Former crime and justice, weather, and poverty reporter for The Hamilton Spectator. Current quiet voice of wisdom. Or just typing stuff.
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With respect - hate crime stats have very, very limited uses and very, very large limitations. A better set of data to examine would be the rates of criminal victimization by ... pick your power delineator. Do we (police, courts, statscan) even collect that data?
Thanks to @HCCI1 for flagging the 2022 Year End Report on Hate Crime in Hamilton, which is due to come to the police board at its meeting on Thursday. If we want a better city, and I know so many of us do, this can't continue to be our story. 🧵 #HamOnt
ALT A bar graph of total hate / bias occurrences from 2011-2022
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In The Beginning of Infinity I invented a story to illustrate that even logically consistent fiction can be a bad explanation. I asked ChatGPT about it:
Brilliant!
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@osbcucscso @cupe_3906 #CUPESolidarity @Sflecce
Hmmm. Wouldn't it be healthy if there were say, two or three embedded journalists to report on the conference? Y'all be welcome at any of our events! Come on, @oacp et al, sunlight warms as it disinfects! How about next year?
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Jamal Khashoggi is still dead and dismembered, and Jared Kushner is still getting his $2 billion from the Saudis. And I still refuse to forget about it.
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To all our hardworking STAFFs at our Labour Guilds, Unions, Associations & Orgs in the 🇨🇦 Film/TV/Media Industry - Happy Labour Day! #DGCStrong #Solidarity #Creativity #Safety #Fairness #Respect @DGCTalent
I like the cut of this man's jib. @DavidDeutschOxf enjoys pointing out the simpler questions that usually underlay 'controversies'.
The difference between a moral and an immoral painting is not in how many viewers find it hurtful or even traumatising. It is in whether the moral theory is advocates is true or false (i.e. right or wrong). bbc.co.uk/news/world-austral…
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The only thing worse than a country where the police can raid a former president is one where they can't.
The internet is not just strange, daunting and wonderful, it can also be useful. I guarantee several of these sites will either surprise or delight you. Nothing illegal.
Shout out to CBC journo @shaaminiwhy for her dogged pursuit of an interesting/important look at the Court's handling of an internal breach of trust. It gives one faith in the courts and journalism. cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ot…
As a journalist who's worked in highly similar situations I can think of many reasons to argue in court for the release of similar records up here. (Assuming we're talking about conversations that do not involve Counsel). But I'd want a compelling reason - especially pre-trial.
Terrible violence seems to create waves of violence that have their own ugly and specific amplitudes. This one will echo in Hamilton because of the region's multiple connections to this atrocity.
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Tomb of Sand translator Daisy Rockwell: "(Winning the Booker with Geetanjali Shree) isn't just a big deal for me, or a big deal for Hindi, but for all of us translators raising awareness that South Asian literature isn’t just written in English.”
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Don McLean raises done troubling questions about police honesty (and their use of corrective force) is being bent by politics.
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How wild that you have to ask/beg for "POVERTY-LEVEL Financial Support"!
(People with disabilities are already living more than 40% BELOW the poverty line and have to beg for #crumbs. 🤯🙅🏻♀️ It's criminal.) #legislatedpoverty #pwd #odspoverty #onpoli #bcpoli #canpoli #cdnpoli