Avi Lewis: "We have shoved Canada Post so far into the market mindset that every few months we have a national conversation about why isn't Canada Post making money. Does the ambulance service make money? Do the police services make money? We're talking about a fundamental public service."

We're at a point where there are no cheap options to retreat to and no price points that guarantee quality. Every run-down studio is $1400, every fast food meal is $17, every luxury condo has peel-n-stick tiles, every $300 pair of boots falls apart. Endless expensive mediocrity.

Bob Bancroft has spent a lifetime fighting - often in vain and against very powerful industrial interests - for the health of Nova Scotia’s forests, biodiversity, and wildlife. With N.S. Premier Tim Houston’s latest all-out assault on nature, Bancroft now asks “What will be left?” Read and weep.

Tim Houston and his yes-men are yesterday’s men, gearing up for an assault on the environment, and those who would protect it - Halifax Examiner Not even a year into his second mandate as premier, Houston is proving himself to be yesterday’s man, surrounded by yes-men with yesterday’s plans, which weaken democracy and spell climate and environ...

Upping this 2025 piece on N.S. Premier Tim Houston and his yes- and yesterday men, which foreshadows his latest budget, which attacks programs - for very little cost savings - for First Nations, environment, climate, the arts, education, culture & heritage. www.halifaxexaminer.ca/dismantling-...

Fun fact you can do everything you want with just HTML tables and people liked that version of the Internet a lot better

N.S. government closing some museums, most visitor information centres | CBC News The province says the closures are related to the 'modernization' of the museum system and visitor information delivery.

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'Shock and awe' at DNR: Wildlife division gone, managers sacked, and restructured department geared for natural resources exploitation and extraction - Halifax Examiner Retired wildlife biologist Bob Bancroft describes the elimination of the division and today’s changes to the department as “absolutely disgusting.”

‘Shock and awe’ at DNR: Wildlife division gone, managers sacked, and restructured department geared for natural resources exploitation and extraction
By @joanbaxter.bsky.social

Menopause, Writer’s Block, and Being a Late Bloomer - Electric Literature I’m supposed to believe my womanhood is ending but instead, I have been handed a new beginning

I wrote an essay about menopause, writers block, and being a late bloomer. You can also find it in the newly released anthology, The Big M, edited by Lidia Yuknavitch: electricliterature.com/menopause-wr...

Libraries say budget proposal to end shipping program would be 'catastrophic | CBC News Libraries across Canada say a proposed change in the federal budget bill would end their ability to ship books at reduced rates, threatening interlibrary loan programs and possibly forcing the closure...

Another poison pill buried in Mark Carney’s budget: a repeal of a reduced postage rates for books and shipments between libraries.

Libraries across the country are sounding the alarm for what it would mean for the viability of another essential public institution.

Um... F*ck off?

A pair of small hands holding a beige envelope addressed in red crayon to "Santa Claus, North Pole, HOH OHO". The return address in the top left reads "123 Main St, Anytown, A1A 1A1 ON". A small stamp is in the top right corner. A pink crayon lies on the dark table nearby, with another child's drawing partially visible in the background.

When a few Canada Post employees in Vancouver started answering letters to Santa in the early-1970s, it eventually led to the most famous postal code in Canada.
H0H 0H0.
Each year, thousands of letters to Santa from around the world are answered.
This is the story.

🧵1/8

An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.

I think if Canada wants to have a strong cultural identity we need to go back to doing what we're best at, making the weirdest fucking TV shows you've ever seen

45 foot white spruce being cut down in Nova Scotia.

Mayor Wu and Cathy Baker-Eclipse pose in front of Tree for Boston with Nova Scotia Officials.

Mayor Wu uses a chainsaw to help cut down the tree.

Mayor Wu and Cathy Baker-Eclipse hold sapplings and pose with Nova Scotia officials and the Feener family (nominated the tree).

The 2025 #TreeForBoston is on its way! 🌲

This week, @mayorwu.boston.gov and Interim Parks & Recreation Commissioner Cathy Baker-Eclipse joined Nova Scotia officials and the Feener family in Lunenburg to help cut the 45-foot white spruce now bound for Boston Common. (1/3)

Don't Put It In Your Mouth (Full Version, 1992) YouTube video by RetroWinnipeg

every Canadian over 30 knows all the words to this Great Value muppets song about not eating grandma's heart medication

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Disease of 1,000 faces shows how science is tackling immunity’s dark side It's one of medicine's biggest mysteries — why sometimes our immune system attacks our own bodies. Autoimmune diseases affect as many as 50 million Americans and millions more worldwide.

Autoimmune diseases affect as many as 50 million Americans and millions more worldwide. They're hard to diagnose and treat, and they're on the rise. Now, scientists are decoding the biology behind these debilitating diseases in hopes of eventually treating the causes, not just the symptoms.

ahh another beautiful day in the glorious age of technology, sure hope my doorbell doesn’t stop working because an online bookstore took over and then broke the entire internet

Instagram post from the nsgov Instagram account. Black and red text reads “STAY OUT OF THE WOODS”; the foreground is a black silhouette of trees

obsessed with this vague notice from the government of Nova Scotia. Like it’s definitely about the new fire restrictions, but it also looks like a poster you’d find yellowed and curled on the bulletin board of a diner in a town where locals won’t talk about their missing kids

a photo of a cat sliding down a firehouse pole. caption: "TAPPER"-THE POLE-SLIDING CAT Although he seems a bit grim in this picture, Tapper's firemen friends say he really enjoys sliding down the brass pole. Tapper is the pet of Engine 37 and Hook & Ladder 26 in Boston. After he had watched the firemen come down the poles for a while, Tap- 58 MORRIS FINEBERG, THE BOSTON POST per was taught to do it by himself. He lands on all fours on the rubber mat at the base of the pole and from there on gets around like any other cat. Tapper's name is derived from the firchouse jargon which calls each stroke of the alarm bell a "tap."

I found something @catsofyore.bsky.social will like, I hope! from a book in our newsroom library …

New video is now live! It's the story of BUT I'M A CHEERLEADER, a film that even the director doubted could be made & went on to become an international camp classic. Here's the first minute, and you can watch the rest of the story here: youtu.be/bOzHhHgmKK4

If you were alive in the 1980s, this is among the most wonderful & truly incredible things you have ever witnessed in your lifetime.

ICE raids are leaving some L.A. cats and dogs homeless Chuco, a pit bull, was dropped at a shelter after his owner was deported last month. Many other dogs and cats in L.A. are facing similar circumstances as their caretakers vanish or flee.

No hell hot enough.

A collage of four Victorian circus performers standing in front of a circus tent, with flames rising up in the foreground.

The Toronto Circus Riot broke out on this day 170 years ago — sparked by a brawl between angry clowns and firefighters at a Victorian brothel.

Here's my annual thread about one of the strangest stories in Canadian history...

Del Monte Foods, maker of popular canned goods, files for bankruptcy The company, founded in 1886, said it was voluntarily initiating Chapter 11 proceedings, citing mounting debt, economic headwinds and consumer spending shifts.

Del Monte Foods, the nearly 140-year-old company whose canned fruits and vegetables have long been grocery store staples, has filed for bankruptcy as it grapples with mounting debt, post-pandemic headwinds and shifts in consumer spending.

I'm so fucking tired can't we please just have good things I mean fucks' sakes we're all so goddam tired we're just trying to fucking survive and thrive and be happy and together and jesus fucking christ why can't we just have that just let us fucking have that you evil goddam BORING wannabe dragons

and so I wake in the morning and I step outside,
but it’s not over yet; it’s still 2025,
and I scream at the top of my lungs,
FUUUUUUUUUUUCK

have been confused for days about insane cats invading our yard and destroying the plants for no reason only to find out I have accidentally planted fucking catnip all over the place, I am this neighborhoods feline drug lord, ive devasted their society