Michael Wheeler
@michaelcwheeler.bsky.social
Assistant Professor, Director, Curator for work. Other stuff like progressive politics and sports for fun.
Bookmark this as where the Federal NDP started to become competitive again. No longer everything to all people, the Carney Government's enviro policies are so egregious that credible Ministers must resign. BC and QC are back in play.
Also, who will be in charge of arts and culture now?
Also, who will be in charge of arts and culture now?
This afternoon, I informed the Prime Minister of my decision to resign as Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture, Minister responsible for Official Languages, Minister of Nature and Parks Canada, as well as his Lieutenant in Quebec.
You can find my full statement below.
You can find my full statement below.
November 28, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Bookmark this as where the Federal NDP started to become competitive again. No longer everything to all people, the Carney Government's enviro policies are so egregious that credible Ministers must resign. BC and QC are back in play.
Also, who will be in charge of arts and culture now?
Also, who will be in charge of arts and culture now?
It's really wild how much BI has unlocked Scottie. I have him in a fantasy 9 category league, and he's the 4 best player in the world if your goal is to contribute to every major statistical category.
November 27, 2025 at 3:08 AM
It's really wild how much BI has unlocked Scottie. I have him in a fantasy 9 category league, and he's the 4 best player in the world if your goal is to contribute to every major statistical category.
Posting about how great Mamdani is on Bluesky is not my most original form of expression, but so often when the campaign ends, even the good guys stop engaging the public. I love this approach to communicating what govt will be and who is thinking about it. (Artists listed 2nd in advisor list.)
If you’re wondering who’s guiding our transition, it’s the best New Yorkers that money can’t buy.
November 26, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Posting about how great Mamdani is on Bluesky is not my most original form of expression, but so often when the campaign ends, even the good guys stop engaging the public. I love this approach to communicating what govt will be and who is thinking about it. (Artists listed 2nd in advisor list.)
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Guys we made The TImes.
November 25, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Guys we made The TImes.
The 1-4 Raptors are now the 12-5 Raptors.
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November 24, 2025 at 2:15 AM
The 1-4 Raptors are now the 12-5 Raptors.
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A few people have texted me as a known Raptors watcher to ask if i saw this block the other night as if i haven't watched it 14 times. Even tho Scottie's block in the final play seals the game, I think this is the moment TO ball fans realized it will be fun this year.
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From the nba community on Reddit: [Highlight] Brandon Ingram’s clutch block seals it for Toronto
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November 19, 2025 at 2:36 PM
A few people have texted me as a known Raptors watcher to ask if i saw this block the other night as if i haven't watched it 14 times. Even tho Scottie's block in the final play seals the game, I think this is the moment TO ball fans realized it will be fun this year.
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This is the same company that was found guilty of fixing the price of bread.
Shoppers Drug Mart rides Ford's gravy train:
SDM pressures pharmacists to make unnecessary "medscheck" calls to customers at $75 each.
Total cost to taxpayers?
$225 million since 2020
*Pharmacists have launched a lawsuit against this unethical practice
#onpoli
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SDM pressures pharmacists to make unnecessary "medscheck" calls to customers at $75 each.
Total cost to taxpayers?
$225 million since 2020
*Pharmacists have launched a lawsuit against this unethical practice
#onpoli
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Shoppers Drug Mart billed $81M for MedsChecks in 2 years when COVID services waned | CBC News
Shoppers Drug Mart billed the Ontario government’s MedsCheck program $81.2 million for medication reviews over a two-year period when some of its current and former pharmacists said they were facing “...
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November 19, 2025 at 12:50 PM
This is the same company that was found guilty of fixing the price of bread.
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There’s a very surreal conversation I keep having on here where people seem unable to hold two ideas at the same time, and I’m not sure why. It’s simply true that the Big AI platforms like ChatGPT are:
1. Extremely bad for society, in many ways.
2. Very genuinely popular with lots of people.
1. Extremely bad for society, in many ways.
2. Very genuinely popular with lots of people.
November 18, 2025 at 4:59 PM
There’s a very surreal conversation I keep having on here where people seem unable to hold two ideas at the same time, and I’m not sure why. It’s simply true that the Big AI platforms like ChatGPT are:
1. Extremely bad for society, in many ways.
2. Very genuinely popular with lots of people.
1. Extremely bad for society, in many ways.
2. Very genuinely popular with lots of people.
This is the only plan and anyone who has questions is a radical communist.
i have a crazy idea: imagine an economy that doesnt completely implode every 7 years
November 14, 2025 at 3:00 PM
This is the only plan and anyone who has questions is a radical communist.
Theatre idea: The combined raw materials of the Elon text message archive and the Epstein email archive is a fascinating and large dramatic data set on how the 0.001% operates and talks to each other. Most be something worth staging for an audience to consider in here.
November 14, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Theatre idea: The combined raw materials of the Elon text message archive and the Epstein email archive is a fascinating and large dramatic data set on how the 0.001% operates and talks to each other. Most be something worth staging for an audience to consider in here.
I just, i don't understand why the Epstein/Trump thing is front page news in many countries. We know Trump committed repeated sexual assaults and that he is a sexual predator. (Access Hollywood anyone?) What new about doing it with a specific billionaire moves the needle for millions of people?
November 13, 2025 at 6:54 PM
I just, i don't understand why the Epstein/Trump thing is front page news in many countries. We know Trump committed repeated sexual assaults and that he is a sexual predator. (Access Hollywood anyone?) What new about doing it with a specific billionaire moves the needle for millions of people?
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The Republican president is a pedophile who has doubled my healthcare costs and let scores of violent criminals out of jail. But a Democratic mayor-elect wants to make busses free in a city I don't live in. I have never felt more politically homeless.
November 13, 2025 at 12:47 PM
The Republican president is a pedophile who has doubled my healthcare costs and let scores of violent criminals out of jail. But a Democratic mayor-elect wants to make busses free in a city I don't live in. I have never felt more politically homeless.
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I simply refuse to accept that police ever have to look like this. this is just pure cosplay. it should be illegal for cops to be dressed like soldiers going to war.
November 13, 2025 at 2:36 PM
I simply refuse to accept that police ever have to look like this. this is just pure cosplay. it should be illegal for cops to be dressed like soldiers going to war.
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This deal to reopen the government is fucking disgraceful.
Tens of millions will lose their healthcare. Trump will be emboldened.
This is exactly what’s wrong with Democratic Party leadership and why we need more people in Congress who will actually hold the line.
Tens of millions will lose their healthcare. Trump will be emboldened.
This is exactly what’s wrong with Democratic Party leadership and why we need more people in Congress who will actually hold the line.
November 10, 2025 at 12:43 PM
This deal to reopen the government is fucking disgraceful.
Tens of millions will lose their healthcare. Trump will be emboldened.
This is exactly what’s wrong with Democratic Party leadership and why we need more people in Congress who will actually hold the line.
Tens of millions will lose their healthcare. Trump will be emboldened.
This is exactly what’s wrong with Democratic Party leadership and why we need more people in Congress who will actually hold the line.
Update Tara won!
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November 8, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Update Tara won!
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Imagine if you took the core critique of the economy for the past 200 years, one which was also reiterated and confirmed by a recent Nobel Prize Winner in Economics, and then you named it after a letter and pretended it was your idea. apple.news/ARYs9b--qQeS...
Economists agree: You’re not crazy for feeling like the rich get richer, and the poor are doing worse. Welcome to the ‘K-shaped economy’ — FORTUNE
November 7, 2025 at 9:00 AM EDT Federal Reserve chair Jerome Power says he's seen anecdotal evidence of a K-shaped economy. It all began with an anonymous Twitter handle named “Ivan the K.” The self-a...
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November 7, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Imagine if you took the core critique of the economy for the past 200 years, one which was also reiterated and confirmed by a recent Nobel Prize Winner in Economics, and then you named it after a letter and pretended it was your idea. apple.news/ARYs9b--qQeS...
This slide only contains one of the highlights the Canadian Arts Coalition cites, but does anyone else not feel like GREAT NEWS CELEBRATE NO NEW CUTS is something only we would do? ($6 mill over 3 years does not cover inflation on a $325M annual budget so actually it is a cut.)
November 7, 2025 at 1:40 AM
This slide only contains one of the highlights the Canadian Arts Coalition cites, but does anyone else not feel like GREAT NEWS CELEBRATE NO NEW CUTS is something only we would do? ($6 mill over 3 years does not cover inflation on a $325M annual budget so actually it is a cut.)
Mostly just resharing this as a photo from today before it's transmutation to meme.
incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty
November 6, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Mostly just resharing this as a photo from today before it's transmutation to meme.
I guess another thing we can take from the federal budget is while te Carney government is not taking a slash and burn Philistine approach to the arts, arts and culture is not viewed as a meaningful nation building project the same way mining, the military, and energy is.
November 6, 2025 at 1:41 PM
I guess another thing we can take from the federal budget is while te Carney government is not taking a slash and burn Philistine approach to the arts, arts and culture is not viewed as a meaningful nation building project the same way mining, the military, and energy is.
Fascinated by instead of dampening expectations and proposing a new narrative around success, proposing the campaign be judged by if the promises made are promises met.
November 6, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Fascinated by instead of dampening expectations and proposing a new narrative around success, proposing the campaign be judged by if the promises made are promises met.
My morning after the budget take, (other than re-considering the purchase of a luxury yacht) is the budget is good for Canadian universities, but bad for Canadian graduate students. Almost everywhere has been in a hiring freeze post-pandemic and now a huge tranche to hire international profs only.
November 5, 2025 at 2:26 PM
My morning after the budget take, (other than re-considering the purchase of a luxury yacht) is the budget is good for Canadian universities, but bad for Canadian graduate students. Almost everywhere has been in a hiring freeze post-pandemic and now a huge tranche to hire international profs only.
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When they called it people in the bar started making out like it was New Year’s Eve lol
November 5, 2025 at 2:39 AM
When they called it people in the bar started making out like it was New Year’s Eve lol
stop listening to the consultants start running unabashed socialists.
Breaking News: Zohran Mamdani, a 34-year-old state lawmaker from Queens, will be the 111th mayor of New York. He will be the first Muslim to ever lead the city, as well as its first South Asian mayor and the youngest mayor in more than a century.
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November 5, 2025 at 2:46 AM
stop listening to the consultants start running unabashed socialists.