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Just got back from You Can See Everything, which shoots to the top of my favourite movies this year. Just incredible and exactly the sort of material that makes the documentary form work best.

The Conservatives will end the night fairly close to the 900,000 or so votes they got in 2024. The NDP will go from just under 950,000 votes in 2024 to less than 700,000 this time. Turnout was down — but how much of it was demotivated 2017-2024 NDP voters who stayed home is a massive question.

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Saw Viet Thanh Nguyen present Akhil Sharma, Sigrid Nunez and (a suspiciously young-looking) Nathan Blum at the reading event for Best American Short Stories 2026

Heck of a lot of stats in this one

Bit late to the draw but I thought this Anne Carson poem was pretty neat: www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/154791...

Bioware has shut down. Founded in 1995 in Edmonton, it was the software studio behind iconic video game series such as Baldur's Gate, Mass Effect, Dragon Age and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic and Star Wars: The Old Republic.

suffrageapp.ca/abref26/ = cool projected remaining vote tracker for the Alberta ballot questions!

A Sunset by Robert Hass www.divasofverse.com/2025/01/a-su...

If you're a Canadian worker, there's no better place than BC to do an hour's labour for an hour's pay. Since 2024 BC has boasted the highest hourly wage of any province (incl. imputed hourly pay for salaried staff). BC passed SK in 2019, Ont in 2023, and Alta in 2024. #bcpoli /2

Just saw Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother... Absolutely wild movie that somehow balances religious family drama and goofy pulp thriller until it takes off fearlessly into the stratosphere of weirdness.

A lot of Canadians turning to chatbots for election information don’t always get accurate responses, a Parliamentary committee heard today.

Conservative government of Alberta is preempting Edmonton, requiring the city to: —Reverse the city's 2024 change allowing small-scale apartment buildings to be built citywide. Change resulted in a building boom: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... —Restore parking requirements, which city eliminated in 2020

IVF is more popular than ever—but recently, the number of people who say they’re open to it has fallen by more than half, @faith-hill.bsky.social reports. She explores what the dramatic drop might reveal:

Interesting idea.

Saw the world premiere of Jonathan Glazer's Joy of Joys at NYFF tonight and enjoyed it quite a lot! It's a good thing I'd listened to a lot of the new War Child album beforehand because it's very coy about actually including the music, (and it's also quite loud at times).