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Jim Stanford @jimbostanford.bsky.social · 1h

This is a good day to ponder what an amazing deal B.C. residents have enjoyed thanks to public auto insurance. Avg nominal premiums are no higher than 9 years ago when J.Horgan was elected Premier, vs 45% avg increase in Canada and 119% in next-door Alberta. Data from StatsCan. #bcpoli

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Dr. Mike P. Moffatt @mikepmoffatt.bsky.social · 5h

Myth-busting episode! "Just build new metros" is a common proposal for the housing crisis. But Canada already has more metros than similar countries, and the history of newtowns from Ontario's Townsend and Australia's Monarto, is poor. Watch here: www.youtube.com/watc...

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Canadian Architect @canadianarchitect.bsky.social · 21h

Located in Toronto’s Biidaasige Park, the Art Trail will continue to build upon its launch season, which marks the beginning of a long-term program of free, year-round rotating and permanent installations by contemporary artists. canadianarchitect.com/cree-artist-...

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Cree artist Kent Monkman’s first public artwork now open at Lassonde Art Trail

The Lassonde Art Trail (LAT) has officially culminated its launch season on Toronto’s waterfront with the unveiling of The Colony (2026), a new permanent public artwork from Cree artist Kent Monkman. ...

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Jarrett Walker @humantransit.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Seoul is aiming for 500 autonomous buses in their public transit network by 2030. They will be 11m long (longer than the one in this image looks to me). Not surprised that fast-aging South Korea is leading on this. www.koreatimes.co.kr/southkorea/o...

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Seoul prepares for driverless future with 500 autonomous buses by 2030 - The Korea Times

In a move that could permanently reshape urban transit in one of Asia’s most densely populated metropolises, Seoul city officials announced an ambi...

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Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A spectacular piece of deep investigative work by @carrietait.bsky.social Grant Robertson and Nathan Vanderklippe. Although “Alberta separatists” aren’t and never will be a danger, this shows just how serious about conquering former allies the Trump admin is, and how these fifth columnists work

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The New York Review of Books @nybooks.com · 02/10/2026

“That space of vertiginous contingency and mirage-like ambiguity is the true province of de Kooning’s art and can be uniquely accessed through his thousands of extant sketches, tracings, and collages.” —Jarrett Earnest

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De Kooning Draws a Picture | Jarrett Earnest

Willem de Kooning's works on paper document his efforts to find ways of retaining both image and abstraction, depth and flatness.

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Frank Murphy 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 @thesidewalkballet.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

St.Paul’s Centre for Ministry + Community Service building in downtown Nanaimo. “Working within the existing building footprint, the design adapts an established community building to meet changing needs. Good community buildings don’t serve just one purpose.” Checkwitch Poiron Architects. cparch.ca

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The Paris Review @parisreview.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

We at the Review mourn the loss of Annie Dillard (1945–2026). In celebration of her life and work, we’ve unlocked “For the Time Being,” Dillard's 1998 piece about the life of the French priest and scientist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, from the archive. buff.ly/SxIquAa

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Brent Bellamy @brentbellamy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The unscheduled encounters. The walk to the corner store. The neighbour met on the sidewalk. The bench in the park. The coffee shop where familiar faces begin to become friends. The public space where something is happening without an invitation.

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Sid Lowe @sidlowe.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

What did Lamine say to Leo Messi? “‘Thank you for everything you’ve given football’. vm.tiktok.com/ZGdQtcm11/ That and so much more, including Batman, in full interview here: www.theguardian.com/football/202...

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Lamine Yamal: ‘Football is mechanised but players like me have that special spark’

The Spain and Barcelona wonderkid has won the World Cup and European Championship but tells Sid Lowe there are no limits for his career

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Frank Murphy 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 @thesidewalkballet.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

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Michael Pettis @michaelpettis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Usually when I share music on BlueSky, it is music from my friends in the Beijing scene, but Thelonious Monk is one of a handful of my favorite 20th-Century musicians, and this piece is so good (and Charlie Rouse so nuanced and perfect in it), that I had to share. youtu.be/yHKl0euhZI0?...

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Thelonious Monk - Blue Monk (Norway, 1966)

YouTube video by The Jazz Estate

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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

My blood is killing me – but I decided to keep that a secret. Why a renowned journalist kept a diagnosis of the blood cancer myelofibrosis to himself, by Paul Workman www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... via @theglobeandmail.com

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Opinion: My blood is killing me – but I decided to keep that a secret

Though a myelofibrosis diagnosis changed my life, I decided to guard the information zealously from work and from friends. Was it the right decision?

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Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A lot of us, including me, spent last week analyzing what output was likely to be produced from the von der Leyen and Carney speeches, what “associate member” could mean. As I explain here, it’s now apparent the speeches WERE the output. And they worked www.theglobeandmail.com/podcasts/the...

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A reality check on Canada’s future with the EU

Canada already has agreements for trade and security with the European Union. What more could they get as an ‘associate member’?

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Frank Murphy 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 @thesidewalkballet.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"Maybe we can be friends again, but we’ll never go back to the way things were before."

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Ethan Lou @ethanlou.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

My latest in the Globe and Mail: China’s scared, too: Behind every power, domestic insecurity lurks www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

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Opinion: China’s scared, too: Behind every power, domestic insecurity lurks

Chinese President Xi Jinping is expected to visit Washington on Thursday, marking an era of global ascendancy for Beijing

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Bryn Davidson - Lanefab @lanefab.com · 18/09/2026

Vancouver’s Villages Plan promised to legalize four- to six-story apartments off arterials, but the plan fell through. @Sightline.org www.sightline.org/2026/09/18/t...

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The Death—and Lessons—of Vancouver’s Villages Plan | Sightline Institute

Legalizing apartment homes on quiet side streets was the right idea. Delivering it will require political courage.

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Frank Murphy 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 @thesidewalkballet.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

#ICYMI. Good essay, the use and abuse of expropriation. The principle of subsidiarity breaks down at the municipal level, certainly at the neighbourhood level.

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Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

To those who say it’s not worth building ties with Europe because it’s “on the decline”

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rodmickleburgh.bsky.social @rodmickleburgh.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Takao Tanabe, BC’s most renowned living artist, is 100 years old today. There is an outstanding retrospective of his long career at the Audain Gallery in Whistler. As a youth, Takao, along with his family, was forcibly uprooted and interned at Lemon Creek during WW II.

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Harper’s Magazine @harpers.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

We at Harper’s Magazine mourn the passing of Annie Dillard, who served as a contributing editor to the magazine from 1973 to 1985. harpers.org/author/annie...

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Annie Dillard, Author at Harper's Magazine

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Canadian Architect @canadianarchitect.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Developed in collaboration with six other firms, the project proposes speculative designs that integrate multi-unit residential buildings with smaller existing subway station sites along TTC Line 2 Bloor-Danforth.

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Housing on the Line exhibition to open in Toronto

Housing on the Line, a conceptual project and architectural exhibition conceived and initiated by Superkül, will open to the public on Thursday, September 24, 2026, in Toronto's Liberty Village. Devel...

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The New York Review of Books @nybooks.com · 15/09/2026

“It’s true that in the course of criticizing Christians, I often found myself defending Christianity.... I had, much to my surprise, become fiercely protective of the Christianity I had renounced.” —Meghan O’Gieblyn

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Wishing It So | Meghan O’Gieblyn

As AI erodes our attention spans and expressiveness, philosophers like Simone Weil and Arthur Schopenhauer offer profound insights on what it means to be an individual.

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Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I wrote from Riyadh about the total collapse of the Saudi vision — an already-failed pivot away from resources has been bombed out of the realm of future possibility, and now even the resources are bereft of a sure future under dual Trump and Houthi assault www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

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Opinion: The end of the Saudi mirage

Vision 2030 was meant to transform Saudi Arabia. But the war in Iran, and a constellation of other question marks, has forced the kingdom to dramatically rethink its future

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

For a bit different kind of weekend inspiration, please share a picture of what you consider to be the best piece of ARCHITECTURE in your city, however you choose to define architecture. Bonus points for less-then-obvious choices, and for explaining your answer.

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Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The “new normal” of the post-9/11 security paradigm was a tragic miscalculation that led us to ignore, and in many cases to precipitate, the real international threats we now face www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

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Opinion: The post-9/11 New Normal now looks like a terrible mistake

After the horrors of Sept. 11, 2001, the West shifted its security focus to ‘non-state actors’ such as terrorists. The rise of authoritarianism today is among the consequences of that decision

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The New York Review of Books @nybooks.com · 13/09/2026

“It seemed to me that the current political crisis was partly due to the liberal fantasy that progress is a linear narrative stretching toward some final Parousia, not an aspiration that is...vulnerable to inertia and relapse.” —Meghan O’Giebelyn

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Wishing It So | Meghan O’Gieblyn

As AI erodes our attention spans and expressiveness, philosophers like Simone Weil and Arthur Schopenhauer offer profound insights on what it means to be an individual.

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Marta O'Brien @archhistory.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

A great tradition!

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 09/09/2026

“Drawings, for me, are a kind of calligraphy of the soul,” Hilton Als writes. At the first major show of Willem de Kooning’s drawings, the artist’s complicated, searching soul is on display. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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Willem de Kooning’s Excavations of Intimacy

The first major show of Willem de Kooning’s drawings articulates his pain and anger and the frightful era he lived in.

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Luke Harding @lukeharding1968.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

A great review of Betrayal in @prospectmagazine.co.uk: "Harding’s gift has always been to connect individual lives to grand geopolitical happenings. His prose is lean and cinematic, moving briskly between eyewitness observation and geopolitical analysis" www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/7458...

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This is the new world order

And it’s been made by madmen who have their eyes on empires and their fingers on nuclear buttons

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Jarrett Walker @humantransit.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Do you know people who want to learn about public transit but who learn better orally than by reading? All my recent podcast interviews and conference keynotes are now in one place: humantransit.org/jarretts-key.... Please share!

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Jarrett's Keynotes, Interviews, and Podcasts — Human Transit

Jarrett Walker is frequently asked to speak to urbanist, development and transit professional groups. He also often grants interviews to media on aspects of ongoing or completed projects. If you are i...

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Frank Murphy 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 @thesidewalkballet.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Canada wants to be ambitious. That means getting immigration going again. "Permanent immigration of intact families, with a quick pathway to citizenship, should constitute the majority of immigration." @dougsaunders.bsky.social @theglobeandmail.com www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

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Opinion: Canada wants to be ambitious. That means getting immigration going again

Ottawa’s lowered immigration targets served a purpose, but now they’re an obstacle to economic growth and nation-building

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Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I just received royalties for the Swedish-language edition of my 2012 book The Myth of the Muslim Tide. Not a lot of royalties, not even enough to buy a good lunch, but anyone looking up a fact-check is a sign that sanity is trying to prevail in Stockholm at last

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 06/09/2026

In our latest issue, @jamesmeek.bsky.social writes about gentrification, regeneration and Britain’s social housing crisis. Read here: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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