This is National Post right wing scaremongering and attacking academic freedom. "Risks legitimizing" is absolutely ridiculous language that tries to put weird meta-limits on academic freedom.
This is a funded SSHRC project, which means it had to be written up as a research grant proposal which was then vigorously peer reviewed at the federal funding agency level. For this framing to be accepted it means that in this scientific community, this framing is a valid epistemological framework.
Then if you read the actual project page, as opposed to the National fucking Post you see clearly written:
Disclaimer
This research project is an exploratory, education-focused inquiry grounded in the principles of the need for impactful evidence-based policy research, academic freedom, intellectual integrity, and social and ethical responsibility towards participants (and policy impact). It seeks to understand and inform educational policies and practices in Canada by engaging with the lived experiences of Canadian immigrant communities now residing in the GTA/Ontario and who came from Eastern Europe, the Baltics, Caucasus and Central Asia—countries that regained or gained independence following the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.
This project does not carry any political or ideological agenda. We are aware of the complex history of the Soviet Union, including the widespread experiences of oppression along national, linguistic, religious, class, and other lines. We are also aware of the contested nature and various uses of terms such as "post-Soviet". Our usage of this term is meant exclusively to describe countries that were once part of the Soviet Union.
Importantly, our study’s principal focus is on these communities' Canadian educational experiences. However, given that attitudes towards Canadian education are influenced by participants' prior knowledge and experience, and the qualitative-constructivist paradigm of the study, our participants often explain by sharing their educational experiences before coming to Canada, including those from both pre-independence and independence periods.
We are committed to the responsible and respectful use of data and language in our analysis and reporting.
Which means that the researchers are engaging actively with the actual problematic epistemological limits of the framing. This is what actual scholarship looks like, whereas the National Post hit piece is only interested in a sensationalized moral panic playing on right wing stereotypes about academia.
edit: added link to the project page
edit2: The project page is extremely illuminating. For example, the people making up the project team include people from Tajikistan, Ukraine, Armenia, and Estonia. These are not random people, these are people who would be extremely well versed in all of the nuances that are being discussed here. All the more evidence that the National Post hit piece is just more US-style moral panic. Which isn't that weird, given that the NP is owned by the US-hedge-fund-controlled company Postmedia.
I don't live in Ontario and I'm concerned about the erosion of civil liberties in other parts of Canada.
Climate sanctions need to become a thing. This is antisocial behaviour on the part of the USA.
It the Irish potato famine?
Labour are class traitors.
What's that bullshit about Mamdani facing criticism about not being outspoken enough against antisemitism?
I think I understand what they mean. Trump is not a racist ideologue. He's not a "capital R" Racist, the way Hitler was. He's racist and his racism influences everything he does of course. But that's "lowercase r" racist. It's not what defines him, it's just one of his characteristics, maybe not even his most defining one.
It will keep getting worse, yes, but we can still impact how many generations down the line that will keep happening. That's what's hard at this point: giving a shit about descendants we will never meet.
For fuck's sake, It's not the ban I care about.
Man, this is hopeless. You've pigeonholed me, made up your mind and that's it. You perceive this whole interaction as me moaning about the ban, so you dismiss anything I have to say and talk down on me. This isn't a discussion for you, there is no chance to communicate here anything. Bah.
Source: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/mark-carney-day-1-1.7479519
A Reuters photographer snapped a picture of Trudeau later carrying a House of Commons chair out of the West Block chamber as he winds down his time in government. Under parliamentary rules, an outgoing MP can purchase a replica of their chair in the chamber.
Updated photo to remove the name of the company so I am not even inadvertently advertising them.
We are fast approaching a point where is no way to preserve the kinds of democratic, liberal, tolerant, multicultural, humanistic and socially just standards that define our standards of what's good in Western civilization than to form a closer European Union.
The European far right, from Meloni to the AfD and the RN in France is poised to establish a MEGA hellscape in the next election cycle. Only a liberal social democratic revolution, basically, can stop this.
An EU with common eurobonds, with a common nuclear capable Union Army, with the French UNSC permanent position becoming a European one, with common European taxation of wealth to reduce inequality and a common European welfare state. We should also establish universal jurisdiction for human rights abuses and put some teeth behind it.
We have already taken what is good from the American federalist tradition, and we have built new ones. We should forge a closer union while avoiding American mistakes like the imperial presidency, gerrymandering, and the influence of money in politics.
The MEGA fascists are like American Tories during the American Revolution: they serve the interests of foreign despots and pirates (to reference Jefferson): MAGA USA and Putinist Russia, peddling nothing but resentment politics that will solve none of our problems.
Miyazaki-sama said so.
It sounds innocuous and simple but it isn't. This is a good explanation:
Bursting the bubble (zone): Resisting Toronto’s anti-protest bylaw – Canadian Dimension https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/bursting-the-bubble-zone-resisting-torontos-anti-protest-bylaw