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Gobsmacking. You start to sympathize with the f***capitalism people. TLDR: uber-like contract nursing companies but credit card debt info ON THEIR OWN EMPLOYEES to gauge how low a wage offer they will offer. Desperate people accept lower wages.

When my mother got cancer in the 1970s, people pushed laetril treatments in Mexico, laying of hands by a miracle worker in the Philippines, and transplant from a pig (just like John Wayne!”). Her hopes were raised and crushed as we researched. I came to despise these people.

“Rare booksellers across Europe are seeing a similar surge in purchase requests which they suspect are coming from AI labs in America.” www.news.com.au/technology/o...

AI labs buy, scan, shred millions of rare booksIf you have retreated to physical books because the internet is too full of AI slop, bad news — now they’re shredding the books to feed their AI slop machines.www.news.com.au

Chanterelle mushroom season in northern Saskatchewan. Just got a pound from my source so @jgutwin.bsky.social got us some cold-smoked steaks, add in a bottle of Gray Monk Syrah CabSauv and various sides, and life is good.

Elbows down, it seems.

Ironically, at that time a conventional luxury eSUV would have sold like hotcakes, especially to suburban women.

City of Saskatoon has created an innovative office - the Office of the Matriarch - with an “Auntie Advocate” to make the city safer for Indigenous women and girls. Drawing from traditional culture, the aunties were the strong voices who pinpoint what’s needs fixing.

It’s not just your imagination. A university summer job paid me enough for half an apartment, tuition, and to run a beater car (with the help of a small student loan). Students now have nowhere near the ability to cover costs from wages.

How exactly do you tariff wildfire smoke? The haze in my city is from Washington state fires and I’m wondering how to monetize this.

Reading about the tariff impacts around the world and it is astonishing how much a weak US Congress has damaged the US position. No one trusts the US to do what they say. And all the effusive (showy?) rhetoric Americans had for their beloved constitution? Just for show, apparently.

We get the Saturday @theglobeandmail.com . Today the paper seemed so small but honestly, every article is excellent. On point international and national reporting. Interesting. Well-written and lots of actual reporting sprinkled with just enough opinion to frame issues. Excellence and good value.

48 countries in the World Cup. 47 have universal healthcare. Do we really want to use the US as our healthcare model?

Are they really using the playbook of demonizing us to soften the population for hostile action? It’s happened too often for this to be just a trade stance. Contemptible people.

Love this idea for Canada and Cuba. Canada may not do tit-for-tat retaliation but there’s no reason we can’t thumb our nose and help out an old friend.

In the 80s Japan banned ski equipment imports, citing the “the uniqueness of Japanese snow”. In truth, they wanted a window for Japanese ski equipment manufacturers to catch up. French Foreign Trade Minister Edith Cresson didn’t miss a beat, immediately banning all Japanese motorcycles citing…1

A Swiss company, apparently known for cheeky ads, ran this during hydration breaks in the World Cup. The US will have a lot of damage to repair.

Prof Robson has calculated the impact of the new Trumpian tariff on Canada and on US consumers.