New from me: an attempt to unpack the story the PM is telling us about Canada - what it gets us, what advantages it gIves him, and what’s missing from it.

Nothing is ever banned at Toronto Public Library -- except the words "World Cup" and "FIFA" 😂

Are weather forecasts - even very short-range - becoming wildly unreliable or am I just metamorphosing into Old Man Yells At Cloud? Two things can be true, of course, but I never have no idea what the sky is going to do anymore.

I’m seeing this kind of thing everywhere, and it sounds like tech company hype exported as empirical truth. *Will* they be left behind? Maybe AI is terrible at processing the nuances of human thought or turning that into useful GOTV strategies! www.nytimes.com/2026/06/29/u...

The thread this is from will make your heart turn black from enraged despair, but this policy is a thing of beauty. I'm not sure I've ever seen someone so eloquently express what I love about writing, too. Keep up the good fight.

This is the most depressing thread, from a future of mankind viewpoint, that I have ever read.

Wasn’t really what I had in mind for the coffee table, but okay, Gus.

It’s really unclear to me how anyone is supposed to get anywhere in Ottawa at the moment, much less whether anyone in charge is trying to do anything about it. I know the joke about construction being a season but this is insane and unworkable.

This week I wrote about Steven Guilbeault leaving caucus and putting water in your climate policy wine. I find the PM’s reaction to all of this really interesting. www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/opi...

“See, when it starts to fall apart Man, it really falls apart.”

Free idea for the "remain" (sigh) campaign with the Alberta referendum: Take Wab Kinew's glorious quote and print up a boatload of t-shirts that say "HECK YEAH." I predict you'd sell out in a hot minute across the country. www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

It's so bleakly funny how the idea was supposed to be "The best ever state fair on the National Mall! The bands will be A listers!" And now it actually is like a state fair in a fading rust belt state. I bet the booths are going to be selling coke mirrors with Confederate flags on them too.

Idiocracy is a documentary that arrived 20 years early. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/26/u...

I genuinely thought this was from The Onion.

Just found a subreddit that pairs people with fucked up balls of string with people who love detangling balls of string and it is *very* wholesome

I like metaphors that are as weird and specific as possible. 😅 I just worried slightly that not enough people would know what a turducken is and would think it meant 💩.

Please read. Drowning doesn’t look like drowning. People die, all the time, in crowded areas surrounded by people who miss the signs.

Slow clap, @newyorker.com

BURNINATING THE COUNTRYSIDE

We all know how we feel about this “demonic, mewling turducken of a referendum question,” but can anyone say it the way @sproudfoot.bsky.social says it? I don’t think so. www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/opi...

"The disingenuousness of this argument is really something to behold, even allowing for the Premier’s skill working in that medium." 🤠 #ableg #abpoli

If you’re in Ottawa and thinking about a CSA basket, I can’t say enough good about Rooted Oak. This is our 4th season and it’s changed the way I cook and think about food. Plus, we pick up our veggies from the friendly humans who grow them. Not a shill, just genuinely delighted. www.rootedoak.ca

I wrote about how Danielle Smith took a good, hard look at the existential damage that could be done to Alberta and to Canada by a separatism campaign and she decided that one thing mattered above all: Danielle Smith. www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/opi...

You come to me, on the day of my son's wedding, which I am not attending

Enshittification exhibit 417: the Anker app I use for the ear buds that I paid for with my very own money just started barfing up an ad it makes me watch before I can change any settings. I really dislike this thing where we’re all being forcibly relocated to Idiocracy.

This. Allllllll of this.

Insightful and sobering column from @acoyne.bsky.social on the motivation for the U.S. to pause the Permanent Joint Board on Defence, and how we might not have seen the half of it yet. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Making Frank Bruni's "For the Love of Sentences" newsletter is my personal dean's list and always a delight. This time especially so, because the bit he picked out is extreme CanCon. static.nytimes.com/email-conten...

Yep. Remember when everyone lost their minds over the U2 album force-fed to their iPhone? This is like that, only for everyone everywhere and it’s making us all stupider and slower and more annoyed. So you have to ask who this is working for.

I am so fed up with having AI rammed down my throat. I don‘t want any of it. I don’t want your stupid machine thinking for me. I don’t want it chewing things up and spitting out idiot goo that purports to be efficient. I don’t want the theft and corrosion of everything original there is. Eff off.

I watched Companion last night and I have not been able to stop thinking about it. I’d offer a warning for violence, but otherwise strongly recommend watching it completely cold - no trailers or reading. Just a super original (if imperfect) movie playing with important ideas.

“All of us have a choice when we get up: we can use our energy for good, or we can use our energy for bad. And your job, your purpose in life, is joy. It just is. That’s what you’re here for. Your purpose is joy, but it’s to also add joy to the world.” - JH A great piece by @sproudfoot.bsky.social.

Confession time, here’s what I got: on my flight back from Europe last month, I was so tired and brain-fried that I thought I picked One Battle After Another, but then I watched over an hour of Weapons, wondering when Leo was going to show up, before I realized I clicked in the wrong spot.

Long-time political journalist Robert Fife gives a candid account of some of the biggest stories and issues of his career on the eve of his retirement. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com #journalism

A banger from @acoyne.bsky.social today, offering much-needed perspective on the separatist push in Alberta: who's driving it and why. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

"All of us have a choice when we get up: we can use our energy for good, or we can use our energy for bad. And your job, your purpose in life, is joy. It just is."

Jeremy Hansen brought his Artemis II best friends home to Canada with him. No one really wanted to ask them about space or science; they wanted to know about being human. It was a privilege and joy to cover this at the @nac-cna.bsky.social. To the moon for ♥️. www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...

You know, the last year and a half has sparked intense patriotism I wasn't even aware dwelled within me for all that Canada gets right and good. But if I'm being honest, the ruthlessness and drama of British politics makes me gaze across the Atlantic in envy.

BREAKING: Alberta judge throws out citizen petition to put secession on a referendum ballot. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... By @mattscace.bsky.social

Jeremy Hansen brought his Artemis II best friends home to Canada with him. No one really wanted to ask them about space or science; they wanted to know about being human. It was a privilege and joy to cover this at the @nac-cna.bsky.social. To the moon for ♥️. www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...

We got the longform census, and I was surprised and confused by instructions on the religion question. Wouldn't this vastly over-count religious affiliation because it gathers info about how people were raised vs what they practice now? www.statcan.gc.ca/en/statistic...

I really think it is the underrated dark comedy of our times that the President called his bespoke online lie factory "Truth." If you wrote that in a TV script, your agent would stop returning your texts.

I really need to expand my follower list. Tell me about smart, funny, creative and/or analytical people you follow - ideally Canadian or international, because I have a lot of American politics in my feed already. Topics I dig: politics, social sciences, art, pop culture, food, travel, cats, beer.

This feature by Kelly Grant on cutting ultra processed foods is so smart and useful and relatable - especially the part about knowing that cooking real food from scratch is better for your family, but thinking “how TF do I do that and function in my life?!” www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

What do *you* do when surrounded by jerks all day long? Another sassy piece, littered with brilliant observations, from @sproudfoot.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/opi...

"He mentioned Justin Trudeau seven times. Someone close to Mr. Poilievre needs to park him beneath the former prime minister’s window on a moonlit night, with a boombox blasting Sarah McLachlan’s I Will Remember You, just to get it all out of his system."

New from me, on a listless speech to the Canada Strong and Free Network conference: Pierre Poilievre encounters nothing but jerks, all day long. #cdnpoli www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/opi...

My treasonous children: “We’re cheering for Montreal, they’re the only Canadian team left.” Me: “That’s not how that works.” Them: “Do you like Canada or not?!” Give me strength.