Shailee Shah

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We have automated systems that detect things like hate speech, child sexual abuse material, and graphic violence. Importantly, the technology is sovereign and read-only. It isn’t training AI models on our users’ content.
A Canadian Social Network? Don’t Roll Your Eyes Yet | The Walrus
trust-and-safety firm in France called Tremau
A Canadian Social Network? Don’t Roll Your Eyes Yet | The Walrus
You can verify through an institutional email address—a university, professional association, union, and so on—or through Canada Post’s Identity + app, which verifies that you’re an adult without sharing your personal information with us.
A Canadian Social Network? Don’t Roll Your Eyes Yet | The Walrus
We don’t receive your identity data. All we receive is confirmation that you’re a real adult. We don’t want people’s personal information because we don’t want to become a target for cyberattacks or data breaches. Canada Post deletes the verification information shortly after it’s processed. For a company our size, this is the best way we’ve found to reduce bots, trolls, and fake accounts without trying to fight AI with AI.
A Canadian Social Network? Don’t Roll Your Eyes Yet | The Walrus
roughly 90 percent of our data infrastructure is controlled by American companies
A Canadian Social Network? Don’t Roll Your Eyes Yet | The Walrus
The platform itself runs on an open social network—the same underlying system Bluesky uses.
A Canadian Social Network? Don’t Roll Your Eyes Yet | The Walrus
Our hosting is on sovereign Canadian infrastructure—not just the servers but the cloud itself. It’s open-source infrastructure that’s not subject to the United States Patriot Act or the Cloud Act. We’re not using Amazon, Google, or Microsoft cloud services. Everything is governed exclusively by Canadian law.
A Canadian Social Network? Don’t Roll Your Eyes Yet | The Walrus
She said that she plans to ride Para Transpo to The Ottawa Hospital, as many people in her ward use the service to go there.
Para Transpo riders challenge councillors to experience 'horrible' system - Capital Current
Three councillors — Glen Gower, chair of the Transit Commission and councillor for Stittsville, Alta Vista Coun. Marty Carr and Somerset Ward Coun. Ariel Troster — promptly agreed to take on the challenge to better understand and to try to address some of the issues raised.
Para Transpo riders challenge councillors to experience 'horrible' system - Capital Current
Para Parity advocacy group
Para Transpo riders challenge councillors to experience 'horrible' system - Capital Current
He also says anything outside of the transit boundary within the city is subject to an $11 fee.
Ottawa’s worst commute: Para Transpo users raise concerns
And without 24-hour or full on-demand service, Humphries says he often relies on ridesharing for last-minute trips.
Ottawa’s worst commute: Para Transpo users raise concerns
“The buses seem to do a better job,” he said. “The cabs are very stressful because they overload them and then it’s difficult.”
Ottawa’s worst commute: Para Transpo users raise concerns
The current Long Range Financial Plan (LRFP) is based on a 2.5 per cent increase to fares each year. Decisions by Council froze fares in 2020 and 2023, resulting in no increases. If fares are frozen in one year, and not adjusted by increasing future fares by doubling the increase, the compounded effect over the current LRFP period (2026-2048) is a shortfall of approximately $150 million. The 2025 fare increase of 5 per cent generally made up for the fare freeze in 2023.
Nov. 21, 2025: Comprehensive review of the transit fare structure | OC Transpo
Separating us were just their uniforms, for they too, like the whole country, had a deep love for cinema.
Notes on making A Night of Knowing Nothing - Open City Documentary Festival
“A night of knowing nothing, Another one of being sad No more my love Give me freedom’
Notes on making A Night of Knowing Nothing - Open City Documentary Festival
Restaurant owners, often lacking culinary training and resources, turned to tried and tested Anglicised menus from existing restaurants. Poppadoms, onion bhajis, flock wallpaper, pink tablecloths, and waiters in bow ties were institutionalised as British curry house hallmarks from the 1970s onwards, alongside a new menu of curries that de-regionalised existing Indian dishes into an easy to understand (and easy to make) canon that ranked curries according to heat level: korma, tikka masala, jalfrezi, madras, vindaloo.
The Rise and Fall of the Curry House - Vittles
owned and staffed by Bangladeshis from the region of Sylhet
The Rise and Fall of the Curry House - Vittles
Deindustrialisation and the Bangladeshi Liberation War meant that there were suddenly many newly unemployed Bangladeshi and Pakistani workers and refugees in cities such as Birmingham, Bradford and Manchester. They identified a growing appetite for “exotic” food among young people who wanted to reject the bland diet of their parents, and decided to try their hand at running restaurants.
The Rise and Fall of the Curry House - Vittles
But to make their businesses viable from the 1960s onwards, restaurant owners had to cater to the wider population. This is where many first- and second-generation workers faced racism head on—serving white people “while absorbing their shit at the same time,”
National Service — The Bangladeshi Legacy of the British Curry House — Good Beer Hunting
It was common for waiters to be mocked for their accents, or to face abuse over the prices they charged.
National Service — The Bangladeshi Legacy of the British Curry House — Good Beer Hunting
One of the most important elements in the curry house’s growing popularity was the decision by many owners to start serving Lager alongside their food.
National Service — The Bangladeshi Legacy of the British Curry House — Good Beer Hunting
Now the curry could really take off, especially in the cities of London, Birmingham and Bradford. Dishes were modified to British tastes and we flocked to the restaurants for the taste of the chicken tikka masala, lamb rogan josh, the bhajis, and the vindaloos, reaching a peak in the 1980s with the launch of the wonderful Madhur Jaffery’s classic book Indian Cookery.
Indian cuisine | British Food: A History
mills and factories encouraged by the British government
The National Front in Bradford in the 70s - The 70s 80s 90s Blog
1976 – a year that saw many violent racist attacks against Asian Britons.
The National Front in Bradford in the 70s - The 70s 80s 90s Blog
Little Horton, the area of south-west Bradford where the Dawood family lived, is 57% British Asian, overwhelmingly of Pakistani origin, compared with just under 20% in Bradford as a whole, according to the 2011 census. In Little Horton’s 19,996-strong local population, 35% do not have English as their main language and 12% of those are unable to speak English well or at all.
One city, two cultures: Bradford's communities lead parallel lives | Bradford | The Guardian
From the 1976 ‘battle of Bradford’ clash with the National Front in Manningham
Share your stories of life in Bradford in 1970s and 1980s | Bradford Telegraph and Argus
Bradford was home to mass deindustrialisation and Peter Sutcliffe’s murder spree.
Share your stories of life in Bradford in 1970s and 1980s | Bradford Telegraph and Argus
segregated secondary schools
Segregation in Bradford | Samia Rahman | The Guardian
When my family became the first Muslims to buy a house on a street in the relatively affluent part of Bradford called Heaton in the 1980s, a For Sale sign immediately went up next door.
Segregation in Bradford | Samia Rahman | The Guardian
living in what is a bi-cultural rather than multicultural society.
Segregation in Bradford | Samia Rahman | The Guardian
Ray Honeyford was the head teacher of a school in inner-city Bradford where more than 90% of pupils were non-white.
Ray Honeyford: Racist or right? - BBC News
The latter riot resulted in the Ouseley Report, which noted that Bradford had become deeply divided by segregated schooling, resulting in children leaving full-time education with little knowledge of the lives of other communities.[8][9]
Ray Honeyford
And then, of course, there was Bradford's most notorious son, Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper, whose murderous campaign was finally halted by his chance arrest in 1981.
Rita, Sue and Bob Too: A snapshot of 1980s Britain - BBC News
Bradford's image had taken a battering in the 1980s: it had lost traditional industries and jobs, there were fierce arguments about race and education, and the city suffered one of the worst British stadium tragedies when 56 football fans perished in the 1985 Valley Parade fire.
Rita, Sue and Bob Too: A snapshot of 1980s Britain - BBC News
The original Bradford Coat of Arms had the Latin words Labor omnia vincit below it, meaning "Work conquers all".[64] A new coat of arms was emblazoned in 1976, after local government reorganisation in 1974, with the English motto "Progress, Industry, Humanity"
Bradford
Asian Youth Movement
Aesthetica Magazine - Memories of Resistance
At the same time, the National Front, a far-right, fascist political party, rose in popularity. In 1977, the party won more than 100,000 votes in a Greater London election and in Bradford, NF marches and racist street activity became a regular feature of the political landscape.
Aesthetica Magazine - Memories of Resistance
“In my class at secondary school, there was about five or six people of Indian origin,”
How daytime raves introduced clubbing to a generation of young British South Asians - Mixmag.net
After the success of Bombay Jungle, venues opened up to Asian promoters.
By the Light of Day: how 'daytimers' created a South Asian club scene
But daytimers kind of stopped by the year 2000, partly because so many venues were closing down.
By the Light of Day: how 'daytimers' created a South Asian club scene
Walking through Bradford at 2pm on a Wednesday, into these dark basements with flashing lights and all this Bhangra stuff.
By the Light of Day: how 'daytimers' created a South Asian club scene
We’d get KFC or McDonalds on the way home, and on the Monday after, everyone at school would talk about what happened. There was also all the car culture associated with it. You’d just got your licence so you could cruise up to and back from the daytimer in your mum’s Ford Escort XR3.
By the Light of Day: how 'daytimers' created a South Asian club scene
I’ve heard secondhand stories about announcements being made at the gurdwara [Sikh place of worship] that these things were happening and they weren’t good, because of boys and girls mixing.
By the Light of Day: how 'daytimers' created a South Asian club scene
You could feel it even walking along Southall Broadway
By the Light of Day: how 'daytimers' created a South Asian club scene
No one ever talks about this stuff, but at the time, even though Bhangra is for everyone, we definitely had a sense of “What are all these Pakistanis doing here?!”
By the Light of Day: how 'daytimers' created a South Asian club scene
There was nearly always a tension between east and west London at the end of the party;
By the Light of Day: how 'daytimers' created a South Asian club scene
One promoter I spoke to even said he banned all national flags.
By the Light of Day: how 'daytimers' created a South Asian club scene
The barriers were broken: Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, all hanging out with each other.
By the Light of Day: how 'daytimers' created a South Asian club scene
Malkit Singh, who was already an established artist by my parents’ generation, but he was always popular. Jazzy B from Canada caused a storm ’cos he was the new boy on the block. B21, the boy band, who were new and young, one guy had a turban on and all the girls were loving him. If you had one of those acts on, you were guaranteed success as a daytimer promoter.
By the Light of Day: how 'daytimers' created a South Asian club scene