Andrea Bellemare

Turnover at a glance: Nunziata –> Padovani Perks –> Chan McNally Saxe –> Layton Moise –> Stikuts Fletcher –> Ehrhardt Bradford –> Erskine-Smith Myers –> Chen Other than the loss of Myers, this is going to be a pretty strong Council for Chow.

Mississauga just ushered in a historic, long overdue generational shift. Alvin Tedjo skipped the political games and spent the campaign meeting people where they are: cafes, restaurants, community spaces Now he’s the first racialized mayor of Canada’s 6th largest city. www.cp24.com/news/2026/10...

Would love to see some tax breaks and supplements for single people. Many of my couple friends have houses, two incomes to tackle the bills, income splitting and other tax breaks. I rent and I get no tax breaks. In effect I subsidize them and it costs me. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

"So then my manager told me that AI could do what I do, but for faster and cheaper —" "But don't we need human oversight of those sensors?" "Yup. So the first alarm from the reactor-" "The FIRST alarm?" "ChatGPT said there was nothing to worry about, so my manager didn't."

Disastrous. "More than 2 newspapers are lost for every startup created. Virtually all new news sources are urban, while rural America is increasingly arid news territory. Virtually all philanthropic support for local news is in metro regions..." localnewsinitiative.northwestern.edu/projects/sta...

Really remarkable to see how many people in Toronto showed up to protest the Bloor bike lane removal

Just recently rented a car with no knobs (except for the gear shift, which sucked because it was a laggy knob) and I join this chorus

Look, it's her first time probably, she'll get it

This is a good thread cutting through the hype around AI as world ender and how to actually talk about the Hugging Face hack. I particularly like the section about the chatbots imitating hacker conference transcripts, a thing people have taken to show AI was actually "planning" not just imitating

What's wackier, western MB and eastern Que having the same time zone in the winter, or the winter time sandwiches of Kenora, Ont. and NWT?

Fully electric aviation has some major challenges (mostly: batteries are heavy and don't get lighter as they get used up) but I love the idea of decreasing aircraft emissions through a hybrid approach, perhaps as a step toward new, clever solutions for fully electric air transport in the future.

Look, it's technically still summer but it feels like it's time: www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/its...

Strong competitor for new author photo just dropped 📷 @dreabells.bsky.social

Seems like the first rule of toothbrush making is dealing with the whole water issue

Watching a video about cooking Brie and fruit in a skillet over a campfire and who the hell cuts Brie this way, is your hand still attached?

As always, feels like a good day to remind people of DARVO, a tactic favoured by manipulators: Deny, Attack, and Reverse Victim and Offender. Just in case that reminds you of any particular international situation, maybe.

"Fancy grocery stores have become a nexus for laundering conservative ideology under the compelling guise of pantry goods that are nice to look at." www.eater.com/food-culture...

werner herzog on AI filmmaking (from here www.indiewire.com/features/int...)

Dolly Parton logged a combined total of 115 years of union membership. Throughout her working life, the “9 to 5” singer/songwriter carried the union cards of two major unions: The American Federation of Musicians Local 257 in Nashville — for 58 years. SAG-AFTRA — for 57 years. HAPPY LABOR DAY!

“If most of our business is outside of the U.S. and it’s more expensive because of the self-inflicted tariffs to build things in the U.S., that does not encourage us to build more things in the U.S,” Agranat said. “That’s counter to that.” www.thestar.com/business/fac...

Turns out there was also a gas leak! www.thestar.com/news/gta/dvp...

This Proud Boys chapter says they have plans to keep harassing this DSA group - maybe if there's more free food they'll end up joining the DSA instead

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the fact that the NBA was forced to investigate and punish its richest owner because of a scandal uncovered by an investigative journalist… shoutout to pablo torre! journalism is so important!!!

Not entirely certain but think I passed a gas leak on my way home - fire truck had blocked off the street and the aroma of gas was strong. Realized there's no obvious way to check online, like a hydro outage. Wild storm #torontostorm #ontariostorm

What Pablo Torre did was ridiculously impressive. Uncovered a conspiracy between rich guys, withstood a propaganda campaign by one of the richest guys in the world with a pretty good reputation, didn't buckle or panic, and just kept reporting. That's some Pulitzerin' right there.

Toronto is so dark it's like night, branches down everywhere. This storm is a doozy

MapQuest is the top of the App Store for free apps today in Canada

Jennifer Nelson’s entry to this year’s Minnesota State Fair crop art

I didn't know what crop art was but this is well worth your time, some incredible artwork.

Dolly Parton knew what it was like to struggle as she fought for working families her whole career. From providing free books to kids to giving working women our "9 to 5" anthem, she was an icon and an inspiration. Rest in power to our union sister. We will always love you.

They tried to go after French language protections? Calisse

Respect to the source who suggested to me this morning that, while a deal seemed likely, the bad sign to watch for was Howard Lutnick showing up.

Carney says Canada will retaliate dollar for dollar