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Catelli @catelli.bsky.social · 6h

Says the Premier that just over a week ago promised an LCBO boycott of alcohol distilled in Manitoba and Quebec but bottled in the US instead of Ontario...

Isaac Callan @isaaccallan.bsky.social · 6h

NEW: Premier Doug Ford insists there isn’t a major split in ‘Team Canada’ approach, as prairie provinces urge the federal government to drop electric vehicle tariffs, which are in place predominantly to shield Ontario jobs. #OnPoli
globalnews.ca/news/1147748...

Ford says there’s ‘no damn way’ tariffs on Chinese EVs should be scrapped | Globalnews.ca

Premier Doug Ford's comments came after the premiers of Manitoba and Saskatchewan urged Ottawa to scrap electric vehicle tariffs, largely in place to protect Ontario.

globalnews.ca

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David Hope @davidhope.ca · 12h

This would not have happened without an ebike. Without protected bike lanes or separated pathways, I'm almost certain the danger would not make it feasible in the longer term.

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David Hope @davidhope.ca · 12h

Some personal proof that ebikes and protected bike infrastructure are life changing. Spouse just hit 1k on her new bike in the 2 months since she got it. Went from almost never riding to daily commute of over 15km each way.

#OttBike #BikeSky

Close up of ebike odometer showing 1000km. On the right is cellphone camera showing William Commanda Bridge.

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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 1d

AI to increase sceptics’ engagement with climate science www.nature.com/articles/s41...

"...artificial intelligence can alter the information diet sceptics consume and holds promise for advancing public understanding of science when responsibly deployed by well-intentioned actors."

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Ben MacLeod 馬志斌 @benmacleod.bsky.social · 2d

Canadians – If you have some time this long weekend, fill out this godawful government survey on AI, which itself seems to have been written by AI trained exclusively on buzzword-laden LinkedIn posts.

Nico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel) @nicomaramckay.com · 6d

Canadians: The federal government is seeking public input on how AI should be developed and used in business, research, and the military.

If this scares the shit out of you, please let them know:

Help define the next chapter of Canada's AI leadership

Current status: Open from October 1 to October 31, 2025 Canada helped invent modern AI. To stay a leader—and protect our digital sovereignty—we're running a 30-day national sprint to shape a renewed...

ised-isde.canada.ca

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ProposMontreal @proposmontreal.com · 2d

L'Histoire du Québec en 40 minutes par L'Histoire nous le dira.
Montage et animations par ProposMontréal (c'est moi ça).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DU7k...

Toute l'histoire du Québec en 40 minutes | L'Histoire nous le dira # 297

YouTube video by L'Histoire nous le dira

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David Hope @davidhope.ca · 3d

Astronaut meme:
Wow, right on red is dangerous!

Always has been.

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David Hope @davidhope.ca · 3d

Perhaps our prime minister will listen to his former employer instead of continuing to bet the farm on AI.

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 4d

“Concerns over an AI bubble bursting have grown lately, with analysts recently finding that it’s 17 times the size of the dotcom-era bubble and four times bigger than the 2008 financial crisis.”

Hang onto your butts. This “correction” is gonna hurt.
futurism.com/artificial-i...

Bank of England Warns of Impending AI Disaster

The Bank of England has sounded the alarm, warning of an intensifying risk of a "sudden correction" due to an AI spending frenzy.

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Jen St. Denis @jenstden.bsky.social · 4d

This is an absolutely insane story - and Interior Health is still claiming they didn't have "a large [data] breach." Please read: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Hacked CRA accounts, crime sprees as B.C. health agency denied massive data breach for a decade | CBC News

For a decade, a B.C. government agency denied a data breach that affected 28,000 health-care workers, creating a situation that one privacy expert says opened the door for fraud artists to continue cr...

www.cbc.ca

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 4d

A story from last year about your Nobel Peace Prize winner.

The ‘Iron Lady’ of Venezuela Threatens to Unseat Its Autocrat (Published 2024)

www.nytimes.com

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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 4d

Well, it's official. After our paper last year (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....), the Slender-billed Curlew is officially declared Extinct today.

Scientists dream of describing new species, not writing their obituary and epitaph, knowing that they are gone forever #ornithology

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Catelli @catelli.bsky.social · 6d

This is what is so frustrating about bike safety blitzes. Drivers are violating laws every damned minute of every day.

And... the blitzes to deal with them are so rare they don't exist.

David Hope @davidhope.ca · 6d

Another day, another #Ottawa driver sailing through a red light. All I can do is wave I guess.

#OttBike

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David Hope @davidhope.ca · 6d

Yeah I see a lot of that at this intersection, but this one was just weird. They entered well after it was red and that direction was clear so hadn't been waiting to get through. I think they just didn't want to wait another cycle.

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David Hope @davidhope.ca · 6d

Another day, another #Ottawa driver sailing through a red light. All I can do is wave I guess.

#OttBike

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David Hope @davidhope.ca · 7d

Oh I hope this is successful. This was my route to school for many years and I had far too many extremely close calls with cars despite being on a side street most of the way.

Melissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife.com · 7d

Amazingly, our Vancouver visit has coincided with the construction of Canada’s very first Dutch-inspired fietsstraat (“bicycle street”).

Burnaby’s Frances-Union Bikeway is currently getting an all ages and abilities upgrade that treats cyclists as the main users of the corridor, and cars as guests.

Photo of a Dutch-inspired fietsstraat (“bicycle street”), where cyclists are treated as the main users of the street, and cars as guests.

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Clemens Vasters 🇪🇺🇩🇪 @clemens.vasters.com · 8d

Techmeme front page:

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David Hope @davidhope.ca · 8d

Bring back the Santa robes!

Dale Smith @journodale.bsky.social · 8d

New ceremonial robes vs old ceremonial robes. #SCC

2026 photo of the Supreme Court of Canada, where the new robes are black with red piping.

2025 photo of the Supreme Court of Canada, with the red velvet and ermine robes.

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ScarletCoral @scarletcoral.ca · 10d

via la @rtbf.be : « Est-ce que l’écologie, ce serait pas avant tout un truc de citadins privilégiés, qui se déplacent en vélo électrique et font leurs courses en vrac dans des épiceries bio ? »

#changementsclimatiques #transitionecologique

L'écologie : un truc de bobos ? - Y a Pas de Planète B

YouTube video by RTBF

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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 11d

Just discovered the {gm} package, which lets you programmatically create sheet music (and audio!) with #rstats (with MuseScore as the backend) flujoo.github.io/gm/index.html

library(dplyr)
library(gm)

golden <- tribble(
~pitches, ~duration, ~lyric,
"E4", "q", "I’m",
"G4", "q", "done",
"C5", "q", "hid-",
"B4", "q", "-ing",
"D4", "q", "now",
"G4", "q", "I’m",
"E5", "q", "shin-",
"D5", "q", "-ing",
"G4", "q", "like",
"B4", "q", "I’m",
"A5", "q", "born",
"F#5", "q/3*(q/8)", "to",
"G5", "q/3", "be._",
"G5", "h", ""
)

music <-
Music() +
Key(1) +
Tempo(125) +
Meter(2, 4) +
Line(pitches = golden$pitches, durations = golden$duration) +
Tie(13) +
Lyric(golden$lyric[1], 1) + Lyric(golden$lyric[2], 2) +
Lyric(golden$lyric[3], 3) + Lyric(golden$lyric[4], 4) +
Lyric(golden$lyric[5], 5) + Lyric(golden$lyric[6], 6) +
Lyric(golden$lyric[7], 7) + Lyric(golden$lyric[8], 8) +
Lyric(golden$lyric[9], 9) + Lyric(golden$lyric[10], 10) +
Lyric(golden$lyric[11], 11) + Lyric(golden$lyric[12], 12) +
Lyric(golden$lyric[13], 13)

show(music)

The first part of the bridge from "Golden" from KPop Demon Hunters

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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 12d

Wear bright clothing.

a brutalized neon flex post with tire tracks all over it and tire tracks in the bike lane behind it.

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Drew Anderson @drewanderson.bsky.social · 13d

www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

RCMP tried to get photojournalist Amber Bracken charged and detained without bail, documents show

Bracken was arrested in 2021 after Mounties removed protesters blocking access to a Coastal GasLink construction site in B.C.

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Jag Villani @jagvillani.bsky.social · 14d

Did you know that drivers don't care and will just plow through flex posts and maybe people too because they're speeding and/or distracted?

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Martin Hamel @martinnhamel.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16d

Spotted à Montréal

Un DJ à vélo dans le traffic !

#montreal #velo

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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 16d

Take 2 minutes to watch this. In the documentary "A King Like Me", about a Zulu Club in New Orleans, one of the members very emotionally expresses this same sentiment from a working-class perspective. You can feel his anger and exhaustion. I recommend it.

JazzReads📚 @jazzreads.bsky.social · 16d

So exhausting..

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Bony Skeletino 💀 @notalegalrecord.net · 17d

sent to me

Duolingo screenshot showing the fitness-geek character with clenched fists, grinning and looking skyward. The phrase, translated into Russian, is “I have a bicycle. I do not need gas.”

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