Ça va être tout un voyage...

No no no begs every archivist. You are never going to be able to find anything. Please don’t start using emojis in file names. Who asked for this? What fresh hell is next?

So I'm just catching up on things, you're telling me that the guy who has had literally one job in his entire life - federal MP - just up and forgot to move the most important amendment the opposition leader moves? Yeah, Pierre Poilievre won't be leader long. He's rattled.

If you are posting on or engaging with content on X, you are working as a volunteer laborer helping this specific man earn money and political influence. Any person, group or organisation that is still there and helping keep you there: you have to make them get out, not give them reason to stay

Also symbolic of how they treat artists in Ottawa: Imagine what the $4M would have bought in local art, displayed at a human scale throughout the area. Oh and this outcome was predicted at the time by artists in Ottawa.

100% your fault if you misfile your taxes though 🤪

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion. As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

Montréal this weekend: 2 major bridges closed, tunnel closed, 30K marathon runners blocking streets, and Monday impeding transit strike + trucker protests slowing traffic from 5-9am. Finally going to try that café 10 min from my house I've never been to 😂 #ClassicMontreal

We all breathed a sigh of relief when the country rejected the Maple MAGA politics of Pierre Poilievre. So why does this bill feel like it was written by him? This divisive piece of legislation has already passed its second reading—we need to voice our concerns NOW. act.gp/4mmDEG0

Says the guy who single handedly moved the Overton window in Canadian politics *to the right* in his tenure as the social democratic leader?! That's a bit rich. Oh no wait: the rich is ... who Tom catered to as leader, business elites and Outremont snobs. www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...

BWI has an art display that celebrates America’s earliest civil rights leaders. I found this quilt pretty amazing. It celebrates Frederick Douglass and more.

This is a really,really big deal: and puts into snap focus how devastating the cuts to the global fight against AIDS are.

Hello Halifax! Your local library now has two copies of my book! Go check it out, literally

This is a useful provocation. Doxxing actions taking collectively should be about abuses of power and real infliction of harm in a social context, not just what's unpopular (or, let's be real, entertaining) to a bunch of folks online.

"It would generate a total of 650 megawatts of on-site natural gas power, with a grid backup, as required by the Alberta Energy Systems Operator." It's not a great location for a sovereign data center, it sounds like just an excuse to develop more natural gas extraction 🤷 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

I asked PCO about media for PM Carney's summit with First Nations. I was told: "Information regarding media access, if any, will be communicated in due course." So, no public access & no media access planned yet from the government. But chiefs? They want to talk. # Indigenous #cdnpoli.

"The majority of Canadians, the poll found, go between 10 and 15 per cent." Pardon me!? Folks are really out there tipping this little? 😳

Well that's very cool: Montreal's Aire commune helping Ottawa making better use of their urban space! Bravo! @arieltroster.com

4/Reminder: human rights are equal and indivisible. That includes freedom of speech. The censorship of @abeba.bsky.social‬ for calling out Big Tech’s role in war and genocide, gave me the serious ick. That silenceing speaks volumes. 😒 genevasolutions.news/science-tech...

Early summer check in! How are your gardens coming along? Let me know if you've got questions, pests, problems or want to update me on something we worked on? 🌱 Send an image, detailed description or questions and I can lend a hand... #gardening #garden

Scenes from Inuk artist Tarralik Duffy’s ‘Klik My Heels’ at the Remai Modern in Saskatoon until Oct. 12. “We’ve been colonized by condiments.”

As I get older, I become increasingly convinced that we should replace measuring GDP per capita with a robust quarterly "how are the vibes?" survey.

All flourishing is mutual. -Robin Wall Kimmerer #quiltynook #applique #bannermaking #thriftedfabric #upcycledfabric #robinwallkimmerer

Paging @garymarcus.bsky.social ... This is what passes for critical thinking on AI in Canada's capital. Help! 😭

A former deputy PM. A $2B pandemic federal contract. And a courtroom battle over alleged unregistered lobbying. My latest for the IJF:

Truth.

Québec landlords pressured successive governments into removing even the most modest controls. Rent is up 71% in Montreal since 2019. 1900 households without a place to live tomorrow.

Absolutely incredible turnout for Budapest Pride! So proud of all the organizers, including some old friends, who estimate hundreds of thousands— major embarrassment to Orban

The ATIP on this will be fun.

Parks Canada just called to ask if we can delete the word "heck" from an article in which an employee, promoting a mushroom-spotting contest, says: "I had an opportunity arise to create my own project. I was like, heck yeah, it’s gonna be mushrooms.” That request is not going to fly.

SDG 3 includes the promise made by Member States to achieve the end of AIDS by 2030 (target 3.3). We are not on track to do this in Canada. Maybe if we call HIV prevention "critical infrastructure" if could be funded properly?

“Without Montreal, Canada would be hopeless.” —Anthony Bourdain Anthony Bourdain would have turned 69 today.

"Zohran Mamdani's campaign framed itself as aspiring to build a city people can afford to live in... where people are consumed by the things they want to make, the art they came here to create, the businesses they dream of starting." Affordable = livable. #EconSky 🔗 the.ink/p/what-zohra...

Wrong - we need to prioritize using critical minerals for the transition off of fossil fuels, not weapons: Carney says Canada will meet new NATO spending target by developing critical minerals www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...

Alright I have a question for *all of you*, esp for those of you who are not into environment stuff. When you think about planting native plants in the area you control, what *prevents* you from taking that action? These could be emotional, financial, practical, anything. RTs appreciated here.

Montreal too.

Lenacapavir was approved by the FDA yesterday. Yay? I guess. It's a twice yearly injection to prevent H.I.V. infection, a regimen called pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP, will be sold at a list price of $28,218 in the USA. 🫠

Ah, Montreal on an early summer hot humid day. The tantalizing, competing smells of hot garbage and lilacs!

Lenacapavir was approved by the FDA yesterday. Yay? I guess. It's a twice yearly injection to prevent H.I.V. infection, a regimen called pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP, will be sold at a list price of $28,218 in the USA. 🫠

It's clear Canada's borders need to be open to trans folks from affected US states, and that the Canada–United States Safe Third Country Agreement must be scrapped immediately. Will our neoliberal government do it? Oh hell no, they will need to be forced by the courts. #transrights #cdnpoli

Thanks for all the love for the decision tree app to help guide banner and sign making. I'll be iterating on it, please feel free to send feedback. iancapstick.github.io/bannerapp/ba... #NoKings

“No Kings” is such a great name for these protests. It works in today’s Trumpian terms (mar a lago etc wannabe oligarch rejection) but also gets to the core of American birth/protest 1776. Genius.

Seeing what's happening in the USA and globally, created this small tool based on a bunch of years making banners and signs 🏳️‍🌈✊ Banner Planner v1.0: Sizes, materials, making methods based on the budget, situation and people you have contributing to make signs. iancapstick.github.io/bannerapp/ba...

Seeing what's happening in the USA and globally, created this small tool based on a bunch of years making banners and signs 🏳️‍🌈✊ Banner Planner v1.0: Sizes, materials, making methods based on the budget, situation and people you have contributing to make signs. iancapstick.github.io/bannerapp/ba...

Greenpeace calls upon the international community to urgently uphold international law and ensure the immediate release of the #FreedomFlotilla humanitarian vessel the Madleen along with its crew. Full statement: act.gp/43xylO2 #FreedomFlotilla

Substack proudly funds the nazi voices on their platform. Please stop publishing on substack if you have any modicum of concern about the information ecosystem and the economics of hate. I know many people who absolutely do know better who continue to publish there and it is second-hand embarrassing

Just a few images of the new rain garden we are creating our backyard mini-forest 🌱 the backyard has heavy clay impaction... This should help solve that.

“We come here and speak the truth. Debwewin: the truth, is one of our most important teachings... as we go into the discussion on Bill 5... We tell him [Minister Rickford] that our rules is truth,” says Lake Huron Regional Chief Scott McLeod on Day 1 of the AN Grand Council Assembly. #ANGCA25