Maggie Helwig
@maggiehelwig.bsky.social
She/they. Sometimes I do conceptual art. Sometimes I don't. Gangster pastor, allegedly. "The only way that we, the small and the ordinary, might survive in any decent way, is if we learn to take care of each other."
I have not seen anywhere in news reporting any reference to the fact that this is, in part, a climate catastrophe.
Simon Little 🍁@simonplittle.ca · 2d agoThis is something we're seeing more and more of in our climate changed world. Same story with the fire in Summerland this year. Welcome to @johnvaillant.bsky.social's fire weather.
Once again, Ward 11 reporting in to say she is not great. And this is very much in line with her style.
Linda Blair@mjmbca.bsky.social · 4d agoSaxe is the councillor for Ward 11, where Mike Layton is running. She chose to run in Ward 14 after Paula Fletcher announced her retirement, switching to the now-open ward right before the deadline. I’m sure she’s great, but she’s playing the incumbency card despite not being our incumbent. #topoli
Thanks to BlueSky, for the first time I have a name for my fashion concept. That name is "Parisian grandfather."
derek guy@dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2w agoThings in Popeye, a Japanese menswear magazine: — Interview with a "freelance pie advisor" who claims to have tried every pie in London. He names the city's top three pies. — Recurring column from writer who updates everyone on his cats for some reason. — Feature on Parisian grandfather style.
BREAKING: Jeremy Kalicum and Eris Nyx's charges are being thrown out. she said they did a public service "at considerable personal cost."
The Ontario Government does municipal road design now apparently. "wants bidders to provide plans to “remove or relocate” islands, medians and gutters and “incorporate congestion relief measures at all major intersections to improve traffic flow, such as traffic signal adjustments"
EXCLUSIVE: Inside the contract to rip out Toronto's bike lanes - Spacing Toronto
After the Ontario Court of Appeal (ONCA) shot down CycleTO’s legally innovative charter challenge that sought to stop Doug Ford’s attack on the city’s bike lanes, Queen’s Park wasted little time befor...
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Damn, the West Toronto Railpath just reopened, and now most of it is closed again. This is very sad and discouraging.
I ended up in an elevator yesterday with three people ranting about "twelve year olds being permanently castrated." When I told them that I could testify from direct experience that this does not and cannot happen, they replied, "It happens in New York!" Then I had to get out of the elevator.
RT if you’ve never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.
Jadzia Axelrod 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️@planetx.bsky.social · last mo.RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.
Soon, poetry will be solved, and no one will ever have to read a poem again. Soon, landscapes will be solved, and no one will ever have to look at a mountain again. Soon, love will be solved, and no one will ever have to have an emotion again.
Razzball@razzball.bsky.social · 2mo agolol
Ten minutes of the most amazing saturated rose-orange light in the wake of the storm ...
"IntegrityTO" is now running ads on Facebook (pushed to *me* of all people) about some anonymous/imaginary dude who asked a cop why he wasn't cracking down on drug use and the cop said he couldn't because "the city has declared drug use a human right." JFC.
I mean, if Canadian consumers had been slipping in their commitment to boycotting US goods, the fact that US food is basically poison now has definitely got things back on track already. (I have seen so much more origin labelling in food stores this month ...)
Amnesty International's report on the anti-trans movement is being scrubbed from the internet. Download it if you can. It's hard to find but I found a download link here: ddosecrets.org/article/censored-amnesty-international-uk-report
Don't judge me by the title, it was said in a context ...
The Walrus@thewalrus.ca · 2mo agoWhat does resistance rooted in community look like in an age of instability? As democratic norms erode, the climate crisis deepens, and inequality grows, Anglican priest and author Maggie Helwig argues we must choose solidarity over silence. https://ow.ly/Jiys50Zxfkg
“The research also found that, while rental housing supply has grown across Canada in recent years, the benefits have not trickled down to those in most need. Rather, the new housing supply has been added to the higher end of the rental market.”
Rising cost of low-end rental units driving increase in homelessness, report shows
Findings challenge assumption that other factors, such as mental health or substance use, are the reason rates have surged in Canada
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Under what legal framework does buying a physical copy of a book give you legal ownership of the contents? Were that the case, I personally would have the copyright of thousands of books, many still in print. I want my royalties!
My IRL friends call me Chris@christyceeck.bsky.social · 3mo agoAI is a parasite that kills its host.
THIS SUMMER, THE WOMEN WILL COME AND GO, TALKING OF MICHAELANGELO PROOFROCK: COMING 2028
Jesse Hawken@jessehawken.bsky.social · 3mo agoStudio execs are going to want to adapt more poems for the big screen now
larger implications aside it’s always funny when an LRB piece breaks containment because it’s like a crowd shows up with machetes on your porch and you are. an old Man whittling whistles or making cups out of willow bark
I can't make it to the No Jets TO rally/victory party tomorrow, since they have scheduled it at the same time as church and I have a professional obligation to be at church. But I hope as many people as possible still show up. We all know this could be a fragile victory, and a good showing will help
It's been so long since there's been any kind of good news on any political front, I kind of don't know how to process it. I'm still expecting it to be taken back tomorrow. But it seems that it's real.
My lifelong ambition was to be published by Coach House Books. Took me a while to get there, but I made it. They are just the best.
Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP)@clmporg.bsky.social · 3mo ago“We still print and bind all our books in our coach house, and we’re proudly Canadian, though we sometimes publish books by writers from beyond our borders.” Read our member spotlight on @coachhousebooks.bsky.social:
I grew up with my mother telling me stories about the sky turning black at noon over Liverpool. Who knew the bad old days would make such an exciting comeback, here in the permanent dusk of smoke-filled Toronto.
Posted while First Nations communities in Northern Ontario are literally being incinerated and the skies above Canada’s biggest cities are glowing orange
Mark Carney@mark-carney.bsky.social · 3mo agoThe world wants to do more with Canada. Our MOU with Alberta will unlock those opportunities in energy — and create lasting benefits for Canadians.
Carney's trying a new rhetorical move where he says he wants to know what you're for rather than what you're against and it's like okay I'm *for* normal skies, breathable air, and a habitable planet. Your move Mr. Prime Minister.
I feel like Carney should equally be remembered for this speech, where he says action against climate change is too expensive and “divisive”, and thus his government is giving up. Wow. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Carney says Trudeau-era climate plan was 'too expensive' and 'divisive' | CBC News
Prime Minister Mark Carney echoed critics of the previous Liberal government's climate plan in a video posted on Tuesday, saying the plan he inherited was too expensive and divisive.
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Same experience today, but now because of the smoke. Apologies for mentioning this, though, since worrying about climate change is a Trudeau-era fad that we’re supposed to have moved on from.
I’m always reluctant to directly attribute any one weather event to climate change. But Canada’s current fossil-fuel boosterism does hit a bit harder while considering whether we have to keep our 6-year-old home from the baseball camp he’s been excited about, because of potential record heat.
