Alexandra Kimball

To avoid humans, animals turn to the night | The Narwhal In the Canadian Rockies and elsewhere, grizzly bears and other wildlife are becoming more nocturnal as outdoor recreation hits record popularity

Whether to avoid crowds or extreme heat — or simply to gaze up at the stars — people are spending more time outside in the dark. On every continent except Antarctica, wildlife has become more nocturnal to avoid people. Where do they go next? thenarwhal.ca/outdoor-recr...

This is such a bleak but important story about the state of public education in the city. Ugh.

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The Money Is In All The Wrong Places | Defector You can always tell who in Hollywood has family money by their Instagrams. People like Dakota Johnson, who have a Hollywood lineage deeper than the Mariana Trench, post only rarely. They post about so...

@aselrod.bsky.social I think this is it: she’s a symptom not a cause:

defector.com/the-money-is...

Never too late to learn that absolutely anything can be a subversive adult destination with the right font!

If there’s any 90s marketing trope I love it’s definitely the Late Nite font

I spent a night in a field an hour outside Kitchener getting an up-close look at the worm industry. Our tiny corner of the province exports all of North America's bait worms: it's a curious business run by families and powered by immigrant labour, and every fact I learned enchanted me a little more🪱

I gotta say, Facebook really upped its game with having AI breathlessly sportscast the comments sections on boomertrap public posts

I’ve never seen anything like this. The apocalyptic smoke sun + endless cormorant lines. Some of the giant Vs break into a dozen smaller ones at once. It’s like the dogfights in Star Wars. The city is barely visible in the grey haze.

Everyone else hates writing their own bio right 😭

So happy this got written! Lice removal centres popping up everywhere now, here’s why:

It’s like the ad for a waterfront studio condo but massively expanded to a downtown home

It’s a house decorated like a condo and I think that sums up a lot

Yeah, the background is really out of focus but somehow still evokes the movie Kids, just with 30% more hostile architecture

Where is your Toronto neighborhood on the scale of “vintage” stores (?) with 80s Playboys on prominent display? Mine’s at like 1000

LinkedIn Park: a professional networking site for Linkin Park fans

Are There More Bunnies in Toronto? | The Local I never used to see rabbits in Toronto. Then they were everywhere. Then I lost my mind.

I never used to see rabbits in Toronto. Then, suddenly, I began seeing them everywhere. Then I lost my mind investigating urban bunnies. Please read my a journey into the heart of rabbit madness. thelocal.to/more-rabbits...

Was expecting you to find out you weren’t seeing multiple rabbits, just one everywhere, ending in a sort of Alice in Wonderland situation.

The Cormorant Wars | The Local The Toronto waterfront is home to the largest colony of cormorants in North America. And now they're spreading—squawking, puking, leaving toxic guano. Inside the fight between residents, conservationi...

@alexandrakimball.bsky.social challenges us to spare some affection for a bird species that isn't always easy to love 5/ thelocal.to/cormorants-t...

Are There More Bunnies in Toronto? | The Local I never used to see rabbits in Toronto. Then they were everywhere. Then I lost my mind.

This story by @nickhunebrown.bsky.social is as deft, inquisitive and delightful as its cottontailed subject. Toronto bunnies forever!!🐰🐰 thelocal.to/more-rabbits...

End Times at Ontario’s Roadside Zoos? | The Local Ontario’s lax regulations have made the province the “wild west” for exotic animals. But as public concern over animal welfare grows, some zoos are buckling under the pressure.

Ontario has gained a reputation as the “roadside zoo capital of Canada.” But as public concern and criticism mounts over the animals’ living conditions and treatment, zoos are buckling under the pressure. thelocal.to/ontario-road...

Yamaguchi Kayo - "Cormorants," woodblock print, 1963

Yamaguchi Kayo - "Cormorants,"
woodblock print, 1963

Indigenous sovereignty in Canada, explained | The Narwhal Indigenous sovereignty and Indigenous-led conservation are both crucial to Canada’s future. We explain in our latest video...

Indigenous sovereignty and Indigenous-led conservation are both crucial to Canada’s future — but they’re also widely misunderstood. @michellecyca.com explains in our latest video:
thenarwhal.ca/indigenous-s...

Great piece Leah, very eye-opening. Congrats!

More from @thelocal.to’s summer wildlife issue (have always wondered about those roadside zoos!):

Their return to the Great Lakes is a sign of ecological rejuvenation (as are the eagles), which is really special to witness as a long term resident. Thanks for reading Eric!

They’re really something! I noticed once that the V-shape made by a flying group was roughly the shape of a single flying cormorant which is really cool.

So thrilled to see my cormorant story migrate to @longreads.com! I suggest everyone listen to glam/prog/early goth rock while reading 🦅🦅

Doug Ford made it legal to create bird 'death traps' to speed up home construction Nature is disappearing globally, and in Doug Ford’s Ontario new laws now make it legal to sacrifice bird life for unchecked urban growth.

Bill 17 has made it legal to build bird death traps.
New Ontario law scraps rules that protect migratory birds from flying into glass buildings — all to speed up housing construction. Nature pays the price.

Read more here:
www.thesarniajournal.ca/news/doug-fo...

The Cormorant Wars | The Local The Toronto waterfront is home to the largest colony of cormorants in North America. And now they're spreading—squawking, puking, leaving toxic guano. Inside the fight between residents, conservationi...

“There’s a whole generation of people who didn’t see cormorants… So then when they returned, it looked like they were an invasive species. But really, they were just coming back.” thelocal.to/cormorants-t...