Good grief.
14.03.2026 05:03
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Good grief.
I am begging my fellow Canadians to take a break for a second from obsessing about American corruption to focus on our home grown versions.
Ford is a corrupt crony goon who has done countless shady backroom deals. He wants to remove one of our most powerful tools to hold him accountable. Fuck that!
So yes, if you were wondering, Doug Ford -does- understand the concept of corruption.
All this. I don’t care if some people find flying out of downtown easier. We need to stop letting these people run Toronto like it’s the place people have to be when they’re not at the cottage. We live here, we like it. Park not planes, @liberalca.bsky.social @mark-carney.bsky.social
I will also say that it’s a bit wild to me that no press freedom organization or professional journalistic association has tried to contact me or even put out a statement here.
I mean Jesus Christ. A little solidarity from institutions would be nice here!
Breaking news! I have my first opinion piece in the Toronto Star today! I got to make fun of John Tory AND make a joke about me playing for the Blue Jays, so it's safe to say that this was the most fun I've had writing something in a while. 💙 www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
The Guardian on our new study, which shows that global heating is significantly gathering speed. Our efforts to overcome our fossil fuel addiction should do the same.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Two white nationalists I exposed in a recent article showed up to try to intimidate me in person last night.
This is a press freedom issue.
Here’s what happened:
My latest on how Trump and toxic tech bros are weaponizing AI to target civilians. People are pushing back.
There is a worldwide boycott of CHAT GPT. The stakes are high here.
charlieangus.substack.com/p/its-time-t...
Screenshot of The Guardian. Text reads: • More than 100 children reportedly killed in school bombing in Iran - video US-Israel war on Iran Death toll from school bombing in southern Iran reportedly rises to 165 Strike on girls' elementary school in Minab killed 165 people and injured 96 others, according to Iranian state media
Ahem. Girls. Elementary. School. Children. In school. Girls. One hundred and sixty five. Put that in context: one hundred sixty five small bodies wrapped in white. Who will never get to grow up. Who will never get to love. Or feel the sunshine on their face.
Whether it is rape or kidnapping or murder, women always bear the brunt of men’s aggression.
“The Mizan news agency has reported that the death toll at the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ elementary school in Minab, Iran, has risen to 108.”
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
Gen Z may be the first modern generation to score worse on standardized tests than their parents.
Neuroscientist Jared Cooney Horvath points to schools replacing textbooks with tech and the iPhone. I’d add COVID as a major inflection point many never recovered from.
Ryan Coogler‘s The X-Files reboot has received a pilot greenlight at Hulu.
Danielle Deadwyler is set as the co-lead with Jennifer Yale as showrunner.
Source: Deadline | Read More: bit.ly/4ayla2N
Feels like he's getting desperate because these takes are getting just objectively terrible. This is one of the silliest arguments about anything I've ever heard.
According to the provincial data, 109 Nova Scotians died of Covid in 2025. That’s more than in 2020 (65) or 2021 (46).
Masks save lives.
Absolutely wild. WSJ reporting that some OpenAI staffers thought the Tumbler Ridge shooter's use of ChatGPT raised the potential of real world violence but leadership decided not to alert RCMP. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...
This is a vivid, horribly relevant read. “She does not sleep well. And as you lift up her pajama top to check her rash one morning, you see that her breathing is labored, shadows pooling between her ribs when she sucks in air. You suffer an icy moment of realization: This is a medical crisis.”
Today, the Trump administration repealed the endangerment finding: the ruling that served as the basis for limits on tailpipe emissions and power plant rules. Without it, we’ll be less safe, less healthy and less able to fight climate change—all so the fossil fuel industry can make even more money.
Terrific TO shows to catch this week: Through the Eyes of God, You Always, Eureka Day, Witch, Copperbelt, Summer & Smoke, White Rabbit Red Rabbit, An Intervention, & Juliet. Support Canadian live theatre!
Just because it's going to be important over the coming days.. I stand with the trans community, especially trans youth. Some of the strongest, most vibrant and amazing people I know are trans and we cannot allow the news cycle to ever take that away.
Guns kill people, gender identity doesn't.
always so funny to me when people are like “how am I supposed to explain Gay to my kids?” my kid asks me way harder shit all the time. “why did they build the road this way? why are some people bad?” I don’t know. please ask me about Gay
Philippe Gaulier, a French clown who was known as one of comedy’s greatest teachers, with students including Sacha Baron Cohen and Emma Thompson, died on Monday. He was 82.
A child’s illustration, made in what appears to be crayon, of more than a dozen figures standing together. It’s titled “Mi Familia” and credited to “Luisanney Toloza, 5 años.”
4/ “Mi Familia,” by 5-year-old Luisanney Toloza from Venezuela, who had recently crossed the U.S.-Mexico border
The first page of a child’s handwritten letter, written in different colors of pencil. Transcript: “Hello, my name is Susej F and I’am 9 years old. I’am from Venezuela. I have been 50 days in Dilley Immigration Processing Center. And I want to go to my Country. But I miss my school and my friends I feel bad since when I came here to this Place, because I have been here too long. I have been 2 years and 6 months in united states, and I was happy with my friends in The school but now I need to leave. I miss my family in my country so now I want To go to Venezuela. But my mom do not want to leave because she wants a better future for me.”
The second page of a child’s handwritten letter, written in pencil on notebook paper. Transcript: “Seen how people like me, immigrants are been treated changes my perspective about the U.S. My mom and I came to The U.S looking for a good and safe place to live, and my mom was looking for a Good job.”
2/ “I miss my school and my friends I feel bad since when I came here to this Place, because I have been here too long.”
From 9-year-old Susej F, detained for 50+ days
Page 1 of handwritten letter. Transcript: "Hello, my name is Ariana V.V. im 14 years old and im from Honduras, ive been detained for 45 days and I have never felt so much fear to go to a place as I feel here everytime I remind myself that once I go back to Honduras a lot of dangerous things could happen to my mom and my younger siblings haven’t been able to see their mom in more than a month. They are very young and you need both of your parents when you are growing up. Since I got to this Center all you will feel is sadness and mostly depression. When people have their courts the longest they will last is 15 minutes, our rights are not being provided, arrest are happening when people don’t even have any type of order, arrests are happening illegally. Its sad to hear that peoples case are being denied and are getting send back to their country places where they are escaping from and are looking for protection and want to feel safe. Not a lot of people know what is happening in the Centers where immigrants are placed at. I haven’t been getting any school time. Every single person in here had their jobs they had their lifes, they aren’t any danger for this Country."
Page 2 of a child’s handwritten letter. Transcript: "Ive been in this country for almost 7 years and in those 7 years my mom and I found a home and made a bigger family. I have never been separated from my siblings and its honestly sad because they are little and they need their mom and sister, yeah they are with their dad but its still different for them and my mom and I. Since the day my mom and I get detained in Manhattan NY, my life was instanly paused, from my knowledge you can’t be under custody for more than 15 or 20 days, well here in Dilley Immigration Processing Center people have been in this place for 7 months, 5 months, 4-2 months, its not fair that the ICE officers are not following the laws. All kids are being damage mentally, they witness how the’ve been treated. They don’t have schools, doctor, all they have are nurses, if you need medical attention the longest you have to wait is 3 hours, but to get any medicine, pill, anything it takes a while, there are various viruses people are always sick. Serious situations happen and the officers can’t take them serious enough there are no consecuenses, they don’t care."
3/ “I have never been separated from my siblings and its honestly sad because they are little and they need their mom and sister.”
From 14-year-old Ariana V.V, whose U.S.-citizen siblings are 2 and 5 years old. Detained for 45+ days
Soulpepper Theatre Company is starting off 2026 with a hit! "Witch" is a compelling story of love, desire, and most of all, hope.
Starring the inimitable Tantoo Cardinal, you cannot miss this stellar show! On stage until March 1!
#TheaTO #Theatre #Review
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