Giller Prize winning fictioneer and screenwriter. Irony-poisoned. lynncoady.com
Pathetic. Elbows down, backbone absent www.thewirereport.ca/2026/07/28/b...
BREAKING: Ottawa to scrap base contribution requirements for U.S. streamers - The Wire ReportIn a recent letter to the Federal Court of Appeal, the government outlined its intention to “eliminate the base contribution requirement on streaming services and to provide government funding to repl...www.thewirereport.caThey thought he was a dead man… Nobody heard him moaning… Jason Statham IS: Not Waving, but Drowning
Jesse HawkenStudio execs are going to want to adapt more poems for the big screen now
Boycott like your life depends on it
Bernadette🍁🍁🇨🇦🇨🇦Another reason not to buy US. Their food supply is not safe. Nobody is keeping an eye on anything.
The look is clearly a tribute to Roy Rogers, the greatest warrior of all the singing cowboys
Corey Atadcan't stop laughing at this Poilievre: "We will reinstill a warrior culture, not a woke culture."
I wonder if the next time someone tells us who they are we’ll believe them
Megan GreenwellI have edited a lot of sexual-assault-accusation articles, and this one easily clears every veracity check: contemporaneous emails with her therapist, a boyfriend who knew, a woman she warned—all before Platner ran for office. Good on Politico for nailing it, and on Jenny Racicot for speaking up.
Such a fantastic interview with Andy Brown, dynamo publisher of national treasure @conundrumpress.bsky.social and all around great guy lareviewofbooks.org/article/andy...
Diving In Feetfirst | Los Angeles Review of BooksAndy Brown talks about the 30th anniversary of Conundrum Press and building a support system for Canadian comics publishing.lareviewofbooks.orgHere you see what results from the ruling class delusion that human workers have no value whatsoever beyond total obedience
Dare ObasanjoFord has rehired hundreds of senior engineers after replacing them with AI backfired and has cost the company billions of dollars. AI adoption is blamed for Ford being the most recalled automaker in the U.S. with 51 recalls covering over 11 million vehicles in the first half of 2026 alone.
Wonder who picked a photo of women performing domestic labour as an illustration of ‘doing nothing’
The Atlantic“Some of the best time we spend with other people happens not when we’ve planned something special, but when we simply make room for them in the middle of an ordinary day,” Rafaela Jinich writes in The Wonder Reader:
“The order states she’s entitled to continue living in her apartment until Sept. 30, but that’s an impossible reality right now because her former home has been turned into debris.”
Matt SticklandHow about maybe like... At least one barrier?
Sounds festive
Lindsay BrownThe whole city of Vancouver is crawling in cops right now—black police boats patrolling an empty bay, black helicopters flying low over crowds with guys in paramilitary gear hanging out of them Ken Sim's ABC Vancouver is filled w/ cops, and now the whole city is their self portrait #vanpoli #FIFA
Scott Pelley tearing up over his coleagues being insulted and disrespected is strong stuff in this AI-blighted age of worker immiseration www.nytimes.com/2026/06/07/m...
Scott Pelley on the Bari Weiss Era and His Last Days at ‘60 Minutes’www.nytimes.comWhen I lived in Vancouver I once watched a crow fly off carrying a bag of someone’s takeout in its beak
The TyeeCrows, magpies and ravens — all members of the corvid family — are exceptionally intelligent. An excerpt from 'A Bird's IQ," Louis Lefebvre's new book, tells us why. 📘🐦⬛ thetyee.ca/Culture/2026...
The Munroe revelations freaked me out for reasons this essay gets at. The practice of fiction as moral evasion—as a self-excusing side-step out of messy human reality. Still grappling with this open.substack.com/pub/bryanpar...
The Geography of Silence: Alice Munro and the Costs of ExposureWhen Alice Munro went to battle against her neighbours in Huron County, Ontario, in the late summer of 1978, she did so as the high priestess of exposure.open.substack.comShutting down tourist information centres and public libraries across the province. One big question mark indeed @nsgov.bsky.social
Joan BaxterVisitors to Nova Scotia who fly in to the Halifax Airport are now greeted by a big question mark where the tourism booth and tourism greeters in tartan once welcomed them. Now, they get this great big question mark. Welcome to Tim Houston’s Nova Scotia?
It’s in that Mary Oliver line about needing to love the “soft animal of your body”. But we don’t, because we can’t stand that we are soft and we can’t face that we are animals
scott dagostinoI wish everyone could read this Barbara Ehrenreich essay from 30 years ago(!) and really think about why the proponents of AI are pushing as hard as they are. They simply don’t like human beings on a fundamental level, without or within.