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Global economy must stop pandering to ‘frivolous desires of ultra-rich’, says UN expert Olivier De Schutter says new economic agenda needed to tackle crises of rising inequality and ecological collapse

This is the beginning of good news, maybe. But when I read it’ll work on the model of the IPCC, oof. It would be so, so wonderful to create something international, democratic, and *with teeth.* Otherwise we’re letting the ultrarich wank us all to death.

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‘I’ve been advised not to say certain things’: The Secret Agent makers on Oscars, dictators and death threats The actor Wagner Moura and writer-director Kleber Mendonça Filho explain how the Brazilian thriller mirrors their experiences of political corruption and why they are compelled to speak out

In a world on fire, my undying love for Wagner Moura continues unabated www.theguardian.com/film/2026/fe...

Mark Carney to scrap Islamophobia and antisemitism envoys, sources say Prime Minister Mark Carney will scrap the Canadian government's special envoy positions on fighting Islamophobia and antisemitism, the Star has learned.

There are reasons Carney gets on so well with Harper, and a lot of us are not going to like them. www.thestar.com/politics/fed...

Hold up, what the fuck

Trump cites UK’s ‘stupidity’ over Chagos Islands as reason to take over Greenland US president says on social media that Britain’s decision to cede islands to Mauritius is ‘act of total weakness’

I just think it would be so funny if we all sent Trump penis pumps with concerned notes about how we see his pain. What an angry, deeply stupid, small man. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Me: Hey! Holy blizzard! Wonder if the county roads are open?
Perth Co: We declare a significant weather event!
Me: So, like, are the roads closed?
PC: Super significant. See our roads page.
Roads page: Significant. Weather. Event!
Me: So… yes?
PC: Definitely an event. Wow.
Me: /stares
PC: /stares

This is gutting StatsCan

And I guess, if you’re the big cog in the CanLit machine the Giller is, you need to look at your jury as a whole, and ask if those people, assembled together, can properly appreciate all the amazing stories written here on their own terms. If the answer’s no, good luck staying relevant.

Much is being made of them all being indie booksellers. Which, again, sure. There are sooooo many amazing indie booksellers out there from communities of colour. And *especially these days* they need and deserve their flowers.

The Giller jury appears to be all-white, and that is… a choice. Especially after the last few years they’ve had.

Do they all deserve it? Sure, could be. Did literally no one else, this year?!

Crime rates remained stable — and sometimes dropped — near Toronto supervised consumption sites, study finds Study published in JAMA Network Open tracked rates of assault, auto theft, break-and-enter, robbery and theft over $5,000 from 2014 to 2025.

The turn away from harm reduction is just not supported by data. www.thestar.com/news/gta/con...

US seizes Russian-flagged oil tanker in Atlantic after two-week pursuit US coastguard reportedly boards the Marinera, facing no resistance but risking confrontation with Moscow

All I’m saying is, what happens if we just don’t measure the dicks or have any contests about it? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Most of the students decided to just either steer around AI for now, or use it to speed up repetitive tasks for which they’ve already generated the accurate data. And then they *still* check the results. Because AI can do very goofy things.

Librarian here, confirming. My partner’s a prof for college journalism, which gives us lots of chances to work together. The most popular class he and I puttered on together for his students was the one where the students saw how frequently AI hallucinates, and how to research around that.

Anyway, this film is one of the best things I’ve seen in years, and kiddo and I are definitely film festival people now. SFF is doing all the animated shorts nominated for Oscars in March in one block, and we’re definitely going to be there.

And then, because we were at the Stratford Film Festival, we found out that it was made on open-source software by a couple doz people. A handful of animators working at any given time. The director did the music. (The Fest really wanted kids to know they could do this, and plugged the software.)

Flow (2024) ⭐ 7.9 | Animation, Adventure, Family 1h 25m | PG

The 11yo and I went to go see Flow at the Stratford Film Festival last night. It looks like a cute kids movie. It is *actually* something akin to a spiritual experience that is kid-appropriate. Remember Baraka? Gives you that feeling.

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My 14-yo-son has recreated the climax of Back to the Future in gingerbread and I thought you should know.

I am not qualified to weigh in on merits of free trade *at all,* but to the economist on CBC who just warned of a 1985 standard of living without CUSMA: in 1985, my high school drop-out parents owned a house and a car and were raising two kids on one income.

Don’t threaten me with a good time.

Some days, the win is just recognizing whether you’ve pissed off the right people.

Thank you! I really love my little house.

Finland is one comparatively successful model, but not just because schools teach critical thinking. Finland has high social trust, strong public-service media and coherent institutions. The whole system supports verification and open deliberation, you can’t copy the surface without the structure.

They’ve been horsing around with this all morning instead of screens. Do other kids not know about this?! How did we forget to tell them?!

I told kiddo they can build one if we get the right kit and they are puuuuuumped.

11 yo has discovered we have a device in our house that will just, like, pluck random music and information out of thin air. You can pick what stream, but not what the streams are playing. It’s all a surprise. And there are no monthly fees.

Radio, man. Magic.

Tree decorating playlist went from “Santa, Baby” to “Backdoor Santa” and my 11 yo has never been so scandalized. I’m dying.

‘The Mamdani effect’: wealthy New Yorkers show renewed interest in Miami’s Billionaire’s Beach Sales spike at the Ritz-Carlton, Four Seasons and Cipriani as luxury buyers weigh moves from Manhattan

Oh noooo, Kevin, whatever will we do without all the people who get in the way of the effective policy and don’t pay any fucking taxes?!

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And, if you live in Canada, the authors you read will get a little kickback, even if you borrow from a library instead of buying! Not enough people know that. publiclendingright.ca/about/overview

Thomas King’s admission he isn’t Indigenous is just the first step. This is what has to happen next Though not a shock to some, it's time to reckon with the harm done.

www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

I hope he takes his next steps guided by the communities he claimed to care about so much, and who are so impacted by this news and by all the many cases like it.

Thomas King, who built prolific career telling Indigenous stories, reveals he is not part Cherokee In an essay published in the Globe and Mail, the author of “The Inconvenient Indian” said a whistle-blowing organization shared his ancestry.

About as disappointing as any news can be. Hard to believe neither he nor his family ever dug further into Elvin’s family history, given everything he’d made of the connection he thought was there. www.thestar.com/entertainmen...