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Imagine if a superpower regularly threatened to annex your country. Now imagine that your largest newspaper chain was owned by a hedge-fund that was closely aligned with the party running that superpower. That would be crazy, right?

Who could have seen this coming

Periodic reminder that approximately 2/3 of the equity in Postmedia is owned by the American hedge fund Chatham Asset Management.

Everyone keeps trying to appease the nazis by being more like the nazis and all that happens is you get more nazis if only there were some sort of historical precedent for understanding this process

bring back shame www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

How Can We Live Together?Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.www.bostonreview.net

So we should frame the COVID-19 response for what it is: a profound success of public health professionals in the face of overwhelming opposition, an absolute failure of our broader communities to extend compassion to its members, and a sign of the general orientation of our culture.

I fear Ontarians have forgotten the true meaning of the Civic Holiday

Yes, even though it looks appalling to all of us, the Fauci hearing is absolutely having the consequences intended by the right wing media machine. Let’s check in on America’s favorite cube of expired meat Joe Rogan:

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It's absolutely insane we've somehow let the Covid recriminations debate become like "why didn't we reopen in person schools before there was a vaccine" and not "why did none of the trump guys go to jail for stealing PPE from New York hospitals in March 2020"

Quick history lesson from an old Amazon, PayPal, all that wasn't some genius who came up with some unique thing. There was a rush to take as many already existing things and put them online and the ones that succeeded were people who were born wealthy.

Everybody needs to be pulling their weight on this one

Playing a song for you to advertise my show on August 12 at Dina's Tavern in Toronto Ontario.

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In the very near future, no one will believe we had a policy this good. www.theglobeandmail.com/investing/pe...

End of carbon tax rebates a financial hit for Canada’s poorest, research showsRebates were tax-free payments that compensated consumers for the cost of carbon taxeswww.theglobeandmail.com

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Canada can’t regulate Big Tech by trusting Big Tech policyoptions.irpp.org/2026/07/bill...

Canada can’t regulate Big Tech by trusting Big TechBill C-34 puts too much faith in Big Tech. Canada should regulate the algorithms, data practices and business models that drive online harm.policyoptions.irpp.org

I think Canada’s legal community does not adequately grasp the extent to which the legal system is being misused by performative dorks on the Internet

this owns www.inverse.com/input/cultur...

The adorable love story behind Wikipedia’s 'high five' photosNearly 14 years later, the tale of this iconic couple can finally be told.www.inverse.com

The conditions that flight attendants work under is crazy pants. Go get ‘em, team.

Anyway, everything that people rightly lay at the feet of lockdowns for COVID mitigation is not actually a problem inherent to lockdowns themselves, but caused by the declining level of support the government provided for us as they continued because they were ideologically opposed to them.