From the state dinner pool report: "In his speech, King Carl XVI Gustaf thanked Canada for the warm welcome and said it was a "pleasure" to be back in the country. He said his great grandfather, Prince Arthur of Connaught, was Governor General of Canada in the 1910s, and lived in Rideau Hall."

like nine years ago I said to my friends "somebody should make a picture of Eliezer Yudkowsky as the paperclip optimizer as MODOK" and they said "why not commission our friend @john13.bsky.social" and I did and he put in the kirby krackle and a million little details and it has given me SO MUCH joy

www.cbc.ca/news/politic... - Carney CRTC cuts AI off from CanCon category, checks copyright compliance

Sam Austin's 'can we maybe look at what it would take to make our priority an actual priority in our budget' motion passes. Green = Save lives Red = Save money

Heading to Vancouver BC Monday… come by and say hi!

A reminder: Tariffs are a regressive tax. The anti-Robin Hood. Trump's current tariff settings effectively impose a tax rate on low-income households that's roughly TRIPLE that on high-income folks. That's not the way taxes are supposed to work. [source: budgetlab.yale.edu/research/sta...

A cycling influencer nominated for a list of top 100 women cyclists said she has declined the honour due to the decision not to include trans women. Claire Sharpe, a cycling coach from Bristol, said: "If they don't want to ride with all women, then it's not the kind of ride I want to be part of" 👏🏻

In today’s post Aly Firth explores drag during the First World War through the life of Ross Hamilton from Nova Scotia. This post is part of our Queering Atlantic Canada series. Check out this post and the entire series!

"I don't know" is one of the most powerful intellectual positions imaginable. Where you plant your "I don't know" flag signals your research question, methodology, and even what *counts* as evidence. Current commercial manifestations of GenAI make it so you cannot even see the spot on the ground.

The multi-model outlook into start of December does not suggest any remarkable storms. For Halifax, some remnant rain or snow showeers today in cool west wind. The next two events (late Fri-Sat and mid next week) are the 10-20mm rain variety. Cools down as December starts... maybe a setup for snow?

A moment of silence for everyone that requires working online services to do completely non-internet related tasks because someone added IoT to that household device and it won’t work while Cloudflare is down.

A potentially unpopular post that’s actually true: don’t go to a chiropractor.

yeah everything that trusted Cloudflare is fucked "There is an internal server error on Cloudflare's network." Cloudflare wanted a chokehold on the internet, and this is what that looks like status: www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/8g...

I’m sure it’s fine…

The town we used to live in in California accidentally approved a pizza joint next to a drugstore in the same block as a pub, several other restaurants, and a feed store. They’re very sorry about this and have promised to completely reform their zoning process to never approve anything ever again.

Don Davies saying that there is "record unemployment," and there absolutely is not. Not even close. FFS, guys. #cdnpoli

170-168, House approves government's budgetary policy. Liberals and Elizabeth May in favour. Conservatives, Bloc and most NDP MPs against. Four abstentions: NDP MPs Gord Johns and Lori Idlout, CPC MPs Matt Jeneroux and Shannon Stubbs.

In which I articulate the case that AGI is impossible and machines just plain cannot think. www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/on-inco...

🤔 you mean like an operational cost control exercise and a pledge to balance the operational budget going forward?

"You prop up the government! I don't wanna prop up the government, I did it last time! Mommmmmmmm he's touching me!"

“Carney doesn't appear to have undertaken any real outreach to opposition parties” - no point in reaching out to the CPC - the Bloc laid out ludicrous demands - May “has been having conversations with ministers and representatives from the Prime Minister’s Office” ✔️ - NDP has refused to “bargain”

Mayor: Every [budget] decision we make must reflect the realities our residents face. Me: So we'll start setting tax rates based on cost-to-service? Everyone:

Yes, one of the things about the current obsessive focus on price-driven “affordability” is that affordable prices and economic decline go hand-in-hand. We’ve got like 60% of the political world actively campaigning for an economic meltdown, whether they realize it or not,

Wow this new Zelda movie looks hot like fire.

Inflation cools to 2.2% as gas, grocery prices fall in October #StatCanada #Canada halifax.citynews.ca/2025/11/17/i...

Ok yeah. I'm in.

substack.com/app-link/pos... - Agglomeration economies! That’s the phrase i was trying to remember as to why cities tend to form a single dense commercial district that produces a disproportionate amount of their revenue.

Normal people: this is terrible Me: cars driving the wrong way on a controlled access highway proves that even engineering isn't a silver bullet for road safety and the only way to make roads safer is to try and reduce the number of people driving weapons/heavy machinery around the city.

Today in Winnipeg, we commemorated the life of Louis Riel.    140 years after his execution, his fight for an inclusive Canada continues to shape our country today. We honour Riel’s legacy in our work to advance Métis priorities and build a better future — together.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... - this is great to see.

Out of curiosity I went to check historical Halifax street parking rates. The parking rate doubled from 0.25 to 0.50 in 1984 and then $1.00 in 1990. It was then held flat until 2004.

thing about autism is if you work really hard for many years, you can learn through trial-and-error how to navigate social situations and interpersonal connections SO effectively that people don't really believe you're autistic anymore and resent you for not being perfect at nonverbal communication

Also, I'll say this: as someone who has spent a lot of his life researching housing issues, it's so obvious how social incentives play into public discourse on the issue. I've read studies of this going back four decades AND THEY ALWAYS HAVE THE SAME CONCLUSION: affordability crisis yadda yadda

I wasn’t expecting Mike Moffatt to come out as a supply & demand denialist but arguing on the internet breaks brains.

“The federal gov’t has set up a special office that will, given a viable and realistic business plan, help coordinate review and assessment, ensure that all stakeholders are involved in a timely manner, and identify dependencies or opportunities.” Apparently this is a very hard concept to grasp. 🤔

ICYMI. Maybe the weirdest thing about tariffs is that, before WWII, it was normal to have strong views, often well-informed ones, about tariffs. But you, all of you, grew up not caring about the undergraduate history lecture about tariffs. Not relevant, you thought.

This is because their reality is structured by Twitter dunks fyi. That’s why we get this energy. It is all bad parodies of like gays who had popular stan accounts and occasionally dipped a toe into politics and ruined these guys’ mentions for a day by siccing their much larger following on them.

The biggest chunk of the REM in Montreal has just opened, and I’ve been reflecting not only on what it means for Montreal, but for Canada as a whole. Read my latest article now: open.substack.com/pub/nextmetr...

An Alert Ready test is scheduled for Wednesday, Nov 19th at 1:55pm. Alert Ready will be distributing a test alert to Canadians in participating provinces and territories on their television, radio and compatible wireless devices.

Has "not understanding what insurance is" impacted your city council? Know the signs. Be alert.

Every year, Nova Scotia sends the City of Boston a Christmas tree to thank them for the help and kindness they provided after the 1917 Halifax Harbour Explosion. /a small thread. news.novascotia.ca/en/2025/10/2... #museum30 #kindness #NovaScotia

Yes. A lot of this is downstream of educational outcomes becoming a status competition between parents, which I think has become significantly worse in part as a result of shrinking bourgeois family sizes bsky.app/profile/mort...

A lot of education discourse is at root an inability to decide whether the purpose of our education system is to 1) teach material and measure learning 2) reward students who work hard 3) separate the smart kids (destined for smart guy jobs) from the dumb kids (destined to serve the smart guys)

Ginger Snaps (cookies) from #NewBrunswick No nuts, preservatives or dairy, eggs, so good.

'What I found in Lucy Maud Montgomery's pages was thrilling': Antonio of Green Gables CBC Radio's Antonio Michael Downing reflects on an unexpected, remarkable pilgrimage to P.E.I. www.cbc.ca/books/thenex...

“We’ve literally implemented the lying computer from that one Star Trek episode!”

*releases video on why Halifax's taxes are so high and services are so poor* *two weeks later, Halifax says it needs to increases taxes without a noticeable expansion in services*

Tax historian here on why the IEEPA does not permit the president to impose a whole new tariff regime. A 🧵 with guinea pigs, no. 14 sugar, and secondhand rope. Canadian illustrations #cdnhist #tariffs I'm responding to this: Katyal for biz, Sauer for Trump www.supremecourt.gov/oral_argumen...