Also now in the National Sound Archive of Australia: this succulent Italian stereotype tune. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFac...

Jack Karlson died two years ago. Great artists so rarely get the recognition they deserve in their own lifetime.

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The atmosphere layers of central Ontario in pop culture

Paywalls are reasonable.

Watching the shadows of snowfall on a late-night walk, Calgary.

After Claudia Goldin became the first woman to win a solo Nobel in economics, she got hundreds of invitations. She accepted three. One was advising WNBA players on a labor deal. She helped players land the biggest % raise in US sports history. www.wsj.com/economy/wnba...

WAR DON'T SEX CRIMES HIDE CRIMES

Look I appreciate that this family has a long history in Canadian progressive politics but to me they'll always be the Lewises of "Jenny Lewis, casting director for Heated Rivalry" fame.

Watching Avi Lewis's speech from the candidate showcase this weekend and noting his roll call at the end. "For Tommy and David and Ed, for Audrey and Alexa, for Jack and Jagmeet..." 🤔

And another one from Saskatchewan NDP Leader Carla Beck, who's calling Lewis' positions on natural resource development "ideological and unrealistic." She also says when Lewis reverses his positions, she will meet with him. A chilly reception to Lewis from the provinces so far. #cdnpoli #canpoli

Holy moly, Alberta NDP leader Naheed Nenshi is doing everything just short of disavowing the federal NDP after Avi Lewis’s election as leader.

Avi Lewis would be the first Jewish federal party leader since… help me out here? Who’s the most recent Jewish party leader at the provincial level?

Before there was “Heated Rivalry,” there was this New Yorker cartoon by Harry Bliss, published in 2001.

Three commissioners proposed to axe a pair of rural ridings and add seats in Calgary and Edmonton, because pop’s growth. Commission minority report pitched big stretched urban-rural hybrids, like 1/4 of Lethbridge + Crowsnest Pass, and a corner of NW Calgary + Cochrane + a huge farm expanse beyond.

after much deliberation and giving AI the benefit of the doubt, Wikipedia editors have had enough of AI slop. New policy bans LLM generated content, periodt www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...

Five commissioners. Three appointed by UCP, all donated to either the Conservatives, Wildrose or UCP. Of the two appointed by the NDP, one, former Alberta Party Leader Greg Clark, donated to the Liberal party and his own party. The othe, Susan Samson, never donated to any party.

The UCP-appointed fmr judge who led Alberta Boundaries Commission warned MLAs against “minority” proposal for splicing several city ridings with rural areas. Unconstitutional, US-style maneuvring, he wrote: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/electoral-boundary-commission-dallas-miller-9.7143937

NEW: Meta and YouTube lost a landmark social media addiction trial. The loss could be a bellwether for high-profile lawsuits against AI companies, which are founded on a similar core argument: intentional design choices created unsafe platforms, resulting in user harm. futurism.com/artificial-i...

"For some Indigenous leaders, the era left a persistent legacy of paranoia. It manifests in suspicion. Wariness of new people. A check under the bed when travelling." A must read and an textbook in freedom-of-information tenacity by Brett Forester, Ka’nhehsí:io Deer, Marnie Luke and Dave Seglins.

Me, at spring’s official start: Ugh it’s so brown and desolate out. Please make the brown go away. After the late March snow dump: NOT WHAT I FUGGING MEANT, NATURE

If you had asked me a year and a half ago when we would have hit this target, I would've been inclined to say "never."

The Iran war effect. About 2x the drop from the carbon tax removal in April.

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Why would we do this to ourselves?

👀 An RCMP-led corruption investigation is underway and search warrants were executed on a number of properties including the homes of former mayor Jyoti Gondek, former councillor Sean Chu and sitting councillor Andre Chabot. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

UPDATE: Not just Chabot, RCMP corruption probe search warrants on Sean Chu, too. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

BREAKING: RCMP investigating corruption allegations involving veteran Calgary councillor, business. Police seized Andre Chabot's cell phone after warrant, CBC's Meghan Grant reports. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

As usual, there's a Policy Options article! Will this lead to concerted action, or is it mere gesture? As colleague Charles Breton sayas, Quebec's plan of attack on the file is quite different than Alberta's. 2/2 @policyoptions.irpp.org @cbreton.bsky.social policyoptions.irpp.org/2026/03/judi...

Across Canada, politicians are betting you don't care about restricting access to information. Prove them wrong. ijb.utoronto.ca/news/reflect...

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Joe the Plumber walked so Linda from Arizona could run, and Linda from Arizona ran so that no one could fly 🙏

New from me: Thousands have swooned over this pro-Trump Army dream girl. She’s made with AI. "She's the apotheosis of what MAGA fantasizes about, all packed into one channel" wapo.st/3NtfbUi

Trump's narrowing options on the Strait of Hormuz: CBC's Front Burner podcast, guest hosted today by a-me, Markusoff podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/c...

MARK CARNEY: Well Haliey, in terms of the politics of yesteryear, the wielding of power by a unipolar hemispheric hegemon, you might say that I, ahh, spit on that thang

Anyone who thinks antisemitism is not an existential threat should read this piece by @michellegoldberg.bsky.social immediately, particularly these two grafs, in which she talks to a progressive Mamdani supporter who also listens to Candace Owens and Nick Fuentes: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/o...

Feel like these two tweets sum up where we are right now

AWOOGA AWOOGA

SCOOP: Two companies involved in building some of Alberta's addiction recovery centres are mired in litigation, including accusations of forgery on one side and allegations of intimidation involving Sam Mraiche, of MHCare www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... By @tomcardoso.bsky.social and friend

Went on Facebook, I see a post about the Toronto St Patrick's Day Parade. The replies are 90% old racists saying "glad to see a peaceful culture parading for once, I miss peaceful old Canada" etc FACT CHECK: The St Patrick's Day Parade was banned in Toronto until *1988*(!) due to sectarian violence

Crazy crazy story. Times of Israel reporter ( English language Israeli news site ) gets escalating death threats to change story that’s at center of big polymarket bet. www.timesofisrael.com/gamblers-try...

NEW: Alberta government’s power policies have battered existing renewable projects, and a major company now speaking out. ATCO blames province for $408M writedown to wind & solar, suggests it may pursue in court: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... by me

🧵Doug Ford's former chief of staff traded in his old phone without properly backing it up, losing months of texts from a key period in 2023, including around the Greenbelt fallout. How do we know? An FOI request which wouldn't be allowed under the new rules. #OnPoli

NEW: Alberta government’s power policies have battered existing renewable projects, and a major company now speaking out. ATCO blames province for $408M writedown to wind & solar, suggests it may pursue in court: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... by me

Edmonton Mayor Andrew Knack and councillor Erin Rutherford have both issued statements sharply critical of Edmonton police chief Warren Driechel’s visit to Israel. ER: “profound disappointment,” “public trust upended.”

The Strait of Hormuz is open for transit

Why hasn’t Pierre Poilievre been to Washington? I spent a month reporting on it👇 I’m told Republicans don’t see him as a “serious” partner. One GOP operative: “They don’t respect him… he’s viewed as someone who’s going to lose, and lose politely.” www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

This is what the people who are vehemently opposed to official journalist accreditation (often now overlapping with opposition to government subsidies) warned us about.

Can't make it to tonight's public lecture featuring distinguished speaker Justin Ling, investigative journalist and columnist for The Toronto Star? Justin's lecture, “Telling the Truth in Hyperreality: Journalism in a Time of Lies,” will be livestreamed here: https://bit.ly/4uii7Up Don't miss it!

Jim Cramer suggests on CNBC that Trump could “bomb Tehran into the Stone Age” until Iran reopens the strait, citing U.S. bombings of North Vietnam in the 1970s. Carl Quintanilla points out to him that Hanoi won that war.