Ed Tubb

This story by Jacques Gallant contains, without exaggeration, the single most crushing thing I've read about Canadian justice. In 2004, an 18-year-old got a de facto sentence of Life 25 for non-violent trespassing — and we've kept him in solitary. Genuine tears in my eyes thinking about his life.

No concessions until the midterms!

Its provenance is in debate but the sentiment is undeniable "All politics is local" So take some time around these parts today to vote, stuff like your garbage collection and snow plowing matters on it.

I think the way to look at this is to ask yourself, what does the E.U.'s quibbling over the right non-committal label for Canada in this moment say about the E.U.'s willingness to come to Canada's aid in the next moment?

These are the only acceptable GO Train seat. Always a rough morning when the train arrives with all-new cars with all-uncomfortable seats.

Wildly dangerous and irresponsible: "Instead of trying to stop the outbreak and prevent it from spilling into humans, state and federal officials have done little ... Flu experts were unequivocal that the government should have ordered the farm to cull its mink, as other countries have done."

What's particularly stunning/galling here is that 20 years ago (in the Dean/Obama cycles) online donations were a big deal precisely because they were "cheap money" relative to traditional measures; this is just vulture behaviour.

Bloomberg scoop: Canada has banned its diplomatic staff in the US from even being in the same room as a midterm election candidate, taking an extra cautious approach to avoid accusations from the Trump administration of "interference" www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Pretty wild to look ahead and realize they're laying the groundwork to blame Canada for rigging the midterms.

Remember, it’s only a waste of time and money if we don’t take this result as a mandate to relentlessly humiliate and ostracize this movement.

You would genuinely struggle to find many other non-absurd Y/N polling questions with lower popular support than the question of Alberta independence in Alberta, if these numbers hold at <25% in favour.

Important story from Star's Brendan Kennedy: The provincial agency responsible for online gambling secretly shelved a research study showing higher-than-expected problem gambling, and schemed how to ensure Ontarians never saw it www.thestar.com/news/investi...

(If I’m following correctly, I think he’s saying that the commanders overseeing the exercises were aware of a grassfire in the area but the troops that suffered casualties didn’t visually *see* the fire until it suddenly swept over them within seconds)

Here is the Canadian Armed Forces’ official explanation of what happened at CFB Wainwright, which resulted in 4 deaths and 39 soldiers in hospital: A grassfire inside the training area and spread wildly due to high winds, but no gas infrastructure involved (he later added grenades were being used)

Defence Minister David McGuinty confirms fatalities and injuries at an incident at CFB Wainwright

Is there a small impact? That’s totally possible. But the stories of a massive silencing of Russian bots making a qualitative difference on social media discourse… are very likely to have been (significantly) overstated.

Y’all, I hate to rain on the dead bot parade, but the Yandex data center destruction doesn’t seem to have significantly impacted social media bots. I made temporal graphs of X posts about AfD around the time of the attack and there’s no sign of a sudden dip or residual impact on that conversation.

The best thing happening on the Internet right now is people are finding and sharing clips from Soirée Canadienne. m.youtube.com/watch?v=qb4n...

The ‘Crypto King’ — who's accused of running a classic Ponzi scheme, in which he promised 1 per cent gains a day, and who's representing himself at his fraud trial — tells the jury: ‘I need a lawyer’

People aren't more rude. They're just more frequently in situations were rudeness is tolerated or positively encouraged. People who yell on the Internet become sweet little pussycats when you're privately hanging out.

I keep seeing people say some version of "it used to be normal to politely disagree on things before the Internet," and I don't think that's right. It was and remains normal to not be a shithead in face-to-face communication. We just have less of that now, and WAY less with people we disagree with.