Mother nature has seen how we behaved in the last four years and is like, yeah I don't trust that a lot of you will follow medical advice so I'm just gonna preemptively send in the clouds

SUCH a good interactive by Jaela Bernstien and Emily Chung on Canada's lost rivers. If you care about things like clean air, a flooded basement, urban heat islands--read read read!

newsinteractives.cbc.ca/features/2024/…

Gems in this pants story:
'...straight-leg vintage Levi’s 501s—something like the Greenwich Mean Time of modern pants.'
'There are some reasons to be bullish about the chances of mainstream big-pants hegemony.'
'Your capacity for stupidity is how you know you’re still alive.'

For reference, here's a four-storey building in Toronto next to a three-storey house. What do we think, is the one on the left a tower?

Still absolutely wild how we treat old people in Canada: tvo.org/article/nearly…

Males Aren’t Larger Than Females in Most Mammalian Species: V cool story by Rachel Nuwer for Scientific American scientificamerican.com/article/males-…

They buried the lede on this new study. It's not that exercise beats out SSRIs for depression treatment, but that *just* dancing has the largest effect of *any treatment* for depression.

That's kind of beautiful.

Thrilled to share I’ll be Toronto Star’s new Work and Wealth reporter while the inimitable Sara Mojtehedzadeh is away.

Massive shoes to fill and I’m excited to continue important reporting on workers’ rights, labour issues and wealth inequality.

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'For the first time, global warming has exceeded 1.5C across an entire year, according to the EU's climate service.' BBC bbc.com/news/science-e…

What a privilege to spend time with an extraordinary artist & tell her story. I learned so much about washi—a captivating material with a rich history & benefits that include wondrous & deeply meaningful relationships. In News Decoder news-decoder.com/an-ancient-art…

'So we lose a few critters, what's that to ME?'

#BiodiversityLoss #EndangeredSpecies #Extinction ☠️ #MassExtinction

Umm this is WILD: 'Nesting penguins had incredibly fractured slumber. They took more than 600 “microsleeps” an hour. Each nap averaged only four seconds. At times, the penguins slept with half of their brain; the other half stayed awake.' snexplores.org/article/chinst…

This is so wonderful! What a win for The Walrus. Congrats Carmine Starnino

A really important read by Tina Knezevic on crushing postnatal anxiety experienced by many women for New Scientist

newscientist.com/article/mg2613…

Be still, my heart. UNFCCC docs explained #COP28

*Really* good thread for people looking to have their books fact-checked!

I grew up with Reader's Digests all around my house and then became a grown up and got to write for them, which was always an amazing experience. Sad day :(

Do your ears a favour and put the Millennial Money podcast by Ghada Alsharif | غادة الشريف in them right now: thestar.com/podcasts/mille…