The hill I will die on: I really don’t like ‘like’ – or other imprecise and redundant speech | Louis de Bernières

"Five years of flat resentment index scores among these UCP supporters — despite changes to carbon pricing, renewed pipeline planning and intergovernmental agreements — suggests that the grievance is not transactional." policyoptions.irpp.org/2026/06/albe...

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Foreign interference is bad, obviously, but this is a story about social media and the business model underpinning social media.

I wrote to Prime Minister Carney today.   Doug Ford said Canada wasn't for sale. Then he rammed through the Billy Bishop expansion – pushed by an American company tied to JP Morgan. (1/2)

It’s not just the US struggling; Canada is sliding too, warns Andrew Coyne. We must face the crisis of first-past-the-post and our unrepresentative system, which fails to offer true proportionate representation. Real democratic reform is urgent now. www.pictongazette.ca/post/saving-...

Where else can you hear about Victorian architecture, men in costumes, and citizen surveillance in one show? Why, at my artist's talk for The Ottawa Bubble, of course! This Sunday, May 24 at 3pm at 47 Queen's Park Crescent East, Toronto. @torschtheology.bsky.social #democracy #photography

Planning to be in Toronto on Sunday, May 24? Drop by @torschtheology.bsky.social at 3pm for an artist's talk on my project, "The Ottawa Bubble," the product of 18 months of photographing in and around Canada's Commons. Come say "hello" at 47 Queen's Park Crescent East! #democracy #art #Canada

The nomination meetings are the problem www.tvo.org/article/anal... #onpoli #cdnpoli @ontliberal.bsky.social @ontariopcparty.bsky.social

It's her day in much of Canada, so why not check out some of her legacy through my show, "The Ottawa Bubble"? It's on now at the Toronto School of Theology admin bldg (47 Queen's Park Crescent E.) as part of the 2026 Contact Photography Festival. #photography #art #canpoli #Victoria

If you love cities, want them to be better, and are concerned about the unprecedented lies and disinformation being used to block badly needed solutions, please consider following @urbantruth.bsky.social, check out hashtag #UrbanTruth, and share our posters & content. Thanks.

Planning to be in Toronto on Sunday, May 24? Drop by @torschtheology.bsky.social at 3pm for an artist's talk on my project, "The Ottawa Bubble," the product of 18 months of photographing in and around Canada's Commons. Come say "hello" at 47 Queen's Park Crescent East! #democracy #art #Canada

There is no business plan necessitating the expansion of Billy Bishop Airport and the downsides -- economic, environmental and human -- are being deliberately ignored by the Ford government. More needs to be said about who would actually benefit from such a reckless and destructive plan.

The federal government would be making a big mistake if they follow through on an idea to privatize Canada’s airports. By CCPA Executive Director, @peggynash.bsky.social www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

A big thank-you to all who came to the opening of The Ottawa Bubble on Saturday. As you know, even a solo show requires the efforts a small, skilled village! Thanks to @fabricefoto.bsky.social, Display Laminating, and the @torschtheology.bsky.social. #democracy #art #canpoli #parliament

Thanks @shawnmicallef.bsky.social for calling out Toronto's #LPC MP's for not defending our city's stake in the future of Billy Bishop Airport. I already e-mailed my new MP (Danielle Martin) & encourage other Torontonials to contact their MP's too. #cdnpoli #NoJetsTO www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Announcing our next In-Between Show - Martin Brooks: Quiet City Martin Brooks presents Quiet City, an exhibition featuring painterly views captured through the City of Ottawa traffic camera network. Join us for the Vernissage on May 2nd at 1 p.m. Full info at : 100milearts.net/brooks

Interesting to see @theguardian.com take a story about messing up on the French language, and then translating "Bonjour tout le monde" as "hello all of the world." 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️ www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

The current issue of @photoeditorial.bsky.social deals with the theme of "Order vs. Chaos" and gave me the chance to write articles about the typology-based work of the late Richard Johnson and to spend time exploring the constructed landscapes of Daniel Everett. Consider subscribing!

At Belonging Forum presents The Walrus Talks Power and Belonging find out how dignity, trust, and participation can be rebuilt when polarization is driving us apart. https://twtpowerandbelonging.eventbrite.ca/?aff=Social

My show, "The Ottawa Bubble," is part of this year's Contact Photography Festival in Toronto. In it I examine Canada's Parliament through a photographic look at the corridors and chambers of the House of Commons, a 19th-century institution that struggles to serve a modern G7 nation. #art #democracy

Think it couldn't happen in Canada or the UK? #journalism #freedom #democracy

A great photographer (incidentally, director of the game-changing 1971 Blaxploitation film SHAFT as well); if I were in London I would visit this expo for sure.

Foto 0.10.53 is now available for all Android and Apple users. We smoothed out the scrolling for the Home and Discovery Feed and squashed some bugs. We are now working on Android Performance Improvements & Browser development continues!

Paris, France #streetphotography #Paris #photograph #France #blackandwhitephotography

If you care about the state of Parliamentary #democracy in Canada, listen to Elizabeth May's press conference from yesterday. Significant changes are happening through bloated omnibus bills and in the way our MPs vote and make decisions. #accountability #parliament

What a bizarre initiative. Does Garnett Genuis want to make the Government of Canada a safe place for fascists? Then why doesn't he just request the membership list from Antifa Head Office? Oh, that's right. It doesn't exist. #politics #Canada #Trump

Why are Canadian politicians and governments still maintaining feeds on an American platform that cashes in on undermining democracy?

She wrote a letter to Trudeau demanding more immigration to Alberta! This is trumpian level incoherence. www.alberta.ca/system/files...

Beyond the slogans and the easy answers, the analogies just don't work: Alberta is nothing like Norway and never would be.

If it walks like a duck...

A selection of portraits from Richard Avedon's series, "The Family." Part of the @mbamtl.bsky.social exhibition, "Richard Avedon: Immortal / Portraits of Aging, 1951-2004." #Montreal #photography #art

Avedon by Avedon, part of "Richard Avedon: Immortal / Portraits of Aging, 1951-2004 Well worth seeing this show at @mbamtl.bsky.social #Montreal #photography #art

TODAY! Is deadline day for our ORDER v CHAOS Call for submissions! www.photoed.ca/callforphoto...

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

Pour un véritable musée national de la photographie au Québec www.lapresse.ca/dialogue/opi...

I know you've heard that a federal judge ordered the release of 5 year old Liam Conejo Arias and his father, and that they're now home. But did you look at the judge's order? It's less than 2.5 pages and well worth a minute. "Jesus wept." Link to pdf: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Anyone see a problem with this? #Canada #politics #disinformation

Quebec politicians accusing Mark Carney of ‘rewriting history’ are guilty of doing the same “Carney doesn't see francophones as perpetual victims — as the CAQ, PQ and Bloc seem to — but as equal partners in building Canada.” An editorial by @mtltoula.bsky.social. #polqc

The Don River was once so polluted with waste, garbage + chemicals that it caught on fire. The water itself, which flows towards Lake Ontario, was so inhospitable that it hosted life’s very antithesis. Now, researchers are starting to see a rebirth. For @nationalobserver.com

A little something for Burns Night 2026 Ye see yon birkie, ca'd a lord, Wha struts and stares and a' that; Tho' hundreds worship at his word, He's but a coof for a' that... #Burns #politics

I finally published my favourite photo moments of 2025. Thanks for looking! #believeinfilm #photography #yearinreview www.culturesnap.ca/blog/2026/1/...

Thanks to @mlehmann.ca for reposting this article on the photography of Lucia Moholy. Just how much wonderful work have we been deprived of because of racism, war or misogyny? #Bauhaus #photography #women

Recent Abacus polling on the Conservative base in Canada: somewhat younger and male, less educated and deeply skeptical of institutions. #Canada #politics #institutions

New Column: DJT intimated a lot of people in 2025. Not this year. newrepublic.com/article/2054... via @newrepublic.com