A container of President's Choice 'Memories of Butter' margarine photographed on a store shelf. The white tub features the PC logo in red and the product name in bold yellow text. Below states 'NON-HYDROGENATED MARGARINE 0 TRANS FAT' and shows it contains 680g. The image has a slightly nostalgic, soft focus quality, adding irony to the product name.
I too have remembered butter.
400 years from now and people are looking back at court cases that are considered AI autonomy precursors because some exec wanted to double-charge another dude to justify his stock price.
A headline in Business Insider: "Microsoft exec suggests AI agents will need to buy software licenses, just like employees". The image below shows Rajesh Jha giving a talk on a stage.
What are we even doing?
An illustration showing megaphone, "Fixed Cost Crunch" stamp, and bar chart on dark blue circular background. Simple line-drawn style graphic representing business cost pressures and data analysis.
My Fixed Cost Crunch details how retail rents (your local cafe/dry cleaner/maker studio) outpaced minimum wage increases in Toronto from 2019-2024.
Rent + insurance are killing good jobs & successful businesses in the city. But we can fix it.
Find out how - commercialrent.ca/fixed-cost-c...
Young woman with long brown hair holding two cassette tapes in front of her eyes like binoculars. White flowering bushes and green foliage in background. Fortune magazine headline reads 'Gen Z is engineering an analog future — and it's at least a $5 billion opportunity.' Credit: Getty Images.
"In 2025 alone, over 11.7 million Instagram posts carried the hashtag #nostalgia, Google searches for “90s movies” had doubled since 2015."
As they become teens + young 20s - Gen Z yearn for knobs, buttons, flip phones and physical maps.
@yahoofinance.com | finance.yahoo.com/sectors/tech...
Young woman with long brown hair holding two cassette tapes in front of her eyes like binoculars. White flowering bushes and green foliage in background. Fortune magazine headline reads 'Gen Z is engineering an analog future — and it's at least a $5 billion opportunity.' Credit: Getty Images.
"In 2025 alone, over 11.7 million Instagram posts carried the hashtag #nostalgia, Google searches for “90s movies” had doubled since 2015."
As they become teens + young 20s - Gen Z yearn for knobs, buttons, flip phones and physical maps.
@yahoofinance.com | finance.yahoo.com/sectors/tech...
"The Christian Science Monitor article headline reads 'Public transit is now free in parts of Australia, amid rising fuel costs.' Article explains Victoria will offer free travel for one month, Tasmania will make buses and ferries free for three months. Fuel prices jumped 40% since Iran war began. Victoria's plan costs $48 million in lost revenue. Federal government plans to cut fuel taxes by half for three months to ease costs."
First they gave us the screaming cowboy - now two Australian states are piloting free transit in response to rising fuel prices.
From @csmonitor.bsky.social | www.csmonitor.com/News-Briefs#...
NEW: Toronto is moving ahead with the construction of its Waterfront East LRT line, connecting downtown to new neighbourhoods in the Port Lands, after sealing a funding agreement with other levels of government. #ToPoli
globalnews.ca/news/1175159...
Congrats @avilewis.ca and team for a historic victory.
Our crew at @betterwayalliance.bsky.social is excited to work with you on a progressive vision for Canadian businesses.
Let's build more social safety nets for the workers & business owners who keep Canada's main street economy running.
"CBC News Politics section article headline reads 'How rare is it for a prime minister to attract 4 floor-crossers in 4 months?' Subheading states 'Macdonald, Chrétien each saw nearly 10 opposition MPs join them during their tenures.' CBC logo and navigation menu visible at top."
Since 2020 we've continued to live in wildly unprecedented times.
What's not unprecedented is the history of floor-crossings in Canada's Parliament.
However, @mark-carney.bsky.social could be the first PM to gain a majority gov't because of floor crossing.
@cbcnews.ca | www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Amazing finish to a story that started with Toronto almost shutting down a corner store for serving coffee.
Well done @anotherglassbox.bsky.social
this is like
the thesis statement of our times
"Business Insider article headline reads 'Citi sounds the alarm for a deflationary spiral if AI sparks high unemployment and only benefits a small elite.' By Jennifer Sor. Photo shows man at trading floor with hand to head, looking concerned at computer screens. Credit: Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images."
If banks are worried about AI overpromising and only delivering to shareholders - you should be too.
It's time to rebuild a people-first economy and sandbox the tech-bros into their fantasy lands.
@businessinsider.com | www.businessinsider.com/ai-layoffs-d...
Tumbler Ridge shooting highlights rural northern B.C.’s mental health deserts, by @andreawoo.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com
Yes, you are correct.
"Growtika website header with logo and navigation menu on dark blue background. Red button labeled 'Original Research' above large headline reading 'The Internet's Most-Read Tech Publications Have Lost 58% of Their Google Traffic Since 2024.' Coral 'Let's Talk' button in top right corner."
This is the real-time marketplace consolidation of information.
I'm barely old enough to remember when the internet was new and bountiful with real info + humans.
Now that AI has scraped it all, there's no need for the original source - so let 'em die.
From Growtika | growtika.com/blog/tech-me...
There's often a lot of spillover from conferences that positively impacts small businesses.
Conferences can be a really lucrative draw for a city - but they can also be too self-contained for a lot of spillover to be realized.
"The Tyee news article headline reads 'A 'Tiny Minority' of Social Media Accounts Drive Canadian Conspiracy Content.' Subheading states 'Researchers found conspiracy claims spread widely, but only some people believe them.' Article by Jen St. Denis, published February 25, 2026. Yellow header bar with site logo and navigation menu visible."
@jenstden.bsky.social doing the good work again.
News is often framed on X, Reddit, and Facebook by a small handful of coordinated accounts.
They sell outrage, our brains get dopamine, and suddenly Russia's Ukraine invasion seems sensible.
Read it in @thetyee.ca | thetyee.ca/News/2026/02...
My business uses Canada Post all the time.
Great rates and they ship everywhere, literally everywhere, in Canada.
UK Royal Mail privatized in 2013 - service tanked, prices went up and it was sold to a foreign billionaire in 2024.
We can do better in Canada.
A headline from Ars Technica "Penisgate erupts at Olympica; scandal exposes risks of bulking your bulge" followed by an image of an athlete in the air during a ski jump
The pre-2020 headline is finally off the endangered list.
A man waits nearly a year for regulated psilocybin therapy to ease end-of-life distress and is denied.
He applies for MAiD and is approved in 3 weeks.
Bureaucracy moves fast when it wants to.
This is the first Prime Minister in my life time where the Red Tories and Blue Liberals in my family agree that they like the same guy.
"Professional vertical shawarma/doner kebab grill machine with metal exterior and rotating spit visible through glass doors. Bright yellow and orange tile backdrop. Electrical wiring and blue container visible. Listed for $1,100, reduced from $1,150. Marketplace listing shows 1 of 6 images. Described as excellent condition, suitable for restaurants, food trucks, or commercial kitchens."
It might seem like overkill but if we get another round of snow in Toronto - this is a genius level buy.
I think planning for a US civil war is much more of an urgent priority than planning for a potential US invasion of Canada.
Borders, trade, humanitarian crises... how will Canada cope?
A snow fort with a west end Phoenix lawn sign on top
Now delivering to snow forts 📰 ➡️ 📭
Pierre Poilievre in dark suit and tie speaking at political rally with raised fist. Canadian flag visible in background. Crowd with phones and Conservative Party of Canada flags in foreground. Article headline reads 'Federal Conservatives trade journalists for partisan cheerleaders.' Published January 24, 2026.
Canada's Conservative Party is denying press credentials to media outlets while handing out 'content creator' passes to partisan personalities.
This is a tactic straight from the USA's White House.
@nationalobserver.com | www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/24/a...
Remember that 2025 polling shows only 9% of Canadians actually want to separate.
Starting now, there are going to be a lot of new accounts on X and Facebook claiming otherwise.
