fascinating look at co2 emissions when broken down per capita (congrats canada)

#topoli This may be an unpopular stat, based on the hyper-ventilating about attacks on the TTC. But as of Q2, 2022, the daily ridership was 721,900. So the chances of being attacked were .00013%. The risk of being killed in a car accident (Canada, 2020) is .0046%, or 35x greater.

Not your aunt's NOW magazine

The media coasted for a long time on the reputation created by Watergate. But I gotta say, for the entirety of my adult life, it's been one spectacular, disheartening failure after another: Clinton scandals, Iraq War, financial crash, Tea Party, Trump. Failure is the norm now.

I’ll be running for mayor of Toronto. Together, we can create an affordable, equitable, sustainable city, a Toronto for Everyone. Please share.

It's grimly funny that all the heterodox, independent thinkers have ended up congealing into a hardened mass of conventional wisdom every bit as crushing and suffocating as what they say they oppose.

One core feature of reactionary psychology is a hatred of ambiguity & a strong propensity toward binaries. That's why they end up lumping everything they don't like, everything they see as bad, into the same big bucket. One big lump of good, one big lump of bad.

Last day of skating at #ChristiePits #Spring

#topoli I just want to say that the "questions" that are apparently coming in from the Ontario Place for Everyone consultation audience are 100% planted. All lobs. All designed to suss out key talking points.

Check out this insightful #interview from Wayne MacKay and CTV News Atlantic about the growing issue of violence in schools. Prof. MacKay is the #author of Emond's Teachers and the Law: Diverse Roles and New Challenges, 4th Edition. Available at u.emond.ca/tatl4

Best pop song of all time, bar none. And this is a perfect summary.

“In my 3 decade-long career being a weather forecaster, and now Chief Meteorologist and Climate Specialist, I have never observed so many of Earth’s vital signs blinking red.” wfla.com/weather/climat…

Looking forward to this! A bit of Montreal Flying Books on College Street tomorrow night with Sarah Gilbert and Michelle Syba Michelle Syba Anvil Press #shortfiction

This is the GOP's frontrunner for president.

A big thank you to The Paranoid Style for a recent post that turned me onto John Cale's masterpiece, Paris 1919. Picking up on interesting stuff like this is the main reason for sticking around on this website, as far as I can tell.

Thank you Jennifer Botterill for calling out the dinosaur thinking around cheap shots that has plagued hockey for so long. Enough of this crap already.

This is an absolute must-read

#QDFAO Quotable Dylan for Any Occasion: "What good are you anyway, if you can't stand up to some old businessman?"

This sucks.

The Quixotes perform The Songs of Gene Clark at the Monarch Tavern in Toronto, January 29. #GeneClark Attention: TheClarkophile