"The PWHL is expanding" yes we all knew that, great! "from 8 teams to 12" oh that's... a lot of expansion very fast "to Detroit," fuck yeah "San Jose," sure! "Hamilton, and Las Vegas" pardon???

Kim Dong Hyun is Korean Shoresy confirmed

Canada uses new sovereign wealth fund to buy Saudi Arabian soccer team

As a pub trivia host sometimes people ask me "why don't you just have AI write all your questions?" I was googling something else and this is what Google vomited up for two "name all the (X) that fit (Y)" questions. There are roughly 12 things that are just straight-up nonsensical or wrong here.

Despite ample evidence that the rich are staying put so far, warnings of an apocalyptic exodus of wealth have persisted and even intensified in the first months of Zohran Mamdani's term as mayor of New York City: jacobin.com/2026/04/mamdani-nyc-wealthy-corporate-flight

Québec city in 3 acts: single-family housing next to our main transit network without a sidewalk, transformed into a missing-middle 6-8 stories building with townhouses and apartments with a sidewalk and trees, with the addition this week of a 20-slot bike share station replacing car parking

we're gonna start publishing the first few episodes of The History of Charging the Mound on youtube over the next few weeks. first one drops tomorrow

It's kinda interesting to think about how differently Justin Trudeau and Stephen Harper have spent their retirement years

Ngl, “These are only the main skirmishes of a winter-long logorrheic war of attrition between Canadian politics’ two silverbacks.” almost made me leave my phone behind at the bar and drive home.

🚨New preprint and our results are rather concerning.. We find the "boiling frog" equivalent of AI use. Using large-scale RCTs, we provide *casual* evidence that AI assistance reduces persistence and hurts independent performance. And these effects emerge after just 10–15 minutes of AI use! 1/

And fund the reopening of existing bathrooms, like in Strathcona Park! The infrastructure exists in a lot of places, what is missing is the political will!

Staggering - and also, you can flip a bunch of those grey and blue to more red and you wouldn’t be wrong…

Don’t wait four more years to wear a jersey at a World Cup: this Saturday from 10 am to 2 pm, Canada Soccer will be in Toronto’s Little Italy handing out Canadian jerseys to anyone willing to trade in an Italian one. #CanMNT 📍Outside of Cafe Diplomatico, 594 College Street, Toronto, ON

The Toronto Maple Leafs are the fourth team to be eliminated from playoff contention.

So far on Survivor and also the Toronto Blue Jays - six broadcasts in (one of which was really bad) - wall-to-wall 50th Season nostalgia clips - one medevac due to blown ACL

I’m going to run for mayor solely on this important issue.

Sure! Here it is, from way back in 2019. "For the past month, every time I've walked past a gas station with my girlfriend, I've turned the price of gas into a spot for a fictional Ontario FM radio station"

Last year, this guy (left) from DOGE used ChatGPT to find NEH grants that were too “DEI” for Trump, and canceled them, including mine, as shown by the letter I received last April (right). Huge new NYT article on the back story link below

1. Here's a little thread on one of Canada's greatest athletes who was largely forgotten by most of his home country: the three-sport phenom "Fabulous" Fred Thomas.

“Iran-related hostilities” is unreal work - at least “officer-involved shooting” names the perpetrators.

The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

No, but I am ready to start bullying people who wear glasses again!

To be THE meme of the Games, but to get to walk away with a gold medal? Tough to argue that tradeoff

Call me a Canadian living through the Great Depression the way I'm frustrated with Bennett's poor decision making ability

I guess I haven’t been sucked into the AI hype cycle because I got it all out of my system playing with SmarterChild on MSN Messenger as a tween…or I’m just built different.

OK is 2 goals on 8 shots vs FRANCE enough of a reason to stick with Thompson going forward?

amazing how yet another round of "you have to promise you'll vote for the shitbag years in advance" reveals itself to have nothing to do with strategy and pragmatics and everything to do with "i am scared and anxious and everyone on the internet needs to promise me everything will turn out alright"

NEW: ICE has a plan to lease offices across the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. Today, @wired.com is publishing dozens of those locations. Many are near schools, medical offices, and places of worship. Vital work from @leahfeiger.bsky.social that I'm proud to publish.

Dentistry feels like the closest I get to Catholicism - not just the sin and shame around not doing enough, but then you add the salvation through minor suffering and the holy trinity (the Dentist, the Hygienist and the Receptionist) and you’ve got something. Orthodonists, though, hard Protestant.

Wrote this - very excited to be working with @theleveller.bsky.social on making this a series!

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Has anyone talked about how Ksenia Kharlamova, who plays Svetlana in Heated Rivalry, is the great-niece of Valeri Kharlamov - as in, Miracle on Ice and Summit Series, namesake of multiple Russian hockey awards Valeri Kharlamov? So far, by far the most interesting thing about the series tbh

Does this mean he’s eligible as an Olympic alternate?

So in the end we had a playoff atmosphere, and both the Leafs and Mitch Marner did nothing. Sounds about right.

It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing

This caption is much funnier in the light of day

Lmfao what an awesome proposal. One reason you need a 90% income tax rate at this level is these guys are too stupid to have the amount of power they do. Like giving a glock to a 4 year old

I mean look, who buys more fine art - tech bros or children?

Philadelphia Sheriff Rochelle Bilal warns ICE: "No law enforcement professional wears a mask... Those that come into our communities wearing a mask to commit crime... You getting arrested". "Fake wannabe law enforcement... The criminal in the WH will not be able to keep you from going to jail".

Just realized that Emperor Qin Shi Huang's "Terracotta Army" of clay soldiers he kept in a vault in like 200 BC make him the first Warhammer Guy. he got some disposable income and started painting minis. totally get it

so cool, love the internet our tech overlords have built

Mamdani: "While only action can change minds, I promise you this: If you are a New Yorker, I am your mayor. Regardless of whether we agree I will protect you, celebrate with you, mourn along side you, and not for a second hide from you."

It’s too late, I have already portrayed myself as Chortling Bernie and you as Seething Eric Adams

in your 20s, you'll come across someone who's wrong online. it's very important than you spend the next 40 years of your life learning and arguing about this topic online long after they've moved on, built a career, and raised a family.

Thinking of watching alternating episodes of Shoresy and Heated Rivalry, to keep my current levels of woke in balance.

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

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