Is The Temporary Foreign Worker Program working? We asked 4 Tim Hortons franchise owners, and one slum landlord

Instead of watching Stranger Things, maybe we should start building stronger things, like the rule of law and a commitment to democratic norms

Want millions in tax payer 💰 from the Skills Development Fund? Hire a lobbyist. Proportion of successful applicants using a lobbyist is up 60% Lobbyists include Labour Minister's wife, Doug Ford's Campaign Manager, Conservative Party President. #PaytoPlay #ONpoli

Hi Bluesky 👋 Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵

If guaranteeing essentials sounds radical in 2025, it speaks to how far we’ve drifted from democracy’s core promise. Markets will not save democracy. My new piece for @theguardian.com: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back! Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary. Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest! #MundaneHalloween

I don't know why people aren't having more kids. We've tried everything from soaring inflation, suppressing wages, stripping rights, destroying public services, making literally everything more expensive, making literally everything more expensive in a different way, and sending in the marines

[Guy who’s profiting from the bubble]: “We’re not in a bubble!”

“Nobody has to sleep at the office” “But you’re tracking who isn’t right” “We measure our employees commitment to the mission in a variety of industry leading metrics”

oh so like when all PCs were going to be touchscreen tablets so let’s reorganise the OS entirely around that assumption

One of the many things I wish I had been wrong about is saying that back in the nineties, our leaders looked at climate change and said: We can’t do shit about this without measures we find unacceptable, so future generations will just have to deal with it via machine guns, fences and attack dogs.

Franz Kafka writing Steam reviews

Interesting choice of words coming from PP

you can tell america is going great because every day an important institution must post something like "please do not listen to the president, we promise that water is not going to turn your blood cells trans"

I am a hypermasculine and extremely powerful alpha male. As such my greatest fears are seed oils, rainbows, people who don't look like me being on TV, and preventative medicine. I cannot explain any of these fears and consider that to be your fault.

Bonus - Is Economics a Science? w/ @erikmbaker.bsky.social Danny chats with Erik Baker about his new article reviewing the “science critique of economics.” Plus, they talk a bit about the history of nuclear science. Link in the replies!

I filed a FOIA request with the FTC to get user complaints about ChatGPT. In one case from Utah, a mother reports her son was experiencing a delusional breakdown and ChatGPT told him to stop taking his medication. The AI bot also told him that his parents were dangerous.

what it feels like to talk to my friends about stuff I like

Medieval ai would be Robards

I have a new piece out for the Toronto Star today on how the Carney Liberals ran on public investment and nation-building and have swung immediately to the right. Among other things, Canada may soon experience the most sweeping austerity program it's seen in decades. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Imagine in 2020 if someone had told you “We will soon release a new kind of AI. It will send psychologically vulnerable people right over the edge. Everyone else it will just randomly tell falsehoods. Also: our governments, employers and schools will force us all to use it every day.”

This totally makes sense. A notable public figure in the US (Amazon labor organizer Christian Smalls) is illegally arrested by Israel and subjected to severe physical violence while on a hunger strike… and not one US media outlet of any type has decided that is news.

Saw this said somewhere else, but I’d like to see someone explain the difference between telling starving people there is aid and then shooting them and telling people they will be cleaned in a shower and then gassing them?

[email protected] on the singular character of the Israeli-imposed famine in Gaza:

I've got an article out on the Narwhal today... talking about the First Nations Leaders Summit from the inside. One thing I talk about in this piece that I haven't elsewhere was how weird it was to see the disrespect from Cabinet Ministers to Musqueam MP, Wade Grant.

I saw somebody on TikTok using the word 'slopper' as a slur for people who use ChatGPT, and that's a thing we should start doing.

An AI slop factory apparently tried to rewrite our article about AI not replacing workers en masse, but hit the paywall... so just summarised the paywall. If this is the robot that takes my job I'll be v embarrassed

Good on Wab Kinew! He's right of course. And insists that Indigenous consent has to come first, not after. winnipegsun.com/news/kinew-w...

NEW: Subsidizing The Occupation is a major project from The Maple explaining how you and other Canadians have helped fund Israeli violence. www.subsidizingtheoccupation.ca

"what hope do the rest of us have" i feel confident saying most people have a much stronger grip on reality than the average billionaire

I think the real story isn’t AI replacing jobs as much as it is firms cutting workers to spend more on AI capex in the hope said capex helps reduce the numbers needed for future growth.

This is how insane people sound when you tell them why A.I. is bad

NEW: As Gaza starves and Palestinians are slaughtered while trying to get food, we should remember the writers who called for UNRWA to be dismantled. I’ve compiled a list of them who made these arguments in Canadian newspapers since October 7. www.readthemaple.com/as-gaza-star...

Question: “Do you know how many Americans the Israeli military has killed in the past 20 months?” Sen. Susan Collins: *silence* Question: “No insight on the Americans killed by the Israeli military, Senator?” Collins: “I’m pro-Israel”

Not enough people know or acknowledge that the AI industry is led by people who are so stupid and afraid of their own mortality so much that they actually believe they will be able to beat death and live forever through AI

TRUMP: we must purge the unclean from our homeland and return women to their rightful role as breeding stock CARNEY: Here's $2b and a list of names ACANUCKINCANADA26🇨🇦🍁ELBOWSUP: Masterful gambit sir

Sobering and powerful interview with David Suzuki by @davislegree.bsky.social .

At this point I love war crimes so much I might as well be Jewish :-)

girl are you a 96% chance to hit in an XCOM game because i miss you so much

this is an embarrassing thing for this guy to say in public but also touches on something that constantly rankles me, which is the vague idea of "feeling unsafe" as a problem that someone else needs to solve for you regardless of whether you are actually unsafe or not

L’œil des médias, par Serge Chapleau www.lapresse.ca/actualites/c... via @lapresse.ca #journalisme

My most shocking opinion: White people using the memory of the Holocaust to do it again against a new group of people is bad actually.

In the early 90s, almost all of the CPP was invested in Canada. When we financialized pensions, we defunded Canadian industry. I write about this in my latest book that Canada's media establishment has mostly ignored.

NEW: The RCMP, Canada’s federal police force, investigated me for my journalism about the Israeli military. Here’s what happened... www.readthemaple.com/the-rcmp-inv...

"Not for you." Palestinian citizens of Israel--21% of the population--are being excluded from bomb shelters on the basis of their ethnicity. This is the society the West will defend at all costs. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/...

Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started theonion.com/netanyahu-ca...

We need answers about what happened on Alderaan and assurances from the Empire that it won’t happen again.