a lot of these cases, when you read the fine print, you find there is some stupid technicality that ICE can exploit to detain/deport the person (obv it shouldn't happen anyway). this case doesn't seem to have any such thing. this guy did everything right and they are STILL trying to deport him.

absolute queen shit

the sports reporter who wrote this article is the one who got laid off while on assignment at the Olympics. he is still filing stories from the Olympics anyway. (fuck jeff bezos)

my version of this is that it costs more to be a sports fan (or a sports parent) than it does to be a classical music fan (or parent) but guess which one of these activities is widely considered elitist

a really moving tribute, from the CBC, to the Washington post reporters learning about the layoffs while on assignment at the Olympics: www.cbc.ca/sports/olymp...

this is making me reflect on my year working at an engineering firm in the UK where there was a rota with a different staff member responsible for bringing in the office biscuits each week and how we all paid out of pocket for something that clearly should have been an office expense.

💯💯💯💯

it makes me so happy when I hear other people expressing this opinion. also FYI there is an instagram account (not run by me!) called "ottawa is not boring" whose sole purpose is to promote the many events and fun things to do around the city.

I wish I fucking knew - only discovered they weren't mandatory this winter, when I rented a car in December specifically to drive between Ottawa and Toronto and found out that none of the rental cars at my local Enterprise in Ottawa had true winter tires 🤯🤯🤯

I can't wait till you get to the part where you just sit at the border for 3 hours while they process everyone on the train... good luck/I'm sorry you're experiencing this!!!

I have so many questions about this whimsical photo that @lachancephoto.bsky.social took for @thestar.com , none of which are answered by the photo's original caption or the accompanying article.

💯💯💯 Carney's speech yesterday was puzzling, because he was saying all the "right" things, but his actions as PM so far have been nearly the opposite: cutting government staff, incredibly unambitious housing plans, continuing reliance on US tech and so much else...

sure am glad so many Canadian cities have outsourced their waste pickup to this company!!!!!! 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

not only have I not booked a flight through the US, but the couple of times I've flown internationally this year, I've been holding my breath that nothing goes wrong and I don't get diverted to the US for some reason. luckily nothing has yet.

I haven't even turned 40 yet, fuck you manulife!!!!

also you might have to pay these things immediately even though you might not have access to the dead person's banking just yet 🙃🙃🙃🙃

💯 @markcarey93.bsky.social needs to locate his balls sooner rather than later it's insane that large majorities of Canadian voters are saying over and over again they want him to stand up to Trump and he keeps doing the opposite, like does he WANT to lose the next election??

ok I am sharing this because I now have to know what this crow business is about

feeling this deep in my bones today lol

who eats this combination of foods??!! yeah let me just put one hunk of chicken on one tortilla with one floret of broccoli and call that a meal... NO!

shame on all of us in Canada for not doing more to support Americans who want to come here to find peace, respect, and community. it is unforgivable that our government decided to severely restrict immigration (including for skilled workers) at this moment in history. what a missed opportunity.

Canadian TV is certainly having a moment - north of north and heated rivalry both came out in 2025 - and if you're looking for more, I recommend st pierre!! a great crime show set on a French rock off the coast of Newfoundland. second season just started, and it's even better than the first.

but sure, the rise in antisemitism is the fault of pro-Palestinian protestors 🙄

AMS / musicology friends: are any of you also unable to open the AMS website, let alone log in? I keep getting troubling errors for amsmusicology.org.....

at our monthly org-wide meeting this week, among the announcements of good news about current/former students, it was shared that one has received early admission to Harvard - and I simply don't understand why parents of elite students in Canada still think this is a good goal to have.

just gut-wrenching the level of violence the federal government is currently exercising over its citizens in Minneapolis and elsewhere in the US. another reason why Canada needs to distance itself from the US asap - it is morally indefensible to collaborate with this rogue government.

I would like to extend an extra-loud FUCK YOU to all drivers who are speeding down puddle-laden residential streets today and splashing pedestrians like me with disgusting street slush in the process. this is on top of the several FUCK YOU's I screamed at the driver who did this to me just now.

love this for Ken Jennings (and the rest of the world)

@markcarney.bsky.social what the fuck is wrong with you??!! more proof every day that "elbows up" was just for show and carney is too eager to sell all of us down the river

like I said yesterday... many reasons the men's junior team deserves to wander in the wilderness a few more years women's hockey is more fun to watch, anyway!

I have not generally been paying attention to the world juniors (tbh, I have had almost no bandwidth for any hockey this season, life has been life-ing) and just tuned into the last ten minutes of this Czechia-Canada semifinal.... HOLY SHIT 😨 think I've seen four(??) goals??!!

every time I think this egomaniacal sociopath can't sink lower, he (or his cronies) finds a way. and just in case any CBP officials ever read this in the future: YEAH. I AM TALKING ABOUT TRUMP. HE IS A SCOURGE ON THIS PLANET AND YOU SUCK TOO.

hello? prime minister of Canada? are you FUCKING LISTENING???!!! this is how you should be responding, also @mark-carney.bsky.social

Having lived through it, I thought I knew most of what there is to know about the 1998 ice storm. but I did not know it was the biggest deployment of the Canadian military since the Korean War!!

I made the @darthbluesky.bsky.social smosh potato for the first time tonight. my husband who is very picky about potatoes ate them all!! he usually thinks potatoes are "too wet" and these certainly weren't. (pictured alongside the chicken part of @smittenkitchen.bsky.social roast chicken+cabbage)

only if carney gets his head out of his ass and realizes he better stand up and denounce the US's illegal actions if he doesn't want to be next. right now they'd just be crossing the floor for a spineless, mealy-mouthed, both-sides statement that came 12 hours too late. not worth a floor-crossing.

Imagine licking the boot of a president who's threatened to annex your country multiple times.

this is fucking weak and you should be embarrassed @anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social @mark-carney.bsky.social

So lemme get this straight: we've got the leader of the opposition out here licking Trump's boots, but still no official statement from our prime minister????!!!!!!

put on CBC radio so I could hear the 10am news. still no comment from @mark-carney.bsky.social !!! are you asleep in Rideau cottage?? kidnapped like Maduro??? or just a huge fucking coward???!!!! (my bet is the latter)

one of my absolute favourite things about NYC is NY1, and in particular, @errollouis.bsky.social 's intelligent and focused coverage of local politics. NY1 does an incredible public service and it's one of the few things I really miss from NY now that I live in Toronto.

I have spent my whole life in the northern climes battling seasonal depression and just fucking off to Australia for the second half of November did wonders for me this year. now I have to figure out how to replicate this every year without getting any more inheritance-related cash infusions.

attn plane nerds: I am spending Christmas in st maarten with my mom (we ran away from our first Christmas without my dad) and we can see the planes taking off from the legendary princess juliana airport (SXM) from our balcony.

hilarious to me that the people in the US who drum up fake outrage about "Christmas being cancelled by woke" are also the ones supporting a regime in Israel that is actually cancelling Christmas (or at least Santa)

the kind of shit that (white) American adults feel entitled to tell foreign-born children is wild. when my cousin was growing up in Illinois, his neighbours told him it was unpatriotic to have a Canadian flag on his lawn (Canada Day is July 1). why tell him and not confront his parents???

imagine being the editor-in-chief for the preeminent US news broadcaster and not knowing the difference between principles and principals

the Battery Daddy is the single best Christmas present I ever bought my father (I can say this definitively since he is now dead). the last few years, as he got sicker, the usual gifts became less relevant to his life and it got harder to find anything to get him. 1/

lol, a month ago, the car I was renting wouldn't load carplay after I filled up with gas, and I didn't have the patience to figure out why, so I drove halfway to Toronto from Ottawa with no GPS in the dark in a snow squall. suck it Tesla bros.

12 dead at a mass shooting at a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach.💔 A 43-year-old father of two, Ahmed al Ahmed, snuck up & tackled a gunman to disarm him. Ahmed was shot twice. Both Jewish & Muslim faiths teach that “to save one life is to save all humanity.” Let us hold fast to our humanity.❤️