🧵The University of Alberta is celebrating the inaugural TIME Magazine rankings, which places it 75th globally and 3rd in Canada. But @pinglamjoeip.bsky.social and I found that established QS World University Rankings tells a more concerning story about the university’s recent developments.

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.

Trump is fuelling a humanitarian crisis in Cuba, with an oil blockade that is leading to devastating power outages and rationing. This administration is determined to dominate the hemisphere with brute force and naked impunity.

also, i can’t imagine hearing music in a language that you don’t speak and not taking it as a chance to learn a bit (at the very least) of that language. see also: film and tv in other languages

can't keep track of all the products matty matheson is shilling for. he's the new simu liu!

I really wish we had a well funded, power critical fourth estate interested in investigating the source of this clearly coordinated effort by payment processors. Like, we keep seeing the impact of it, but I really want to know the "who" and the "why" beyond nebulous surveillance/puritanism forces.

“I’m mad I can’t understand Bad Bunny’s lyrics because they’re not in English” my brother millions of metalheads around the world have been happily listening to incomprehensible Finnish shrieks and Japanese death grunts since we were teens, you’re just boring and racist

post a banger that isn't in english youtu.be/uBYnza1Ta7E?...

i'll have to investigate further but my dad owns a reel-to-reel player that he's had since the late 60s when he was in high school. he used it primarily to bootleg his friends' vinyl records wholesale, but i recall a few tapes in his collection that were mixes sent by family back home in serbia.

I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them

When he gave the Grammy to that young boy who made everyone think of Liam…even if that wasn’t actually Liam, it was just the perfect way of cutting through all the bullshit. Every kid impacted by this administration’s cruelty is another Liam.

It’s Prince in 2007 and then that. Best two, no doubt

FUCK LUMA! FREE PUERTO RICO!!! BAD BUNNY FOREVER!!!!!

Commenting on energy injustice is now the floor for any halftime act.

that was a stellar performance and production, you killed it bad bunny

To be very clear, that lady in the NYT article is not making any money with her hundreds of AI slop books. She makes money by *convincing people* she makes money that way and getting them to pay her to teach them how to do it. It's an evolved MLM, and the NYT is helping market it.

If you thought 'no one is illegal on stolen land' was too radical wait until you start crying and pissing your pants because you saw a '90s pic of Zack de la Rocha wearing an 'ilegal, y que' shirt by Crudos.

The $75-million, Amazon-funded Melania Trump documentary is tanking at the box office, but a 2018 erotic thriller that depicts the First Lady as a sexual monster is rocketing up Amazon’s sales charts. www.404media.co/erotic-parod...

always interesting to me how worker-owned media is framed as a new thing. there is a deep history here, especially in canada, so @tombeedham.bsky.social, @lesliekenchu.bsky.social and i went long on how @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social's work is connected to the cooperative movement in media and beyond.

Send Help was so fun! Raimi is BACK baybeee

wrote about two new local records in the latest installment of @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social's "what we're listening to" for @thegrindto.bsky.social www.thegrindmag.ca/what-were-li...

Here's a profile of Beverly Glenn-Copeland, the synth pioneer who was handed the miracle of a career resurgence a decade ago, and who has a new album out today. Now Glenn needs another miracle: to keep making music through dementia – and to find a home www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/arti...

journalistic malpractice or ignorance to write a whole article about this and not mention that the current chief of police in Toronto participated in raids against queer spaces as recently as the year 2000, such as the infamous Pussy Palace raid www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

I recently caught up with Luke of Montreal-based punk band BRICKIE to talk about their upcoming EP ‘III’, the current state of the world, retaining a sense of wonder, playing Pouzza Fest, and so much more!! ✨Read at the link in my bio!!✨

Here nor there, remember when the Toronto police spied on one of the few police board chairs who actually stood up to them? There's a long history of goon behaviour that never seems to move any needles. www.newspapers.com/article/the-...

cops: sex trafficking victims are impossible to find! most of them don’t even know they’ve been trafficked. dozens of women over decades: here’s our sworn statements about jeff epstein cops: … prosecutors: … anti-trafficking task forces: … cops: we have no choice but to do a craigslist sting

i love to take every opportunity i can to share the story of when ontario tried to reform its police force by firing every single one of them www.tvo.org/article/dere...

CBC: Towing-related violence has been a major issue in Toronto. In 2024, there were 63 shooting and firearm discharge incidents related to tow-truck disputes, accounting for almost 13 per cent of all such incidents that year. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

"Officers are accused of trafficking, leaking addresses to hitmen, and leaking police officer addresses, the sources said. The investigation also uncovered a conspiracy to kill a unit commander at the Toronto South Detention Centre, the sources said." Holy Christ. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Listen to the voicemail that Doug Ford left for an Ontario public servant after they texted the premier with concerns about the return to office mandate. Ford relays some advice from his mother: "you don't like it, go get another job." My latest w @ericwickham.ca @pressprogress.ca

We've just launched the new IndigiNews Refocus Photojournalism Fellowship: Mi’kma’ki! A chance for Indigenous photojournalists in Canada to learn from industry-leaders in an expenses-paid bootcamp, in Mi’kma’ki / Kjipuktuk (Halifax) May 17 - 23, 2026. More here: www.refocusfellowship.ca

The syilx alt-rocker says he set out to “humanize addiction” on his country-infused third release, "Lived Experience in East Vancouver." "We’re all human beings that deserve help and deserve sympathy." Story by Aaron Hemens. indiginews.com/arts/syilx-s...

Also, one journalist is dependent on access via PR in a way that a larger institution is not. Harder to raise "negative" topics or be critical in a meaningful way.

The war on work from home is in large part a war on women having a career btw

i also think it's not in our best interest to start solo newsletters! the tech companies behind them benefit greatly from the erosion of good media jobs and the wider landscape

woof wish I had checked the news before venturing toward union station today www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

I have a new chapter in the 2026 edition of Policing Black Lives on how police reform has expanded police power to surveil, monitor and criminalize Black communities for 70+ years now. Did you know in Canada community policing (first in parkdale, in Toronto ) has been a “reform” since the 1960s?

It's probably not a good "reform" if your opponents adopt it before you even pass the bill

At some point we will just deal with the fact that part of this is post separation abuse . They are punishing the victims for trying to “leave” the circle of silence . They know the way the victims were treated is shameful and they want to transfer that shame

The Gramscis

cher is perfect

A reminder that Bad Bunny performs in front of the biggest audience on earth in seven days

don't know what it says about my age that these in memoriam performances are some of my faves of the night, but the ozzy and d'angelo tributes have been stellar

loving tyler's zoolander moment

Old Man Whistling While Slapping Knee Once Again Sweeps Grammys https://theonion.com/old-man-whistling-while-slapping-knee-once-again-sweeps-1851226320/

sabrina carpenter robbed

“I just wanna say, ICE out. We’re not savage, we’re not animals, we’re not aliens. We are humans, and we are Americans…. The only thing more powerful than hate is love.” - Bad Bunny #Grammys

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music's biggest night!!!