When I was about 11, the Québec grocery chain Super Carnaval opened a store at the brand new Malvern Town Centre: 15¢ donuts, 99¢ refillable 2L fountain pop in dozens of flavours (including some weird ones)—heaven. Lasted about 2 years before Supercentre bought them out and made it boring.

Tod Maffin 🇨🇦@todmaffin.com · yesterday

TODAY IN CANADA: In 1980, Toronto's World's Biggest Bookstore opened its doors, boasting approximately 1.5 million books and 27 kilometres of shelving. 📚YOUR SAY: Name a Canadian store that's gone now and still makes you a bit sad.

I would just beg everyone, very much including elected Dems, to vigorously reject the words "retribution" & "revenge." Do not say them. Object when others say them. That's not what's happening here. The words you want are "accountability" & "rule of law."

I'm ecstatic for the US. And now I'm gonna make their good news entirely about Canada: I hope all of the Canadians who've been so terrified of Trump that they cheered on Carney going full Reagan regain a modicum of rationality and start demanding he stop selling off our goddamn country for parts.

If people removing speed cameras is legitimate protest in protecting the rights of drivers then... www.guelphtoday.com/police/guelp...

Guelph police seek three men after stop sign removed before crash

A crash at Cole Road and Scottsdale Drive that heavily damaged two vehicles is being investigated after Guelph police determined a stop sign had been removed beforehand

guelphtoday.com

Uneblievably obvious illegality was occuring, costing the public hundreds of millions of dollars. The Conservatives' reaction? Protect malfeasant college owners and cut hundreds of millions of dollars of grants to students. Cruel. Disgusting. Corrupt. Quinn needs to resign.

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

Current most obnoxious sports clichés: 1. Put up a crooked number (Brewers put up 8 in the fifth last night; 8's pretty symmetrical, is that bad?) 2. Score the basketball (As opposed to scoring the what, shoe?)

Toronto driver not sure where to park after city removes bike lanes

Toronto driver not sure where to park after city removes bike lanes

TORONTO - Following the removal of much of the city’s bike lanes, local motorist Jason Welch is facing extreme uncertainty about where he should park his car now.

thebeaverton.com

Many people saying that Ontarians should vote today because municipal politics has the most direct effect on our lives; while I certainly agree with the first part, our provincial government has had both thumbs on every municipal scale for the past decade—not sure part two is accurate at the moment.

It’s no longer surprising, but it remains difficult to believe that, at roughly the same time, Trump can say what he said about Somali Americans and Obama can say what he said about the Cheesecake Factory and the discourse is all pearl clutching about the second one.

Brazil going the way of South Korea. Basically around the world women are desperately trying to keep power out of the hands of incredibly stupid fascistic grifters while men keep trying to hand it over. Men are an embarrassing cringe gender.

Jo Wolff@jowolff.bsky.social · 2w ago

Incredible gender difference in voting intention in Brazil.

They absolutely nailed the expression. “This is what we looked like, okay? Will you leave us alone now?”

This is what the mysterious Denisovans looked like

Archaeologists identified skull fragments from China as belonging to this group of ancient human relatives.

nature.com

The brief pause in a replay at the moment the ball leaves the pitcher’s hand is the best innovation in sports broadcasting since the visible first down line.

A lot of the past decade’s “culture wars” have been abuse victims finding solidarity and standing up for themselves, and abusers going “how dare you”

A bit funny that we got a flurry of “X isn’t so bad” stuff from people *who make a living selling their insight* while the fascist white supremacist owner was actively ratfucking in Texas, and immediately before his other company started helping Russia to kill Ukrainians.

From the 'No Shit!' Files www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...

Fuel tax pause offers bigger break to higher-income families: budget watchdog

The parliamentary budget officer says Ottawa’s gas tax pause is offering a bigger break at the pumps to the households that earn the most.

ctvnews.ca

amen @doniveson.bsky.social

Doesn’t matter who’s in the front office, who’s behind the bench, who’s wearing the sweater, the Leafs are always the Leafs.

They made it hard to buy a house, get a job; they normalized long work hours; normalized kids being sick constantly and refuse to invest in clean air; made streets unsafe by packing them with enormous cars. And then they ask these fucking questions. Fuck off.

Financial Times@financialtimes.com · 4w ago

Why people don’t want to have children any more ft.trib.al/O4zvQ9N

The House of Commons is debating the price of food, which is a bit weird because eliminating the carbon tax was supposed to solve that problem.

It's time we revisited adding a Caribbean island or two to the federation.

Samantha Brennan@samanthabrennan.bsky.social · last mo.

Snowbirds flocking to the U.S. can expect extra scrutiny as clampdown on foreigners intensifies: Dale Jackson www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...

One of the right’s baked-in advantages is that the base is so blinkered, so bought-in, that the talking points don’t have to be remotely plausible; they can even be transparently false—the chuds just need something, anything to soothe their psyches so they can call it a win and move on.

MAGA Media Is Trying to Spin Senator's Brutal Gaffe Into a Win

MAGA media is covering Eric Schmitt's gaffe during a hearing with Jack Smith as a win, claiming he caught the former special counsel in a lie.

rollingstone.com

“One day, when it’s safe, when there is no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will always have been against this”

Mark Kersten@markkersten.bsky.social · last mo.

"I want to say to the millions of people in this country and indeed elsewhere, who have been moved and outraged by the plight of the Palestinian people. We hear you. You were right." Would love someone in government in Canada to say the same. theguardian.com/politics/202...

“What is certain, however, is that a vast sum of our money will be wasted, countless Torontonians will find themselves profoundly inconvenienced for extended periods, and, eventually, a cyclist will get struck by a car. But at least the congestion will be worse.”

Spacing@spacing.bsky.social · last mo.

EXCLUSIVE: Inside the contract to rip out Toronto’s bike lanes Spacing has obtained the RFP for the Ford government's bike lane removal, and it looks even worse than thought. spacing.ca/toronto/2026... #toronto #bikes #torontobike @cycletoronto.bsky.social

We’re a decade in to this and all these once serious, reputable news organizations are still desperately pretending that the emperor isn’t stark naked.

The Moves That Backfired on Trump and Drove Interest Rates and Inflation Higher

The president’s own agenda has helped undermine promises to fix the economy and get the deficit under control.

wsj.com

This is the master key to deciphering contemporary debates about free speech. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...

What I can't get over is the Dems out there trying to transphobia their way out of these numbers. Just out there riding the crest of the wave, doing morally unsupportable pandering to bigotry at a time when it is also strategically foolish, just for love of the capitulation game.

John Muller@mrjohnmuller.bsky.social · last mo.

I don't think Trump is going to be able to transphobia his way out of these numbers. He's gonna try, it will be absolutely disgusting and incredibly harmful, and it will fail.

I say this as a preamble to my main point, which is: When the government says it has the right to order striking employees back to work, implicit is the claim that the government is willing to *use violence* to compel workers to perform labour against their will.

If the awards are all white, it's because white people are better. But if they're not all white, that's racist. bsky.app/profile/mari...

Maris Kreizman@maris.bsky.social · 2mo ago

LOL, the gotcha part in the second paragraph is truly hilarious. Who will think of the straight white rightwing men in the literary world? WHO? WHO?

I have two kids going to school in Toronto and travelling back and forth on average maybe once every six weeks. The train is so overpriced and inconvenient that we never even consider it—now it seems that VIA has decided that the status quo is too good and needs to be cut back some more.

The Kingstonist@kingstonist.bsky.social · 2mo ago

#ICYMI “VIA is going in the wrong direction. Every train that is cancelled means less choice, less frequency, less convenience,” #Kingston Mayor Bryan Paterson said after #VIA Rail announced coming service reductions for #YGK. #KFLA #Transportation Full story: www.kingstonist.com/news/it-does...

These are kind of extreme examples, but I recently watched some video that showed how rope and iron were made pre-industrialization—in both cases: a huge amount of very slow work to produce a distressingly small amount of material.

John Michael McGrath@jm-mcgrath.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Seeing someone on here post about how technology hasn't actually liberated anyone from drudgery and man, I don't think people realize how much of their lives rely on stuff that was once done by hand and now isn't.