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For a while you could look up critical information on a search engine and be presented with a link to the relevant government agency. Thanks to trillions of dollars of investment, however, now you can simply get false information instantly. The future is now!

The Narwhal@thenarwhal.ca · yesterday

“The entirety of Murtle Lake and associated backcountry areas are closed by BC Parks due to nearby wildfire activity and safety concerns,” read Google’s AI-generated summary. But Murtle Lake was very much open, @arikligeti.bsky.social writes. thenarwhal.ca/newsletter-c...

I'm linking a Guardian article on this historic union win in Mississauga, ON. Because you know where you won't see an article on this? Canadian media. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

‘Historic’: Canadian warehouse workers sign first-ever union deal with Walmart

Union says collective agreement is just the start of a broader fight to unionize major employers across the country

theguardian.com

“The reason why Canada is seeing a surge in homelessness is not because there’s more people with mental illness or addiction, but because of housing affordability” www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... #onpoli #cdnpoli

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

theglobeandmail.com

Goddammit. I do not want Gemini on my phone, period. 🤬

Air to Ground Message: LIFE IS NOT A FAIRYTALE. IF YOU LOSE YOUR SHOE AT MIDNIGHT YOU ARE DRUNK. Area: Philadelphia, PA, USA Type: Airbus A220-300 A: #a86f5f377ec F: #f09d73efe6d

Anyway, are there any Canadian heat pump nerds on here? I got two VERY different proposals (air handler vs 3 head units) and I don't know which option is better. One guy said my woodstove would suffice as the backup heat, the other said it doesn't count.

Me to the HVAC guy: Do they make decorative covers for mini split heads? I don't really like how they look. HVAC guy: We've got one client who bedazzled hers. Not quite what I was thinking...

'You'll choke too' - an aerial embroidery landscape inspired by all the wildfires happening right now... I'm upset every time I smell smoke outside and somehow we have people starting them maliciously too! But we all breathe the same air so they'll choke too (1/2 - see thread for close-ups)

Website: We've updated our password requirements! Create a new password now. Same website: Oh but you can't log in with your new password, oh no no no, that's silly. Here's a one time code to sign in.

The probiotic I take only comes in a powder form in Canada, and my dose is supposed to be 1/3 of a sachet per day. It's super frustrating to eyeball that measurement. Apparently they sell capsules for pets in Canada, and it's the exact same product. Just ordered myself some dog probiotics.

My editor asked me to write about what happened to summer:

We launched a war on nature. Now we are in a climate warzone | Rebecca Solnit

Summer is not what it once was. We have been robbed of one of life’s great joys

theguardian.com

Me, all day: why am I so tired?? Oh yes, I keep forgetting I've been awake since 3am. My silly brain decided we needed to do Sunday Scaries last night, despite the fact that today is a holiday and also that I'm unemployed.

I love all the Americans who suddenly have opinions on what Cuba should do, after forgetting their government has been sanctioning Cuba for *66 years*. Literally just read a comment suggesting Cuba align with Russia for help.

Schitts Creek Side Eye

Alt: Ronnie from Schitt's Creek looking exasperated

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While countries are facing heat waves and wildfires, oil companies are raking in record profits off the back of climate change, wars, and genocides. Canadian oil companies are expected to make an additional $90 billion this year—it's unacceptable. Demand an excess profits tax >> act.gp/4vUUnoH

It’s hard to explain but tv was better when you couldn’t watch the show you wanted whenever you wanted to watch it and most of the shows were worse and the TVs were worse and the entire experience was worse, that’s when it was better

One arm is completely covered in mosquito bites, and I've got a spot on my leg that I'm pretty sure is poison ivy from, well... pulling poison ivy. Everything is itchy and it's taking all my will power not to scratch.

Oh, it's the flight attendant's fault is it? The executives demanding unpaid labour are blameless here? Good to know.

WestJet flight attendants go on strike, leaving thousands of travellers stranded

More than 4,000 flight attendants at WestJet began their strike at 12:01 a.m. MT on Sunday after the notice period ran out, leading to a cancellation of hundreds of flights and leaving thousands of tr...

ctvnews.ca

I had a neighbour, briefly, who often said exactly this. He was uhhh... self-aware, at least.

WholesomeMemes@wholesomememe.bsky.social · 6d ago

1/5 I love how people are all "omg, Tobi Lütke is an asshole" about his latest "only rich people should get the vote" stunt. He has been a fascist PoS for a long time. A quick thread:

It's suddenly very eerie here. Low storm clouds obscuring the top of the escarpment, the occasional thunder in the distance, and so many crows.

On this day in 1834, slavery was abolished across the British Empire, including such places as Trinidad and Tobago, and Nova Scotia (now part of Canada). This was due to centuries of resistance by the enslaved not altruism on the part of the powerful.

Exploring The Theme Of Emancipation Day 2026

YouTube video by TTT Live Online

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MISINFORMATION ALERT The Canadian Press and CBC News have been publishing misinformation about what happens when WestJet cancels your flight. Affected passengers have substantial rights under the Air Passenger Protection Regulations and other federal legislation.

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

What happened to the Bermuda Triangle? Ships and planes disappeared for decades, and now it's just... fine? We can go there safely?

G. Willow Wilson@gwillow.me · last wk.

What's your personal great white whale of an unsolved mystery? The thing you desperately hope is solved before you die because you need to know the answer? Mine is the Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum heist. Where the hell are the Rembrandts. I need the full story

Because dealing with the government isn't quite horrible enough, I am being asked to verify my identity by logging in to my bank - and of course online banking is currently down. (It's Scotia. Scotia's online banking is down. Like it is most Fridays.)

If you need a target for rage, target the government, target people with power, understand how power structures and built and supported and maintained Most of all: understand how they have always used your righteous rage against you and done it for their own selfish and evil purposes