Bluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and Julia Wester concludes! "Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."

If you don’t know, the origins of this go back, in part, to this work by @gillianpetit.bsky.social. I am such a proud academic mum policyoptions.irpp.org/2024/04/welf...

Je vois des températures en haut de zéro prévues d’ici une semaine et je pense très fort à ce sketch du Rick Mercer Report… youtu.be/wkDvqQKGgDA?...

From morning after Canada’s second deadliest school shooting on record. Almost as if reputable outlets take time to verify facts, or – just maybe – gender identity isn’t the most pressing issue when six children and two adults have been murdered.

RCMP identify victims of Tumbler Ridge mass shooting: Abel Mwansa, 12 Kylie Smith, 12 Zoey Benoit, 12 Ticaria Lampert, 12, Ezekiel Schofield, 13 Shannda Aviugana-Durand, 39 Emmett Jacobs, 11 Jennifer Jacobs/Strang, 39 www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

I'm going to go out on a limb and say this happened partly because francophone Canadian journalists are still using Twitter like it's 2018.

(Bloomberg) — The Republican-led US House passed legislation aimed at ending President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Canada, signaling a growing anxiety over the White House’s economic agenda ahead of a midterm election focused heavily on affordability.

CBC BC is doing a solid job here.

Ongoing live from the community www.youtube.com/live/-SIOpuE...

BREAKING: At least 10 people are dead, including the suspected shooter, following a mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, B.C. Tuesday afternoon. Police say around 25 others have sustained non-life-threatening injuries. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/briti...

Journalist Alex Panetta's newsletter chronicling his AI discoveries is always interesting. Today's is a must read, particularly for young journalists. (Both for his latest discovery, but also his former practice.) @alexpanetta.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/alexpane...

🚨New article! 🚨 It's tough out there for Canada's young people. In today's @policyoptions.irpp.org, SCP's @kirangill.bsky.social and @mendelmatt.bsky.social propose a new worker benefit to help young Canadians facing: 🏚️ housing costs 💸 debt 🚧 weak job prospects #CdnPoli #EconSky #PublicPolicy

Very late to the news of the passing of Jean Dorion. A commmitted sovereigntist and founding member of the PQ, Mr. Dorion took over as head of the Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Montréal about the time I moved from the Prairies to Quebec. + www.lapresse.ca/actualites/c...

Éditorial | Le Canada anglais finit toujours par exhiber son mépris, prouvant l’impératif de politiques linguistiques qu’il décrie. #polcan

Having had a big hand in two of them: Endorse.

Too add one more layer of cause to this fine piece, every time I tell my friends in the rest of the country that the total fees for my three kids playing minor hockey in Montreal came to less than $1,500, they fall out of their chairs. +

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10x better option than this game.

Twitter keeps crashing because MAGA wants to cry about Bad Bunny and the Super Bowl halftime show. 🤣

Great story on the fella coaching Canada's Olympic men's hockey team www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/olymp... By Grant Robertson

I'm going to start shouting this every time something changes. As you get older, it really fits.

In Kathryn May's latest newsletter, she delves into detail on on particular sector of the public service cuts particularly meaningful to the policy community. Highly recommend. 44615331.hs-sites.com/the-ecs-the-...

30!

The mayor suffers a double blow-out from potholes in Montreal streets. Our streets are a long-running joke but I’ve never seen them this bad in the middle of winter.

Umm… hard NO to this. Has this master of strategery learned nothing from Trump’s behaviour? No amount of appeasement nor pride swallowing will satisfy Trump. It just emboldens the next ask/demand. Firm resolve. Build what’s in our control. And stay the course as a sovereign nation. 🇨🇦

Alberta Health Services docs obtained via freedom of information request show that up to 85 percent of provincial EMS dispatches for drug toxicity were not reported by the Alberta government, @drugdatadecoded.ca reports: drugdatadecoded.ca/up-to-89-per...

Pete Poovanna: Why cheap Chinese EVs may cost Canada more in the long run policyoptions.irpp.org/2026/01/carn...

We gotta think bigger and go right to the source: cyclists & safe injection sites

I’ve never seen potholes this bad in January, do we blame the new mayor or the old mayor?

The second photo is nice too :)

Shout out to photographer Jacques Boissinot who captured this image for the Canadian Press. It’s one of those photos you’ll be seeing occasionally for the next 50 years.

We're a Youppi and an Ace away from having an awesome board of peace of our own.

Of all the things I expected from a central banker PM, this may be the least central banker.

To add one more layer to this. About 10 years ago my formidable former Globe and Mail colleague Renata D'Aliesio took on a mission to document suicide following the Afghanistan mission. In some initial reporting she found 54 Canadian soldiers and veterans had died from suicide. +

Read Steve Scherer on his journey "from foreign correspondent to Uber driver in Trump's America": stevescherer.substack.com/p/my-journey...

Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Joline Jourdain. #NewYorkerCartoons

I was at a Remembrance Day ceremony last fall with my brother, a former combat medic and Afghan veteran, listening as he recounted details of dead & wounded colleagues of his who'd supposedly 'stayed a little back, off the front line.' I'm gonna start work now and I'm gonna think a lot about this.

My great-aunt and father kept us up to date on news from my cousin James when he served in Afghanistan as a bomb expert on the front lines. This article is from when he made it home, describing the loss of two members from his platoon.

📊31% des Québécois veulent que le fédéral mène la réforme des soins de santé. Même si la confiance envers le système remonte, le Québec reste fidèle à sa vision du partage des pouvoirs. Un bulletin de l’IRPP signé @olijacques.bsky.social & @parkinac.bsky.social centre.irpp.org/fr/research-...

Matt's wheelhouse includes gun rights and national defence, so it makes sense he'd combine the two. But in the unlikely event an insurgency comes to Canada, it will likely be fuelled by a massive covert flow of Chinese arms, not your grandpa's hunting rifle. open.substack.com/pub/theline/...

Minor journalism craft note: Listening to clips of Carney's speech, picturing the radio people cringing because the Davos audio guy had his levels just slightly hot and they will be stuck using these clips for years.

After the World Trade Center was attacked (just four miles from Trump Tower), more than 40,000 Canadians in uniform fought alongside their U.S. allies in Afghanistan. More than 2,000 Canadians were wounded. These 158 didn't make it home. And now this guy is giving lectures on gratitude.

I am more worried about war in Minnesota than in Greenland or Canada. The US is hours or days away from civil war. This might sound extreme, but if Walz has the Minn National Guard blocking ICE ops, the usual response of the fed govt to governors using NG against feds is to call out the army. 1/

It is mindboggling to me that the American “thinking class” is only just starting to acknowledge the damage the president has wrought on relationships with allies. “Stir worry” is the understatement of the decade. www.wsj.com/world/europe...

A colleague walked straight into my office from her bus ride into work and said "ARE YOU LISTENING TO THIS SPEECH?" Here I thought we were no longer capable of surprise at his ramblings.

Carney au FME: l’économie mondiale fondée sur des règles n’est plus assurée. @danielbeland.bsky.social & @popovaprof.bsky.social expliquent comment les menaces commerciales et la rhétorique de Trump bouleversent les choix économiques & sécuritaires du Canada. policyoptions.irpp.org/fr/2025/02/t...