FYI this is the case for every university and community college library in Nova Scotia. The public is welcome and any local resident 18+ can sign up to be a community patron & borrow books. #NovaScotia

Today is Canada's National Day of Action & Remembrance on Violence against Women. It marks the day in 1989 when 14 women at Polytechnique in Montreal were murdered by an "incel" (Proving that shit has a new name but is an old problem.) There are vigils across the country today. Please attend one.

This is extremely true

It’s the anniversary of the 1917 Halifax Explosion. A still and somber morning to visit sites in my neighborhood: a fragment of anchor shank from Mont Blanc, the grave of telegraph operator Vince Coleman, and the field where unidentified dead were buried.

This is a really hot and difficult discussion in Kentville right now (and elsewhere). In the past 10-12 years, supported housing type projects proposed for or adjacent to residential zones have also been nixed by public opposition.

CMNT winger and Kentville, NS native Jacob Shaffelburg linked up with fellow Nova Scotian, Justin Barron in Nashville tonight 🇨🇦⚽

On Dec. 6, 1917 at 8:45 a.m., the Imo and Mont-Blanc (which was packed with explosives) collided in Halifax Harbour. At 9:05 a.m., the Mont-Blanc exploded. The 2.9 kiloton blast levelled most of Halifax, killed 1,700 and injured 9,000. This is the story. 📸 LAC 🧵 1/12

Siccing dogs on people is a slave tracker thing, a Bull Connor thing, a police brutality thing, a jackboot thug thing, an evil abuse of both dog and man which only a fully corrupted spirit could enact.

We remember them always. Geneviève Bergeron Hélène Colgan Nathalie Croteau Barbara Daigneault Anne-Marie Edward Maud Haviernick Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz Maryse Laganière Maryse Leclair Anne-Marie Lemay Sonia Pelletier Michèle Richard Annie St-Arneault Annie Turcotte

A single warning can change everything. Before the atomic bomb, the Halifax Explosion was the largest human-made blast in history. This Heritage Minute tells the story of Vince Coleman, a railway dispatcher whose final telegraph message in 1917 saved hundreds of lives.

Maybe if participation prizes had been a thing when Trump was 8 we wouldn’t be here today

Icymi, @hcrichardson.bsky.social’s live video last night was 🔥

How is U.S. military killing these 11 people keeping drugs (fentanyl) out of the United States? USG knew the drugs (cocaine) were headed to Suriname. Yes, that's the OTHER DIRECTION. Read what Bradley-Caine told lawmakers: Scoop by @natashabertrand.bsky.social 🧵 1/

Bank wall emeegency shelter wisdom.

I'm old enough to remember when tech reporting helped you learn how to use new features as they came out. Now it helps you AVOID new features the tech companies are trying to force upon you.

Not to defend Olivia Nuzzi, who broke every rule in journalism and promoted a charlatan to his current position. But it's incredibly telling that she will lose her job, but RFK Jr. gets to stay in his job despite the reports of his drug use, his affairs and his defenestrating of public health.

I can't stop thinking about the purported drug smugglers being murdered by the US military. The punishment for drug offenses isn't the death penalty. This is just bloodlust and men in suits playing with lives they don't care about. It's truly grotesque and gravely compromises this country.

Amazon is trying to kill the post office, and make no mistake: it will do the same in Canada. Its subcontracted delivery model must be regulated out of existence if we care about not just the postal service, but ensuring delivery workers have good, union jobs they can depend on.

The new National Security Strategy is a propaganda document, designed to be widely read. It is also a performative suicide. Hard to think of another great power ever abdicating its influence so quickly and so publicly. It will be worth following the reactions around the world, not just in Europe.

On December 6, 1917, over 1700 lives were lost, over 9,000 were injured, & many were left homeless in the wake of the Halifax Harbour Explosion. In the aftermath of the disaster, people came together across the world to show compassion and assist Nova Scotians where they could.

Well at least with the school delay we missed this. 😬

On this day in 1922, France provided the use of land around Vimy Ridge to Canada for a memorial. The Vimy Ridge Memorial was unveiled in 1936 and is one of only two National Historic Sites of Canada outside the country. Contrary to popular belief, the land is still part of France

So much of the money that once went to newspapers now gets siphoned away to fund doomed endeavors like this:

The metric should not be whether drivers hate it. The metric should be whether it makes our streets safer for everyone. And by all accounts this accomplished that. That’s more than worth a few seconds of all of our time

This article came about because of an independent audit of LA’s failed Vision Zero attempt. It’s paywalled of course. I doubt I’m the only one interested who doesn’t subscribe to this Bezos-owned newspaper, but I was able to read it. I’m going to share some highlights & tie it back to Halifax 🧵

They’re killing people as a twitter joke. It’s depraved. Can’t let yourself lose the capacity to be appalled and disgusted and outraged by this.

getting the onion newspaper is worth it alone for the ads

Don't let the craziness with the Supreme Court distract from the big immigration story; people from 19 different countries, including Haiti, Venezuela, and Cuba, are currently trapped in an immigration limbo, with their citizenship and green card applications (among others) put indefinitely on hold.

I was unfamiliar with your game, Halle Berry

just an utter joke of a court.

Imagine a species so stupid that they allowed a tiny minority of scumbag maniacs to destroy civilization, wreck the world and cause the 6th mass extinction event just to give even more money to people who already had more money than they could possibly spend in 1,000 years.

Quite breathtaking story - military grade drones at Dublin airport which flew on the path Zelensky's plane took. The drones reached the flight path of his plane exactly the time it should have been there, but just missed it because Zelensky arrived ahead of schedule:

“Why don’t they assimilate?”

A cabinet of sycophants doing things on Trump’s nostalgia for mid-century vibes

bring back the Ford Pinto and the badly designed rear-impact exploding gas tank unwind the entire woke legacy of ralph nader and basic auto safety and pollution standards developed after decades of death and misery do it for innovation and jesus

The U.S. does not subject itself to accountability, so we're using the avenues we have before us," Kovalik said Wednesday. "We believe that a decision in our favor, combined with public pressure, can get us that compensation and also can end the killings in the Caribbean

Migrants detained at the notorious “Alligator Alcatraz" in Florida were shackled inside a 2ft high metal cage and left outside without water for up to a day at a time, an Amnesty International report alleges. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

There's a lot of "war crimes" discussion right now - but the laws of war do *not* apply to US strikes on suspected traffickers. They only apply in armed conflict. Q&A (w/@mikeschmitt.bsky.social & @rgoodlaw.bsky.social) explains why: www.justsecurity.org/126156/exper... The first 2 Qs:

‘Abbott Elementary’ star Quinta Brunson launches fund to provide free field trips to thousands of Philly students

"I think affordability is the greatest con job" is a truly amazing quote from a U.S. President. He really fucking hates us.

The reason we are where we are is because for 20 years, the Democrats accepted as true the lies told by the Republicans about immigrants, thus validating falsehoods and undermining the truth, making reasoned debate and compromise impossible. What Jeffries did here should be taboo.

These people are becoming massively rich off destroying society with algorithms that isolate and radicalize everyone against each other. Literally everyone is worse off because of it it is only getting worse and they do not care because they all have bunkers.

Congressman Henry Cuellar was indicted for money laundering, bribery, and conspiracy, allegedly taking about $600,000, mostly from Azerbaijan, to influence U.S. policy. President Donald Trump pardoned Cuellar, because Trump supports money laundering, bribery, and conspiracy.

I feel like this is getting lost. It was illegal to start randomly blowing up fishermen in the first place.

My hot take is that I don't give a fuck if someone without disabilities gets an accommodation. They get a slightly better grade on a test? Tests are just part of a grade or portfolio and also, who FUCKING CARES. I care that a disabled person isn't *penalized* for needing more time.

I am going to repeat this forever: Supply-side crackdowns on drug use are useless, even fatal. They move addicts toward more dangerous substances, they create incentives for dealers to cut other drugs with the more dangerous substances (Xanax cut with whatever) so more casual users die, too.

Olivia Nuzzi complaining that OTHER people don’t have boundaries pretty much sums up her character.

6 years ago today: A man in Wuhan, China starts feeling ill, becoming the first confirmed case of COVID-19