Aaron Manton

Guy in a bathroom stall at the Hudsons in Edmonton:

- I earned my Class 5 (the one where you can drive alone) license. - I was awarded the Game Belt after ball hockey. - The Leafs have won four in a row. A devastating couple of days for my haters.

At least $50 billion for another pipeline. $82 billion in new military spending in 5 years. $300 billion in corporate welfare and mega incentives at an investment summit. But the cupboard is bare for Parks Canada.

THE YELLOWKNIFER: Labour Views - Northerners need to know more about Alberta’s two-tier healthcare "We still haven’t heard what the GNWT is doing to make sure Northerners have fair access to the specialists and services we need." yellowknifer.com/2026/10/02/l...

"The Maple Leafs’ next great hope was forged in the rugged outdoors and against the odds. McKenna will become just the second player this century — and fourth ever — from the Yukon Territory to play in the NHL." www.nytimes.com/athletic/764...

also, fighting to save your bus or train from cuts isn't counterproductive to building a movement. it's why a lot of socialist organizations engage or work in solidarity with public transit advocacy.

I am a true Weezer fan, so none of my favourite tracks from Pinkerton are actually on Pinkerton. 🚀

Leafs should bring Grundström home!

We gotta abolish capitalism.

[job interview] interviewer: so god killed all your kids? job: that's right

my writing tip is simple: i write every single day, no exception, and i also look online for people talking about bad writing and assume they're talking about me then feel really bad for the rest of the day. Sometimes i also go for a little walk.

Tracks 1 - 6 on the White Album are Weezer’s best consecutive run of songs on a record after 1996.

Only when they ran out of bofa.

This is the world I worked for.

“Brain rot is the collective recognition of a shared cognitive state; we have all been through the same algorithmic meat grinder.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/o...

100% accurate!

We are here:

Very excited about the game-worn Leafs jersey I just purchased.

“By making herself the favorite WNBA player of people who otherwise have no interest in WNBA players, Cunningham is the latest relatively unremarkable athlete to achieve more notoriety from a second act in reactionary politics than from actually playing sports.” www.fastcompany.com/91597692/sop...

That’s a lot of kale!

you do not, under any circumstances, "gotta hand it to them"

'Cunningham added that she would never apologize for defending the next generation of girls from one day having to compete against someone who can reliably create her own shot.'

“How will we ever replace them?” FUND. THE. ARTS.

A real leader would have had Canadians ready to put in a war-like effort to avoid being dominated by an authoritarian United States. Carney has wasted SO MUCH political capital. Canadians were ready. They probably still are. But we have weak, ineffectual, or complicit leaders.

“My maid is walking around with a 4-carat diamond. I cannot allow myself to be upstaged by my maid.” www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Tactless Shrugged

I am once again asking those who spend their time lamenting visible poverty, addictions and homelessness to perhaps channel that rage into advocating for better healthcare, income supports, shelters and housing.

"The Alberta NDP has a different problem. Its communications too often feel improvised, overexplained, and visually second-rate. Sorry to my friends who work there, but the party has to step it up. Good intentions are not a production strategy." terryreith.substack.com/p/albertas-u...

Walk with me in the woods while I explain, from an anthropological perspective, why just existing feels like so much work these days:

Some of you have the most self-defeating, self-loathing takes regarding the value of your own labor, and I find it baffling.

Guerilla solar in the land of the midnight sun. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

if you're somehow still alive, and you're seeing this, please - pokemon go to the escape pods

“As our treasured cultural institutions are encircled and captured by capital, the Lakers being bought by a slumlord who funds AI and military weapons is par for the course.” www.thenation.com?post_type=ar...

Looks like an interesting story but I wouldn’t know. I got distracted after the first few paragraphs. www.vox.com/life/498932/...

Few things more annoying than someone who replies to a post about a social problem that we should fix by telling you that the people in power would never let it happen. If you want to climb into a hole and feel sorry for yourself, go nuts. I'm going to put in the work to make things better.

"We might ask ourselves, how much of my political energy am I devoting to a particular concern? And what does that attention facilitate? Am I attempting to make a decision... supporting an effort, or strengthening a relationship? Or am I simply riding waves of exhilaration, indignation, or angst?"

"...currently in early talks with the City of Yellowknife regarding building a proper skatepark near the ATCO Aquatic Centre. Yellowknife already has a skatepark, but users complain of its poor layout and years of disrepair." yellowknifer.com/2026/08/12/d...

"We’ll be in an even weaker position to resist than we are today. That’s the price of whatever short-term relief we may be buying. It’s more than a bad deal. It’s a bad trade. There is no better time to fight than right now. It does not get easier." www.readtheline.ca/p/jen-gerson...

If you live in a city you shouldn't have to own a car.