Always a great sign for how things are going in your country when 21-year-olds are like “hey, I innovated a system to play bagpipes in tear gas”

I think 10 years from now, the big story of this era will be North American completely shitting the bed on EVs, wind and solar. It could very well be the defining factor Chinese geopolitical preeminence in the years to come.

Super Bowl viewers Sunday speculated that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos appeared in the halftime show. In fact, he has been in hiding with his family. “He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.

Carole King released 'Tapestry' 55 years ago today. 💿 Rolling Stone ranks it as the 25th Greatest Album of all Time. www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

What the temper tantrum toddler fails to realize is that we brought in US workers too, Canada paid them, we built the bridge with Canada and US products, we paid for it all. The US did not want to pay for a thing, the felon was President when the agreement was made and he agreed to the terms.

Working on a story for Science about cuts to Canada's government researchers and labs. If you are affected by this please reach out (either on here or via my website). Anonymity is an option. 🧪

📊New polls released in the week following the Calgary convention show little movement toward the Conservatives and, in many cases, a widening Liberal lead. 🔵No Sign of a Post-Convention Bump for Poilievre ↓ www.338canada.ca/p/no-sign-of...

"It should not have come to this."

The Universe gives us an apt visual metaphor for the current state of America. And a nice piece of schadenfreude/nice item to hit up with the Seinfeld “that’s a shame”

Went to see Send Help yesterday and loved it. If you are a Sam Raimi fan you need to see it. And if you are not a Sam Raimi fan see it and you may become one. Just a fun movie. Gory, goofy and I will watch again soon.

Hey Premier, maybe work on the rampant healthcare issues we are facing instead? Try doing your job? You’re not a shitty radio host desperate for ratings anymore. I am so tired of this incompetent coward who focuses on the dumbest shit. Get to work. Alberta needs it.

They targeted her for writing a pretty milquetoast oped

Finding out that top execs from both LifeTouch and Chuck E. Cheese are in the Epstein files has pissed me off in a way that I didn’t think was still possible.

When AI was added to a tool for sinus surgery: “Cerebrospinal fluid leaked from one patient’s nose. In another… a surgeon mistakenly punctured the base of a patient’s skull. In two other cases, patients suffered strokes after a major artery was accidentally injured” www.reuters.com/investigatio...

The Alberta government has repeatedly insisted that its drug jails (“secure care” Compassionate Intervention facilities) will be only a measure of last resort. But this finding suggests they have bigger plans — apparently, space for 300 adults won’t be enough. drugdatadecoded.ca/alberta-gove...

Canada put up the money for this international bridge because the US wouldn’t do it. The cost is to be repaid over time by tolls. Now that it’s close to opening, Trump says he wants half ownership

Got another letter from AHS via the CBE that there is a “ respiratory illness” outbreak at my kids school and I’m no doctor but the symptom list sure sounds like Covid to me. It also notes testing isn’t necessary but also get vaccinated for Covid. Like for real those are sequential points.

ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps. If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

Fact-checking the Bad Bunny halftime show

No one has ever tried to sell me drugs as hard as people try to sell me on AI.

its funny to consider that this regime comprises some of the most twitter-addicted people the world has ever produced. i mean they have it so much worse than anyone you've ever known. it runs their lives. glinner levels. and it's 2026! they'e mostly performing for bots and foreign scammers

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

“It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.” ― James Baldwin

FAMU can't use the word Black on anything posted around campus related to Black History Month, to stay in compliance with Florida state laws against DEI. Black students can't use the word Black at their Historically Black College during Black History Month.

“Democracy & justice in Alberta are being threatened. Alberta is being abused by its own government much the same way the United States of America is being abused by its current president.” Over 180 Lawyers have penned an open letter calling out Smith’s attack on the law. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

Some 10,000 people demonstrated in Milan on Saturday, on the first full day of the Winter Olympics, to protest against the environmental, economic and social impact of the Games. A hardcore splinter group later attempted to reach the Santagiulia Olympic ice hockey rink, resulting in clashes.

There May Be No Turning Back This Climate Crisis As warming breaches a critical threshold, scientists fear cascading consequences. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Imagine if we’d spent $700B on clean energy and heat pumps instead of chatbots and art plagiarizers?

With reference to Alberta separatists meeting with U.S. officials, former Liberal federal cabinet minister Stephane Dion said "we know that President Trump … has clearly expressed his view about annexation of territories in order to get the resources of these territories." www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Hello, I'm the librarian in this extremely haunted small town. Thank you for your interest in our accurséd history! Here's a collection of local folktales; we don't allow it to be checked out because if you read it aloud, you will die. No, I'm sorry, the PTA made us get rid of all the gay books.

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 It's in the government documents on Epstein. So, where is the outrage from the public? You still don't believe IT?

“OUR city isn’t [insert name of a much more livable & successful city here].” Trust me, we know that. It’s abundantly obvious that you’re not that city. That city made, and continues to make, much better choices with fewer excuses. The real question is, do you want YOUR city to be better or not?

My favorite artifact in the "you don't need AI to do art" discourse is, of course, screenwriter Dan O'Bannon's sketch of the facehugger to explain it to Giger.

“For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh," an Otay Mesa captive communicated through handwritten note. "We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick."

"Alberta is now an outlier among western provinces. British Columbia, Saskatchewan and Manitoba all confirmed to CBC News that Type 58 visa holders are eligible for public health coverage in their provinces." And the limiting health care begins. #abpoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

I do believe the ruling class is engaged a project to acquire and destroy news media. And the thing is, even if they’re not consciously planning it, that’s the result of their ideology and idiocy

I truly do love my country. And I know there are Canadians who would call this “woke” or feel like something is being forced on them and I’m proud they are allowed to think that but at the end of the day this is on the wall and is the team’s official position. We should all take heed.

Was driving north on Deerfoot near Anderson Road turn off and there was family with like little kids on the remaining ice off the river bank. That cannot be a good idea right now with this weather. Why would you even risk it? Stay safe folks.

Watching the Olympics and my 12 y.o. joked about booing a U.S. athlete so I noted “Vice-President J.D. Vance got booed at the opening ceremonies.” Then he added unprompted with perfect delivery “know what I call him? Jorkin’ da penis Vance.” Almost spit out my coffee.

Happy birthday to Mark Tewksbury, born on this day in 1968 in Calgary! In 1992, he won an Olympic Gold in the 100-metre backstroke, and a bronze in the relay event. He hosted the first season of How It's Made and is in Canada's Sports Hall of Fame and received the Order of Canada

Happy birthday to Steve Nash, born on this day in 1974! In his Hall of Fame NBA career, he was an eight-time All-Star, a seven-time All-NBA selection and won two NBA MVP Awards. He often led the league in assists and free throw percentage. In 2007, he received the Order of Canada

The fact the UCP allowed Jeffrey Rath to stand on stage at the 2025 UCP AGM, and ask the audience if they want to separate, loudly declares my UCP is already a separatist party. If we weren't we wouldn't platform him. Read: calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu... #abpoli #UCPCorruption #ableg

Just because good news is worth celebrating: There is now a Prep medication that is an *every six month* injection. HIV has, effectively, a vaccination.

If you're in Calgary are are concerned about City Council repealing zoning and failing to build a city that works for new neighbours, please consider sending a letter with this tool: open.substack.com/pub/moreneig...

Isn't it super random that all of the "anti-woke" cancel culture academics who all leaned into transphobia and race science later in their careers all seem to be connected through Jeffrey Epstein?

🧵on #PierrePoilievre’s recent convention speech in Calgary. I hadn’t had a chance sooner. It was a propaganda speech filled with falsehoods, pandering, failed trickle down economic fiction, ignorance (or deliberate rejection) of facts, truth & reality. Loaded w/ crypto-fascist dog whistles. #cdnpoli

Powerful white men once equated Black people with monkeys to justify their abduction, deportation, enslavement, lynching and segregation. The heinous image that Trump shared is explicit racism. There is no nowhere for his supporters to hide. Supporting him is incompatible with basic human decency.

Calgary is growing and we need housing policy that reflects that reality. Cutting zoning red tape is a practical, proven way to increase housing supply through gentle density such as duplexes, town homes and secondary suites that fit naturally into existing communities. share.nwmd.social/s/99Kgvf5Y