everything is porn.
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A Statement from NPR’s Editor in Chief on the Pentagon’s Press Policy.
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October 13, 2025 at 9:32 PM
A Statement from NPR’s Editor in Chief on the Pentagon’s Press Policy.
Read More: www.npr.org/2025/10/13/g...
Read More: www.npr.org/2025/10/13/g...
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Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/
October 13, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/
Canadian provinces are defunding universities here. So short sighted.
Nobel Prize given for showing the importance of investing in science for innovation and long-term economic growth. Basically the opposite of what the US is doing. 😭
Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Pewter Howitt share economics prize for work that underlines the importance of investing in research and development.
go.nature.com/4hj9NNV
go.nature.com/4hj9NNV
October 14, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Canadian provinces are defunding universities here. So short sighted.
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“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.
We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’
We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’
October 8, 2025 at 11:57 PM
“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.
We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’
We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’
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Indigenous Nations Plan Tariff-Free Trade Corridor Across US-Canada border ino.to/agDxSX2
Indigenous Nations Plan Tariff-Free Trade Corridor Across US-Canada border
“We’re not begging for crumbs anymore. We’re demanding what’s rightly ours."
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October 5, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Indigenous Nations Plan Tariff-Free Trade Corridor Across US-Canada border ino.to/agDxSX2