John Fetterman’s memoir comes out on Tuesday, so if the phone calls don’t work you can always tell him how you feel while he’s on book tour.

While researching my current column, I had trouble finding something PM Carney said in a speech in either Factiva or Google, so I tried asking ChatGPT-5 to search for it. This was its internal response. It hallucinates in basic searches. It can't write truth. It can't copyedit. What is it good for?

How much shit will Ontario continue to eat?

just want to remind everyone again that zohran is the one cis candidate i am aware of that had his platform on trans rights written by trans people. i think that matters

The most maligned, ignored cohort is actually the foundation for the movement everyone is acting like they can’t find

stay tuned

Tonight just keeps getting better

One of the absolute best things you can do this month is take the @nplusonemag.com Bookmatch quiz. Such a joy from beginning to end & you'll end up with a list of fascinating books most of which will be entirely new to you secure.givelively.org/donate/n1-fo...

silver lining for the Blue Jays: 14 more seasons of Vlad Jr

Ernie Clement becomes the first player in MLB history with 30 hits in a single postseason

This is the best baseball game I’ve ever seen

This is the best baseball game I’ve ever seen

who creates the lively art and music scenes if the rent is too high? who makes cultural life? who serves you food or washes your dishes? who creates the fancy little restaurants that draw you to urban living? affordable housing is at the heart of what makes city life worthwhile.

Lots to love in One Battle After Another but tops for me was seeing Junglepussy back on the big screen (just wish she was in the movie longer)

“I am not interested, nor will I ever be interested. I'm 61, and I hope to be able to remain uninterested in using it at all until I croak. ... The other day, somebody wrote me an email, said, ‘What is your stance on AI?’ And my answer was very short. I said, ‘I'd rather die.’” 🫡

People act like all the men are gone. The men are attending protests. The men are putting together scooters for their kids. The men are getting a set of turntables for the first time. The men are buying Nikes. The men are getting super into noir. They're not Nazis and they're fine. Keep your freaks.

Love all the restaurant & bar activity on Geary, but was just wishing there was more happening beyond new places to eat & drink. And lo, I just learned that @cavershambooks.bsky.social has relocated to the neighbourhood! Welcome!

1. We earlier reported that the volume of protests in 2025 has been far greater than during 2017, that the movement remains overwhelmingly (and even historically) nonviolent, and that protests have been geographically far-reaching. But just how far-reaching have they been?

Absolutely thrilled that @maggiehelwig.bsky.social won the Toronto Book Award for her incredible ENCAMPMENT but bitterly ironic that it was the night before the St. Stephen's encampment is scheduled to be cleared again. If you can be there this morning to support the residents, please go

We have just been informed that the encampment at St Stephen's will be cleared TOMORROW (Thursday). If you can be here in support of the residents, please come. We anticipate that things will start around 9 am and probably go on for some time.

Bike Share is a real Toronto success story, and Toronto Parking have been a good steward since it was saved from bankruptcy. All that's missing is a plan to double the current number of trips and catch and pass Montreal in the next 5 years. In the @thestar.com : www.thestar.com/news/gta/how...

I am once again asking Canadian journalists to ask the most basic-ass question of "on whose land will these be built?" How is it that every other major industry must consider Indigenous rights but with tech it's like "meh". www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

A striking thing about articles I’ve read claiming to “study the effects” of generative AI on student writing skills and consumption of information is that (1) they nearly always find the effects are negative and (2) most “conclusions” are still written assuming that we must use AI, for some reason.

Fun fact: the $1.7M in increased revenue generated by putting Bixi stands on Toronto island cancelled out a $1.7M loss in on-street parking revenues due to heavy snow in February secure.toronto.ca/council/agen...

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

“Aren’t we all just wrecks from the time we’re little kids & every passing day is just a fresh manifestation of how much we’ve been demolished?” www.hobartpulp.com/web_features...

From cancelling the carbon tax to pausing the electric vehicle mandate, Prime Minister Mark Carney is making sweeping changes to Canada’s environmental rules — and complicating Canada’s progress on climate change. thenarwhal.ca/mark-carney-...

They ruined Google search for nothing

#OtD 4 Oct 1939 four Italian immigrant anarchists were arrested in Canada for possession of "subversive" anti-fascist literature and threatened with deportation to fascist Italy: effectively a death sentence. But Emma Goldman helped them get acquitted stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1047...

Learned so much from this, like Merve Emre’s now divorced & Boris Kachka ended up at The Atlantic www.thecut.com/article/how-...

The "Alberta advantage" is the lowest minimum wage in the country, the refusal of federal funds, opting out of an affordable daycare system, the stripping of all public services, anti-trans legislation, book bans, and millions of dollars of public funds given to private schools & cronies.

This moment from our latest episode with science writer @edyong209.bsky.social is 🔥 We asked Ed — how do we talk up the benefits of science in the face of government cuts? He told us that's the wrong approach. 🧪 Listen wherever, or watch on Spotify 👇 open.spotify.com/episode/7Evh...

every day JB is out there showing none of this is hard, the democratic party is just that soft

When Trump threatens to nix funding to NYC if Zohran Mamdani wins, it only helps Zohran. It inflates the Trump threat, positions Zohran as a fighter for NYC against Trump, and pushes Cuomo into the role of Trump stooge. There's a lesson here for Dems. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/2011...

‘Gaza Trump Riviera’, ‘MBS Ring’, ‘Musk Smart Manufacturing Zone’? It’s an oligarch’s blood-soaked fantasy, a Disney Land of genocide.

ATTN Canadian govt: The case against Kneecap in the UK has been thrown out, not just on a technicality but because the judge said the charge was "as unjustified as it was flawed." Now let them come play here and express their opinions to their fans as freely as our Constitution mandates.

This is such sad news. Kongjian Yu was an absolute genius & such a force for good www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Of all the fucking stupid, harmful things DoFo has done this has got to be one of the fucking stupidest, and most harmful www.thestar.com/politics/pro...

Love this

In anticipation of the blessed return of @heavyweight.bsky.social Jonathan Goldstein submits to @thenarwhal.ca's Moose Questionnaire thenarwhal.ca/moose-questi...

This is an important profile of Ana Bailão, when she was running for Toronto mayor. Now she is Build Canada Homes’ new CEO. Her enthusiasm for housing affordability is high, her fandom mixed, and her record on delivery is mediocre at best. By @jasonmcbride.bsky.social from @thelocal.to, from 2023:

This is a helpful explainer about the groyper stuff.

My feed is almost entirely people condemning violence and telling others not to celebrate this.

"Zohran is going to win. Enacting his agenda will be hard, but the specter of local billionaires wracking their brains to concoct charges against him that might resonate with normal voters...is pretty amusing to watch." www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/new-york-s...

CONGESTION PRICING IN #NYC IS WORKING. Since Jan 2025: ⚠️ 17.6 million fewer vehicles entered Manhattan ⚠️ Crashes are down 14% ⚠️ Traffic injuries down 15% ✅ Subway ridership up 9% ✅ Bus ridership up 13% The $9 fee goes to funding mass transit capital improvements. www.reuters.com/world/us/new...

Hello Bluesky! We are Canadian Journalists for Justice in Palestine, a coalition of journalists across Canada who call for an end to Israel targeting and killing journalists in Palestine. Check out our statement on why we started CJJP👇 #cdnmedia #cdnpoli

AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.

Regarding the tragic death of Adam Raine, there are already narratives forming that blame vague "dangers of AI" or a broader moral panic. But this is not a story about the faceless perils of superintelligence. It's about a $500 billion tech company's core software product encouraging child suicide.

He's literally become Don Quixote.

Hey, you survived another week. Buy yourself a few books.