“The imminent return of trains to northern Ontario and the Gaspé Peninsula is great news. But we need to make sure it’s only the beginning of a long-lasting national passenger rail revival.” @taras-grescoe.com makes the case for Canada’s trains.

In addition to these, the city has these cuts up too. To end transit after 10pm is straight up dangerous. No transit on Sundays? Increase taxes on non profits lol what about all the car dealerships?? The detrimental effects on the reduction of snow clearing for people w/ disabilities & the elderly..

when i hear techie people say everyone should just be self-hosting the digital services they need instead of using centralized platforms, i think of crypto enthusiasts saying everyone needs their own wallet they must personally protect or they lose all they money

An Oral Storytelling Workshop Learn techniques for adding to the foundation of your oral story. A story selection will be provided or bring your own story. Feedback provided. Tickets: dartmouthheritagemuseum.ns.ca/product-cate... Or contact 902-464-2300 or [email protected]

Franzi Schimmer captured this Grizzly bear in Brooks Falls, Alaska just floating along, tippy-tapping down the river, browsing the salmon. Prior to hibernation, up to 40% of a bear's body mass is fat, which is less dense than water (~0.9 g/cm^2), so the murder-monster is also a floaty-boaty.

Cut the police budget by this amount. So much of what they do in Halifax is serve as a private security firm for white nationalists demanding ICE-style deportations.

Please take a moment and read the obituary for Erica Joy. She was the homeless woman they found last week in Halifax. Learn how homelessness and addiction happen and that we need to do better by people like her and their families. May she rest in peace. www.eastcoastmemorial.ca/obituaries/E...

This great piece resonates with my own sense of loss and mourning of my social and professional identity as a computer programmer as the community of software engineers embraces LLMs and continues to sink further into surveillance and behavioral manipulation-based technofascistic business models.

this sequence in the U.S. women’s curling match was pure cinema

This is blackout poetry to me

STOP READING SHIT ON SUBSTACK. IT IS RUN BY NAZIS. STOP PAYING MONEY TO THEM!!

can you imagine how disappointed you’d be if you knew nothing about this book and only picked it up for this particular cover

Actual footage of Vince Guaraldi performing "Linus and Lucy". I'm gobsmacked that this exists, but utterly thrilled too. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EMf...

i often think about this review

Drug checking should be funded and be an important part of public health infrastructure. So long as we continue prohibitionist policies in which the drug supply is unregulated and unsafe, we should at least try to be as aware as possible so that we can anticipate changes and keep people safe.

Mark Carney said that Canada is "considering" sending aid to Cuba. Before COVID, one million Canadians visited Cuba every year. Their convertavle peso is pegged to the Canadian Dollar. I argue that we need to send fuel and supplies ASAP, regardless of Trump. noraloreto.substack.com/p/canada-mus...

Needless to say, this will burden employees with significant costs (car & travel expenses, commuting time, wardrobe, etc) and add to the already crisis traffic situation.

get the kid in the brown hoodie a scholarship

So Moltbook was human-orchestrated performance art. This is exactly the sort of thing you would expect when a bunch of people want to believe in a shared collective delusion and engage in performing the belief publicly as a means of convincing other people to suspend their disbelief.

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

🌟 Sex workers at Sheri’s Ranch, a legal brothel in Pahrump, Nevada, are unionizing with the Communications Workers of America @cwaunion.bsky.social Last week, management fired several pro-union workers—including the union’s primary organizer, Jupiter Jetson thenevadaindependent.com/article/sex-...

The response to the #TumblerRidgeShooting from far-right media, online commentators and even an elected official in Canada is another dark example of how pervasive anti-trans misinformation has become, even in Canada. Mel Woods writes. #bcpoli #bced

If GoFundMe isn’t your thing and you’re located in Canada where Interac e-transfers are a thing, you can now send an e-transfer to a verified bank account with the local credit union.

The Beach Boys :: We Gotta Groove – The Brother Studio Years aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/02/10/t... Here, after nearly half a century, is not just a presentation of some of the strongest, strangest music Brian Wilson would ever record, but a celebration of it.

After 25 years of extreme wealth concentration, the top 1% own 23% of the wealth—up $3 trillion. Our new report w/ @bcpolicy.bsky.social sounds the alarm: to protect our democracy & sovereignty, we need to stop our slide into US-style oligarchy. Read it now: www.taxfairness.ca/en/resources...

Like most library picketers during the Metro Toronto Library Strike in 1984, CUPE Local 1582 Vice-President Linda Cornwell was seldom without a book. Library workers engaged in this labour action in an attempt to secure paid maternity leave, prorated benefits for part-time staff, and more.

No son, they are not "magically delicious." The workers made them delicious. This is a slogan meant to mystify the social conditions of labor

Habeas corpus actions are the ancient common law writ used to create a legal action to sue for freedom. They were crucial in the early-nineteenth-century efforts to challenge slavery. This graph showing “habeas cases” suddenly leaping in 2025 — is terrifying. dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/

My new article on Canada's recent AI strategy consultation. Lightning-fast engagement, dubious data protection measures, black box analysis, & AI-generated summaries from made-in-USA LLMs are not a winning strategy for building public trust betakit.com/canadas-new-...

On the left, Casey Wasserman, CEO of Wasserman talent agency, who was recently damningly exposed in the Epstein files. Wasserman represents hundreds of musicians. On the right, genocidaire Netanyahu, the war criminal who has overseen the murder of 400,000 Palestinians.

This image says it clearly and compassionately. Naloxone isn’t about labels .. it’s about being prepared. Accidents happen to seniors, kids, pets, and families every day. Having naloxone means you care enough to be ready. It saves lives. Every life matters 💜 #naloxonesavelives

Every business right now thinks its such an essential part of your life that you'd give them anything to keep using it and brother I am here to tell you I don't need a chat app that bad

Fandoms are trying to engage with activism that can make a difference, and your library is a great place to find those opportunities. @comicslibrarian.com breaks down all the ways libraries are standing up to ICE.

The first Canadian military engagement on foreign soil was John A MacDonald sending Canadian troops to help the Belgians colonize The Congo, including aspiring character from Blood Meridian, William Grant-Stairs, who is still commemorated at various Canadian military institutions.

A former OneBC staffer previously participated in a Spaces call with the leaders of white nationalist/"Canadian nationalist" organizations. They talked about deporting 10 million people and joked about throwing "millions of Punjabis" into the sea. 1/3 thetyee.ca/News/2026/02...

What's your favourite Canada fact? Mine is that the RCMP bombed an oil site in Alberta in 1998 "with the full support of the energy company that owned it" and blamed a farmer for it.

omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for gradient.horse

Digital asbestos.

Reminder: In light of Bad Bunny's Superbowl performance spotlighting Latino culture, here's a hefty list of Latino speculative fiction authors I curated if anyone wants to take a gander and read some phenomenal work. Much love to all! go.bsky.app/6BAmgpi

ah i can answer this trick question actually. novels are not a race

both solid competitors but after "Someone accustomed to burlap is different from someone who wears silk" you have to give this round to Blazer Unc

How to talk to struggling men? Nonviolent Communication training is the place to start: nvcacademy.com Starting a men's group is also a hugely beneficial step. Make sure the stated and practiced values of the group are decolonial, feminist and anti-oppressive: mensgroup.com/start-mens-g...

The government is giving a loan to a Crown corporation that should just be a public service that we pay for because it provides an essential task that Canadians depend on. We don’t provide loans to the health care system or schools; we just pay for them.

Two things I’m not sure is widely understood: 1. Many public servants no longer have their own desks and work in transient government co-working spaces 2. Many describe a Kafkaesque existence of going to physical offices only to spend their time on video calls with the people sitting next to them

hey just fyi I would not have been able to draw these connections without Peter's excellent work on the Edge Foundation. tracing science funding is only going to get more important as federal funds are slashed, and I hope some young science journos follow his good example

Thank you. I’m going to be in conversation with Kyle Mays about how crucial Black and Indigenous solidarity is in this time of crisis: www.rebhallphd.org/events/book-...

I cannot sufficiently underline how despicable it is that the IOC has required Haitian Olympic athletes to remove an image representing the leader of the Haitian Revolution (against SLAVERY) from their uniforms.