www.ctvnews.ca/northern-ont... “The province allotted $150 million for emergency forest fighting in 2026-27, despite spending $271 million to fight fires last year, according to the latest budget.”

The air is full of smoke, the food is full of parasites, and the water is full of data center bacteria but at least we stopped all that DEI children's cancer research!

lolll

Europe has plug in solar panels, now UK has them. Canada is writing the rules for Canadians to have them. Why can mines and pipelines and other massive projects been fast tracked, but not plug in solar panels. Does the fact that it would benefit just regular Canadians make it less important?

Feels bad that a director of a major studio film is perfectly comfortable saying that casting non-white actors is just something you do to look woke and otherwise isn't remotely necessary

Working on a #bcpoli story...

Substack is 100% doing another round of big cash payouts for reputation laundering. A fair number of people accepting that money aren't hurting for it so I'm not clear on why they're doing it. BTW, if you're still on Substack, why, but also, here's a resource to get off: leavesubstack.com

1. After pushing anti-trans laws to ‘protect women’s sports’, Project 2025’s Heritage Foundation now wants women’s sports gone to ‘assist fertility.’ Turns out it was about women’s sports all along—if getting rid of women's sports counts, that is.

Welp, Emily Oster is on the Cyclospora outbreak. Public Health folks, you can sit down and shut up now.

These images of First Nations community members evacuating Collins, Ontario on motorboats are absolutely surreal www.facebook.com/reel/1548244...

Looking forward to World War III, where our roided our alpha males who can all bench 315 get merc'd by 95 lb Chinese drone operators who honed their skills trying to impress their Genshin Impact waifus.

Digging into this on morning walk and very pleasant on first listen. Will now commence sharing with everyone i know…

Park rangers fined Sandra Shachar for vandalism this morning at the President’s House, hours after the Trump admin installed its version of history. The 72 year old has been posting news articles on the site’s walls since the slavery exhibit was removed. If she does it again, she’ll be arrested.

"In a parade of well-manicured posts on platforms like Facebook, Klein insists she launched a new newsletter on Substack to 'help one another understand these turbulent times in history.'"

"Hundreds of federal food-safety staff have been cut, and last July the CDC narrowed FoodNet — the sentinel network that provides early warnings of foodborne illness — from eight pathogens to two, dropping cyclospora altogether."

"He found a climate solution with a lot of wins — for customers, tradespeople and the planet. The approach cracked the nut of one way to bring heat pumps, which run on electricity rather than gas, to low-income Californians." www.kqed.org/science/2001... by @lauraklivans.bsky.social 🔌💡

most murders are committed by someone the victim knows - a partner, neighbor etc. but in cases where there is no relationship between murderer & victim? the killer is a cop about a third of the time. if you are killed by a stranger, there is a 1 in 3 chance that stranger is a cop.

It would be nice to see a chart with a line showing the increase in crime next to a line showing the increase in the Ottawa Police budget over the last 10 years

Sub Pop is sending our love to L7's bassist, Jennifer Finch, who was diagnosed with an aggressive form of brain cancer. If you are financially able, please consider donating to her GoFundMe to help cover urgent medical and rehabilitation costs, and in-home care expenses.

"Deeply sad about the loss of Ringwraith #4. We might have disagreed on policy, such as stabbing hobbits and murdering innocent villagers and working for the Dark Lord Sauron, but he loved riding horses and supporting his fellow Nazgûl. Wish he'd had more time." -Canadian politicians, apparently

Man,

It is an actual sickness to place professional courtesy over the tangible harm Lindsey Graham did to his country and the people in it

RE: the transphobic gamete nonsense Academic publishing is not suffering from a dearth of problems but from a metascientific POV, we need more research into the harms caused by academic opinion pieces that cosplay as research and are used to Trojan horse baseless ramblings into academic discourse.

121 years ago today, a group of Black men met in Buffalo New York to establish a new organization. After being denied lodging in America, they went to the Canada side of Niagara Falls where they created The Niagara Movement. The precursor to the NAACP established by WEB DuBois and William Trotter

Every time I read a story about gynecology it's always something like "doctors discovered women could experience pain in 1989 but decided not to act on this knowledge for 20 years"

Interesting choice by NYT to publish an op-ed bemoaning America’s projected population decline by a guy who’s massively racist against immigrants and compares IVF to “Nazi eugenics.” The “pronatalists” only want more of a very specific kind of person in this country. It gives the game away.

wheezing

victory lapping on this one

More receipts. bsky.app/profile/mjsd...

The @nytimes.com is mainstreaming Lyman Stone. Here's a flavor of who the paper of record is platforming.

Invisible Jobs that keep everyone safe. There's a reason we employ them as a government. Trump and Elon used DOGE to eliminate them because they are maliciously careless people who think what they don't understand is unimportant.

If Jared Kushner paid €110m to buy an island in Albania that has no fresh water from a guy who did not own it, it would help explain why his negotiations with Iran on behalf of the US have not been entirely successful

Clear case of massive racist genocide that could be significantly slowed or even stopped just by ending US arms transfers to a Middle Eastern nation w/ deep ties to Trump & yet Not to Be Criticized. That's right, UAE-financed genocide in Sudan. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/o...

CDC stopped monitoring parasite now causing explosive diarrhea across the country

My doctor sent a poorly formatted LLM summary in response to a question I emailed her, and it felt both reckless and disrespectful. But the worst part is that so many are going this way now, and the only thing to do is ask them to please never do that again, at least not to me. I hate it here.

Studies have found no solid evidence that forced care helps people. In fact, it may increase deaths, as people who were detained for treatment are more likely to fatally overdose after being released These 132 beds would be better used for voluntary programs www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

DULF trial starts Monday. It could overturn the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act - the monstrous legislation that magically turns people who use drugs into criminals. Support them: dulf.ca/dulf-aid/

It is really wild how much Black causes have been completely abandoned or lowered in priority by many Dems and many people, from moderates to progressives to the left. As we enter fascism, we can’t keep our eyes off the core of how we got here. Not to mention simply not abandoning Black people.

Routine reminder that US cops kill 10,000-25,000 dogs every year. Almost always with zero reason or justification. That is 27-68 dogs shot and killed by police every day.

The fake jobs" complaint is incel code for "women can earn $ for their labor & that enables them to reject men like me." Dissing college is part of that: higher ed must be devalued, bc women are outcompeting men on that terrain. They want involuntary servitude for the majority of the population.

British Museum sets historic precedent by surreptitiously acquiring domestic antiquity.

Ghana midfielder Thomas Partey and Morocco captain Achraf Hakimi are facing criminal trials for rape while playing at the 2026 World Cup, two of at least nine tournament figures facing rape and sexual assault allegations spanning five confederations. #OpDeathEaters www.yacnews.com/at-least-nin...

I thought this baseless war with Iran was over? Didn't the President say that a few times? Meanwhile American consumers have now paid $67 billion more for expensive fossil fuels. Trump is sure doing a good job advertising clean electric machines to the world. iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu

We should invent a kind of canceling where the guy goes away

The federal government told the Klamath Tribes they weren't a "salmon tribe" because dams wiped out their fish 100+ years ago. So the Yurok Tribe applied for the $5.9M grant & passed the funds through. This is Indigenous solidarity in action. www.hcn.org/articles/the...

I think it's worth talking about how those book and their author are very often anti-indigenous though. It, like many westerns, is at it's core a hand-wringing justification and apologia for a genocide. it's depictions are of cruel mean scary men in skunk loincloths, a racial caricature

This woman has been the subject of three NYT pieces in 2025-26

Helping health research yay. Helping palantir? Hard no.

I talked with CTV about Mark Carney and Danielle Smith’s proposed pipeline. Here’s what I had to say: