If you trust health officials, doctors and scientists based on their politics, you're doing it wrong.

Greta Thunberg “I'm not scared of Israel. I’m scared of a world that has seemingly lost all sense of humanity.”

Stand with Greta, stand with humanity.

Do you live for books that bring on the chills and thrills? 👻 📖

Check out our list spooky season reads by Canadian authors.

Read the full list here:

www.riverstreetwriting.com/blog/2025/9/...

#spookyseason

Flu shot: not perfect but a hell of a lot better than the ICU. 💉

Vax efficacy depends on flu strain circulating.
’24-25 flu season - especially severe. Luckily 💉was 56% effective against getting flu.

🚨 W/ the vax, even when flu hits, it hits softer🚨
(i.e. less likely to be hospitalized/in ICU/die)

NEW: David Piccini, the minister whose office picks Skills Development Fund recipients, was in Paris this weekend at the wedding of a lobbyist whose clients received millions from that fund.

From me and @charliepinkerton.bsky.social.

www.thetrillium.ca/news/politic...

The Oregon Republican Party tried to help Donald Trump make the case for military intervention in Portland with an image of a fiery protest — but since Portland is calm, they had to fabricate one by merging old photos of police in Ecuador and protesters in Brazil www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

The AI bubble is 17 times the size of the dot-com frenzy — and four times the subprime bubble
www.marketwatch.com/story/the-ai...

Global #energyliberationday - 6 Oct - mark it in your calendars …

Huh.

AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations”

12 cyclists just passed this point in 60 seconds. Either these officers are aggressively trying to endanger cyclists or they can’t see what’s before their eyes.

These Toronto Police officers could have used the adjacent parking spot, but instead are blocking a busy bike lane in rush hour.

A stream of cyclists bumping over the curb to get around the SUV.

Two officers watching this happen.

I'm just saying that we've never even tasted what the Joker is trying to add to the water supply, okay? Make up your own minds!

The Canadian book industry definitely needs the post office. Among other things, Canada Post is usually the most cost effective way to send review copies or for independent presses to ship direct orders to readers. #CanLit

The Unravelling of Ou (by me!) is forthcoming with Palimpsest Press, February 15, 2026, and is available for pre-order now. 🧦 📖

Here is the listing at one of my local bookstores!

tinyurl.com/5an25y7h

This book was made possible through the generous funding of Ontario Arts Council.

#canlit

Any time a politician says we should leave the ECHR, the very next questions any interviewer should ask are
🚨Which human rights are you willing to lose personally
🚨Which methods of torture are you going to allow people to be sent to face
🚨Which family members would you be willing to lose

#r4today

Trump hates to be the object of humor. He understands that humor can be a more powerful antidote to tyranny than any other form of criticism.

I'm sure he'd hate it if you shared this cartoon. [Cartoon by Jon Adams/The New Yorker]

🎯 I don't blame people who don't know better. I blame those whose job it is to know better.

In a rush to "return to normal", Public Health hasn't only capitulated to short-term political expediency, it has imperiled the very prosperity it was told to protect at all costs. #LongCOVID

Since it's a @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social morning, something he wrote in July has absolutely haunted my thoughts since.

"...the threshold a government needs to meet before it can cause harm to its citizens, and how many falsehoods it can tell in the process."

Haunted by it.

www.tvo.org/article/anal...

“I’m strong and I want to have like fifty kids and a farm” of course you do. You’re twelve. “I don’t want to eat vegetables I think steak and French fries is the only meal” hell yeah homie you’re twelve. “Maybe if there’s crime we should just send the army” bless your heart my twelve year old buddy

Journalism, the job where when someone powerful lies you describe it as "not strictly true" because describing facts would be bias bsky.app/profile/atru...