“The creative intelligence of humanity is a gift that can alleviate suffering and open up new possibilities, but it must remain ordered toward the common good, justice, the care of the vulnerable and creation.” www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

“The pervasiveness of digital media fosters a culture of immediacy and hyper-stimulation, which gives rise to fatigue, boredom and apathy concerning the effort required for seeking the truth. Education, by contrast, is a long journey requiring patience” www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

At the Center for Civil Rights and Technology's 2026 annual convening in Washington, D.C. on May 12, I hosted a conversation with author and scholar Dr. Ruha Benjamin and Alejandra Montoya-Boyer, vice president of the center, about how to build collective power towards a better future.

I had the opportunity to give the commencement address for the Class of 2026 of the UAB Heersink School of Medicine. I spoke about their role in shaping the profession , becoming artisans of care, working for careful and kind care for all. Full address here: www.youtube.com/live/j3FRx4q...

In this excerpt, I discuss time not as a resource in minutes but as a place for care.

Also I got to celebrate my mother’s caregiving reputation!! Learn more about our movement for care at patientrevolution.org

🧵 We tend to think the internet is permanent, but VANISHING CULTURE—the new 📚 from Internet Archive—starts with a simple reality: our digital record is far more fragile than we think 🕳️ 📖 Read for free: archive.org/details/vani... 🛒 Purchase in print: www.betterworldbooks.com/product/deta... ⬇️

Ask your local Liberal why Canada's Federal gov't gave Montreal's waterfront a huge riverside park ("le Vieux‑Port de Montréal") but wants Toronto to have a noisy polluting airport. This letter to the Globe has the exactly right idea: turn Billy Bishop Airport into a federal park. Like Montreal has.

GOODMAN: “…are you hopeful?” McKIBBEN: “…I’m hopeful that we actually have a tool, finally, to put to work. We’re not going to stop global warming. We may be able to start shaving tenths of a degree off how hot the planet gets, and that would at the very least be helpful.”

My thoughts on animals in art. alwayssomethingtosee.substack.com/p/art-and-th... 🧪🌿🌎🪶🐡 #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #scientificillustration #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm #art #painting #WildlifeArt

I can only imagine what it’s like to focus on, write about & chronicle the events of our world as @brucearthur.bsky.social does so poignantly & critically well I do know how he reaches this human & countless others as he writes, reminding us how “out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.”

“The Federal Court has categorically . . .confirmed that safe drinking water on reserve is a fundamental right rather than an act of charity. It should never have been necessary to bring this case.” Twin rulings confirm Canada had obligations and clear the way for the cases to move ahead.

Grateful for @eryk.bsky.social’s studied, human POV & his steady, engaging work gathered at Cybernetic Forests, with deeply thoughtful articles like What Was ChatGPT? and vital contributions in symposiums like The Age of Noise which makes known #ImpactByTechnologies on #SocialCulturalEcosystems

People want to be with other people. A recent event showcased the wisdom of William H Whyte, and I ask: why don’t our public spaces follow his lead? www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/art-...

“I believe in your capacities. I believe in your commitment. I believe in you.” 💕 THE LAST CLASS film, @imcivicaction.bsky.social Inequality Media Civic Action’s first documentary, about @rbreich.bsky.social Prof. Robert Reich’s final semester of teaching.

Happy #EarthDay from my corner of the Earth. This is a compilation of places and moments from all over #Manitoba, Canada. I put it together to show that we are so much more than 'flat' and 'boring'. We're beautiful and diverse and full of life, like everywhere else on this planet we call home. 🌿

From one of my favourite local tossers @shawnmicallef.bsky.social who knows & loves Toronto like few others, a knowledgeable, considered plea that the “Loblaw owners’ $50M gift should be thought through by city” @mayoroliviachow.ca @cityoftoronto.bsky.social @spacing.bsky.social #OtherParksNeeds

Barn Owl (Tyto alba) in flight. Colored pencils on Canson paper, 9 x 11 in., 2024.

From On Being with Krista Tippett: Foundations for Being Alive Now “Four short offerings…” Nourishing. Encouraging. —Seeing the Generative Story of Our Time —Living the Questions —Taking a Long View of Time, and Becoming "Critical Yeast" —Calling and Wholeness onbeing.org/starting-poi...

"We need leaders not in love with money but in love with justice. Not in love with publicity but in love with humanity." -- MLK Jr., 11/8/56

Later before they left Brian made certain I understood that whatever sphere of discourse I fancied I shared with any interlocutor, I was wrong. Brian said (admiringly, I thought), "Did you write that story?" I started to answer, when he continued,"Or did you type it?" —The Writing Life Annie Dillard

A bookmark to stay close to this usable map. “Doppelganger is my attempt at a usable map of our moment in history—but to make it, I had to get lost a few times.” Thank you, @naomiaklein.bsky.social naomiklein.org/doppelganger/

To those who have friends, relatives in the California fire zone I have spoken with Canadian Safety Minister Bill Blair. Under Section 273.6 National Defence Act Canada's military have been authorized to begin the airlift of CDN firefighters to help California residents. Airlift commences today.

“Nothing will change until our anger gets powerful enough. But once you accept the truth of loss, and the truth of who perpetrated and profited from that loss, the anger comes rushing in, as fierce is the Santa Ana winds.” @climatehuman.bsky.social @democracynow.org

Ending homelessness is our most urgent crisis. I will continue to push the city and all levels of govt to do better. The answer is HOUSING, with supports when needed. Period. ottawacitizen.com/opinion/tros...

We need to go back to our roots. Knock doors. Talk to our neighbours. Meet in parks and community centres. Organize. Build community. I regret depending so heavily on platforms owned and run by people who do me and my community harm.

Oh man, LA. On the Cal Fire Map you can zoom right into streets in the Palisades and see where the massive fire is. www.fire.ca.gov/incidents

This story is the result of a Global News FOI request. "The Ford government is working on plans to allow new long-term care homes to sidestep the local planning process, Global News can reveal, as Ontario races to replace homes facing closure and keep up with demand for new beds." #OnPoli

“Really fundamental to his life was, how do we make the world work for 100% of humanity and all of life without destroying the world and without disadvantaging people.” — Introductory video about Buckminster Fuller and his work, with Jaime Snyder from BFI

Up early, looking at LA fire maps, praying a fresh blaze doesn't move north toward the abode of a beloved cousin a few miles away. Which is insane, of course, as I don't want it heading south or east or west either. People all over. But this is the human condition: We love most that which we know.

Climate breakdown and the destruction of nature are not information deficit problems

Jimmy Carter, a visionary on ending fossil fuels, put solar panels on the White House. Big Oil-backed Ronald Reagan ousted Carter in 1980 and ripped them out Tonight, as Carter lies in in state in the Capitol, a climate-fueled wildfire is destroying Reagan's former hometown of Pacific Palisades

A big one today with @mikecaulfield.bsky.social. It's about Jan 6th but its really about trying to diagnose what precisely is broken about our information ecosystem and why everything feels so stuck. It's about how the internet is a justification machine. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

#Canada is heading into an election, sooner or later. This is the sort of thing that will be coming at us. We've never had a Canadian election pushed around by an Emperor Influencer before. This is new. Let us welcome the attention and figure out what to do about it. 🧵 1/9

#NowPlaying at LGFHQ: Miles Davis > Kind Of Blue > Blue In Green

I am a proud New Democrat but there are moments when we must put country first. Trump's inauguration poses a serious threat. Canadians deserve a plan, not political brinkmanship. I will go back to Parliament to try my best. I will not vote with Pierre Poilieve as it risks advancing his toxic agenda.

All of this talk of Canada’s worst export reminded me of the time Jordan Peterson and Rex Murphy posted a picture of themselves at a restaurant scowling at someone (probably a server who definitely deserved a better tip) and I turned it into this. 🙃

I got up and wrote a newsletter, this is my truth

Stop telling pedestrians and cyclists what to do to stay safe and just force drivers not to be dangerous by design.

@edwardburtynsky.bsky.social I am so delighted to see you here on Bluesky! Your work and collaboration with others like Nicholas de Pencier and Jennifer Baichwal is significant, profound—I wish everyone on the planet could take it in. My family introduced me to you and your gifts. I am grateful.

We spend too much time in our lives judging others and talking at them, and too little time listening and understanding. These are human traits exaggerated millions of times over on social media, where we all spend too much time

The irony is, it will be GST-free.

Thanks to Not Just Bikes for adding their voice to the resistance against Bill 212. “Decades of research has shown there is no solution to car traffic except viable alternatives to driving.” Watch the video on YouTube: youtu.be/KgFCQ7jEZxI

It was really nice to be able to write a (very short) piece about my friend and colleague, @zoedodd.bsky.social. She is one of Post City Magazine's 'Women of the Year'. She really did change how I think about advocacy and what it means to be both brave and just (really, a bad-ass).

"the auditor now confirms what observers have long seen and suspected, but whether it matters depends on what Ontario will accept. If it doesn’t matter, the report is not just damning of this government and its behaviour, but damning of Ontario itself," writes @shawnmicallef.bsky.social #OnPoli

An excellent and timely article from @shawnmicallef.bsky.social who asks the question: "What kind of Ontario will we accept?" The answer is deeply dispiriting, and even more so for being true. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Federal government adds hundreds more assault-style weapons to its gun ban #cdnpoli The measures come on the eve of the 35th anniversary of the killing of 14 women at Montreal’s École Polytechnique, one of the largest mass shootings in Canadian history. www.thestar.com/politics/fed...

She's been a friend for a long time so I'm biased but today's hero (cuz I saw it today) is Ana Serrano, president of OCAD U. Taking a principled, public moral stand is actual leadership. Need more institutions and businesses to follow her lead. 👊

You can get Dangerous Memory:Coming of Age in the Decade of Greed at any bookstore. Independent bookstores are the best.

A sad day for cyclists in Toronto, Ottawa, and across Ontario. Third Reading of Doug Ford's anti bike lane Bill 212 passed 66 to 27. We must keep fighting including organizing to #VoteFordOut when the election comes! #shame #BikeTO #ottbike #TOpoli #ONpoli #VisionZero