I love that it’s in Pigeon Forge. A place that’s like if Banff was invaded by Las Vegas. Perfect.

Alberta renters have it bad. Part of the reason is the dismal amount of non-market housing options available in this province. In my latest story for @ricochetmedia.bsky.social i write about the limitations of Build Canada Homes’ approach to non-market housing. ricochet.media/justice/hous...

Honestly, “brought to you by Bank of America” is the funniest way that statement can end.

Laugh 2 not cry

It is SO CANADIAN that the Hudson's Bay Charter, one of the most important foundational documents for our history, has been sold to two of Canada's richest families.

what do you mean you hate black licorice? do you also hate picking at that itchy little bit of skin around your fingernail? do you also hate walking in the rain when a cold breeze cuts through you? do you also hate the feeling of knowing you've let down a loved one?

This came to me in a dream

The rise of AI tech is a crisis and it’s time everyone publicly came out against this shit. www.sfgate.com/tech/article...

Luxury seats are a response to there being a ton more Americans for whom ticket prices are no object, thanks mostly to Ronald Reagan. The ideal stadium, to an owner, is probably one incredibly opulent seat that you could then sell to Martin Shkreli.

thanks, business doula

For this!

We pay more per ride than Montreal, Toronto, or Vancouver…for what?

Wrote about the long history of baseball’s salary cap fight, which dates back to the 1800s: www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/mlb...

SCOOP Calgary Police Service suppressed evidence of brutality by officers deployed to the UofC anti-genocide protest on May 9, 2024. Among the evidence was camera footage from senior officers that should have been examined during an internal investigation. drugdatadecoded.ca/calgary-poli...

Danielle Smith: "I hope people today feel a lot more confident that Canada works than they did a couple of days ago." UCP convention crowd: LOUD BOOS

Hey kids. I just talked to your bosses. They said you can knock off early. No don’t ask them. Close up shop. Pencils down. Hit the road. Safe travels and enjoy a piping hot cup of gravy. Also steal whatever office supplies you want on your way out. It’s cool. For real.

You know how there are some historical reenactment museum areas where you can go and see people dressed old timey churning butter and making horseshoes? There should be one that's a bar and kids can go listen to reenactors complain about their city's sports teams from different decades

I would absolutely eat a blue jay.

Fun fact: Edmund Fitzgerald was a founding partner of the Milwaukee Brewers. The freighter as named for his father.

i recommend reading this by @nolore.bsky.social noraloreto.substack.com/p/the-big-cr...

The union is calling on people to boycott btw!!

Cover just dropped. Coming in 2026 from Oxford University Press.

I'll let Kwame Ture explain it;

This actually helps, thank you

i think if you ride public transit enough you learn that most weird behavior is not dangerous, and conversely i think driving a car teaches you that everyone is trying to kill you at all times

Furthermore public transit teaches you how to live with temporary minor annoyances and cars teach you that you're god's most special baby and your moment-to-moment comfort is the only important thing in the world

As restaurants serving Indian cuisines continue to become some of the hottest reservations across the country, I wrote for @slate.com about their uneasy relationship to butter chicken. Or really, their uneasy relationship to what butter chicken has come to represent. slate.com/life/2025/10...

"ZOSO, Gossip Girl." - someone having fun recommending Led Zeppelin IV to Gossip Girl Can we still do posts like this sometimes?

I browsed Margaret Thatcher's latest estate sale in pursuit of haunted objects johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/shopping-m...

Regardless of statistics showing crime is dwindling, safety is a major concern for Calgarians—why? In my latest essay, i explore this question, alongside the implications of letting our bourgeois fears guide our city’s policy agenda.

Vladimir Guerrero Jr., Toronto Blue Jays

Soooo this wasn't a headline I was expecting to write this week... 🙃 #yyccc

I was still drinking the last time I had to care about October baseball. So I’ve just been freebasing Jays baseball stress this year.

The real story that the legacy media refuse to tell is that this is classic liberal corruption and billionaire lobbying: Melanie Jolie's brother is the CEO of intelcom, and the Libs have been lobbied by UPS, Amazon, and Pittney Bowes during our negotiations. All the other reasons for cuts are bunk

I began writing this story with a naive question in mind: What do we lose when public education is privatized? A lot, actually. By following the MAGA playbook, the UCP’s push against public education not only undermines democracy, it jeopardizes the possibility of a better future for all Albertans.

Baseball fans, buy this book. And buy Andrew's other books too. He's a phenomenal author who writes about baseball like no other.

I bet if Rembrandt were alive today he’d be really sad he wasn’t picked to be a Ninja Turtle.

Watching They Live on the Criterion Channel, as nature intended.

I'm just leaving this open and playing audio in a separate browser tab. At some point MF Doom is going to start rapping over it.

“We should want to take advantage of the post office’s unique, nationwide infrastructure to provide more and better services to Canadians instead of dismantling something that we may never be able to rebuild.” @parismarx.com

tired: defensive walking wired: offensive walking

This is the future of mainstream media and if you don't like it, you need to build yourself your own media list of independents.

The Sprawl is doing a funding drive and I can’t recommend it enough. Essential Calgary journalism. www.sprawlcalgary.com/sprawl-birth...

incredible work. become uncarryable.

Key player in $280 million in treble damages, architect of a strategy that cost MLB a World Series *and* got laughed out of court, but sure, let’s go get his opinion. Might as well ask Jim Jones about best beverages for a picnic.

is that what i think it is

If you're trying to make sense of why Air Canada and the Liberals would be conspiring to screw over workers and passengers, I have written a book that explains this. You can grab it anywhere you get books. www.dundurn.com/books_/t2211...