$640 million in negotiable bearer bonds from the Nakatomi Corporation's vault in 1988 would be worth $1.75 billion today, which would still not be enough to land Hans Gruber on the top 100 wealthiest people in the world list, but would, in fact, place him at 2018. Hardly seems worth it. Merry Xmas!

"Americans don't trust the press. To fix that, we are going to crush important, well-researched pieces until we get an interview with the most Gestapo-looking man you've ever seen lying directly to your faces about torture prisons."

For those who actually care about evidence-based city-making, there’s a ton of evidence that decongestion pricing has been a massive success in New York City, by every measure of success, and many ways that can’t be measured.

I love the idea of urban transit gondolas, especially to circumvent bottlenecks... imagine soaring over the North West Arm, or the Narrows. www.channelnewsasia.com/world/europe...

All Cogswell bikeways are now open! I updated the Halifax bikeway map on Wikipedia, marking Amalamek Way, Brunswick Street, and Dutch Village Road as complete. #BikeHfx

This is utterly insane.

Happy holidays, bonne fête, and wli nuelewi aq & pusu'l puna'ne, and all the best in 2026!

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

I love explaining my freelance employment to the bank. Watching the very polite teller's eyes grow larger with horror as I explain that I never know where my income will be coming from six months from now, and maybe I'll book a commercial but maybe I won't, is always a fun lil adventure for us

When Calgary banned smoking in bars and restaurants, bar owners threatened to sue until something surprising happened. Sales increased! A whole new clientele, who were staying away because of second hand smoke, started showing up.

Power out on Vernon Street. I joked "wooof this wind the power will go out soon" and then it did. It's my fault.

The politician who changed his mind on winter bike lanes #onpoli cyclingmagazine.ca/sections/new...

I love it when the power supply cycles on and off quickly several times before going back off. What could go wrong? This is fine, it's fine.

They've travelled all the way from British Columbia, Canada, to meet friends and allies in Australia fighting Woodside - one of the fossil-fuel companies behind the proposed Ksi Lisims LNG terminal and PRGT pipeline which would cross their unceded lands. (The topic of our latest HGA)

MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported? NOEM: We haven't deported veterans MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea

Let's normalize crossing the floor and elected reps primarily representing their constituencies not acting as proxies for parties. Get rid of first past the post, and have a LOT of parties. Canada, the US and UK are the only OECD nations to still use FPTP. www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...

Further evidence that the "America First" thing was a ruse. TNR was invented by a Brit. And Calibri was designed by a Dutchman. Comic sans was invented by an American, and it is the one we should be using. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...

This iconic Fabian Todorovic cartoon is still one of the best I’ve seen at illustrating the remarkable amount of space we surrender to cars, leaving little space left for everyone and everything else. The text added later makes the bonus point that many drivers still manage to complain about it.

Someone once wrote to me, "Why don't you go back to whatever shit hole country you came from?" I replied, "Thanks for my daily dose of racism this morning." And he wrote back, "Of course you would play the race card!" The dumb... it's literally overwhelming.

It’s very gratifying to see polls that show Chris D’Entremont is still in a decent lead in his riding even as a Liberal. It blows the narrative that he “betrayed his voters” out of the water. It looks like his voters trust him. Person over party. #cdnpoli #nspoli

POV: u posted a little joke on blue sky. com

Introduce yourself with five animals you have seen in the wild. (In order of how ascared I were) Grizzly bear Moose Bison Black bear Deer * * came around the corner of the cottage one spring and the deer and I were eye to eye, 2 meters apart. Luckily it bolted and did not charge.

Why hasn't the Government of Canada responded robustly, as we have in the past, by deploying ships, DART, and aircraft to support our friends in Jamaica and the rest of the Caribbean? I've written my MP and received no response. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen Eric's Trip Cool Blue Halo K'naan Wilco Weakerthans

this is just gutter racism

I’m good with this. They won’t be ordering any more. They won’t be paying to store product while it just gathers dust. And they say they’ll give any net profit to Feed Nova Scotia.

Harold Howe lived on South St. he was a Lieutenant in the 66th Regiment, later known as the Princess Louise Fusiliers. Her died of a brain hemorrhage , November 27 1915. He was 27. Fort Massey

I promised some thoughts on immigration consultants, and here they are 😬 open.substack.com/pub/northsta...

“Canadians please come back to the United States, we love you(r tourism money)” Uh huh. Nope.

Hoo boy, another fictitious "EV market slows" headline from the Times *EU EV sales are up 25.6% in 2025* Receipts in thread.

Anything to distract, amirite www.popularmechanics.com/science/anim...

Sometimes you’re having A Day and then the universe just turns around and hands you… something like this.

Lotta the most powerful people in Canada don't seem to know what the word "feminist" actually means, but by god that isn't going to stop them from confidently using it.

Waste of time, money, and emotional labour. "The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has been quietly disbanded with eight months left in its charter, according to the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) director." time.com/7336327/doge...

Apparently, Stephen Miller cosplayed a “many great legal scholars” last night.

Can I scream? Yeah! We lack the motion To move to the new beat Whoo! We lack the motion To move to the new beat It's here for us to admire Can afford the beauty of it Can afford the luxury of turning our heads If we can (If we can x3) Adjust that thousand-dollar smile And behold the creation of man

We're no strangers to love You know the rules and so do I A full commitment's what I'm thinking of You wouldn't get this from any other guy I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling Gotta make you understand

hey guys i made a seasonal meme

Excellent.

Ok this is big. Sen. Rounds iterates that, per Rubio, Thursday is a deadline to begin negotiations — not a deadline for Ukraine to accept the deal. There is no threat of revoking intelligence sharing or ending arms shipments from the administration, he says.

I’ve been in a room with Putin. He calls Ukrainians “Russians with accents.” His real fear isn’t NATO expansion, it’s democracy expansion. It shatters his entire argument for dictatorship at home. Because if Ukrainians embrace freedom, Russians may demand the same.

Dear JD...

Canada and the rest of the G7 have to tell Trump no. Russia cannot join; the G8 is not coming back as a condition of surrender in Ukraine. The coalition of the willing needs to back Ukraine in telling Trump to stuff it. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Pick a fucking side. Not right or left, up or down, but democracy or killing your political enemies. Those are the choices.

here's a gift link www.thestar.com/opinion/star...

The year is 2035. The Meta People's Liberation Army breaks into my underground printing press. But I've already escaped on my pedal-powered flying machine. "Death to the machines!" I yell before crashing into the city's last remaining tree. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...

Media is reporting that #COP30 delegates are appropriately questioning Canada’s commitments to #ClimateAction. To be clear, we can’t do nation-building, we can’t grow and diversify the Canadian economy and global relationships, and we can’t make Canada strong, if we don’t lead on #ClimateChange.