The crowd for the free Angine de Poitrine show in Montreal is already thousands deep 1.5 hours before showtime. The Double Tree Hotel had to call police to help escort people from their restaurant, which has a balcony overlooking the show that was getting swarmed @anginedepoitrine.bsky.social

Mark Carney to the Liberal Convention in Montreal: "Many of our former strengths, which were based on our close ties with the United States, have become our weaknesses." "The foundations of the international order [...] are crumbling." Follow our live coverage: @theconcordian.bsky.social

Concordia University has signed a contract with ValkarTech worth up to $414,922 for the implementation of a janitorial tracking system. The system includes an app that will track workers’ presence and time spent in rooms. Read @chloerosewrites.com's article: theconcordian.com/2026/04/conc...

The Canadian government has partially restored funding for reproductive health organizations across the country after major cuts in 2024-2025. Read @chloerosewrites.com's article: theconcordian.com/2026/03/gove...

Stripping anonymity from the internet would constitute one of the most sweeping rollbacks of civil rights in recent history. It will allow for unprecedented levels of mass surveillance and censorship. Call your congress people TODAY

Congress Is Considering Abolishing Your Right to Be Anonymous Online

The bipartisan push to remove anonymity from the internet is ushering in an era of unprecedented mass surveillance and censorship.

theintercept.com

When a camp is removed, the framework allows the city or impacted borough to designate new “tolerance zones,” where people who have been removed from their initial encampment may establish a new one. Read @chloerosewrites.com's story here: theconcordian.com/2026/03/mont...

The Quebec government removed an abortion-rights clause from their proposed constitution following objections from women’s rights advocates, who argued the measure could open the door to legal challenges. Read @chloerosewrites.com's article: theconcordian.com/2026/02/caq-...

The Quebec government is standing by its 33 per cent tuition hike for Canadian non-Quebec residents studying at English-language universities. The decision comes despite a Quebec Superior Court ruling invalidating the measure. Read @chloerosewrites.com's full article on our website

EXCLUSIVE: Despite assurances from the Montreal police (SPVM) that biometrics will not be used in their new AI video surveillance program, the software purchased can tag and search for people by “age estimation, ethnicity, gender, expression/emotion” and more. Article by @chloerosewrites.com

The town of Hampstead in Montreal plans to install 50 surveillance cameras in public areas, including parks, walking paths, municipal buildings, and other “hotspots.” The system, which will be made available to the city’s police “if/when needed,” will be capable of recording both audio and video.

@ensemblemontreal.bsky.social has committed to spending $40 million on police body cameras, despite a growing body of research showing mixed results on effectiveness in reducing police violence and increasing accountability. By @chloerosewrites.com theconcordian.com/2026/01/mont...

Montreal has committed to spending $40 million over 10 years to outfit the city’s police with body cameras, despite a growing body of research showing mixed results on video evidence leading to increased accountability. My latest for @theconcordian.bsky.social theconcordian.com/2026/01/mont...

Breaking: François Legault resigns as Quebec premier. #quebec #francoislegault #quebecpolitics

joining the "cybertruck owners only" group on fb is one of the best decisions i've ever made. every so often when i'm scrolling through fb getting pissed off, i get to see a little treat like this

We're Publishing Our ICE Reporting In Spanish 🔗 www.404media.co/were-publish...

The NYT's Zohran Mamdani hit piece crosses a line for me as a journalist. here's @lopatto.bsky.social's clear-eyed take on the genuine travesty of it all www.theverge.com/culture/7000...

How The New York Times is (still) getting gamed by the right

And blowing its credibility in the process.

theverge.com

Air conditioning is an absolutely vital life-saving technology on a swiftly-warming planet, and people who claim it's somehow more shameful to cool a home than it is to heat one are idiots. I wrote this a few years ago and still stand by it: foreignpolicy.com/2022/01/16/c...

Climate Change Demands More Air Conditioning

An often-disparaged technology is a lifesaver, not a luxury.

foreignpolicy.com

"As #wildfire frequency and intensity continue to rise in B.C., we need to better understand the cascading effects of fire across systems, and to integrate this knowledge into land, water and #climate resilience planning," said Brian Hunt @ubcpelagic.bsky.social oceans.ubc.ca/2025/06/17/w...

In one of the most transparently dangerous implementations of AI I've seen this month: AllTrails launched a new tool that allows users to ask an AI to "shorten my route" or "make this more scenic." My latest for @nationalobserver.com www.nationalobserver.com/2025/06/17/n...

AllTrails launches AI route-making tool, worrying search-and-rescue members

One of the world’s most popular hiking apps has a new generative AI feature that can be asked to "shorten my route" or "make this more scenic." But the people in charge of searching for lost hikers sa...

nationalobserver.com

your child will toil valiantly in the factory. it will be masculine. it will restore our national character. it will make america great again. oh my child? my child will run a lucrative rightwing podcast

trotting around my house oinking and hooting, eat shit Sundar

nilay patel@reckless.bsky.social · last yr.

Google just lost the big adtech monopoly case -- safe to say the entire web economy changes after this. And probably Google, forever. www.theverge.com/news/650665/...

Protestors lined up outside of a Tesla dealership on Route 35 in Eatontown NJ, a town sitting inside cherry red district 4, represented by congress’s longest serving Republican, Chris Smith

Happy International Women’s Day to the most international woman of all: the woman trapped on the International Space Station

Grandpa, Did You Fight in the Trade War? @trondizzle.bsky.social co-hosts

How to Win The Dumb Trade War

Making Sense of Trump’s Tariffying Tuesday.

buff.ly

MEUSER: You've got Trudeau saying how the president is making a dumb move. That's bad diplomacy. SANCHEZ: I'm not sure how it's good diplomacy to say that a neighboring country should be the 51st state and that you're gonna impose economic hardship to achieve that goal.

I was convinced the Liberal Party couldn’t win a fourth term. I was wrong by Andrew Perez www.nationalobserver.com/2025/03/04/o...

I was convinced the Liberal Party couldn’t win a fourth term. I was wrong

Justin Trudeau’s resignation, the headline-grabbing Liberal leadership race, and the meteoric rise of Mark Carney’s candidacy have upend the political dynamics heading into an expected spring election...

nationalobserver.com

Not a fashion writer, and no longer a political reporter. But I have to assume it’s intentional that Joly is wearing a military jacket during the formal announcement of a trade war.

The Globe and Mail@theglobeandmail.com · last yr.

We're covering the news today's tariffs live on The Globe and Mail. Follow here: “What [Trump] wants is to see a total collapse of the Canadian economy, because that'll make it easier to annex us," said Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at a press conference

The Los Angeles Times has removed its new AI-powered “insights” feature from a column after the tool tried to defend the Ku Klux Klan

MAGA Newspaper Owner’s AI Bot Defends KKK

An AI-generated summary tried to offer “different views” on the hate group.

thedailybeast.com