Higher life expectancy in Canada BUT 5-10 years lower in health regions with a high proportion of indigenous Canadians due to decades of appaling treatment and continuing neglect by authorities. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

"We are living in an interminable succession of absurdities imposed by the myopic logic of short-term thinking." -- Jacques-Yves Cousteau born #OTD 1910

Oslo Pride video 🥹 🏳️‍🌈 #Pride #LoveIsLove

There had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to 20 grams a week. And only yesterday it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to 20 grams a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that after only 24 hours? Yes, they swallowed it.

I bet @mhayday.bsky.social is somehow marking 1979's Joe Clark election win today. Looking forward to his upcoming bio of the man. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979_Ca...

So the same people who *know* the U.S. government has corpses of aliens and is reverse-engineering their tech are supposed to get excited with the release of grainy low-rez video showing blobs and lights in the sky? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

If you think a Trump electoral false flag terror incident is impossible, keep in mind that Vance arrives in Hungary tomorrow — right in the middle of Orbán’s electoral false flag terror operation, which Vance will presumably endorse. snyder.substack.com/p/the-next-c...

This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew. Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right. Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman

Day traders are among the most gullible humans alive. www.cnbc.com/2026/03/29/s...

"I licked the knife and I got more jam from the jar with it. You know why? Because I'm President of the United States and because of the fact that I'm President of the United States, I licked and dipped."

Somewhat worried by this Triskeles arm tattoo (with radiating light beams) displayed by subway attendant in the Montreal Métro. Am I overreacting? @philofwrite.bsky.social, @arccollective.bsky.social, @dancollen.bsky.social, @amaramarasingam.bsky.social

You must sacrifice so that I may profit.

READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE: thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

Fantastic to go live with a new web app after nine months of development and it just *works*. Love working with #IT and Comms to take our work at the next level.

Just saying. Notice George Washington between the swastikas. #otd #trump #maga

"YOU CAN’T BLAME JOURNALISTS and academics for trying to ascribe a single, rational theory to the president’s foreign policy. (...) We’re not trained to treat “batshit crazy” as an actual worldview."

Vance and Rubio are planning to go to Italy with ICE agents as bodyguards. ICE is truly the regime's political police. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

If nothing else, Canadian PM Mark Carney got people to google Thucydides...

Canada was supposed to crater under Trump’s tariffs. It didn’t. So what actually saved us? https://macleans.ca/economy/why-trumps-tariffs-didnt-break-canada/

Learned today about the 1958 Battle of Hayes Pond, where Lumbees kicked some KKK butts in North Carolina. N.C. Representative Charles Graham tells the tale in this 2022 ad. Inspiring, with everything that's going on. www.washingtonpost.com/video/politi...

Fascinating. U.S. Border Boss explaining his agents are going to murder more people. Don't go to the United States.

Ah! Tagging @ourfakehistory.bsky.social on this.

My book "The White Pedestal: How White Nationalists Use Ancient Greece and Rome to Justify Hate" is now available for pre-order. Use promo code WIN26 to get 30% off. Coming January 6th 2026! yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

A look back with @maargentino.com's book on QAnon before plunging into 2026. Q isn't posting anymore but the movement sure changed the landscape.

The Chains, with apologies to Fleetwood Mac Listen to the wind blow Watch the snow fall Pushing through a snowbank Damn the sleet Damn the ice And if You need to get out now We might never see you again I can almost hear you yelling “I forgot my tire chains” www.timescolonist.com/alberta-news...

Boring name. They missed an opportunity to call it "The Overton Window" as a wink to The View.

A genuinely great Christmas story out of Montreal this morning www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Another amazing Wikipedia article written by @GSoW_team editor Robin. This article took months of research. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-va...

What... ?!

This mixed metaphor is killing me.

My wife and I have a concept for a TV show (Coma) where the President is incapacitated for an extended about of time (ideally 5 seasons) while his inner circle jostle for power. The main character is the nurse interpreting his incoherent mumblings. Tragedy, comedy or both. DMs open if you have $$$.

BREAKING: Good newspaper gets better by hiring excellent journalist.

"Since Gallup began measuring this question globally in 2007, few countries have shown gender gaps this wide in the desire to migrate. Before the U.S. in 2025, no country had recorded a gap of 20 points or more between younger men and women."

A good wallop to get winter started in Montréal.

It's going be a neo-classical monument to Trump, straight out of Albert Speer's sketchbook.

Episode 3 of the new season of #TheDiplomat features the Treaty of the Law of the Sea. So of course I had to look that up on #wikipedia. Turns out 15,000 people viewed that article since the episode came out 5 days ago, when its usual daily traffic is 500!

The head of American public health expressing the fertility rate in %. He knows nothing and isn't interested to learn.

Immigrant families in Quebec say they were shunted into English Protestant classrooms, but francophones say these families freely chose English in the pursuit of economic advantage. “The stories clash,” writes @mtltoula.bsky.social. “They also feed each other.” thewalrus.ca/were-immigrant-k...

From May to September 1967, 100 men on 10 provincial/territorial teams took part in the Voyageur Centennial Canoe Pageant. The longest canoe race in history, it went from Rocky Mountain House, AB to Montreal. This is the story of one epic competition. 🧵 1/12

"The Catholic Church, which the counter-protesters claim to “protect,” neither asked for their protection, nor supports a prayer ban. Quebecers’ Catholic heritage is being instrumentalized here." Read more at: www.montrealgazette.com/opinion/colu...

They attested the whole gang. Lets see what happens now. www.ctvnews.ca/regina/artic...

I tried GPT 5.0, the chatbot that's supposedly at PhD level. I asked it a question similar to the one I use for staffing in my unit. The beginning of the response is fine but it got lost, mixing in a concept that ceased existing in the 1970s. I would have to fail GPT as candidate.

The regime will probably announce subscribing the the Annals of Internal Medicine is grounds for deportation.

New piece by @kathryn-may.bsky.social in Policy Options. Public Service leaders speak to her because she spent decades getting things right and earning their trust. She's worth your time. policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/au...

Trump was never a nice guy. Or a good guy, or an ok guy. He was never all right. He was never "tough but fair". He was always cruel, mean, uninterested in people.

Vraiment surpris de voir qu'ils oubrent encore des Kentucky Fried Chicken. La dernière fois (voilà 10 ans+) ma conjointe et moi avons été malades. Juste trop gras.

📅 8 Aug 1914: Unity Mitford was born — fascist fangirl, Hitler devotee & Nazi sympathiser. Historian @guywalters.bsky.social rages it’s time we stop glamourising the Mitfords once and for all. Listen now 🎧 pod.fo/e/2a19c6 #onthisday #otd #onthisdate #history #podcast #WW2 #Nazis

We need a wellness check at 1600 Pensylvania Avenue, please.

On this day in 1874, J.S. Woodworth was born in Etobicoke, Ontario. A leader during the Winnipeg General Strike, he founded the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (which became the NDP in 1961). As an MP, he pushed the government to develop social programs for Canadians.

Astonishing colourizing by @marinamaral.bsky.sociall: Jewish boy surrenders in Warsaw during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising while SS-Rottenführer Josef Blösche points a submachine gun in his direction, 1943. Luckily, the boy survived. Blosche was executed in Leipzig #OTD 29 July 1969.