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A chilly NW wind keeping temps in the single digits. Sun cloud mix with rain/snow showers eastern areas. A bit warmer and sunnier Wednesday... back to teens Thursday and Friday. A few showers develop Friday as a cold front ushers in colder air Saturday. Halloween will likely be similar to today.

i don't think anyone should run explicitly on banning online gambling but i do think that a democratic-led government should just quietly take steps to undermine the industry and create an inhospitable regulatory environment

Councillors who do approve the cost-cutting non-AAA routes must accept the consequences - injury or death to users who are disadvantaged through age or disability. Because in our urban core of course a minimum grid of any kind will be used by kids, seniors, people with disabilities

About this H5N1 mink farm in Utah. It is REALLY dangerous to let bird flu spread unchecked through mammals, esp minks. They have similar susceptibility & respiratory physiology as us. Flu can adapt to human hosts by adapting to mink respiratory tracts. rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/the-party-...

i am inviting anyone from a legacy media organization to explain to me why the house judiciary dems report on trump’s epstein’s ties and multiple allegations of rape isn’t worthy of extensively reporting on. i’m serious. i want to understand.

“As someone who has spent a career studying strategic production and the relationship between the states and the companies that make military products, what we have seen over the last 21 months is unprecedented and, frankly, shocking.”

As O’Brien called it in 2/25 “the USA is being run by an organized crime-like syndicate, and is selling off US secrets, capabilities and influence in the most grotesque and open ways.” How could the (military) tech CEOs who went all in with Trump not realize this would not end well for them?

#OTD 27/10/1942 #RememberRCN -HMCShips VILLE DE QUEBEC and ALBERNI rescue 81 survivors from SS Sourabaya, (British), torpedoed by U-436 while in Convoy HX-212 in the mid-Atlantic.

Another impossible beauty standard for women

🚒 The fire at Halifax Grain Elevator was brought under control last evening. Thank you to Halifax firefighters and emergency crews for their hard work. Final update: x.com/hfxfirefight...

Also, pay attention to what Elon Musk is now saying and doing in US politics. This is extreme, extraordinary and unprecedented.

Latest piece. If the Dems take control of Congress, the first investigation (after corruption) has to be about the use of AI in US warfare. American tech executives have placed themselves in a pernicious situation and we need to understand what happened. phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/the-first-...

HRFE has reached an important operational milestone, with the fire at the Hfx Grain Elevator now considered under control. Crews remain on scene and will continue working carefully to fully extinguish the remaining material. Thank you to everyone who has shared messages of support for our crews.

This is because of America’s exceptional oil consumption due to high reliance on inefficient, oil-burning private vehicles and a slow transition away from petrol and diesel - leaving households, truckers and farmers particularly exposed to global fuel market shocks.

New from me: The US has faced a higher cost than any other country from the global Hormuz oil shock, with the crisis adding $160 billion to its fuel bill — or $471 per person on average — despite being the world’s largest oil producer.

Michael Atiyah 🇪🇬: Fields Medal 1966 (also Abel Prize 2004), for K-theory. Ahmed Zewail 🇪🇬: Nobel for Chemistry 1999, for his work on femtochemistry. Omar M. Yaghi 🇯🇴: Wolf Prize 2018, Nobel for Chemistry 2025, for his work on reticular chemistry Naguib Mahfouz 🇪🇬: Nobel for literature 1988

The ABC is still at it - again, Meta and its intentional design choices are not mentioned a single time in this article. It's extremely bad and harmful journalistic malpractice that very very directly helps two groups: abusers and tech companies. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...

As I predicted a while ago, the media response to this is blaming the "fractious debate" and putting all responsibility on the community's tone, rather than the design choices and priorities of the corporation designing invasively, creepy products mostly used for abusive behaviours

Tell me again why it was necessary for US to acquire Greenland in order to keep Russia out.

Musk is lying about Ukraine using civilian Starlink on combat drones. Since February, any Starlink terminal operating in motion has needed military Starshield authorization. No Starshield – no connection. Using civilian Starlink on drones was technically impossible. Period.

Russia is launching ballistic missiles at Kyiv right now, so I’d like to take this opportunity to thank Hegseth for doing FUCKING NOTHING.

with all of my heart i hate this rat motherfucker

Complex industrial firefighting at Hfx Grain Elevator. The fire is located about 135 feet above ground within the facility’s dust management system, presenting significant access and tactical considerations. Crew are operating deliberately and aggressively, supported by aerial and drone operations.

Hook it up to my veins!

Toronto driver not sure where to park after city removes bike lanes

The @cancivlib.bsky.social, @openmedia.org, and other privacy advocates are speaking out on the dangers of Bill C-22, which invites backdoors to encryption. If you’re Canadian, the Senate needs to hear from you now.

Two thoughts Abolishing the Indian Act is good. Yeah it won’t be an easy process. But it needs to be done and tbh I’m surprised this is an initiative Carney wants to take on Also Kinew’s national profile has already been growing. But him championing this is going to elevate it further in a big way

This is a pretty big deal. I'm hoping the commitment to craft an Indian Act reform/replacement *with* actual Indigenous involvement will help Carney avoid the fiasco that PET kicked-off with his White Paper thing back in the 60s.

I would *LOVE* to not need to have strong opinions about a dozen US Senators or be able to name more SCOTUS justices than I can SCC ones. But the head of the US executive branch currently has very strong opinions about the continuing existence of my country, so

Here's a link to Fillmore's budget feedback survey, which is open until Oct. 30, for anyone who can't make the final meeting at 2pm on Wednesday at St. Andrew's Community Centre in Halifax.

A huge thanks to Phillips OBrien for his free weekend analyses. Highly recommend this Sunday morning update.

Though the Trump administration is full of bombast, the US has lost this war with Iran. You want to see why? The region is moving on without the USA. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/26/w...

This chart is insane. This shows Russia's casualties over time compared to Russia's territorial gains in Ukraine over the last five years. No sane or rational person would say continuing the war to try and take more of Ukraine's territory is worth the casualties.

“The city release of documents confirmed a police drone flew through the windshield of a Peterbilt tractor-trailer truck in June, cutting the face of a Canadian driver and sending him to Baylor Scott & White Medical Center-Temple.” This is a key reason why I’m opposed to these drone 911 programs.