Terri Evans
@urbanterri.bsky.social
PhD candidate, post-secondary instructor, passion for cities and urban affairs interwoven in teaching, research, and community engagement activities.
In Winnipeg and online, learn how one of Canada's most famous intersections shapes the politics of place. #Winnipeg
On Friday November 28 at 7pm, join Sabrina Janke and Alex Judge for the launch of Portage and Main: How an iconic intersection shaped Winnipeg's history, politics, and urban life (@greatplainspress.bsky.social). Hosted by @jenzoratti.bsky.social. - mailchi.mp/grant/janke-...
Sabrina Janke & Alex Judge to launch Portage & Main
Join co-authors Sabrina Janke and Alex Judge for the launch of Portage and Main: How an iconic intersection shaped Winnipeg's history, politics, and urban life. Hosted by Jen Zoratti, the event will f...
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November 23, 2025 at 7:27 PM
In Winnipeg and online, learn how one of Canada's most famous intersections shapes the politics of place. #Winnipeg
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Professor @ayan604.bsky.social and Adjunct Professor & #sfuurb alumnus Jonathan X. Coté weigh in on the recent report which predicts that the majority of Metro Vancouver residents will live in condos or apartments by 2051.
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Majority of Metro Vancouver residents expected to live in condos or apartments by 2051, report predicts
Experts say the shift is not surprising as local governments and B.C. seek housing solutions for the region's growing population
vancouversun.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Professor @ayan604.bsky.social and Adjunct Professor & #sfuurb alumnus Jonathan X. Coté weigh in on the recent report which predicts that the majority of Metro Vancouver residents will live in condos or apartments by 2051.
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On deck next Wednesday, Oct. 29. #vanpoli
#VancouverBC - City of Vancouver to consider lowering voting age to 16 www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...
City of Vancouver to consider lowering voting age to 16
The City of Vancouver is set to consider allowing residents as young as 16 to vote in local elections.
www.ctvnews.ca
October 24, 2025 at 11:35 PM
On deck next Wednesday, Oct. 29. #vanpoli
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Canadians: The federal government is seeking public input on how AI should be developed and used in business, research, and the military.
If this scares the shit out of you, please let them know:
If this scares the shit out of you, please let them know:
Help define the next chapter of Canada's AI leadership
Current status: Open from October 1 to October 31, 2025
Canada helped invent modern AI. To stay a leader—and protect our digital sovereignty—we're running a 30-day national sprint to shape a renewed...
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October 8, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Canadians: The federal government is seeking public input on how AI should be developed and used in business, research, and the military.
If this scares the shit out of you, please let them know:
If this scares the shit out of you, please let them know:
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Regional planning is key to managing shared challenges like housing affordability, climate change, & infrastructure, according to Professor @Ayan604 & co-authors Richard White & Ken Cameron in a recent op-ed for @VancouverSun.
Read more: vancouversun.com/opinion/opin...
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Read more: vancouversun.com/opinion/opin...
#sfuurb @sfufass.bsky.social
Opinion: In Metro Vancouver, what happens in one city affects us all
Metro 2050 plan, for example, helps to ensures housing is built where it makes sense — close to jobs, schools, services and transportation.
vancouversun.com
October 10, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Regional planning is key to managing shared challenges like housing affordability, climate change, & infrastructure, according to Professor @Ayan604 & co-authors Richard White & Ken Cameron in a recent op-ed for @VancouverSun.
Read more: vancouversun.com/opinion/opin...
#sfuurb @sfufass.bsky.social
Read more: vancouversun.com/opinion/opin...
#sfuurb @sfufass.bsky.social
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New: Dialogues in Urban Research exploring what it means to think about crisis as urban & how locating crisis in the urban reconfigures relations between eventful & everyday crisis politics, materiality, discourse & movement. Part of a great set of interventions.
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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research
Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.
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October 10, 2025 at 1:34 PM
New: Dialogues in Urban Research exploring what it means to think about crisis as urban & how locating crisis in the urban reconfigures relations between eventful & everyday crisis politics, materiality, discourse & movement. Part of a great set of interventions.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Open access article bringing the concept of jurisdiction and (political and legal) geography into conversation. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Introducing Jurisdiction
We argue for bringing jurisdiction more centrally into geographic and political ecology scholarship. Jurisdiction shapes life in profound and often hidden ways and as a concept helps make sense of ...
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October 6, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Open access article bringing the concept of jurisdiction and (political and legal) geography into conversation. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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This morning we launched a new province-wide campaign to abolish the unfair at-large voting system in large B.C. municipalities. Find out more and ✍️sign the online petition!
Fix City Hall
Are you tired of being ignored by City Hall? Your voice deserves to be heard. Join the fight to make local elections fair in British Columbia.
www.fixcityhall.ca
September 18, 2025 at 3:06 PM
This morning we launched a new province-wide campaign to abolish the unfair at-large voting system in large B.C. municipalities. Find out more and ✍️sign the online petition!
"W/out transparency abt energy & water footprint of AI, says Luccioni, it’s impossible to manage & plan for impacts & prioritize use of critical resources, like capacity of...electrical grids, drinking water supply amid drought, & collective responses to climate change." thewalrus.ca/ai-environme...
Big Tech Is Hiding the Environmental Cost of Chatbots | The Walrus
AI’s unquenchable thirst for water could rival that of some nations
thewalrus.ca
October 4, 2025 at 6:18 AM
"W/out transparency abt energy & water footprint of AI, says Luccioni, it’s impossible to manage & plan for impacts & prioritize use of critical resources, like capacity of...electrical grids, drinking water supply amid drought, & collective responses to climate change." thewalrus.ca/ai-environme...
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Important context from @genevievelakier.bsky.social:
The Trump Administration’s “Compact of Excellence” for Universities is... far from excellent! Indeed, it’s unconstitutional. In this post, let me count the ways.
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The Unconstitutional Conditions Doctrine and the Compact for Excellence
Members of the Trump administration love to say that federal funding is a privilege not a right and therefore something that can be granted or withheld based on changing administrative priorities.
blog.dividedargument.com
October 4, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Important context from @genevievelakier.bsky.social:
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Most Canadians "paid 40 and 44%of their income in taxes overall in 2022, @policyalternatives.ca reported last year [WHILE] the 90 to 95th percentile paid only 37% and the 95 to 99th percentile paid just 34% — less than the lowest 10% [of earners]." #inequality www.timescolonist.com/opinion/trev...
Trevor Hancock: The problem is income inadequacy, not affordability
The bottom half of the population has seen its share of national income dropping, while the top one per cent’s share has grown dramatically.
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September 29, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Most Canadians "paid 40 and 44%of their income in taxes overall in 2022, @policyalternatives.ca reported last year [WHILE] the 90 to 95th percentile paid only 37% and the 95 to 99th percentile paid just 34% — less than the lowest 10% [of earners]." #inequality www.timescolonist.com/opinion/trev...
Important 🧵
BC folks! Outstanding piece here by @iglikaivanova.bsky.social, co-ED of @bcpolicy.bsky.social.
BC has a revenue problem, not a spending problem
The solution to BC’s fiscal challenges isn’t spending cuts. Instead, BC needs progressive revenue measures.
Read on 👇
vancouversun.com/opinion/op-e...
BC has a revenue problem, not a spending problem
The solution to BC’s fiscal challenges isn’t spending cuts. Instead, BC needs progressive revenue measures.
Read on 👇
vancouversun.com/opinion/op-e...
Opinion: B.C. has a revenue problem, not a spending problem
Experience from early 2000s shows that underfunding public services and failing to address poverty leads to higher economic and social costs
vancouversun.com
September 30, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Important 🧵
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Same goes for public schools, colleges, and universities.
the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.
September 26, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Same goes for public schools, colleges, and universities.
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Academia.edu is changing its Terms and Conditions, and they're so outrageous (AI training; signing over ownership to them etc) I closed my account today.
A thread with some practical tips if you want to delete your account (5 steps):
A thread with some practical tips if you want to delete your account (5 steps):
September 20, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Academia.edu is changing its Terms and Conditions, and they're so outrageous (AI training; signing over ownership to them etc) I closed my account today.
A thread with some practical tips if you want to delete your account (5 steps):
A thread with some practical tips if you want to delete your account (5 steps):
Next week in Winnipeg and also streaming online. 👇
On Thursday September 25, 7pm, join us for a special evening w/bestselling author Bob Joseph as he discusses his new book, 21 Things You Need to Know About Indigenous Self-Government: A Conversation About Dismantling the Indian Act (PageTwo Books). Part of THIN AIR 2025.- mailchi.mp/grant/bob-jo...
Bob Joseph to present on his new book in Winnipeg
Join us for a very special evening with bestselling author Bob Joseph as he discusses his new book, 21 Things You Need to Know About Indigenous Self-Government: A Conversation About Dismantling the In...
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September 20, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Next week in Winnipeg and also streaming online. 👇
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We're hiring! For the spring 2026 semester, #sfuurb is seeking a sessional instructor for its graduate course, Great Urban Thinkers. Please refer to our website for further details and apply today!
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September 17, 2025 at 4:42 PM
We're hiring! For the spring 2026 semester, #sfuurb is seeking a sessional instructor for its graduate course, Great Urban Thinkers. Please refer to our website for further details and apply today!
www.sfu.ca/urban/about-...
@sfufass.bsky.social
www.sfu.ca/urban/about-...
@sfufass.bsky.social
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THIS!!!!!
What is there to be literate about even? You just type words into a box. The literacy bit is about knowing if you're being fed absolute nonsense by the chatbot, which requires subject level expertise. So the LLM is an extra layer of effort. It's all so stupid and wasteful.
September 14, 2025 at 11:30 AM
THIS!!!!!
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If you haven’t been following what’s going on in Nepal, it is UNBELIEVABLE. I don’t event know where to begin but between the time you had your morning coffee on Monday and lunch on Friday they just had a total Gen Z-led revolution resulting in the first female PM. Like seriously.
September 12, 2025 at 6:26 PM
If you haven’t been following what’s going on in Nepal, it is UNBELIEVABLE. I don’t event know where to begin but between the time you had your morning coffee on Monday and lunch on Friday they just had a total Gen Z-led revolution resulting in the first female PM. Like seriously.
Winnipeg's generational overhaul of its tranit system reveals the challenges of servicing a still spawling city. thenarwhal.ca/winnipeg-tra... #Winnipeg #transit
The Winnipeg transit overhaul, mapped | The Narwhal
The goal was more frequent and on-time buses that run into the night. An analysis of the Winnipeg transit overhaul paints a different picture
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September 7, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Winnipeg's generational overhaul of its tranit system reveals the challenges of servicing a still spawling city. thenarwhal.ca/winnipeg-tra... #Winnipeg #transit
My first hockey love was Les Glorieux. In later years, I read Ken Dryden's deeply reflective book, The Game, for an undergraduate course on hockey & Canadian culture. He was a deep thinker, eventual politician, and a legendary goalie with one of hockey's most storied franchises. He will be missed.
Ken Dryden has died.
A Hockey Hall of Famer with the Montreal Canadiens, he won six Stanley Cups, the Conn Smythe, Calder and five Vezinas.
A best-selling author, he also served in Parliament from 2004 to 2011.
A Hockey Hall of Famer with the Montreal Canadiens, he won six Stanley Cups, the Conn Smythe, Calder and five Vezinas.
A best-selling author, he also served in Parliament from 2004 to 2011.
September 6, 2025 at 5:55 AM
My first hockey love was Les Glorieux. In later years, I read Ken Dryden's deeply reflective book, The Game, for an undergraduate course on hockey & Canadian culture. He was a deep thinker, eventual politician, and a legendary goalie with one of hockey's most storied franchises. He will be missed.
Some good news from the University of Manitoba re: undergraduate enrollment growth, with Indigenous learners as a subgroup leading the way.
September 5, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Some good news from the University of Manitoba re: undergraduate enrollment growth, with Indigenous learners as a subgroup leading the way.
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$37.50 for a comparative study of fifteen legislatures and how well they hold the executive to account.
How can you resist?
How can you resist?
End of summer sale at Stanford University Press, which means the Dave/ @plagasse.bsky.social and Steve book is now just $37.50. And it is thick, so the $/page is low, kind of like how Estonia's defence spending is high since their GDP is low. Woot!! www.sup.org/books/politi...
September 4, 2025 at 9:11 PM
$37.50 for a comparative study of fifteen legislatures and how well they hold the executive to account.
How can you resist?
How can you resist?
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Swinging. Rocking. Lounging. Halifax has mastered the art of just sitting and looking at the water.
August 31, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Swinging. Rocking. Lounging. Halifax has mastered the art of just sitting and looking at the water.
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#MetroVancouverRD - Despite 10-year Metro Vancouver ban on organics in the garbage, it's still the top landfill item www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
August 27, 2025 at 7:16 PM
#MetroVancouverRD - Despite 10-year Metro Vancouver ban on organics in the garbage, it's still the top landfill item www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Thread on class action regarding Anthropic's use of copyrighted materials (including academic books and journal articles) to train its AI models. 😡 Links provided to search for your works and connect with lawyers as settlement draws closer. Canadian scholars see Meta-related link at end of thread.
There are tons of graphic novels, academic papers, film and TV scripts, & prose novels/nonfiction on the LibGen list Anthropic used.
As settlement approaches, make it easy for the class action lawyers to contact you! Here’s how
Part 1: is your work in Libgen?
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As settlement approaches, make it easy for the class action lawyers to contact you! Here’s how
Part 1: is your work in Libgen?
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
August 28, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Thread on class action regarding Anthropic's use of copyrighted materials (including academic books and journal articles) to train its AI models. 😡 Links provided to search for your works and connect with lawyers as settlement draws closer. Canadian scholars see Meta-related link at end of thread.