Car-free streets are not synonymous with culturally rich streets. Removing cars creates possibility, but it does not automatically create a vibrant place. A truly vibrant public space is not only defined by what is absent; it is defined by what is present—who and what is able to flourish there.

A group advocating against data centres has launched trackers for several municipalities on councillors’ support for data centres. Here’s the one for Calgary City Council #yyc #yyccc calgary.stopthedatacentre.ca/election-tra...

Election tracker · Stop the Datacentre

Think there should be rules for AI datacentres? Us too.

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I did not anticipate how hard it would be to find collaborators in Edmonton. Throwing a bottle out to sea looking for an opera singer versed in extended technique and comfortable with physical performance for a short performance (12 min) in September at U of A. Paid gig, weird art. Reach out.

The more you know. www.librarian.net/notoai/

When WestJet ruins your vacation tomorrow I need you to remember that workers going on strike is why you have a vacation in the first place

Half the planet is having a massive fight about how to correctly interpret an Ancient Greek poem but go ahead, close some more humanities departments.

really lovely

Saloni@scientificdiscovery.dev · 7d ago

This is a really beautiful website by @jdworkin.bsky.social on the everyday household items that were once only dreamt about – a music player, nightlight, family photos, clean water, ice, spices, and more. 10/10 would recommend exploring it! ordinaryabundance.com

🚨Attention🚨 This Magazine is URGENTLY looking for someone who wants to write book reviews for us AND who is able to read Chinese. If this sounds like you, please send your info to editor@thismagazine.ca by the END OF THIS WEEK!

"If we ever intended to change anything, however, we had to begin by perceiving ourselves as citizens, rather than as consumers. It is consumption, after all, that’s kept us from taking meaningful action."

Ximena González@ximenaka.bsky.social · last wk.

Canada’s hot, smoky summers seem to have become the norm. We know how we got here. We’ve spent the last few decades voting with our wallets, making more sustainable choices, but we can’t shop our way out of extinction. New from me 👇

he’s gutting the public sector, he’s holding back on pharmacare deals, he tried to pull money out of daycare, he’s letting two-tier healthcare gain a foothold in alberta, and now he’s coming for public healthcare funding too

Canada Healthwatch 🍁@canadahealthwatch.ca · 2w ago

Planned changes to Ottawa’s Canada Health Transfer could slash more than $50B from public health care over a decade, David J. Climenhaga reports. This article and more at canadahealthwatch.ca #CdnHealth

This is a massive blow to transparency in Canada, which was already bleak. It means Canada is keeping Canadians in the dark about their own past.

The Hill Times@hilltimes.com · 2w ago

Library and Archives Canada has ended proactive declassification activities, a move access and archival experts say removes one part of an already limited federal system for making older records easier to process and release. www.hilltimes.com/2026/07/21/a...

Said it before, will say it again: if they’re gonna accuse you of being socialist or communist or whatever (and they will) you might as well go for it. Literally, what’s there to lose?

@brittneybush.bsky.social if you feel so inclined, I believe you’ve some opinions/expertise in this particular area lol 👇

Noel Murray@noelmu.bsky.social · 2w ago

Do I have any followers out there who have been to a Mariners game at T-Mobile and have opinions about the best parts of the park to sit? I'm going to a night game on Saturday, August 8.

Big heat. Summer heat is at its strongest. The air is thick and humid and the trees are busy making seeds. 🔥

hey Canadian arts and culture workers who recognize the harms and destruction of culture and art that AI represents! fill in this form and tell them about how they are wrong etc.

Sonja Boon@storiedselves.bsky.social · 2w ago

Canadian arts and culture folks: the federal government has launched a (methodologically flawed) survey on "the Cultural Sector's readiness for Artificial Intelligence". If you're ready to resist or refuse genAI, here's your chance to let them know. pch.research-recherche.ca/f/s.aspx?lan...

mark carney letting this go ahead because making us pay for healthcare will be good for gdp in the short term

Left Wexit@iosegun.bsky.social · 2w ago

Currently my provincial govt is trying to privatize the healthcare system. Is this what it’s like to be American, getting MRI advertisements from your phone company?

Wanna see ZACH CHERRY on the worst first date ever? Check out the trailer for my new movie!! ALL NIGHT WRONG : AVAILABLE AUGUST 14TH www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HmV...

All Night Wrong (2026) | | Official Trailer | Voltage Pictures | Maria Bakalova and Tyler Labine

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"History rarely begins with applause. It begins with someone being told to sit down, be quiet, stop making trouble and respect authority."

Tim Bousquet@timbousquet.bsky.social · 2w ago

When did we forget how rights are won? by @lamoutonnoir.bsky.social

Local plumbers two steps ahead of every university administrator in america 👏

Metin Seven (Moon Child's dad 🌝)@seven.eurosky.social · 2w ago

Ontario jails are using an AI tool that claims to predict prisoners’ behaviour. And it’s disproportionately placing Black prisoners in maximum security. An investigation by @desmondcole.bsky.social reveals the province knew the tool would discriminate against Black people—and used it anyway.

Black prisoners are assigned harsher living conditions in Ontario jails—thanks to AI ⋆ The Breach

Ontario jails are using a program that claims it can predict prisoners’ behaviour, disproportionately putting Black prisoners in higher-security facilities

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Today is Nonidi the 29th of Messidor in the year 234. Messidor is the month of harvest. Today we celebrate wheat. #JacobinDay See today's page

We’re looking for science writers to join WHN’s Science Writing & Newsletter Team. Help turn complex public health research into clear, accessible newsletters, articles, and social content that people can understand and use. You’ll collaborate with researchers, editors, writers, (...)

2/ Canada’s participation in this spectacle puts progressive Canadians at real risk. It’s outrageous, and the Prime Minister owes Canadians an explanation as to why he’s involving our country in this ugly episode.

1/ Trump is fuelling a new McCarthyism that is both delusional and dangerous. It’s clearly intended to crack down on Americans who are resisting his anti-democratic agenda. It’s also a serious escalation of violent authoritarianism from our next door neighbour.

Toronto Star@thestar.com · 3w ago

The Trump administration is hosting a high-level global meeting on combating “political terrorism” in Washington — a move experts have described as a politically-motivated crackdown on left-wing movements. Canada is one of more than 60 countries attending. Just in from @markramzy.bsky.social:

Here in Calgary I show people this graph and if I get any further guff I ask if they know what a graph is. #yyc #yyccc #ClimateChange #Wildfires #smoke #cdnpoli #abpoli

Kim McCauley@kimischilling.bsky.social · 3w ago

I am not a climate scientist but when I was a kid the number of times we couldn’t go outside because of Canadian wildfire smoke was zero times

The Luddites loved technology. They owned looms at home and would ‘mod’ them to count threads. Their battle was against worker exploitation. The degradation of their rights, safety and wages. They were against a handful of rich businessmen owning the means of production. Sound familiar?

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 3w ago

George Lucas likens AI sceptics to luddites clinging to horses and carts

Carney is the most regressive PM of my lifetime and more conservative than Harper. Fine, you voted Liberal to prevent Poilievre from winning. Now fight back to prevent Carney from implementing most of the same policies.

Dr. Tanya Lentz, R.Psych.@pednpsy.bsky.social · 3w ago

People defending Mark Carney by justifying their vote for the Liberal party because of the far right Conservatives. I get it. However, we as Canadians need to have expectations of whatever government is in power. We need to question and expect answers. They work for us.

It's not enough to be against AI, you need to be pro art. You need to be a champion of the art you love, you need to share that passion and joy, and do what you can to support the artists who make it, because it's not enough to hate AI, to hate what it's doing to art and media; you gotta love.

While Canadians giggle with schadenfreude about explosive diarrhea in the U.S., recall that Budget 2025 includes ongoing expenditure cuts of $211M, $89M & $81M to Health Canada, the Public Health Agency of Canada & the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, respectively. budget.canada.ca/2025/report-...

Annex 3: Comprehensive expenditure review: Planned reductions by organisation | Budget 2025

Annex 3: Comprehensive expenditure review: Planned reductions by organisation — Part of Budget 2025.

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Daniel Munro@dkmunro.bsky.social · 3w ago

“Government cuts have contributed to an information vacuum on foodborne illness…. Millions of Americans are still searching online what foods to avoid, and watching social media prevention rituals, trying to solve a problem that was never theirs alone to solve.” www.statnews.com/2026/07/15/w...