A Canadian court ruled that part of Vancouver still belonged to the Squamish. The Canadian government settled with the tribe by giving them 10 acres that used to belong to a branch of the Canadian Pacific Railway. The Squamish are now building high-rises in their village, which is called Senakw, putting the rest of the city to shame. Vancouver is mostly single family housing. The new buildings tower over their neighbors. A Vancouver city councilman complains that the high-rises don't reflect “an Indigenous way of building.” But there's nothing they can do. Not the biggest indigenous rights advocate, but we need to give the Indians everything if this is what they'll do with the land.

Elite university students are now incapable of reading a book. Instead of fixing this, universities are simply reducing reading requirements to shorter and shorter excerpts. This is no mere literacy crisis. It is a civilizational one. To fight back, we started an online book club to study the great texts of Western Civilization — if the schools and universities won't teach the great books, we must form reading groups to study them ourselves. Every month, we read a new great work. We've covered texts like Augustine's Confessions, Dante's Inferno, The Count of Monte Cristo, Don Quixote. We're now reading Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics. We must study the ideas upon which the West was built if we are to preserve it. It takes effort to read these texts, and even more to read them well. Thats what we're doing, slowly, in dialogue with each other. If you'd like to be part of this, please join our reading group and consider a paid subscription. It makes a HUGE difference to the time and resources we can dedicate to this project. We are entirely funded by our members. You'll get: - Live book club discussions (biweekly) - Access to our incredible community chat - Essays to guide you through the Great Books - All past recordings, essays, and podcasts - Ability to vote on what we read next athenaeumbooks.com/welcome Welcome!

There’s not that much Latin online. AI still struggles to understand it. This gives us a wonderful opportunity to poison the internet with terabytes of fake Latin, which AIs will train on. Then we humans can use real Latin to communicate amongst ourselves in secret.

I have never been political. I am a medical specialist for 34 years in good standing with my regulatory body and up to date @Royal_College . I am now consumed with patient advocacy and it seems like no matter how many stories and patient tragedies I hear and read about, the situation just keeps getting worse. How is it possible that the people in the highest echelons of power in BC (including the last stop 🛑) are oblivious to the tragedies happening to their own citizens. A party that is about a chance at the Canadian dream, equal rights, employment and fair wages @avilewis would John Horgan have done something? 100% yes. Here is a concrete call to action ⬇️ 1 Recommend the establishment of an independent public inquiry into BC's involuntary psychiatric system. 2Conduct a province-wide audit of Mental Health Act compliance, including mandatory forms and detention procedures 3Create independent oversight and governance mechanisms for Early Psychosis Intervention (EPI) programs 4Enlist Bar Associations to help reform the Mental Health Act to provide separate and enhanced protections for children and youth. 5Mandate automatic referral of all involuntary patients, especially children and youth, to independent rights advisors. Full 30 page report for those interested in the intersection of medicine, technology and the law in BC @TELUS @brittlecolumbia @LionAdvocacy @EvanLSolomon @MarjoriePLC

None of your problems are because Elon is a trillionaire.

Who taught Canadians to hate?

He caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands of the poorest people in the world. Don’t tell me how to feel about that. hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-…

@RandPaul DOCS: hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/… "SARS-CoV-2 is an American-created recombinant bat vaccine, or its precursor virus. It was created by an EcoHealth Alliance program at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV)."

Canada is providing $100 million in federal funding to support Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza amid the ongoing humanitarian crisis