When the algorithm doesn’t read the room

You know the goosebumps “We Are Canadian” rant from Jeff Douglas last week? Well, here’s this week’s entrant into Proud Pop Up 🇨🇦 Videos from the super talented Tim Thompson.

On this day in 1984, Gaëtan Dugas died in Quebec City. As an HIV patient, he was erroneously vilified and mischaracterized as Patient Zero of the North American AIDS epidemic. His story has emphasized the importance of accuracy and empathy in public health narratives. 🧵1/8

Great stuff here.

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

Will markets prove a more effective check on executive aggrandizement --and thus a defender of democracy -- than Congress? Any precedent for this?

🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read. He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug

Well, this caught my eye. Spotted in the centre of downtown Vancouver. Apparently taken out by a private citizen stateside out of concern for his neighbours.

Well, this stopped me in my tracks. Spotted in the centre of downtown Vancouver. Apparently taken out by a private citizen stateside who cares about his neighbours.

Magnificently Canadian.

100% strong Phil Dunphy -- or, more accurately, Clive Bixby -- vibes

Thanks to Sky News Australia for having me on to talk the Canadian election and discover to my surprise that our country utterly fails to provide its citizens with the "democracy sausages" available at the Australian polling stations. This is a serious oversight by Cdn elxn officials.

I learned about the venerated "democracy sausage" in, of all things, the line to vote yday. (From an Aussie-Cdn, naturally.) We shd totally adopt this: Democracy Nanaimo bars, Democracy Poutine, Democracy Saskatoon Berry Pie, Democracy Donairs...

Great conversation about a tiny sliver of election night by the apparently clairvoyant Elamin Abdelmahmoud

“From a technical point of view, my old gf that left me never technically said the words “we are broken up””

"All verified" 🙄

As if Spiderweb wasn't remarkable enough...

Trump is making ICE into his Rosgvardia personal security force and the FCC into his Roskomnadzor censorship agency. My "Putinization of America" articles weren’t alarmist enough! Remember that autocrats take everything they can unless stopped, they don’t self-deter.

Excellent analysis from Shawn Chauhan

Sad to learn of the death of my dear friend Ken Dryden, legendary Montreal Canadiens goalie, at 78. As a teenager I was thrilled when Ken came out of nowhere to lead the Habs to 6 Stanley Cups, while earning a law degree. Imagine my surprise when decades later he called me to