Indeed. Cree author and lawyer Michelle Good has also written a good piece - “the man is notorious for simply refusing to respond when queries and concerns about his ancestry were raised with him.” www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Imagine being in-house counsel for Kids Can Press and receiving the call that requires you to vet a press release where you call out the fuckin' US Secretary of Defense for being an absolute tool.

April, 2025. "I voted for him to stop Pierre Poilievre."

National Guard Member Sarah Beckstrom, Who Passed Away, Believed Her D.C. Deployment With ICE Was Pointless

Every time you see that the government is trying to raise our military spending to 5% of GDP, think about the fact that our total elementary and secondary school spending is 3.9% of GDP.

First Chrystia (whose son is Carney's godchild), now Guilbeault jump ship. We can only hope others follow.

I think if Canada wants to have a strong cultural identity we need to go back to doing what we're best at, making the weirdest fucking TV shows you've ever seen

Research indicates that with UBI, under or unemployed people don't have to take 3 part-time jobs, and are therefore able to focus on a better job search. Results show that UBI is a path to a better job.

But some argue that making Canadian showrunners mandatory can hamper homegrown productions. In an interview with CP earlier this year, Jennifer Kawaja, executive producer of Netflix’s Canadian thriller series “Wayward,” said she was against the idea because Canada has a limited pool of showrunners.

New CRTC policy shares this view.

Goddam right. You do the right thing -- which this republic desperately needs done -- and they pull your credentials. So what? You have a phone and your have your sources. or you should. And you continue to report on this presidency as your colleagues now do outside the Pentagon. Enough dishonor.

Mark Carney.

Im gonna save y'all from giving Starbucks any money because fuck'em. Ingredients: 4 oz semi-sweet chocolates (113g) 2.5 Tbs granulated sugar (32g) 1 Tbs unsweetened cocoa powder (7.5 g) pinch salt 1 1/2 cups milk (360g) 1/2 tsp peppermint extract 1 – 2 cups Ice cubes (130-260g) Whipped Cream

It baffles me that the CRTC still refuses to recognize the primacy of the writer/showrunner after years of profiles of Simon, Chase, Weiner, Rhimes, Gilligan, Sherman-Palladino, Key & Peele, Fey, etc. Perhaps they simply disdain Canadians who do it.

Was it $140 million in Covid relief they got from the feds before they had mass layoffs?

This, about AI, is so good on many levels, from the "they're taking revenge on artists" angle to the "do you really want to give THESE guys more power?" bit.

Circa 2015

Looks like their plan to boost productivity by ushering everyone back to the office in an ongoing pandemic didn't play out as expected ottawacitizen.com/public-servi...

"Canada receives the award because the new government of Prime Minister Mark Carney has flushed years of climate policies down the drain, and is completely ‘Missing In Action’ at a COP where multilateralism needs to be saved." - Climate Action Network International

At COP30 Canada just got awarded the fossil of the day — first time since 2014 (the harper years). Clear sign of how Carney’s pro fossil fuel agenda and backsliding on climate policy is being noticed internationally.

I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered. He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here : www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

Disabled people deserve equitable access to healthcare - full stop. I now have 3 HRTO cases challenging the systemic barriers I’ve faced. Fundraising for legal support; boosts make a real difference. www.gofundme.com/f/help-me-fi...

Q: I'm confused because the bill specifically says 'the AG may withhold or redact portions related to child sex abuse materials.' The survivors are comfortable with that. These things are actually in this bill. JOHNSON: They're not Q: It's up to the AG J: No it's not! We're not making this up

"Remembering Alice Wong: Writer, Advocate, Friend" Steven W. Thrasher on Meeting and Collaborating with the Outspoken Founder of the Disability Visibility Project published by @literaryhub.bsky.social | art by @mollycrabapple.bsky.social lithub.com/remembering-...

The rule of law ended on inauguration day when Trump freed the J6 criminals.

Because Trump has stopped calling.

NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected. And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.* Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:

I really enjoyed the penultimate episode of Escape at Dannemora for the monstrous character reveals.

Excited to see AI's results in the Canadian government!

What happened, @nytimes.com? Why not stand by your original headline? Because it’s absolutely an accurate representation of this trash conversation. To publish this at all should be a fireable offense - but to publish it as women’s rights are being decimated is deeply immoral, bordering on evil

More focus on what Carney wants to do, less on the Tory caucus shitshow.

Harper cut 6%, Carney 15%, scraps all climate related funds. To save some manufacturing jobs, but we invest heavy in AI so we can replace those workers ASAP.

"There’s also a dedicated $925-million artificial intelligence (AI) fund, which Carney has identified as a priority." oh fuck off, jesus christ

Terrorists have taken over a building. You get to select one song to blast from speakers on a continuous loop to try to get them to surrender. Copy and quote-post with the name of the song. I choose Yoko Ono's cover of “Fireworks” by Katy Perry.

Teen Vogue eliminated all their Black and trans staff today. It's resegregation in real time.

🆄🅽🆂🅰🅵🅴 🅸🅽 🆃🅷🅴 🆆🅾🆁🅺🅿🅻🅰🅲🅴 how the CBC forced me to resign over COVID and why we’re all worse off for it—especially our kids a 🧵 (on the occasion of my son’s [5th] and the CBC’s [89th] shared birthday, nov. 2) 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼 [links to referenced articles in ALT text]

This is brilliant

My two all-time fave gingers making spaghetti and meatballs is the food porn I didn't know I wanted.

Dude renovates like a Hamilton, Ontario flip job.

How it started.

“We are facing the gravest danger of nuclear war that has existed on the planet since the end of the Cold War, and possibly worse than it was during the Cold War,” says nuclear disarmament advocate Dr. Ira Helfand.

Despite the headline it’s not George RR Martin personally going for them cos he’s rich and famous. It’s all of us. The test case used his work, but it’s about the plain-as-day issue that ANY generative AI ignores and infringes copyright, by passing off. That’s a win for basic law.

An invasive species of slithering, blood-sucking parasites in the Great Lakes has long been curbed by a small government program—one that may not survive the Trump Administration.

TIL The Globe and Mail, home to an inspiring investigative journalism section in the 1980s & 1990s, now prints press releases.

“Ireland’s New President Boldly Opposes Austerity, Militarism, and the Genocide in Gaza” Catherine Connolly, an independent leftist, won a landslide victory with the promise to serve as “a moral compass in a world increasingly driven by profit and spectacle.” www.thenation.com/article/worl...

Boomers had it all then voted us out of it.

Can I simply suggest that whichever intrepid journalist manages to embed himself with ICE and remain there taking careful notes undetected for some months or a year will almost certainly win a Pulitzer Prize, which regrettably, will have to be forwarded to a holding facility in Guantanamo, Cuba.