Brett Pardy

As a Canucks fan, this is sounding like a relief. Thank you China.

It seems cruel to make the Vancouver Canucks play another 38 games this season

I'm sure a man who's never lived one moment outside hockey culture knows how to fix a deeply broken system

LA Times: Elon Musk company bot apologizes

Newsweek: Elon Musk's Grok Apologizes

International Business Times: Grok Issues Apologies

The Hill: Musk's AI chatbot Grok apologizes

1. Headlines everywhere today read "Grok apologizes."

This is bullshit. A chatbot is not something that can apologize.

Pretending otherwise is simple laundering these companies' bullshit about what AI is, while diffusing blame away from the human beings that developed and released this system.

Wasn't expecting Global News to be a major figure in Bari Weiss' downfall (she'll unfortunately continue in her role, but at least both her malice and incompetent are more widely known now)

Disney decided their long standing core value of suppressing creative labour rights trumped their other long standing core value of zealously expanding copyright law

Oh no, we can't loose the strict adherence to traditional ideas of gender and sexuality that the Looney Tunes cartoons were so famous for.

The problem is Netflix doesn't even want you to watch movies at home. It wants you to have content on in the background.

Totally, their entire formative lives revolve around hockey. And starting so young they probably don't even get a phase of being really into dinosaurs.

Hockey (men's hockey in particular) could honour Ken Dryden by embracing a culture where players have multiple interests and are encouraged to be curious

That part

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (FREDERICTON, August 18th, 2025) A group of 413 Canadian and Canadian-based scholars, athletes, sports journalists, and sports officials have signed a public letter calling on Tennis Canada to cancel the Davis Cup tournament with Israel this September in Halifax. Signatories include three United Nations Special Rapporteurs, four-time Olympian distance runner Mohammed Ahmed, two members of the Palestinian women’s soccer team who compete for York University, a former Canadian Olympic beach volleyball coach, sports journalists Shireen Ahmed and Ian Kennedy, public intellectuals and activists Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis and some of Canada’s most distinguished and internationally-recognized scholars. The letter is signed by prominent individuals from 46 different academic institutions in Canada, as well as by Canadians at prominent global institutions. One hundred and six of the signatories are based in Atlantic Canada, where the event is slated to occur. The call to cancel the Davis Cup event comes amidst rising condemnation of Israeli conduct in Gaza and the West Bank, which leading legal scholars, activists and human rights groups have described as a genocide. Given the ongoing genocide in Gaza, the letter says that allowing the competition to go ahead is “unconscionable” and calls on the Canadian government to prevent Canadian athletes from competing against Israeli athletes in all international sporting competitions. Despite Tennis Canada’s claims that the event isn’t political and is just about playing tennis, the letter states in part that Canada should follow the lead of other nations who “refuse to legitimize Israel’s crimes” by withdrawing from international sporting competition. “This includes Jordanian tennis player Abdellah Shelbayh, who recently withdrew from a tennis competition in Greece after being slated to play an Israeli athlete,” the letter says. The letter points to the use of sporting sanctions in South Africa as a meaningful …

“Given the ongoing genocide in Gaza…we call on Sport Canada and Tennis Canada to forbid Canadian athletes to compete against Israeli athletes at the Davis Cup and all other international events.”

- 413 🇨🇦 academics, athletes + sports journalists, inc 3 former UN special rapporteurs + an Olympic 🥈ist

NHL says world junior players acquitted of sex assault ‘ineligible’ to play | Globalnews.ca Michael McLeod, Carter Hart, Alex Formenton, Dillon Dubé and Cal Foote were found not guilty of all charges, but the NHL says they are ineligible to play as it reviews the ruling.

I can't believe the NHL actually put out a good statement (alas they won't stick to it): globalnews.ca/news/1130336...

Big media conglomerates love to use the excuse of streaming for why traditional distribution is unprofitable and people largely buy it, but it's just a replication of killing still profitable newspapers because of "the internet". These are mostly ideological cuts.

Christmas in July is currently on Hallmark. Christmas in July comes earlier ever year

New NHL draft format looks like the set of an early 2000s game show

Featuring my article on how mainstream hockey media offers easy redemption arcs

I seem to remember when Daniel Sedin took this approach, it was received a lot less heroically

19 companies pulling back their support for Pride For years, major corporations publicly celebrated the LGBTQ community.

19 companies that have pulled support of Pride parades, in whole or in part, this year:

Lowe's
Dyson
Nivea
Tiffany & Co.
Toyota
Capital One
UPS
Disney
DoorDash
Live Nation
Anheuser-Busch
Diageo
PepsiCo
Nissan
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Citi
Mastercard
Booz Allen Hamilton
Deloitte

Excellent start, smart to target the Frost's Canadian stars

Prioritizing empathy is needed to combat fascism, especially because fascists are deliberately trying to eliminate empathy from society.

Iranian director Jafar Panahi wins Palme d’Or at Cannes for It Was Just an Accident Panahi, long censored and previously imprisoned in his home country, took top prize as Sentimental Value and The Secret Agent also honoured The dissident Iranian film-maker Jafar Panahi has won the top prize at the Cannes film festival for his drama It Was Just an Accident, inspired by his stints of imprisonment at the hands of the Iranian government. The film was the first in many years made by the director after a ban on film-making was lifted – although he has continued to direct despite being expressly forbidden to do so. In 2011, a year after his first arrest, a copy of his drama This Is Not a Film was snuck into Cannes on a USB stick hidden in a cake. Continue reading...

Iranian director Jafar Panahi wins Palme d’Or at Cannes for It Was Just an Accident

Pete DeBoer, the Carolina Hurricanes of the Western Conference Finals

Maybe the Leafs will spend the next year pretending Matthews isn't hurt and just telling him he needs to get in better shape

“chicago pope” is one of the shows jack donaghy greenlit when he was tanking nbc

“The pope will be from Chicago” sounds like an 1880s Republican’s dire prediction for if we don’t stop Irish immigration

Douthat: What is the coding? To a listener for whom it seems absurd to call “No Country for Old Men” right wing, what makes that right wing to you? Keeperman: Because I like it, it’s good, and therefore I want it to share my political preferences.

like what the fuck are we even doing here

Listened to the NYT interview a far right boutique press publisher who publishes both Curtis Yarvin and hilariously Hardy Boys books in their original unwoke text.

The guy was going on about the need for truth while also saying it's important to publish things like Holocaust denial. A deep thinker

Sad in a world of endless Star Wars merchandise there's no Kathryn Hunter Andor action figure