"Statistically, Willie would likely always have a better chance of predicting an early spring due to Wiarton's placement in the snow belts, a.k.a. the land of lake-effect snow and cloud," explains Weather Network meteorologist Kelly Sonnenburg. "Willie is a glass half-full type of rodent."

It’s worth walking people through the logic, because it doesn’t get repeated enough from the top: 1. There is no “immigrant crisis”. This is a panic instigated by racist slurs from a President’s that, even very recently, decent white people would have admitted were shocking and unacceptable.

My friends know I've been threatening for years to blog again, or start a newsletter, or literally do anything other than passively doomscroll. I guess slow tech is buying the domain name and actually using it 6 months later.

Prime Minister Carney’s speech today really is as remarkable as everyone is saying in its description of the current moment. Worth reading (or listening) before reading anyone’s hot takes on it or him. Hat tip to Paul Wells for re-printing it verbatim:

Posts from Minneapolis residents read like they'll be read in voiceover in a Ken Burns-like doc one day

“…We do not flourish independent of the society and ecosystems we are part of. We are, overall, more idealistic in the literal sense of more concerned with ideas and ideals, with the principles of the larger society we live under, with justice and human rights.”

Christmas came a day late for Willow this year. ❄️🐶

I kind of like this whole “We won’t buy your liquor but we will air your state-suppressed news stories” niche that Canada’s apparently carved out.

@thestar.com has a story today about our public hospitals using donations to subsidize rent payments for patients at risk of homelessness. While commendable, how backwards is it that we use charitable giving to fund what should be government policy—guaranteed housing? www.thestar.com/news/gta/thi...

Microsoft made it ubiquitous, yet Times New Roman is a British typeface designed for The Times newspaper in 1931. It was inspired by an earlier British typeface, Plantin, in turn modelled on 16th century French renaissance type by Robert Granjon. 1/7

Turns out there is a way to hide screenshots, not just from the Bad Place, but also the various other Dubious Places!

Has anyone made a plugin for Bluesky to hide all screenshots from the bad place? (I’d unfollow people but I feel like it’s half the people I follow. 🫠)

On this American holiday, the origin of a Canadian term apt for these American times that originated from an American show created by a Brit who met an American in Canada and invented the show together while watching hockey, the sport that later popularized the term… defector.com/how-a-campy-...

Vote for people who'll spend more on housing and social programs. Vote for tax cuts and exclusionary zoning, and you're asking for encampments in poorly maintained parks.

Terrific investigation in @thelocal.to who did some light verification of a freelancer with a sizable list of published work in respected publications. Articles were full of plausible details and interviews with people, some real, some… not, who never spoke to the author. thelocal.to/investigatin...

Love that nobody’s really sure if the Carney government will fall in the budget vote today, but we’re all just kinda waiting around, assuming it won’t? The vote is in a few minutes! www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Mamdani: "Donald Trump, since I know you're watching, I have four words for you: Turn the volume up."

A sneak peek at the cover of next week’s issue, which celebrates Zohran Mamdani’s historic win. #NewYorkerCovers https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/451hFM

At the end of the day I'm not sure how much difference it makes. But it is striking to put out a budget that axes a luxury tax on yachts and adds a co-pay for refugee claimants accessing drugs and dental care.

peak baseball is indistinguishable from the feeling of hitting your head against a cement wall

what if instead of sports we chose happiness

PSA for the Sportsnet streaming outage, if you switch your Sportsnet Plus subscription to the CityTV bundle, you can stream the game from CityTV Plus and it’s still working. Or get an antenna and watch over the air.

Bichette still has some time to work on his bat flip skills.

I posited earlier this week to a Brit that Halloween might be one of the finest American cultural exports, but reading up it seems both European and broadly North American. Celtic traditions to go door-to-door for gifts in costume got assimilated via immigrants and then mutated in the US and Canada.

Got ‘em with the old spookball

Rendezvous on the Beach, by Edvard Munch, 1896

Domínguez can hold onto the knighthood for now.

Loved this piece about baseball and time and the relationship between www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/abd56cd...

Baseball is always inventing new records… that has to be the most home runs (2) within the first 3 pitches of a World Series game, right? Paging @codifybaseball.bsky.social

Remember 24 hours ago when the game wasn’t even half over? Now we sleep. 😌

Blue Jays came up with the only way to get Ohtani out 😅

An astonishingly large crowd! Chicago

An estimated 100,000 people turned out for Chicago’s No Kings rally. Photos via @chicagotribune.com

when i say that i yelped in shock at this kid’s sign

The highest insult in Chicago

I was never a big hockey fan, but I had Ken Dryden as a professor at McGill in Canadian Studies. We talked about citizenship and patriotism, and what all of that means. One day, I put up my hand in class. I told him I was Canadian, voted in every election, and considered myself civically engaged. 1/

The government of Canada has a questionnaire about it's new budget. Most of the given options are conservative (because this is a conservative government) but there are some that aren't, and you can write in your own responses. www.canada.ca/en/departmen...

What an evocative sentence, my word. “Their music provided a suitably self-important soundtrack as Great Recession-era artisanal hipsterdom faded into the careerist hopefulness of the latter Obama years, when Everlane minimalism supplanted lumberjack plaid.”

never forget this conversation between President Johnson and his tailor

Israeli media willing to report what American and Canadian media won’t: “I can say with certainty that the people were not close to the forces and did not endanger them. It was pointless — they were just killed, for nothing. This thing called killing innocent people — it's been normalized.”

The sun went down, there was a lovely, warm evening breeze, I had a great evening of conversation with real people in the world at @1rg.space AND New Yorkers rejected the big-money sexual abuser? What a night to be alive.

It’s a good day for More Pulp. More Pulp is good. open.spotify.com/album/4et2xB...

Honestly, they should be forced to name the team after a shittier tree.

What a fascinating interview to publish on election day in Canada. (Please remember to vote!)

I don’t think very often about hot dogs, but when I do I’m sad because none of them will ever taste as good as the one I had at Hot Doug’s in Chicago.

Now is not the time to start a trade war between Canada and Australia. www.torontotoday.ca/local/food-d...

“Maybe it’s a vaccine, you think. Maybe we need this ugly dose of What Can Be in order to avoid What Could Come. Then again we had four years of it the first time and somehow, immunity didn’t take. Maybe we fucked that up and now it’s a drug-resistant socio-political superbug.”

Skating to where the fascism is going

The dying sound effect from Gameboy Tetris popped into my head just now, definitely for no reason at all youtu.be/R-o_8-SQej4