Judy 🇨🇦

And they would just replace him with someone even worse.

Text from a Globe and Mail article by Andrew Coyne. “The art of no deal: Canada’s only winning move is not to play.”

You don’t negotiate with a psychopath. #cdnpoli

Let’s be clear. If a completely immature & unhinged maniac is allowed to do this kind of thing out of toddler-level spite when President’s DON’T EVEN HAVE THE POWER TO UNILATERALLY LEVY TARIFFS, then there simply IS NO LEGITIMATE TRADE RELATIONSHIP between the United States & Canada or any country.

AI’s Invasive Species The slop is winning.

Hi. I wrote an essay about AI slop: How it feels like an invasive species for the internet. How its boosters describe building a future that’s devoid of craft. How frictionlessness can be nihilistic & how this stuff seems to leach part of our shared humanity out of the world. I hope you'll read it.

View of the ocean and mountains framed by mature trees. People in the middle distance are sitting on park benches and walking beside the shore.

Vancouver, BC

every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

Central Banking vs. Central Casting: The Latest Carney-Trump Bilat - Policy Magazine Prime Minister Mark Carney and President Donald Trump in their second Oval Office pool spray, October 7, 2025/AP

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The U.S. ambassador wants more love

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people who want other people to stay in sad little grey boxes forever and never be happy in their bodies or desires are villains and cowards and they may be winning right now but by god they will lose as water smooths stone and roots break it, because that fierce joy is roots and water and life

Nothing says “Nobel Peace prize” quite like the changing the name of the Department of Defense to the “Department of War.”

Only someone who avoided the draft would want to rename the Department of Defense to the Department of War.

Imagine picking a “businessman” to be your leader, but instead of a great businessman, or even a good one, you pick the absolute worst one…I mean, the laughing stock of his sector (land dev’t), known for many bankruptcies, cheating people, crooked deals, etc.

Now imagine letting him be a dictator.

Neil Young reunited with guitar 60 years later with a little help from B.C. sleuth A British Columbia man, who previously reunited rock icon Randy Bachman with his long-lost Gretsch guitar, has done it again.

Neil Young reunited with guitar 60 years later with a little help from B.C. sleuth

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Why go to a place that may disappear us? That threatens our nation's existence? That denies basic human rights to women & 2SLGBTQ? That's a no

Worn 8-track tape: The original soundtrack from the 20th Century Fox film Star Wars.

The headline made me laugh. So true!

Canada finally faces a basic question: how do we defend ourselves? | Stephen Marche For centuries, Canada hasn’t needed to prioritize its military. But the US transformation calls for a Finland-style approach

A cogent argument by @stephenmarche.bsky.social: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

YouTube video by CBC News Canada is 'dealing with a Mafia state,' says former communications director for Jean Chrétien

We’re not going to kiss the ring. Sorry, not sorry.
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Text from a friend just now:

"Why are “travel disruptions” the only part of this Air Canada story the CBC deems worthy of coverage? What about union busting & expecting a whole cohort of women workers to perform unpaid labour? WTF. How do these people think strikes work?"

#cdnpoli #aircanadastrike

I was going to head home to upload photos and interviews but the dinosaurs showed up

Swept Away: What Cities Really Take When They Sweep Homeless Encampments People say having their possessions — from birth certificates to loved ones’ ashes — taken in “sweeps” traumatizes them, exacerbates health issues and undermines efforts to find housing and get or…

As federal authorities crack down on homeless encampments in D.C., revisit our reporting on the possessions people lose in sweeps — and how these losses can traumatize them, exacerbate health issues and undermine efforts to find housing.

Handwritten text on a notecard: My husbands ashes; I made me feel alone scared, empty, now I wonder where he is and if he's all still in his urn and if hes ok and I hope he's not in the dump

We asked people who experienced "sweeps" of homeless encampments to write about it in their own words.

In Portland, Teresa Stratton told us about how her husband’s ashes were taken in a removal:

The reason for the strong reaction against #ElbowsUp by Conservatives should be self-evident.

PP has nothing to contribute. He could easily be replaced by a bot at this point.

Really enjoyed this episode. She's not wrong!

Lawns are as outdated as jello salad. Best left in the past.

The hero we need. 😄

Stay salty DC 🔥

Why did two of this summer's biggest organizing victories happen in BC?

Over at @pressprogress.ca, I dug into the policies that helped Uber drivers in Victoria and Amazon workers in Delta unionize their workplaces.