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Christopher Dornan

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Ahora, jubilado. Formerly, School of Journalism and Communication & Arthur Kroeger College of Public Affairs, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. 🇨🇦 Writing on disinformation, the twilight of the news media, and politics. Click here: www.educatedguesses.ca

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Christopher Dornan @chrisdornan.bsky.social · Nov 19

Is it time for a Chris Dornan starter pack? Do you need to know what is happening to what used to be called the “news media"? Here’s an immodest reading list to get you started, whether you are a high school media literacy teacher, the incoming president of the CBC, or the CEO of Postmedia. 👇👇👇

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Christopher Dornan @chrisdornan.bsky.social · 20h

On the sentencing today of Tamara Lich and Chris Barber, here for background is the Wikipedia entry on the Freedom Convoy. It is very detailed and admirably even-handed. Now imagine the same story told in such a way as to make heroes of Lich and Barber. Musk's Grokipedia is on its way.

Canada convoy protest - Wikipedia

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Christopher Dornan @chrisdornan.bsky.social · 22h

Just FYI, for the young, impressionable children: Lee Greenwood is 82 years old and has been married five times to four different women.

MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 22h

Mike Johnson isn't happy that Bad Bunny is performing at the Super Bowl: It sounds like he's not someone who appeals to a broader audience. There's so many eyes on it. A lot of young, impressionable children. In my view, you would have Lee Greenwood or role models doing that. Not somebody like this.

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FuzzyWuzzy in Toronto🇨🇦 @fuzzywuzzyto.bsky.social · 22h

I took up drinking just so that I could purposely not buy American booze.

Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 22h

They still don't get it.
They think they can come up to Canada and sweet talk us into buying their shit.
Ain't gonna happen.
Donald Trump said that there was nothing Americans needed from Canada.
We can start with you not needing money from our booze purchases.
abcnews.go.com/Business/wir...

Cold shoulder from Canada is costly for American distillers struggling with global trade tensions

American distillers have gotten a costly cold shoulder from Canada

abcnews.go.com

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Christopher Dornan @chrisdornan.bsky.social · 22h

I have a new (crackpot)) theory about Trump. The only people who’ve ever really intimidated him are bankers, because he has depended on them for loans. They’re the only ones who saw past the smoke and mirrors of his businesses and they could ruin him with a pen stroke. Carney is a banker. Ergo …

ANALYSIS | Trump's tone shifts on Canada. What does that signal for tariffs? | CBC News

U.S. President Donald Trump spoke more positively about Canada on Tuesday than he has at any time since winning the election last November, but whether that signals any imminent relief to punishing ta...

www.cbc.ca

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Christopher Dornan @chrisdornan.bsky.social · 1d

The US news media pay far more attention to homicide as a cause of death than disease. No surprise there. What's surprising is how US news outlets across the political spectrum don't differ much in how they report on what kills us. Fox News and New York Times basically have the same emphases.

Does the news reflect what we die from?

What do Americans die from, and what do the New York Times, Washington Post, and Fox News report on?

ourworldindata.org

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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 2d

What Americans Die from?

And what the media reports on...

Our World in Data ourworldindata.org/does-the-new...

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Dr. Jonathan N. Stea @jonathanstea.bsky.social · 2d

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Christopher Dornan @chrisdornan.bsky.social · 2d

Suddenly starting to get real interested in how the territory of Canada handled the turbulence of being right next door to the United States of America the last time it had a civil war. Much of what I know about what happened in US-Canada relations in the late 1800s comes from Murdoch Mysteries.

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Christopher Dornan @chrisdornan.bsky.social · 2d

I get that Canada must be careful not to rile the beast next door. I understand that we can do something without saying anything. We can make trade deals with other nations and otherwise hold our tongue. I regret it, but I get it. There will come a time, though, when we'll have to say something.

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Christopher Dornan @chrisdornan.bsky.social · 2d

Here's one for you. I adore this building at the University of Glasgow. It's a nondescript cube except for its facings. There is no doubt about the department therein and no one would ever remember its official name. That's just the Math Building.

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iTunes Brian 🇨🇦 🇮🇪 🇷🇸 🇺🇦 @itunesbrian.bsky.social · 2d

Even funnier tell the University you’ll give them 50 million dollars so long as a faculty building has to use the name of a town in Wales in its name.

The Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch Faculty of Architecture!

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Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch!

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NeWest Press @newestpress.bsky.social · 4d

Edmonton’s NeWest Press seeks an enthusiastic, dynamic General Manager to provide operational leadership. Learn more about the qualifications we are looking for and how to apply by visiting our website.

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#NeWestPress #NowHiring

We're Hiring! NeWest Press is seeking an enthusiastic, dynamic General Manager to provide operational leadership. Submit your cover letter and resume to president@newestpress.com not later than Friday, October 17, 2025.

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Christopher Dornan @chrisdornan.bsky.social · 2d

I imagine a generic university, where all the buildings are named Donor Hall, Donor Centre, and Donor House.

iTunes Brian 🇨🇦 🇮🇪 🇷🇸 🇺🇦 @itunesbrian.bsky.social · 2d

I had this same problem before I retired from U of T. I could never remember the specific names of each of the buildings.

To me it was just the Faculty of Pharmacy Building but it was actually the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy.

Who the hell is going to remember that?

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Christopher Dornan @chrisdornan.bsky.social · 2d

I'm sufficiently old that the Robarts Library was known to me and my contemporaries as Fort Book.

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Bailey McCann @baileymcc.bsky.social · 2d

Nothing makes me feel good like scrolling through multiple TikTok videos of medical school students going through their newly minted AI generated textbooks and making slideshows of all of the errors including completely made up muscles and tendons - can’t wait to age in this hellscape

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Amber @risettemd.bsky.social · 7d

I thought Batman destroyed this

Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 8d

New: ICE has bought a tool that tracks the locations of hundreds of millions of phones globally, updates every single day. Usually harvested from apps and advertising

www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-t...

ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day

Documents show that ICE has gone back on its decision to not use location data remotely harvested from peoples' phones. The database is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data.

www.404media.co

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Christopher Dornan @chrisdornan.bsky.social · 3d

NYT Spelling Bee recognizes the word ontogeny but not neoteny?

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Alan @gammacounter.bsky.social · 4d

Watch today is a Soviet-made handwound “medical watch” from 1989 by Slava. The scales help you determine the patient’s heart rate. You must wait until the seconds hand reaches 0 or 30, then count 15 patient pulses. Where the seconds hand is on the scale at that moment is the heart rate.

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Ian Boothby @ianboothby.bsky.social · 3d

I picked the wrong time to start feeling empathy.

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Christopher Dornan @chrisdornan.bsky.social · 3d

Dear fellow Canadians (and Danes, Scots, Czechs, Spaniards, Japanese -- the full roster of NATO and G7 members),

Look out your windows right now. Do you see anything resembling this going on in your country?

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Christopher Dornan @chrisdornan.bsky.social · 3d

They’re not smashing any windows yet, so this is just Nacht in America.

PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 4d

USA 2025. Or Germany 1938? #cdnpoli

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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 4d

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Christopher Dornan @chrisdornan.bsky.social · 3d

This gentleman teaches a course in the history of antifascism at Rutgers University.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 3d

I’ve received multiple death threats + doxing (including my home address) directly following harassment from Turning Point USA, Jack Posobiec, Andy NGO, + Fox News which called me an antifa ‘financier.’

I have been forced to move my classes online.

If journalists want to talk, DM me or reply here.

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Crawford Kilian @crof.bsky.social · 4d

The far-right and health: an evolving political crisis - The Lancet www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

The far-right and health: an evolving political crisis

Across Europe and North America, racism, xenophobia, and far-right nationalism have become normalised in public and political discourse, leading many people to feel anxiety and fear of violence, discr...

www.thelancet.com

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Christopher Dornan @chrisdornan.bsky.social · 4d

Even if you believe that Wounded Knee was a battle, not a massacre of non-combatant women and children, it was fought on US soil and presumably both sides showed courage and valour. So why are there no medals for the bravest of the Lakota? There are statues to Confederate generals.

Hegseth says Wounded Knee massacre soldiers will keep Medals of Honor

Historical records say the US army killed about 250 Lakota Sioux people in the 1890 massacre in South Dakota