He came inside three hours ago.

We dug into 400+ recommendations stemming from dozens of maternal and neonatal deaths in Ontario and found troubling echoes: The health system isn't learning its lessons when it comes to childbirth tragedies. ijb.utoronto.ca/news/mothers...

wrong-jacket season

so air travel just sucks, now, huh?

The death of a nearly blind refugee from Myanmar who was found on a Buffalo street in February — five days after Border Patrol agents left him at a doughnut shop — has been ruled a homicide, authorities said Wednesday. https://to.pbs.org/3NZGHsz

Travis Peddie alleges closing supervised consumption sites violates his Charter rights and increases risks of harm to himself and others. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @alannasmith.bsky.social

Alberta is making it a crime to interfere with the inspector in charge of banning library books. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber... via @mattscace.bsky.social

Ok, I admit I haven't been following this closely enough - is the BC government arguing that because its own law respecting Indigenous rights is enforceable, it must now be watered down? thenarwhal.ca/bc-declarati...

"Thank you so much for your continued patience..." I am living a lie.

Still can't believe we're running headlines that include "list of Jews." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/u...

the only downside to not getting frequent headaches is that the one time you get a bad one you have no coping mechanisms and are just shrouded in hours of cranial pain.

Happy 60th to the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program - the dawn of Canadian work permits that tie migrants to their employers. migrantworkersalliance.org/60years/

I worry we're losing the people who remember the need to fight HIV/AIDS battles.

Every time you leave a post in drafts you should get a chocolate.

you guys. it's nice out.

The Israeli Parliament appeared ready on Monday to enact a death penalty that would in practice apply only to Palestinians convicted of deadly acts of terrorism, not to Jewish extremists, handing the country’s far right a long-sought victory.

Tears and defiance as Lebanese family bury child, 11, killed in Israeli strike www.bbc.com/news/article...

Thousands march against far right in London in biggest ever multicultural protest

Several thousand packed a #NoKings rally in Duluth, Minnesota. 📷️: Jana Hollingsworth

Area woman acts like bellowing YOU'RE IN THE BIKE LANE is some magic incantation

*looks out window* *hurls bike across room*

So people who may've outed themselves can face deportation to their country of origin. (They will likely get access to a pre-removal risk assessment but that is not the same as a refugee hearing.)

Israeli airstrikes and ground operations over the last month have largely cut off southern Lebanon from the rest of the country, depopulating dozens of towns and damaging key public services that are a lifeline for the residents who remain reut.rs/3O0SCGJ

Toronto: Please steal this.

A reminder that policing trans women out of sports just creates an interminable witch hunt for all other women in sport.

Similarly, referring to “AI” as an actor rather than a tool serves to absolve people and institutions of accountability. I’m struck by how many so-called leaders seem happy to treat widespread “AI” adoption as a fait accompli, an act of God or natural phenomenon that can’t be contested, only managed

NEW FOIA Files newsletter: Docs Reveal Details About ICE Surge in Minneapolis Police logs say an ICE agent was “trapped in his car” and pelted with snowballs. Police also logged numerous calls about ICE agents patrolling schools and allegedly “harassing children” www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

This is worth a read. We all rely on the health system. We all love people who rely on the health system. And we all pay for the health system.

Quoting Camus at the Supreme Court of Canada: "Democracy is not the law of the majority, but the protection of the minority.” www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Yesterday Canada's immigration and border bill became law. Now Canada denies hearings to asylum-seekers filing refugee claims more than a year after coming to Canada and the minister has the power to cancel, suspend or vary immigration dox. www.canada.ca/en/immigrati...

Dammit I have a pile of books to finish.

Ok. Let's assume human suffering is not an issue. How much are you willing to increase your taxes to pay to police and incarcerate people who piss on the subway (and then maybe get scared and resist arrest, or lose their job or housing while in jail)? 50%? 200%?

Being Mystery-Pains-years-old makes you miss your Mystery-Pains-(from partying) days.

The news has moved on, but ICE is still in Minneapolis. My neighbors are still patrolling streets, driving strangers to work, and providing aid. As a photojournalist at @propublica.org, I wanted to know: What do they look like in their daily lives? So I picked up my camera 👇

if you want to know the history of this kind of policy, I made a podcast two years ago that explained why these tests make no sense, how they were already used and eventually abandoned by the IOC in the 80's and 90's, and the devastating impacts they have on real athletes: www.tested-podcast.com

Pre-ordered mine today. July is soon, right?

“Since 2020 Israeli soldiers and settlers have killed at least 1,100 Palestinian civilians in the occupied West Bank, at least a quarter of whom were children, UN data shows. No one has been charged over any of these deaths.” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Skirted a few of these in the bike lane today. May start a new performance art project in which I hurl copies of Ontario road manuals at motorists who need reminding.

Lots going on here (harm reduction has become Girls Gone Wild!) but I'm most perplexed by the assertion that every single assisted death assessment doesn't already involve "complicated questions about the capacity to consent." www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Maybe if we want empathy as addicted doomscrollers we can afford some grace for those with substance use disorders.

I'd really like to see the proposal making the case for this new police unit. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Pavement potholed. Bike lane jammed. Grandmothers Against Genocide lining Bloor at Bay. Just don't call it spring.

A Member of Parliament and committee chair had security called on a reporter for recording a public committee meeting. (She later apologized.) www.hilltimes.com/2026/03/24/p...

Some fantastic, groundbreaking work here. www.hillmanfoundation.org/clearitwiths...

[redacted] years old and my best productivity hack is still getting things done while procrastinating from something else.