No, no they are not. Now can we please move onto a real question? www.jns.org/opinion/dani...

Today's close call: Ginormous truck with a big "BIOHAZARD" sign treating right turns as an automatic right-of-way. That'd make a good Captain Planet episode.

The cyclist's lawyer told the Star the cyclist suffered a concussion.

$2.3 billion for AI training, adoption and startups. No new regulations. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

Rounding up migrants (and the threat of such roundups) means US agriculture is relying increasingly on a temporary visa plagued by similar concerns as its Canadian counterparts. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/b...

Atlantic Canada's first hyperscale data centre is proposed for a neighbourhood on the outskirts of Saint John. But the project threatens old growth forest and wetlands— and the community is fighting back. My story for @thenarwhal.ca with edits by @michellecyca.com thenarwhal.ca/lorneville-a...

It's not too late.

Canadian kids are getting preventable diseases in part due to mistrust of public health interventions.

Marjane Satrapi: Iranian film-maker and graphic novelist ‘dies of sadness’ at 56

Phone telling me it's running out of storage space like I'm supposed to stop taking high-definition photos of everything in sight.

Today’s extremist movements are not only more mobilized, they're harder to recognize. Here, writers Amarnath Amarasingam and Stephanie Carvin trace how biases against immigration, Islam, and political change helped reshape Canada’s far right. https://ow.ly/2g0750Z7ruK

How do you make enabling deadly behaviour as sexy as a jet?

Immigrant detainees across at least 33 states allege in court documents that the government is failing to provide them with adequate medical care.

How many tabs do you have to open before you qualify for a Form 1?

And (some) queer lit from libraries.

AI adoption now, literacy in five years. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

This op impressively manages to deny agency both to Alberta separatists and to Alberta federalists, who are as peeved about separatism as "Central Canadian elites." www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

The number of American citizens applying for refugee status in Canada tripled last year compared to the year before. Virtually no one (fewer than 5, possibly zero) is getting refugee status.

Happy Pride Month. If you know a young person (age 13-26) in the US who is getting their access to queer library books restricted because of local small-minded folks, please refer them to the Books Unbanned program. More people should know about it. #pride booksunbanned.com/card

Your landlord can raise your rent as much as they want because your social-housing unit is exempt from rent-control rules, and other fun Ontario stuff. www.thestar.com/real-estate/...

No AI booster knows what AI is supposed to be. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/m...

Canada's trucking industry is essential and exploitative. Well worth a read via @saramojtehedz.bsky.social and @mahima-singh.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Israel has captured the 12th-century Beaufort castle that overlooks southern Lebanon and northern Israel. The move suggests Israel is planning an extended military presence in Lebanon. n.pr/49Z6Oru

People talk about the billion-dollar cost of hosting the World Cup but we rarely discuss the cost of displacing community members.

Sadomasochistically wrote "Go through starred emails" on my to-do list so now I must throw phone and laptop into the lake.

Just made a mental note to bug someone on May 34th. So the afternoon is going well.

tariff it. dare you.

Politicians talk a lot about mythically incorrigible offenders. What do we do with people who commit crimes and rehabilitate? www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... by @coleenlisa.bsky.social

Yes, AI will turn us all into landed gentry. I see it now.

Vancouver's warning to FIFA visitors on toxic drugs (which "may be more dangerous than what visitors are used to in other countries or regions") refers them to the kinds of harm-reduction services govts across Canada (incl Vancouver) have been moving away from www.vancouverfwc26.ca/know-before-...

You know you want to read @jenniferyang.bsky.social on human cadaver dissection and that radical act of donation. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Is this Canada's first use of its newfound power to mass cancel/suspend/vary immigration documents?

You guys. It's nice out.

📣Bike lanes don't block ambulances 📣 (but cars can so if this concerns you leave yours at home)

Global Sumud Flotilla, the organisers of the aid shipment, said the group had documented at least 15 cases of sexual abuse, with the worst occurring on one Israeli landing ​craft which had been converted into a makeshift prison with barbed wire and shipping containers www.reuters.com/world/europe...

someone has invented the nap.

Call me when we treat health as health, not as a box for the rich to tick.

"Closing your border won't keep you safe." Dr. Joanne Liu (former MSF International President) on the counterintuitive truth about border closures during outbreaks and why exit screening matters more. Watch here: youtu.be/kGp18whsNiY @drejoanneliu.bsky.social @madhupai.bsky.social

I've been enjoying @sproudfoot.bsky.social's "a sort of demonic, mewling turducken of a referendum question" so much I would almost forgive her for "inject raw sewage into the public bloodstream." www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/opi...

internet conking out mid-task is a good reminder of the frailty and fallibility of the universe and also of the depth of inchoate, irrational rage.

Tens of thousands of homeless Californians are living in their vehicles so the solution is to get rid of their vehicles. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/24/u...

Across age, gender, region, education, income level, and political affiliation, only two subsets in Alberta would vote against staying in Canada: 1) UCP voters 2) Federal Conservative voters