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So uh, a new war’s going to make food and power more affordable again, right? It’ll fix the overburdened healthcare system, provide childcare for working parents, and find homes for low income families, won’t it? Won’t it!?

What do you mean it won’t? What do you mean it’s not what we’ve all needed?

玉險 Office of the Prime Minister Cabinet du Premier Ministre Statement by Prime Minister Carney and Minister Anand on the situation in the Middle East "The Canadian government is closely following Iran-related hostilities throughout the Middle East and urges all Canadians in Iran to shelter in place. Canadians in the wider region should follow local advice and take all necessary precautions. Canada's position remains clear: the Islamic Republic of Iran is the principal source of instability and terror throughout the Middle East, has one of the world's worst human rights records, and must never be allowed to obtain or develop nuclear weapons. Canada and our international partners have consistently called upon the Iranian regime to end its nuclear program, including at the 2025 G7 Leaders' Summit in Kananaskis and with the United Nations' reimposition of sanctions in September. Despite diplomatic efforts, Iran has neither fully dismantled its nuclear program, halted all enrichment activities, nor ended its support for regional terrorist proxy groups. Canada stands with the Iranian people in their long and courageous struggle against Iran's oppressive regime. Canada has listed the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist entity, and has sanctioned 256 Iranian entities and 222 individuals in response to the regime's repression and its violence both against its own people, and persistently, beyond its borders. Canada reaffirms Israel's right to defend itself and to ensure the security of its people. Canada supports the United States acting to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon and to prevent its regime from further threatening international peace and security. The Canadian government urges the protection of all civilians in this conflict. We will take all possible measures to protect our nationals and Canadian diplomatic missions throughout the region." February 28, 2026

“Canada supports the United States acting to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon and to prevent its regime from further threatening international peace and security.”

Well. For those of us wondering if he’d walk the walk of the Davos speech, this is a pretty big answer.

Nope.

on days like today — on many, many days — I find myself thinking of Bruce Cockburn's "If I Had a Rocket Launcher," and how I didn't understand it as a kid and I do understand it now

tasty, i can't possibly tell from here. but easy? c'mon.

Oh absolutely on Lightfoot. And it's the Sloan, actually! But the Cockburn is great too (and this quiz got me thinking about "Call It Democracy," "If I Had a Rocket Launcher," and "If a Tree Falls" again)

Musick to Play in the Dark Vol 2, by Coil 7 track album

"Batwings (A Limnal Hymn)" is one of my favourite songs of all time

my favourite record of theirs, the debut a close second

Breaking God's Heart (expanded edition), by Hefner 40 track album

("it's not love, it/just smells like it" is such a raw line to have on your debut)

A rickenbacker 360 and a prompt for one like one fave record

help make my friday afternoon less boring

grabbed this from @rozmilner.bsky.social

i have a blurb on the new single from our cover star here

Sign says “concrete how far can we push it”

It’s nice to walk thru the civil engineering bldn at U of T to see the large shrine where they honour brutalism.

The secret hero of Moore's Swamp Thing run.

One time soon after the launch of Aftermath I saw an account say they wouldn’t support us because even though we are a worker owned business we were still a business which was immoral and I remembered that a lot of people online don’t have jobs

YouTube video by HollyMcNarlandVEVO Holly McNarland - Numb

after not thinking about or hearing Holly McNarland's "Numb" for years, woke up with it in my head today

"She at least made sense as an adult, I feel like I'm just a nasty-looking teenager" hits unreasonably hard for a cartoon sphinx cat

twin peaks begins in the everyday veiling that makes it possible to sustain horrific violence by leaving it unsaid within apparent normalcy, which gradually erodes

fire walk with me is nearly unbearable because the implicit is made explicit the entire time

"The Corporations don't intrinsically have souls, but they've got rights. The only corpo that contained a soul was Costco - the only one born with a soul. The Chamber of Commerce was empty, you see. These things are just vessels. That's why I'm going to destroy them. Because I hate them."