I wrote about 9000 words in 2015 about how the Liberals won a majority that year. The simplest answer, a lot of strategists told me, was the time Harper's 2011 majority gave them to rebuild their party's infrastructure.
nationalpost.com/features/the...
here’s my latest for the star on how a lib majority is actually a blessing in disguise for both the NDP and CPC
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
What’s being undercut isn’t just NASA’s technical ability to carry out missions, although that would be bad enough. It is America’s—and the world’s—capacity to wonder, to believe, to know. “It's almost like a diminution of our own vision and ambition to say we're literally, I mean, again, not figuratively, literally, closing our eyes to the cosmos and turning inwards,” says Casey Dreier, the space policy chief at the nonprofit Planetary Society. “It's like witnessing a death of an ideal.”
I've been thinking a lot about @rwarnica.bsky.social's piece for @wired.com. It's all tangled up in thoughts about generative AI, neoliberalism, austerity, and, just, what it means to be human. We are losing something important and much more than budget line items.
www.wired.com/story/the-de...
Here's Seth Klein arguing that instead of cutting gas taxes, Canada should institute a windfall tax on oil and gas companies. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
My god. Essential, horrifying reporting here.
Hell yeah
Some narrow-casted information for my followers: Guggenheim seems to be handing out a lot of fellowships to Canadians and nonfiction writers this year.
Toronto is one of the great women's sports markets in the world. It is also the corporate capital of Canada. Put Canada vs. New Zealand, England or Australia here and I bet it sells out BMO.
My nichest hot take is that Rugby Canada is serious about raising funds for the women's team, it needs to put regular tier one women's test matches in Toronto. www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/socce...
"Magataotao" on Twitter writes: "I am Catholic. This👇is not my Pope." Attached is a video of the Pope saying that we should search for peace and reject war. A community note under their tweet says: "You are not a Catholic if you do not accept the Pope, but rather a schismatic. Canon 751: “Schism is the refusal of submission to the Supreme Pontiff,” ie. the Pope. https://www.vatican.va/archive/cod-iuris-canonici/eng/documents/cic_lib3-cann747-755_en.html"
first in my bloodline to see someone get excommunicated by a community note
My Trump isn't Hitler he's Ceaușescu take gets better all the time
My planned one paragraph feature top is now 1500 words.
Lucky Post. I loved editing Scott's columns at the Star. We'll miss him.
Starting this summer, @thelocal.to is making Peel region a regular part of our reporting. And we’re hiring a full-time reporter to help launch it! Final day to apply is today. thelocal.to/were-hiring-...
A fenced-off lot on the east side of Toronto, a street visible behind it. On the sidewalk, in the center of the image, is a bird.
A closer look at the bird OH GOOD GOD IT'S A LITTLE HAWK STANDING ON THE CORPSE OF THE PIGEON IT JUST KILLED
Go raptors!
And she has since been deported.
Link here:
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
The most important article I—or anyone?—will ever write. For @thestar.com , I urge Leafs fans, poor, long-suffering Leafs fans, to consider the Sabres. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
American media feud: Famous magazine writer fooled around on her reporter fiancé with a Kennedy whose brain was partially eaten by a worm
Canadian media feud: a bitmoji millionaire is fighting about Wikipedia edits with the guy who wrote a book about Jean de Brebeuf
Like expressing your outrage at a white's only country club by keeping your membership but refusing to tip
I genuinely cannot imagine someone who believes in free speech, facts or basic decency attending the White House Correspondents Dinner this year and placidly thinking their pointed lapel pin is doing the talking for them.
This Reddit post is formatted like a joke but it’s actually a very dry recitation - at times, direct quotes - of America’s public war strategy over the last month. This can’t go on. This is deranged. Impeach and imprison.
www.reuters.com/science/whit...
I am a huge fan of Ben Lerner's fiction and also just incredibly curious about why he always looks so mad
An immigration judge on Thursday ruled against the deportation of a Pennsylvania man who had spent 43 years in prison and was set to be freed after his murder conviction was overturned, only to be picked up by immigration agents immediately after. Subramanyam Vedam, 64, was a green card holder who came to the United States with his parents from India when he was 9 months old. He was exonerated in October, after a judge vacated his murder conviction based on ballistics evidence that prosecutors had failed to disclose during his trials.
exonerated after FORTY THREE years in prison, only to end up falling in ICE detention immediately
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/u...
Also, however, a technically accurate description of Great Britain.
Anyway, I'm still working on my slow pivot to space guy.
That's why unmanned, deep-space missions like Mars Sample Return are so important, and for my money, more interesting in many ways than manned missions like Artemis.
We are, at minimum, generations away from creating any kind of extra-earth biosphere that would be capable of supporting reproduceable human life. I think there are very good reasons to at least suspect it will never be possible.
