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Stewart Prest @stewartprest.ca · 5h

I mean, not really.

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Stewart Prest @stewartprest.ca · 7h

Sorry, just had a moment. I'm fine now.

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Stewart Prest @stewartprest.ca · 7h

AI is the logical extreme of credentialing culture, the triumph of the desire to be seen as funny, erudite, etc. over the desire to actually be those things. The 21st century is less and less about what you can accomplish, and more and more about what you can get away with.

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Stewart Prest @stewartprest.ca · 9h

New form of Virtue signalling just dropped.

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Stewart Prest @stewartprest.ca · 10h

"We're never going to be friends if you get so standoffish every time I blockade your driveway and try to annex your pool."

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Stewart Prest @stewartprest.ca · 10h

And if you want your neighbours to want to visit you, you should stop trying to destroy your neighbours. "Geez Bob, ever since I threatened to burned down your house you haven't come to a single backyard barbecue! What gives?!"

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Stewart Prest @stewartprest.ca · 10h

If you want non-citizens to visit your country, a good first step is to stop imperilling non-citizens who come to the country!

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Keith Law @keithlaw.bsky.social · 10h

begging people covering sports to stop referring to athletes maybe facing consequences for their (alleged) violent actions as "adversity"

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Stewart Prest @stewartprest.ca · 10h

Bit of a tangent, but I read 20,000 Leagues this summer, and was most struck by the fact Captain Nemo was the richest person in the world, and an ardent anti-Imperialist at the height of Empire—basically an anti-Elon.

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Stewart Prest @stewartprest.ca · 11h

I would say that's a fairly expected outcome, given this country's history.

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Dan Thomas @itsdanthomas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The most disappointing video you’ll see today.

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 13h

Now that I have this travel data I am of course messing around with it further. Here’s all monthly visits Jan 2015-June 2026, smoothed. The size of the Canadian reaction to the Trump administration’s attack on them really is remarkable. Elbows up, Canada. kieranhealy.org/blog/archive...

Big drop in Canadian visits to the US. Mexico trending up, everywhere else declining slightly

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Shikha Dalmia @shikhadalmia.bsky.social · 13h

Of all the terrible decisions that this SC has made—Slaughter/immunity/Callais— this one to allow third-country deportations for now (and I imagine permanently) is the worst. Those damage institutions. This one humans. Cruelty is the point. @theunpopulist.net open.substack.com/pub/theunpop...

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The Supreme Court Just Consigned Migrants to Cruelty Far Beyond Their Crimes

Letting the administration deport them for now to nasty third-country dictatorships should shock our conscience

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Kathryn Harrison @profkharrison.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Cdn PM's address citing wildfires to exemplify resilience of Canada's oil industry, a CCS project that will not offset added GHGs and a promise to produce the lowest-C (heavy) oil *in 2050* to argue that a Mbpd pipeline advances "Canada's climate goals." paulwells.substack.com/p/mark-carne...

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Mark Carney’s pipeline announcement

The text of Mark Carney’s announcement in Fort McMurray this morning. And Opposition reaction.

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Stewart Prest @stewartprest.ca · 01/10/2026

Fun project! Andy and I run down some of the most important issues for Vancouverites in this fall's municipal election, providing some useful context along the way. Good to be part of the larger series out of the UofT as well! We overlook politics at the municipal level at our peril.

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Andy Yan @ayan604.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Check out @imfgtoronto.bsky.social 's Municipal Pre-Election Series: #Vancouver imfg.org/brief/vancou... A great collab with @stewartprest.ca and myself on the upcoming #vanelxn2026 + #vanpoli and some of its new and no-so new local and regional issues #bcpoli #cdnpoli

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Seva @seva.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

new piece in Foreign Affairs with @schneier.com on how autocrats are using AI to deal with scheming viziers. free access t.co/4Acu9eQwSE

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Andrea Woo @andreawoo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“Civil emergency” at Tsawwassen First Nation Truth and Reconciliation day event. Delta Police say it is a collision: “At this point it appears to be a medical incident. Four pedestrians have been struck and are being dealt with by Emergency Health Services.”

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David Reevely @davidreevely.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It was AFTER Confederation, took 10 years of stop-and-start planning first, and the 1881-1885 construction phase went HALFWAY across Canada—just Ontario to B.C.—without labour standards or consideration of Indigenous people. This mythologizing of the CPR is in itself a mark of unseriousness.

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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is better energy journalism than you'll see in most Canadian newspapers today -- and certainly anything coming out of Postmedia in Alberta. I've yet to see any of the talking heads and industry spokespeople actually confront it. energi.media/markham-on-e...

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LNG Canada Phase 2: The $33-Billion Bet on Asian Demand

LNG Canada Phase 2 is a $33-billion bet on Asian demand, Qatar recovery and a historic wave of new global LNG supply.

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Arife Kose @arifekose.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

T24, one of the biggest independent media outlets in Turkey was closed down by a court order over 'LGBTQ+ propaganda.' @t24.com.tr Probably more will follow.

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andrea bennett (they/them) @akkabah.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

How will B.C.'s snap provincial election affect voter turnout for municipal elections? And why the heck is muni voter turnout so low?? @gracekennwrites.bsky.social takes a look for @thetyee.ca: thetyee.ca/News/2026/09...

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Will Duelling Elections Confuse Municipal Voters? | The Tyee

Some fear the province’s snap election will decrease turnout to local races with historically low participation.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

McDonald’s uses “machine-learning algorithms to continually analyze data from millions of daily transactions across McDonald’s nearly 14,000 restaurants and generate what the company calls ‘the optimal price’ at each location for each menu item, from Big Macs ‌to discounted coffee for seniors.”

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Inside McDonald’s push to have AI price your Big Mac

McDonald’s is increasingly using artificial intelligence to guide menu prices across the U.S. and some global markets, a plan that aims to boost headquarters’ profit but risks alienating customers and...

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 28/09/2026

For every arrest that breaks through into public view, countless others happen quickly, before anyone can notice. Now ICE is anywhere and everywhere, embedded in all corners of everyday life.

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Gone in 90 seconds: an ‘invisibilized’ ICE is arresting more people than ever

After public backlash, the Trump administration changed its tactics from ‘siege’ to ‘soft feet’. Now, ICE is everywhere

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 28/09/2026

But an increasing proportion of arrests have been made by local law enforcement in partnership with ICE, via 287(g) agreements. In many regions, it can be difficult to know when local officers are conducting routine policework or immigration enforcement. In many cases, they are doing both.

A chart showing immigration arrests by local police, which have increased steadily since ICE's new enforcement strategy began in April 2026, reaching its highest amount above 200 arrests per day in late June 2026.

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 28/09/2026

ICE is now lying in wait outside convenience stores, or at busy intersections. Agents are arresting people at international airports. Local police and sheriffs, deputized by the federal government, are detaining immigrants during traffic stops. ICE is now detaining more immigrants than ever before.

A chart that shows a timeline of ICE immigration enforcement against different significant events (Los Angeles raids, Minneapolis and Chicago raids), with a line in late March 2026 that says "New enforcement strategy begins" before a peak of over 1,500 daily arrests in July 2026.

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 28/09/2026

Gone are the mass raids and militarized metro operations. Gone are the pomp and pageantry. But ICE arrests have hit record levels. ICE operations are no longer concentrated in large American cities. Immigration enforcement officials are also working in suburban and rural areas, all across the US.

A map of the United States that shows immigration arrests per 100,000 people since ICE's new enforcement strategy began under DHS secretary Markwayne Mullin.

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Phil Klinkner @pklinkne.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I really love this chart. I'm guess that the correlation here (.85) is about as big as you would find for any other variable. Also, a less serious scholar than @tesler.bsky.social (namely me) would have made a crude Freudian reference to the slope of the line.

Chart shows a close positive relationship between Trump's 2024 vote and Google searches for testosterone boosters.

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Andrew Kurjata @akurjata.ca · 27/09/2026

"A politician who gives the impression that they authentically speak their mind is likely to be seen by many as honest even if a high proportion of their actual words are not true." www.cnn.com/2026/09/27/p...

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I started fact-checking Trump 10 years ago. Here are 15 things I’ve learned | CNN Politics

Ten years ago this month, in my old job as Washington correspondent for the Toronto Star, I started what I believed would be a quick little side project: fact-checking underdog presidential candidate ...

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Joel Wood 🇨🇦 @joelwwood.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Given the US hostility to Canada, I want to start reading more new Canadian fiction: Any recommendations for newish Canadian sci fi, fantasy, or historical fiction?

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Stewart Prest @stewartprest.ca · 26/09/2026

It's baked in at this point.

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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The US in Africa is the epitome of mob diplomacy "Nice vaguely functioning healthcare system you got there. Hand us mining rights and private data or maybe it collapses" Zimbabwe held firm, and now it loses all US health funding allafrica.com/stories/2026...

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Zimbabwe: U.S. Announces End to All Health Funding in Zimbabwe

AMERICA will, at the end of this month, stop funding all health programmes in Zimbabwe it has been involved in for more than 20 years, Ambassador Pamela Tremont has revealed.

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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 25/09/2026

The deal over Greenland shows that Europe is still trying to placate Trump, even as readies for a world without America. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...

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Justin Ling: Europe has to choose: Bend the knee to Trump, or join Carney’s new world order

The decision should be pretty clear. Unfortunately, Europe doesn't seem ready to make it.

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 24/09/2026

This is absolutely deranged: Months before murdering 6 people and injuring 27 more, ChatGPT told the teen school shooter in Tumbler Ridge, BC that using a Remington 870 pump-action shotgun is “brutal” in a “hallway, indoors or a crowded classroom” because “close quarters” is that gun’s “playground”

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Stewart Prest @stewartprest.ca · 25/09/2026

That's preeettttty embarrassing...

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Stewart Prest @stewartprest.ca · 24/09/2026

Voters will have to conclude there's another reason, and the obvious explanation is the NDP decided to place fast and loose with democratic conventions to extend their time in office by a couple of years—and It's hard to convince voters the other guys are the antidemocratic problem when you do that.

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Stewart Prest @stewartprest.ca · 24/09/2026

An underlying problem for the NDP in BC, and it's a possibly fatal one, is that the decision to call an election to keep Conservatives out of power is paradoxical, since the NDP could have accomplished the feat by not having an election. That cannot be the reason by definition.

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Stewart Prest @stewartprest.ca · 25/09/2026

Yep, fair. I think it's a reason to dislike the government if you're looking for one. And the present case is also abnormally early for a majority. I can't think of anything quite this brazen.

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Stewart Prest @stewartprest.ca · 24/09/2026

Those are pretty unusual circumstances, though. Chretien was against an entrenched divided opposition that had just had a generational loss. Horgan rode early pandemic enthusiasm. Counter examples include Turner and Prentice. It often goes badly—and when it does, it leaves a mark.

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