I'm particularly proud to share this video explainer! We've been hard at work trying to explain Canadian pipelines for MONTHS and it's finally out in the world. Check it out now, on YouTube and TikTok.

This sounds amazing.

As the PM makes big resource extraction announcements today, Im thinking about the findings of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Tapping the sign: "Staying alive is a lot of work for a disabled person in an ableist society."—Alice Wong in the Introduction to Disability Visibility

Cancel your NYT Games subscription. You can play newspaper games on puzzmo.com without financing pedophile cover-ups, anti-trans rhetoric, right-wing columnists and (generously) the occasional token lib.

Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far. So much work remains to be done.

This often seems to do the trick for me

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

spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"

This thread is horrifying and explains much of this current moment.

You should definitely read this and MBS’s other books too.

“The Legault government is being patronizing and authoritarian, and it will lead to a significant exodus of doctors from Quebec.” A report by @mtltoula.bsky.social. Quebec doctors on CAQ tactics: “The government is diminishing access to healthcare services”

Reminder: If you use generative AI for *any of your writing tasks* you are a Slopper not a writer and should be ashamed of yourself. The end.

My fb mutuals were mostly image savvy enough to not share the ‘it’s my birthday and I’m a double amputee veteran and no one likes my sculptures of dogs’ image slop. But I’m seeing more and more of them sharing AI text slop. It’s always overly-detailed stories of seniors finding a new lease on life.

Yeah, but at least it's an environmental catastrophe with absolutely no regulation, so a handful of dirtbags can have even more money they'll never be able to spend.

I got my flu vaccine, you should get yours soon!

Great thread.

If PM Carney is serious about his government not having all the good ideas and open to ideas then I have a suggestion. How about reforming the archaic social net into a functional UBI and truly investing in people and not leaving anyone behind.I think that would be a good start.That would be bold.

Most of my students are very, very good. Even the weaker writers usually have smart, substantial things to say. That means I have minimal experience grading and giving feedback on bad work. Each time I do it, I feel sick to my stomach and full of guilt.

Hospitals across Canada are closing their ERs because there aren't enough doctors to run them. Millions don’t have a doctor. Millions more can’t get an appointment. It didn’t used to be this way. Turns out it wasn’t an accident.

What a surprise, Carney’s most enthusiastic supporters are the people least familiar with what he is doing. His empty sloganeering is working on a whole lot of people apparently.

Academics should read this, it's both about (bad!!) journalism and how we engage—it reminds me of a situation a couple years back when a number of anthropologists refused to talk to the Atlantic (and many to the Times).

I get at least 1/4 of my serotonin from Cornell Labs.

Canadians shouldn’t have to resort to guessing about the main element of Mark Carney’s entire policy agenda. It is fundamentally offensive, and antithetical to good governance and sound policymaking, that Carney is leaving everyone to guess why he’s doing what he’s doing.

It’s great when you buy a vintage brass bed frame on marketplace, and not for super cheap, only to learn mid-assembly that that an internal bolt is completely stripped. It’s even better when you have already put your old, structurally sound, dissembled bed frame out in the snow to bring to the dump.

Totally woozy from my vaccinations so we ordered banh mi and onion cake. Feeling very excited.

Fellow Albertans, the UCP has made getting a COVID vaccine needless stressful and complicated. Today, while getting my flu shot I asked the pharmacist if he had COVID vaccines. He did, I got my shot with no wait or fuss and my insurance covered it 100%.

Anti-bike lane sentiment is totally irrational, it’s people imagining a person they don’t like who bikes and getting mad at them.

While they’re still screwing about with SNAP, it’s a good idea to donate to pet shelters, too. If you dare show up with “poor people shouldn’t have pets”, I will tear such a new one it generates a black hole. apnews.com/article/pets...

In my bean quest to eat more beans of more varieties, prepared more way. Yesterday made jumbo limas simmered in a spicy, chunky tomato sauce served on a bed of crispy air fried polenta with a side of sautéed rapinni. It was quite good though I’d make it spicier next time.

Edmonton has had a disturbingly high number of frostbite amputations the last two winters. With freezing temps on the way, both the City and the Government of Alberta must do more to prevent people from freezing in the cold. edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu... #ableg #yegcc

since chatgpt has coached another young person in a mental health crisis to their death, I am yet again tapping the sign

A lot of people give AI a hard time for always getting things wrong, but they’re ignoring that it also makes people racist and insane while poisoning the air

this story is horrifying and universities NEED to accept that ChatGPT is actively harmful

Nothing says ‘nation building’ quite like austerity.

Friends— here it is. Updated & expanded thanks to the space afforded to me in the @therumpus.net & the guidance of the brilliant @roxanegay.bsky.social’s edits. The win centers Muslims humanity — but what does that mean in a country that rejects that? therumpus.net/2025/11/05/z...

Absolutely ridiculous moderation.

Our stereo amp needs servicing and the local place has a backlog of 6-8 weeks. I might just break with not having records in the darkest time of the year.

Delighted to have contributed to this article. 👇 COVID19 hasn’t gone away, and continued SARSCoV2 surveillance is critical.

Call for Chapter Proposals for Disability Justice in Libraries. deadline December 1, 2025 docs.google.com/document/d/1...

🇨🇦 Canada’s privacy laws are DECADES old and fail to protect us from corporate misuse & government overreach. ✊ Tell MPs it’s time for real Privacy Law Reform and to make #Privacy4Canadians a priority! 📨 openmedia.org/Privacy4Cana... @openmedia.org

This *and* they better grow thicker skins because many of us actually expect our politicians to work for us. To do great things, not to simply be the lesser evil.

A must read thread about the history of anti-urbanism and fascism:

just want to remind everyone again that zohran is the one cis candidate i am aware of that had his platform on trans rights written by trans people. i think that matters

How you know it's bad. Smith likes it. That should tell you everything.

Mamdani going so hard for trans right and winning is some juicy proof that every dem that abandoned us didn’t do it for politically advantageous reasons. They did it because they’re transphobes and they will lose for it

Ok but what if we invested in human intelligence

No time like the present to get into music that was out before you were born. I personally go for prog, free jazz, and old showtunes but the options are yours.

In many respects, this is the most harmful budget from a climate perspective since the Harper era, writes Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood