StepfordTO
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Before I sleep, I think this is a good explanation to @beckyaizen.bsky.social comment on Jewish Americans are for Israel but don't say that they are Zionists, drawing from the same revelation in Canada.
nationalpost.com/news/canada/...
nationalpost.com/news/canada/...
Why Canadian Jews are increasingly averse to identifying as 'Zionists' despite supporting Israel: study
"I think this is a way of informing the general public that Jews are hurting," says professor Robert Brym, about surveying the community.
nationalpost.com
February 6, 2026 at 6:54 PM
Before I sleep, I think this is a good explanation to @beckyaizen.bsky.social comment on Jewish Americans are for Israel but don't say that they are Zionists, drawing from the same revelation in Canada.
nationalpost.com/news/canada/...
nationalpost.com/news/canada/...
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Skater
Alex Colville
1964
Alex Colville
1964
February 6, 2026 at 8:30 PM
Skater
Alex Colville
1964
Alex Colville
1964
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Unlike the USA, Canada has only one source of federal funding for archives, the DHCP:
www.canada.ca/en/library-a...
The Carney Liberal government just cut the DHCP permanently.
I can't even begin to say how disgusted and angry I am. There is NO OTHER SOURCE of program funding for archives.
www.canada.ca/en/library-a...
The Carney Liberal government just cut the DHCP permanently.
I can't even begin to say how disgusted and angry I am. There is NO OTHER SOURCE of program funding for archives.
February 5, 2026 at 5:40 PM
Unlike the USA, Canada has only one source of federal funding for archives, the DHCP:
www.canada.ca/en/library-a...
The Carney Liberal government just cut the DHCP permanently.
I can't even begin to say how disgusted and angry I am. There is NO OTHER SOURCE of program funding for archives.
www.canada.ca/en/library-a...
The Carney Liberal government just cut the DHCP permanently.
I can't even begin to say how disgusted and angry I am. There is NO OTHER SOURCE of program funding for archives.
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We asked the extraordinary and rightly celebrated author Marilynne Robinson to respond to events in Minneapolis. She immediately sent us a forceful and utterly direct cri de coeur. The Weekend Essay as.ft.com/r/afe4fee8-1...
Marilynne Robinson: The killings in Minneapolis
[FREE TO READ] As American cities have been left reeling by ICE federal agents, the acclaimed novelist explores the deeper conflict behind Donald Trump’s show of force
as.ft.com
January 31, 2026 at 7:51 AM
We asked the extraordinary and rightly celebrated author Marilynne Robinson to respond to events in Minneapolis. She immediately sent us a forceful and utterly direct cri de coeur. The Weekend Essay as.ft.com/r/afe4fee8-1...
Justin Trudeau must be jealous.
The “Heated Rivalry” actor Hudson Williams, who pays Shane Hollander, gifted Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada a fictional Olympic Team fleece jacket that his character wore in the show. The home crowd went wild. nyti.ms/4t8OHHr
January 30, 2026 at 5:06 PM
Justin Trudeau must be jealous.
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Yeah this lost me at "Jewish literature in Canada must" no there is no "must" this is so ridiculous
Quite the pro-censorship screed. I suspect Adam Louis-Klein would have a field day with this essay.
tnq.ca/story/land-b...
tnq.ca/story/land-b...
"Land Back Here and Land Back There: A Jewish Literary Call" by - The New Quarterly Digital Edition
We can choose better. We can remember what it meant to live in diaspora, to not have temporal power, to not have the nuclear codes, the torture blacksites, the sniper’s scope on the child’s forehead, ...
tnq.ca
January 28, 2026 at 6:47 PM
Yeah this lost me at "Jewish literature in Canada must" no there is no "must" this is so ridiculous
Quite the pro-censorship screed. I suspect Adam Louis-Klein would have a field day with this essay.
tnq.ca/story/land-b...
tnq.ca/story/land-b...
"Land Back Here and Land Back There: A Jewish Literary Call" by - The New Quarterly Digital Edition
We can choose better. We can remember what it meant to live in diaspora, to not have temporal power, to not have the nuclear codes, the torture blacksites, the sniper’s scope on the child’s forehead, ...
tnq.ca
January 28, 2026 at 4:58 PM
Quite the pro-censorship screed. I suspect Adam Louis-Klein would have a field day with this essay.
tnq.ca/story/land-b...
tnq.ca/story/land-b...
Pretty sure I just felt an earthquake in Toronto.
January 28, 2026 at 4:04 AM
Pretty sure I just felt an earthquake in Toronto.
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You can be equally horrified about Minnesota and about Iran.
#Iran "30,000 could have been killed in the streets on Jan. 8/9 alone. So many people were slaughtered by security services, it overwhelmed the state’s capacity to dispose of the dead. Stocks of body bags were exhausted, and eighteen-wheel semi-trailers replaced ambulances."
#SilenceIsNotAnOption 🇮🇷
#SilenceIsNotAnOption 🇮🇷
Iran Protest Death Toll Could Top 30,000: Local Officials
At least 30,000 people were killed on Jan. 8 and 9 alone, senior officials of the country’s Ministry of Health tell TIME.
time.com
January 26, 2026 at 3:19 AM
You can be equally horrified about Minnesota and about Iran.
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Montreal in Winter
Helen McNicoll
1911
Helen McNicoll
1911
January 23, 2026 at 5:04 PM
Montreal in Winter
Helen McNicoll
1911
Helen McNicoll
1911
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So, the #BoardofPeace #logo has the international border between #Canada and USA with large parts of Manitoba, Ontario, and Newfoundland & Labrador, plus all of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and PEI given to the rapacious Americans! Intentional or just stupidity? Hard to know. Both?
January 22, 2026 at 7:37 PM
So, the #BoardofPeace #logo has the international border between #Canada and USA with large parts of Manitoba, Ontario, and Newfoundland & Labrador, plus all of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and PEI given to the rapacious Americans! Intentional or just stupidity? Hard to know. Both?
Move over elbows up, it's boots on the ice now eh?
January 21, 2026 at 1:32 AM
Move over elbows up, it's boots on the ice now eh?
"It’s the kind of consent – verbal, ongoing and enthusiastic – that experts have been trying to teach young people for decades. And judging from all the swooning fans, there’s nothing boring about it."
Not boring, but jarring imho bc obviously trying to convey a lesson re:the right way to have sex.
Not boring, but jarring imho bc obviously trying to convey a lesson re:the right way to have sex.
January 20, 2026 at 3:15 PM
"It’s the kind of consent – verbal, ongoing and enthusiastic – that experts have been trying to teach young people for decades. And judging from all the swooning fans, there’s nothing boring about it."
Not boring, but jarring imho bc obviously trying to convey a lesson re:the right way to have sex.
Not boring, but jarring imho bc obviously trying to convey a lesson re:the right way to have sex.
Maybe it's just me, but I find it hard to believe that anyone's services are worth $825/hr. (An actual quote we received for something.)
January 14, 2026 at 5:24 PM
Maybe it's just me, but I find it hard to believe that anyone's services are worth $825/hr. (An actual quote we received for something.)
"The attack on colourblindness, it seems to me, was part of this madness. It led people to forget that the beneficiaries of strict procedural neutrality are, first and foremost, those most likely to be otherwise subject to discrimination."
open.substack.com/pub/josephhe...
open.substack.com/pub/josephhe...
What colourblindness hath wrought
One of the more questionable trends in social justice thinking over the past decade has been the suggestion that there is something wrong with “colourblindness” as a strategy for achieving racial and ...
open.substack.com
January 14, 2026 at 4:58 PM
"The attack on colourblindness, it seems to me, was part of this madness. It led people to forget that the beneficiaries of strict procedural neutrality are, first and foremost, those most likely to be otherwise subject to discrimination."
open.substack.com/pub/josephhe...
open.substack.com/pub/josephhe...
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"Copies of works of fiction such as the Harry Potter novels, Lord of the Flies and Wuthering Heights were also removed, according to the document, as were books by luminaries such as John Steinbeck, Lucy Maud Montgomery and Kurt Vonnegut."
Also plenty of military history, all deemed harmful.
Also plenty of military history, all deemed harmful.
London high school library's 10,000-book cull sparks censorship debate lfpress.com/news/local-n...
More than 10,000 books were tossed from the library of London’s H.B. Beal high school last year, a process that led to the resignation of its frustrated teacher-librarian.
More than 10,000 books were tossed from the library of London’s H.B. Beal high school last year, a process that led to the resignation of its frustrated teacher-librarian.
January 13, 2026 at 4:56 PM
"Copies of works of fiction such as the Harry Potter novels, Lord of the Flies and Wuthering Heights were also removed, according to the document, as were books by luminaries such as John Steinbeck, Lucy Maud Montgomery and Kurt Vonnegut."
Also plenty of military history, all deemed harmful.
Also plenty of military history, all deemed harmful.
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A Quebec Village (Winter, Saint-Fidèle)
A.Y. Jackson
1930
A.Y. Jackson
1930
January 8, 2026 at 5:03 PM
A Quebec Village (Winter, Saint-Fidèle)
A.Y. Jackson
1930
A.Y. Jackson
1930
"One cup of chickpeas has 14.5 grams of protein, around 20 percent of the recommended daily amount for an average 185-pound adult."
Is the average adult really 185 pounds? Does "adult" include women?
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/w...
Is the average adult really 185 pounds? Does "adult" include women?
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/w...
How Healthy Are Chickpeas?
www.nytimes.com
January 7, 2026 at 4:57 PM
"One cup of chickpeas has 14.5 grams of protein, around 20 percent of the recommended daily amount for an average 185-pound adult."
Is the average adult really 185 pounds? Does "adult" include women?
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/w...
Is the average adult really 185 pounds? Does "adult" include women?
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/w...
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Trump: "We are going to run the country." What does that possibly mean?
January 3, 2026 at 4:45 PM
Trump: "We are going to run the country." What does that possibly mean?
Goals? (Maybe not.)
January 3, 2026 at 5:59 PM
Goals? (Maybe not.)
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Canadian house party in winter 🥳
January 1, 2026 at 3:22 AM
Canadian house party in winter 🥳
Sure, it *looks* fun.
December 28, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Sure, it *looks* fun.