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Dale Kirby 👊🇨🇦🔥

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Professor of Education🤘Memorial University of Newfoundland 🤘Personal account🤘Opinions mine🤘 #highered #cdnpse #punksky 🇨🇦

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Dale Kirby 👊🇨🇦🔥 @dalekirby.com · 20d

🚨🚨 New Publication 🚨🚨

How Tuition Waivers and Holistic Supports Foster Success in Post-Secondary Education Among Care-Experienced Youth

👉 www.mdpi.com/2673-995X/5/...

Dale Kirby 👊🇨🇦🔥 @dalekirby.com · 19h

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 20h

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

Dale Kirby 👊🇨🇦🔥 @dalekirby.com · 20h

I’m no marine biologist but they appear to have not considered what happens when whales born & raised for years in captivity are released in the wild

Dale Kirby 👊🇨🇦🔥 @dalekirby.com · 20h

Would it have not been great news if Ivy Hanley had won instead?

Dale Kirby 👊🇨🇦🔥 @dalekirby.com · 22h

Financial Ratios for Canadian Universities - New from Statistics Canada www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/81-59... #cdnpse

Although university characteristics are important in driving most financial ratios, each province develops its own public policy and model of provincial funding for universities. This can have an effect both on the financial operations of universities and on the public and tuition funding ratio for some universities. In Canada, public funding has fallen from a high of 60.7% in 2008/2009 to 44.8% in 2022/2023, which was largely driven by trends in Ontario. In Ontario, public funding has fallen from 54.3% in 2008/2009 to 32.5% in 2022/2023 and given it is the largest province, has drawn the Canadian average down. The three highest publicly funded provinces and territories are Yukon (83.3%), Quebec (64.1%) and Newfoundland and Labrador (59.7%) and the three provinces that have the highest proportion of their total revenue coming from tuition fees are Ontario (41.0%), Nova Scotia (33.3%) and British Columbia (33.1%).

Dale Kirby 👊🇨🇦🔥 @dalekirby.com · 1d

More young Canadians are tapping AI for learning, even when concerned about it www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

More young Canadians are tapping AI for learning, even when concerned about it | CBC News

More Canadian students are turning to AI, eager for additional opportunities to learn how to use it. Yet worries about cheating and impact to critical thinking persist, with some experts saying more c...

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Dale Kirby 👊🇨🇦🔥 @dalekirby.com · 1d

Toutons

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 1d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

Dale Kirby 👊🇨🇦🔥 @dalekirby.com · 1d

Why are we still negotiating with these idiots @mark-carney.bsky.social?

Dale Kirby 👊🇨🇦🔥 @dalekirby.com · 1d

Time for a 100% surcharge on all energy exports to these despots

Toronto Star @thestar.com · 1d

#Breaking: Canada must come ‘second’ to U.S. in auto sector, Howard Lutnick warns behind closed doors.

Canada must come ‘second’ to U.S. in auto sector, Howard Lutnick warns behind closed doors

Appearing virtually, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick bluntly told an audience at a Canada-U.S. conference in Toronto on Wednesday that the United States is determined to dominate the car-making indu...

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Dale Kirby 👊🇨🇦🔥 @dalekirby.com · 1d

Time for a 100% surcharge on all energy exports to these despots

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

“.. Oh, we've entered the ‘shooting priests’ phase of the Glorious Trump Revolution. Good to know.”

- @therickwilson.bsky.social

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2d

THESE PAGAN LIBTARD WAR DANCES CAN ONLY PRESAGE CALAMITY!!

MEIN LEADER PRÄSIDENT TRUMP, HERR REICHSCOUCHVUCKER VON VANCE, HERR VERRÜCKTPSYCHO STEPHANMÜLLER, DER VOLK DEMAND YOU DEPLOY DIE PANZERBRIGADEN NOW!!!

Vielen Damk für your attention to this matter

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Dale Kirby 👊🇨🇦🔥 @dalekirby.com · 2d

I definitely won’t, ever

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Dale Kirby 👊🇨🇦🔥 @dalekirby.com · 2d

Ontario colleges need to automate or outsource a number of services — and some should consider merging to cut costs, say a series of reports www.thestar.com/news/gta/out...

Outsource, automate and merge? Reports reveal what kind of Ontario college job losses and program cuts could be on the line

The province provided money for third-party efficiency and accountability assessments for 10 of 24 public colleges, surfacing amid a staff strike.

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Dale Kirby 👊🇨🇦🔥 @dalekirby.com · 2d

First Nations University faculty call for dissolution of board, suspension of executives www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

First Nations University faculty call for dissolution of board, suspension of executives | CBC News

In an unsigned statement, faculty members at First Nations University of Canada are expressing grave concerns over the direction of the institution, saying the gains made since its 2019 financial cris...

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 2d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Dale Kirby 👊🇨🇦🔥 @dalekirby.com · 2d

Trying to have a simple conversation with this jackass is pointless

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Toronto Star @thestar.com · 2d

The students’ union at University of Toronto Mississauga and U of T’s Palestinian Culture Club are facing backlash over planned commemorative events on campus honouring Palestinian “martyrs” on the anniversary of the Oct. 7 attacks by Hamas on Israel.

U of T students’ union, club host events honouring Palestinian ‘martyrs’ on anniversary of Oct. 7 attacks on Israel

In social media posts, union said they will "gather to commemorate two years of genocide in Palestine" on Tuesday afternoon.

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Dale Kirby 👊🇨🇦🔥 @dalekirby.com · 2d

Why are we bothering to negotiate with this blathering idiot @mark-carney.bsky.social?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

TRUMP: The merger of Canada and the United States! I'm only kidding

CARNEY: That wasn't where I was going

Dale Kirby 👊🇨🇦🔥 @dalekirby.com · 2d

That's what these states voted for

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Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 3d

Given that you can just about see Canada from parts of Greenland, it would be a good start to have even one flight between the two places, even once a week. At the moment you need to fly to Europe first

www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Opinion: Canada and Greenland can forge a new relationship

The Arctic will be a fulcrum of strategic and economic activity in the coming decades

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Dale Kirby 👊🇨🇦🔥 @dalekirby.com · 3d

Is there any point in trying to negotiate with these people?

Reuters @reuters.com · 3d

Canada's Carney makes second White House visit to talk trade reut.rs/471CeeD

Canada's Carney makes second White House visit to talk trade

Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney is making his second visit to the White House in five months on Tuesday under increasing pressure to address U.S. tariffs on steel, autos and other goods that are hurting Canada's economy.

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Dale Kirby 👊🇨🇦🔥 @dalekirby.com · 3d

Nova Scotia universities required to justify each program for continued funding as international student enrollment drops www.saltwire.com/nova-scotia/...

Nova Scotia universities required to justify each program for continued funding as international student enrollment drops

N.S. academia is facing a potential shakeup as the provincial government demands universities review and justify each of their programs.

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Dale Kirby 👊🇨🇦🔥 @dalekirby.com · 3d

The U.S. govt is intent on killing as many of its own citizens as possible

Dale Kirby 👊🇨🇦🔥 @dalekirby.com · 3d

It's worse this time around

Dale Kirby 👊🇨🇦🔥 @dalekirby.com · 3d

The number of international students arriving in the U.S. in August fell by 19% this year compared with last year — the largest decline on record outside of the pandemic www.nytimes.com/interactive/...