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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 · 25d

🚨🚨 New Publication 🚨🚨

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

👉 www.mdpi.com/2673-995X/5/...

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Carolyn Barber, MD @cbarbermd.bsky.social · 2d

A massive study of 100M+ people shows:
🔁 VZV reactivation(shingles)= higher dementia risk

💉 Shingles vaccine = lower dementia risk
Protect your nerves and your neurons. #PublicHealth #VaccinesSaveLives
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#BlueSky #amedSky #SciSky #IDSky #NeuroSky #EMSky #NurseSky

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Dale Kirby 👊🇨🇦🔥 @dalekirby.com · 23h

Another reason not to buy tickets to either of these events

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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 1d

President Trump said he would seek to move 2026 World Cup games out of Boston and shift the 2028 Olympics out of Los Angeles if he thought the cities weren’t properly prepared or if conditions were unsafe

Trump Warns of Yanking World Cup From Boston, Olympics From LA

President Donald Trump said he would seek to move 2026 World Cup games out of Boston and shift the 2028 Olympics out of Los Angeles if he thought the cities weren’t properly prepared or if conditions were unsafe.

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Dale Kirby 👊🇨🇦🔥 @dalekirby.com · 1d

The USA is becoming everything it claimed not to be

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 2d

The only violence I’ve been seeing in Portland is from the so-called Feds!!!

Keep sharing these videos; it’s evidence.

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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 4d

Are you fucking kidding me.

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 4d

Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job

US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Dale Kirby 👊🇨🇦🔥 @dalekirby.com · 4d

They had these in Soviet-era Poland. Excellent if you are shopping for vinegar and baking soda only

Climate Watcher @pmagn.bsky.social · 4d

Why Canada needs public grocery stores

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Why Canada needs public grocery stores

YouTube video by The Breach

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Dale Kirby 👊🇨🇦🔥 @dalekirby.com · 4d

We can get it to zero. Let’s go! www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

American spirit exports to Canada 'plummeted' 85%, says U.S. trade group | CBC News

American spirit exports to Canada "plummeted" 85 per cent in the second quarter of 2025, with the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States calling the situation "very troubling" as consumers in ...

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Dale Kirby 👊🇨🇦🔥 @dalekirby.com · 4d

Any comment from ChatGPT?

Dale Kirby 👊🇨🇦🔥 @dalekirby.com · 5d

About 25 years ago, we mass produced this "Education Shouldn't Be A Debt Sentence" logo on placards and decals, using them for protests and other shit-disturbing. This placard is still kicking around at a local elementary school #cdnpse

Dale Kirby 👊🇨🇦🔥 @dalekirby.com · 5d

Too kookoo for Cocoa Puffs

Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 5d

"Peter Thiel warned that Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and critics of technology or artificial intelligence are “legionnaires of the Antichrist” in private lectures on Christianity that connected gov oversight of Silicon Valley to an apocalyptic future"

www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

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Dale Kirby 👊🇨🇦🔥 @dalekirby.com · 5d

Dropkick Murphys are a proud pro-union, anti-authoritarian band — and they don’t care if that loses them fans www.cbc.ca/arts/q/dropk... #punksky

Dropkick Murphys are a proud pro-union, anti-authoritarian band — and they don’t care if that loses them fans | CBC Arts

For nearly 30 years, Dropkick Murphys have been the loud, proud voice of the working class. Frontman Ken Casey joins Q’s Tom Power to talk about the band’s new album, For the People, and why he refuse...

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Dale Kirby 👊🇨🇦🔥 @dalekirby.com · 6d

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 6d

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 · 6d

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 · 6d

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

Dale Kirby 👊🇨🇦🔥 @dalekirby.com · 6d

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 · 6d

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 · 6d

Toutons

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 7d

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

Dale Kirby 👊🇨🇦🔥 @dalekirby.com · 7d

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

Dale Kirby 👊🇨🇦🔥 @dalekirby.com · 7d

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

Toronto Star @thestar.com · 7d

#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 · 7d

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

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 7d

“.. 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 · 7d

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 · 7d

I definitely won’t, ever

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Dale Kirby 👊🇨🇦🔥 @dalekirby.com · 7d

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 · 7d

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...