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They also claimed that overall the new facility was 400,000 square feet, a number they later clarified includes the renovated Pods and Cinesphere, the bridges and the basement. But even that number is wrong: It's actually 372,519. The vacated former Science Centre is 568,000 square feet.

Every anti-vaxxer I encounter seems to love weird unregulated supplements. They hate Big Pharma but they love Little Pharma, Big Pharma’s younger sibling who grew up without any adult supervision.

Michelle has written a deeply personal piece about Poppy, a small elderly collie cross who proved something important.

It’s about grief, responsibility, and the quiet ways dogs hold us steady.

A tender, thoughtful read.

www.dogdeskanimalaction.co.uk/p/when-a-dog...

Robert F Kennedy Jr: 1 year of failure In his first speech as Secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Robert F Kennedy Jr laid out a plan to restore trust. The COVID-19 pandemic saw public faith in Federal health...

Robert F Kennedy Jr: 1 year of failure - The Lancet www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Opinion | The Great Capitulation Is Over. What Will Take Its Place?

Chrystia Freeland today in the NYT. Gift article, no paywall.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/o...

How Right-Wing Political Influencers Dodged Election Spending Rules | The Tyee ‘We actually have a worse dark money problem in Canada than they do in the US.’

How Right-Wing Political Influencers Dodged Election Spending Rules
‘We actually have a worse dark money problem in Canada than they do in the US.’ #cdnpoli
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CPP Investments dodges questions about fossil fuels and Israeli investments at Edmonton town hall The CPP is earning strong economic returns, but at what social risk?

Oh, wow. This is quite the read. Oil, oil, and more oil, and other crazy tidbits.

open.substack.com/pub/theorcha...

When Chatbots Are Used to Plan Violence, Is There a Duty to Warn?

People are revealing sensitive personal information to A.I. chatbots — including plans to commit violent acts. What should the companies do when it happens? www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/t...

If you are still under the impression that Bitcoin and other crypto technologies have a use case in the economy, read this gift article and stop wasting energy on this.

“Or was the technology — which we learned was essentially a painfully slow and expensive database — just not that special?”

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It is high time for the EU to introduce qualified majority voting for security and foreign policy.

The current system is fundamentally broken.

Allowing a single, traitorous veto to hold the entire continent hostage does not protect sovereignty.

It just makes Europe weak

Please enjoy my cartoon in today's Toronto Star

Abortion pill lawsuit draws briefs from domestic violence groups, telehealth providers and AGs • Louisiana Illuminator Domestic violence awareness groups, telehealth organizations and nearly two dozen Democratic attorneys filed briefs Monday in a lawsuit that could curb medication abortion access nationwide.

The anti-choice effort to restrict mifepristone is in court on Tuesday - a key claim being that easy access results in women being coerced into taking pills. The opposite is true - abortion bans and restrictions trap women in abusive situations.

What you idiot commies don’t understand is that if we tax rich people they will JUST LEAVE, depriving our nation of tax cheats, political bribery, and national acts of perversion

Trump: "The supreme court (will be using lower case letters for a while based on a complete lack of respect!) of the United States accidentally and unwittingly gave me, as President of the United States, far more powers and strength than I had prior to their ridiculous, dumb, and very internationally divisive ruling. For one thing, I can use Licenses to do absolutely “terrible” things to foreign countries, especially those countries that have been RIPPING US OFF for many decades, but incomprehensibly, according to the ruling, can’t charge them a License fee - BUT ALL LICENSES CHARGE FEES, why can’t the United States do so? You do a license to get a fee! The opinion doesn’t explain that, but I know the answer! The court has also approved all other Tariffs, of which there are many, and they can all be used in a much more powerful and obnoxious way, with legal certainty, than the Tariffs as initially used. Our incompetent supreme court did a great job for the wrong people, and for that they should be ashamed of themselves (but not the Great Three!). The next thing you know they will rule in favor of China and others, who are making an absolute fortune on Birthright Citizenship, by saying the 14th Amendment was NOT written to take care of the “babies of slaves,” which it was as proven by the EXACT TIMING of its construction, filing, and ratification, which perfectly coincided with the END OF THE CIVIL WAR. How much better can you do than that? But this supreme court will find a way to come to the wrong conclusion, one that again will make China, and various other Nations, happy and rich. Let our supreme court keep making decisions that are so bad and deleterious to the future of our Nation - I have a job to do. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! President DONALD J. TRUMP

Trump: "I can use Licenses to do absolutely 'terrible' things to foreign countries"

www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

Opinion | What Exactly Is a ‘Concentration Camp’?

"The earlier years, pre-death camp, it’s important to say, Nazi concentration camp system, we are very much mimicking that. And if they get all the beds that they have funding for, we’ll be starting to approach the Soviet gulag as well." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/o...

We are the laughingstock of the world because of our moronic and psychotic president. Deservedly so.

The President had literally months to prepare his response to the Supreme Court ruling, yet couldn't even stick with his decision on the s.122 (temporary) tariff from Friday to Saturday, raising it from 10% to 15%.

I was offline for an hour. Are the tariffs on everybody at 600% yet?

‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...

A British grandmother with a valid visa detained by ICE for 6 weeks.

"So why did ICE detain her, and keep her locked up for so long? ICE officers are paid a bonus every time they detain someone. 'Individual ICE agents get money per head that they detain – the guards told me that,' Karen says."

I hope that rural voters will appreciate the bars being open Sunday morning while their local ER remains closed.

World Cup Crowds Could Be Targeted. This Team Worked to Keep Them Safe.

Look what we’ve lost under Trump. World Cup Crowds Could Be Targeted. This Team Worked to Keep Them Safe. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/s...

'A Big F*ck You to Big Tech': New Jersey Residents Defeat AI Data Center | Common Dreams "It's time to build communities, not data centers," said one local activist.

New Brunswick, NJ just canceled plans for a colossal AI data center after massive pushback from the community.

That's a huge win for people power.

AI data centers are sucking up communities’ utilities AND draining state resources — while enriching Big Tech CEOs.

One of the creepiest things Trump said was that the families of the justices who voted against him should be ashamed of them. No one asked about the justices' families. Trump brought that up in a comment that has real "we know where you live" and "nice family you got there" vibes.

From the Other Place, and the New York Times' excellent Canada correspondent

The SCOTUS tariff ruling will age Trump more than anything else during his presidency.

They’re not just his core economic policy; they’re his primary leverage for global bullying and corruption. He sees them as the source of his strength.

This will serve as a catalyst for his cognitive unraveling.

At last. SCOTUS remembers that Congress is a separate and co-equal branch of government, to whom the Constitution assigns the power to levy taxes. One of Trump’s favorite levers is removed from the arsenal of extortion.

Danielle Smith is no separatist; she's much, much worse In a televised address last night Danielle Smith launched a xenophobic assault on immigration and proposed a set of referendum questions for next Fall advocating a constitutional agenda that would red...

This is a great read on what Dani is doing....

open.substack.com/pub/emmettma...