So much of the tech and broader business world incentivizes people to adopt the second framing. It’s so depressing.
Want a job? Tell us how amazing and special you are. Want that promotion? Show how your individual “impact” went above and beyond your peers.
No no see, we were just saving Varland to be the extra innings closer.
Every province has its challenges. A map like this really reinforces how unevenly distributed Canada’s population is. We are a country of isolated but crowded cities and suburbs, sprinkled amidst a vast, empty wilderness.
In this version, I attached Vancouver Island to mainland BC, so it resembles a peninsula. This is part reality—there’s only a narrow channel separating the upper island—and part compromise because the huge North Island—Powell River riding covers both part of the island and part of the mainland.
Making a map of Canada like this is a challenging exercise! Some ridings are larger than other provinces. In the north it’s impossible to have ridings touch without a warped perspective. Meanwhile, a third of the seats are in Southern Ontario, and half of those just Greater Toronto.
Screenshot of the Electoral Cartogram of Canada, showing election results for the House of Commons in Canada as of April 13, 2026.
After a long period of inactivity, I finally updated electoralcartogram.ca, my map of federal election results in Canada. It now includes data from every election and floor crossing since 2015 (including yesterday's by-elections!), and the map reflects the latest electoral district redistribution.
We switched our daily banking from Scotia to Meridian a couple years ago. It was less painful than I imagined. You can still get a human on the phone!
Growing up in Vancouver, where banking with Vancity is so commonplace, I’ve always been confused why credit unions aren’t more popular in Toronto.
Jarvis Cocker sings and plays guitar on stage with Pulp behind him and an array of colourful lights
I really enjoyed seeing Jarvis Cocker and the rest of Pulp at the large branded outdoor concert venue in September
For those liberals and others (like me), you can send your thoughts right to the man himself by going here www.pm.gc.ca/en/connect/c...
My daughter was disappointed to learn that every Winter Olympic sport involves ice or snow. And come to think of it, curling is the only one where people are just wearing shoes rather than skates or skis or boards or using a vehicle.
Today in Tabs, @rusty.todayintabs.com put a lot more heart and smarts than I ever have into why A.I. Isn't People.
Another way I think about it is that a million monkeys on a million typewriters still don't actually _intend_ to write Hamlet or understand why it would be any good.
Suprematism, by Nikolai Suetin, 1920-21, 📸 by @tiltoncreative
Hellebuycked
"Statistically, Willie would likely always have a better chance of predicting an early spring due to Wiarton's placement in the snow belts, a.k.a. the land of lake-effect snow and cloud," explains Weather Network meteorologist Kelly Sonnenburg. "Willie is a glass half-full type of rodent."
It’s worth walking people through the logic, because it doesn’t get repeated enough from the top:
1. There is no “immigrant crisis”. This is a panic instigated by racist slurs from a President’s that, even very recently, decent white people would have admitted were shocking and unacceptable.
I had this problem in reverse, stranded in NYC needing to get back to Toronto and I ended up taking the bus because it promised to be 9.5 hours and travels overnight. Not comfortable, and not even slightly elegant or romantic, but it did depart and arrive on time!
My friends know I've been threatening for years to blog again, or start a newsletter, or literally do anything other than passively doomscroll. I guess slow tech is buying the domain name and actually using it 6 months later.
Prime Minister Carney’s speech today really is as remarkable as everyone is saying in its description of the current moment. Worth reading (or listening) before reading anyone’s hot takes on it or him. Hat tip to Paul Wells for re-printing it verbatim:
r/Minneapolis If Trump invokes the Insurrection Act, that's it for me. I've spent the last week checking on my neighbors, engaging with my city, my local police, everyone. I've supported my friends and family, made sure they knew they weren't alone in their feelings of hopelessness, powerlessness. I've called and emailed my representatives, demanding answers, demanding action. I've just been overcome with this overwhelming, almost primal need to care for and support my community. If Trump invokes the Insurrection Act, and soldiers take to our streets, then that tears it for me. My son just turned 1yr. I've done my best to be a helper, so that I can still be around to support him and spend time with him. But if I have to STAND OUTSIDE in the FREEZING COLD and get the SHIT KICKED OUT OF ME by the people who are supposed to be protecting me, if I have to do that to fight for goodness, and righteousness, and justice, then that's what I'm gonna fucking do. I'm going to do it because this is not the future I want for my son. If you've been out on the streets, and you're tired, and you're hurting, don't worry. Rest when you need to. Because I know my home and I know my neighbors. When you need to rest, two more will replace you. I will be one of them. This is my home. Minneapolis is not going to quit. Minnesota is not going to quit. And FUCK EVERYONE who tries to come in here and take from us the PRIDE, LOVE, and COMMUNITY we've built. As long as I can stand, I'm going to plant my two feet between the oppressors and the home I love. I love you all. L'etoile du Nord.
Posts from Minneapolis residents read like they'll be read in voiceover in a Ken Burns-like doc one day
“…We do not flourish independent of the society and ecosystems we are part of. We are, overall, more idealistic in the literal sense of more concerned with ideas and ideals, with the principles of the larger society we live under, with justice and human rights.”
Christmas came a day late for Willow this year. ❄️🐶
Still fully snow north of the Davenport escarpment! #dlws
I kind of like this whole “We won’t buy your liquor but we will air your state-suppressed news stories” niche that Canada’s apparently carved out.
Instead we have a provincial government making it easier to evict people, unable or unwilling to get enough housing built, and a federal government unwilling to properly fund refugee shelters and housing.
@thestar.com has a story today about our public hospitals using donations to subsidize rent payments for patients at risk of homelessness. While commendable, how backwards is it that we use charitable giving to fund what should be government policy—guaranteed housing? www.thestar.com/news/gta/thi...
Lots of languages, not just French!
My kid’s high school French class is reading chapters from a Québécois book, and there are no quotation marks at all though, just em dashes to mark dialogue.
I feel like English has become more consistent, but I’ve seen this style in older English books too.
I grew up in Vancouver but left 25+ years ago. I return regularly though, and I’ve loved seeing the recent rise of Salish names on signs. It’s beautiful to see Indigenous history newly respected. And yet it feels so alienating for so many of us—especially visitors—not to be able to read the names.
