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Philosophy professor Jason Stanley announced this week that he will leave Yale, while history professors Timothy Snyder and Marci Shore, who are married, decided to leave around the November elections. The three professors will work at Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy.

PP wants to destroy CBC completely and force us to be reliant on american-owned Postmedia, Sun Media, Saltwire Network instead!

Xatśūll First Nation asked B.C. to order an environmental assessment of the Gibraltar mine’s expansion plans. The provincial government declined

Instead, the longtime fan said he was “escorted out of the stadium by two big security guards” just moments after the game began due to his choice of headwear.

For today’s game, Begley, who is 70, wore a Blue Jays hoodie and a red ballcap with the slogan, “Canada is not for sale.”

“We have spoken with the fan to apologize,” (Blue Jays) spokesperson Andrea Goldstein wrote in an email.

“Our staff made a mistake, and we have addressed the issue to ensure it does not happen again.”

For those unfamiliar, please see this post: https://lemmy.ca/post/40262691

In total we received 20 nominations for the English category, 5 for the French category, and 1 for the Inuk category. We will be submitting 3 songs, one from each category.

Voting will be open from now until March 30th, 11:59 PM Pacific Time.

You can rank up to 5 songs in each category:

• The top song you select will receive 5 points
• The second song will receive 4 points
• The third song will receive 3 points
• The fourth song will receive 2 points
• The fifth song will receive 1 point

It is possible to select less than 5 songs, but the remaining points will not be applied to anything.

Nominated Songs

Below you can find a list of all the songs nominated, along with links to listen to them.

You can listen to most of the songs with this playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzfFY_h7_GnZuMMcz4JlUDwmhiErYF47k

• It has all the songs, except for The Arrogant Worms - Canadian Famous, which is only available on the website link below
• Thank you to @hoserhobbes@lemmy.ca for putting it together 😊

See the end of this post for links to the voting form.

English:

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| | Palaye Royale | Dark Side of the Silver Spoon | song.link | YouTube | Spotify | | fanclubwallet | Band Like That | song.link | YouTube | Spotify | | Seven Graylands | Robotic Cicada | song.link | YouTube | | | Liminal Shroud | Nocturnal Phosphorescence | song.link | YouTube | | | Dan Mangan | Call Me Up High | song.link | YouTube | Spotify | | The Blue Stones | Come Apart | song.link | YouTube | Spotify | | Corb Lund | When the Game Gets Hot | song.link | YouTube | Spotify | | Chromeo | Words With You | song.link | YouTube | Spotify | | The Arrogant Worms | Canadian Famous | website link | | | | Billie du Page | Fake Friends (english list) | song.link | YouTube | Spotify | | Eva Shaw, DijahSB | RVPTVRE | song.link | YouTube | Spotify | | Men I Trust | Husk | song.link | YouTube | Spotify | | Rezz, Virtual Riot, One True God | Give in to you | song.link | YouTube | Spotify | | Akintoye | Raw | song.link | YouTube | Spotify | | Emma Alves | Bare Minimum | song.link | YouTube | Spotify | | Mustafa | Imaan | song.link | YouTube | Spotify | | Deer Fang | Low Tide | song.link | YouTube | Spotify | | DYLYN | Change Me | song.link | YouTube | Spotify | | PUP | Hallways | song.link | YouTube | Spotify | | Spiritbox | Deep End | song.link | YouTube | Spotify |

French:

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| | P'tit Belliveau | Ring ring | song.link | YouTube | Spotify | | Billie du Page | Fake Friends (liste française) | song.link | YouTube | | | Dominique Fils-Aimé | Moi je t'aime | song.link | YouTube | Spotify | | Autre Part | Le monde à l’envers | song.link | YouTube | | | Mange la machine | Mange la machine | song.link | YouTube | |

Inuktitut

Since there was 1 nomination in the Inuk category, we will be submitting the song by Elisapie (ᐃᓕᓴᐱ)!

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| | Elisapie (ᐃᓕᓴᐱ) | Quviasukkuvit (If It Makes You Happy) | song.link | YouTube | Spotify |

Voting Form

The voting form website has instructions in both English and French. You only need to fill in the form once, and it will include songs from all categories. For convenience, you can find direct links below:

English: https://survey.fedecan.ca/lemmyvision-2025-en

Français: https://survey.fedecan.ca/lemmyvision-2025-fr

Prof. Jason Stanley made decision after policy changes at Columbia University

A Yale University professor is leaving the U.S. and taking a position at the University of Toronto (U of T) due to what he says is a "far-right regime" under President Donald Trump.

"The United States is in the process of an autocratic takeover and it's directed by a regime that I don't think will want to leave power," said Jason Stanley, a professor of philosophy.

"Its not just Donald Trump. It's the machine behind Donald Trump."

Stanley, whose books include How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them, said he was considering joining U of T's Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy for over a year. But he decided to move after Columbia University made sweeping changes to its policies last week under pressure from the U.S. government.

In the Westminster parliamentary system used in Canada, the legitimacy of an elected government hinges on its ability to command the confidence of the House of Commons. During an election period, the House is shut and so the prime minister cannot seek approval from the elected chamber.

Because of that, the prime minister and cabinet are directed by the convention to act with restraint, which means they shouldn't introduce big, new things or make changes that would be onerous for the next government to roll back.

This does not mean that the government is prevented from making decisions. Prime Minister Mark Carney still has the responsibility of ensuring the routine operation of the government continues and must also be able to respond to emergencies such as natural disasters, wars or economic crises.

[Former Clerk of the Privy Council Michael Wernick] says that deciding what must be done — and what should not be done — comes down to the judgment of the prime minister guided by tradition, such as ensuring government actions demonstrate respect for the democratic will of Canadians.

"There's no rule book to go to that would tell you exactly where that threshold is," Wernick said.

When it comes to responding to tariffs being imposed on Canada by the Trump administration, the prime minister and his cabinet have the power and authority they need to respond with retaliatory tariffs or help for workers.

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre announced Thursday that a government led by him would allow Canadians to contribute $5,000 more a year to their tax-free savings account (TFSA) — as long as that extra cash is being invested in Canadian companies.

Poilievre is pitching it as a way to keep more investment dollars at home because the extra contribution limit will be earmarked for Canadian investments alone.

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PM will speak around 2 p.m. ET after Trump says he'll go ahead with 25% tariffs

Liberal Leader Mark Carney has paused his campaign and is back in Ottawa on Thursday to deal with the fallout from U.S. President Donald Trump's proposed auto tariffs, which would wallop the industry in Canada.

Speaking from the Oval Office on Wednesday, Trump delivered a blow to the cross-border auto trade, vowing to bring in a new 25 per cent tariff on finished vehicles imported into the United States, starting next week.

Hundreds of thousands of Canadians jobs are connected to the auto sector — the largest manufacturing industry in Canada and second-largest source of exports to the U.S. after oil.

In a social media post Thursday, the president threatened to further punish Canada and the European Union with duties "far larger than currently planned" if they retaliate against his auto tariffs

Premier Scott Moe is pausing Saskatchewan's industrial carbon tax.

The decision targets the carbon tax rate under the Output-Based Performance Standards (OBPS) program, which taxes large industrial emitters. The pause will go into effect on April 1.

"We have always stood from day one against this tax," said Premier Scott Moe on Thursday. "We don't think it is in any way an environmental tax, but ultimately is preventing investment and enhancing the inflationary costs that we are experiencing as Canadians."

Statistics Canada self-reported data shows that women and men both report having experienced physical assaults from partners at similar rates (23 per cent versus 17 per cent, respectively), but Sheehy points out the nature of those assaults and their impact are often vastly different.

The data shows women are considerably more likely to experience the most severe forms of intimate partner violence, including more devastating physical injuries and emotional suffering.

Women are also four to five times more likely to die at the hands of their partners than men are. Saskatchewan's 2024 Domestic Violence Death Review Report found that 83 per cent of homicide victims were female and 82 per cent of perpetrators were male. The review also found that when it comes to the perpetrators' history of violence, 64 per cent had prior police involvement with the victim.