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Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

My American colleagues and friends dislike it when I liken the course their country is on to what happened in Russia in the early 2000s. It’s a comparison that’s getting harder and harder to avoid…

Trump may want to rethink his crazy threat to "de-certify" Canadian jets in the U.S. (even if there is such a process). There are 5,425 Canadian-built aircraft – regional jets, business jets and helicopters – currently in service in the USA, including 58 commercial Airbus A220s. #cdnpoli #uspoli

Prime Minister Carney is killing it here: "I greenlit this thing!"

“Words that made violence sound like care.”

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

You should read everything @adamserwer.bsky.social writes, but this one really stands out. He's given a gift link below.

Financial Times journalist calls Carney’s Davos speech “one for the ages.”

“It’s nine degrees at the moment. I am frozen. How can I warm myself if I don’t have electricity?” Heartbreaking reporting and photography from Kyiv after the latest round of Russian missile and drone attacks, by @annavlasenko.bsky.social and @olgaivashchenko.bsky.social

Just a reminder to Americans: 40,000 Canadians served in Afghanistan. 158 died. The first four fatalities were killed by a pill-popping, trigger-happy American pilot. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarnak_....

It's that magical time of year when private jets descend on a Swiss mountain village to discuss climate change and poverty! Anyway, here's my annual reminder. I'll stop posting this when they stop avoiding the real issue: their own massive tax avoidance 💰

This is your reminder that Hungarian-Jewish scientist George de Hevesy dissolved two Nobel Prizes in aqua regia to keep them out of the hands of the Nazis. He then left the dissolved solution on his shelf and fled to Sweden. (After the war he un-dissolved the gold and the prizes were re-cast.)

She had a doctor's appointment.

I see that @evansolomon.bsky.social has posted on X that Canada "is not considering a ban of X" There are countless other steps Ottawa could take: regulation, sanctions, getting ministers off X. Our AI minister has not posted here, but continues to post on the site that degrades women and children

Remember the 1920s when nobody was left-handed

"Get the principals on camera" is such a telling phrase here, because it tells us that for Weiss there's no world in which the victims of these horrific actions can actually be seen as the subjects of the story: They're background noise, and the people who matter are the ones sending them.

Read the comments too. 👌

"The team hypothesized that men 'require more explicit vocalizations to notice and respond to the needs of their cats.' In other words, the researchers are suggesting that many cats have concluded that men don’t always listen, and adjusted their behavior accordingly."

How do you get to be a senator when you are this stupid? There are no "NATO dues", so there's no one to pay anything to. The 2% was always a non-binding aspirational guideline. There is no pool of NATO funds everyone pays into - it is all domestic spending - so who would you "pay" it to? #cdnpoli

I don't feel bad for the Blue Jays. Great club, great fans, great culture. They were the underdog and pushed one of the most stacked teams ever to the brink in Game 7 and I would argue carried the most momentum throughout the series. They got every reason to stand tall.

Only 4 pitchers have recorded a Pitcher’s Cycle — striking out every batter in the opposing lineup — in the World Series: Trey Yesavage, 2025 G5 Randy Johnson, 2001 G2 Bob Gibson, 1968 G1 Jesse Barnes, 1921 G6

So they didn’t like the ad. Let’s just post Reagan’s 5 min speech against tariffs as it appears on YouTube. Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X). *1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.” youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc

Carney to Trump: "I'm glad you upgraded me to president"

Who do Canadians regard as an “enemy”? This comes from a new Angus Reid report on India, but get a look at the redder end of that list (Red = enemy/threat; pink = maybe so)

Just a reminder before the “big announcement” today. Autism was discovered in 1911 and the modern definition of Autism came in 1943. Tylenol wasn’t widely used until the 1950s. Anyone trying to tell you that Tylenol causes Autism isn’t someone that should be taken seriously.

Ian McEwan takes a critical look at what we're doing to the world through the eyes of a historian 100 years hence. The young people of the future are especially scathing about us: "moral idiots who ruined everything." (gift article) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/b...

You threaten to conquer a country a whole bunch of times and all of a sudden people get all mad bsky.app/profile/step...

Today in misogyny: Somebody spray painted "Kill women" and "females should be hung" on a bridge in London, Ont. There were 187 femicides in Canada last year. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

When #Dementia Steals the Imagination of a Children’s Book Writer. Robert Munsch wrote “The Paper Bag Princess,” “Love You Forever” and other classics by performing them over and over for kids. But dementia is now stealing his imagination. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m... via @nytimes.com

In my column this week, I tried to succinctly summarize where America is at right now. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Friendly reminder that your fever, cough, fatigue, aches, gastric symptoms may be the highly contagious new COVID-19 variant, XFG, aka “Stratus.” COVID-related emergency room visits are up among all age groups, as the current wave spreads in the U.S., Canada, globally. September will be rough.

This video from Fairmount Bagels in Montreal from their Instagram is the most impressive thing I've ever seen

This is a masterpiece. Simply excellent www.instagram.com/reel/DMVGMIC...

“A legitimate PhD-level expert in anything,” they said. “Show me a diagram of the US presidents since FDR, with their names and years in office under their photos,” I said.

Canada’s the only country having over 60% with a tertiary education. This isn’t a numbers competition: it explains Canada’s values, “Education can promote gender equality, reduce child marriage, promote peace” Education promotes decency. #CanadaNice worldpopulationreview.com/country-rank...

No serious economist would advocate Trump's devastating economic policies: 1. High tariffs for no reason. 2. Complete uncertainty. 3. Massive overstimulation with rising budget deficit & public debt. 4. Hostility to the whole world. No surprise the economy declines.

Trump says Canada backing Palestinian statehood jeopardizes U.S. trade deal he was gonna break anyway

What a great, great farewell note

When you strip away humanity

If the Trump admin continues to follow the Russian authoritarian scripts he loves, Maxwell will exonerate Trump, incriminate Dems, get a pardon, and fall out a window. Not necessarily in that order.

A Canadian doctor explains the difference between the universal health care system in Canada, where everyone is covered and there are no out-of-pocket costs, and the American system where people go bankrupt in order to receive cancer treatment.

I’m sorry for the long post but a lot of you have followed me for a long time, since 2016 when I was one of the first to repeatedly call out Trump for being a Russian asset. I don’t know how else to say this, as a person who has studied cults (wrote a bestseller about it) and totalitarian states.

They sent him to be tortured

Relevant for those who think Canada should give away supply management, the Digital Services Tax, and anything else Trump doesn't like, to keep him happy and get a "deal" (that he may or may not follow): Retail egg prices up 27% in Canada since Jan2021, over 300% in the US. #cdnpoli

A 49 year old Canadian has died while in ICE custody.