If there are any entrepreneurial programmers in Africa who want to set up an AT Proto-based social media app/website that connects to Bluesky, this is the moment! (Same goes for the rest of the world too. There are projects underway in Canada and Europe already, but more is better here.)

On March 17, 1985, the Shamrock Summit began when President Ronald Reagan made a state visit to Canada. It concluded the following day with one of the most famous Canadian political moments of the 1980s. This is the story of the summit. 🧵 1/5

"Around $170,000 has been raised since the game’s inception, with the 2026 goal set at $30,000. The money goes to Right To Play Canada, which supports youth sports in Indigenous communities."

I can only hope that the circumstances that led to Nancy Grewal's murder might compel Canadian journalists to reconsider what they say, or rather what they choose not to say. june231985.wordpress.com/2026/03/12/f... cc: @theglobeandmail.com, @nationalpost.bsky.social, @thestar.com

Today is Canadian Women's Physician Day It recognizes the contributions of women in medicine and marks the anniversary of when Dr. Jennie Trout became the first licenced female physician in Canada. Here are 10 Canadian women who made their mark on medicine. 🧵 1/12

From the inbox: two Alberta First Nations chiefs met with King Charles at Buckingham Palace about Alberta separatism

“They want to interfere with courts. They want to direct the judges. They want to be able to put their own people into the courts. And that becomes a very quick erosion of the rule of law.” edmontonjournal.com/news/politic...

Maybe, ..now just hear me out,..if you start a war without due process, that you can’t explain, where your objectives seem unclear, and contagion seems to be underway, maybe markets will see risk? Just spitballing here…

If Article V worked the way people think it does, NATO would have been dragged into every conflict that Greece and Türkiye ever had (even though they're both NATO members).

"The team will work on improving Caseway’s legal research assistant by developing strategies to detect and mitigate hallucinations and use its findings to produce open-source code that will be freely available to the public."

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Last week marked Fair Dealing Week, the annual celebration of exceptions. But we rely on exceptions every day. My series drew from novelist Thea Lim to legal scholar Peter Yu. Particular attention was given to the seeming payout of$3000 per book used in AI training. fairduty.wordpress.com

One day in 1965, a future prime minister vacationing in Barbados saved a man from drowning. That man happened to be a past prime minister. This is the story of when John Turner saved John Diefenbaker. youtube.com/shorts/diPfj...

For a devout Catholic such as Ms. Leavitt, placing oneself and one's circle morally above the Holy Father through this sort of condemnation is considered a violation of the Fourth Commandment, the Sin of Rash Judgement, and can be considered a forbidden act of schism or heresy.

This unusual Latin to English glossary is from Bernard S. Talmey's "Love: A Treatise on the Science of Sex-Atttraction" (1919), a 458-page treatise on carnal acts which has all words deemed too scandalous translated into Latin. More here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/g...

So, under the proposed laws, you can’t be an American if you’re born in the United States, and you also can’t be an American if you’re born outside the United States to Americans. This, from a regime whose core figures get absolutely hysterical about population non-growth

Just 11% of heart bypass surgeries completed within recommended time My 2025 Parkland Institute report showed 9 out of 11 priority procedures were longer since the province began its focus on outsourcing easy procedures at the expense of complex cases #abpoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Copyright laws meant for physical scarcity now act as digital “walls.” 🧱 In the latest Future Knowledge podcast, Glyn Moody unpacks how these walls limit access while benefiting big media. With Maria Bustillos @MariaBustillos.com. 🎧 Listen ➡️ futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/wal...

Some countries that have prosecuted or threatened to prosecute central bankers for the purpose of political intimidation or punishment for monetary policy decisions: Argentina, Russia, Turkey, Venezuela and Zimbabwe.

A remarkable statement by a central banker. The implications are enormous. “Public service sometimes requires standing firm in the face of threats.”

Even just that first paragraph hits too close to home, I'm afraid. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

I wonder if Canada will bring up Franklin-related Intellectual Property Issues during the USMCA review.

2025 was the darkest for Alberta democracy. Here are 10 things you can do this holiday season to help restore the light. open.substack.com/pub/drjaredw...

In May I had the honour of participating in a memorial conference marking 40 years since Canada's worst instance of domestic terrorism: the bombing of Air India 182. My contribution spans 15:35-31:00 of: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDpS...

"Over the past decade, Canada’s labour productivity growth has fallen well behind the U.S. and other advanced economies. Had we simply kept pace with our earlier trajectory, Canada’s economy today would be roughly 20 percent larger—that’s well over $600 billion in foregone annual income."

🎂 E. H. Shepard was born on this day in 1879. A titan among British illustrators, he’s best remembered for his Winnie-the-Pooh illustrations. 🧸 The surprising ways his artwork & the text work together to shape the Pooh stories are a story all their own ⤵️ blog.archive.org/2025/12/10/e... 🧵

Am I calling out conservatives for being complicitly silent over Danielle Smith's authoritarian drift? Damn straight. youtube.com/watch?v=wjr0...

Compelling editorial from Globe and Mail.

Did you know that the Canadian government issued Santa Claus and Mrs. Claus Canadian citizenship? In fact, there is some evidence to say that Santa is indeed Canadain. This is the story of Santa's Canadian connections! 🧵 1/5

TODAY, Court of King’s Bench, after hearing submissions from First Nations, ruled that the separatists’ (Alberta Prosperity Project) proposed referendum question is unconstitutional. It violates all Albertans Charter and First Nations’ treaty rights. Premier, what now? #ableg

"Alberta's cavalier disregard..." Good reading here.

@linkletter.org: "Over 50,000 UBC students were forced to use Proctorio during the pandemic & it was really upsetting to them. They felt like they weren’t being trusted. They felt creeped out by the eye tracking & head movement tracking that it does, and they were asking for help getting rid of it."

From @dougsaunders.bsky.social "It is time now for democracies to provide maximum support to Ukraine, including legislation to seize and employ frozen Russian bank assets... It is time to build better protections against the barrage of political interference that would [ensue from] Vladimir Putin."

He should definitely go do a public event in Canada where he says this exact thing.

Sure I’d seen the FIFA Peace Prize before.

The last thing we need south of the border at this point is millions of elite Americans who’ve just tried to quit caffeine

If you intended it to be used only in the case of ethical or illegal behaviour, then why didn’t you put that in the legislation? Sloppy drafting is not a defence to the use of the law. One could argue that the notwithstanding clause was also never meant for the purposes to which it’s being put.

It’s like people who always say “utilize” when they mean “use.” But worse, because in this case it’s an imported French fake word

Once again, folks: any deal between Alberta and Ottawa that requires a) BC's approval, and b) significant support from coastal First Nations is a deal for a pipeline that will never happen. If Carney can get Smith to agree to ratchet up industrial carbon pricing in exchange? That feels like a win.

Friends, we gather to honor the dearly departed icons of the early web. 🖥️⚰️ Though they have vanished from our screens, their spirit endures both in our memory & in the Wayback Machine, preserved across 1 trillion pages of web history. Pay your respects ⤵️ archive.org/details/in-m... #Wayback1T

I hate the word “impactful” - but otherwise, I am quite tickled with this honour from my Senate colleagues! #cdnpoli #SenateofCanada @senindepend.bsky.social #Alberta

From Maria Popova, @themarginalian.org.web.brid.gy: "To dream is to dare traversing the roiling ocean between what is and what could be on a ramshackle raft of determination and luck. The price we pay for dreaming is the possibility of drowning; ... 1/2

On Nov. 21, 1950, two trains collided near Valemount, British Columbia. The crash killed 21 people and sparked a manslaughter trial against a CNR dispatcher. The dispatcher was defended by a lawyer named John Diefenbaker, and this trial changed Canadian history. 🧵 1/12

Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.

" Annual surveys have highlighted the extent of the problem, with the most recent showing rural municipalities are owed $254 million in back taxes. What especially frustrates municipal representatives is that many of the tax dodgers are active and profitable companies."

I assume this means the US government will sell its shares in Intel, etc. now, right?

On this day in 1938, Gordon Lightfoot was born in Orillia, Ontario. Considered one of Canada's greatest songwriters, he won 16 Juno Awards and has a star on Canada's Walk of Fame. He had four #1 albums in Canada, most of which went platinum.

Am greatly enjoying this series of talks by @authorsalliance.bsky.social and OCEAN.