#BREAKING: @MHRCanada has released a landmark report on #youth#mentalhealth in Canada, drawing on research conducted on their behalf by @Pollara + historical data + contributions from leading #mental#health orgs. Key findings & link to report: https://t.co/CBOdKPrR3x #cdnpoli
@acoyne worth a careful read today. Optimal democracy is a deliberation, not tallying existing opinions - that’s why I favour delegated conventions over 1 member 1 vote. Election campaigns were designed for this purpose - social media tribalization subverts this purpose.
I've reached that stage where my reaction to this is, "Oh that new place way way west is closing already?" Beloved Toronto dive bar closes after nearly 40 years https://t.co/bDd7zz08pM via @torontostar
*BREAKING NEWS*
Sources tell me Larry Tanenbaum's Kilmer Group has a proposed bid to bring the 14th WNBA team to Toronto. Former Raptors VP Teresa Resch is pegged to lead the new franchise.
More on this in my latest for @cbcsports
https://t.co/i7lpDTRZJL
NEW: an ideological divide is emerging between young men and women in many countries around the world.
I think this one of the most important social trends unfolding today, and provides the answer to several puzzles.
I have been fortunate to attend many great concerts, but the first Tracy Chapman tour stop at Massey Hall when she blew the doors off with this song is one of the best.
Award shows are tedious and crass, but the smile on Tracy Chapman’s face when the auditorium goes nuts for her before she takes everyone to school with no lip sync, no auto-tune and no in-ear monitors is a pretty sweet moment to capture live.
So how are we doing? A few years back all you'd hear was: the rich are getting richer, the poor poorer, and the middle class are spinning their wheels. Rising inequality, stagnant incomes. It wasn't true then, as some of us tried to show. But what about now? Some charts...
NEW: an ideological divide is emerging between young men and women in many countries around the world.
I think this one of the most important social trends unfolding today, and provides the answer to several puzzles.
Second fun with numbers tweet in 2 days from me. Yesterdays’ @globeandmail (won‘t attach the article) had a headline ”most” of the surge in Canadian EV sales was because of one model. The article revealed that model accounted for only one in five new sales. Good grief.