What would I like to draft with Copilot, you ask? A program that eliminates all of these goddamned AI-promoting prompts I’ve suddenly been getting from every piece of software.

"Irresponsible use [of AI in journalism] needs to be treated as seriously as any other act of fabrication. If it isn’t, it’s a tacit admission that these professional ethics are meaningless." - @michellecyca.com on 🔥 about the NYT's not-small AI hallucination whoopsie thewalrus.ca/the-new-york...

France is phasing out Zoom and Microsoft tools by 2027 over data-access risks tied to the US Cloud Act, which allows American firms to seize data stored anywhere. Legal scholars warn Canada’s digital future is at serious risk, but political will to act remains tepid. https://ow.ly/nM6M50YXuLC

Yes. And thousands of seats to that same game are also for sale *at face value* on the FIFA ticket site (and its official reselling Marketplace). Which would seem to make it rather unlikely that any of these crazily priced tickets actually sell.

Seven people died from poisoned Tylenol in 1982, and for more than 4 decades every pill in America has been sold in tamper proof bottles.

The Canadian government can recall a coffee mug that might crack or a kettle that might explode, notes @vassb.bsky.social, but with AI - which has demonstrated time and again its propensity to make dangerous errors - we seem to be, like, 🤷‍♂️ www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...

“Increasingly it is the case that before you even get to publication, lawsuits come raining down on you" www.theguardian.com/media/2026/m...

Thrilled, honoured, tickled to be nominated alongside these rockstars. Huge congrats to @bkstar.bsky.social, Tavia, @jenstden.bsky.social, the CTV team.

Just wait ‘til they crack open Genesis (and Exodus and Leviticus and Numbers and Deuteronomy…).

Step 1: Delete ChatGPT.

“A whole civilization will die tonight” is the most vile thing a US president has ever said, certainly during the post-1945 era when they’ve had the power to kill civilizations with the dropping of a bomb. I’m staring into the darkness. May this not be one of the most fateful days in human history.

After years of covering misinformation, investigative journalist Justin Ling has reached a stark conclusion: “There is no amount of fact checking, media literacy, or platform moderation to solve the extent of this problem.” What comes after defeat? https://ow.ly/x0K650YC4LL

I want a universal extension for my phone and computer that gets rid of all these garbage idiot AI "tools" I did not ask for and want no part of. No, I do not need you to summarize a four-page PDF for me, eff off! God help us all if we can't process such things with our own mushy, wet human brains.

If Mark Carney wants to ever utter the words "cultural sovereignty" again (and who knows, maybe he doesn't), then the Liberals cannot allow Hollywood to steamroll over the Online Streaming Act/Bill C-11. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

this is completely insane: since when is it acceptable for a tech company to rewrite news outlets' headlines without their consent? especially at a time when audiences are sensitive to how stories are framed in headlines? (ie Israel/Palestine, the Trump admin, ICE) www.theverge.com/tech/896490/...

The Ontario government seems scared of transparency. It doesn’t want its citizens to know about the lobbyists, policy advisors, experts or wing-nuts it talks to when it makes its decisions. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

The Tyee is proud to have published this important investigation by @rachelgilmore.bsky.social. We condemn this egregious harassment of a journalist for doing her job, and have offered support as she deals with this disturbing situation.

US Ambassador to Canada, Pete Hoekstra, requests an apology from The Globe and Mail for a column by Cathal Kelly about the US men’s Olympic hockey team at the State of the Union. www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/artic...

"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

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-...