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Ensemble Made in Canada Champions Nation’s Composers | The Tyee The Juno-winning piano quartet will play an intimate salon-like concert at the Chan Centre’s Telus Studio Theatre.

Whether performing classical repertoire or newly commissioned works, EMIC captivates audiences with their expressive range and technical brilliance. 🎻

Pay Close Attention to Trump’s War on the Free Press | The Tyee Four ways the autocrat aims to corral and kill US news media. Canada, take note.

Four ways the rogue president is undercutting the U.S. first amendment, which prohibits the federal government from passing laws restricting free speech or curtailing a free press. Michael Harris writes. #uspoli

Tragedy and farce, at the same time.

Yes, they’re shit.
#Canada

Your Poop Is Not Reliable, At Least for Now Let’s say you mail your poop to two different companies—not an illegal act, by the way, provided it doesn’t smell or soil anything, and that it’s packaged and labelled appropriately. It also helps if ...

Those gut microbiome kits you pay good money for may as well be a ticket to see your local fortune teller.

Seven different companies; a standardized poop sample; and results that are all over the place.

My latest for @mcgilloss.bsky.social.

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NS budget shortfalls force Tim Houston to eliminate ocean HALIFAX - After months of slashing provincial revenue, Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston has announced that he has been forced to entirely cut the Atlantic Ocean from the province.

NS budget shortfalls force Tim Houston to eliminate ocean

Judging from the prose, the Pentagon appears to be using AI to announce the death of soldiers. If it’s not AI, it’s a person who simply does not care.

Russia is providing Iran intelligence to target U.S. forces, officials say The targeting information has included the locations of American warships and aircraft in the Middle East, the officials said.

This is interesting. But it is more interesting that Trump is rewarding Moscow for doing this by helping Russia sell oil, repeating Russian propaganda points, and senselessly burning through weapon stocks.
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Alberta regulator rejects Canada’s largest data centre | The Narwhal Lack of public consultation means project that would have consumed as much power as Edmonton won’t go ahead — for now

The Alberta Utilities Commission has rejected a proposal for a massive rural data centre that would have consumed as much power as the city of Edmonton. It cited missing information and a lack of public consultation. thenarwhal.ca/olds-data-ce...

What Crystals Older Than the Sun Reveal About the Start of the Solar System | Quanta Magazine Microscopic crystals extracted from meteorites could help settle a debate about the birth of our patch of the Milky Way.

In 1969, a fireball appeared over Mexico. The Allende meteorite spread its debris over more than 500 square kilometers. Its chemical contents surprised scientists: It seemed to suggest that a nearby supernova triggered the formation of our solar system.

Two complementary articles from the lab of Anming Meng and Katie McDole discussing the history and biology of organizer in 🐟, 🐸, and 🐭. Even after more than 100 years since its discovery, major questions remain, especially for mammals.
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“I Guess”: Trump Has Wild Response to Potential Attacks on U.S. Soil Donald Trump is supremely unbothered but what he may have unleashed.

The U.S. president could not care less if Iran’s violent retaliation includes the deaths of American citizens. Actually, it’s something he’s planning for.

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The Oligarchical Corridor A Source of War

If we examine the origins the the war on Iran, we get an inkling of a closed domain of international oligarchs, exploiting the state’s power and patriotic sentiment, while creating a world order in which the American state is much weaker. An oligarchical corridor.
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The Tyee is proud to have published this important investigation by @rachelgilmore.bsky.social. We condemn this egregious harassment of a journalist for doing her job, and have offered support as she deals with this disturbing situation.

'Rock solid' majority opposed to Alberta independence: Abacus Data poll | CBC News About a quarter of Albertans support the province leaving Canada, but the majority — nearly two-thirds — are against it, according to a new poll from Abacus Data.

Go Canada! 🇨🇦
#cdnpoli
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PST has potential to bring economic growth to Alberta: economist Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says she would put PST on a referendum if citizens gathered enough signatures to support it through a petition. Economics professor Trevor Tombe discusses the developmen...

PST has potential to bring economic growth to Alberta: economist

Perhaps some common sense finally emerging in Alberta for a PST?
#Canada #cdnpoli

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The Glaring Oversight in the U.S. War Plan The Pentagon failed to adopt Ukraine’s best tools for downing drones.

Why didn't the US consult Ukraine, the one country that knows how to country attacks from thousands of cheap drones?

www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

Of course they are

The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-lo...

Read @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social on the "intellectually insecure reactionaries" around Epstein. Much here that I did not know

www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...

Justin Ling: Trump’s war in Iran shows Carney has lots to learn about the new world order — one thing most of all The U.S. case for war is built upon a stack of lies, and Ottawa has seen fit to rationalize every one of them.

Two decades ago, Canada declined to go to war based on lies.

Today, Cabada wasn't even invited to the war — and yet, for some reason, we're participating in the fiction. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...

Millions of students are getting locked into closed, proprietary software from Big Tech vendors. Here's how LibreOffice can give them back their digital sovereignty: blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/03...

In Manitoba, a growing bison herd welcomes new members | The Narwhal As a group of once-endangered Alberta wood bison join a larger herd in Skownan First Nation, hope for the future of the culturally vital species grows

On the Skownan First Nation bison ranch in Manitoba, new members of the herd are helping to revive a culturally vital species. Via @indiginews.bsky.social: thenarwhal.ca/skownan-firs...

Italian investigated over claims he paid to shoot people during siege of Sarajevo Former truck driver, now 80, allegedly one of many ‘sniper tourists’ who paid Bosnian Serb soldiers to be allowed to fire on city

Oh wow. There may finally be accountability for the psychopaths who joined the siege of Sarajevo for sport. The so-called 'Sarajevo Safari.'

This claim has been around for decades. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

Don’t let mega-constellation-building billionaires steal your night sky Satellites are wonders of modern technology that have improved all of our lives. But having more than a million of them in orbit could destroy our view of the heavens and seriously damage our planet

The dangers of satellites to the Night Sky.
#NightSky #Satellites #Scicomm #science
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Alberta ‘excessively vulnerable’ to foreign interference, experts warn | CBC News Alberta is not ready to deal with the threat of online disinformation coming from foreign actors in a possible referendum campaign on separation this fall, according to national security experts.

“If we're relying on the RCMP to save us from foreign interference during a provincial referendum, it’s not gonna happen. And I would say the same for CSIS and for any kind of regulatory body, frankly,” said security expert Patrick Lennox. Story by #ableg @iciemmanuel.bsky.social

The EU’s Open Source Software Strategy calls for reducing dependency on proprietary technologies. But for feedback on the Cyber Resilience Act, they're asking for feedback in .xlsx format! This is obviously not ideal – so please sign our open letter: blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/03...

This war isn’t an emergency that requires us to give the president more latitude. It’s a monstrosity that requires that judges, lawmakers and above all citizens work to preserve the integrity of elections and the republic.

I think buddy is misunderstanding what has made Carney so popular.

It's more 'centrist,' fine. But he's popular because (per every poll conducted in Canada since last year) people believe he's competent.

Competency and ideology *can* be in conflict with each other, but they don't have to be!

Male teachers can challenge misogyny in schools every day, not just on International Women’s Day Canadian and Australian studies are hearing from male teachers who promote gender and social justice while challenging and disrupting patriarchal masculinities in their classrooms.

Male teachers can challenge misogyny in schools every day, not just on International Women’s Day