I take issue with this being called The Power Broker's first onscreen adaptation. Motherless Brooklyn (the movie) borrows largely from The Power Broker. This is very important and I will be getting mad about it for years to come!! deadline.com/2025/12/matt...

I watched the Twits today, a kids movie about hateful morons who harness economic disenfranchisement to gain and weaponize political power. The movie also explores themes of confirmation bias and loss of empathy, which affect the heroes and villains alike. Also a guy’s butt explodes.👍🏼

They should have done Chateauguay Shore and it’s teenagers getting drunk by the river in Chateauguay, Quebec. That’s a good show.

Here's Stephen Guilbeault's statement about resigning from Carney's Cabinet.

Carney: "In combination with the Pathways [carbon capture] project ... it will mean Alberta barrels are among the lowest emissions in the world." Also mentioned: Data centres, nuclear power, removal of net-zero power regulations, emissions cap gone.

AI sneaks its way in to the MOU (And gets conflated with development of the sovereign cloud, which is a different thing)

"Canadians have never been richer and more miserable at the same time." That's a good lede right there. theglobeandmail.com/investing/ma...

Good article about how streamers are alienating viewers by trying to draw out tension. The article is about Stranger Things, but it’s a curse that has affected Squid Game, Sweet Tooth and any number of other shows. www.indiewire.com/features/com...

Hey you! Yeah, you. Give me a job. A good one, please.

If you have not been following the NDP leadership race, I would like you to read this from the official bio of candidate Tony McQuail.

Incredible

I've started regularly asking a civil servant friend, "Who's mad at you today?" The fun thing about the question is he always has an answer. The challenge on his end is sorting through the various people who are mad at him and choosing the maddest or most interestingly-mad one.

“According to oral family lore, Robert King’s biological father − Thomas King’s grandfather − was actually Elvin Hunt, whom the family believed was of Cherokee ancestry.” Even if he was, it’s a remarkably weak tie to base your whole public identity on. www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/book...

Plagiarism is one of the favourite pastimes of BlueSky users.

Alright boys, let’s CRUSH this week

🫶 www.404media.co/elon-musk-co...

Name a half-English film Bon Cop, Bad Cop. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhNt...

I hadn't given it much thoughts until now but I just learned that there is a reason why in most French-speaking countries 'eighty' is 'quatre-vingts' -- literally 'four twenties' -- and that reason is the ghostly presence of the ancient Gauls' base 20 counting system.

We may very well be headed towards a public debate over whether raping children is bad. If so, it will be an important test for the media to speak in plain language.

This album has many of Leonard Cohen’s greatest songs, and also Jazz Police.

This piece in The Walrus argues that if Quebec wants to survive and flourish culturally in the digital age, it needs to adapt a new, younger vision of QC identity. thewalrus.ca/the-generati...

Bellingcat’s contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, we’re seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.

I started listening to this podcast Wisecrack. It’s a true crime show, but most of the first 2 episodes are made up of a stand-up comedy set, running for minutes at a time without interruption from the host. And it’s totally compelling. I always appreciate podcasts that try new things. Recommended!

CW: LINKEDIN-ASS POST I’m pretty jazzed to have 2 shows on Apple’s Best podcasts of 2025 list. Tubby is a small show from a new company with no business plan behind it. We didn’t know if anyone would listen. So it’s cool to see this! (I also contributed to See You in Court)

IDEA: A Hallmark Christmas movie about an Alberta premier who refuses to be photographed with Santa unless he's seated, titled 'Notwithstanding Claus'.

Update: i’m looking forward to this one!

I love this idea: “anytime a billionaire is asked for public comment on anything, someone with < $1,000 in the bank should get equal time to offer a rebuttal.”

Some good news for media!

Why wouldn't the NDP say?

But surely if they're only investigating Democrats, they can still release all the files about Trump

170-168, House approves government's budgetary policy. Liberals and Elizabeth May in favour. Conservatives, Bloc and most NDP MPs against. Four abstentions: NDP MPs Gord Johns and Lori Idlout, CPC MPs Matt Jeneroux and Shannon Stubbs.

Wait, what’s this?? Richard Gere is being invited to cast the deciding vote. This is completely unprecedented!

30 minutes ahead of a confidence vote that could trigger the collapse of the Carney Government and Richard Gere has arrived on Parliament Hill to put things in perspective

45 minutes or so until the vote on the budget, when we find out if we're having another election. Elizabeth May says she's voting with the Government, which means they need one more vote or two people to abstain. The NDP won't say what they're doing.

My question is who is doing all the Epsteining for these powerful wealthy men now?

I kept seeing weird posts on Facebook from this writer Chuck Tingle. If you haven't heard of him, just look at this picture, then do yourself a favour and read his Wikipedia page: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_T...

What we’re learning is that some people are so devoid of values that they’ll justify trafficking and raping children rather than seeing their preferred politician look bad.

“A bad, untalented person who is on television or in the movies can be more recognized and respected than a genius who doesn't appear on the screen.” - Miles Davis

Currently leading the polls for who would make the best Premier of Quebec: "Uncertain"

Instead of a birthday cake, my wife got me a pile of Homers donuts. They are as good as they look!

There’s a lotta adults on here who seem extremely concerned about the continued viability of the Toy Story franchise.

Also, this guy is wrong and this album is nuts. It’s like everything the No Wave movement was up to, but 5-10 years earlier and with incredibly talented jazz musicians.

Oh no! Old Hull is truly an underrated downtown. The right amount of old and gritty (and maybe a fire hazard), but also fun to hang out. I’m always cheering for Old Hull.

I find it annoying when people call Twitter “The Other Place.” What’s gonna happen if you name it? Elon Musk will materialize and steal your sandwich? A pussy in bio army will swarm your mentions and email your boss? Grow a spine!

Charli XCX and John Cale made a goth song for an upcoming Wuthering Heights movie youtu.be/Xgp7wlBfASA?...

Reading about the Miles Davis jazz fusion album On the Corner and I came across this absolutely bizarre sentence from a critic: "I'd like to think that nobody could be so easily pleased as to dig this record to any extent."

I don’t ask for harmony in this world. All I ask is for people to put more effort into their insults.

I’m trying to get more CanCon into my feed.

Wow www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Something about the snow awakens a primal instinct in me and makes me want to trek outside.