Canada’s universities are broke—and easy prey for consulting firms peddling austerity. @jameshasaface.bsky.social & Kyla Perry investigate the Nous Group, an Australian consulting firm that has earned a name for “restructuring” that cuts jobs, services, and faculties at Canadian schools.

NEW Alberta model to destroy harm reduction goes national. Part 1 showed how the provincial government got behind it. Part 2 showed how the cops got behind it. Part 3 is all about the money. And we’re talking tens of millions, in a province of 1 million. drugdatadecoded.ca/out-in-the-c...

@philmoscovitch.bsky.social this is an achievement, a spectacular achievement www.halifaxexaminer.ca/morning-file...

[taking the deepest possible breath] the Dutch East India Company was established in 1602,

Quebec is the “eye of the storm” of Mark Carney’s deportation blitz. As @desaima.bsky.social & @desmondcole.bsky.social report, CBSA agents are increasingly confronting migrants in workplaces and schools and rushing deportations before legal options for asylum seekers have played out.

Random note from the frontiers of parenting: there's a lot of sick manosphere stuff floating around in teen boy culture, but I mean you can just talk to them and they're pretty receptive to realizing it is dumb.

ever since i was a small boy i knew i wanted to charge the pepper grinder

it is in absolutely everybody’s best interests to develop some hobbies aside from Phone

these are the stims you find when you’re exploring the Palantir offices in a post-apocalyptic video game

Far less births should be happening in hospitals in North America than the current status quo. The rest of the world does birth differently and often for the better

I didn’t know this was the lyrics to this song, I knew it was “oh yeah” but I had no idea it was about the moon. Anyway, 80s people were really weird to make this a hit

congrats to big tech for reinventing auditory hallucinations

Angels Appearing before the Shepherds, by Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1910

I have never in my life watched a major sports league with any intention but I like and look forward to the sports content I get on here. The escape app for 30-somethings who used to be on Twitter. Why is that?

logging on

Whoa damn www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...

OMG, I WAS JOKING BUT IT'S LITERALLY THE WAIFUS

“Not for rinsing or washing,” they said. (Seen at Union Station.)

Today's listening, which I think I'll provide regularly 1 - Cloudy - Eric's Trip (Purple Blue, 1994) www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxgh...

call the bluff

Food $200 Data $150 Rent $800 Air Police $50 million Utility $150 someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my city is dying

US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winning $400,000 on Maduro raid www.cnn.com/2026/04/23/p...

should i buzz him in?

Tim Heidecker Wants to Make Infowars the Premier Destination for Trans Comedy

TODAY: @lindseyadler.bsky.social in conversation with @bencollins.bsky.social about The Onion's Infowars coup. "He’s just going to keep selling boner pills on the back of the worst tragedies in our country in perpetuity unless someone puts a check on this.” flaminghydra.com/r/e95b191b?m...

Whatever you do,

Tim Curry, the absolute legend, turns 80 today. This man took huge swings.

"Some", by the way, include Minister Tim Hodgson: Canada is “very hopeful that we can get through this difficult time and we can resume the type of relationship that we’ve had with the Americans for a long, long time." www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

On a new 🌾 @albertaadvantage.bsky.social 🌾 the team examine the province's reactionary backlash targeting trans people and children and unpack how it may be rooted in the cultural construction of childhood and education. albertaadvantagepod.com/2026/04/16/i...

Julie Le also doesn’t file campaign finance reports bsky.app/profile/nick...

threatening us all with a good time is what it sounds like

Perhaps Magyar's most important promise, and the one that certainly resonates with voters: "never again a country without consequences!" The crowd chants: "To prison! To prison!" [with the corrupt officials of the outgoing government]

It can be a felony to impersonate a cop. So what happens when a male dancer dressed up as a boy in blue gets pulled over? In our new issue, Charlotte Shane and Molly Matalon consider the bachelorette-party staple.

Nice to see the Liberals are consistent in having no values whatsoever and remain dedicated to their one calling: expanding their power and enriching their friends.

Odious to be lectured to about antisemitism by those who populate this administration

We'll allow betting on whether children will starve to death in a an open air prison... But betting on a single American soldiers fate?! MONSTROUS!

Foxes for Safer Henhouses

The A stands for “astroturf.”

This is very funny but it's also yet another reminder of the fundamental misalignment of this site's leadership and its core user base, which I imagine will cause legitimate and potentially existential problems down the road

One day, a thousands of years old mistake will be corrected and “milk and honey” will be finally retranslated as “cheese and syrup.”

It's not a slippery slope. It's just more gambling. What do these people think is at the top of the slope? Investing? A lot of investing is also just gambling. The slope is made of gambling. It's gambling all the way down.

"I am trying to be temperate and understanding while expressing my displeasure" is a hell of a thing to hear from a judge.

Kash Patel emails (1.1 GB) The first tranche of emails from the mailbox of Kash Patel, the director of the FBI, which was hacked by Handala, a hacking group that is believed to have ties to Iranian intelligence. ddosecrets.org/article/kash... Help us keep publishing: donorbox.org/ddosecrets

The collapse of the DOJ continues; suggestions that they used ChatGPT or another LLM to research/write a legal brief in a case involving conditions in ICE confinement at the Whipple building in Minneapolis.