The tragedy of Elon is he wants so badly to be a Bond villain but will always be a Batman villain. From the comic books.

I made a “how do you do, fellow kids?” joke to someone in their mid 20s who, it turns out, was too young to have heard of that meme. So “how do you do, fellow kids?” is now an example of “how do you do, fellow kids?”

Great first-hand account of the ostrich cull and its implications for public trust in Canadian institutions. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/07/a...

Hi Bluesky 👋 Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵

BC's anti-SLAPP legislation was critical to keeping a meritless lawsuit @torimarlan.bsky.social and I faced to the "affordable" sum of ~$50k in legal fees. Journalists like Luke not protected by these laws have much higher exposure — even when, like us, they did nothing wrong.

*with unlimited oil wealth and no human rights laws

Can't wait to see Sarah Nurse lead @pwhl--vancouver.bsky.social's signature flying V formation for the first time

The City of Victoria might slash grants and programs across the board to make up for one single line item that's roughly equivalent to everything being cut. Can anyone guess what that single budget item is, which apparently isn't even up for debate? One guess.

And this, friends, is why you read Paul Wells' Substack. paulwells.substack.com/p/the-2025-b...

"Ostriches, especially males during mating season, are extremely dangerous. … Consider sedating birds prior to euthanasia for large, uncontrollable, or dangerous birds such as ostriches or emus," states a government manual released under Freedom of Information legislation.

Another clue: the vancouverspirit.com web domain was registered exactly two weeks before the PWHL team was announced.

Little things become symbols. And symbols are what stick with people. This budget is full of very very dumb symbols.

I guess you can't really support Pathways without also making greenwashing legal at the same time

uh oh. Once you've lost Barstool Sports, you've lost, uh... you've lost... um, well, you've lost Barstool Sports, I guess?

From my time in Paris, I know that in France people would have burned a lot of stuff by now.

Also, I found @nationalobserver.com's Civic Searchlight tour quite helpful for this story. Beyond everything else, it's a quick and easy way to get to the right spot in a council video. civicsearchlight.nationalobserver.com

what the actual fuck. Publication that beat the odds to deliver some of the best politics reporting in the US

the Venn diagram overlap of Nigeria and Venezuela is extremely narrow and consists of one specific resource that happens to have captured the entire Trump administration

Toronto! @cloelogan.bsky.social is the new reporter in town. Drop her a line with your story tips and burning questions you need answered about the city's changing climate, building plans and political challenges.

Grantees are being notified this week about their $10,000 Messengers of Biodiversity grants. I was part of the jury, and at the end of the process we all just kind of sat there in appreciation — you don't often get to send out $160k for science and nature journalism. Love to see it.

Congratulations to the dodgers

not like that

Release us from this prison

Can't imagine that was deliberate but it was perfect

If the Jays win, it'll be a well-timed miraculous Cinderella story celebrated by a whole nation. If the Dodgers win, it'll be because they refused to pick a ball off the ground in game 6.

Vladdy arriving in a Poulin jersey is CLASS

The government of Canada when they're asked to respond to a question by Friday

Imagine winning on the basis of that bullshit "muuuuuh i can't get it"

I would hate to be a car parked within burnin' distance of Rogers Centre

Stand-out stat: "Records don’t show a single pedestrian killed by an e-bike in the city. Meanwhile, in Delta alone, cars kill and injure more than 1,000 people every year, according to Insurance Corporation of British Columbia data."

Chotiner: So you felt you had to debase yourself to smooth things over? Carney: yes Chotiner: Even though the ads were accurate, and Trump is lying? Carney: yes Chotiner: Did it achieve what you wanted? Carney: well hold on

I tried to cobble together a narrative of the industrial-scale corruption of the Trump state, and to think about why it's not breaking through. www.bugeyedandshameless.com/p/guide-to-d...

I wonder how the employees of Overstory Media feel about having their tech bro founder call the company "a failure" in his little newsletter, while they continue to show up at work and try to bring in readers, workers and advertisers?

My column today, on how police departments' car-first attitude makes them say the darnedest things. Like "leave your e-bike at home."

...did the organist just play the twin peaks theme song?

Brainstorming column ideas: The World Series is proof Canada's billionaires are better than Amer... hmm The World Series shows that if you come at Canada, we'll all pay attention to your game and pay the US league lots of... nope The World Series feels nice yup that's the one

Prince Harry cheering for the dodgers feels like as good an excuse to ditch the monarchy as any

Nothing like sports ad breaks to remind you of all four Canadian companies

These goons slammed Kat to the ground while she was peacefully protesting -- and now they're charging *her* with a crime????

When you only read the racist parts of Lord of the Rings

"E-bike owners are reminded to leave their bikes at home on Halloween." When have the cops ever — EVER — advised drivers to leave their cars at home for the sake of kids' safety? Give me a single example.

my Nazi uniform is raising a lot of questions already answered by my Nazi uniform

oh boy do I ever have a major scoop about every Indigenous person I've ever met

NEW from me: The funding agreement for the national public alerting system for extreme weather, air quality, wildfires and other threats, expires on Aug. 31, 2026, and “urgent action" is required to sustain Canada's alerting capabilities, reveals an ATIP www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/28/n...

Those who think the Reagan ads were a bad idea for having irrationally annoyed the president for reasons having nothing to do with their merits are, I assume, writing urgent letters to the Toronto Blue Jays organization urging them to lose the World Series for the same reason

“Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic and made way for parks, people-streets and bike-lanes.” Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability and quality of life. Common sense. Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.

Today's newsletter is about Ronald Reagan, AI, and the "liar's dividend" www.readtpa.com/p/the-liars-...

As a baseball expert of three days, I would not have advised a run for home. But that's just me, an expert.