@djpare.bsky.social
Associate Professor
Dept of Communication, School of Info Studies (ESIS), & Institute for Science, Society & Policy (ISSP), University of Ottawa.
Personal Acct (Not uOttawa)
Dept of Communication, School of Info Studies (ESIS), & Institute for Science, Society & Policy (ISSP), University of Ottawa.
Personal Acct (Not uOttawa)
Are you using Gmail?
If so, you may not be aware that you've been automatically OPTED IN to allow Gmail to access all your private messages & attachments to train AI models. To OPT OUT you need to manually turn off Smart Features in the Setting menu in TWO locations
If so, you may not be aware that you've been automatically OPTED IN to allow Gmail to access all your private messages & attachments to train AI models. To OPT OUT you need to manually turn off Smart Features in the Setting menu in TWO locations
November 21, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Are you using Gmail?
If so, you may not be aware that you've been automatically OPTED IN to allow Gmail to access all your private messages & attachments to train AI models. To OPT OUT you need to manually turn off Smart Features in the Setting menu in TWO locations
If so, you may not be aware that you've been automatically OPTED IN to allow Gmail to access all your private messages & attachments to train AI models. To OPT OUT you need to manually turn off Smart Features in the Setting menu in TWO locations
Canadian members of the Academic Hivemind: I've signed. And, I hope you'll consider doing likewise docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Open Letter to Protect Tri-Council EDI Data
**Edited to add: we have received more than 4000 signatures for our letter but adding any more than 2000 names to this public page seems to be causing our Form to crash! Rest assured that we have all ...
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November 4, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Canadian members of the Academic Hivemind: I've signed. And, I hope you'll consider doing likewise docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
If you're in Ottawa the evening of Wednesday November 5th, this event may be of interest www.eventbrite.ca/e/the-encamp...
The Encampments | Free Screening - Les campements | Projection gratuite
An urgent look at America’s student movement, sparked at Columbia University, as students protested ties to the genocide in Gaza.
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October 25, 2025 at 7:06 PM
If you're in Ottawa the evening of Wednesday November 5th, this event may be of interest www.eventbrite.ca/e/the-encamp...
I find myself troubled by the replacing of the East Wing of the White House with the Epstein Ballroom, and I'm not even American!
October 23, 2025 at 3:04 AM
I find myself troubled by the replacing of the East Wing of the White House with the Epstein Ballroom, and I'm not even American!
I am very pleased to share with you Canada's 2022-2024 IRM Results Report. The public comment period starts tomorrow, Aug 15, and remains open through to the 29th. The report can be found here (the French version is currently being finalized): www.opengovpartnership.org/documents/ca...
Canada Results Report 2022-2024 - For Public Comment - Open Government Partnership
In 2025, the Independent Reporting Mechanism (IRM) published the Results Report for Canada’s fifth national action plan. The report reviews the level of completion and early open government results fo...
www.opengovpartnership.org
August 14, 2025 at 4:47 PM
I am very pleased to share with you Canada's 2022-2024 IRM Results Report. The public comment period starts tomorrow, Aug 15, and remains open through to the 29th. The report can be found here (the French version is currently being finalized): www.opengovpartnership.org/documents/ca...
Courtesy of the UK's ITV news from last night. Somehow I don't see N. American media outlets broadcasting anything like this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGbh...
Aerial footage filmed by ITV News shows the scale of Gaza's destruction | ITV News
YouTube video by ITV News
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August 5, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Courtesy of the UK's ITV news from last night. Somehow I don't see N. American media outlets broadcasting anything like this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGbh...
Some thoughts from @profsmithsask.bsky.social and I on the case of Katherine Grzejszczak cfe.torontomu.ca/blog/2025/07...
Can I share my thoughts about the war in Israel/Gaza, or will it cost me my job? | Centre for Free Expression
The recent firing of Katherine Grzejszczak, a paramedic working for the Regional Municipality of York (north of Toronto), for her Facebook comment condemning Israel’s bombing of Iran, killing children...
cfe.torontomu.ca
July 16, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Some thoughts from @profsmithsask.bsky.social and I on the case of Katherine Grzejszczak cfe.torontomu.ca/blog/2025/07...
An extremely rare sighting of the Lesser-Spotted Tariff #LoveOrnithology
April 9, 2025 at 12:21 AM
An extremely rare sighting of the Lesser-Spotted Tariff #LoveOrnithology
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We wouldn’t be here if SCOTUS had allowed the January 6th trial to go forward as scheduled.
April 8, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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WOW! Sloganeering Poilievre is polling behind in every demographic.
“Rap the Crap,” or “Ditch the Bitch,” you might say.
“Rap the Crap,” or “Ditch the Bitch,” you might say.
April 7, 2025 at 8:50 PM
WOW! Sloganeering Poilievre is polling behind in every demographic.
“Rap the Crap,” or “Ditch the Bitch,” you might say.
“Rap the Crap,” or “Ditch the Bitch,” you might say.
Hey @uottawa.bsky.social tell all of Canada you're tone deaf to to the world around us without telling us you're tone deaf to the world around us... #DoBetter
April 7, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Hey @uottawa.bsky.social tell all of Canada you're tone deaf to to the world around us without telling us you're tone deaf to the world around us... #DoBetter
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I don’t care WHO you voted for. If you can’t admit these last couple months have been an absolute shitshow, you’re part of a cult.
March 26, 2025 at 9:03 PM
I don’t care WHO you voted for. If you can’t admit these last couple months have been an absolute shitshow, you’re part of a cult.
Every time I hear Canadians who lean to the right on the political spectrum accuse people of being globalists I can't help but wonder how they reconcile that with the darling of the right, Stephen Harper, chairing the globalist International Democratic Union 🤔
March 26, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Every time I hear Canadians who lean to the right on the political spectrum accuse people of being globalists I can't help but wonder how they reconcile that with the darling of the right, Stephen Harper, chairing the globalist International Democratic Union 🤔
YorkU is engaging in top-down academic restructuring, and the YorkU Faculty Association (YUFA), alongside their campus colleagues & students, demand it stop. In Feb, the admin announced admission suspension to over a dozen programs. Pls sign & share their petition actionnetwork.org/letters/stop...
Stop top-down restructuring at York University
York's Administration seems to feel that it and the Board of Governors have jurisdiction over program suspensions and other academic decisions at York University. Send an email telling them that non-...
actionnetwork.org
March 25, 2025 at 9:31 PM
YorkU is engaging in top-down academic restructuring, and the YorkU Faculty Association (YUFA), alongside their campus colleagues & students, demand it stop. In Feb, the admin announced admission suspension to over a dozen programs. Pls sign & share their petition actionnetwork.org/letters/stop...
The University of Western Ontario Faculty Association (@uwofa1.bsky.social) is pushing back against a partnership between the for-profit pathway college Navitas & Western University. Pls sign and share their petition www.change.org/p/no-navitas.... Find out more here: www.uwofa.ca/resources-fo...
Sign the Petition
No Navitas at Western 2025: Petition Against the Proposed Partnership
www.change.org
March 25, 2025 at 9:22 PM
The University of Western Ontario Faculty Association (@uwofa1.bsky.social) is pushing back against a partnership between the for-profit pathway college Navitas & Western University. Pls sign and share their petition www.change.org/p/no-navitas.... Find out more here: www.uwofa.ca/resources-fo...
Carleton University Academic Staff Assoc is currently in negotiations, bargaining for smaller class sizes & TA ratios, wages that keep up with inflation, & health benefits that include better access to mental health services. Pls sign and share their petition today actionnetwork.org/petitions/su...
I support CUASA's negotiating team!
I support CUASA’s Negotiating Team in their fight for fair and equitable working conditions for professors and librarians, continued quality research, and academic excellence at Carleton University.
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actionnetwork.org
March 25, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Carleton University Academic Staff Assoc is currently in negotiations, bargaining for smaller class sizes & TA ratios, wages that keep up with inflation, & health benefits that include better access to mental health services. Pls sign and share their petition today actionnetwork.org/petitions/su...
PewPew's MapleMaga minions are really grasping at straws if the best they've got is to go after Carney's child. Colour me even more disgusted than usual with what the CPC
has become...
has become...
March 17, 2025 at 8:24 PM
PewPew's MapleMaga minions are really grasping at straws if the best they've got is to go after Carney's child. Colour me even more disgusted than usual with what the CPC
has become...
has become...
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So, with Felon-47's administration now openly defying court orders, is it still over-reacting to say the US is being led by an authoritarian regime? Asking for a friend...
March 16, 2025 at 6:51 PM
So, with Felon-47's administration now openly defying court orders, is it still over-reacting to say the US is being led by an authoritarian regime? Asking for a friend...
I'm thinking that last night PewPew must have had the happiest and most peaceful sleep he's had in ages. JT gone and the carbon tax axed all in the same day!
March 15, 2025 at 2:55 PM
I'm thinking that last night PewPew must have had the happiest and most peaceful sleep he's had in ages. JT gone and the carbon tax axed all in the same day!
Some food for thought as we move ever closer to a federal election here in Canada: Any candidate you can picture attending a Republican prayer breakfast is probably an exceedingly poor choice
March 14, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Some food for thought as we move ever closer to a federal election here in Canada: Any candidate you can picture attending a Republican prayer breakfast is probably an exceedingly poor choice
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Thou shalt fire Chuck Schumer.
March 14, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Thou shalt fire Chuck Schumer.
Question for ChatGPT: Looking at the last 100 years of economic data, which federal political party in Canada can be empirically demonstrated to have been the most fiscally responsible. You must pick only one party 🧵
March 13, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Question for ChatGPT: Looking at the last 100 years of economic data, which federal political party in Canada can be empirically demonstrated to have been the most fiscally responsible. You must pick only one party 🧵