It’s such a great album.

planners: our two universities will be at the end of a peninsula and at the top of a mountain

people: won't people complain about how removed they are from the city?

planners: almost immediately

people: will rapid transit be created in response?

planners: we'll talk about it for decades, but no

Peguis, Fisher River declare state of emergency with flood risk 'a certainty' | CBC News Two First Nations in Manitoba's Interlake region have declared a state of emergency ahead of a potentially devastating flood.

Another year, another flood for Peguis and Fisher River, even with cold temperatures slowing the melt: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Shopping at coop isn’t perfect but it does provide a very concrete example of large, non profit grocery retail.

In all the convos about collective and state grocery stores, we don’t talk much about our the network of coop groceries that were built across western Canada in an earlier crisis of affordability and profiteering, and have survived: www.co-op.crs

It’s always surprising that toddlers are so invested their personal dignity.

This Day in History, 1986: Olaf Solheim's tragic death after being evicted for Expo 86 tourists Olaf Solheim had a chest-length white beard and liked to watch children play at Oppenheimer Park

This Day in History, 1986:
Olaf Solheim's tragic death after being evicted for Expo 86 tourists

The retired logger had lived at the Patricia Hotel in the Downtown Eastside for six decades before he was evicted.

Then the 2010 Olympics evictions, now FIFA..

vancouversun.com/news/this-da... #vanpoli

I did not know. I wonder if the Conversation CA is much different.

Though generations of scholarship framed around “consent” carries water for this.

This is just so blatantly untrue that it requires an almost wilful misreading of over 50 years of historical scholarship. The AI summary version of Canadian history.

Again. And again and again. Let’s talk about colonialism, water and infrastructure.

The United States is destroying itself | Rebecca Solnit The daily news can’t adequately convey the administration’s sabotaging of our government, economy, alliances and environment

And yeah, it's this piece, out this morning. "The federal government that serves us is being starved while the federal government that serves the Trump agenda and the oligarchy is glutting itself on taxpayer money...."

There are lots of discussion if the age restrictions of voting are appropriate or work, fwiw. We also used to have very clear gender and racial and property restrictions restrictions. But in general
I think licensing is different than banning.

Prohibition doesn’t stop the circulation or use of the banned object. What it does do is birth a complex system of regulation and punishment, one that falls on particular groups of people, and requires a huge amount of resources to be maintained.

We’re a century and more into an experiment with prohibition as a solution to complex things, but we apparently haven’t learned that banning things that are readily available doesn’t stop people, or particular groups of people, from the harm that alcohol, drugs, or social media can do.

That there *are* loanable copies….

finds herself innordinately happy that there is loanable library copies of the City of Winnipeg's public health annual reports from 1914.

Of The Empire We will be known as a culture that feared death and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity for the few and cared little for the penury of the many. We will be known as a culture that taught and rewarded the amassing of things, that spoke little if at all about the quality of life for people (other people), for dogs, for rivers. All the world, in our eyes, they will say, was a commodity. And they will say that this structure was held together politically, which it was, and they will say also that our politics was no more than an apparatus to accommodate the feelings of the heart, and that the heart, in those days, was small, and hard, and full of meanness. - Mary Oliver

God this poem is haunting me again.

(1/) Prime Minister Carney’s silence while Trump openly threatens genocide against millions of people is abhorrent.

Real leadership isn’t complicity and cowardice, it means speaking out against Trump’s horrific threats, which channel the rhetoric of fascist dictatorships.

And in fact he still seems to be trying to justify the war: bsky.app/profile/rach...

Mark #Carney finally says something, and he does at least confirm that Canada supports some aspects of #InternationalLaw. However, he does not *in any way* address #Trump 's blatant breach of international law in calling for genocide of Iran, or the illegality and immorality of the war itself.

same Overton Window-shattering tactic he’s always used: Even if worst doesn’t happen tonight - rhetorically he’s opened up possibility of the unimaginable, making lesser (but still horrible) actions seem moderate by comparison… all increasing likelihood that one day the worst really will happen

It’s hard to know what to say.

i’ve seen every social network i love die, you cannot scare me

The Land Holds Truth: Searching for Unmarked Graves at Indian Residential Schools After Tkʼemlúps te Secwépemc 2021 announcement, communities searched for missing children, using archaeology to shift from harm toward truth, healing, accountability, and justice.

ICYMI:

"In a time when reconciliation no longer seems to be a priority & public trust in the process of locating missing children is being actively undermined, the search for the truth held in the land where children are buried is even more critical."

niche-canada.org/2026/04/03/t...

#cdnhist

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NEW—Part 1 of many from the series 'Beyond Fires & Floods (BFF): Indigenous Narratives in an Era of Extremes,' recorded at an Oct 2025 gathering on key Qs like: What would it mean were our storytelling to approach climate change not so much as a problem, but as a symptom?

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Maybe we could loan money to something else.

Puzzle me this.

another day, another appearance of anti-choice disinformation people on campus, and me saying I've been doing this, in one way or another, since the 1980s. Apparenrly I've graduated to being the salty old lady at the demo.

Dang.