1960s sociology: "I'll add another thing, and this is somewhat more conjectural, though not strictly made up..."
2020s sociology: "not all people are the same (Kember & Pierce, 2011; Czukay et al., 2013; Kramer & Smith, 2016, Thompson, 2018)".
Yeah sure, me too, I will write a whole book on the history of a country of which I don’t know the language sufficiently, say Greek, and I will base my research on AI translation. By the way, my expertise is actually in Turkish history.
2026: me, timid, behind schedule: *anxiously cites volumes of work across multiple disciplines for even basic claims about 'the literature'*
1986: chad Galen Strawson, self-assured, prolific: *cites exactly two philosophers. first endnote, verbatim: "Dogs, dolphins, human beings, Martians, etc."
The latest deal between Alberta and Canada promises big emissions reductions through carbon capture.
Or does it? As @drewanderson.bsky.social reports, the carbon capture project underpinning the deal has drastically reduced its ambitions. thenarwhal.ca/oilsands-pat...
An AI data centre proposed for the Lorneville neighbourhood of Saint John, N.B., would raze wetlands and forest and become one of the province’s largest greenhouse gas emitters.
Residents are resisting.
thenarwhal.ca/lorneville-a...
“He yells,” said one MP...“He punches down at caucus all the time.”
This fits Carney's decades-long pattern. There's a pattern of behavior with underlings at multiple organizations over decades. These are ingrained personality traits.
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“The court found that Mr. Brown was in possession of the very documents that disproved [their claim] and never mentioned them. He never contacted Mrs. Kielburger before publication.”
Female professors at post-secondary schools in Toronto earn significantly less than their male counterparts.
In Ontario, every major university paid male professors more than female professors, with average wage gaps ranging from 5.7% (University of Ottawa) to 13.5% (McMaster University)
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The Alberta carbon capture project from the Oilsands Alliance (Pathways Alliance) has revised down its plan to capture 68 megatonnes of emissions each year
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The proposed data centre and its on-site gas plant in Lorneville, N.B., would raze wetlands and forest and be one of the province’s largest greenhouse gas emitters
/CNW/ - Canadaland Inc. and its founder Jesse Brown will pay a total of $885,000 in damages and costs to Theresa Kielburger, an 82-year-old retired Toronto...
