Tabatha Southey🇨🇦

The final numbers: Curran Stikuts 11,877 %28.6 Chris Moise 9,690 %23.4 Daniel Tate 6,288 %15.2 As I walked out my door to vote, this was handed to me and I thought “I just caught a Hail Mary Pass.” Congratulations to Stikuts and his team. They ran a great campaign.

Brad Bradford strikes out. Well done, Toronto.

Polls are open until 8 pm and the correct Chow, Olivia Chow, is #9 on the ballot. For the love of Toronto, get to your polling station.

“A commitment to not remain silent.” Stephen Beatty, Headmaster of Royal St. George’s College here in Toronto addressed the Senior School during assembly and it’s damn good.

The Galloway Case: “Margaret Atwood sure thinks she knows what happened. She might be right. But me? I’m not so sure…” Such careful, calm work here from @bcossman.bsky.social.

And once again this rhetoric from the President of the United States isn’t being reported on. Alarming to watch how over his now term and a half “It’s just Trump being Trump” so it’s not news has become “It’s just Trump being David Duke” so it’s not news.

Honestly, donating blood feels like something my friend Christine would pay to do.

It comes down to who shows up. I can’t say I absolutely love Olivia Chow (number 9 on the ballot) but I do absolutely love Toronto and it’s been great having a mayor on the same page.

Honestly, America should be so fucking lucky.

What a sad end to an era. From my 11ty million disk box sets of Baldur's Gate I & II to Mass Effect 3, Bioware defined RPGs (and at times video games) to me for years.

BREAKING: Alberta has voted to stay in the cake and nibble around the edges, with 50.7% in favour of licking the candles and putting them back.

Is it starting to dawn on the people of Ontario that feeding huge wads of cash into the rusty old Make Cyclists’ Lives Worse Machine doesn’t make anyone else’s life better?

When someone tells you it's raining, your job as a journalist isn't to look out the window, but to try and seed the clouds.

Be kind to the poll workers, they are under-staffed and saddled with a needlessly inefficient process.

Referendum day, Alberta! Polls open in 20 minutes.

I regret to inform you that if The Telegraph calls anything “the most revolting phrase in the English language” it behooves everyone on Blue Sky to start using it. Why, oh why, could they not have hated on Menty B instead? It’s giving me a Menty B, it is.

The Brothers Karamazov is frankly weak, there are better brands of salsa, and I have just called all three of the men formally known as my brothers.

Mean.

It’s an alarming trend. Bradford didn’t respond to surveys from us, Cycle Toronto, Toronto Environmental Alliance, ACORN and many others. It’s important to know where candidates stand on the most important issues facing the city. Transit. Cycling. Climate change. Housing. Who is he listening to?

“No indication of 'any terrorist activity' in incident as investigation ongoing: DND official…”

One of the things that struck me living in LA at the time is that somehow OJ Simpson made his flight. Very few celebrities seemed capable of managing this without assistance — even if they hadn’t just brutally murdered two people.

THE REIGN OF TERROR IS OVER! THE RED ROSES HAVE FINALLY BEEN DEFEATED! WHAT A VICTORY FOR CANADA! WHAT A DAY FOR RUGBY 🏉 Bloody hell what a game!

By the year 2040, no matter where you are in the world, it's reckoned that you'll never be more than 500m from a former WH Press Secretary.

It is a sobering statistic that one in seven Americans will eventually serve as Donald Trump’s White House Press Secretary.

Reading a translation of Lysistrata that attempts to convey the tone of the original Greek. Apparently the best English equivalent of a caricatured Spartan dialect is either "goon, seconds before being punched by Batman" or "Joey Wheeler cosplaying Harley Quinn" I may not make it through this.

The construction vehicles went away?!! It was accompanied by the windchime of a couple hundred bike bells and shouts of "GET HOME SAFE"

The construction vehicles may have left, but they'll be back (maybe even tonight). The bike lanes will be torn up. The only real power to stop this is at the ballot box. But this still feels like a victory, and I hope the mobilization can increase impactful political organizing for Torontonians.

And here’s @senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social with a message for Alberta — that much of the rest of the world needs to hear as well.

I feel very lucky to have born a Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon.

Doug Ford lighting traffic-snarling bonfires of your money and throwing the odd body on in the hopes of keeping his base warm.

An ICE agent on the scene of a shooting in upper Manhattan on Thursday has repeatedly been accused in federal court of unlawful arrests and using force during arrests in New York and Minneapolis, a WIRED investigation finds.

Short Talk On The King And His Courage He arose laden with doubt as to how he should begin. He looked back at the bed where the grindstone lay. He looked out at the world, the most famous experimental prison of its time. Beyond the torture stakes he could see, nothing. Yet he could see. -Anne Carson

Reposting for the evening crowd, you guys are way cooler anyway.

I feel like the President of the United States overtly trying to incite a pogrom should have resulted in a news alert or something.

NB to those saying universities should appease the administration with some ritual self-denunciation: they are going to keep coming after us no matter what. They will keep fabricating excuses to do so.

“the American exports we should be most wary of consuming — after lettuce — are isolationism and jingoism.”

For @thestar.com I wrote about the gross American export Canadians should avoid most of all. Gift link! www.thestar.com/gift-redeem?...

That was exiled to Longwood House.

Once again, for the politicians, business leaders, and journalists still actively posting on X/Twitter: why? You're using a platform that's owned by someone who's trying to break up your country. The juice isn't worth the squeeze.