Whenever someone asks what I’m doing later and my answer is “nothing,” please understand that nothing is not an opening in my schedule. Nothing is the event. Nothing is the plan
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I was born on a Tuesday in July. Atheist. Liberal. GenX. Introvert. Occasionally funny. Always tired. 🇮🇹 🇨🇵 🇧🇻 🇮🇪 🏴
More brain drain: “Twenty-one universities in Canada announced on Thursday the hiring of dozens of researchers to join their top academic ranks, poaching the majority of the recruits from the United States. Of the incoming 64 researchers, 48 will leave American campuses…”
Canada Hires U.S. Scholars From Harvard and Other Top Universities (Gift Article)
A crackdown on American academia by the Trump administration has handed Canadian universities a rare opportunity to lure some top researchers north.
nytimes.com
Wab Kinew reacts to Donald Trump renaming Lake Ontario: "You know when a rock band is really over the hill and you see them in a casino playing some song from like 50 years ago? I think that's the part of Donald Trump's presidency we're at now."
Canada is doubling down on science while others are turning away. 👏🇨🇦 www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/art...
Canada recruits dozens of foreign scientists, researchers, poaching many from U.S.
Canadian universities have recruited dozens of foreign scientists and researchers, many of them poached from prestigious U.S. institutions.
ctvnews.ca
Wake up, babe. The Prime Minister just dropped “hydronym”.
A major investment in Canadian shipbuilding. 🇨🇦 More than $11 billion to build six new Coast Guard icebreakers, creating nearly 5,000 jobs and strengthening Canada’s maritime capacity. 🔗 Learn more: bit.ly/4xWtXnX
Has there ever been a more iconic entrance? Rest in peace, Tim Curry.
Buckingham Palace band playing 9 to 5 for Dolly Parton
A Canadian official confirmed that Americans will now be charged a $1 million fee to use the lake. “We’re just following international precedent. Every time Trump tries to take over a waterway that was previously free to enter, he ends up having to pay for access”. theshovel.com.au/2026/08/27/c...
Canada Renames Lake Ontario “Lake of Hormuz”, Just To Fuck With Trump — The Shovel
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney described it as a “completely unnecessary but extremely satisfying” response to US President Donald Trump’s trade tantrum.
theshovel.com.au
![Mentally and physically prepare yourself for what I am about to show you
It's not an easy thing to witness
[Photo of a giant spider]
That is HUGE
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A lasting investment in a stronger, more self-reliant Canada. We’re strengthening our capacity to build ships at home, assert our presence in the Arctic, and export to new markets around the world.
Mark Carney: "This fall we will begin intense discussions with the European Union, the world's second-largest economy, to build a much stronger and deeper economic and security partnership"
And now, cooking with @abdulelsayed.bsky.social and of course it’s shawarma!
"Mark Carney did what Canadians elected him to do: stand up for Canada. The American president clearly did not know whom he was dealing with." www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/o...
Opinion | Canada Said No to America. It Will Reverberate Far Beyond Its Borders. (Gift Article)
Mark Carney has chosen suffering, but he did what Canadians elected him to do.
nytimes.com
. There is a massive trading block which, unlike Trump, would treat Canada with respect and give it a fair deal. It would be USA's great loss and,a big win for both Canada and the EU. . www.politico.eu/article/cana...
Canada could join EU, French foreign minister says
Half-joking comments about Canada joining the bloc have become common as Ottawa adapts to its fraying relationship with the United States.
politico.eu
PM receives praise from leaders for rejecting US trade proposal as Trump shows little interest in retreating from spat
Mark Carney says Canada can’t accept US trade deal that would weaken French language
theguardian.com
"They have one. I was being generous. I rounded up. They have a habit of doing that there" -- Mark Carney is straight up trolling the US over our lack of icebreakers
Carney: "An attitude Canada is a subsidiary of US, that Canadian industry is going to be disadvantaged relative to US industry, that's not something we're going to accept. That's before you get to constraints on our ability to do what rest of the world wants, which is to sign trade deals w/ Canada"