There was only one option with the letters I had, I just needed to figure it out (Wednesday March 4) Wordle 1,719 3/6* 🟩⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I wish some major media outlets would do broad reports on the impact of death threats on our politics, and on who's doing them (MAGA men mostly from what I can tell), and why law enforcement appears to be doing so little about them. They are such a big (submerged) part of our politics now.

Puzzled by lack of complaints, Councillor Stephen Holyday thinks it’s kind of weird that his constituents aren’t vocally opposing a new homeless shelter. torontosun.com/news/local-n...

One of the chants: "Bring back the HST! Don't cut our community!" Reverse that 1% HST cut and the museums and festivals and music and Nova Scotia publishing are secure again

I'm not making this up. if you're an American stranded in the Middle East and you call the State Department help line, you get a recorded message pretty much telling you to go fuck yourself. thank you for your attention to my extremely angry post about it. link is here: bit.ly/409JSAA

Meanwhile, they're encouraging Iranians to get out in the streets to overthrow the regime.

The war of massed, cheap long-range drones has gone global in the Middle East, and early results have shown a lack of readiness for air defenses to handle them.

Serious enshittification. I am still clinging to Windows 10 on my desktop (there was a temporary continuing support option). But maybe I'd better upgrade before 12 becomes my only option (11 is quite bad but clearly it's just going to get worse).

SCRIPTWRITER: So, for the bad guys, I've got a cabal of secretive scientists! SCIENCE CONSULTANT: Have you ever MET scientists?! *scriptwriter goes to AAAS meeting* SCRIPTWRITER: So, for the bad guys, I've got a cabal of secretive Golden Retrievers who are hiding tennis balls...

It’s the time for all the dog waste and cigarette butts to reappear from the receding snow banks.

Turns out the Province gives significantly less funding per student to the large school boards it accuses of fiscal mismanagement thelocal.to/ontario-scho...

Took a while to think of any word that might fit - and turned out there were three! (Tuesday March 3) Wordle 1,718 4/6* ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟩 🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

As the snow finally recedes, a retrospective look at its peak through fantastic piece by Josh Fullan capturing how that massive snowfall was a kid's paradise spacing.ca/toronto/2026...

A hereditary theocracy?

You know you wrote a good column when ...

This is good news - @spacing.bsky.social has long advocated that the City should have direct control over street furniture. It's not clear why the City would only take over garbage bins and not other street furniture too, however. www.thestar.com/news/gta/tor...

What a kerfuffle about spelling in last fall's federal budget tells us about Microsoft Word's "English (Canada)" setting. dylanreid.ca/microsoft-wo...

BREAKING NEWS: A federal judge has ruled that President Trump's Department of Transportation does NOT have the authority to end New York's congestion pricing program. buff.ly/A6oUblC

Gonna fight a bunch of wars over gas and oil and it's gonna make everyone stop using gas and oil.

I acted in my high school production of "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie"! (It's a perfect high school play since it has 16 female parts and 3 male, roughly following the proportion of each gender that auditions. But maybe the teacher-student relationship makes it unplayable now)

This is a nice contrast to all the awful behavior confirmed through the Epstein files. Proud of @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social & @seanmcarroll.bsky.social for picking up on the sexism & charlatanism right away.

How a Welsh village saved its forest … and its future www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

I have never seen so much social capital pissed away so quickly by any one. It's extraordinary. All Starmer had to do was be seen to be acting on principles of good will and hope. Instead, he chose appeasement of the far right and cosying up to dictators. And so, he got Chamberlained.

And here's an interesting analysis by Chrystia Freeland about getting past "the great capitulation"of 2025, which in a sense is her reply to Carney's Davos speech. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/o...

"Meekness is not a quality most people seek in a lawyer." Good to see them named and shamed (and the ones that stood up named and praised).

Nice! Lucky choice of first word today. (Monday March 2) Wordle 1,717 2/6* ⬜🟩⬜🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

As the laid off Middle East News Editor, I concur. Management eliminated the positions of every single staff correspondent and bureau chief in the Middle East.

this. indeed, very much this.

Such a bad idea. Need a Campaign for Real Time.

That is a pretty significantly sized chunk of the Gardiner.

1. According to multiple reports both Saudi Arabia and the UAE lobbied Trump to attack Iran. Both countries have increased their influence with Trump by investing billions in projects that personally enrich Trump and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner.

This guy in Grand Rapids, Michigan created a community center that's just a hangout zone with gathering spaces and an informal library and crafting tables and a little gym area—a true "third place" Imagining a world with more of these and I genuinely think it'd have a million downstream benefits

UK Labour still hasn't figured out that it's tanking in the polls because it's not standing up for the people voters expect it to. What's the point of a Labour party that doesn't act for the benefit of common people?

Oh! So close! (Sunday March 1) Wordle 1,716 4/6* ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Cute beaver sculpture in the playground at Biidaasige Park

Guessing Trump will eventually strike a deal like with Venezuela - leave the kleptocratic regime in place in exchange for abandoning its support for foreign adventures and allowing US oil companies to get a slice of the oil business.

But here in Ottawa, whereas the original plan for the revitalized ByWard called for full pedestrianization of a key street, the “refreshed” plan will only see pedestrianization on key dates like Canada Day. We lack boldness, vision, and even commitment to follow through on the original plan.

Disappointed to discover the washrooms at Biidaasige Park were locked today (they were open on a previous winter weekend visit). (They were clearly locked rather than actually occupied. One door was open with the bolt out to keep it from closing, so usable but not lockable)

Great conversation about our book "Messy Urbanism" with our co-editor @zahraeb.bsky.social . I love her description of our book as "a tool for noticing". www.bookedonplanning.com/podcast/epis...

Rising global carbon dioxide levels can now be detected in human blood. Governments continue to let oil and gas companies poison their constituents even as fuel-free energy like wind, solar, and battery storage has become the cheapest form of generating power in human history.

"We invoke international law and the 'rules based international order' when adversaries engage in unlawful actions, but abandon those same rules entirely when it’s the Americans doing the bombing." #Opinion from former foreign minister Lloyd Axworthy

We know the local cats love using our backyard as a highway as well as a hangout, but it's rarely so visible - thanks to just the right amount of dusting with snow.

Princess foosball!

New Canadian trade deal with India only allows for 1 assassination per year

Guess 3 is pretty funny! All the right letters but in the wrong place. (Saturday February 28) Wordle 1,715 4/6* ⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 🟩🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Spoiler: goes back to 1899.

"War on autoists"!

New York City is designing six blocks of Broadway in Manhattan to emphasize pedestrians and outdoor dining. But it will take a long time.

Huh, interesting. Is the attack on Iran in part a favour to Gulf States (in exchange for their generosity to the Trump family)?