The dust is still settling in the Canadian election, but one phenomenon seems to be the nationalization of the campaign. Even more than usual, people were voting for who they want to be PM rather than who they want represent their riding. (I think this was a factor in #Hamont Centre, where I live.)

Another trend is that the collapse of the NDP vote didn’t just redound to the Liberals but actually bifurcated between both the Liberals and Conservatives. This trend has been accelerating and progressives need to reckon with it.

Doubling down on critical minerals without mentioning mitigating, or even simply being aware, of the human and environmental cost of Canadian mining is really bleak to be honest.

Bernie Sanders is putting the entire country on his 83-year old back abs lifting the next generation of leaders as he goes. Schumer should be embarrassed! substack.com/@dmoodie/not...

Canadian youth have a message to the leaders this federal #election: "There will be no 'drill, baby drill' on #Indigenous land. We will not watch as our hard-earned money is used to finance the destruction of our futures." New op-ed from Aishwarya Puttur: ricochet.media/climate/clim... #Climate

In Bed With the Right is one of the best in the biz, and the new episode arc tracing the unfolding of 1933 in Germany is…let’s just say you’ll feel uncanny shivers as you listen, and not in a good way. Bravo @moiradonegan.bsky.social and @adriandaub.bsky.social! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

Doug is functionally illiterate. And it shows.

Oh, I always thought my students had a hard time finding a job after graduation due to economic reasons. I will have to let them know to stop watching cartoons and everything will be solved.

Text my son sent @peterjmountford. I’ve been indefinitely suspended from lunch packing duty. 🥲

First snow for big puppy on the right. He’s having a time.

Hunter Biden pardoned. Okay, President Biden: There are now 40 men on federal death row. You promised to end the death penalty but haven’t even issued a single clemency. 60 members of Congress are calling for it. When are their clemencies coming?

Why do these stories treat workers as an afterthought? Business always gets pushed to the top while workers and the issues they are struggling for get pushed to the side. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

Biden should commute all federal death sentences. He claims to oppose the death penalty now, the risk of a political backlash is now moot, and it would be a historic, legacy-making move.

Opinion - Montreal’s hijab decision shows how institutions fail to protect Muslim women: Mayor Valérie Plante said a sign welcoming people to city hall depicting a woman in hijab would be removed

I was also thinking today, as I biked on Bloor, that even if they don't wind up taking out lanes (they will), this whole campaign serves to make drivers angrier and more aggressive at us. Cyclists are already endangered by this mendacious rhetoric coming from Thug Ford.

I wrote about how dehumanizing women is embedded in the culture and how it creates an environment that’s conducive to sexual assault. www.nytimes.com/2024/09/22/o...