I wonder what will be the next major driver of #migration to the #Fediverse? X/Musk does something that drives away users, or governments? It catches on at last in the EU? Bluesky blows up? #Loops goes viral? Facebook shuts down? #Threads makes sharing the default?
Many features people […]
Stephen Gordon: "Supply management costs low-income households some $600 a year in excessive dairy and poultry prices. If you think that doesn't matter but the imagined market power of grocery stores does, you are not a serious person, much less a serious government […]
This grandiose building was the Delaware and Hudson railway's headquarters. Their trains used Union Station. D&H extended into Québec and had a big interchange with both CP and CN at a town known as Delson.
Photo 2 shows the terminal of the D&H south of Mntreal […]
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Jacob T. Levy
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This spring, a family of Mourning Doves moved into the shelf!
Doves are notoriously lazy nest builders.
They chose to forgo the Robin nest we’d left up there in favour of a loose pile of sticks to call their own, but it did the trick.
They raised two […]
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Whenever I read about an #IPO that "pops" on its first day of trading, I wonder why they didn't use a Dutch auction to set the initial price. The cynical answer is probably the true one.
Of all the possibilities I've listed above, I think Loops is the most likely. People seem to love short-form video, I don't think there's much lock-in to current platforms, and Loops is a serious attempt to do TikTok, but better.
Of course, many people like things as is; I trust they'll still […]
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The most interesting part of the #CBC #AtIssue panel last night was in the first segment: the dawning realisation that #MarkCarney is having limited success at resolving the #TrumpTariffs. We've cancelled countervailing tariffs, removed other irritants, and yet the expected date for a deal keeps […]
Watching Brazil-Morocco in a house full of Brazilians...
#WorldCup
There's no reason why the Liberal leader can't drive home the message that anglophones are part of the solution and not the problem.
The second of the CF-18s leaving CYUL for today's Alouettes game flyover (edit: they were here for last night's game—home opener). #Montreal
You can see them WAY before you can hear them. Also: moving too fast to get my fingers out of the way, I guess.
It makes […]
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