Watching that Christmas classic Catch Me If You Can

Area man who lost his riding seat and flew 3000 kms to get back into government says people have to answer to their constituents.

So chicken farms have started spending millions of dollars putting in state of the art air filtration and circulation systems - because culling whole flocks to mitigate avian flu is expensive - but we have done zero to improve air quality in schools - because kids are expendable I guess.

I love this more than words can say

Reasons to love the Toronto Public Library #1,721: the free Naxos Music Libraries provide thousands of albums to listen to and inspire your work while furiously typing away. Currently rollling through Miles Davis's late 1960s catalogue...

This is probably the clearest indication yet that the administration understands what they’re doing in the Caribbean is illegal. They’re now threatening the ICC with sanctions if they investigate Trump and his team.

My Canadian mind is truly boggled reading the replies.

"For, as long as but a hundred of us remain alive, never will we be brought under foreign rule. It is not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom which no honest man gives up but with life itself." - Life lessons taught by a Scottish granny, immigrant mining widow.

Funny ain’t it? They can seize a HUGE oil tanker but not small boats We can smell the bull sh*t across the country.

Just noting that no one is ever going to seize a tanker full of solar energy www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

Imagine the poor immigration officer who has to read 5 whole years of your social media posts. You may not kill them but surely you've diminished their capacity to truly love again

"I cannot understand how life existed 5 years ago without the product I'm selling"

Billionaires are not invested in making your life better.

the core idea that can radicalize people is so simple: there is enough. there is enough food to feed everyone. enough resources to house everyone. money and technology and medicine to stop the suffering of people around the globe. once you accept that there's only one question: why don't we?

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What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.” What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.” Funny how that works.

Crazy stat to contemplate: In 2024 China added almost exactly 1 GW of solar and wind capacity per day (358 GW across the year) – a pace equivalent to building a typical nuclear reactor every single day.

“I’m descended from wolves”

I've said it before — I love the internet at its best. I see someone mention a book that sounds fascinating on Bluesky. I go to my library app, and within a minute I've borrowed the book and started reading.

My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’

did… did the dog write this recipe

Toddler loses, and mommy makes macaroni medal to calm his tantrum.

Thinking this is wrong isn’t radical. Thinking it isn’t is.

Getting over the dregs of a cold. Homemade broccoli cream soup, ciabatta, and Brideshead Revisited.

Can I let you in on a little secret? Billionaire philanthropy isn’t charity. It’s PR to distract you from low wages, labor exploitation, and a tax system that’s rigged for the rich.

This is bonkers!🤪 Utterly bonkers! The PPE supply in the provincial stock pile should rotate into the hospital, clinics and nursing home supply chain so it gets used up. Discarding $1.4 billion worth of supplies paid for with tax payers’ hard earned money is disgraceful.

What does this even mean? other than give us money for an intangible whatever that sounds cool but has no real-world value at all

Salute to Toronto for this pivot: Ontario premier Doug Ford banned Toronto from building new bike infrastructure that replaces car lanes. Toronto's response: Narrow but retain existing car lanes, freeing enough space to keep installing bike lanes. (Better yet, narrower traffic lanes are safer.)

And yet there's a simple path to peace that Russia can take without any other country needing to be involved. www.cbc.ca/news/world/l...

We are not at war with Venezuela, yet. The boats are civilian craft. The U.S. criminal code does not maintain a death penalty for drug smuggling. Due process is required before conviction or sentence. All of the 80 people killed thus far are wanton murders slain under illegal orders. All of them.

While "peace" negotiations continue, remember that Russia could simply stop the war at any time.

TLDR: To help kids, ensure their parents have enough money

Walmart and McDonald’s are among the top employers of workers who rely on food stamps. McDonald's CEO raked in $18.2M last year — over 1,000x the company's median employee pay. Walmart's CEO pocketed $27.4M — 930x the company's median employee pay. See the problem?

How did that happen?

"Beware of any Christian movement that acts as though the world is full of enemies to be destroyed rather than full of neighbors to be loved. Beware of any Christian movement that demands the government be an instrument of God's wrath, but never a source of God's mercy, generosity, or compassion."

I am allowed to fail students for AI use, and I do, and I say I will, repeatedly and emphatically. As a result, I wind up having to fail very few students for AI use.

Why are our schools still stuck in a Victorian WASP past? School hours are at complete odds with the work day and assume either 1 parent doesn’t work or works from home with significant schedule flexibility

The guy shot two random people with a gun, I don't think you can say he wasn't assimilating into our culture

The only acceptablr use of a pie chart

The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.

He’s simply incapable…he’s humanly incapable of thinking about or caring about anyone or anything but himself. He’s just incapable of it. Well done America.

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So this is straight up "l'etat, c'est moi"?

Pete and many of his compatriots believe that everyone around the world would gladly be American if given the chance. They can't process the notion that the thought of being American horrifies most Canadians.

Oh please just fuck off

Anderson Cooper: So it's more expensive to have a chronically homeless person living on the streets than it is to actually subsidize an apartment for them? Answer: Yes, we’re paying more as taxpayers to walk past that person on the street and do nothing… #HousingFirst

Well this is what happens when you wage economic warfare and threaten a neighbour with annexation. They get a bit upset. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Rightwing MAGA Christianity has about as much relation to the gospels as MAGA politics does to the Constitution. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...