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SHIFT Centre for Social TransformationJune 2026 |
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A pre-requisite for experimentation is having resources, to lean closer to abundance than scarcity. Inherently, an experiment is a risk, and will chafe against the ‘need’ for a return on investment. Experimentation—the license to try and fail—can in other words be a privilege, and, like most privileges, is afforded to a select few. Sometimes, there are exceptional outliers and accomplices. SHIFT is a multi-faceted experiment, one that is based on disseminating resources through a process of deep listening and reciprocity with Montreal communities. This process of resourcing happens in myriad ways: interns, grants, research projects, a community space, and platforms to share their work and knowledge. The work of SHIFT attempts to demonstrate not only what universities can do with the responsibility that comes with such privilege, but also how to do it. Experiments show us what’s possible and what’s not, and in a society of manufactured consent and prescriptive ‘common sense,’ we’re in dire need of a wide array of possibilities. |
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So an AI Data Centre is coming to your community? Friday, June 12 2026 @ 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. Join us as we hear from speakers who are waging citizen-led campaigns against data centres in their backyard. We will discuss the promise and hype of AI, the social and environmental impacts of AI data centres, the unsavory connection between the tech oligopoly and captured governments attempting to impose AI and AI data centres on the population and across the landscape. Lastly, we will discuss concrete strategies for how communities have been organizing and how to scale up the struggle. |
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Building Narratives |
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As part of our special edition issue Building Narratives (May 2026), we invited pieces from our community related to "speaking truth to power" in an ever-shifting and consolidating media landscape. |
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You may have noticed that two offices share and work in the SHIFT Centre. Who are they? What do they do? Student staff Zariah and Jon Marvin will tell you everything you need to know! |
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Bâtir des récits |
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As part of our special edition issue Bâtir des récits (mai 2026), nous avons invités notre communauté à soummettre des articles relies à l'acte de « dire la vérité au pouvoir » dans un écosystème médiatique en perpétuelle évolution. |
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Vous avez peut-être remarquer que deux bureaux partagent le centre SHIFT. Qui sont ils.elles.iels? Que font iels.elles.ils? Nos étudiant.e.s employé.e.s Zariah and Jon Marvin vous expliqueront tout ce dont vous avez besoin de savoir ! |
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