just did tips #4 and 5 for a truly elite Passover supper

once again leadership at my place of employment was celebrating students who got admitted to all variety of prestigious American schools and I really have to wonder, do these kids (and their parents) have any awareness of what they are in for??

let me paint a picture: your family of four (lol who can afford to live in one of those anymore??!!) live on the periphery. you want to go shopping. you drive to any one of the many large malls that are a much shorter driving distance to you than the Eaton centre downtown.

👋 hi, hello, it's me, the one canadian who.... doesn't like maple syrup I have never been able to stand the flavour I use fruit syrup instead I only recently discovered maple butter and that is the limited extent of maple flavouring that my tastebuds can handle

eaton centre has TWO DIFFERENT SUBWAY STOPS incorporated into each end of the mall AND is served by two streetcar lines. in what universe would pedestrianization have a "catastrophic effect" on business??!! who is stupid enough to drive there in the first place??!!

my therapist: "you should try writing about your grief, I think it would be a great outlet for you" me:

here's a thread literally no one asked for: Naomi's Guide to Surviving Passover tip #1: whole-wheat matzah. it actually tastes better than regular matzah, you will feel more full, and uhhhhh... your body will thank you later for the extra fibre.

the lord's work

for the full effect (and some fantastic Québécois accents), I highly recommend watching the original 35-minute investigation by enquête: ici.radio-canada.ca/tele/enquete...

Reminder that here in Canada, Carney is making substantial cuts to Fisheries and Oceans (-70%), Environment and Climate Change (-45%), Agriculture and Agri-Food (-10%), and Natural Resources (-5%), and closing multiple research stations.

🤬🤬🤬 I swear to god this conservative government is trying to take away EVERY SINGLE THING I LOVE ABOUT LIVING IN TORONTO and IT MAKES ME REALLY FUCKING ANGRY 🤯🤯🤯

anyone who calls the leader of Canada a "president" is not qualified to have any kind of opinion you should care about with respect to Canadian politics

the Jewish directive to value human life above all else—and the teaching that to save a life is the greatest mitzvah one can perform—applies equally to people of all faiths and backgrounds. Israeli law no longer even pretends to adhere to Jewish values.

been waiting my whole adult life for the NDP to ditch their support of fossil fuels. lots of dipshit columnists and centrists who would never vote NDP anyway are scared of these new changes, but people like me have been waiting decades for a leftist party that's actually worth our time and support

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the modern-day equivalent of Nazis stealing all the gold and jewellery and art of the people they sent to camps and murdered

canadian leftist party finally elects an actual leftist to lead; pollsters suggest racism and destroying environment to align better with the median liberal voter

remembering the time ca. 2006 when I painfully learned the "outside of rush hour" part: was out for a bike ride when it started absolutely pouring, tried to get on the metro with my bike without realizing it was still rush hour, was DENIED 🥲 can't remember if I just waited out the storm or what.

LOL oc transpo scooping up toronto's rejects: the worst possible choice for the most possible money it's like you actively want to run the remaining shadow of oc transpo's former self into the ground as fast as possible

there should be a limit to the annual salary a public servant can earn. like maybe $200k? if you think you deserve more than that, you're too greedy to work for the public. end of. and obvs there should be a cap on overtime for police. beyond that? go home.

this thread sums up my rage toward the carney government better than I could do myself

here are my baseball allegiances: 1) baseball sucks 2) baseball sucks 3) baseball sucks 4) baseball sucks truly no explanation required

wait hold up what??!?!?! this is the stupidest shit. then people simply won't recycle any of their litter. no one is carrying their bottles home. it's already too onerous to have to walk 10 minutes before you even find a receptacle, let alone keep it with you the whole time till you get home.

the Carney government's extreme budget cuts, in general run totally counter to everything he has said publicly about the need to build up our sovereignty and engage with other countries. how do you build Canadian sovereignty when you cut food/drug inspection? archives? embassies? CBC? etc.

new fear unlocked: flying snakes

I'm at the AI collapse I'm at the oil crisis I'm at the combination AI collapse and oil crisis

the real question is what will it take for the liberals and NDP to realize they need to team up to defeat ford rather than be at each other's throats and destroy each other's path to victory every single fucking time

peak Ottawa: designate a gas station a heritage building and force developers to preserve it because it's "an important part of the automotive history of Ottawa." if Ottawa cared half as much about transit as it does about cars, our transit woes would be fixed. ottawacitizen.com/news/local-n...

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this crossing guard's blood is on doug ford's hands. maybe since it happened in mark carney's riding, the federal government will finally be moved to act in response to ford's childish and dangerous outlawing of speed cameras.

ahhhhhhh I love this!!! and I totally endorse and believe it. when I broke my wrist in 2020, I got back to playing piano ASAP. partially because I had been scared I would never play again. but also, it did really help with my rehab. glad it worked for scherzer, too. www.nytimes.com/athletic/713...

this is why I'm not a Costco member: I don't wish to have ready access to vacuum-packed pieces of Schwartz's smoked meat that I can steam and slice at home

In Canada: I just took a week of unpaid (but job-protected) family caregiver leave. you only get paid for time off to care for family if they are critically ill. I now understand exactly how rotten this deal is.

this is similar to flying domestically in Australia. you can carry on liquids of any size!! no need to empty water bottles. keep your shoes on. don't take anything out of your bag. it was bliss. plus Qantas at least still does nice little snacks. (virgin did not alas)

and how much will we collectively lose, on account of your inexcusable cuts to everything that makes Canada a place worth living, from the CBC to food inspection to the national parks?

this week @tiomoid.bsky.social and I are in Ottawa helping my mom get her house ready to go on the market. we needed a date night out on our own, so we drove across the river to Gatineau to take in a QMJHL (minor-league) hockey game at the centre slush puppie!!

this week @tiomoid.bsky.social and I are in Ottawa helping my mom get her house ready to go on the market. we needed a date night out on our own, so we drove across the river to Gatineau to take in a QMJHL (minor-league) hockey game at the centre slush puppie!!

for some stupid reason I waded into the replies of one of the antisemitism threads and somehow wound up with both antisemitic and zionist reply guys???!!! thanks I hate it here. Judaism is not a nationality; Jews are not "indigenous to Israel"; Jews are not responsible for the actions of Netanyahu.

wait how the FUCK are they cutting Canada Post by 98%?!!!?!?!?!?!!!!

the digitally-altered major-key version of careless whisper

tfw the goddamn aryans are longer white enough for the white supremacists

what kind of mealy-mouthed horseshit is this letter??!!! Canadians absolutely WILL hold the federal government accountable for destroying the institutions dedicated to preserving our country's history at a time of unprecedented attacks on our sovereignty.

as an ottawan I feel equal amounts of pride and shame in this map

it's indicative of the NDP's larger problems that none of the leadership candidates are interested in making ranked-choice cross-endorsements. you can't work together with each other to stop vote-splitting in internal races... how will you ever combat it in real-world first-past-the-post races?

💯 this is happening at the same time that the federal government is acting to destroy library and archives Canada and decimate funding for archives across the country. we are sleepwalking into a greatly diminished democracy even without a US takeover.

When Israel says their violence is done to protect all Jews and make the world safer for us, we can only look at incidents like this and see that is obviously not true. They’re making it more dangerous for us EVERYWHERE.

Israel was attacked because netanyahu attacked Iran first. Temple Israel was attacked because netanyahu has, through his actions, increased antisemitism around the world more than any other person currently living on this planet.

Jews around the world will not be safe until Netanyahu is removed from office and Israeli aggressions against Palestine, Iran, Lebanon, and the rest of the Middle East cease. (I say this as a Jew around the world)

literally the same day I read about the liberals cutting the prison librarian system to save $2 million. why the FUCK would anyone calling themselves NDP want to be associated with these liberals??!! has everyone gotten a lobotomy??!! I feel like I'm going insane.

what the actual fuck???!!! why does carney seemingly hate knowledge, culture, history, and ordinary people who didn't go to Oxford having access to any of the above??!!