David Jefferess
@djefferess.bsky.social
Parent. University teacher. Gardener.
Research and teach on the colonial and racial politics of humanitarianism, and heritage/public memory practices.
Live in Syilx Okanagan territory.
Research and teach on the colonial and racial politics of humanitarianism, and heritage/public memory practices.
Live in Syilx Okanagan territory.
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My latest for Truthout -- today, FIFA unveiled the match-ups for World Cup 2026. And yet, it's far from certain that players, personnel and fans will be able to freely move between countries for matches. Here's what we know, and what we need.
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Trump’s Draconian Border Policies Are Menacing the 2026 World Cup
World Cup athletes, fans, and personnel fear Trump’s anti-immigration policies may disrupt the tournament’s operation.
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December 5, 2025 at 8:50 PM
My latest for Truthout -- today, FIFA unveiled the match-ups for World Cup 2026. And yet, it's far from certain that players, personnel and fans will be able to freely move between countries for matches. Here's what we know, and what we need.
truthout.org/articles/tru...
truthout.org/articles/tru...
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nothing of value has been made with it
nothing
but it has led bosses to fire people leading to wrongly done work, messed up universities, wrecked any progress made on climate change goals, so your aunt can get wrong answers to unimportant questions for less than it cost the company to provide them
nothing
but it has led bosses to fire people leading to wrongly done work, messed up universities, wrecked any progress made on climate change goals, so your aunt can get wrong answers to unimportant questions for less than it cost the company to provide them
Three years into the generative-AI wave, demand for the technology seems surprisingly flimsy
Investors expect AI use to soar. That’s not happening
Recent surveys point to flatlining business adoption
econ.st
November 30, 2025 at 1:06 AM
nothing of value has been made with it
nothing
but it has led bosses to fire people leading to wrongly done work, messed up universities, wrecked any progress made on climate change goals, so your aunt can get wrong answers to unimportant questions for less than it cost the company to provide them
nothing
but it has led bosses to fire people leading to wrongly done work, messed up universities, wrecked any progress made on climate change goals, so your aunt can get wrong answers to unimportant questions for less than it cost the company to provide them
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The Freep probably wants to be more accurate ... CIJA is an Israeli organization, not a Jewish organization. Conflating the two, making it look like Jews in general want to stop the CMHR from talking about forced displacement of Palestinians, could feed anti-Semitism.
A national Jewish organization has launched a campaign targeting the Canadian Museum for Human Rights over an upcoming exhibit about the 1948 forced displacement of an estimated 750,000 Palestinians in what is now Israel.
National Jewish organization takes human rights museum to task over Palestinian exhibit
A national Jewish organization has launched a campaign targeting the Canadian Museum for Human Rights over an upcoming exhibit about the 1948 forced displacement of an estimated 750,000 Palestinians in what is now Israel.
www.winnipegfreepress.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:39 AM
The Freep probably wants to be more accurate ... CIJA is an Israeli organization, not a Jewish organization. Conflating the two, making it look like Jews in general want to stop the CMHR from talking about forced displacement of Palestinians, could feed anti-Semitism.
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Quebec's government is about to introduce a new secularism law which will ban the niqab on campus, campus prayer spaces and daycare workers and ECE students from wearing religious symbols. All to try and save their racist asses in the polls.
My latest...
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My latest...
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Quebec's new secularism bill expands the scope of who the government officially hates
Today, the Coalition Avenir Québec is introducing, An Act respecting the reinforcement of laicity in Québec (the name is better in French, surely).
noraloreto.substack.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Quebec's government is about to introduce a new secularism law which will ban the niqab on campus, campus prayer spaces and daycare workers and ECE students from wearing religious symbols. All to try and save their racist asses in the polls.
My latest...
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My latest...
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As global opinion shifts toward supporting Palestinian human rights, universities are at a crossroads. They can cling to a hollow idea of neutrality or acknowledge the reality in front of them: refusing to act is refusing to confront an unfolding genocide.
Institutional neutrality or institutionalized silencing?
The partial ceasefire in Gaza offers an opportunity to reflect on how universities have responded to a level of student activism not seen since the protests against apartheid South Africa in the 1980s...
canadiandimension.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:03 PM
As global opinion shifts toward supporting Palestinian human rights, universities are at a crossroads. They can cling to a hollow idea of neutrality or acknowledge the reality in front of them: refusing to act is refusing to confront an unfolding genocide.
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"Imagine you stole all of the intellectual property in the world. And you're using it to help people write middling emails and make revenge porn about women, and also children. And you're powering this plagiarism and non-consensual porn machine by eating up what's left of humanity's carbon budget."
How to explain AI to your family this holiday season | CNN Business
Politics, football and movies are among the many topics that tend to come up around Thanksgiving. In 2025, a new question may arise at the table: Why the heck is everyone talking about AI, and what sh...
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November 27, 2025 at 4:04 AM
"Imagine you stole all of the intellectual property in the world. And you're using it to help people write middling emails and make revenge porn about women, and also children. And you're powering this plagiarism and non-consensual porn machine by eating up what's left of humanity's carbon budget."
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Christmas is coming, and the Black Friday sales signal we’re in peak gift-buying season.
When you’re picking out gifts for friends and family this year, there’s a whole slew of tech products that are better to avoid. I put together a guide to help you through it.
When you’re picking out gifts for friends and family this year, there’s a whole slew of tech products that are better to avoid. I put together a guide to help you through it.
A tech critic’s guide to holiday gift-giving
Maybe your grandma doesn’t need that Alexa smart speaker
disconnect.blog
November 25, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Christmas is coming, and the Black Friday sales signal we’re in peak gift-buying season.
When you’re picking out gifts for friends and family this year, there’s a whole slew of tech products that are better to avoid. I put together a guide to help you through it.
When you’re picking out gifts for friends and family this year, there’s a whole slew of tech products that are better to avoid. I put together a guide to help you through it.
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From South African divestment to today’s Palestine solidarity movements, universities use neutrality to justify inaction while students push for accountability. It’s time to confront the contradiction and defend open debate over institutionalized silence.
Institutional neutrality or institutionalized silencing?
The partial ceasefire in Gaza offers an opportunity to reflect on how universities have responded to a level of student activism not seen since the protests against apartheid South Africa in the 1980s...
canadiandimension.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:36 PM
From South African divestment to today’s Palestine solidarity movements, universities use neutrality to justify inaction while students push for accountability. It’s time to confront the contradiction and defend open debate over institutionalized silence.
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Ottawa has long pursued an arms-export policy that prioritizes profit over principle, routinely enabling violence abroad while distancing itself from the consequences—a pattern now laid bare by the appearance of Canadian weapons in Sudan’s genocidal war.
Canada pursues Gulf markets as its weapons fuel war in Sudan
Far from “building Canada strong,” the prime minister’s visit to Abu Dhabi marks the culmination of a decade-long push to secure access for Canadian capital in a lucrative Gulf market. If that require...
canadiandimension.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Ottawa has long pursued an arms-export policy that prioritizes profit over principle, routinely enabling violence abroad while distancing itself from the consequences—a pattern now laid bare by the appearance of Canadian weapons in Sudan’s genocidal war.
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The UN Security Council has voted to endorse US President Donald Trump’s ‘peace deal’ for the Gaza Strip - but this ‘deal’ will not create peace. Read why ⏬
November 18, 2025 at 5:30 PM
The UN Security Council has voted to endorse US President Donald Trump’s ‘peace deal’ for the Gaza Strip - but this ‘deal’ will not create peace. Read why ⏬
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NEW: Canadian authorities detained Richard Falk while he and his wife, Hilal Elver, were en route to a Palestine conference in Ottawa last week.
I sat down with professor Falk to discuss what happened and Canada's complicity in the genocide in Gaza.
www.readthemaple.com/canada-detai...
I sat down with professor Falk to discuss what happened and Canada's complicity in the genocide in Gaza.
www.readthemaple.com/canada-detai...
Canada Detained This Legal Scholar En Route To Palestine Conference
Richard Falk and Hilal Elver were detained for approximately three hours at Pearson airport.
www.readthemaple.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:35 PM
NEW: Canadian authorities detained Richard Falk while he and his wife, Hilal Elver, were en route to a Palestine conference in Ottawa last week.
I sat down with professor Falk to discuss what happened and Canada's complicity in the genocide in Gaza.
www.readthemaple.com/canada-detai...
I sat down with professor Falk to discuss what happened and Canada's complicity in the genocide in Gaza.
www.readthemaple.com/canada-detai...
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Latest episode of Sandy and Nora is out! We have the conversation that Canada needs to be having: what is with this obsession with war? War is bad, actually.
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Episode 350 – Actually, war is bad.
In this episode, Sandy and Nora take a hard look at war and remind listeners that it is very, very bad.
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November 18, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Latest episode of Sandy and Nora is out! We have the conversation that Canada needs to be having: what is with this obsession with war? War is bad, actually.
sandyandnora.com/episode-350-...
sandyandnora.com/episode-350-...
New report exposing a massive weapons pipeline running from Canadian factories and ports to Israel through the U.S.
From World Beyond World Canada, Palestinian Youth Movement, CJPME and Arms Embargo Now coalition.
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From World Beyond World Canada, Palestinian Youth Movement, CJPME and Arms Embargo Now coalition.
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Arms Embargo Now!
Our new report has just exposed a massive pipeline of military aircraft parts and explosives flowing from Canada to Israel via the U.S., facilitated by a deadly loophole in Canadian law.
armsembargonow.ca
November 18, 2025 at 3:58 PM
New report exposing a massive weapons pipeline running from Canadian factories and ports to Israel through the U.S.
From World Beyond World Canada, Palestinian Youth Movement, CJPME and Arms Embargo Now coalition.
armsembargonow.ca/nomoreloopho...
From World Beyond World Canada, Palestinian Youth Movement, CJPME and Arms Embargo Now coalition.
armsembargonow.ca/nomoreloopho...
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Canadian sovereignty tho
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How investigating Indigenous activists became a CSIS priority for at least a decade | CBC News
Canada's spies subjected Indigenous activists to a series of “Native extremism” investigations for at least a decade beginning in 1988, in what internal documents show was a countrywide surveillance p...
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November 18, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Canadian sovereignty tho
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www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...
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As the CDN prime minister designates select projects like Coastal GasLink and LNG Canada in the "national interest," the companies behind them continue to form deep ties with Canada's spy agency and other federal law enforcement. Here's a look at why this matters. thenarwhal.ca/csis-resourc...
The deepening ties between CSIS and resource companies | The Narwhal
As the federal government earmarks resource extraction projects in the ‘national interest,’ the companies building them are deepening ties to CSIS
thenarwhal.ca
November 12, 2025 at 2:58 PM
As the CDN prime minister designates select projects like Coastal GasLink and LNG Canada in the "national interest," the companies behind them continue to form deep ties with Canada's spy agency and other federal law enforcement. Here's a look at why this matters. thenarwhal.ca/csis-resourc...
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As Canada expands its secret military operations under US command, the government keeps the names of fallen soldiers hidden.
This Remembrance Day, what does it mean to honour the dead when the public isn’t even told who, or what, they’re dying for?
This Remembrance Day, what does it mean to honour the dead when the public isn’t even told who, or what, they’re dying for?
Remembrance Day, redacted
As Canada quietly expands secret military operations under US command, the government hides the names of soldiers killed in action. This Remembrance Day, Morgan Duchesney asks what it means to honour ...
canadiandimension.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:03 PM
As Canada expands its secret military operations under US command, the government keeps the names of fallen soldiers hidden.
This Remembrance Day, what does it mean to honour the dead when the public isn’t even told who, or what, they’re dying for?
This Remembrance Day, what does it mean to honour the dead when the public isn’t even told who, or what, they’re dying for?
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"Conservative MP Branden Leslie asked Major Projects Office CEO Dawn Farrell about the tanker ban, saying he was told that government officials are 'quietly telling stakeholders' that Bill C-5 could be used to bypass it."
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Major Projects Office elusive on whether Bill C-5 could be used to bypass B.C. oil tanker ban
Officials decline to confirm if national interest projects could eventually be exempt from Bill C-48, saying they cannot comment on hypotheticals
www.ipolitics.ca
November 7, 2025 at 9:04 PM
"Conservative MP Branden Leslie asked Major Projects Office CEO Dawn Farrell about the tanker ban, saying he was told that government officials are 'quietly telling stakeholders' that Bill C-5 could be used to bypass it."
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The Liberals' budget -- it mostly helps upper income people, it mostly helps men, it mostly helps war, oil and gas.
Sandy and Nora Talk Politics -- Budget 2025 - Liberal Carnage
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Sandy and Nora Talk Politics -- Budget 2025 - Liberal Carnage
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Episode 348 – 2025 Budget; Liberal Carnage
In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about the 2025 Liberal budget — Mark Carney’s first — and how he blurs the line between Liberals and Tories like never before.
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November 5, 2025 at 3:20 PM
The Liberals' budget -- it mostly helps upper income people, it mostly helps men, it mostly helps war, oil and gas.
Sandy and Nora Talk Politics -- Budget 2025 - Liberal Carnage
sandyandnora.com/episode-348-...
Sandy and Nora Talk Politics -- Budget 2025 - Liberal Carnage
sandyandnora.com/episode-348-...
Just picked up @scottneigh.bsky.social new book, Listen!, from my local independent booksrote. An important meditation on engaging in collective social justice activism.
November 3, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Just picked up @scottneigh.bsky.social new book, Listen!, from my local independent booksrote. An important meditation on engaging in collective social justice activism.
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yeah, the idea that Trump will stop Boko Haram types by ending aid to the Nigerian federal government is as confused as the idea that he is actually interested in the welfare of the same Nigerian Christians he put on a categorical travel ban 5 years ago
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Faculty Insight: What Trump’s Nigeria Travel Ban Means | HDS News Archive
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November 2, 2025 at 1:28 PM
yeah, the idea that Trump will stop Boko Haram types by ending aid to the Nigerian federal government is as confused as the idea that he is actually interested in the welfare of the same Nigerian Christians he put on a categorical travel ban 5 years ago
news-archive.hds.harvard.edu/news/2020/03...
news-archive.hds.harvard.edu/news/2020/03...
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Sudan’s paramilitary is accused of genocide. British-made weapons are being recovered from their battlefields. How many massacres does it take before “arms exports” are called what they are: direct enablers of mass killing?
UK military equipment used by militia accused of genocide found in Sudan, UN told
Exclusive: two dossiers of material seen by the security council raise questions over export of British arms to the UAE, which has been accused of supplying weapons to paramilitary RSF group
buff.ly
October 30, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Sudan’s paramilitary is accused of genocide. British-made weapons are being recovered from their battlefields. How many massacres does it take before “arms exports” are called what they are: direct enablers of mass killing?
Canadian hypocrisy, as usual. Decry violence in other countries, claim to be providing humanitarian aid, all the while providing the equipment to the killers.
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October 30, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Canadian hypocrisy, as usual. Decry violence in other countries, claim to be providing humanitarian aid, all the while providing the equipment to the killers.
www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
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The death toll in Gaza remains unknown, and statistics have become a contested tool to understand the scale of the genocide. But even if we had an accurate number of deaths, we still wouldn’t understand the depth of its meaning. mondoweiss.net/2025/10/the-...
The Burden of Imprecision: on the limitation of statistics
The death toll in Gaza remains unknown, and statistics have become a contested tool to understand the scale of the genocide. But even if we had an accurate number of deaths, we still wouldn’t…
mondoweiss.net
October 30, 2025 at 2:05 PM
The death toll in Gaza remains unknown, and statistics have become a contested tool to understand the scale of the genocide. But even if we had an accurate number of deaths, we still wouldn’t understand the depth of its meaning. mondoweiss.net/2025/10/the-...
Sign the petition to save SPOT
The Saanich Peninsula Outreach Team (SPOT) plays an essential role in ensuring that the most vulnerable individuals have access to vital healthcare services. The BC Ministry of Health is closing it down.
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The Saanich Peninsula Outreach Team (SPOT) plays an essential role in ensuring that the most vulnerable individuals have access to vital healthcare services. The BC Ministry of Health is closing it down.
www.openpetition.org/ca/petition/...
Keep SPOT Open: Protect Healthcare for Our Most Vulnerable Neighbours - Online petition
The Saanich Peninsula Outreach Team (SPOT) plays an essential role in ensuring that the most vulnerable individuals in our community have access to vital healthcare services. SPOT provides care for pe...
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October 27, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Sign the petition to save SPOT
The Saanich Peninsula Outreach Team (SPOT) plays an essential role in ensuring that the most vulnerable individuals have access to vital healthcare services. The BC Ministry of Health is closing it down.
www.openpetition.org/ca/petition/...
The Saanich Peninsula Outreach Team (SPOT) plays an essential role in ensuring that the most vulnerable individuals have access to vital healthcare services. The BC Ministry of Health is closing it down.
www.openpetition.org/ca/petition/...