More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

A guy in Winnipeg made a 45-minute fully produced feature-film version of "Steamed Hams" modelled after Louis Malle's My Dinner With Andre, so don't you go saying Canada is broken www.youtube.com/watch?v=pk-O...

This made me realize my reporting is cited more than 1,200 times on Wikipedia, including on the page for "Turpentine" and its use in folk medicine from a feature story I did on the Spanish flu

This seems like a clear opportunity for Canada

It’s never been harder to get a job in Hollywood. Actors, writers, directors and execs explain why.

People keep "debunking" the claim that Charlie Kirk wanted to stone gay people to death but I'm pretty sure he meant it.

This was a fun chat with a couple of cool cats

Humdinger of a story from colleague Jesse Snyder about how Calgary's Attabotics, which raised a TON of investment for its AI-assisted warehouse robots, crashed and burned. thelogic.co/news/the-big...

I calculated how much wildfire smoke is costing the average Calgary worker ... while struggling to breathe from wildfire smoke. Listen here: pca.st/episode/ef0d...

"Can they truly be so ignorant to the words of a man they have so rushed to memorialize? I don’t know. But the most telling detail in Klein’s column was that, for all his praise, there was not a single word in the piece from Kirk himself." Ta-Nehisi Coates, with receipts.

In February last year, BC’s Ministry of Forests wrote a letter telling CN rail it believed the company played a role in the fire that destroyed Lytton. It intended to seek costs. Six weeks later, it reversed course and closed its file. My latest for @thetyee.ca. thetyee.ca/News/2025/09...

🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️ Trans people are "a vulnerable minority group that has been widely demonized. Any good journalistic practice would involve nailing down accuracy to avoid making things worse." – @lopatto.bsky.social www.theverge.com/politics/777...

Just to be blunt, if you want Wired and 404 and The Verge to employ reporters who understand the memes on bullet casings and can connect them to gaming culture while having the legal and support resources to deal with waves of harassment when we do it… you have to subscribe and pay for the work

Glad the WSJ didn't rush to report inflammatory claims backed by no evidence whatsoever at an incredibly sensitive time.

EXCLUSIVE: U.S. Attacked Boat Near Venezuela Multiple Times to Kill Survivors American officials said the repeat drone strikes were carried out by Special Operations Command, and more attacks could come soon. theintercept.com/2025/09/10/u...

Pokemon cards: +3,821% since 2004 The S&P 500: +483% since 2004 Disappointed that eight-year-old me didn't have the foresight to plan my retirement around shiny Charizard www.wsj.com/finance/poke...

To be clear, this move brings us back to the very pointed targeting of LGBTQ2S+ graphic novels that got us here in the first place. Books that were on the government's radar thanks to far-right advocacy groups like Action4Canada.

the onion has the opportunity to do the funniest thing

my friend's response to me saying that I had won a single "free play" lottery ticket

I can't wait to listen to this:

This is a bone-chilling story about the power imbalance between a wealthy VC and the surrogate who nearly died trying to carry her child

What a cursed sentence (gift link) “The A.I. companies selected to oversee the program would have a strong financial incentive to deny claims. Medicare plans to pay them a share of the savings generated from rejections.”

US government orders 46 states to destroy trans education materials https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/08/27/trans-education-us-state-directive/?utm_content=1756312804&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

in case meddling with the Fed is not spicy enough for your tastes, get a load of this on.ft.com/3JHOCs5

Civil rights aren't up for debate. History hasn't remembered people who argued against those rights kindly.

"In 1975, when an anti-discrimination law required Ms. Shirley to diversify her work force, she started hiring more men. In 1991, she began restructuring her company to share ownership with her employees. By her count, 70 eventually became millionaires."

On the left: Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old DOGE staffer and college dropout. On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar. This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media. Then the Taliban took his family. 🧵

"Without the anchoring presence of physical things, we don’t have a shared world." www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-future...

Canada’s $10-a-day child care program is cutting fees—but is it creating enough spaces? My new report from @policyalternatives.ca shows big promises, mixed results, and a growing role for for-profit care. Here’s what the data tells us🧵👇👇👇

Meta's biggest source of Canadian advertising dollars this year is the Epoch Times. An organization Meta said it had banned from advertising. Great scoop by @rorywh.bsky.social

Carney government’s decision to intervene in Air Canada flight attendants’ strike backfired with public, new polling suggests Canadians overwhelmingly sided with flight attendants over Air Canada and Mark Carney’s government – including Carney’s own supporters

"Despite receiving significantly less funding on average, LGBTQ+ entrepreneurs create 36 percent more jobs, generate 114 percent more patents, and achieve 44 percent more exits on average."

MIT’s NANDA initiative found that 95% of generative AI deployments fail after interviewing 150 execs, surveying 350 workers, and analyzing 300 projects. The real “productivity gains” seem to come from layoffs and squeezing more work from fewer people not AI.

Good thing no one uses Microsoft Excel for anything related to legal, regulatory or compliance business functions www.theverge.com/news/761338/...

The Alberta advantage:

beer and cheese soup is delicious actually

human neighbours of calgary's barely under construction green line watching these cats get an entire subway system: 👁️👄👁️

Checking in with history understanders on the outcome of sending troops somewhere without a clearly defined objective

Every picture of Altman looks like he just got the worst news from a ghost

“Air Canada flight attendants will defy the back-to-work order and remain on strike after the federal government ordered binding arbitration to end the work stoppage”

FREE THE BEARS

even Alberta cows are mulling separatism

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

If you cannot go to the bathroom at work, you cannot go to work. If you cannot go to the bathroom at school, you cannot go to school. This effectively bans transgender people from a broad swath of public life in the UK

“Measles is spreading so quickly in Alberta, Canada, that health officials have stopped publicly releasing information about local exposures in the hardest hit areas &are instead issuing blanket warnings against travel to the northern or southern regions of the province” @jackiantonovich.bsky.social

This is *WILD*...Security researchers hacked Google Gemini using a poisoned Google Calendar invitation, causing the AI system to turn on a variety of smart home devices.

SCOOP 🧵 Two years after being caught using Clearview AI facial recognition software, Calgary police signed contracts for "image recognition" software that scours photos and videos for individuals. 1/ drugdatadecoded.ca/calgary-poli...

Enviro Journalism Opportunity alert: The Sitka Foundation is offering 16 grants of $10K each for reporting on biodiversity in British Columbia. Deadline is August 31. I was among last year's cohort, it's a special thing. 👇 www.messengersofbiodiversity.org

I think the president just plainly stating that he's firing the person who produces economic data because he doesn't like the numbers officially pushes us into a new era where you just can't believe government data anymore.

Last fall, I attended the premiere of a film that meant a lot to me. In late January, all of its hundreds of planned screenings were canceled without explanation. For @defector.com, I went digging: