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Chris Houston
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Exec Director @canadianpeacemuseum.ca, newspaper columnist, teaching humanitarianism (U of Toronto), consulting at @humanitarianassociates.org

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I didn't think of that. I suppose it could mean that. Thanks for the suggestion.
November 22, 2025 at 5:04 AM
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Is using AI considered cheating? Does it get the students kicked out of the institution?
November 21, 2025 at 5:17 AM
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Also: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
The partisanship of mayors has no detectable effect on police spending, police employment, crime, or arrests
In this paper, we examine whether mayors’ partisan affiliations lead to differences in crime and policing. We use a large new dataset on mayoral elections and three different modern causal inference research designs (a regression discontinuity ...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
November 18, 2025 at 5:10 AM
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I do find myself quoting it a lot:

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museums.ca/site/reports...
Increasing military spending does not improve safety
Investing in aid, healthcare, education, and affordable housing would be better.
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November 18, 2025 at 4:53 AM