things are quickly devolving again in the Middle East and I'm worried this is really going to tarnish the the diplomatic brand of Versailles

One of the funnier bits from a recent Ontario auditor general report was the finding that the government couldn't even force civil servants to use copilot

I'm not sure how much it means — and it doesn't prove that the Canadian system is inherently superior — but it does occur to me that a local candidate in a Canadian election who was revealed to have a questionable tattoo probably would have been dropped within 24 hours of the revelation.

U.S. MILITARY: U.S. STRIKES ARE IN RESPONSE TO IRANIAN ATTACKS ON THREE COMMERCIAL VESSELS THAT WERE TRANSITING THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ

there is a cohort of men who resent the responsibilities and obligations of adulthood — of the fact that you owe things to other people. it is a fundamentally childish impulse that they have reconfigured as the height of masculinity, and i think it informs the parasocial attraction to platner.

"Just so you know, our conversation was off the record"

As a Canadian, begging American officials (including Democrats!) to understand that threatening aggressive war isn't equivalent to you being minimally inconvenienced

FIFA after starting to worry they were being too nakedly, obviously corrupt:

New from me at TVO, on data centre politics coming to Ontario municipalities. www.tvo.org/article/anal...

Zohran up 32 points over Bibi among American Jews should scramble a lot of very dumb narratives

The race to replace Graham Platner is on. Troy Jackson, the former Maine State Senate president, has filed exploratory committee paperwork with the Federal Election Commission. Jackson had been running for governor, but lost the Democratic nomination last month.

I was always pretty skeptical about the "non-partisan Senate" but more than that a lot of Liberals I spoke with since 2015 assumed they'd won an argument and established a new quasi-constitutional norm that nobody would ever dare reverse and... just no? The Tories never accepted the premise!

Saying you want "authenticity" and picturing Mamdani is like saying you want a "Dad bod" and picturing Travis Kelce.

Let people build tall and skinny everywhere.

Millennials reaching the zenith of their demographic political power at the precise moment that millennial men are entering their midlife crisis years really feels like a world-historical monkey's paw

“ok so half our city burned down because it was built in an extremely fire prone location at a time when climate change is radically increasing fire risk. but, because that happened, we should be allowed to build it back exactly as before” hang on

Among other things, the latest turn in the Platner story is a good example of why journalists need to get off X for professional and personal reasons, not just ethical ones. The writers who gassed his campaign up and now need to walk it back are mostly people who cooked their brains on X.

Yes, and, the work of establishing democratic freedom on earth will not be done until rape culture lies in ashes

let this be a lesson to deal with your feelings of gender anxiety and masculine inadequacy with a hobby or therapy or something and not a high stakes senate election

oh it’s over over

Correct your priors: Private money is going after clean energy, governments are using public money to prop up fossil fuels "About 59% of all money spent on the fossil fuel system came from taxpayers in 2015. By 2025, that climbed to 68% and spiked at 78% in 2022." www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

It's kind of funny that one way Canada *could* find a few hundred thousand barrels of spare capacity would be to rapidly electrify the vast majority of what's currently gasoline and diesel use but we won't do that because that too hurts Alberta's fee fees.

“apartments, along with other more compact, in-town housing options, reduce greenhouse gas emissions automatically.”

BrittafromCommunity.jpg "I can excuse threatening to invade Greenland, but I draw the line at interfering with the football".

OK if there's one thing that could've made me more sympathetic to "Korean subs but only if they also build cars here" it's "German subs but they have to build CCS here", this is all so dumb

We are missing out on good submarines for carbon capture????

Extremely funny to me they've got an MOU for cooperation between AB, SK, ON but not MB

There's a part in the book "Careless People" where the author beats Zuck at Settlers of Catan, and he is absolutely wrecked by it. Someone pulls her aside to explain everyone else has been letting him win for years. I think about this a lot re: why tech bros think everyone will love AI chatbots.

I think environmental protection laws should actually protect the environment instead of encouraging habitat-destroying urban sprawl.

New NBER paper finds that the congestion zone in NYC sped up emergency responses by over a minute - about 5-6%. Great stuff! www.nber.org/papers/w35414

This story does an incredible amount of work making Canada sound smart

Impunity for Ontario wage thieves: “A large part of the problem is that there has been a sharp drop in Labour Ministry inspections, penalties and prosecutions for wage theft and other violations” www.thestar.com/news/ontario... #onpoli

“.. They may have realized it was simply bad business to say that your great new product will destroy the economy.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-w...

Liberal Ajax MPP Rob Cerjanec abandons leadership bid

A wearable diving suit that enables wha-

"I haven't seen a Belgian this mad since the release of Roger Casement's report into the Congo in 1904'

Not suspicious at all…

This is a prime example of why right-wing populism slides so easily into antisemitism. You need a populist framing of "the people" versus "the elites," but you can't frame the elites in strictly economic terms, or else you end up with leftism. Hence you need another way to define "elites."

futurism.com/future-socie... lol

Canada lost to Morocco 3-0 after a great first half, and their World Cup is over. And as far as Canada came in a run to the round of 16, what you saw was a young football country, with so many deficiencies compared to elite nations, and so much room to grow. www.thestar.com/sports/socce...

Due to road construction on Danforth local cannabis store has struck a deal for customers to access free parking across the street, at the halal coffee and fried chicken shop run by visibly observant Muslims. I love this city.

"The campaign against Bhuiyan is being led by John Mutton, who was mayor of Clarington from 2000 to 2006 and is a municipal planning consultant dubbed “Mr. X” and accused of unethical lobbying in Greenbelt scandal."

A lightning storm ruining the occasion is actually a pretty fitting Ben Franklin tribute.

BREAKING: Trump announces he has made a deal with Iran to reopen the Great American State Fair

"Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep for ever." —Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia

i was smoking when i read this and fucking choked at the end oh my god

Alright you bunch have made me Google "how do I watch a world cup game in Canada"

I’ve spoken with Jason Watson. He knew exactly what this would cost him. He gave up his military career to take a brave stand for democracy. Patriotism that only works with obedience isn’t patriotism.