40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion

Unlike the child porn mandatory minimum sentence hysterics (eg Robyn Urback), Mr. Coyne has actually read and understood the Supreme Court’s recent Charter decision affecting same.

"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk

The Trump regime is not only withdrawing the US from climate efforts, it's threatening other countries that try to make climate deals. This is one of the greatest crimes of the Trump administration:

Well now, would you look at that? A massive study of NEARLY 300,000 people in the United States found that receiving an updated 2024-2025 mRNA COVID-19 vaccine REDUCED people’s risk of severe disease AND death in ALL age groups, REGARDLESS of immunity from prior infection or vaccination.

Sitting there like Jeremy Bentham

We are going to live in a world where the the marginal cost of electricity is very close to zero

*sip* ☕️

Did you know that today is I Read Canadian Day? To celebrate, we're sharing this great list by CBC Books from World Refugee Day: "If you're looking for a book to help you understand what the refugee experience is like, check out one of these titles by Canadian writers." www.cbc.ca/books/12-can...

PM Carney minces no words. Trump-imposed uncertainty is estimated to cost 🇨🇦Canada 1.8% of GDP. We have to buckle up, knuckle down, grit our teeth, and carry on while shunning dependence on a neofascist 🇺🇸USA. Can’t conceive of being stuck with a high school debater like Poilievre in times like these.

Earlier this year, I met a Croatian journalist who was in the US doing a piece on America’s politics and I asked her what surprised her. And she said, “What you all call the far left is just being normal.”

We can't let rage win! 💪 Research shows anger, not fear, shifts political beliefs source.washu.edu/2025/10/rese... "...the researchers found that anger — not fear — was the primary emotion tied to a shift toward conservative views."

Everyone who is upset about the recent Supreme Court ruling should read this post for a clear understanding of what it actually means.

He will never get over losing the Toronto mayoral election.

Condé Nast has laid off all the black female writers at Teen Vogue, as well as trans writers. This was formerly one of the best news sources, empowering women and girls. Commercial media is rapidly whitewashing and silencing female, BIPOC & LGBTQ+ voices.

VP Cheney will be honoured with a 21 gun salute accidentally aimed directly at 21 of his friends

Vaxxed? www.cnn.com/2025/11/04/p...

From the weekend, my post on the disingenuous, overwrought reaction to Friday's Supreme Court decision on mandatory minimum sentences.

In which @theglobeandmail.com’s resident hysteric, Ms Urback, discloses her complete ignorance of jurisprudential reasoning. Yes,these two offenders might well have merited sentences of well more than a year’s imprisonment. But no, it wouldn’t require a mandatory minimum sentence to achieve that.

Saw a news report yesterday about children as young as 9 being given weight loss jabs on the NHS, and I think it shows just how utterly bullshit the “lack of research into long term impacts” excuse for banning puberty blockers for trans kids really was. It’s purely ideological.

Last chance to turn it off. On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default. To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.

Thank you, Blue Jays.

Honestly, for Toronto and Jays fans that is an unforgettable, indelible, brutal way to lose. That is pure heartbreak, pure what-if, forever. And that’s part of what made that one of the best baseball games anyone will ever see.

We are all @davidmoscrop.com.

There was joy in it. #SmallPressFair Great location @victoriacollege.bsky.social Wonderful volunteers. Thanks to #TIFA and #KateSiklosi and all the lovelies/readers met today. #shebows

What does Tory & Ford & Toronto’s obsession w cheapness get us? An unusable beach. My column on shoreline work at Humber Bay, a park next to one of Toronto’s superdense neighbourhoods. If politicians force new housing all in one place, people should have a proper beach.

NEW POST: No, the Supreme Court is not an obstacle to tougher laws against child porn emmettmacfarlane.substack.com/p/no-the-sup...

POSTER: In my post I invented the Don’t Misunderstand the Torment Nexus Metaphor as a cautionary tale CTO: At long last, I have misunderstood the Torment Nexus Metaphor from the classic post Don't Misunderstand The Torment Nexus Metaphor

Sign and share: the petition to kick MAGA ambassador Pete Hoekstra out of Canada. Gotta love this initiative. www.change.org/p/remove-pet...

The offenders in the cases at issue in the recent Supreme Court decision could and should easily have been given well more than a year. That wouldn’t have been unconstitutional. It’s the shackles that led to the unconstitutionality of the entire law.

In 🍁Canada, we trust our judges to impose sentences to fit the specific offences before them in all sorts of cases. That should be the norm instead of shackling them to pander to bloodthirsty mob mentalities. 🍁🍁🍁

The tough-on-crime ayatollahs screaming about minimum sentences should be asked: If your 18 year old received, unsolicited, a text depicting a 15 year old in a pornographic state, and forgot to delete it from their phone, would you want them charged, convicted and automatically jailed for a year? 🤔

So retro that people are bringing up Russian bots again as a reason why people are bigoted dickheads as opposed to accepting that polls show that at least 30% of people are just always like this and always will be

This right here, this exact sentence, is THE problem in American political journalism. The IRA *was* cheap energy and good jobs! That was the whole bill! Democrats did precisely what political pundits are telling them to do and the pundits just ignore it.

Every single day, I'm told that home prices have to stay high since seniors rely on that equity to fund their retirement. The evidence that this is true, however, is remarkably thin. Yet it's something that's nearly universally treated as true.

Lucy Black is one of the very best writers of historical fiction on the planet—this book is gorgeous.

“The novel is a stitching together of memories of unspeakable events. Black takes us on an exciting journey through rural Ontario in the late 1800s.” —WAHEED RABBANI, Historical Novel Society Read the review of Lucy E.M. Black’s, A Quilting of Scars: historicalnovelsociety.org/reviews/a-qu...

Read @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social's column (link below) on the need for constitutional change in Ontario. It's not as hard as you might think. One necessary change is to enumerate municipal powers so that autocratic Premiers cannot run roughshod over cities. www.tvo.org/article/anal...

My longstanding unpopular stance is that the beginning of the end was comment sections on news stories. The day we created this false narrative that everyone is entitled to "weigh in" on literal facts, we created the conditions for this BS where you have to "hear people out" or you're censoring.

"Neighbourhood interiors were never intended for commercial activity", says one letter writer. To be fair, this is true, if you toss the entirety of human history and modern day Earth outside North America in the trash, and think that urban planning less than a century old is ironclad natural law.

Happy Book Birthday! ✨🎂 #CanLit #poetry #fiction #nonfiction #anthology

They literally ruin everything they touch

"If you're a billionaire, why are you a billionaire?" Billie Eilish speaking directly to Mark Zuckerberg, as she donates $11.5m to food poverty and climate justice organisations.

Can't overstate how fucked up it is that unraveling what is arguably the greatest achievement in the history of humanity is now a motivating issue of one of the two dominant parties in the U.S.

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

Sign the petition in the thread. NIMBY groups are gathering again to defeat retail in neighbourhoods. Just saw a letter from “no more noise” objecting. It’s a city. Stop sterilizing it. Biz/cafes/even bars in neighbourhoods work in humane cities around the world.

Exorcist: I'm here to remove the demon that has possessed you Me: I didn't call you Demon: I did

It's becoming increasingly clear that the only people horny for AI are billionaires and governments.

Sunday November 2 It’s a bookish weekend in Toronto and we hope you’ll come! 6:30pm TYPE Books Junction 2887 Dundas Street W Doors open all day! Heather Birrell Teri Vlassopoulos Saad Omar Khan @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social @coachhousebooks.bsky.social @invisibooks.bsky.social