Opinion: Canada’s outdated elevator rules are adding to the housing crisis The high cost of elevators is a barrier to the development of affordable, accessible homes

The inconvenient answer is likely "absolutely everyone": www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

YES, and also an emotional competence. I am currently in the wake of a Thing and someone I otherwise like keeps admiring my "aplomb." Me in my head: "I know you mean well but do you understand you are making it impossible to talk to you?!" I don't think their intent, but undeniably the outcome.

Opinion | Is It 1914 in America?

"Never has so much been seen, so precisely, by so many people who understand so little of what they are seeing... Such systems are trained on behavior, not on meaning — they can track what an adversary does but not what he fears, honors, remembers or would die for." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/o...

Walking thru the “Ultra Normie” No Kings rally in my extremely rural, white town and there are Patagonia wearing moms carrying signs that say “DEAD PEDOPHILES DONT REOFFEND” and “ICE GETS THE WALL” and I hi fived an old guy with a sign that said MY DADDY FOUGHT NAZIS AND SO WILL I” this is wild

Fantastic team publishing work that is unusually clear-eyed about what's important in local journalism. Young reporters of the GTA, apply!

‘Their Power Feels Like Mine’: A Dog Sled Racer Says Goodbye to Her Pack

"Mushing blurs what it means to be wild."

A good thing to read! www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/m...

Recently widowed woman in our neighborhood turned 90 today. My wonderful wife organized a couple dozen neighbors to surprise her & sing Happy Birthday on her front lawn. Every single person involved had their day made.

Get to know & look out for your neighbors. Human connection rules. Fuck AI.

'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.

"Artificial intelligence is not a magical tool built by people in San Francisco making millions of dollars a year and pushing their companies to insane valuations.... African data labelers [provide] the hidden labor that lets tech companies build their products."
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Ahhhhh thank you for this I have been cross-checking with the longer-term federal numbers to get a handle on what, e.g. a winter peak looks like. This will be so helpful!

It would definitely be great if more folks knew about them! It is delightful that adult tricycles exist.

And those are great for the folks who can use them. Not all of us can. (I have no idea what the argument in favour of e-bikes but against e-shoes would be. This is all about increasing options, and there's no sense I can see in pitting them against one another.)

And if you are one of the millions of people who can walk but poorly or painfully or only a little, this may, perhaps, prove enormously helpful. Again, nothing here is a binary. The capacity to walk is not binary.

So do people with mobility issues who are not capable of riding them! So do older folks who want to stay keep up with their grandkids on walks! Bikes are great, but this isn't an either/or. Supporting accessibility is a primary use case here.

‘They All Tried to Break Me’: Gisèle Pelicot Shares Her Story

Extraordinary interview www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/m...

The Tyee Is Recruiting Our Next Editor-in-Chief | The Tyee Founding editor David Beers is passing the baton to a new leader. Is it you?

A big thing is happening in Tyee-land: editor-in-chief David Beers is stepping back, and we are hiring a new EIC: thetyee.ca/Tyeenews/202...

Please share!

Something I've been thinking about for a long time: Domestic thrillers now make up a huge share of scripted film and TV. While historically they symbolized women's oppression, more recently they resonate as a metaphor for a society where everyone fears enemies infiltrating their safest spaces

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

I opened a bookshop. It was the best, worst thing I’ve ever done Chloe Fox shares the hopes and heartache of fulfilling a life-long dream

An adventure story and meditation on community all in one. www.ft.com/content/cc77...

Scientists Thought Parkinson’s Was in Our Genes. It Might Be in the Water New ideas about chronic illness could revolutionize treatment, if we take the research seriously.

"After a century of putting genetics on a pedestal, the geneticists have some surprising news for us: The vast majority of chronic disease isn’t caused by our genes." Fascinating look at how genomics breakthroughs suppressed research into environmental causes of disease www.wired.com/story/scient...

The Claims of Close Reading - Boston Review Literary studies have been starved by austerity, but their core methodology remains radical.

So much beauty and heart in this, by @johannawinant.bsky.social — perhaps most of all in its depiction of teaching as a practice of taking your students seriously. www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...

How to Fix a Typewriter and Your Life (Gift Article) This is the story of how a man traded steady, grinding corporate security for a dying craft and, in the process, found his soul.

Read this whenever you can. It'll be worth it.

Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”

Opinion | How the Elite Behave When No One Is Watching: Inside the Epstein Emails

"One can be misled by the range of people to whom Mr. Epstein ingratiated himself... A person he emailed at one moment was often at war with the ideas of another correspondent... This diversity masked a deeper solidarity." A really sharp close reading. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...

It is so demoralizing. Not feasible for most outlets (requires staff and $) but in theory I think one answer is doing full fact checks — and emphasizing that up front. Make it clear work will be subject to sufficient scrutiny that faking becomes more risky and hopefully the fakers will move along.

Beautiful, Color Photographs of Paris Taken a Century Ago—at the Beginning of World War I & the End of La Belle Époque It may well be that the major pivot points of history are only visible to those around the bend.

Beautiful, Color Photographs of Paris Taken a Century Ago—at the Beginning of World War I & the End of La Belle Époque

Fuck. I am so sorry. If there are things friends can do…

Become an empiricist about yourself — observe what actually gives you joy, meaning, connection, vs the things you assumed would. Install those things at the centre of your life even if that looks different than you thought it would. It is SO NORMAL for it to look different than you thought it would.

My people invented a whole ritual for this (i.e. shabbat) and while I am agnostic, as a practice I will absolutely say it has a lot going for it.

It's true as far as it goes, but the piece glosses over another IMO near-fatal drawback: the in-class options just do not cultivate the same depth of thought, skills at reflection and revision, etc., that take-home assignments done over a period of days or weeks do.

Some Thoughts on Techno-Fascism From Socialism 2025 "This is the endgame of our isolation."

"Men who sell machines that mimic people want us to become people who mimic machines. They want techno feudal subjects who will believe and do what they’re told. We, as people, are being strategically simplified. This is a fascist process."

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