Jovana Jankovic
@jovana.bsky.social
Professional word person. Skeptical tech enthusiast. Hilarious tennis fan. Angry socialist mom. East Yorker (Toronto). She/Her.
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November 20, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Since Christmas is around the corner, a reminder that Wikipedia has a store. And the profits go to a project billionaires hate, so you're buying an object and getting free spite.
Classic Collection
Inspired by infoboxes, blue hyperlinks, talkpages, and everything that makes Wikipedia unique, this collection features new and well-loved designs, reimagined.
store.wikimedia.org
November 17, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Since Christmas is around the corner, a reminder that Wikipedia has a store. And the profits go to a project billionaires hate, so you're buying an object and getting free spite.
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So, you want to breach some Charter rights? Apparently quite a few Canadian politicians do. Post from @jaredwesley.ca comes with this handy-dandy flowchart. drjaredwesley.substack.com/p/why-use-th...
November 16, 2025 at 10:38 PM
So, you want to breach some Charter rights? Apparently quite a few Canadian politicians do. Post from @jaredwesley.ca comes with this handy-dandy flowchart. drjaredwesley.substack.com/p/why-use-th...
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Populations on whom Canadian governments have used or threatened to use the notwithstanding clause, allowing them to override Charter rights:
- trans and nonbinary kids
- religious minorities
- homeless people
- teachers
edmontonjournal.com/news/politic...
- trans and nonbinary kids
- religious minorities
- homeless people
- teachers
edmontonjournal.com/news/politic...
Alberta introduces back-to-work legislation, imposes new contract to end teachers strike
The Alberta government is ordering thousands of striking teachers back to work and imposing a four-year collective contract.
edmontonjournal.com
October 28, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Populations on whom Canadian governments have used or threatened to use the notwithstanding clause, allowing them to override Charter rights:
- trans and nonbinary kids
- religious minorities
- homeless people
- teachers
edmontonjournal.com/news/politic...
- trans and nonbinary kids
- religious minorities
- homeless people
- teachers
edmontonjournal.com/news/politic...
What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?
November 17, 2025 at 1:46 AM
What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?
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"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 7, 2025 at 1:33 AM
"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk
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Here's the biggest PSE story you haven't heard yet: the Canada Student Grant for low-income students is being cut from $4200/year to $3000/year as of next August. It's implicit in the budget tables but the government is too chickenshit to actually say so directly.
November 4, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Here's the biggest PSE story you haven't heard yet: the Canada Student Grant for low-income students is being cut from $4200/year to $3000/year as of next August. It's implicit in the budget tables but the government is too chickenshit to actually say so directly.
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I’m so tired of Doug Ford being the Mayor of Toronto. 🤦🏽♂️
Apparently he forgets that he’s supposed to run the Province of Ontario.
Can’t even elect him out, because the other parties, voters can’t get their shit together. 😔
#ONpoli #TOpoli
Apparently he forgets that he’s supposed to run the Province of Ontario.
Can’t even elect him out, because the other parties, voters can’t get their shit together. 😔
#ONpoli #TOpoli
“The province has quietly killed Toronto’s green roof bylaw, a policy that propelled the city to become a world leader in environmental construction...” Ford’s invested in the Old Ways, the most destructive & easily-profitable ways. Of everything. www.thestar.com/news/gta/dou...
Doug Ford quietly kills Toronto’s green roof bylaw
Since the bylaw came into force in 2009, more than 1,200 green roofs have been installed across the city.
www.thestar.com
November 4, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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Almost twice as many Canadians see immigrants as being unfairly scapegoated and most believe that we should continue to welcome newcomers while fixing housing and healthcare shortfalls.
Source: broadbentinstitute.ca/research/shifting-borders/
Source: broadbentinstitute.ca/research/shifting-borders/
November 4, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Almost twice as many Canadians see immigrants as being unfairly scapegoated and most believe that we should continue to welcome newcomers while fixing housing and healthcare shortfalls.
Source: broadbentinstitute.ca/research/shifting-borders/
Source: broadbentinstitute.ca/research/shifting-borders/
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give it up one time to our patron saint before game 5 begins
October 29, 2025 at 11:49 PM
give it up one time to our patron saint before game 5 begins
I guess a bunch of extremely talented and respected actors saw the cinematic masterpiece THE PROPOSITION (2005) and said, "Sure, John Hillcoat! I'd love to be in TRIPLE 9" (2016). Lol!!!! I've never seen such a disjointed, nonsensical hot mess in my LIFE. This has been movie reviews with Jovana.
October 27, 2025 at 4:10 AM
I guess a bunch of extremely talented and respected actors saw the cinematic masterpiece THE PROPOSITION (2005) and said, "Sure, John Hillcoat! I'd love to be in TRIPLE 9" (2016). Lol!!!! I've never seen such a disjointed, nonsensical hot mess in my LIFE. This has been movie reviews with Jovana.
I can't believe they want BOTH parents to have full-time jobs, be serious.
October 27, 2025 at 1:47 AM
I can't believe they want BOTH parents to have full-time jobs, be serious.
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"And I feel strongly that we have a social contract by living together, that we do need to look out for each other. And fortunately, looking out for yourself equally looks out for others."
I agree with Halperin.
Vaccines are part of our social contract.
I had to top up my measles one too.
I agree with Halperin.
Vaccines are part of our social contract.
I had to top up my measles one too.
October 25, 2025 at 12:50 PM
"And I feel strongly that we have a social contract by living together, that we do need to look out for each other. And fortunately, looking out for yourself equally looks out for others."
I agree with Halperin.
Vaccines are part of our social contract.
I had to top up my measles one too.
I agree with Halperin.
Vaccines are part of our social contract.
I had to top up my measles one too.
Whenever I hear "New South Wales" I think, like... you can't have both, you know? Are you new or are you south?
October 19, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Whenever I hear "New South Wales" I think, like... you can't have both, you know? Are you new or are you south?
There are basically only two positions in the debate about AI:
1. A little guy in a red suit with horns on one shoulder, and
2. A little guy in a white suit and wings on the other shoulder.
1. A little guy in a red suit with horns on one shoulder, and
2. A little guy in a white suit and wings on the other shoulder.
October 18, 2025 at 1:05 PM
There are basically only two positions in the debate about AI:
1. A little guy in a red suit with horns on one shoulder, and
2. A little guy in a white suit and wings on the other shoulder.
1. A little guy in a red suit with horns on one shoulder, and
2. A little guy in a white suit and wings on the other shoulder.
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Here’s the most important measure of Ontario’s self proclaimed « working for workers » Conservative government.
They pretend that laws requiring employers to draft policies about this or that is progress.
But real measure is enforcement of labour standards.
www.thestar.com/news/gta/wor...
They pretend that laws requiring employers to draft policies about this or that is progress.
But real measure is enforcement of labour standards.
www.thestar.com/news/gta/wor...
October 18, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Here’s the most important measure of Ontario’s self proclaimed « working for workers » Conservative government.
They pretend that laws requiring employers to draft policies about this or that is progress.
But real measure is enforcement of labour standards.
www.thestar.com/news/gta/wor...
They pretend that laws requiring employers to draft policies about this or that is progress.
But real measure is enforcement of labour standards.
www.thestar.com/news/gta/wor...
"The possibility of overreach is a price worth paying exactly because shame serves as a robustly liberal alternative to political violence. It is, quite literally, the least one can do to ensure rules of social conduct that upheld minimal levels of dignity for all involved."
"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review
Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.
www.bostonreview.net
September 23, 2025 at 10:41 PM
"The possibility of overreach is a price worth paying exactly because shame serves as a robustly liberal alternative to political violence. It is, quite literally, the least one can do to ensure rules of social conduct that upheld minimal levels of dignity for all involved."
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When y’all cancel your Disney+ subs, please consider giving some of that money to your local NPR or PBS station, or other independent media like @boltsmag.org or @propublica.org
September 18, 2025 at 6:19 PM
When y’all cancel your Disney+ subs, please consider giving some of that money to your local NPR or PBS station, or other independent media like @boltsmag.org or @propublica.org
"your phone will shut down" don't threaten me with a good time!!
September 18, 2025 at 9:25 PM
"your phone will shut down" don't threaten me with a good time!!
Recommend following and supporting @pressprogress.ca, @rachelgilmore.bsky.social, and @scpartners.bsky.social. Send me suggestions!
One takeaway for Canadians watching what’s happening in the United States right now is that we need to put more pressure on governments / parties to strengthen democratic institutions and the fourth estate
You can also defend democracy by supporting the work of journalists and civil society groups
You can also defend democracy by supporting the work of journalists and civil society groups
September 18, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Recommend following and supporting @pressprogress.ca, @rachelgilmore.bsky.social, and @scpartners.bsky.social. Send me suggestions!
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This is classic CDN media misrepresentation.
What went down at Christie Pits wasn't two sides of the same issue.
This was a hate rally demanding mass deportations against people who live in Toronto. It was a fascist hate gathering.
They were countered by people standing up for their neighbours.
What went down at Christie Pits wasn't two sides of the same issue.
This was a hate rally demanding mass deportations against people who live in Toronto. It was a fascist hate gathering.
They were countered by people standing up for their neighbours.
September 14, 2025 at 2:50 AM
This is classic CDN media misrepresentation.
What went down at Christie Pits wasn't two sides of the same issue.
This was a hate rally demanding mass deportations against people who live in Toronto. It was a fascist hate gathering.
They were countered by people standing up for their neighbours.
What went down at Christie Pits wasn't two sides of the same issue.
This was a hate rally demanding mass deportations against people who live in Toronto. It was a fascist hate gathering.
They were countered by people standing up for their neighbours.
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We are hosting our second and final information session for the 2026 Fellowship on Tuesday, September 16, at 7 pm EDT. Apply to be part of next year's cohort now!
Information session registration link: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Announcement: www.techpolicy.press/call-for-app...
Information session registration link: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Announcement: www.techpolicy.press/call-for-app...
September 12, 2025 at 1:01 PM
We are hosting our second and final information session for the 2026 Fellowship on Tuesday, September 16, at 7 pm EDT. Apply to be part of next year's cohort now!
Information session registration link: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Announcement: www.techpolicy.press/call-for-app...
Information session registration link: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Announcement: www.techpolicy.press/call-for-app...
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JOB ALERT: We are recruiting for the newly created role of Information Security Program Manager.
Apply by Sept 30.
citizenlab.ca/2025/09/job-...
Apply by Sept 30.
citizenlab.ca/2025/09/job-...
Job Opportunity: Information Security Program Manager - The Citizen Lab
The Information Security Program Manager will be responsible for providing strategic leadership to develop and implement Information Security Programs for the Citizen Lab as well as other units at the...
citizenlab.ca
September 10, 2025 at 9:07 PM
JOB ALERT: We are recruiting for the newly created role of Information Security Program Manager.
Apply by Sept 30.
citizenlab.ca/2025/09/job-...
Apply by Sept 30.
citizenlab.ca/2025/09/job-...
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Today, the board of directors of The Canadian Tax Observatory welcomed @hscoffield.bsky.social as the organization's founding CEO.
Learn more about her ambitions for the new research and policy centre at: www.canadiantaxobservatory.ca
#TaxPolicy #CdnPoli #CanadaSky #EconSky #TaxFairness
Learn more about her ambitions for the new research and policy centre at: www.canadiantaxobservatory.ca
#TaxPolicy #CdnPoli #CanadaSky #EconSky #TaxFairness
September 11, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Today, the board of directors of The Canadian Tax Observatory welcomed @hscoffield.bsky.social as the organization's founding CEO.
Learn more about her ambitions for the new research and policy centre at: www.canadiantaxobservatory.ca
#TaxPolicy #CdnPoli #CanadaSky #EconSky #TaxFairness
Learn more about her ambitions for the new research and policy centre at: www.canadiantaxobservatory.ca
#TaxPolicy #CdnPoli #CanadaSky #EconSky #TaxFairness
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SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional
ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool
ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool
September 8, 2025 at 4:43 PM
SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional
ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool
ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool