Chopin piano competition opens with 84 participants, including five Canadians hoping to find the same success as previous winner Bruce Liu from Montreal. The Canadians are Kevin Chen, Athena Deng, Eric Guo, Ryan Wang and Victoria Wong. www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...

Pretty amazing jazz lineup in Dusseldorf on Aug. 27, 1960. John Coltrane, Stan Getz, Oscar Peterson www.youtube.com/watch?v=8G9m...

Much like the "Dutch angles" used in the filming, Harry Lime's circle of friends are a tad touch crooked. #TheThirdMan #TCMParty

Read all these posts about an episode most of us probably only know from David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia.

And now for something a bit different, a video about life in a part of Vietnam's Mekong delta, where people need a boat to get around because it's all canals, mangrove trees and houses on stilts. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mR62...

Suck it, David Grann.

"... people familiar with the French judicial system say it could be in the capital’s storied La Santé prison, which in the past has housed leftist militant Carlos the Jackal and former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega." www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...

Tip of the sceptre of the Roman emperor Maxentius. The only such example of imperial regalia to have been recovered, it was found by archeologists in 2006.

They've lost the 9yos

U.S. launches anti-dumping investigation into Canadian mushroom industry. Canadian growers say the trade imbalance favours them because they've modernized production, unlike their American competitors. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/eco...

« Un employé de la Banque Royale du Canada qui travaillait secrètement pour le crime organisé a été épinglé après avoir accédé aux profils bancaires confidentiels du premier ministre Mark Carney et de l’ancien premier ministre Justin Trudeau [...]. lp.ca/tNyOCr?shari... via @vlarouche.bsky.social

RCMP investigation into alleged Quebec right-wing extremist group. The Mounties planted a GPS beacon on a soldier's vehicle to track his whereabouts but had to remove it when he talked on a podcast about changing his truck's tires and suspension. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

i find the phrase "impulsively getting my husband a python" to be inspirational

Nearly an hour of Bach keyboard music, until the season premiere of Tout le monde en parle begins. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jawe... #Bach, #Baroque, #TLMEP

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

Congrats to our Canadian Queen

From Thailand's deep south to a wedding in New Brunswick and Mennonite communities in Texas and Canada. How the current measles outbreak spread. www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/c0f8440... gift link for 1st 20 clicks

Report in French on Paris' tree planting drive to dampen the impact of climate change and make public spaces more pleasant. Municipal official cites the inspiration of Montreal's own greening efforts.

From the nation that gave us le footing, le co-walking and les speakerines.

I understand this sentiment especially with respect to Petra - one of the most extraordinary places I have visited. But also just in a sense of "home". I would be deeply unhappy if my environment was violently uprooted. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Coming this fall. "Five years after Canada first raced to secure COVID-19 vaccines, the country is preparing to pass a milestone this fall: the first made-in-Canada COVID-19 shots. U.S. drugmaker Moderna Inc. is producing the mRNA vaccines at plants in Laval, Que., and Cambridge, Ont."

Don't watch if you're hungry. The food scenes from Ang Lee's Eat Drink Man Woman 飲食男女. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWdj...

One feature The Globe’s app has that I wish others would replicate is this tab collating news alerts. Maybe I’m weird in instinctively clearing alerts on lock screen and then wishing I could have clicked them but it’d also be useful for record keeping to see what outlets alerted overnight etc.

“"I'm disappointed that I came to Canada — a Canada that it is very, very difficult to find Canadians who are passionate about the American-Canadian relationship," 🥴 www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Over a million Canadian hospital emergency patients left without having been treated in 2024, about 8% of those who went to an ER. Ontario has the lowest rate (4.9%) and PEI the highest (14.2%). The trend has increased in recent years. Study based on FOI data. www.iedm.org/too-many-can...

🦠COVID-19 VACCINES QUEBEC has joined Alberta in charging to get vaxed w/ these exceptions - 💉Seniors / Medically vulnerable 💉Healthcare workers 💉Remote regions Price check -Quebec $ 150-180 -Alberta $ 100 -Elsewhere FREE theglobeandmail.com/gift/4b2fe55...

Russia's invasion of Ukraine takes Yasuhiko Ito back to after World War II, when the former Soviet Union took him — a disarmed soldier of the Imperial Japanese Army — to what is now Bakhmut for forced labor.

Quebec has become the second Canadian province after Alberta that will no longer provide free vaccination against COVID-19 for all its population. With @tuthanhha.bsky.social.

Thorough, yet simple explanation.

What healthcare professionals now face too often nowadays: violent, aggressive patients who insult them for hours, PSW who has to keep a bedside watch on those patients and can't contribute elsewhere.

RIP. If you need some paranoid analogue thrills tonight. youtu.be/h1f1VJDe3ik?...

Pilot Officer Tarlochan Singh shakes hands with a Police Sergeant as Pilot Officer Gnanamuthu Samuel Anandaraj looks on, they're volunteer Indian pilots who arrived in Britain on 8th October 1940. Anandaraj was listed as missing on 11th July 1941 whilst flying with 32 Sqdn.

Patrick McGovern, the ‘Indiana Jones of Ancient Alcohol,’ Dies at 80 www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/o...

Fachada de la tumba familiar de estilo nabateo de Sextio Florentino, c. 130 d. C., Petra, Jordania. Gobernador romano de Arabia Petrea, probablemente gobernó solo tres años antes de su muerte. El tímpano semicircular representa a una mujer con vides. En su interior se encuentran ocho tumbas.

I'm not trying to say that Tom is a big sports nut, but I'll point out that in this obit he informs readers that Ken Dryden's number 29 indicated "a backup goalie’s backup" and that the Chicago Blackhawks styled themselves as the Black Hawks during his first Stanley Cup run back in 1971.

My @theglobeandmail.com obituary of the great Ken Dryden (1947-2025). (Gift link.) www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/af67fce...

Poland invokes Article 4 (not 5) of NATO treaty after "unprecedented" Russian drone incursion. “We want a strong strategic signal sent to Russia." Reporting by Paul Waldie in London, and me in Rzeszow, Poland www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...

For years there are allegations of the spread of China's Great Firewall (especially by Myanmar activists) but there had been no concrete proof--until now. This looks like an incredibly important contribution: www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...

‘I broke completely’: how jobseekers from Africa are being tricked into slavery in Asia’s cyberscam compounds

Why some Canadians are using their savings, GoFundMe to pay for private surgeries

On est rendu là. Des Canadiens imitent les Américains et tiennent des campagnes de sociofinancement à la GoFundMe pour des soins de santé. www.cbc.ca/radio/whitec...

The 🇺🇸American science fiction television series "STAR TREK" created by Gene Roddenberry starring William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, Nichelle Nichols and George Takei premiered #OnThisDay in 1966 on the NBC network 📺 Desilu Productions

A chasm separates the approved content that appears on students’ reading lists and the massive amount of unregulated, unverified and unreliable content they consume online. www.niemanlab.org/2025/09/this...

My utterly shameless colleague @mikehager.bsky.social wrote this story, where he got to inflict the following groaners on us: "soupy style of sleeping" and "Don Quixote of dozing" www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

A comedian and writer I'd never heard of writes a slightly hysterical and giggly review of several of the city's restaurants.... https://mtlcityweblog.com/?p=132026

The long stretches in Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey when not a word is uttered.

Ken Dryden and Marc Garneau, who died just three months ago, were both men of great achievements who also exemplified a sense of decency and thoughtfulness that will be missed in these acrimonious times.