“Everything we can save is worth saving. Everything we can do is worth doing. We’ve already lost a lot, but we don’t have to lose everything. We don’t have to surrender.” 💯
- @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/m...
We’re the ones who need saving this daylight! youtu.be/51UpEKX39ZY?...
We ended up with John Tory last time we were afraid of another Mayor Ford and it was, predictably, the same austerity, only polite.
For the love of Toronto, can we PLEASE have some REAL, imaginative challengers and a REAL election about issues and making this a decent place for people to live? 😭😭😭
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...
Canadians mad about ICE:
Know that we are complicit and we are vulnerable.
Canada is one of Palantir’s biggest funders, our pensions are tied to Palantir’s business. Which includes supporting ICE, profiting off genocide in Gaza, and human rights violations.
ricochet.media/labour/billi...
People like John and Steve think this is totally normal and fine and assume everyone has access like this. Let me take you on a pedantic annoying journey back to 2016, where John implied there was a partisan effort against a bill of his rather than accept that people were… to his quote “Outraged”.
A photo of Toronto's skyline as viewed across the bay from the islands. A boat sits on the beach in the foreground.
1. Today we celebrate Toronto’s 182th birthday. Which is pretty weird. Because Toronto isn’t 192 years old. And it wasn’t founded in March.
Here goes my annual rant…
I will also say that it’s a bit wild to me that no press freedom organization or professional journalistic association has tried to contact me or even put out a statement here.
I mean Jesus Christ. A little solidarity from institutions would be nice here!
Seeing that no press freedom orgs have rushed to defend and help @rachelgilmore.bsky.social makes me ask, for the millionth time, what do CJFE, PEN, etc even do? Why exist at all when you do fuck all to fight censorship and intimidation?
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.
A brown penguin chick of some kind. It looks very much like a man in a suit. It is bedraggled and miserable
Made it to Friday but at what cost
No one covers education as thoroughly as @wencyleung.bsky.social
A must-read on the discrepancies between the ford govts stated aims in its board takeover —reining in spending —and the historic crisis of chronic underfunding that aim obscures
thelocal.to/ontario-scho...
premeditated mass murder by policy, committed by Premier Doug Ford and the government of Ontario
His CaptinCanada $200 cheque works for the 20% and they vote for their hero, while they blame PMMC for all the destruction. #EducationMatters 🍁
This idiot could not even handle his own portfolio in Doug Fords cabinet 🤣🤣 #Nope
Michael Ford says he’s giving ‘serious consideration’ to Toronto mayoral run #Ontario
www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti...
Conservative Windsor MPP says they have to cut OSAP or else they’ll “run out of money.”
Next day Ford is announcing an artificial island.
“No you don’t understand, if we don’t cut OSAP we can’t build the artificial island!!”
Is that where they’ll put everything they dig out to make the tunnel under the 401? Or Ontario’s zip line to Mars? Or the bridge to Jupiter? Or maybe the pipeline to harvest the sun directly? Every idea coming from Ford is deranged because none of them is real - they’re just a cover for stealing $
I reluctantly repost this.
We need to know the White House's glee at death and destruction.
@drewharwell.com is doing a good job of reporting it. Worth a follow.
markwayne
Way ahead of you
Mark Carney campaigning in April 2025:
"When we compare ourselves to the U.K., France or Germany, we see that our public broadcaster is underfunded. That has to change. We expect that in the coming years, we will continue to increase that funding...”
Mark Carney now:
Carney *explicitly campaigned* on increased funding for the CBC. Just a straight up lie.
This is what regulatory capture looks like. Altman doesn't have to make his own apologies; he has the minister do it for him, after a half-hour video call. Embarrassing. www.cbc.ca/news/politic... #CdnPoli
You see the black label at the bottom left? That’s Lebanon’s only airport. Dahieh borders it.
A few things I will remember John Tory for:
Violent, militarized encampment evictions.
Undermining local democracy by requesting 'Strong Mayor' powers from Doug Ford.
The failure of SmartTrack and the closure of the Scarborough LRT.
Denying shelter to refugees.
Lest we forget:
With Trudeau and Wynne, he helped launch Google and Sidewalk Labs‘ attempt to fully privatize the governance of Toronto’s Quayside. With glee!
The painting "Night in the Steppe" shows a vast plain under a bright full moon, the light being distributed over the landscape and the water in an almost magical way.
This work is made by the renowned Ukrainian artist Ivan Marchuk, who invented the unique painting style called "plyontanism" (from the Ukrainian word plyontaty, meaning "to braid"). This technique consists of hundreds of fine, intertwined lines that create depth and an almost textile-like texture.
Store aisle shelves stuffed on one side with inflatable ducks faces the other, stuffed with inflatable flamingos.
some shit is about to go down
We are in horrific times and missing voices and ways to speak to them. That Bluesky has effectively prevented vision impaired users from posting with the format of the draft option and not addressed this or acknowledged it is pretty miserable .
Timeline cleanse:
Baby tapir getting scritches for their itches.
If you want to scritch your very own tapir & you live outside of Central or South America or SE Asia, you'll need to visit a zoo.
But these little guys are (evolutionarily) from around here, in North America. Let's talk about it.
