Jason Haslam
Professor, English and Gender & Women’s Studies at Dalhousie U. He/him
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- Oh man. Spoilers, but I might have shed a tear at the use of a certain actor’s spoken word poetry at the end of the latest Starfleet Academy.
- Well, it’s not like Dalhousie is a <checks notes> research institution rather than a <checks notes again> wing of government … ? And it’s not like our government is supposed to serve the people instead of <checks then flings notes into the sea> developers?
- Sure, Mulroney is better than Poiliev… oops, sorry. I get confused. I mean: Sure, *Carney* is better than Poilievre, but
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- Yeah it sucks. Wait till you get the threepeat.
- Well, @nbcnews.com just let Trump lie on air for much of their 15-minute interview, without a single fact-check correction, even after.
- Please read this all the way through!
- Homan’s entire presser is basically “we wouldn’t have to punish you if you just shut up.”
- Little known fact: the first Wednesday after Groundhog Day in Nova Scotia is called “Salty Squirrel Day.” On Salty Squirrel Day, if you see a squirrel giving the side-eye to a power line, it means six more weeks of power randomly going out. Don’t blame me. I don’t make the rules.
- Remember when then PM Stephen Harper warned about the horrors of “committing sociology”? This is what he and his protege Poilievre want: to censor and attack education and knowledge.
- “Compared to the original 669 pg textbook, the new version is just 267 pgs. The state-approved version doesn’t include chapters on global inequality, race and ethnicity, social stratification, or gender, sex and sexuality. It also scraps a section on the government-led genocide of Native Americans.”
