Monica Rettig
monicarettig.bsky.social
Monica Rettig
@monicarettig.bsky.social
New report calls for a 'postsecondary pivot': "We need people who are studying poli sci to know how to use ChatGPT to write and edit an e-mail....” - J Pichette, Dir of skills policy, RBC Thought Leadership

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www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/5e75e16...
Canada’s postsecondary system must pivot to meet economic challenges ahead, RBC report says
Proposals include retraining auto workers for shipbuilding and space, and teaching AI skills across all academic disciplines
www.theglobeandmail.com
October 17, 2025 at 7:09 PM
I don't THINK 'car pickup lines' exist at public schools, but Ontario is a big place and I could be wrong.

It is not perfect: There is plenty of concern for safety with drivers going too quickly in the school zone & folks parking where they shouldn't in the neighbourhood.

But this is ... wild.
August 14, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Jaw on the floor. "Car pickup lines" do not exist in my suburb ~45min from Toronto, Ontario (pop 187,000). How the heck does this work with the parents' jobs!? At our school, the options are walk, bike, school bus, daycare van, OR drive: your parents park nearby & walk over.
August 14, 2025 at 7:03 PM
and so much more -- seriously, ya gotta listen -- and then listen again.
June 26, 2025 at 2:24 PM
and then the part on Kristi Noem 🔥

"if we cannot figure out how to critique the embodied performance of power and autocracy when it comes in a female body because then all the other side has to do is get a woman like Kristi, prop her up, ... and then say, oh, you can't talk about women."
June 26, 2025 at 2:24 PM
"The world we built makes everything from beautiful art to beautiful people, a commodity. And so your preferences are always operating within the limits of the commodity of beauty. ...
[T]he last safe place for us to be ruthlessly racist, sexist classes and ableist is when it comes to bodies."
June 26, 2025 at 2:24 PM
It is bizarre and a cover for something else. In daycare, anonymity (we got told, "A friend bit Lauren on the arm today"). But now I also hear it like, "Several friends had trouble listening so now we will review the rules again". It's become creepy/ ominous/ euphemistic
June 24, 2025 at 6:38 PM
I figured weekday mid-day (yesterday) would be a decent time to visit my newborn nephew in The Beaches, driving in from Burlington. 90min there, 90min home -- all after/ before rush hour! Brutal...
June 20, 2025 at 12:29 PM