Someone has to say it. The amount of racism directed at World Cup players - including in the England squad - online is out of control.

Sitting in a pizza joint on rue St-Paul watching the Spain-Austria World Cup soccer match and listening to country music that evokes the heyday of the Cowboys country bar in Calgary in the late 1990s is quite a cross-cultural vibe, mesdames et messieurs. Line dance, anyone?

Infantino sitting with Lutnick at the USA-Bosnia/Herzegovina match is as greasy as it gets. Ugh.

Cree Elder Lorette Goulet held up her drum, which showed a turtle, its back divided into a circle with four colours: white, black, yellow and red. Together, she said, the four colours represented all humanity. Our circle, she said, grows stronger and more complete when we add people to it.

“Let me give it to you straight. . . “

IMO, this will be another corporate welfare project where Alberta taxpayers foot the bill And we have to remember that these O&G companies are making billions in profit every quarter because they already get their products to market #ableg #abpoli

Happy 🍁 Canada Day. Party in the Old Port, for those so inclined.

Félix Auger-Aliassime opened his heart in Paris after that loss, but now at Wimbledon he's ready to believe he can win it all again. “I’m an eternal optimist. I hope that this time it will be the right one, and that this tournament will be for me.” tennissweetspot.substack.com/p/i-was-the-...

If there was any doubt...but today proves the entirety of the Republican establishment is now white supremacist. No daylight between them and the worst hatemongers and bigots. Same talking points, same loathing of immigrants, same neo-Nazi conspiracies.

really cannot be emphasized enough that the drafters of the birthright clause very much considered cases analogous to undocumented immigrants and *included them too*

Fingers crossed.

The ban is heinous for what it does to transgender athletes. But if you think cisgender girls and young women won’t be caught up in the fallout, too, you are woefully ignorant

5-4 for what it explicitly says in the constitution is incredible. They were this close to undoing the civil war entirely. bsky.app/profile/mjsd...

This is devastating, not only in the majority's analysis that contorts the principles of constitutional interpretation beyond all recognition, but also for the way it strips one of the most vulnerable populations in America of the right to live a full and happy life.

“That kid is hitting too many homers she must be a boy. Let’s strip her pants in the batter’s box to check.” Do these people realize how much more this endangers young girls than having a trans kid on the team?

thomas simply couldn't join the opinion, this corrupt, misanthropic bigot had to throw in his two cents and put his bigotry into the record

Rock the Casbah.

There is no joy in the Casbah in Rabat tonight. Oranje scores a stunning car-crash of a goal.

Party in Asunción. Paraguay has dismissed mighty Germany.

Paraguay vs. Germany. What do we know of Paraguay? A dude once wrote a travel book about the country titled At the Tomb of the Inflatable Pig. A Paraguayan writer wrote that it is "an island surrounded by land." Pico Iyer wrote that Paraguay is a country that has fallen off the map. Go Paraguay.

Sunday light reading @sarahkendzior.bsky.social

Has a World Cup team ever been treated as shabbily by the host country as Iran has been treated by the Trump administration? Here Iran team captain Mehdi Taremi explains the unfairness & second-class treatment with clarity: "It's a disaster World Cup." [📹 via Middle East Eye Instagram]

the feds have done more to harass americans angry over good and pretti’s killings than they have to investigate them

The US denied a visa to Democratic ‌Republic of Congo's Michel Kuka Mboladinga, forcing him to miss yesterday's match versus ⁠Uzbekistan. So, first the CIA plots to assassinate Patrice Lumumba in 1960 & now the US excludes the man who honors Lumumba's legacy. Got it. www.aljazeera.com/sports/2026/...

Never thought I’d see the day. We’ve just arrived in #Paris and all the wine shops are closed and there are signs all over the supermarkets saying you can’t buy alcohol between 6 pm and 7 am. Yup—a public health measure, because of the heat wave.

CABO VERDE ADVANCE TO THE KNOCKOUT STAGE IN THEIR FIRST-EVER WORLD CUP 🇨🇻👏

Justin Bieber, Lailah Edwards, Thurman Thomas, Lanny McDonald - wild lineup. If the Canadiens don’t send in the Palé Hockey cats to announce their first round pick at this truly bizarre NHL draft it will be a disappointment.

Norway fans have taken over the New York City subway. 🙌💪😂🤣👇

There is no Canadian journalist who deserves this honour more

Canada often gets a free pass because it compares favorably to the USA, but Canada rejected *more than half* of all World Cup visitor applications. Under 11% were approved from Ghana. Meanwhile, *none* were rejected from Australia, Germany, France, Ireland, or Israel. www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...

R.I.P. to a Canadian original.

New ad I worked on released by Lincoln Project today: youtu.be/Nuip2wE0-9s titled, “House Divided” is about Lincoln's June 1858 speech accepting the Republican Senate nomination. We open with the diagnosis: a nation can't be half democracy and half autocracy.

Cartoonist: Adam Zyglis

Sen. Paula Simons brings the receipts, comme d’habitude.

i think it is great that conservative students functionally work as a volunteer stasi for republican politicians and conservative media

The fans are easily the best part of this World Cup. They put hockey fans. Just the fact that they were willing to brave Trump's thugs at ICE says a lot.

NEW: A famous first World Cup win for Canada's men, with a Jonathan David hat-trick launching BC Place’s capacity crowd into dreamland. Save for the horror, of course, as Ismaël Koné left the game (and likely the World Cup) in anguish. Report from Vancouver: www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Mao, Stalin, Attila the Hun, Trump — the Dream Team.

Lotta No. 10s in soccer - Pelé, Messi, Maradona, Marta, Zidane. To me, Mbappé is Lafleur in cleats.

Vive la France! Speed and artistry of a very high order. The beautiful game, yes sir.

So far, Mark Carney has disappointed climate activists with the decisions he's made as PM. But as his recent talk in Ireland shows, he still thinks a lot about climate policy -- and is quietly implementing the ones that will actually work. #cdnpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2026/06/16/o...

Iran gets on the board. Nice little right-footed flick past the New Zealand 'keeper.

Horace Silver - Cape Verdean Blues. Salute to Cape Verde’s soccer team. youtu.be/orMEsvzxc5Y

Good day for a stroll around Mont-Royal.

From my erstwhile @edmontonjournal.com colleague @keithgerein.bsky.social - a sorely needed blast of reality. #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli #yeg

Trump calls the "deal" with Iran a foundation for lasting peace. What it really is is a surrender wrapped in a diplomatic sham inside a really big lie. My latest. www.thedailybeast.com/this-is-the-...