Thinking, grumbling, and writing about questions of social and economic policy. Prone to exasperation.
Joined June 2011
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Anna Cameron retweeted
Take the survey at engage.calgary.ca/STR by December 31st to help us identify opportunities and issues related to short-term rentals. 🗣️
The University of Calgary Conjoint Faculties Research Ethics Board has assessed and approved this study (REB23-0923).
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Anna Cameron retweeted
Share your thoughts on short-term rentals (STRs) in Calgary. 💭
We’re partnering with researchers at the @UCalgary to gather input from Calgarians about their experiences with and perspectives on STRs in the city.
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Like all my favourite research questions, this one really let me dwell in ambivalence.
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Anna Cameron retweeted
In case you missed it--here is the recording of Thursday's webinar on GBA+. A big thank you to our presenters Dr. Lindsay Tedds, Anna Cameron, and Deputy Minister Frances McRae: youtube.com/watch?v=p60UuQK-…
@IPAC_IAPC @EvertLindquist @WAGE_FEGC @LindsayTedds @annaicameron
Anna Cameron retweeted
I wrote for @guardian about happiness, and why it shouldn't be the basic principle of any constitution...
theguardian.com/culture/comm…
A Moral Education yalereview.org/article/garth…
"The idea that art should address the monstrous, that much of the moral office of art might lie in making us identify with the monstrous—identification not as consolation but as indictment—is entirely foreign to our current thinking."
An immense loss. Hilary Mantel wrote my favourite words.
‘When you turn and look back down the years, you glimpse the ghosts of other lives you might have led; all houses are haunted.’
Hilary Mantel wrote many wonderful pieces for the LRB and we’d hoped she’d write many more: lrb.co.uk/contributors/hilar…
Anna Cameron retweeted
Check out @mervatim's wonderful Balakian Citation acceptance speech from last night's ceremony! youtube.com/watch?v=kKKlw8Wc…
Words, however lazily chosen, matter.Language evokes histories, reflects what we deem allowable&true, articulates possibilities—it creates/sustains/reproduces power relations.When DCS named an Indian problem the wording wasn't vague.What are we doing when we use such words today?
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Anna Cameron retweeted
"There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in."
- Leonard Cohen (died 5 years ago #onthisday)
Anna Cameron retweeted
Dzsenifer Marozsan's pass for Eugenie Le Sommer last night one of the best you'll see.
Even Laura Harvey said it was one of the best goals she'll seen live.
(Le Sommer's first was a hell of a strike too)
Anna Cameron retweeted
Very happy for @emmahayes1, who has worked so hard for so long for this.
Anna Cameron retweeted
Y’all use Intersectionality as research parsley. Don’t even know what it means, just throwing it on.
