"Your first World Cup is like your childhood Christmases. You’ll spend the rest of your life chasing the way it made you feel – but you’ll never experience it again."

This is big. It’s the first AI-related religious accommodation case I’ve seen: www.businessinsider.com/worker-got-r... I’ve written about this issue in a forthcoming Journal of Law and Religion issue, and have a recent Q&A here: news.emory.edu/stories/2026...

In their own words. The story of four Canadian soldiers who took part in D-Day. www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/c0f8440... gift link

This must be nuts for Victoria Mboko. She's NINETEEN and the greatest to ever do it is coming out of retirement to say "but only if I get to play doubles with you." That's gotta feel like Chosen One shit.

" 'The goalkeeper has the right to be injured. But the players do not have the right to leave the play to have a sort of timeout with their respective coaches' ... It was a strategy used by many, including former Canada coaches John Herdman and Bev Priestman." www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/socce...

Indepth investigation into Canada's trucking industry. "... this essential sector is riddled with accusations of wage theft, exploitation and safety lapses, despite persistent warnings from industry experts and drivers themselves." www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/c0f8440... gift link

Claude Lemieux obit by @tomhawthorn.bsky.social ... with this great line about the scrappy winger's performance during the Canadiens' 1986 Stanley Cup campaign: "played like the cartoon Tasmanian Devil and scored like Rocket Richard." www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/artic...

My column on the tragically premature death of Claude Lemieux, who simply won almost everywhere he went. montrealgazette.com/sports/hocke...

good lord "Such was the vibrancy of his area’s jazz scene that one of his first bands, in high school, featured future stars Jackie McLean, Kenny Drew and Art Taylor; just after leaving school he began playing with local talents such as Bud Powell and touring stars such as JJ Johnson." Jazzsky #jazz

Strangers in the night, exchanging glances

Reading this post in an Ontario ER on hour 10 of waiting with an ailing elder.

"Vietnamese women wait for the weekly general audience with Pope Leo XIV, in St. Peter’s Square, at the Vatican, on May 20, 2026."

Who doesn't like a clever headline? Respect to the anonymous deskers who forsake SEO considerations and gift us good puns and artful alliterations. This one -- "Jacob Elordi Cans Cannes Plans, Not in Jury Due to Injury" -- is certainly one of my favourites.

A horrifying story of a woman left to fend for herself after the RCMP mishandled her complaint about her neighbour. “...almost all of the RCMP members involved in the matter lacked a basic understanding of the law of sexual assault.” www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/c0f8440... gift link

Interesting detail about British broadcasting: "... the death of a monarch procedure, which all UK stations hold in readiness while hoping not to require, was accidentally activated ... mistakenly announcing that HM the King had passed away. "Radio Caroline then fell silent as would be required"

Newhook-mania hits his home province as pub patrons in Newfoundland and Labrador show their support for the Montreal Canadiens. "Even a few Toronto Maple Leafs fans came in to cheer on Newhook, but they were reluctant to admit it." www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/hocke...

Something from me with retirement looming: A Substack, with some advice for reporters interested in covering politics. #mbpoli substack.com/@stevelamber...

How India's cooking fuel shortage is driving up California's gas prices reut.rs/4wCPhyX

Inside the 'kill-zone' on Ukraine's front line, where new weapons have transformed war

Great indepth reporting about the troubles in Milton-Park, aka the McGill Ghetto. How Covid, homelessness, drugs and bureaucratic complications compounded the problems for a Montreal neighbourhood near McGill University known for its cooperative movement.

#RIP Joe Sedelmaier (1933-2026) He did "for television advertising what directors like Preston Sturges did for Hollywood comedies."— @stuartenyt.bsky.social, @nytimes.com

ah but have you read this! joelmorris.substack.com/p/james-maso...

Who do you call when your driverless train decides it's time to get clean? www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/art...

The Supreme Court of Canada has created a new legal basis for people to seek damages for alleged intimate partner violence in relationships marred by coercive control. www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art... (paywalled)

“It’s all autonomous. It picked its target.” A saga that began when a pair of Ukrainian drones struck eastern Latvia has now led to the collapse of the Latvian government. Was the whole episode set in motion by AI? My report from Riga

Saw this on Facebook. Captain Haddock is given the lines from Charles Baudelaire's prose poem « Enivrez-vous » The original frames are from the Tintin album The Secret of the Unicorn (Le Secret de La Licorne).

'The latest area of technological competition is something Mr. Palestini calls “navigation warfare” – a reference to what appears to be Russia’s new ability to redirect Ukrainian attack drones into the airspace of neighbouring countries.' www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...

giving your cat medicine

Fred Astaire and Eleanor Powell - Begin the beguine - from Broadway Melody of 1940. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY2D...

《 Pour les Québécois, c’est souvent un choc d’arriver en Angleterre et de réaliser à quel point on est britanniques. 》

« Le vrai Québécois sait qu’est-ce qu’il veut. Pis qu’est-ce qu’il veut, c’est un Québec indépendant dans un Canada fort. » "The true Quebecer knows what he wants, and what he wants is an independent Quebec within a strong Canada." Famous joke by the comedian Yvon Deschamps in 1977.

‘I should have kicked him even harder. He deserved it’: Eric Cantona comes out fighting

The Independent with this blunder yesterday. "Two-thirds of Gen Z adults are unaware VE Day marks the end of the Second World War, a new poll has revealed." web.archive.org/web/20260506...

Across rural Canada, everyday commerce is beginning to fray as banks shift to digital services and close local branches. www.theglobeandmail.com/investing/pe...

Claude Morin, who died today at age 96, is no longer a household name but he was the controversial minister who championed the idea that the PQ had to hold a referendum before Quebec could split from Canada. In a stunning turn, he was also later revealed to have been an RCMP paid source.

Louise Arbour, a former Supreme Court of Canada justice who later served as a United Nations commissioner and prosecuted war crimes in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, has been named as Canada’s new Governor-General. www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...

"Cape Breton fiddler Ashley MacIsaac has launched a civil lawsuit against Google, claiming the online giant defamed him by falsely identifying him as a sex offender in an AI-generated summary." www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/musi...

Years ago I researched a fascinating photo showing a orphan during the liberation of Amsterdam in 1945. I wanted to know more. Read what I found out here; fakehistoryhunter.net/2026/05/05/f... or here: fakehistoryhunter.substack.com/p/finding-a-...

Um...so I accidentally stumbled onto the UVA law library's collection of 6,000 drawings by courtroom sketch reporter Ida Libby Dengrove, who worked in NYC mostly in the '70s & '80s, & they're kind of...amazing..?? This one is tagged "Clown Attack" (thread) archives.law.virginia.edu/resources/18...

A Pulitzer for Julie K. Brown. Richly deserved, and overdue!

Health Canada has approved a second drug that targets the underlying cause of Alzheimer’s disease, but access to the expensive treatment will depend on whether government drug plans opt to cover it, @kellygrant1.bsky.social reports www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Saw NASA photos from the Artemis lunar mission, so how could I not mash it up with this music. Music: Also sprach Zarathustra, Richard Strauss, Fritz Reiner, Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Photo: www.nasa.gov/image-detail...

« Rappelons que l’Alliance de l’industrie touristique du Québec, la Ville de Québec, la Ville de Montréal, Destination Québec cité et Montréal centre-ville auraient versé une somme de 2,1 millions de dollars pour un contrat de trois ans avec Michelin. »

The karst formations of Asia are the landscapes of dreams.

Love the confident gaze of this woman in Gustave Klimt’s charcoal drawing from 1891, done in his early ‘realistic’ style

"Day 078, orbit 1208 — Another fun timelapse! This one offers a real behind-the-scenes look at a different aspect of the mission: communication. For many astronauts, free time is a chance to share this incredible experience of living and working in space!", says @esa.int astronaut Sophie Adenot.

“At the airport, a TSA agent stopped him and said the Oscar could be used as a weapon.” An Oscar statuette has been found after it went missing when the director was forced to check it into the luggage hold before boarding a Lufthansa NY-Frankfurt flight. www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...