Roughriders coming out strong after the first quarter in their contest against the Lions

Another cause for concern for the Bombers: the Roughriders

Thanks! I wasn’t aware

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy_Center_for_the_Performing_Arts#Management:

On February 10, 2025, Trump named Richard Grenell to serve as interim executive director.[92][93] Trump criticized the center’s drag and LGBTQ programming, vowing to be the one who decides what is to be performed in the venue.[94][95] He dismissed Board members and named his own who elected him as chair on February 12, 2025.[96][97][98] The center soon cancelled the national tour of the new children’s musical Finn (which involves coming-of-age themes), with a Kennedy Center spokesperson calling it “a purely financial decision”.[99] The public criticized the move as an attack on free speech and accessibility to the performing arts.[100] Celebrities who subsequently disassociated themselves from the Kennedy Center have included Rhiannon Giddens,[101] Issa Rae, Renée Fleming, Shonda Rhimes, and Ben Folds.[102] The musical Hamilton, play Eureka Day and various other shows and artists soon cancelled performances at the center.[103] After Yasmin Williams expressed concern about changes at the center, Grenell stated, “Every single person who cancelled a show did so because they couldn’t be in the presence of Republicans,” and “I cut the DEI bullshit because we can’t afford to pay people for fringe and niche programming that the public won’t support”.[104]

Als comeback, including a last-minute interception. Wow. Good game. Als win 26-25

Als gaining momentum and score a major to narrow the lead going into Q4. 25-14

Stamps (#1 ranked apparently) @ Blue Bombers tmrw is being hyped by TSN commentators on Thursday night’s broadcast

Sacked going into HT but Nick Arbuckle and the Argos must be happy with 18-7 at the half

If this were a post about a single article, I’d agree, but I think this is an OC post that cites 2 articles, so Instance Rule 1 doesn’t apply

I’m out of my element here. To what extent is there non-tRump precedent for this and to what extent does this read as Carney has adopted a play from tRump’s playbook?

Based. Is the Guardian now the best mainstream news outlet these days in ‘the West’?

Zuck: Are you trying to make me look creepy?
Sunshine: You don’t need any help from us!

P.S. A thought I saw on Mastodon recently. Modern web ads rely on big surveillance networks to feed personalized ads. If all “ad-blockers” did was prevent non-personalized banner ads displaying on webpages, “ad-blocker” would be appropriate. In reality, “ad-blockers” are are surveillance and malware blockers

Fair question. Whether or not some age groups are more susceptible to propaganda is an empirical question. If you know of data, please share.

Critical thinking keeps developing into the early 20s, so not have the full supply of that is a potential knock against younger voters.

Something I’ve seen from my more conservatively-oriented family members is that significant financial and domestic difficulties help them see the falsehoods in right-wing propaganda. When things are better, they might be more amenable to anti-immigrant talk (and the like) to prop up their ego. But when they’re truly struggling (with affordability issues) they seem to see the irrelevance between their real issues and the parties the Right tries to scapegoat (e.g., immigrants; not billionaires, neoliberalism, etc.). If this theory holds, then not facing affordability issues due to living with parents could be another knock against young voters if it makes them more susceptible to right-wing propaganda.

Those are just speculations. I’d love to see some data!

Makes sense to me. I was at my most sedentary during the pandemic. That sedentariness kind of became a new normal. I’m still trying to change that

Yes. Beaverton is the Canadian version of the Onion

Fair. But it is ‘just’ journalism. This isn’t an opposition party press release

No idea, sorry. But if you’re ever in Toronto (or London ON, I think), you’d probably like Tilt

I edited it per your suggestion. I appreciate the feedback

Our current political climate of the Carney Liberals, PP, and weakened NDP reminds me a lot of the US two-party system that only benefits the uber wealthy. I really hope we don’t continue down that path.

I don’t see the Liberals changing course, unfortunately. (The Carney Liberals feel a lot different from the Trudeau Liberals.) I think corporate-owned news and social media keep pushing people to the right. So, the Liberals can make a strategic argument to right-shift to try and steal Conservative voters (and appease corporate donors) while taking most left-of-centre voters for granted as ABC (anyone but Conservative) voters who’ll still vote for them as the party drifts right. Their future slogan: at least we’re not the CPC.

It seems like it’s up to the NDP to save Canadian politics from becoming a big-money scheme like south of the border and give working class people a voice in parliament again. My gosh do I wish they find a Zohran Mamdani or someone who can reinvigorate the party.

I’ve seen this go far enough after 6 months or so of Carney. I hope he redeems himself in the eyes of working class Canadians, but I am not betting on it. I think this is closer to how he’ll govern (like a US moderate Democrat) than the “elbows up” nationalism he advertised himself as.

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With COP30 climate negotiations coming up later this year in Belém, Brazil, “this will hamstring international climate cooperation at the worst possible time,” one official told Politico. It’s “just strategically fucking dumb when it comes to China,” they added, creating a leadership vacuum that China could fill (as they’ve consistently said they would).

But that doesn’t mean Canada or other countries can walk back their climate commitments, says David Crane, former economics editor at the Toronto Star, in a post for The Hill Times. “When the history of this era is written, it will be the Trump administration’s reckless undermining of urgent global efforts to address climate change that will stand out as one of its greatest failings,” Crane writes. At some point, “the U.S. will again become a ‘responsible stakeholder’. But in the meantime, its failure to assume responsibility is no excuse for Canada or any other country to slack off. The climate challenge cannot be put off to tomorrow. It is an urgent challenge for today.”

At some point, “the U.S. will again become a ‘responsible stakeholder’.

I hope so. I hope that happens before other countries join them as ‘irresponsible stakeholders’

Wow, this is big. I mean, I didn’t think things were going to get any more affordable, but this deepens my belief in that prediction quite a bit. “Over 50% by 2035” sounds like a fiefdom, because people got a lot more bills than rent/housing - or at least that’s my oldthink perspective lol. It’s also sobering that this report was published in June and failed, insofar as I know, to make any splash in any Canadian mainstream news. I’m grateful for the Fediverse