Saw ol' "Deal of the Art" Solomon speaking towards the assertions that AI will save money and increase efficiency, and I gotta say that, it did not inspire confidence

Gutting the mail and propping up AI sure sound like bold plans for ‘nation building’ to me.

Crypto, AI, Evan Solomon, and LNG pipelines!

I love how AI's bubble is about to burst and Canada is like, "Let's pour all our money into AI and also make Evan Solomon in charge."

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I was recently at a thing where a person (who is, whether they like it or not, a leader), insisted that our movements don't need leaders. I think that that's not born out in any successful movement right now. We have not yet transcended leadership.

This is a very good discussion about the present and future of independent journalism. The one model that I think is our only hope -- a municipal levy like hydro or water - isn't mentioned but great conversation nonetheless.

Her ... what? What on earth is "Wartime support" ??

Super interesting topic and discussion especially the media piece

My degree was in English lit but I went to medical school later after this one time at a party and great quotes just pouring out of me I could not say "coagulate yourself bitch" without sounding pompous ass

New episode! Sandy and I ask the most obvious question of the current political moment: Who is Canada's Mamdani? We take out our microscope and find ... not much. sandyandnora.com/episode-349-...

Take a listen to the end of this episode if you'd like to hear me read it... sandyandnora.com/daily-news-n...

I just had a flashback seeing Zach and Joey's names together but my mind could not compute the grey hair.

This looks exactly like a guy who used to date my downstairs neighbor in Toronto and also he was in a moderately famous band.

logging off

Legault must know nothing about Val-Jalbert.

That seems to be part of it but the whole farm seems to have been a way to grift investors too. I'd wager there's even more sketchy stuff going on there than just beating up elderly neighbors. (They also tried to claim First Nations support they don't have).

LOLOL Ostriches, world renowned for their beauty in flight

I don't really do this myself, but I do think that this is fair. The obsession people have with deleted posts, when someone deletes instantly (thereby demonstrating their non-support for what they had written) is really unhealthy.

Who in the fuck cares that a random rich American has said anything about this? Why is this in the headline? Why is this *leading* the headine?

I mostly dislike having a cat but when I hear something chewing at something under your desk, it feels pretty great to throw the cat into the fray.

If we add up the government's rhetoric on this, we need to hire 400,000 more people for the CAF, except 300,000 will just be teaching civil servants how to fire guns. So which department will be relocated to Iqaluit? CRA? Service Canada? IRCC?

3 years ago Elon enabled the funniest day in Twitter history.

Thinking of how in Canada, the Liberals gave money to Canadian pasta producers to be able to compete with Italian imports, which I thought was a good example of how free trade is a dead end.

Know any of these people?

I had a kid insist on a jacket free wall home from camp yesterday while the other got frostbite.

Mamdani: il va se planter, ne le suivez surtout pas. Fuentes: une force inévitable avec plein de partisans. L'x-droite, c'est toujours l'effet d'une cause naturelle: backlash woke, économie, immigration, ... Et la gauche, toujours un libre (mauvais) choix.

As an indie podcaster since 2016 with a day job, I found a lot of this discussion about the stark realities of making a podcast in Canada rather relatable (if not triggering 😏).

"I'm gonna go look at the snow to améliorer mon esprit" poor kid didn't sleep enough at camp lol

Atlético Ottawa goalkeeper helping clear the field in the final

I missed that @nolore.bsky.social covered the dismissal of Phillips’ case but you should listen! Having seen firsthand how the wheels of police justice run in reverse, I can’t think of a more urgent public safety matter for Albertans. sandyandnora.com/daily-news-n...

The news that Lethbridge police got away with stalking, harassing and threatening Phillips because the chance of conviction was too low is an indictment of the entire justice system in Alberta.

St. Thomas was like this too. Family farm was in Port Stanley and I used to love going into St. Thomas and cycle around - convenience stores, used bookstores, record stores, coffee shops, you name it, all over. I noticed one of the last neighbourhood convenience stores closed 5 years ago.

Meat prices are crazy, meanwhile you can eat really well on legumes and other grains along with vegetables. Our store has 20 feet of a fish counter fully stocked and I rarely see anyone buy anything and the fish looks pretty sad.

Profit margins too small.

The produce section at the grocery store is always packed. Then they cram a farmer's market stand in there so you can't easily move around. And the enormous section dedicated to meat? Virtually empty.

"We only have these ducks just saying"

It's that season again.

I’m honestly shocked that this story from @globalnews.ca has flown under the radar. Confirmation that Amit Shah, the second-most powerful man in the Indian government, was directly involved in the assassinations on Canadian soil. globalnews.ca/news/1151469...

but that majority believes that they’re middle class because they’ve been indoctrinated to hate the very poor

Every time you see Kash Patel, he looks like he's in a scene from "Jurassic Park" and realizing that he's about to get eaten by a T-Rex.

REITs are evil and you would be hard pressed to find a pol not invested in one or more

The neighborhoods I grew up in in London Ontario were like this. You could walk a couple of blocks to the variety store where you could buy milk, bread, candy or test your television tubes. There was a neighborhood barbershop 💈. Doctor across the street with an office in his house.

We actually moved into one of the few parts of Regina that can claim something like neighbourhood retail. It's pretty great. And it's impossible to build anywhere else now. Either the zoning won't allow it or the developers can't imagine it. But propose another Costco? Council hands out subsidies.

In Canada, this has changed significantly -- the rich have never been richer and a majority of low income renters live in property that solely exists to funnel profits to shareholders via rents and disrepair.

I didn't realize it, but when I moved to Quebec City I sought out a Sesame Street life and against the odds of this city, I found it.

no amount of state propaganda will ever convince me this man is my enemy

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RIP Baudrillard you would have loved this shit