Benjamin Boles

A few months ago I decided to try making some electronic music at a much slower tempo than I’d ever worked with before. Here’s the result of those 76bpm experiments: m.soundcloud.com/benjamin-bol...

There is only one solution that will save these jobs and put Canada back in the driver's seat: we need to nationalize Stelco.

The American CEO who bought Stelco is openly admitting that he purchased the company to sabotage it. This is why the Liberals should have never approved Stelco's sale in the first place. When you give away ownership of a critical industry like steel, your economy is forever under another's thumb.

"...a dependency on equipment you buy once is very different from a dependency on fuel you buy every month. When a shipping lane closes, a fuel-importing economy feels it within days. If solar panel exports stopped tomorrow, the panels already installed would keep generating for decades."

'Emergency': Netanyahu Rails Nonstop Against Alleged High Arab Election Turnout www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Trump/Musk/MAGA don't realise that their ability to influence world events by holding other countries hostage through tech shutdowns is rapidly diminishing. This was always a one-off strategy. Once you actually use it then all the calculations change.

Guest speakers in Shawn's U of T civics class who've gone on to become city councillors: 1 what a night

Just sad. It's like they're not even trying anymore.

shut the fuck up meatball man

Yeah, this is really bad. It's good that El-Sayed distanced himself from it, but I am in awe at how Cenk's left-wing PAC managed to combine antisemitism with transphobia and pitch it as *supporting* the Democrat in this race.

Nobody knows anything about politics. It’s true. Wild.

IntegrityTO lost. The edge lord poverty porn make fun of a Chinese accent posts didn’t work. The internet is not reality. Thank god.

As importantly, all of the Olivia Chow-aligned incumbent councillor and most of the Chow-aligned candidates (all endorsed by the pressure group Progress Toronto) are winning their races. Council was a big barrier for her agenda for the last three years and it’ll be a bit easier now.

Olivia Chow now has a strong mandate to pursue Toronto separatism.

I’m so glad that Nunziata is finally out. We need to get rid of Holyday next election.

My mayor.

Olivia Chow has received the highest number of votes of any Mayoral Candidate in Toronto history. Prior to this the high was Mel Lastman with 483,277 in 2000. She has recieved 523,641 and counting. More votes than *any* elected rep at *every* level of government in Canada has *ever* gotten.

Toronto Election Results Facts: 1 Feelings: 0

Don’t know if this has been said yet, but Olivia Chow is the first mayor to ever receive over 500,000 votes

Tonight we celebrate Olivia Chow, tomorrow we go back to being mildly disappointed in her

How much did Olivia Chow exceed expectations? (Worth saying she was always expected to win.) She's gotten the most votes of any Toronto mayor ever, and the joke candidate who ran because he had the same surname as her came in third on the strength of alphabetical ballot proximity. #Toronto #TOpoli

Everyone I voted for in the Toronto election won, and my new councillor (Diana Chan McNally) is probably the only person ever elected to city council who is currently renting a basement apartment. I am very excited to see her replace Gord Perks!

Voter turnout may be the big story in Mayor Chow’s re-election. Turnout is up 250K compared to 2023 and Chow’s popular vote is also up 250K. Compared to 2023, she’s held onto her base downtown and in central Scarborough, but added north Etobicoke, parts of North York & completely swept Scarborough.

PEOPLE LAUGHED AT ME WHEN I WROTE THIS, FATIMA, THEY LAUGHED WELL WHO'S LAUGHING NOW www.tvo.org/article/anal...

I'm going to try to do this cleanly. Today's right wing governments are networked to each other. Those networks are well-documented. You can read about them in books. Following the elections in one node of that network is good practice for understanding the U.S. node.

This, plus Canadian conservatives mimic American conservatives, so it's important to know what the former will be borrowing from the latter.

I remember always finding it weird that my Christmas nostalgia was for 70s-style tackiness despite growing up in the 80s and 90s, then realised that it was because regular people (particularly working parents with better things to do) don't or can't keep up with cutting edge fashion.

"he asked for an accommodation under Title VII, a federal law that allows employees to ask for a change in their work requirements to comply with religious belief. In Sept., the university agreed and granted him a religious accommodation, meaning he does not have to use AI to complete his work."

Solar has overtaken nuclear. A decade ago it supplied 1% of the world's power. In 2025 it met three quarters of global demand growth. Almost nobody saw it coming. I spoke to Jocelyn Timperley at BBC Future about why. www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

Sweet! www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

good morning fellow Toronto's please don't let us be mayored by a guy named Brad Bradford. A dud with a dangerous desire for power who would destroy this city from within. Olivia Chow is not a perfect mayor, but she's a damn sight better than anyone else on the ballot, and we can't backslide now.

This is not a "you didn't KNOW?" post because I truly envy and respect anyone unaware of Linehan's output BUT he's been EXTREMELY racist for years now. Attacking black actors on his wife's show Motherland as diversity hires; podcast screeds about muslims in Ireland; delighting in Palestinian deaths.

this is like when I turned my phone off the night the Rob Ford crack tape story broke

MUSK isn't leaving theaters because a billionaire bought the distributor. MUSK is leaving theaters because no one came to see MUSK, and the theater owners would rather use those screens for a movie that draws an audience.

MATA bsky.app/profile/nbcn...

Bluesky has four kinds of users

It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.

NEW from me: Last year, Mark Carney set a goal to double Canada's non-US exports by 2035. Today, he's already halfway there In response to Trump's tariffs & threats, Canadian businesses, consumers, & even tourists are taking difficult steps to decouple from the US🧵 www.apricitas.io/p/how-canada...

Who knows what tomorrow will bring. Get out and vote for the Toronto you want. It will make a difference.

no really, "every accusation is a confession" is at this point just trivially true for everything the right ever says

Aaaand not even one day later… Ukraine officials denied Musk’s claim that their military violated Starlink terms of service… www.cnbc.com/2026/10/25/u...

It's notable how sincerely and genuinely defence folks believe Europe will be invaded by Russia in the next five years You can disagree with their analysis. And it's definitely not penetrated general public understanding. But it is shaping decision-maker thinking www.economist.com/europe/2025/...