Being 10 years old and making your debut in epigenetic trauma research all because you noticed your caterpillars still loved you after becoming butterflies is so profound and poetic and impressive. I love children and their incredible hearts and minds!!!!!!
I saw a post on Reddit that said that “The underlying purpose of AI is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth.” And I don’t think I’ve ever seen AI described so incisively.
The sky above Toronto today is a greyish yellow. And while this is happening the government of Canada is quite literally shedding its (already inadequate) climate commitments and going all in with billions for new fossil fuel infrastructure.
I live in Northwestern Ontario. Right now, the Boreal forest is burning.
I'm writing this beneath the dark orange plume from the Quetico wildfires.
These are some of the reports coming out as communities fight to survive:
"No fire crews left for new fires."
"We had no warning."
Families are self-evacuating by private boat across lakes because they didn't receive evacuation information. They're fleeing towering flames with nothing but the clothes on their backs.
This is unacceptable in a province as wealthy as Ontario.
I'm calling out Doug Ford. His government has underfunded Ontario's wildfire management capacity by tens of millions of dollars.
@fordnation you want our Ring of Fire, our water, our forests. You want to store nuclear waste in our bedrock and run an oil pipeline through our watersheds.
But you won't work with northern communities. You make decisions for us without us, and then fail to provide the basic public services we PAY FOR and rely on: wildfire protection, health care, education, safe highways and social services.
Northern Ontario deserves better than this feckless leadership.
#onpoli #onted #70KIsNotOK #cdnpolitics #DontLookAwayOntario #ABC
Something I realized when I became a parent is there's a window of time when your parents are healthy, your kids are little, and everyone gets to experience multiple generations of family spending time together. Cherish this time and don’t take a single moment of it for granted.
In Toys (1992), Robin Williams starred in one of Hollywood's most forgotten fantasy films.
Directed by Barry Levinson, it follows a whimsical toymaker facing an authoritarian takeover of his family's toy empire.
The result feels less like a movie and more like a dream.
This is truly horrifying.
There are many rising cancers in younger people and some evidence there is a link to the toxins in our food.
What an utter disregard for life, @MarkJCarney.
Shame on every person in the government who has allowed this.
Are you tired of political turmoil and constant disappointment at the state of the world?
Come enjoy the magic of live theatre! "Gerry's Imaginarium" runs from July 3-11 at Young People's Theatre for the Toronto Fringe KidsFest!
https://t.co/RIUbjZ0xF0
I just found out that water is considered a human right in Ireland, and households don’t pay water bills.
Every country should be like that.
Water is a human right and always should be.
Fuck, I forgot Doug Ford controls the ROM.
Guess what invaluable Ontario institution is getting torn down and sold off next?
Ford’s plan literally seems to be just smashing the province to pieces just for fun. Did anyone vote for this?
Mike Harris resigned when PC Party support fell to 34%.
Because that was considered untenable for a sitting premier: the public were still angry Bob Rae held on thru huge levels of unpopularity for 5 full years.
Interestingly, Harris didn't make false claims about the polls.
He accepted the public turned against him.
So he did the honourable thing.
It was his finest moment.
Our current Premier, with an approval rating in the low 20s, is too small a man for that.
#onpoli
Maybe the best solution for the Billy Bishop Airport is to close it entirely and reclaim the space for Torontonians to use as parkland. We could call it Toronto Place Park.
SERIOUS QUESTION: Do you ever really get overwhelmed by how our current reality is a genuine dystopian nightmare yet everyone still acts like it is completely normal ??
I am a signatory to this letter.
Open, fully informed and unbiased public hearings are required, supported by due diligence and meaningful analysis.
The public cannot be expected to provide informed feedback when neither the proposal nor its impacts have been properly presented.
Forgive us for being suspicious, but all we have so far is a process the Province deliberately rushed into place to cut Torontonians out, and a federal consultation process built around a survey that reflects neither the complexity of the issue nor the information needed to properly evaluate it.