François Legault a joué le rôle que lui dictaient son ambition personnelle et son ambition pour le Québec.

Interesting piece that explores a number of secondary issues, but it mainly boils down to money. They’re bigger, richer, can pay more. Even within Canada. www.cbc.ca/arts/media-b...

Jusqu'à ce qu'un agent ICE demande à Hansen ses papiers.

Science is good. We should fund it.

With all our tech now, blows my mind they went to the moon in 1969.

Sat phone comms like the iPhone 6 with no data I gave my kids to share.

I don't understand this approach to public safety. Particularly when the STM has the personnel to mobilize dozens of officers for fare-jumper blitzes (which I had barely ever seen before this winter.) www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Just the other day I was reminiscing about being accused of having Trump derangement syndrome.

Bicycling increases and crash rates decline in cities that invest in cycling infrastructure. Ralph Buehler, J. Pucher, et al. (2026), "Cycling in New York, London, Paris, and Berlin" International Journal of Sustainable Transport (www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/15568318.2026.2649315)

Bit surprised the Jays didn't get a new closer tbh.

we had four years where we didn’t have to wake up and immediately check the news to see what new nightmare the president has threatened to inflict on the world every morning and 77 million people voted that we should have to do that again and I will never get over it

This is no way to live, man

We probably all peaked in 2015.

Will sending aid to Cuba anger U.S.? Half of Canadians say ‘so what?’: survey - Global News globalnews.ca/news/1176599...

Habs journeyman Mathieu Darche firing Habs legend Patrick Roy is just the kind of thing that makes hockey a special kind of Montreal soap opera. (All of this took place in New York, but Habs drama knows no boundaries.)

But I’ve been reliably informed it’s impossible for busy professionals to learn French. Or that it’s a waste of time. Or that it eliminates the best people. Or that it’s just silly.

Don’t forget the shared toilet. That’s busted.

I don’t think BlueSky is dying but I do think it‘s stagnant because there are only so many unpleasant terminally online politically hyper-engaged left of center aging millennials with personality disorders and a history of underachievement to draw from. We’re pretty much all here already.

I’d be lying if I didn’t admit to laughing at people who were totally behind Quebec’s ridiculous secularism bill as long as they thought it affected only others.

This reminds me of the time the National Post put Winnipeg in the wrong province. I was the Winnipeg correspondent at the time. The Winnipeg bureau was closed some months later.

The plan was with a big American military and reliable defensive alliances, you could substantially and peacefully demilitarize most of the rich countries that would otherwise be able to challenge US hegemony or collapse global peace and it kinda fucking worked.

It’s also worth noting that this whole “vaguely deadbeat Europe spends much less on gun” configuration is not a breakdown of the US-led international order—IT WAS THE PLAN

Just the other day, I emptied a can and saw sugar crystals in the bottom that I’d ever noticed before. Could this be why? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

The one-trick government is at it again.

On y est. 📸 Simon-Marc Charron

Another example of major media normalizing an erratic and internally incoherent speech.

I always forget this guy does statements like a kid doing a class presentation without doing any homework

I listen to this guy once a year maybe and once again my soul is leaving my body that this is the president of the United States.

Pivoting back to nukes. So ground troops are next?

I don't know if it's just me, the atomized media environment, space travel being old news, or what, but... holy smokes, this is happening TODAY?

You can be for or against a given project on its merits. But if the argument is that we shouldn't build because we're bad at building, we might as well just pack it in.

Friends, you would not believe the time we spend now making sure new potential contributors are actual humans with actual thoughts.

This is all reminding me of a conversation I had recently with an old friend who works in tech and extremely gung-ho about AI. When I told him about my process for writing a long New Yorker piece, he was absolutely sure that AI could make it more "efficient." / www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...

I’ve seen him speak several times & was struck by not only his incredible oration but also his ability to retain & inspire optimism despite the horrendous things he described. He conveyed the tragedy (individual & collective, personal & political) and the hope for better equally effectively

I've seen a lot of good speeches (and thousands of bad ones) over the years. One Stephen Lewis gave about the AIDS crisis 25-30 years ago still stands as the most impressive I've ever seen in person.

Thread that probably applies even more to hockey.

Just popping in to report my X feed is almost 100% language war. This is probably tailored to my interests, but it still points to why I’m still there. I’m pretty convinced that the tone-setting for a referendum, if there is one, will take place there.

A classically Québécois wordplay but in English, riffing off a Czech name, in a Montreal Canadiens podcast by pair of cross-cultural, hella bilingual (at least) dudes. Top notch @magodin.bsky.social and @arponbasu.bsky.social

While Toronto debates the future of its second airport, Montreal is about to open one in the South Shore suburbs. It's interesting how under-the-radar this has been. www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/2e9d3fb...

This seems like a good thing. Is it a good thing? Trying it out, will report back.

Steve Lafleur: Defence industrial policy a key security tool as global alliances shift policyoptions.irpp.org/2026/03/defe...

My observation: Quebecers have a much greater capacity to be disappointed by Air Canada than most Canadians, in part because they still tend to think it *should* still be an important national institution and not just some transport company.

Michael Rousseau n’a pas «les capacités» de s’exprimer en français, justifie Air Canada. M. Rousseau s'était engagé à apprendre le français en 2021. www.ledevoir.com/politique/ca...

Someone toned down their message to get this done. Also, yes, this can be seen as "conservative" Premiers banding together, but this is an all-party issue in Quebec. The justice minister received unanimous support from the National Assembly to negotiate.

Danielle Smith has found some friends to argue for more provincial say in judicial appointments. 1/2

The investigation into the deadly collision between a plane and fire truck at LaGuardia was initially slowed because the specialists traveling to New York were delayed by long security lines at other airports. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...

This profile of the great John Samson Fellows in @hazlitt.bsky.social is somehow both heartbreaking & heartwarming. I can't stop thinking about it hazlitt.net/longreads/la...

The main goal of the war is to undo the main effect of the war. 🙃