“It suggests that even the police whose job it is to deal with the media don’t understand how the media works. Worse, they don’t seem to appreciate the vital role played by media.”

Like many big Sprawl stories, this one nearly killed me—but now it's out, and in time for Canada Day too! A deep dive into how George Stanley, a born-and-raised Calgarian, created the Canadian flag.

Food $200 Data $150 Rent $800 Rainier Cherries the 2 weeks each year they have them at my Costco $3,600 Utility $150 someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my family is dying

Happy 100th birthday to Mel Brooks

I really enjoy Jon Batiste so freaking much How Jon Batiste turns Mozart into B. B. King

United States of America in 2026, somehow

Mary Deanne Shears, a former Toronto Star reporter and the paper's first female managing editor, has been appointed to the Order of Canada. www.thestar.com/news/gta/for... via @thestar.com

There is no Canadian journalist who deserves this honour more

“I have done all of the things that one is supposed to do to earn a tenure-track position. And I have done approximately 85% of them by typing prompts into a large language model and then moderately editing the output.” 🤣🤣🤣 brilliant 👌🏽 open.substack.com/pub/inprepar...

The USA’s B team mostly outplayed full-strength Turkey, lost 3-2 on a last-minute goal while playing with an injured defender, won the group anyway, and the fact that it feels like a disappointment shows how far the expectations have come

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Long live the Republic of Smarmiland

They're remains now

Still thinking about how it felt really possible this week that Alberta government would wield its bylaw-quashing power for the first time in history... To allow a Stampede party tent to blast music later and louder on weeknights. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts

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Fine, I’ll write about the Calgary Stampede party tent dustup, which Danielle Smith & Co. were even keener to write about themselves. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Fine, I’ll write about the Calgary Stampede party tent dustup, which Danielle Smith & Co. were even keener to write about themselves. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

I plugged the Giannis deal into the trade machine and I didn’t know a trade machine could give me side-eye

Should we avoid publishing fake AI slop images as part of the fight against misinformation?

New inflation data out today and wow what can you say about these Alberta car insurance rates other than ... wow. 😳

That the CIA had nothing to do with it and Nixon tried to have them lie to the FBI and say they did is, like, the whole scandal. We literally have it on tape!

DO NOT PUBLISH UNTIL NEWS IS CONFIRMED A look back at the PM's political career

The biggest assist that Alberta’s separatist movement got from the Trump admin may have been completely inadvertent: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... by me

Younger one really captured my inquisitive side with his Father’s Day artwork.

The biggest assist that Alberta’s separatist movement got from the Trump admin may have been completely inadvertent: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... by me

Radio-Canada podcast Dérives wins prestigious Michener Award for its Lyme disease investigation. The Globe and Mail was also a finalist, for its investigation into Alberta’s health care procurement scandal. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com #journalism

Edmonton police are correcting the record after a podcaster made posters saying you could pick up pro-Alberta independence yard signs from local police stations. edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...

June 17, 2026 is the 10th anniversary of legal Medical Assistance in Dying in most of Canada. (Quebec started in December 2025.) To mark the occasion, here is a thread of stories I've written about MAID and the right-to-die over the past 40 years. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... /1

Danielle Smith confirms Corb Lund's Water Not Coal petition WILL NOT be on the October 19th ballot. She says Elections Alberta said all questions had to be in by June 1st. Now, it will go through the process but the earliest it could come to a referendum in October 2027.

Hello from Iqaluit! I'm here on my way to Canada's northernmost community (about as far north of Iqaluit as Iqaluit is from Toronto) for a story. It's always a pleasure and a privilege to return to the Arctic.

Here’s a bench / outdoor planting box combo. It’s designed so that vines will grow upwards, providing natural shade for pedestrians and… sitters (?)… to enjoy.

Having this many draws in a World Cup played largely in a place where the concepts of draws remains foreign is actually pretty funny

A Muslim Texan sought to find his place in the party at the state GOP convention. He left in tears. www.texastribune.org/2026/06/15/t...

Would Alberta seniors lose their Canadian pensions if the province separates? Would Albertans lose their Canadian passports? Even these basic questions are disputed in Alberta right now as both sides gear up for a referendum on the question of independence this October. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

There's a lot going on. But weighing the suspension of habeas corpus is...something. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/15/u...

When asked: “The WH understandably protests when people insult First Lady Trump. How does your refusal to criticize Hokit for his remarks about First Lady Obama square with that?” the WH would not directly answer the question.

My latest. This story is based on FOI documents released before the Ford government changed the law. Under the new rules, the province will now be able to keep records like this secret.

I could find a woman or two or three in this crowd shot

I could find a woman or two or three in this crowd shot

Lauren Southern's story of being raped by Andrew Tate is sad on so many levels. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Now they're fighting... the Weather Channel

Group photo of UCP board members at a big pro-separation rally last fall. Four are still on the board. When the party president saw pic on Facebook, he said he regretted he couldn’t be there, too. On the separatist senior organizers in Danielle Smith’s party: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

A top organizer for Centurion Project, a separatist group under investigation for misuse of Alberta’s 2.9M-person voter list, served on UCP’s fundraising committee until this week. That’s when CBC News asked about his presence on that committee. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Group photo of UCP board members at a big pro-separation rally last fall. Four are still on the board. When the party president saw pic on Facebook, he said he regretted he couldn’t be there, too. On the separatist senior organizers in Danielle Smith’s party: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

UCP board members at an independence rally, committee members campaigning for Leave groups: my look at the senior United Conservatives who don’t believe in a united Canada like Danielle Smith says the party does. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

UCP board members at an independence rally, committee members campaigning for Leave groups: my look at the senior United Conservatives who don’t believe in a united Canada like Danielle Smith says the party does. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Rats, trench toilets, and brothers-in-arms dying beside you. The war for Ukraine has now lasted longer than the First World War. And for all that’s changed, some things about trench warfare are grimly familiar. My report from the Kharkiv region, with photos by @olgaivashchenko.bsky.social

They let me guest host Front Burner again. @taylorowen.bsky.social and I talked through the Safe Social Media Act.