"Bulk of the misinformation about the conflict with Iran ... came from monetized Verified accounts" on X, which get paid by views regardless of accuracy. Media need to boycott X, it's beyond irresponsible at this point to provide it any sheen of legitimacy: www.garbageday.email/p/sorry-babe...

A blind Rohingya man survived a genocide in Burma, escaped to the United States, and then died because immigration officers treated him with such callousness. This story is a tragedy www.motherjones.com/mojo-wire/20...

John Oliver and team do a great job here of explaining how Twitter/X is a cesspool and why you shouldn’t go anywhere near it. Only thing it misses is new research showing that its right-biased algorithm “works” in that it shifts users’ views rightward. www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7ZG...

Two weeks ago I wrote a column about the egregious escalation in violent Toronto police corruption in one of the biggest daily newspapers in Canada. I wrote that they are bullies & the chief should be fired. I take none of that lightly. 1/3

CBC announces 8.7-million Canadians watched the winning OT goal for the men’s gold medal hockey game yesterday. But in a change from longstanding practice, it doesn’t release average-minute-audience figures for the Milan Cortina broadcasts - only snapshots for the 10 “most-watched moments.”

Wow. And when National Observer declares this filmmaker antisemitic, they link to a video where dude literally blames Jews for societal decay and begins listing wealth Canadian Jewish men.

A doctor friend says they should make a special beta blocker for national moments like this. They could call it Canadolol.

My mother was a nine year old refugee when she came to this country. She and her sister spoke no English. There were no ESL classes then. But good teachers in the small town of Barrhead where they lived taught them, and taught them well. They all became voracious readers with beautiful diction.

Walking through the snowy park with the dog, watching the game on my phone and cheering to the open air because no one else is here. I’m like a goddamn ad for. CBC Gem.

Great column, as always from Cathal. (I genuinely don’t know how he turns around something like this in no time.) You’ve got to read to the end to fully appreciate the point he’s making.

Great ad for the PWHL, though.

If it’s not already, all Canadian government investment in digital sovereignty should count toward our defence spending. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/b...

The @thestar.com editorial board on the tragedy in Tumbler Ridge www.thestar.com/opinion/edit...

There's a lot going on, but also Cuba being crushed by the Trump regime's sanctions. Planes will no longer be able to refuel there. People without food. Blackouts. aje.news/v5g5z3

On the bright side, the patriots won the halftime show.

Really enjoying CBC’s biennial Olympic Opening Ceremony Ad Show. Gold medal performances from AirBNB, Audible, RBC, Scotties, Intact Insurance, Turbotax, Ozempic, and Nintendo. Too bad they have to interrupt it with occasional stuff from Milan.

Was driving my kids to school and the first thing on the radio was reporting about Trump's video depicting the Obamas as apes and I think many people still don't fully appreciate what it means to have to raise Black children in a country where the president is so brazenly and consistently racist

🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇩🇰 🇳🇴 🇸🇪 🇪🇸 🇦🇺 🇳🇿 🇬🇱 🇫🇮 🇱🇺 🇨🇭 🇧🇪 🇳🇱 🇬🇷 🇮🇸 🇮🇹 🇵🇱 🇵🇹 🇱🇻 “The West is feeling its betrayal turn into rage. The world is waking up to both its vulnerability and its value. But better late than never: We’re all Canadian now.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/o...

New Brunswick, an east coast Canadian province of about 900,000 people, will no longer use billionaire Elon Musk’s social media platform X for routine government communications, its leader announced

"Those who were laid off include Caroline O’Donovan, the Post’s beat reporter covering Amazon"

I was also targeted by Honest Reporting Canada for a column about the killing of journalists in Gaza. A badge of honour, I guess.

"As part of this push for relevance, xAI embraced making sexualized material, publicly releasing sexy AI companions, rolling back guardrails on sexual material and ignoring internal warnings about the potentially serious legal and ethical risks of such content." Canadian officials are still on X

RIP Catherine O’Hara. I do not accept this.

The AGO is disbanding the committee that decided not to go ahead with the Nan Goldin acquisition. @joshokane.bsky.social has been leading and breaking this story for the past week and a bit. A huge amount of work has gone into reporting this story. www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/arti...

Amber Bracken is one of Canada’s greatest photojournalists, and for the RCMP to mistake observers for participants, arrest her and prevent her from doing her vital work is a deeply dangerous precedent. This case is important for all of us.

13 tix sold across four screenings today at Toronto’s Scotiabank Theatre. (One of them is probably @hertzbarry.bsky.social, who’s always championing little-seen films.) 723 seats still available.

The violent occupation of Minneapolis started with a vlog. I've wanted to find a framework to describe Nick Shirley & others like him: "Influencer" is too quaint. "Journalist" is obviously wrong. I landed on "slopagandist." Gift link (open in a web browser) www.theverge.com/news/869824/...

Whole lotta prominent people for whom "Never again" means "Never again will Nazis murder Jews between 1933 and 1945." www.jta.org/2026/01/27/p...

The front page of Alberta Courts website is now joint statement by chief justices of all three court levels, proclaiming the importance of judicial independence. albertacourts.ca

Journalism! The way you always wanted it to be. www.instagram.com/p/DT_zBaIgAxR/ Not kidding. It has almost everything. Plain speaking. Respect for your eyes and ears. Exact quote: "That was a lie." Lots of context. Dead on in their editing. Truth to power. And more. Via @froomkin.bsky.social

It's the third week of trial in our case against the RCMP for arresting photojournalist Amber Bracken. World Press Freedom Canada says "Its implications could shape ... whether journalists can safely observe and document conflicts without fear of arrest." worldpressfreedomcanada.ca/who-decides-...

Alex Pretti’s coworkers take a moment of silence this morning

NEW: The push to prevent the Art Gallery of Ontario from acquiring a Nan Goldin work last year – which led to four resignations + an internal review – was prompted by AGO trustee + significant donor Judy Schulich, according to newly reviewed documentation www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/art-...

Please note that NYT is leading with what the videos show, not the lies from the feds. This is what every news organization should be doing. This is how you cover a government that lies as it breathes. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/us/minneapolis-shooting-ice

"They stayed a little back." America is the only country that has ever called for help from NATO. NATO answered, thosuands of allied troops fought and hundreds died. Every time he belittles this, global fury at this guy and the nation that elected him grows. Americans will not be forgiven.

Scoop: The AGO is reckoning with the resignations of a senior curator & two members of a collections committee after the group narrowly voted to not acquire a work by Nan Goldin over accusations that the Jewish-American photographer’s views are antisemitic www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/art-...

German Jews were citizens of Germany at the start of 1933. By the end of 1933, the Nazis had removed citizenship from naturalized citizen Jews. In 1935, all German Jews were fully stripped of their German citizenship. Citizenship under dictatorships is contingent for targeted minorities.

I reached out to more than three dozen X advertisers, xAI investors, politicians, and government agencies about the growing library of sexualized deepfakes generated with Grok—now including Renee Good. I only heard back from four, with three declining to comment. spitfirenews.com/p/grok-deepf...

In 2024, I rose in Senate QP to ask why the Govt of Canada was still using X for official communications. Today, they are still there. What exactly will it take to break the spell?

Does Congress have any red line where they constrain Trump? He just unilaterally went to war against Venezuela. (Spare me any technicalities; we literally attacked them and kidnapped their president. That is effectively a declaration of war and he doesn’t have to put it on a scroll of parchment)

NYT: "By proceeding without any semblance of international legitimacy, valid legal authority or domestic endorsement, Mr. Trump risks providing justification for authoritarians in China, Russia and elsewhere who want to dominate their own neighbors."

An absolute bedrock institution for understanding how the planet works, just civilization-scaled vandalism by the most incurious morons on Earth

Move fast, break things: A little more than 24 hours after announcing its intention to purchase Warner Bros., Netflix sends out email to subscribers in Canada about the move - and seems entirely unaware that WB’s HBO Max is not, in fact, available in this country.

These are good moments to remember that the CEOs of all the biggest companies in America are happy to go to White House dinners and slap this guy’s back. They do not care about this. Remember this, years from now, when they want you to forget.

I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.

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You owe it to yourself to read this stunning book not because it won the National Book Award (it did!) but because it will make you excruciatingly wrestle with and restore your humanity. www.nationalbook.org/books/one-da...

So happy One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by the extraordinary Omar El Akkad won last night’s National Book Award for non-fiction (even though, as he said, in his speech, it’s “very difficult to think in celebratory terms about a book that was written in response to a genocide”).