As CNN offers daylong saturation coverage of the podcaster’s funeral, I went back and checked to see how CNN covered Melissa Hortman’s memorial on 6/28, where Walz spoke and Biden/Harris attended. It got about four minutes during the hours it was happening—less than Jeff Bezos’s wedding that day.

Bronfman: More than ever, we must commit to peace

Spent a lovely and nostalgic morning at McGill giving a lecture on economic inequality and why taxing the rich is a necessary part of the solution to our current mess. Thanks @madhupai.bsky.social for the invitation!

I had such an amazing experience giving this lecture, the first one I’ve done in person since March 11 2020! Thank you Madhu for the invitation and to your students for their insightful questions.

When the state can bully organizations to cancel television shows and fire people for speech, we don’t live in anything close to a functioning democracy.

Pardonnez ma naïveté, mais pour ma part, je préférerai toujours le regard humaniste de grands écrivains aux crachats de petits polémistes pour décrypter l’état de notre monde qui s’effondre. Merci, Kim Thúy. Nous sommes nombreux à vivre la même peine d’amour. 💔 lp.ca/sxhs7w?shari...

We have spent more than a decade uploading our politics and civil society to a cloud owned by oligopolistic tech firms. As the Trump administration moves to take over those companies, it is a direct threat to democracies everywhere. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Montreal's Martha Wainwright was on Fallon last night and chose one hell of a song to play: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7c-e...

Every fucking headline from every fucking media organization gets this story fundamentally wrong. The Trump regime threatened, and ABC caved. Kimmel didn't say anything about Kirk that was remotely offensive. This is censorship by a fascist president abetted by a cowardly mega-conglomerate.

Debate culture works as political indoctrination because it combines people debating in bad faith with naive, often privileged, people debating in good faith. Bad faith approaches allow for lies, bullying, and manipulation. It will always be more effective for them, and it's a mistake to enable it.

Wow, looks like the free speech defenders were correct about the dangers of cancel culture from *checks notes* the left

On the one side you have liars, bullies, thugs, kelptocrats, racists, hate-mongers and - if given half a chance - genocidaires. On the other, you have some people who can be annoying in EDI sessions. If you think those two sides are morally equivalent, you're not a serious person.

if Jimmy Kimmel's political humor is too hot for you to handle, I'm not sure "snowflake" even cuts it as a term of derision for the level of fragility you've achieved

”It’s puzzling why Carney keeps doing things that alienate his own supporters ... the reason Carney is sitting in the PMO is because progressive swing voters made a strategic choice to lend him their votes — they didn’t lend their vote to appease Trump, impose austerity or roll back workers’ rights“

Let’s be clear on some things. Yes, I continue to strongly support the CBC here in Canada. And yes, I’ll keep challenging & criticizing any politician that wants to “defund the CBC.” But also yes, I’ll criticize the CBC any time I think they’re making a serious mistake and letting down Canadians.

"This class struggle against big capital has the potential to push agroecology and food sovereignty further along at the same time. It’s time for all of us in these movements to engage in and expand this struggle and to take it on where we live." thestruggleforland.substack.com/p/democratic...

Reading today’s big NYT Magazine story made me physically sick It details how Trump & the men he put in charge of federal research—men like Jay Bhattacharya & RFK Jr—are dismantling cancer research Not just the US vaccine system—they’re crushing cancer R&D 🎁Link www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...

En rappel, à propos du Québec et de la crise climatique: - les émissions de GES/habitant sont 5 fois trop élevées pour respecter l’objectif de l’Accord de Paris - la crise coûtera très cher en adaptation et celle-ci est financée par la tarification du carbone. www.ledevoir.com/environnemen...

The most ironic thing is the modern right’s praising of Kirk’s civility, while at the same time treating even the mildest refutation of objective facts that counter any of their arguments as uncivilized attacks from a Marxist mob of domestic terrorists.

Superb piece by @justinling.ca Who Was Charlie Kirk, Anyway? open.substack.com/pub/justinli...

my latest for the Star, pointing out the v obv disconnect between bill C2 — the Strong Borders Act — and the whole elbows up thing pro tip: you can’t claim the entire security & economic partnership is over and then willingly hand over all sorts of info sans warrant to the US

The court is erasing Banksy's mural just like it's erasing our right to protest It only took 48 hours for the court to scrub out a Banksy showing a judge striking down a protester with his gavel Silencing a work of art about silencing protest? Maybe it was a little too close to home

A top 50 US university yesterday fired an instructor, a department chair, and a dean because a course made some reference to transgender people without the brief official course description in the catalog saying “trigger warning: gender.” In conclusion, those intolerant lefty kids, cancel culture.

The professor has been fired and senior administrators removed from their post. No mention of this in the New York Times, The Free Press, The Atlantic or other outlets who drove the campus speech moral panic.

“Instead of ‘democratizing intelligence,’ as Mr. Solomon claims, we are witnessing a kind of collective brain damage. The Minister of AI should be mitigating those risks, rather than naively championing the tech behind it all.” 🎁 link www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/7ff7d5d...

the "tax the billionaires" political refrain is Good Actually in part because it is a call for the people at the top to actually be constrained by rules informed by the public interest, a virtue that fingerwagging correctives about how much revenue such taxes would *really* generate doesn't address

Immigration experts say Bill C-2 dramatically rolls back long-standing protections for refugees and migrants Julia Sande, a lawyer and human rights campaigner at Amnesty Canada, breaks down what exactly is being proposed in the Liberals’ sweeping new omnibus legislation. macleans.ca/politics/can...

Un autre décès sur l’autoroute Du Parc. Je sais pas combien de morts ça va prendre pour qu’on agisse. Et ne pensons pas que c’est un problème de cycliste, d’après moi comme camionneur, ta vie est pas mal fichue quand t’écrases quelqu’un. C’est une catastrophe pour tout le monde.

Israel’s supreme court says government is not giving Palestinian prisoners enough food

Thread worth reading All the way to final entry. Connects today's "standing up to Trump" w Iraq-war decision Eg how "convert who's seen the light"—eg supporter of invasion, or enabler of Trump, who years later says, "well, actually.."—somehow has more credibility than those opposed at the start.

As any northerner knows, salt destroys ICE.

My column on the death of a great man. www.montrealgazette.com/sports/hocke...

Ken Dryden was truly an exceptional human being in all the ways. Not many people know this, but he was actively and quietly engaged in fighting for action on climate change. I met him a few times in that context, and he surpassed any expectations I had. A true role model.

Liberals to Canola industry (total export value: $7.7 billion): take $370 million, please! Liberals to Post-Secondary Education (total export value $11B from tuition, more if you count foreign student spending in Canada): drop dead. What kind of economy are we building, again?

“It’s a betrayal of Liberal voters, undermines the core theme of our campaign, and is an utter disgrace for a self-respecting democracy facing the rise of fascism next door,” thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...

In our latest for The Breach, Jared and I do a deep dive on how continued tax haven abuse is not just despite our government policy - it's because of our government policy.

J’ai cosigné cette lettre avec d’autres économistes inquiets. L’exportation de GNL par le Québec est une abdication de nos responsabilités climatiques, mais en plus c’est un mauvais pari économique. lp.ca/zjw7Ta?shari...

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Deeply troubling

In fewer than five years, Bari Weiss managed to parlay her resignation as an NYT columnist into a massive platform on Substack and then into editorial control of CBS News--making a vast fortune along the way--all off the absurd claim she's being silenced. First ballot hall-of-fame grifter.

We need to tax wealth not work. Why? Because usually no matter how hard you work, the compound interest on huge wealth grows much faster than your wages + the rich use this passive income to buy all the assets. Someone made a game to show this: therichdont.work

We recommend #YourBudget2025 focus on broadening ownership to ensure the benefits of economic growth are more widely shared. Canada can make policy choices that move us away from an economy fueled by wealth extraction and towards more local reinvestment. #OwnershipMatters #CdnPoli

Our American peers have just introduced a plan to ensure no one pays taxes until their basic cost of living is covered, and make the mega-rich pay for it! If the Carney government wants to fund tax cuts for the lowest income earners, they should tax the rich, not cut vital services.

On this Labor Day, let us remember that it wasn’t the CEOs and billionaires who saved us during COVID-19. It was the janitors, nurses, cleaning crews, grocery and food workers with their hard, often invisible labor.

This entire thread is excellent

Is a wealth tax workable? www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHrx...

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