Appreciate this detail from CBS News reporter Jennifer Jacobs. It's an important part of the story that seems to be missing from a lot of comments & coverage.

Prohibiting things that are everywhere doesn’t make the things go away, for a targetted group or in general. After a 100 years + of ineffective policy with terrible knock on effects, you’d think we’d know, but nope. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

this chart was life altering to me

This is from the February 2025 leadership debate ... but the question still stands, incredibly enough.

Pope Leo's right hand is Cardinal Czerny. I knew him in Riverdale. He used to come to our punk shows to discuss grassroots activism. We met in a biker bar. He married my wife and I and was sent to El Salvador to defy the death squads after they murdered the Jesuit leaders. He is the real deal.

Québec city in 3 acts: single-family housing next to our main transit network without a sidewalk, transformed into a missing-middle 6-8 stories building with townhouses and apartments with a sidewalk and trees, with the addition this week of a 20-slot bike share station replacing car parking

Classic Toronto

"Of the more than 700 Palestinians killed by Israeli fire over the six months of the ceasefire, 269 were shot near the yellow line, according to UN data. Of these, more than 100 were children." www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

In a nutshell, the ANES data shows: 📉 Social media use is shrinking; engagement collapsing 💥 Twitter/X posting has moved ~70 POINTS to the right 🧩 Platforms are splintering 🔊 Fewer people are talking — but those still talking are more politically extreme

LUTNICK: It is outrageous that Canada will not put US spirits on the shelf. It is insulting and disrespectful to America SHAHEEN: They won't do it because of the insults from this president and comments like yours

We talk about the privacy implications of electronic health records but everyone in the waiting room today got to hear my name, address, phone number and medical issue. That seems less than ideal.

I haven’t watched Ehlers play all season but seeing him set up the game-winning goal in double overtime for Carolina made me sad.

If you haven’t seen “The Voice of Hind Rajab”, take the time. Will there ever be accountability for her murder? At least these two senators are trying.

How come they keep spelling “open” wrong? Does that street look closed to you? Only if you’re a car… and presumably that’s the real problem. #UrbanTruth

and not to put too fine a point on it...

i want people to look at this. look at the kind of movie that used to be successful mainstream, middlebrow entertainment.

'Bell removed Romeo and Juliet from his syllabus because “in Act III, Romeo and Juliet have sex, and that falls under this very broadly defined sexuality [topics ban].” He also didn’t teach about Joan of Arc this semester.' What an actual lack of freedom of speech looks like in universities. 3/3

'Texas A&M philosophy professor Martin Peterson is leaving the university after administrators told him in January that he couldn’t teach Plato’s Symposium in his philosophy class; they said the ancient Greek philosopher’s work violated the system’s restrictions on gender and sexuality content.' 1/3

This Hurray for the Riff Raff song is from 2024 but new to me. I love how the phrasing and melodies remind me of Canadian songwriters Joel Plaskett and Sarah Harmer (with a different voice, obvs).

Trump cannot be shamed, but I don’t think he likes being mocked.

These are great numbers. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 #Winnipeg #Housing

"Nothing is so unknown as that which one does not wish to know." -- Eliot Once they start actually publicizing the war crimes, a lot of people are going to start getting very uncomfortable.

I continue to find it mind-blowing that at least 70,000 people were killed in Gaza and Israel is still successfully preventing international journalists from entering the territory. This is the sort of thing Canada (and other countries) could be pressuring them to change.

Was part of a community consultation for new parkette near Dufferin and Bloor and asked why the paved walkway in center had to be so ugly and wide. Was told design has to accommodate the city truck to drive in and get the garbage. We're literally designing a park around a truck!

Adding to this (we’ve got years of documentation). Fred Hamilton Park destruction last evening. It’s weird they can’t do anything about it. The downtown progressives will look blankly at you when asked.

It'd be hilarious if Kash Patel's Olympic stunt ultimately leads to his downfall.

$80,000 for a part-time job that could be done remotely? I have definitely made some bad choices in my life. (This story is doubly strange to me because Bobbi was my high school social studies teacher. She gave me a couch for my first apartment. I liked her. 🤷‍♀️

What you can't see in the pictures of pedestrian streets: the QUIET. Hundreds of people out, and all you hear are birds singing, the click of a bike mechanism, and the murmer of conversation. 📷 Ave Mont-Royal, Montréal

Very cool. I guess "four green" is code for "they're all alive".

Man, if we could pick a player who ended up as good as Scheifele, this crappy hockey season would be worth it.

Here is Avi Lewis' readout of his meeting with Carney today. #cdnpoli

The Centre for Policy Alternatives had the number at $40+ million a year for Winnipeg. There hasn't been a lot of attempts to estimate it. I've been pestering cities for years to attempt to do it, with no response.

This is accurate, but incomplete. The biggest cost for Ottawa is when families move out to Carleton Place, etc, pay $0 in property taxes to Ottawa but use substantial municipal services. Land use policies that drive families to satellite towns are the most expensive of all.

It makes sense. Who gets mail anymore? I’ve had a community mailbox almost 15 years and I check it maybe once a week. We go away for the winter and don’t pay Canada Post to hold our mail anymore.

I find this so weird. We've had community mailboxes (in a wide swath of St Vital) for many years. Also, they're fine. Check it like every week or two. About 10% of the mail is mail I want, excluding packages which are very nice to receive in the locked parcel box.

Massive Attack with Tom Waits's new single and powerful video about U.S. militarism, "Boots on the Ground." youtu.be/L-57FrioeuE?...

I rarely get excited about clothing chains coming to Winnipeg, but this is cool. I also like this: “The brand…will launch a Winnipeg-inspired collection of T-shirts and totes. The series will include three designs: two prints highlighting Gunn’s Bakery and Little Sister Coffee Maker…”

Oh, and by the way, Norway also taxes oil and profits at 78 per cent. 78 per cent! From PwC:

Congrats to Dr. Danielle Martin, the new MP for University-Rosedale. This video from 2014 is well worth watching. I particularly enjoyed the section at 2:55.

This is fantastic. Jon Klassen’s books were our family’s favourites when the kids were young.

Ezra Klein now agrees with the One State Reality thesis: “that might have been a controversial claim when it was made. But what has happened since Oct. 7 has made it an undeniable reality.” Enjoy our podcast. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-lynch-telhami.html

Eliminating libraries in prisons is a disaster, completely shortsighted. Libraries are a lifeline for incarcerated people who want to learn and grow, and have few other options.

I am obsessed with this clip and have watched it multiple times

Winnipegger honours dad who was among survivors shown in famous concentration camp photo @prairiewriterguy.bsky.social www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

The Wpg Sea bears understand that Game Day begins the minute you leave your house. Make getting to the game enjoyable for the whole family by embracing active transportation! @bikewinnipeg.bsky.social @akohan.bsky.social @daveelmore12.bsky.social

Canadians are continuing to avoid travel to the US as much as possible. Here are monthly air travel counts.

Pedestrian Beg Buttons are the worst.

🧵 The Canadian federal government’s 2025 budget has allocated: More business tax breaks including for fossil fuels sector $925 million for AI $81.8 billion over 5 years for military However, this comes at the expense of cultural heritage.