It's always surreal to see the size of mammoth fish that people can pull out of Lake Ontario from the downtown shoreline with the CN Tower in the background

first ever thursday night super bowl

(Faintly, a bit drunkly) go bills

I didn't think this could possibly get worse after reading the plot "a high school janitor uses his sweeping skills to become an Olympic curler" then I saw it stars Mickey Rourke and Rob Gronkowski

visited an important cultural artifact this morning

WWE decided to pivot away from signing established indy wrestlers and instead built their own talent pipeline where they sign prospects with "the look" first (college athletes, fitness influencers etc) and THEN teach them to wrestler. Here's how that's going:

Sadly forced to retire the Bo Bichette/Japanese wrestling crossover shirt I made for myself. You garnered me several "sick shirt"'s from strangers at bars, old friend.

It's a little crazy that Vlad Guerrero's deal ($500/14 years), widely seen as a gigantic amount of money at the time, is already looking like a bargain compared to Bichette getting $42M/yr and Tucker $60M/yr And the Vlad deal was only *9 months ago*

Gary Bettman, minutes after saying he binged all of Heated Rivalry in one night: "we can't raise awareness of homophobia because our players would do something homophobic, thus making the conversation all about raising awareness of homophobia"

Here in #Montreal, we just got 74 cm (30 inches) of snow. This plow driver has the right idea. The municipal snow removal operation should also be a car removal operation!

So the Ontario NDP stance is that allowing 49,000 Chinese EVs into a country that buys 1.9 million new cars/year will kill Ontario automaker jobs? I really doubt the Ontario plants making F-150s and Chevy Silverados are at risk of being put out of business by a shipment of Wuling Bingos

what a legend lmao

Would anyone like to guess why this Chinese restaurant in Windsor, Ontario (corner of Tecumseh & Westminster) is historically significant?

seeing behind-the-scenes photos from the set of Teletubbies and realizing how terrifyingly tall they were

writing trivia and saw air guitar referred to on Wikipedia as a "form of dance" and I instinctively recoiled, before coming around like, "yeah, I guess it is"

gonna need people to be REAL specific today when they say "It" is happening whether they mean Donald Trump died or Kyle Tucker signed with the Blue Jays

Amidst a hellscape for journalism and specifically local journalism, CBC seems to be the only major news outlet that's actually *expanding* its local journalism with 11 new bureaus this year. Protect the CBC!! www.cbc.ca/news/editors...

Holy shit - anyone with "officer" in their résumé to ICE was immediately flagged by AI as "LEO experience", given a badge and gun and sent to the frontlines, even if it was, like, "administrative officer" or "human resources officer"

Obscure Toronto-related sports anniversary: January 15, 1997: The Seattle SuperSonics record 27 steals against the hapless Raptors. It's an all-time NBA record for steals in a game that might never be broken. 11 of the 12 Sonics players in the game had at least 1 steal.

OK, this is super neat: "Toronto's Linguistic Heritage" from @uoftcities.bsky.social! It tracks the histories and geographies of linguistic communities in Toronto. Greek, Hungarian, Arabic...and way more! Bravo Aniket Kali & Jeff Allen! schoolofcities.github.io/languages/to...

I blame Frasier for a lot of hack "British food is bad" comedy even though in retrospect I bet Daphne's cooking slapped

Imagining an alternate timeline where the Conservative Party lost the 2026 election

I know someone with a sickly old shih tzu, the thing's like 15 years old, wobbly, smelly, blind as a bat, but occasionally it hears its own name and sorta gives a perk-up of recognition and it's the only moment where you think "okay this dog is actually alive" thinking about that dog for no reason

Hell yeah got my first paper copy of @theonion.com. Thank you to my wife for the Christmas present and for supporting print media

After the Ohio National Guard murdered 4 protesters at Kent State in 1970, an opinion poll after the shooting showed a majority of the American public (58%) blamed the students, while only 11% blamed the National Guard.

NHL drama of the day moves fast, man

Coach Jackie (@jcubedhax.bsky.social) is being awesome again. Here she interviews trans-athletes protesters to challenge them to name 5 women professional athletes. Spoiler alert: they don’t seem to support women athletes.

Anyone confused by the idea of a Ron Paul guy becoming a leftist must not have been very Online circa 2008. That's, like, a pretty common millennial dude pipeline.

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I'm gonna go ahead and pour some cold water on this story. Because I saw literally the same story - local school cries foul after thousands of books thrown out due to "woke censorship" - happen in Mississauga in 2023, and it was BS. I wrote a thread about that at the time: x.com/matttomic/st...

For me, Scott Adams will always be known for his close association with Donald Trump (in the short-lived Dilbert animated series, Dilbert was voiced by Daniel Stern who co-starred with Donald Trump in Home Alone 2)

He truly lived the American dream: becoming a famous millionaire cartoonist despite not being able to draw or tell jokes, then using all that money and fame to become a libertarian grifter

Road salt & road sand each have pros & cons! Salt: 👍actually melts ice 👎bad for plants, bad for dogs, doesn't work below -10° Sand: 👍less environmental damage, cheaper, effective when very cold 👎adds grip but doesn't melt ice, mud clogs sewer drains & makes things muddy, sand blows off road easier

Great article, one chilling point I want to highlight: the ICE recruitment officer telling a potential hire that "SOME people are subject to due process". The 14th amendment would disagree and say ALL people are subject to due process. Neat way to find out the US has suspended habeas corpus

It's been so snowy in southern Ontario this winter that we're now facing a road salt shortage and cities are having to cut their salt supplies with sand www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

It's a bit cruel that the Leafs (on fire, just beat the historic juggernaut Avs in OT on the road in an entertaining game) have now gone 8-0-2 in their L10, and have made up almost no ground because the rest of the Atlantic Division has gone: - TBL: 10-0-0 - BUF: 8-2-0 - DET: 7-2-1 - MTL: 7-2-1

Aaron Rodgers moments after his post-game impromptu retirement press conference

Shoutout to this guy in this competitive Scrabble player group who put down FUCKHEAD for 128 in league play

The stupidest thing about Trump's Greenland obsession is that, for all intents and purposes, America can just use its unparalleled economic clout to *have* all it needs from Greenland without having to fire a bullet. Buy all the metal from their mines! Buy their mines! It's CHEAPER than war!

Get a load of Sergeant Stumbles over here. Ice 1, ICE 0

I think it's pretty telling that New York, you'd have to imagine, has more immigrants than any other US city, but ICE won't stage an invasion of New York City because they're a bunch of soft-as-baby-shit bumpkins who are terrified of major urban areas

This was 12 months ago!! Holy moly what a change it's been on both fronts.

Whenever someone posts a "well is THIS a Nazi salute?" bad-faith post, here's a handy guide to use: "Is this a Nazi salute?"

Paul Verhoeven undefeated in creating a movie that flies right over the heads of the people it’s making fun of

I worry that the inclusion of Podcasting awards will ruin the formerly pristine reputation of the Golden Globes - an award that, for most of my life, was decided by a few dozen corrupt Italian local newspaper freelancers who could be directly and openly bribed by studios