There are many awful and depressing things going on in the world, but I take some solace in the fact that PP has missed his moment in #cdnpoli. This video is is so clearly from a candidate who is dead and doesn't know it yet. *bites apple* www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKWF...

One poll in one riding is nothing. ALSO This riding used to go Dip. It's the type you'd hope to get back. Nate will be gone and he was the lefty Lib. We haven't started to hear about public grocery stores, affordable data and a Green New Deal vs MORE DAVOS. Makes you question the National #s.

Can't stop won't stop

I want to be absolutely clear, that just like Zohran, if i was ever Mayor of Toronto I would absolutely leverage that caché to shoot around with whatever Raptors i could convince to grab food first.

Anthony Edwards is making a lot of jokes on socials about how much child support he owes, but IMO in a few years he's gonna wish he'd thought (and posted) more about those kids as people and not financial obligations.

Watched my first 10 minutes of baseball since World Series Game 7: Canada down late by 2 runs with 2 men in scoring position and 0 outs manages to get 0 runs while the crowd chants USA USA. Not sure about this as a leisure activity.

One way I know we haven't slipped into fascism in Canada yet is the trains absolutely do not run on time.

Students in my class independently selected a scene from Mean Girls to perform. I congratulated them on selecting the most influential performance text of the 21st Century.

The Utah Jazz have hired and anti-vax MAGA supporter to be their top assistant coach John Stockton). I guess if there is one NBA team where this move would just track wirth the brand...

Lock in your interest rates.

This is hilarious. Also, completely enraging.

NDP has lost 2 high profile office holders to Fed Libs in the past month. But you know, it's not shocking to me. Avi is going to win by a lot. A Green New Deal Public Option for Essentials Party is a long way from a Neoliberal Davos Banker Party. Folx are gonna have to pick a lane.

Yes I am also reminded of another quote often attributed to Orwell: "To be, or not to be" Also "We shall fight them on the beaches." And of course, the often attributed "I have a dream"

Textbook example of meaning eroded through inaccurate, false equivalency in the name of "balance". A paragraph each on how Republicans and Democrats have eroded freedom of the press. One is a country-wide disaster and one is the example of a single Texas democrat. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/o...

If the government gets to decide if you have them, they're not human rights.

Can't remember the last time the Raps played a good team and didn't crack under the pressure in the 4th Q. Can beat the bad teams, usually the medium teams, never the good teams. Pretty hard to be enthusiastic for the playoffs.

Scientific American has updated the figure, now grouped into swimmers, fliers, walkers/runners, and vehicles. A person on a bicycle remains the most efficient way to travel, compared to all forms of biological locomotion and mechanical transport. www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-hu...

If Carney's Davos speech was the shot, this is the chaser. Trump - we don't like that Spain won't support our war, they will be punished economically. EU - Actually no. End of convo.

Wow. 400 years of British Parliamentary Democracy has basically meant the same 2 parties sharing power back and forth (as iterated in Canada), but really does seem like the next one won't include either as Greens and Reform battle it out.

There are 450 total players in the NBA. 18 sets of brothers in the league this year = 8% of all NBA players have a NBA family member. This seems like and unusually high number (until you compare it to Canadian politics).

In the work smarter category, I do all my grading voice to text. Everyone wins. Students get more detailed individual feedback, and I spend less time grading. Felt it in my bones in Grade 10 that taking a typing class would be a waste of time. (Oh wait i had to get all the way to prof via typing.)

Men and Women losing Olympic Hockey Gold in OT to the US, a few months after that World Series, while their leader threatens to annex us, is... actually not that big a deal. I'm so happy me and my family live here with Silver Medals and memories of 92 93.

*PER-FECT*

A reason society in general is pretty skeptical of AI is people are smart; and we can tell that this guy, and the other guys like him, are not.

This At Issue was fun for the 1st half (We all agree that PP is somewhere on the road to being toast.) and confounding in the second half (we all agree the NDP sucks and Avi is the worst.) I have some thoughts. www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkR1...

This indicates to me that they have accepted the Liberals will get a majority, and they would rather they go over the top with a floor-switcher than winning a by-election, which is the most likely scenario. www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...

In terms of political messaging, I don't think it would hurt as a strategy for one of the opposition parties to simply refer to the Premier as The Nepo Baby in all communications for a year or so. They've just let this guy who accomplished nothing establish a ridiculous working class narrative.

3 MPs in 3 months switching to another party. Is there any precedent for this? They're going to keep dropping these while they're winning by-elections. It will be a real majority in the next 6 months. Davos sealed it. PP is over whether they realize it or not. Carney is PM until (if) Trump is gone.

Forget about how lame this answer is - this also hints at something I have always suspected: That many performers in Starship Troopers were unaware they were performing satire.

This is a big IF, but if these 5 players play hard, it's inconceivable they could lose a game of basketball to any other collection of humans.

Folks, I have cue'd up Doctorow at the beginning of the 5 minutes where he defines enshitification and then applies the thesis to FB for your viewing enjoyment: youtu.be/Yepnhe1T-9U?...

Casually watched some Olympic highlight before bed and the lice dancing was wild! So happy for how happy the Canadians were to win a medal. I don't understand how the Americans lost. I don't know anything about anything, but that was the best skating this pleb has ever seen.

Many smart people, including Cory Doctorow, have been pointing out that these tech monopolies exist in part because the US made leaving them alone a condition of a beneficial trade partnership. If that's not how they're operating anymore, nothing stopping us from taking them apart.

I'm on one of the older VIA trains, so looking good for being on time.

If Jamil Jivani wants to represent Canada's interests on the world stage, all he has to do is be part of a party that forms government. The voters, in their wisdom, elected different citizens than him, having decided his party was too MAGA to oppose Trump effectively. www.cbc.ca/news/politic....

Folks. I left on a train from Union this eve. It was quite chaotic due to a derailed GO Train. Sure fine, these things happen. But why doe VIA have no signage or even sound amplification devices in the departures area? Just random people yelling numbers at passengers as if naughty schoolchildren!

I hope my American friends understand they will not live in a democracy unless there is country-wide civil unrest at some point in the next 3 years. The DNI and President directing this investigation is way beyond "unusual", it's dismantling the will of the people. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...

Went for a run along Lake Ontario this morning and I regret to inform you that the US physically transformed overnight into Mordor.

CBC Metro Morning doing a whole segment on the potential for a Conservative message to resonate in Toronto with a rep from Jenni Byrne and Assoc... Look, it's a reasonable topic to explore, but send out a reporter or something. Don't give a mic to a partisan and call it journalism.

There's something to extrapolate from the Kennedy Centre basically being unable to operate since adding Trump's name. You can buy cops, and you can buy tech bros, but artists but you can't buy! Reason 84 why Carney should be tripling arts funding as a matter of national security.

I just saw that Norm in an All Star and I'm happy for him. Should have probably been one last year, let's be honest, likely won't be one next year - this was his chance.

I'm not sure if Margaret Atwood is available to work for Elon @ $40/hr.

Lutnick is a MAGA enemy of Canada and Epstein is MAGA kryptonite. Ergo, as a matter of national security, CSIS, the RCMP, Dept of Foreign Affairs, and the Canadian military have justification in their mandate to make this story as big and long as possible. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...

LOL this is the perfect platform for this thought, but Avi Lewis could become Prime Minister of Canada and globally his wife would still be more famous. Anyhow i hope he wins.

Here's the thing, Greg — free speech is still protected by the First Amendment under the Constitution. If you want folks to stop saying you're the secret police who are kidnapping and killing people, maybe stop acting like the secret police who are kidnapping and killing people.

Yes pls

Whether it’s liberals peacefully protesting a murder and a child abduction in Minneapolis or conservatives threatening a bloody insurrection in Washington DC, both sides have shattered the norms of civilized behavior

It seems to me the next question facing Canada, and other countries who choose to 'take the sign out of the window', is 'What sign goes up instead?' An empty window devoid of values or purpose will not bind a middle power resistance that will be severely tested. (Democracies of the World Unite?)

@factorytheatre.bsky.social AD job posted to LinkedIn - but comments are turned off. LOL i woulda done the same. Whoever they get needs to reset the discourse.

I can only assume Carney chose to structure his historic speech around the words of Vaclav Havel because of the economic benefits his plays generated for the Czech Republic economy.