anyway I tend to be OK with people acquiring new citizenships for international sporting purposes but the WBC not even requiring that and somehow reverse engineering a Great Britain team out of Bahamians and Bahamian-Americans feels like a bridge too far for me
"The best thing about living in a city built by migrant slaves in a petrostate is not having to think about politics."
UK parliamentary democracy isn't some flawless gem that we should all worship, but I do like that when stuff happens, the seemingly natural response is for the prime minister — or a relevant minister — to go to the House of Commons and make a statement at length.
No rules of engagement.
No "nation building... no democracy building exercise"
So, a tacit endorsement of war crimes with no particular end game or objective of what they're seeking to accomplish.
Imagine how bad it’s going to be if this guy is already worried
Spare a thought for the poor centrist UK columnists, torn between their kneejerk hatred of gauche Trump and his antics, but oh! The glorious realpolitik of foreign locales on fire!
[biggest loser in the world voice] warfighters
The cover of this week's Lancet, featuring RFK Jr:
hmm did anything else happen between 2012 and 2022 that might have had a statistically significant impact on population mental health, particularly in youth? I guess we'll never know...
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Grammy-nominated R&B singer Jon B. posted that he is going to the stove – perhaps to "cook up" another hot, hot radio single. Frogs and toads, which are the same, can live on the Sun and often choose to.
From Le Droit:
When Ontario Premier Doug Ford announced his plan for civil servants to return to the office full-time, he said it would make them more productive. But internal documents show his minister was told not to make that claim. #OnPoli
www.ledroit.com/actualites/a...
One of the frustrating things about “mainstream” reporting on these right-wing alt-media outlets is they describe them as “partisan” or assume they’re trying to get Poilievre elected
If you actually listen to them, they tell you exactly what they’re trying to do – namely normalize extremist ideas:
Who would have predicted the NDP nearly forming government a decade ago or the Liberals’ big comeback in 2015? Writer David Moscrop reminds us that third (or fourth, or fifth) parties keep our political landscape surprising and—crucially—healthy. https://ow.ly/Nbxr50Yhn8Z
One correct premise in this piece on Canada's trade strategy, but followed up by three poor ones....
www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...
the onus is not on "the left" to accept AI, it's on providers to present a compelling use case that isn't strictly FOMU, capitulation to "the inevitable," or condescension about what thought/life mean to living, thinking beings. none of that is forthcoming. all they have is culture war nonsense.
Chart showing proportion of working age adults who are caring
Britain’s ‘unsung’ army is the million people in poorer working-age households who now have full-time unpaid caring responsibilities.
Experts view a shift from injecting fentanyl to smoking it as a promising development that could cut overdose deaths and reduce needle-related harms. www.statnews.com/2026/02/12/f...
Coming back to this story, the care economy has been driving the Canadian job market since the pandemic, but especially 2024-2025, despite the clampdown on international study permits.
It's quite something that this sector is not part of the Canada Strong industrial strategy.
everything this admin does falls into the "really stupid" bucket or the "insanely sinister" bucket. by default most stuff goes into the really stupid bucket. while putting a really stupid item in the insanely sinister bucket looks bad, putting an insanely sinister item in the stupid bucket is worse
On the left: Image of two federal ICE agents wearing camouflage clothes and vests. On the right: text that reads “What stops ICE from crossing into Canada to snatch people? Very little. The legal reality Canadians don’t want to face.”
Reports of ICE activity near the New Brunswick–Maine border last month left many Canadians uneasy. In this Q&A with The Walrus editor-in-chief Carmine Starnino constitutional law expert Kent Roach breaks down what ICE's relationship to Canada looks like: https://ow.ly/xKqK50Y9KEn
If you're rich you get a tax cut, if you're not you have to work longer and harder. Populism! bsky.app/profile/atru...
This Friday, the House of Commons will be debating our Standing Orders.
I think this would be a great time to talk about whether Question Period is serving Canadians well as currently constructed (35 second questions, 35 second answers).
Here's some ideas: 🧵 (1/6)
Between this and Bovino/Lockjaw an underrated Trump 2 runner has been "deliberately ridiculous fictional characters who are accidentally timed so that future audiences wil assume they were satirizing equally ridiculous government officials"
Canadian Literature
Gender in Sport
Exercise Metabolism
History of Popular Music
Organic Chemistry
Wild that there was an open lane called "what if we just explain things clearly to people?" and he's the first one to ever fill it
www.youtube.com/shorts/tGPcY...
Retired General Eyre Won't Indulge Trump's Trolling | TVO Today Live - YouTube🇨🇦
Screencap of the Globe editorial, listing Canadian military personnel who died in Afghanistan.
Screencap of the Globe editorial, listing Canadian military personnel who died in Afghanistan.
Screencap of the Globe editorial, listing Canadian military personnel who died in Afghanistan.
The Globe's editorial this morning is a list of all the Canadian military personnel who died in Afghanistan.
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/edit...
me, absolutely not misremembering anything: i could be misremembering that
Since before the holidays, I've been musing about ways to address the problems in C-15, Div. 2. Parliament comes back tomorrow to think about the bill. Here are some thoughts.
open.substack.com/pub/robsonj/...
i've been dumping trash around the park every day for 20 years. many times people told me "hey stop dumping trash in the park" but i scoffed because trash dumper was a very prestigious job. now that we know dumping trash is bad, some have asked why i should be chairperson for the recycling committee
