Ryan McGhoul 👻💀🎃
@ryanmcgreal.bsky.social
Solvitur ambulando. Off course but constantly correcting. One of Penny’s favourite scent clouds. (he/him)
Toronto skyline across Lake Ontario from Vineland Station
The world is watching. But we’re no longer waiting passively for a few tens of thousands of American swing voters to save us. quandyfactory.com/blog/297/the...
The World is Done Waiting For America to Return - Ryan McGreal
Personal website for Ryan McGreal
quandyfactory.com
For the first time in the postwar era, countries that have been invested in the international system now regard the US not as the pillar that holds the system up but rather as a strategic risk to hedge against. A fundamental shift has been set in motion that will play out over the coming decades.
Andy Burnham after hearing Ursula von der Leyen announce that a the European Union is willing to accept associate members
Dipn asserts that it is rationally self-serving for other countries to rush to recognize sovereignty. But his analysis doesn’t apply to the current US president, who would regard the absolute chaos that would ensue from him recognizing a secession in Alberta or Québec as a feature, not a bug.
Ryan McGhoul 👻💀🎃@ryanmcgreal.bsky.social · 4w agoThis is a bracing and informative read from Stéphane Dion on the legal hurdles ahead of any potential secession from Canada. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
This is a bracing and informative read from Stéphane Dion on the legal hurdles ahead of any potential secession from Canada. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
Opinion: Here’s what it would take for a province to lawfully separate from Canada
Canada may be an outlier in allowing for provinces to secede, but there’s no right to leave unilaterally
theglobeandmail.com
“Under current global policies, Canada warms five degrees above preindustrial levels by century’s end. Under a scenario with no climate policies, warming reaches 6.9 degrees and the area burned by wildfire climbs 287 per cent. Under net zero, warming stabilizes after 2050 and reaches 3.5 degrees.”
Ottawa issues comprehensive climate report that reflects country’s physical transformation
From retreating glaciers to wildfires and marine heat waves, climate change will likely become even more pronounced, assessment finds
theglobeandmail.com
With senior Trump administration officials openly calling for the breakup of Canada, a couple of thoughts: 1) This may well have the effect of suppressing sovereigntist sentiment in Quebec; and 2) It supports my contention that most Alberta separatists are just wannabe Americans in drag.
🧵 Something occurred to me this morning: the natural history of enshittification as @doctorow.pluralistic.net describes it closely resembles the pattern of a relationship with someone who has narcissistic personality disorder.
Most pundits severely underestimate the cumulative effect of four years in which the Democratic Party was led by someone who rapidly lost the capacity to communicate or defend the party’s principles and values.
Matt Darling@besttrousers.bsky.social · last mo.In which @jamellebouie.net reveals the Secret Sauce of his punditry. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/22/o...
I’m not sure Democrats really appreciate just how fundamental this rupture is for Canadians. We know in our guts that we’re never more than 60,000 voters in a handful of swing states away from becoming the next President’s punching bag. I don’t think we’re ever going back to the way things were.
Does everyone else already know about overnight oats and I’m just woefully late to the party? This is the best thing to happen to breakfast on as long as I can remember!
The air quality in the B.C. interior is apocalyptic right now. We just drove through Salmon Arm and the AQI hit 570, which is literally higher than the scale goes.
From time to time I like to read The Second Coming by Yeats to cheer me up. It comforts me somehow to know that the state of affairs felt just as disjointed and irreparable in 1919 as they do in 2026. They were able to persist through it, and we can too.
“Canada’s area burned has surged, and it has surged in step with warming: hot, dry fire seasons burn far more forest, with area burned rises roughly 80% for each 1C increase in fire-season temp.This relationship is robust to a variety of statistical tests and controlling for confounding variables.”
Canada's boreal wildfires aren't just bad forest management
Higher fire season temperatures are strongly correlated with increased area burned
theclimatebrink.com
Today’s reminder that wars are really easy to start and really hard to end www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
U.S. teeters on all-out war with Iran after more troops are killed
A service member was killed in action in Iraq, and another set of unidentified remains was found at the site of an Iranian missile attack in Jordan, U.S. Central Command said.
washingtonpost.com
For everyone hyping up Trump’s speech tonight like it’s going to be some kind of revolutionary proof of election fraud: Why is he saying it on national television and not to a grand jury? Why has nobody been charged with anything? Should be a slam dunk case, right?
A whole Hamilton Spectator article about the historically poor air quality in Hamilton due to wildfires and not a single word about global warming or climate change. #hamont
Ontario election dates should be legislated to be held in "wildfire season", not February
Marit Stiles@maritstilesndp.bsky.social · 3mo agoFor most of us, it'll clear in a few days. For the people up north... it's their homes. Their communities. Their lives. And it didn't have to be this way. It's the result of choices made by governments that keep looking away.
The sky above the port was the color of an IBM 5155 after a video card crash.
Weird Al Swearengen@peterlynn.bsky.social · 3mo agoThe Las Vegas skyline from Blade Runner 2049 vs the Toronto skyline from right now.
The sky is greige and the air pollution index is almost as high as the scale goes. We are breathing smoke from massive wildfires hundreds of km away, damaging our cardiovascular systems and lungs. Are we going to allow this to become normalized, something to shrug off as an expected part of summer?
I’m reminded of the British navy discovering what causes scurvy and how to prevent it, then implementing a health policy, then forgetting the policy and letting scurvy come back. Except it took them decades to forget what they knew and it only took America about a year.
Ryan Marino, MD@ryanmarino.bsky.social · last yr.CDC is no longer surveilling outbreaks caused by campylobacter, cyclospora, listeria, shigella, vibrio and Yersinia. What could go wrong?