Mary Oliver for a friend. ❤️

Hannah Frank Moon Ballet lithograph, 1934

With the USA abdicating their responsibilities, this is a time for Canada to step up, not back down. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Here's some more AI making up a quote from me. It's gonna be a nightmare, so let's pray the bubble pops soon and big.

No tested Conservative alternative performs better than Pierre Poilievre. Harper polls at 34%, Ford at 31%, Kenney, Mulroney, and Rempel Garner all below 30%. Poilievre leads with 38% against Carney’s Liberals at 36%. See the full report: abacusdata.ca/what-happen...

"refusing to name killers is the “quickest, cheapest and easiest way we can cut down this escalating rate of killings”. He also warns against using terms like “lone wolf”."

Deeply appreciate Canada’s media union speaking out against this multimillion dollar lawsuit An attack on one is an attack on all If they can do this to me, they can do this to you

Liberal MP Judy Sgro said there were several potential floor-crossers "but they were threatened & told all kinds of things & really frightened some of them to stay back." Andrew Scheer denied the claim: “Liberals are badgering Conservatives in elevators & calling them at home."

Chris d’Entremont and his office have faced death threats and harassment, police say, following his floor-crossing to the Liberals. "This activity has been reported to the RCMP, and there is an open, ongoing investigation,” Nova Scotia RCMP say.

#abpoli #ableg

David is great and so talented! I can't make this one but I know this might be of interest to a number of my peeps here.

This is a case study in Arlie Russell Hochschild's concept of emotional labour.

Fantástico aquí Luís Díaz para el empate del Bayern ante el Union.

Incredibly weak statement from Canada at COP30. It says “effective action starts with detailed planning” and points to this week’s climate competitiveness plan as proof of Canada’s efforts. Weird given that plan has no target, no GHG modelling, dismantles policies policies and calls LNG low carbon.

Up North. 16°C and very mild. Pheasants galore.

🚨LCBO revenues down $300 million 💰 that pays for schools, healthcare, infrastructure Canceling beer store contract early cost $225 million ▶️Cost to Ontarians of privatizing alcohol sales: $300 M + $225 M = $525 million #ONpoli #FordMath

All that apology got us was national humiliation and a predator clocking how much he could mistreat us.

Fall colors in the fog #Arkansas #arwx

I think of it as 'Father Knows Best' governing.

"Simply repeating “productivity”/”nation-building” isn’t enough. There are many ways to improve productivity and to build a nation. Why these choices and not others? Canadians are owed explanations and a debate over alternatives. Esp when youth and the most vulnerable are being asked to “sacrifice.”

Every Trump- and Bush-appointed justice is a bayonet through the throat of a hungry child

The Supreme Court is starving children

Sadistic. Cruel. Despicable. There aren’t enough words.

Suburban Chicago moms arrested in protest outside immigration detention facility reut.rs/4hP2lKM

"...Carney came close to telling a Bay Street audience today that he will secure a new pipeline for Alberta, offering his strongest endorsement yet of the idea. During an address to the Canadian Club Toronto this afternoon Carney told the audience not worry because “we’re on the pipeline stuff.”"

Skippy is trying to out business PM Goldman Sachs. "Poilievre’s speech, which repurposed some proposals from the Conservative election campaign in the spring, largely championed a free-market ethos."

#abpoli #ableg

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"...insiders said that if the Liberals were to gain a majority status...it would spell bad news for Poilievre. ...having blown that type of a lead [a 20-point lead...] and then the Liberals managed to get the majority anyway? No, I wouldn’t want to be him in that situation.” #CdnPoli

2 to 10 cm of snow: Special weather statement in effect for Toronto with winter weather set to arrive this weekend

95% of the victims in the pilot project were women. Bet I can guess the overwhelming majority of the perpetrators. (Men are never once mentioned.) "Police say studies show that when someone attempts to strangle their intimate partner, the risk increases significantly that they will later kill them"

Domino’s plugged into the news cycle.

I mean, who wants to talk about the potential for roadway collapse anyway? "That study has not been released, and Premier Doug Ford has said it won’t play a role in future studies of the project." #OnPoli

Over the morning mist a light skiff of snow arrived on the distant mountain range ….

Trapped, and an involuntary self portrait. #autumn #photography #wales

I just donated. This is so important (read Luke's 🧵 for more information.) If you can manage it, please consider supporting @pressprogress.ca it this fight against politicians who try to silence journalists.

Caylan Ford is suing me and PressProgress, along with trusted news organizations like CBC News, the Toronto Star, as well as other award-winning journalists Caylan Ford says she wants to “impose costs” on us as part of a larger crusade to “fight back against cancel culture” 🙄

But this lawsuit is so much bigger than me or PressProgress This lawsuit could have chilling implications for journalism and democracy in Canada Caylan Ford is also asking the court to protect politicians’ secrets and prevent journalists from reporting on documents leaked by whistleblowers

Important thread

An Early Morning Wander. 12°C and clear skies. Rabbits.

Every personality trait rich people are lauded for is also a symptom of sociopathy.

Sorry to Liberal partisans who will have to defend this as is their rote function after a decade of talking up climate change mitigation.

"You look at Pierre Poilievre's comportment. He seems to be reacting like he's still 25 points ahead in the polls and as if the Reform Act provisions had not been adopted by his caucus where he can be removed if they so choose ... Is he going to make it to the January review?" #CdnPoli

I'm finding it harder and harder to keep an open mind about AI with stories like this. We're using up vast amounts of our precious fresh water resources for what, exactly? www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

We are failing young people. We need politicians who can try to put themselves in their shoes -- not to capitalize on an opportunity to grow their base, but to actually help them.

Post-truth. "I thought that would be the end of the story, as accurate information slowly trickled out and supplanted the misleading claims. What I wasn’t expecting — the sheer number of people who continued to argue with me"

The axis of Liberal/Conservative/Authoritarian/Billionaire politicians just abandoning the climate crisis really spells disaster for life on this planet. It is shocking how countries have just given up on trying to stop global warming.

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?

Proof (if we needed it) that algorithmic amplification is dramatically accelerating, and perhaps even driving, the unravelling of our democracies. Fixing the problem means tackling the algorithms themselves, not just trying - and failing - to address the harms they cause. on.ft.com/49LNvCy