This long weekend, consider the future of Wasaga Beach: a provincially protected environment, home to the endangered plovers, that the Doug Ford gov't wants to transfer to the town's ownership to boost tourism. It's a complicated and possibly precedent-setting tale.

thenarwhal.ca/wasaga-beach...

This podcast docuseries about the dark side of Canadian hockey is something I learned a lot from when it aired in 2023. It didn’t stop me from enjoying the game, but it helped me to contextualize the game within these awful cultural trappings that aren’t discussed nearly enough.

I do not believe there are any fundraisers to raise funds for the victims and their families, but I understand they will be posted here when they are available:

vanfilemergency.my.canva.site

1. False www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
2. False pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
3. True!
4. False foreignpolicy.com/2021/06/15/l...
5. It has! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

As a part of the Akni’ho:gwa:s Collective artist residency Hart House @jeff.doctor and I are hosting Dwaihwaohe:s Tgaǫ́doʼgeh "We Are All Researching Toronto Together", an event reflecting on Haudenosaunee land tenure in Toronto. March 18 + 19 at Hart House harthouse.ca/events/unmap...

Many recommendation letters written by humans are subtly sexist. Letters written by AIs amplify and expose that sexism. In a new study, male candidates' words include "thinkers" "expert" "integrity" & female candidates' are "emotional" "grace" "delight" 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/chat...