a time machine to go back and tell every teacher ever that YES you WILL have a calculator on you at all times ACTUALLY

If you’re a man and you’ve never had to explain to a seven-year-old boy what rape is, why it’s wrong, and why it should never be treated like a joke or a metaphor, you have no idea of the urgency and enormity of the task before you as a man who cares about our future.

Baby Eastern Screech Owlet, Ontario, Canada.

From a walk in the woods near our home, an adorable baby Eastern Screech Owlet trying to hide from a group of crows that were chasing it. #HeadShots #BirdOfTheDay #birdphotography #Birds 🪶 #Nature #owl #Ontario #Canada

NB. We only know that the prov mistakenly released 157 inmates between 2021 - 2025

BECAUSE of a GLOBAL NEWS FOI.

Time to call Ford (again) re his changes to FOI rules that would exempt himself, his cabinet and their staff from FOI request.

Pls join me!

Ford ☎️: 416 325-1941
tinyurl.com/bddwcbyb

@realfollowers.bsky.social

Hegseth Borrows Violent Prayer from ‘Pulp Fiction’ to Bless Iran War at April Pentagon Worship Service For the second month in a row, Pete Hegseth, who likes to call himself “secretary of war,” read a violent prayer — that echoes a scene in the Quentin Tarantino film Pulp Fiction — during a worship ser...

what’s funny about this is that tarantino wrote this “ezekiel 25:17“ for the film. it isn‘t actually in the bible. publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/hegseth-bo...

Oh, for the love of sex! The climax of Bill S-209 YouTube video by Senator Paula Simons

Why yes. I did give a speech in the Senate about the joy of sex. A speech about sex and libraries, and the dangers of trying to censor what our teens can read and watch and do online. In a world full of digital risk, we need to teach our kids media literacy, and sexual literacy too. #cdnpoli #ableg

A closeup of a cat's face. Frankie, white with a grey forehead and ears, and a splotch on his nose, lounging in a Frankie sized cardboard box with his chin and one forepaw tucked over the side. His eyes are half closed and he looks dazed. He's had a fair amount of cat nip. #CatsOfBlueSky

Nipped 😸🍃
#CatBoxSunday

Six months before this was published, Briarpatch asked me to write it, based on comments that Sandy and I had made in an older S&N episode. It's great that Lewis popularized this but he probably shouldn't make it all about him :)

briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/vie...

Even the most professional of US press secretaries can get distracted from making her Patreon weekly roundup video when Cody Bellinger hits a home run on the television

In case anyone is wondering: yes I am obviously in the middle of making cupcakes for the horses at @merrymacsanctuary.bsky.social because of this @theonion.com op-ed.

Ivor’s first flight. Ivor’s first hotel is imminent. Ivor’s first hotel breakfast is going to blow his little mind.

I was going to send this card to Pam but I thought I had better not.

Looking for something to do this weekend? The new crossword from The Walrus Games is up. Tell us how you did. https://thewalrus.ca/games/

Christi Belcourt Art Buy artwork by Christi Belcourt including limited edition prints and other products.

Having a sale this week till March 31st. 20% off on all my limited edition prints. Www.christibelcourt.ca

Discount automatically applied at checkout.

It’s here: www.chloecumming.com/almost-drawi...

"said on a recent podcast that we are duty-bound to not name"

Nora is right. I start start the day listening to Daily News. You should, too.

Who is on CBC's blacklist? The news of a CBC Blacklist came out yesterday when former CBC employee Travis Dhanraj presented to a parliamentary committee.

Here's my latest! What it looks like to be on CBC's blacklist. (With @wickdchiq.bsky.social and so many others).

noraloreto.substack.com/p/who-is-on-...

MP Johns: Canada only has 3.4% nonmarket housing, the Netherlands has 34% YouTube video by Gord Johns

Nowhere has the “free market” solved an affordable housing crisis alone. As I noted Netherlands 34% non-market housing, Denmark 21%, Britain 16%, France 17%. Canada sits at just 3.4%. We need a real plan to scale co-ops, public and geared-to-income homes, with federal investment to match the crisis.

The Province Took Over Ontario’s Biggest School Boards to Fix Their Finances. The Numbers Tell a Different Story | The Local Analysis by The Local shows Ontario’s largest boards receive some of the lowest per-pupil funding in the province—raising questions about whether the real problem is mismanagement or the funding formu...

Analysis by The Local shows Ontario’s largest boards receive the lowest per-pupil funding in the province—raising questions about whether the real problem isn’t mismanagement but the funding formula. @wencyleung.bsky.social's latest from our School Board Takeover series. thelocal.to/ontario-scho...

📈📊: Ontario appears to have pulled back on sharing data. That's an idea we put to the premier's office, which told us:

"To imply the government has reduced or removed process measures is factually incorrect and misleading to your readers.”

Here are the examples #OnPoli

'Why hide the data?': Hallway health-care metric to be 'retired' Metric not included in latest Ontario Health annual report, with one emergency physician calling it ‘utter malpractice’ to not release the data publicly

Annual reports from Ontario Health used to track the number of patients treated in hallways. Then, the agency said it would "retire" the tracking measure from future reports. #onpoli

First reported by The Trillium #Onpoli
www.orilliamatters.com/local-news/w...

American Red Squirrel perched on a nearly vertical tree branch looking with side-eye at the viewer. There is a snowy tree trunk behind the squirrel.

A cluster of bright red berries carefully tucked into a hole in a tree trunk.

“You’re not looking at my highbush cranberry cache, are you? ARE YOU?!"
🌿🐿️

when the sex is visible from space
(herring spawn off the North Coast Trail, Google Earth image from March 2024)

In a park: A barefoot, sturdy small human (3?) struts up to a woman (30s?) giving a tiny new human a feed.
Small Human surveys the situation for a moment, nods decisively and then says with supreme confidence. "I've drank that. It's good."
New Mum bursts into laughter. (2)

Fox walking, wobbly ink, urban scene, expressive and urgent

Flapping pink dove, vibrant warm colours, very mixed media

Lemon lounge street furniture crunchy oil painting, my real things cones and signs and grey tarmac

Tiger of Regardless, very vivid colour, green and orange, bold and defiant, silly but authoritative

If you’re ever in the mood/circumstances for small real art that doesn’t take up much space but packs a wallop.

www.chloecumming.com

I truly admire Bruce Fanjoy's desire to remain Poilievre's #1 troll

Prosecute all of them. #abpoli #cdnpoli #uspoli