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The Canadian Broadcast Standards Council has been so overwhelmed by complaints about CBC #CrossCountryFuckUp with Ian Hanomansing, it has had to close the complaints process. @cbcradiocanada.bsky.social

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LinkedIn keeps telling me I should congratulate a former colleague for a work anniversary, but I'm not going to bother because she died three months ago. If you're reading this, this is your reminder that you should consider writing a digital will in addition to the traditional kind.

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The face of Canada to much of the non-European world: the home of some of the most brutal and rapacious corporations.

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"Threats of annexation which break international law" isn't an issue with a legitimate middle position. You're either an extremist, and support international aggression, or you're a normal person. No other option. Frame the issue appropriately. Don't give Kevin O'Leary airspace to propagandize.

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The funny thing about Cross Country Check-Up both-sidesing annexation is that they did not do anything wrong, the problem is that they followed their journalistic standards too well When journalism is not rooted in any moral values beyond “objectivity” and “balance,” this is the natural outcome

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For the record having Kevin O’Leary on the show is a slap in the face. You don’t get the millionaire who ran over others in his boat without stopping to help to explain anything at all. Especially to discuss the existence of our country. This isn’t even both-sidesing. It’s gross malpractice.

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Please file a complaint t if you agree that the CBC should not be hosting a show about canada becoming the 51 state jointly with American broadcast org NPR cbc.radio-canada.ca/en/ombudsman...

submitted 2 days ago • 31 comments

Takes less than 5min to let CBCs Ombudsman know how you feel about this bit of irresponsible journalism; I did it myself earlier this afternoon. cbc.radio-canada.ca/en/ombudsman...

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This is so bad

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this is an act of unspeakable violence. it benefits no one, it doesn’t move a number on a balance sheet. it only guarantees that every one of these incarcerated transgender people will be tortured.

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That earthquake was so earthquakey I actually hid under my desk.

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Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge proposes almost doubling public CBC funding, ending advertising and subscriptions. www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art... via @theglobeandmail.com #cdnmedia #journalism

submitted 4 days ago • 52 comments

Hey poets! Check out BERNADETTE MAYER's list of poetry experiments/prompts. Blow your mind and never be stuck again: www.writing.upenn.edu/library/Maye...

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i can only assume this is a film about a 20-year journey to find a lost cat

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This opposition tells you a lot about how often airlines destroy wheelchairs.

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This is unprecedented. The Rising Tides agreement was just with the province, but adding federal recognition in is a big deal. This is the first time Aboriginal Title land has been negotiated, rather than litigated in Canada.

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Large epidemiologic studies have consistently shown an association between coffee and improved health outcomes. This may be one of the reasons: favorable changes to the gut microbiome 🏢🏢 www.scientificamerican.com/article/coff...

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RFK Jr. thinks that a clinical trial should be done for the entire childhood vaccine schedule. Here’s why that will never happen. 1. You can’t do a randomized trial of something that we already know is safe and effective. There would have to be a placebo group that didn’t get vaxxed. Unethical.

submitted 6 days ago • 698 comments

Don't post AI slop. And if you repost by mistake, as I've done, delete it. When you have something to say and attach AI art, you're undercutting your message and hurting artists. Pay or barter for art. There's a reason good things cost money and take time. AI art is harmful and it looks like ass.

submitted 7 days ago • 145 comments

hey for anyone who might want to actually own their kindle books instead of renting them, or who might be thinking of switching to kobo etc and will want to convert them to epubs, you now only have one week before amazon kills your ability to download its ebooks www.theverge.com/news/612898/...

submitted 8 days ago • 403 comments

Excellent advice here in how to communicate on climate www.nationalobserver.com/newsletters/...

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Just made a Van311 request regarding the terrible placement of this @cityofvancouver.bsky.social traffic signal cabinet at Quebec & Terminal. Totally hides pedestrians crossing and waiting to cross. Right turning motorist behaviour is often poor. @visionzerovancouver.ca

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

How different birds would act on a first date...a thread. (From us to you this #ValentinesDay) 💕👇

submitted 10 days ago • 49 comments

Teaching this poem by Carla Sofia Ferreira today: okaydonkeymag.com/2023/08/25/t...

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I've been able to brush off most of the erasure of trans people from government websites, but this one is REALLY getting under my skin. It's just complete revisionist history. How fucking dare they Old vs. new

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This should be exceedingly obvious, but when Stonewall stays up while references to trans people come down, they will measure the silence of cisgender people as concurrence for whatever they plan next, and it still won't protect you in the end. So please get loud. Our mutual survival depends on it.

submitted 11 days ago • 34 comments

No jurisdiction that has reduced homelessness has ever done the following: - frame the solution as the problem - reduce housing and supports - turn low-income housing into high-income housing - use human lives as a negotiating tool www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

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the other day @rebeccaleebligh.bsky.social said that at least 600 people are sleeping outside every night in Vancouver. $5M would top-up the $500/mth shelter portion of social assistance to market rent for each person for the rest of the year

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

Look at this amazing lineup for the next @deadpoetsreading.bsky.social! @jencurrin.bsky.social @arleenpare.bsky.social @melaniesiebert.bsky.social @aliblythe.bsky.social March 9th at @crossandcrowsbooks.bsky.social!

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A Canadian endangered owl breeding program is fundraising by charging people $5 to name a rat after their ex. The rat is then fed to the owls. The fundraiser is called No regRATS. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

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Really important lesson here. Executive Orders are not laws. Keep on doing what you think is right. Find others who will do the same. It's easier if you're working together. And don't forget, even though it's slow, people are fighting these in the courts and the streets.

submitted 12 days ago • 6 comments

Are you worried about Elon Musk using the X platform to interfere in our election? I need you to contact Elections Canada to keep the pressure on. All the information you need is in my latest piece for Substack. Contact info at the bottom: substack.com/home/post/p-...

submitted 11 days ago • 142 comments

This is a really nice, simple distillation of the vital role NOAA and the NWS play and how private companies cannot replace what they do.

submitted 13 days ago • 3 comments

every inch of progress in the US is like this. BLM, defund the police, trans rights, etc — all marginal, sometimes nonexistent gains followed by massive rightward pendulum swings born of the (false) assertion that by gently prodding an issue, we’ve gone “too far”

submitted 12 days ago • 18 comments

poets when they decide to go to law school

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extremely rare W but let's take the good ones where we can

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My heart ached when I was reminded that Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for trying to make academic knowledge more accessible to the public. Meta, meanwhile, is doing it for their own bottom line. I'm going to guess that no one at Meta will be looking at spending 35 years in jail for this.

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The big takeaway here is that Reuters won this case against the AI company on grounds they violated fair use—the judge found the AI company was guilty because, in using copyrighted works to generate its output, it “meant to compete... by developing a market substitute.” Huge.

submitted 13 days ago • 56 comments

If you patronize Canadian businesses who use Shopify to sell their merchandise, you might want to rethink that.

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

Canada better be taking a hard look at our intelligence sharing with the U.S. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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