Nothing better than a September Sunday on the majestic St. Lawrence.

Canada Post is a vital institution. The government is correct that it is not sustainable in it's current form, but the answer is not endless cuts and winnowing. Reform it and fund it. The mail does not have to be profitable, it is a service, not a business. Solidarity with the strikers.

Never mind the administrative and capital costs that municipalities have taken to onboard this provincial program, now we dismantle it and call that good value for taxpayers money as well? It’s not a tax grab. It’s a fine. Now we’re all gonna pay financially and with our neighbourhood security.

Residents are vocal in demanding speed enforcement cameras in their neighbourhoods because cameras work to reduce speeds, increase safety, and contribute to a sense of security for everyone using roads and sidewalks. Removing them will make cities more dangerous places.

maybe they meant Canadian Rapture, which happens in October

"Tylenol is dangerous for women and children," say men who have spent the last eight years making life more dangerous for women and children

Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:

As a nation, we need to pause and ask ourselves if this is who we want to be? Can Canadians look ourselves in the mirror and live with the knowledge we *disappointed* the ambassador of a country that threatened to annex us and run our economy into the ground? [pause] Ya, actually, I’m ok with it

I’m so glad that Ottawa chose not to invest in transit like other cities did and continues to make public transit and act transportation more difficult more expensive and harder to use just as we also force all employees back to the office five days a week. #Winning #Sarcasm

If Carney truly believes the man who created Project 25 - PROJECT TWENTY FIVE - is going to nicely sit down and give him the keys to Trump's economic game plan, I don't just have a swampland in Florida to sell you, I have the whole damn state

Taking notes from a prominent and aggressively active fascist is one hellava choice. A deliberate choice.

roses are red violets are blue singular they predates singular you

This headline should, in a reasonable world, create a national scandal that topples the Carney government. In a reasonable world under a reasonably competent government, we would be actively seeking to distance ourselves from the U.S. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

The Democrats every single day:

This is an important read. Cataloguing is at a critical moment.

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre comes wants to make sure everyone knows he's a full blown transphobe, in case there was any doubt. He even included a shout out to JK Rowling. This hate should be disqualifying from any politician. "women's rights advocate" go fuck yourself

Thoroughly enjoyed the touring production of Hamilton at the NAC this afternoon. Strong performances all round, slick production values, a first rate show. Last time Hamilton came to Ottawa we were disappointed, but this was top notch. Tickets are $$$, but worth it if you can swing it.

Two great reads on my vacation week. First is an Agatha Christie type murder mystery with all suspects at a country manor for the weekend. Second is a young woman who escapes Austria just after the Anschluss and gets a job at the Royal Library at Windsor, but is drawn into intrigue.

Ford has been warned by experts within his own government that his 401-tunnel dream risks “roadway collapse” and is unsafe and unrealistic. But he’s still plowing ahead with his $100 billion scheme instead of fixing our crumbling schools and understaffed hospitals.

They are on the cusp of curing cancer with mRNA vaccines.

It has one of the lowest conviction rates of any crime in Canada.

Colour me un-fucking-surprised that hockey players have been acquitted of sexual assault.

Alan Cumming is an international treasure. Everyone should watch this monologue.

This whole thread is worth reading, but I particularly like the point she makes about how THIS is much more of a threat to women's participation in society and women's rights than inclusive language or any of that other nonsense.

I want my fridge to keep my food cold. That’s it. Who is asking for this?

Turn it off. Stop using it. Turn it off. Stop. Stop. Stop. If every time I was wrong about something, a gallon of precious water was boiled into the sky, my neighbourhood got polluted and someone lost their job, people would stop asking me things.

if the wheels had come off this thing any faster it'd be a Cybertruck

Tell me you know nothing about what the Library of Congress does without telling me, etc.

This remains attractive to women because: - Holland is so deeply at ease with himself and his masculinity - He is full of joy, doing something he is good at - He is proud to be dressed as a woman. He takes it seriously. Being a woman is not the punchline to a joke

“I asked ChatGPT” well I asked the three Fates and the one with the scissors got very agitated when I told her you were using your one precious life thread talking to that cursed thing

The Education Minister is launching an investigation into school board funding, but here is what he isn't telling you. #onpoli #onted www.facebook.com/ChandraPasma...

“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?” - A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic

BREAKING: Canada has won the federal election.

Today is the day, unless you are one of the record-breaking number who voted in the advance polls. Please vote. This election is so important, perhaps the most important of our lifetimes. I know you’re tired, or you think your riding is a foregone conclusion, or you don’t like either of those guys.

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This is high art

Today is the International Transgender Day of Visibility. As our trans brothers and sisters come under increasing attack it is more vital than ever that we stand with them, love and support them, and speak up for and protect them. Trans rights are human rights. Protect trans people.

We need more leaders like Wab Kinew. Think of the country we could build.

"How anyone could live with one of these and not want to protect all of them is beyond me."

Loving this new ad for #Canada #ChooseCanada 🍁🍁🍁

Canada places 200% tariff on little Canadian flags Americans wear while travelling

If the US does ever invade and I have to form a resistance cell, our password will be "Oh, I wish I were--" because all the Canadians will instinctively reply "IN SHERBROOKE NOW!" while the Americans will all reply "an Oscar Mayer wiener" and we'll know who the spies are

Everything around us is a dumpster fire, but I went away for a few days and came home to a clean kitchen and this in the oven. Get yourself a true partner, one who genuinely shares the load. It makes it all easier to bear.

I'm Canadian. I'm a parent of a non-binary kid. They're pretty great. After November 5, I knew I wasn't going to @goclio.bsky.social Clio Con. Instead, I will be donating the refund to the ACLU because my friends, they're gonna all the help they can get.

Doug Ford's win is our loss. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/02/28/o...

Reminder that when the Freedom Convoy began, Doug Ford went AWOL snowmobiling in the Muskokas, did little to nothing to support the City of Ottawa as the second biggest city in the province descended into anarchy for 3 weeks, then later refused to testify at the emergencies act inquiry

I never, ever take it for granted that I can cast my vote freely and easily. I remember the generations who fought and died for my right to do so. I see how easily it could be taken away. Don’t let it happen. Go vote!

I do not understand how I can check the tracker before I leave my house, see the next bus en route in “real time,” walk five minutes to the bus stop, check again and that bus is gone from the tracker completely. Where do they go? #OCTranspo

Dear Esso, You know, I have often thought, standing at a gas pump in -27 degree windchill, shivering desperately as your gas drips slowly into my car, that what we really needed was ads blaring from the touchscreen of every pump. Just the perfect touch. Thanks ever so. No love, Alison