It is so demoralizing. Not feasible for most outlets (requires staff and $) but in theory I think one answer is doing full fact checks — and emphasizing that up front. Make it clear work will be subject to sufficient scrutiny that faking becomes more risky and hopefully the fakers will move along.

Fuck. I am so sorry. If there are things friends can do…

My people invented a whole ritual for this (i.e. shabbat) and while I am agnostic, as a practice I will absolutely say it has a lot going for it.

It's true as far as it goes, but the piece glosses over another IMO near-fatal drawback: the in-class options just do not cultivate the same depth of thought, skills at reflection and revision, etc., that take-home assignments done over a period of days or weeks do.

I regret to say that there are also still many orange sticks. They are so bad.

Interested if there will be a recording?

It was a wild time all around.

I did not know this story! ❤️

In an interview with the CBC, Fanjoy said it came up sometimes at the doors but wasn't a key issue.

The labour piece of this also tends to get forgotten, I think. I work at a desk and walk as my primary form of transportation — and I experience it as physically restorative because otherwise I’m sedentary. If I worked retail or as a nurse? Zero spoons for active transportation.

You can get your titers checked via a blood test (GP can order) — there’s occasionally waning with the measles vaccine so surest way to know.

First storm was two weeks ago; second 10 days. For a week after the latter I could not board streetcars without walking along traffic lanes because nobody had dug out the stops, and multiple streetcars each day were stuck behind cars parked illegally in snow lanes. Not just an equipment issue.