If that isn’t the headline of the decade, then perhaps the first sentence deserves some kind of award (if not the story itself): “These weren’t the kind of clowns you want to mess with.”
Toronto’s founder was an abolitionist who was assigned to suppress a slave rebellion in Haiti.
The winter is dark and harsh with stinging cold. They spread salt over the roads. It poisons water and eats metal, and they tell you now it is safe.
Here’s a thing I made with Retrontario. Get ready to blow pot, burnouts.
•Courage is not about the absence of fear or anger or extreme emotion. The definition of courage is, when experiencing those emotions, refusing to let them govern your behaviour. Staying true to yourself and your values, doing what you know is right, and necessary, despite the heightened emotion. Courage is finding it in yourself to rise to an occasion rather than being diminished by it.
We have our flaws but there’s a lot to like in how Toronto, Canada reacted to this attack. I’m still really moved by the cop who didn’t shoot the guy.
Really good short doc series profiling a collection of indie developers. Episode 2 is all Montreal devs. It seems this series is funded by Microsoft and I’m guessing all the games are available on PC, but by no means exclusively. If this is advertising this is the best possible version of it.
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There is a Canadian hip-hop history exhibit going down at the McMichael; pictured: Michie Mee. (Thanks Ed)
•There are an awful lot of great indie games being made in Canada, and a great number are available on the Switch. Bonus fact: did you know that Canada is the third biggest video game producing nation after the US and Japan? I didn’t!
Finally.
Gawker savages a Jonathan Kay piece about how $200k/yr isn’t enough money
via this
Singh, who is Sikh, is the first non-white leader of a major federal party in Canada. He is also only the third NDP leader to have been elected on the first ballot, after Tommy Douglas, the party’s first leader, and Jack Layton.
Beaverton
Why in the hell do we, as a relatively progressive nation, have such shit jails? Also, why is this:
Prisoners awaiting trial accounted for 59 percent of the total number of inmates in provincial jails in 2015, up from 27 percent in 1995.
This is the most Canadian thing I will ever write, I know, but I’m proud of my country for its lack of pride.
The decision, which set a uniform spending requirement of 5 percent on programs of national interest (PNI, which includes dramas, documentaries, some children’s programming, and some award shows), means a reduction in spending requirements for some broadcasters.