Hey everyone. I’m helping another family from Lethbridge out this week. They’ve had a member of their family in the hospital due to pancreatitis and they’re still $560 short on their rent if anyone can help send to my PayPal/EMT [email protected] Anything helps. They’re still in the hospital.

A contentious union drive, the departure of almost all the staff seeking a first contract and fierce criticism from some former employees have embroiled Vancouver’s Massy Books in controversy for almost a year. @isaacphannay.bsky.social unpacks the details here: thetyee.ca/Culture/2025...

"Raising the Palestinian flag at City Hall does not threaten anyone’s safety. What threatens safety—ours and others’—is refusing to recognize each other’s humanity."

The @theglobeandmail.com has a stringer in Gaza, Hasan Jaber, and he is very much worth reading. "It is a tense grey phase, suspended between neither war nor peace. There is neither full-scale bombing nor a truce restoring life to its normal rhythm." www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...

The corruption scandal rocking Ukrainian politics is bad. The timing - as Russian troops enter Pokrovsk, and the energy grid buckles under the strain of attacks - is even worse. My analysis

Dr Joe’s COP30 Day 5 Today’s theme: Keep Big Polluters Out Especially Canadian Lobbyists

Seriously appreciating this close-up translation of Carney's energy plans from @arnokopecky.bsky.social 👏

Inability of blood to clot slightly dampens hopes of surviving stab wounds

Slightly?!

Calgary's Land Use Bylaw is now creating division. Next week, we’ll move to end zoning at City Hall to keep this a safe, inclusive, and welcoming space for all.

They're continuing to starve them on purpose

Are Mark Carney’s nation-building projects really on the fast-track — or just the fake-track? @meyer.bsky.social sorts hype from reality in today’s newsletter: thenarwhal.ca/newsletter-c...

With Carney’s budget prioritizing the business elite, could this be Canada’s Mamdani moment? #Opinion from @lindamcquaig.bsky.social

The Bo-nanza has Begun. On Tucker, Bichette, Trolololosi, Simmons, Schneider, Straw, Bieber, Berríos, Yesavage, Vlad, Teo, bat speed, and more! 📸 @bluejays.com

We’re a small team of seven journalists who investigate stories wealthy and powerful people don’t want Canadians to know about Now we need your help to defend our journalism and continue shining a light on information politicians want to keep secret Help us out 👉 JournalismDefence.ca

I’m sure all the people who were outraged about Colin Kapernick will also be furious about this bringing of politics into sports.

Hi Bluesky 👋 Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵

What more is there to say at this point?

On a new episode of 🍎THE ORCHARD🍎 The Batflip's Andrew Stoeten sits down with @readtheorchard.org to talk about how the Blue Jays almost won the World Series and the season that was for Canada's baseball superstars. www.readtheorchard.org/p/how-the-bl... 🔶

Catch me talking all things Blue Jays, playoffs, 2025, and the future on the latest Orchardcast!

The group collecting petition signatures for a citizen's initiative to defund private schools in Alberta seem well organized. They have a website with a professionally shot video that seeks to highlight the disparity between public and private school funding. abfundspublicschools.ca/cgi-bin/publ...

🎙️NEW ORCHARDCAST🎙️ @stoeten.bsky.social joins me to discuss the Toronto Blue Jays’ playoff run and where they go from here. open.substack.com/pub/theorcha...

We try to give as much insight into how we report our stories and our dealings with tech companies as we can, and the narratives that they push. Meta has become obsessed with telling reporters that its smart glasses are no different than an iPhone. So we wrote this: www.404media.co/whats-the-di...

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The last month of the anti-Mamdani campaign was an absolutely shameful undertaking, an attempt to rip the city and Democratic coalition apart and I'm very happy to see it failed.

Folks, Israel is not letting aid in which means Palestinians continue to have to buy food on the black market from Israel sponsored gangs. If you can donate a little money to the fundraisers we're posting, you can keep someone alive. Palestinians wouldn't beg if they didn't have to.

The Vancouver Police Department has already gone $17 million over budget. Now they're asking for a $50 million increase. The park board, meanwhile, is bracing for $15 million in cuts. #vanpoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Dick Cheney departs the world he made: defector.com/dick-cheney-...

Condolences to Kamala Harris

When you visually see how much of the 'energy sector' dominates SK and AB economies, understanding their politics makes a lot more sense. Kinda. Source is Stats Canada. I'll also concede there might be more to this story, depending on how we capture the sector as a whole.

THIS irritates me re Smith: when hammer has to come down, she's cowardly: go to Saudi Arabia OR if she's not sure she can get to the head of a parade, call a referendum so if history shows she was WRONG, she can blame ALL ALBERTA. NEVER takes responsibility. hatchetmedia.substack.com/p/wild-wild-...

NEW: I went on The Hatchet to speak to @arshy.bsky.social about Danielle Smith’s culture war. open.substack.com/pub/hatchetm...

Shocking. policyoptions.irpp.org/2025/07/budg...

Support Jamaica (supportjamaica.gov.jm) — a dedicated online platform developed by the Government of Jamaica to mobilise support, channel relief and coordinate recovery efforts in the wake of times of crisis and disaster. 🌀🇯🇲💔

Canada’s catch and release policies in action

@crimestoppers SICK AND SAD STATE OF CANADA – BURGERS BURGLED FROM SMALL BUSINESS – ANSWERS NEEDED NOW @markcarneyforpm.bsky.social

I hate the paparazzi

Let him in!!

More like Blake Smell

NEW: The UCP government has cut funding for a program that provides support for Indigenous single mothers who have experienced domestic violence. www.albertanativenews.com/alberta-cuts...

A scoop that I’m not happy to report: CBS News has gutted its climate change reporting team, one of the best in the business, and one of the only ones on cable news that consistently called out fossil fuels as the main source of climate pollution. heated.world/p/cbs-news-k...

Kind of wild that Danielle Smith, Alison Redford and Jeremy Farkas are all graduates of the same Calgary Catholic high school.

I had a blast on @oldmanweldon.bsky.social's pod "I Hate Bill Maher" going off on the man for over 2 hours, we watched a Real Time aired during Hurricane Katrina where he barely mentioned it to make room for complaining that all Muslim men hate women and are gay! podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/i...

How offshore tax havens fuel inequality in Canada and abroad, by @readtheorchard.org open.substack.com/pub/theorcha...

Alberta students stage walkouts to protest province’s back-to-work order to teachers. With my pal @mattscace.bsky.social #ableg #abpoli @theglobeandmail.com

After Israel's new wave of bombings in Gaza that killed 109+ Palestinians, Taqwa Ahmed Al-Wawi, a writer/poet in Gaza, spoke to 60 residents in Gaza for @theintercept.com to ask whether they think the "ceasefire" is holding. Nearly all said "THERE IS NO CEASEFIRE." theintercept.com/2025/10/30/g...

Wouldn't want the poors to be able to afford nice things.

Via @readtheorchard.org The billionaire loophole: How Canada’s tax system fuels inequality: ricochet.media/labour/class...