Farmers don’t explain their decisions to cattle, and governments running on social sorting logic don’t feel bound to explain their…
Tag: Canada
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Domestic Counter‑Insurgency: How Social Sorting Turns Citizens into a Population Problem
Opening scene: from census to COIN It starts with a browser window and a threat. Not a gun, not a…
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Social Sorting: A Research Dossier
Overview Social sorting is one of the most important, and least publicly understood, concepts in critical surveillance studies. It reframes…
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The Census as a Behavioural Governance Machine: Entitlement, Herding, and the Fiction of Neutral Statistics
Research brief by Alexandra Kitty The Argument in Plain Language This piece is not about conspiracy. No shadowy figure is…
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Tell me your immigration policy and I’ll tell you everything about how you govern.
If you want to know how a country is really governed, don’t start with its constitution, its national myths, or…
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Empires Without Heirs: What Happens When Nations Treat People Like Pawns
My family came from somewhere else. That fact is not a footnote in my biography; it is the foundation of…
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The Quiet Quash: How Canada Is Dismantling Press Freedom While the Press Watches
By Alexandra Kitty | A Forensic Breakdown Executive Summary Canada does not need to arrest journalists, seize printing presses, or…
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We are Still in a Global Game of Roulette and the Wheel is Still Spinning. The New York Times Never got the Memo.
The loudest thing in Yanzhong Huang’s column isn’t the warning about Chinese overconfidence. It’s the quiet assumption that the wheel…
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Paper Crowns: How Middle-Class Admin Turn Public Institutions into Leadership LARPs
There is a specific kind of institutional failure that does not arrive suddenly. It accumulates. It is staffed by people…
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Four Ontario Colleges: An Institutional Culture Typology
Purpose and Method This document codifies observed institutional traits across four Ontario colleges into a provisional typology. The primary data…