HEY YOU Andrew Bevan! #Budget2024 Curse of Politics

The Kiss, 2018, sculpture by Penny Hardy, created using recycled metals #WomensArt

Half the oxygen we breathe comes from tiny phytoplankton in the ocean.

Every day is #EarthDay

Here it is via the CBC Listen app👇🏼

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A Swedish word for cramming for exams is korvstoppning, or “stuffing sausages.” A German version is büffeln, or “to buffalo.” There’s also a colloquial (and crass) German term for memorising facts that are forgotten right after the exam: Bulemielernen. It means “bulimia learning”

Sean Fraser vs. Fred DeLorey
@iPolitics On Background podcast.

Sean Fraser bleeped out more often than Fred DeLorey! Really interesting and convivial convo about #cdnpoli , from very different sides of spectrum podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/ipo…

Looking to speak with a Canadian company that has recently deployed a Chatbot and can share some best practices on how to build a solution that customers won't hate for an upcoming story in the Globe & Mail.

If interested please email [email protected]

PRESS RELEASE: Studies reveal MegaSpa is the wrong project in the context of our climate emergency mailchi.mp/9b3612642fa6/p… #topoli #onpoli #Earthday2024 #ClimateEmergency #EarthDay

In Ojibwe our words for ‘happy earth day’ are ‘mina aki giizhigad’. Our word for mother earth is Ishkakimikwe. Music by Yazzie.

A tip for politicians & senior govt leaders that I don't expect them to follow: don't make public comments about decisions made by judges like bail, acquitting, sentencing etc or otherwise interfere in independence of justice system. You may be compelled to apologize someday

Remember Umar Zameer's case the next time a politician like Pierre Poilievre or Doug Ford says we need 'jail not bail' as a default

There's a presumption of innocence in our constitution for good reason

P.S. ~80% of people in Ontario jails are awaiting trial

My type of Premier / 🇨🇦 Politician Wab Kinew

I’m gonna say that I knew Alex Heine and Nader R Hasan before they were famous. Just don’t ask them to confirm. ;)

So many lessons to learn from them. But at the top is how to litigate and win with class.

Rest easy tonight. You did good work.

Nadar, now everyone knows what we all already do - that you are an absolute mensch. It’s beautiful to see a moment that is usually deeply private expose the heart of the relationship between a defence lawyer and their client. This is why we do it.

Meaghan Gray Chief Myron Demkiw TPA President Jon Reid Here’s Umar Zameer speaking

While Canada’s proposed grocery code of conduct differs from the Australian and U.K. counterparts that influenced it, there may be lessons to draw from those frameworks toronto.citynews.ca/2024/04/21/aus…