Got a ride to the airport. The driver (in his 70s I think, from Northern Ireland) was so interesting. Asked lots of questions about Hong Kong, how HKers feel about China, etc. Then we got into Canada. He hates Trudeau (immigration) hates Ford (corrupt), but think PP is an honest man. I was like… 🤯

this might be a long shot... but do i know anyone based in Japan who has access to the National Diet Library in Japan and could help me access digital scans of a book with contents that are now in the public domain (early 1900s)? www.ndl.go.jp

Oh my god why did no one tell me 30 seconds in football takes 10 minutes to happen I just want to watch Bad Bunny

so happy for Joel Embiid, didn't think he'd ever play again 🥹

My favourite bookstore in Halifax!

Ontario received 14,233 comments on its plan to drop protections on a portion of Wasaga Beach Provincial Park, transferring management to the municipality. The plan is moving ahead unchanged, despite 98 per cent of those comments being in opposition. thenarwhal.ca/wasaga-beach...

ChatGPT now citing Grok. What do all the AI companies like to say again... "Garbage in, garbage out?" www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Goddammit Minnesotans are making me believe in humans

Jfc

My first time reading a story with Toisanese, my grandparents’ language. It’s forcing me to read much slower to sound out every word the way my grandma would’ve said it—super different from the Cantonese I’m used to. I kinda love it. #DenisonAvenue

Just found out Renee Good was a poet. May ICE agents get everything they deserve. The full poem: poets.org/2020-on-lear...

There must be a way to do fireworks without the sound right? Our dog is cowering under the bed 😭

I read 47 books this year! I have been wanting to read more widely across genres and I’m really happy I was (mostly) able to do that in 2025. Here are some of my favourites 🤓

We know you know it: quality journalism costs money. That’s why we’re always posting these appeals for your support — it’s not for fun! (For fun, we watch Heated Rivalry.) But how far does your dollar actually go toward funding our work? We crunched the numbers:

#ConnectingGaza #HeatedRivalry

My friend who lives in Toronto called our snow blower a "snow machine" and I realize I've done it: I've transitioned from a city gay to a country bumpkin gay

Resigning myself to the fact that my life from December to April now consists of removing snow from all around the house.

Great article and accompanying photography. My partner is an Indigenous midwife and FUN FACT Doug Ford's gov't has been—you guessed it—slashing healthcare budgets + chose to waste money taking Ontario midwives to court bc they don't want to pay them fairly 🤡

Onigaming First Nation in northern Ontario says it’s done being ignored, as mining plans that threaten its water advance without its consent. For a community grieving multiple losses, it's one struggle of many. Via @jonthompson.bsky.social + @ricochetmedia.bsky.social: thenarwhal.ca/onigaming-fi...

Wow Carney really does suck, eh

A massive nickel mine, and the community that wants to love it: thenarwhal.ca/critical-min...

After reading Timothy Snyder's On Tyranny, I've been trying to support and read/engage with local journalism more. In shock they published my letter to the editor. It feels like.. posting on Bluesky but I know I'm getting all the old people who live around here lol.

Ridic. As if Canada doesn't already have a history of messing with FNs' drinking water???

It's kiiiiinda a trip watching Borgen for the first time amidst the budget / confidence vote drama here in Canada

from oracle to ancestor. rip, what a loss for the community.

The Doug Ford government is setting its sites on conservation authorities for the fifth time, merging the watershed protection agencies. Staff tell @fatimabsyed.bsky.social it may ‘slow approvals, create confusion’ — not to mention it's leaving them with ‘whiplash.’ thenarwhal.ca/ontario-cons...

Do I know any poets with books coming out in the second half of 2026?

Absolutely the fuck not. Ford government wants more power over Ontario’s drinking water: thenarwhal.ca/ontario-bill... via @thenarwhal.ca

Yike

Cue Ontario government pushing new ads to try to get Canadians to support Ring of Fire mining. Meh, still think they need informed consent from First Nations whose lands they're gonna trash with these projects.

Documents reveal TC Energy pressured Canada for ‘private, high-level’ access to spy agency intelligence, a move critics worry could chill legitimate protest. via @writermjs.bsky.social and @zakvescera.bsky.social thenarwhal.ca/tc-energy-cs...

yike

Playing “does this person watch Tucker Carlson” while watching the new Love Is Blind and I’m 2/2 so far so 🥳 but also 😬

From cancelling the carbon tax to pausing the electric vehicle mandate, Prime Minister Mark Carney is making sweeping changes to Canada’s environmental rules — and complicating Canada’s progress on climate change. thenarwhal.ca/mark-carney-...

Of course they want to build it next to a First Nations reserve and of course Kevin O'Leary is behind it. What a cancer on humanity.

Sooooo @mark-carney.bsky.social @globalaffairs.canada.ca what are you doing to free the Canadian humanitarians who have been kidnapped by Israel in international waters—another violation in a long run of violations of international law—while doing the work that you refuse to do?

"Historically, parks were created without consent from Indigenous Peoples, sometimes forcibly displacing people from their homes, erasing villages and expelling people from their harvesting and hunting areas..." thenarwhal.ca/joffre-lakes...

Not @globalnews.ca turning into Fox News Canada 😆

Just finished reading Kindred by Queen Octavia and yes the Parables were great but whew-y I fear I'm officially a sci-fi fan

Wtf man

In other news #writersofbluesky #booksky

I mean… good

In Old Crow, Yukon, the Gwich’in people are organizing to resist U.S. president Donald Trump’s oil and gas ambitions in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge — a biodiverse region providing crucial habitat for one of the last healthy caribou herds in North America. thenarwhal.ca/yukon-old-cr... (1/6)

48 hours and 3 connecting flights later, I’m finally home to my #blackcat baby after my original cancelled AC flight. Congrats to #AirCanada FAs and the union. Labour rights are human rights.

Air Canada's CEO admitting to the media that their entire plan for the flight attendants' strike was "have the government say they're not allowed" and that they have no other ideas about how to deal with the strike is really a "yeah this is how Canada REALLY works" moment if ever there was one

Lady from Manchester chatting with a guy from Scotland behind me on the second leg of my flight home: Canadians don’t know how lucky they are Lol

Beaverton never misses

Listen my direct AC flight got cancelled and I’m now on a 3 segment itinerary with 2 other airlines, 2 days after I was supposed to be home and what the gov’t is doing is BS. Stop bailing out AC, they need to pay FAs fairly.