It might be stating the obvious, but at this stage Courtney Sarault has to be the frontrunner to be Canada's flag bearer at the closing ceremonies.

Tom Wilson fighting in a 10-2 game at the Olympics is a joke. Kick him out for the tournament, what a meathead.

I feel like this curling scandal is shining a light on a cultural tendency among Canadians to approach laws and rules as if they’re flexible and open to debate In other countries, people follow the letter of the law. Here, people split hairs endlessly and apply reasonableness tests to everything

Thank you. My lord. Too many rubes (or worse, people playing rube) ignoring this shit. It's no different than your "AI microwave" that for some reason needs to be attached to your wifi. Everything is selling/using your data and giving you zippo in return.

Can we not just get decent public transport in this country?

If I'm reading this right, someone escaped from the local jail and police were only advised seven hours later. For their part, the police then took about 12 more hours to inform the public. Not super inspiring. Also, he's apparently wearing a "black bonnet." rcmp.ca/en/nb/news/2...

Me every time I see a Toronto council vote where Holyday votes differently than every other councillor

Canada considers the US to be a safe country for asylum-seekers.

journalists are workers who deserve to be paid fairly for our labor and I think that far too few consumers of media recognize or even care about this fact

Always a great way to show how much space cars gobble up and how they don't need all of it. Sneckdowns show that streets can be given back to people!

I am once again asking that we stop delegating the creative direction of our society to the most insipid, anti-social people imaginable.

Headline says "could be why" but the data says "is why"

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Also we've fetishized "debate” in these spaces as some kind of civic good, when what matters is competence, trust, shared purpose. Medicine, engineering, boardrooms aren’t organized around debate or requirements of false balance. We've poisoned public discourse by insisting it be adversarial.

Cities are better without cars

increasingly irritated by how helpless these people think we all are

This is what happens when ownership sees the actual content as nothing more than "the stuff between the ads," rather than the main function of the outlet.

I wish people would stop calling them AI "hallucinations." It's a catchy little term that obfuscates what they really are - errors and outright fabrications because the technology does not work properly.

A huge part of the issue here, which the article notes, is that we have leaders with no backbone to implement the necessary changes. They capitulate to small, but loud groups. "We don't want people to die on the streets" is something they should be able to easily defend when faced with backlash.

In an unintended consequence of the new colour-coded weather alerts, today I saw a news chyron that read "Yellow snow warning issued for Alberta."

Half a centimeter of snow falls and Moncton drivers turn the streets into Mad Max: Flurry Road.

"This would be a great day for the Liberal Party of Canada if only it had gotten elected to a minority government last April with the support of Alberta." Chantal Hébert remains the best in the business.

Hockey isn’t our national culture. Cars are.

On my walk into work this morning, a young person told me they liked my outfit. The day can only go downhill from here!

This is what leadership looks like.

Vote for people who'll spend more on housing and social programs. Vote for tax cuts and exclusionary zoning, and you're asking for encampments in poorly maintained parks.

The federal government is ready to slash public service jobs at a rate not seen in decades when we should be reinforcing its ranks to tackle this economic crisis.

Lots of interesting bits in this piece - including the hilarious line "I did not linger on the idea of a freelance writer with a personal assistant" - but this graph really hit me (plus, I love a drop cap).

Smells like car bloat: "More than 3,800 people were killed almost immediately when they were struck in 2023, an indication that high speeds and larger vehicles are making impacts more violent. The rate at which pedestrians are declared dead at the scene of the crash has more than doubled."

A community in PEI is voting on a new name and one of the five shortlisted options is Danger Bay.

Never mind the fighter jets, how do we get a deal with Sweden to bring back the Saab 900 Turbo? ici.radio-canada.ca/rci/en/news/...

That time of the year when we celebrate the cozy winter village and worship the bustling holiday markets, streets, shops, restaurants and a vibrant outdoor life full of community & togetherness that we continually refuse to support, approve or build for everyday life.

War is horrible, and a tragedy that damages everyone involved. The best possible way to honour the victims of war is to devote ourselves to finding ways to avoid ever fighting another war.

Excited to see AI's results in the Canadian government!

If the government continues down its current path, it will be repeating the mistakes of the 1990s: favouring extreme austerity with no consideration for the consequences. That approach was a disaster in 1994, and it would be worse today.

"Each pea has AI in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine!"

The Opposition leader has not changed, in any sense of the word, for three years. What has changed is the government is now more aligned with conservative values.

BRB going to buy a luxury yacht for nation-building purposes.

At the end of the day I'm not sure how much difference it makes. But it is striking to put out a budget that axes a luxury tax on yachts and adds a co-pay for refugee claimants accessing drugs and dental care.

We're cursed? My friends, you're the ones who live in Buffalo.

People in my life I've called an aunt or uncle: - my parents' various aunts and uncles - my cousin's aunt and uncle - my dad's cousin - my mom's old friend from college

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

Housing is a human right and the way capitalism has brain rotted people into thinking it's an "investment opportunity" makes me want to flip every table in sight.

Social media is almost entirely awful but a few joys still remain, like seeing a notification from a friend that only reads "<name> sent a photo." That's when I know I'm either getting some gossip or a Simpsons meme.

I know otherwise smart people who use LLMs to find information -- even to trust-and-verify. For some of us this is obvious so can feel repetitive, but "AI" is barely better than flipping a coin to find out if something is true. www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

Maybe one day we'll talk about why we have to use children as a last ditch effort to preserve human life. It's real politik so won't argue against but maybe we can talk about the desperation of all this. Even w kids it's an impossible battle to change things.

Tech companies: For a better user experience, give us your fingerprints, facial scans and DNA! Also tech companies:

I do not want to enable location services. I do not want to create an account. I do not want to sign up for special offers and news about your product. I would like to engage in a simple transaction where I give you money in exchange for a good.

If George Washington himself had done this as President, he would have been impeached, removed, prosecuted, and imprisoned. This was one of the greatest fears of the Framers.

The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video