Ottawa needs a Zohran Mamdani moment next year in our mayoral elections! That was a masterclass campaign.

Your postal code shouldn't determine your quality of life. Canada needs a national strategy that centres rural voices in social and economic policy. The NFU has long advocated for strong rural policy as it is essential for food systems and farmer livelihoods.

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Call on federal party leaders to promote and build our domestic food system (including supply management) and to promote good agricultural jobs that protect and support farm workers.

Take 1 minute to write a letter to party leaders today!

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So excited to have one of my PhD papers published by @foodstudies.ca! Read it at the link below :)

This Valentine's day, warm your heart not the planet!
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Excited to announce that the second paper from my dissertation has been published in Canadian Food Studies!!

It’s called 'Optimizing stewardship of the land? Digital agriculture and the ideology of optimization in Canadian policy and media discourse'.

I'm a bit late to the posting party but I'm very very excited to announce that I successfully defended my PhD dissertation earlier this fall, and that I'm officially the first graduate of the PhD in Environmental Sustainability program at the Institute of the Environment at the University of Ottawa.

Prosperity often is reduced to profitability.

It's the two year anniversary of the launch of ChatGPT and still nobody can actually say what it is or why it's the future

HEADS UP, Ottawa municipal peeps.

On Friday 29 Nov, I'm publishing a #OttCity starter pack, of municipal councillors and commentators, building on @cassiesmith.bsky.social's excellent list below.

In meantime, I'll be chasing after Councillors to migrate over.

go.bsky.app/8nHR4SS

another day when I wonder why I didn't become an electrician

Tell your councillors to FREEZE FARES! www.horizonottawa.ca/fare_freeze_...

I wonder what a society that encouraged us to be our best selves would look like, especially if best wasn't defined by productivity or wealth.

I'm proudly the chair of the CCPA's national Board of Directors and I'm thrilled to be part of hiring for the new position of Executive Director.

If you're keen and eager, smart and nice, and you know how to do management, this is the perfect job for you.

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This Big Data and Society blog post sums up the just-published paper by Sarah Hackfort, myself and Kelly Bronson called Harvesting value: Corporate strategies of data assetization in agriculture and their socio-ecological implications.

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Very excited to share a new paper from Sarah Hackfort, myself and Kelly Bronson!

It asks the question: how is agricultural data transformed into value by the most powerful agribusinesses and ag-tech firms?

Read here: doi.org/10.1177/2053...

I don't understand how people write article after article about how cryptocurrency is a terrible scam (true) without even mentioning its massive carbon footprint.

Crypto has a climate problem.
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Tomorrow!