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@lloyddavis.ca
Freelance copyeditor/proofreader of many Canadian best-sellers & award-winners, and 3 (count ’em!) NYT best-sellers. Member of SABR & SIHR. WWOZ Guardian of the Groove. I’ve got a lot of patience, baby, and that’s a lot of patience to lose.
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This should make us all grab torches and pitchforks and start a revolution. Crypto billionaire Changpeng Xhao, ex-con recently pardoned by Trump, is now Canada's richest person according to the annual @macleans.bsky.social ranking: macleans.ca/longforms/th.... #cdnecon #canlab /2
The Rich List - Macleans.ca
There's a new billionaire topping our list this year. Here are Canada's 40 wealthiest people—and how they made their money.
macleans.ca
November 11, 2025 at 1:04 AM
This should make us all grab torches and pitchforks and start a revolution. Crypto billionaire Changpeng Xhao, ex-con recently pardoned by Trump, is now Canada's richest person according to the annual @macleans.bsky.social ranking: macleans.ca/longforms/th.... #cdnecon #canlab /2
CBC’s “Here and Now” just mentioned that Burton Cummings and Randy Bachman will be touring next year under the Guess Who name (because use it or lose it…again). Then they play “Share the Land,” featuring the guitar work of… Kurt Winter and Greg Lewskiw.
November 10, 2025 at 10:25 PM
CBC’s “Here and Now” just mentioned that Burton Cummings and Randy Bachman will be touring next year under the Guess Who name (because use it or lose it…again). Then they play “Share the Land,” featuring the guitar work of… Kurt Winter and Greg Lewskiw.
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Whenever some sanctimonious Dem announces that America needs a functioning Republican Party, I always think “I’d settle for a functioning Democratic Party.”
November 10, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Whenever some sanctimonious Dem announces that America needs a functioning Republican Party, I always think “I’d settle for a functioning Democratic Party.”
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lol, going to Roy Cohn’s birthday party? not great
going to Roy Cohn’s birthday party *in 1979*? lol lmao
going to Roy Cohn’s birthday party *in 1979*? lol lmao
apropos of nothing, here’s a photo of a young chuck schumer attending trump lawyer & confidante (& joe mccarthy associate) roy cohn’s birthday party at studio 54, in 1979
November 9, 2025 at 10:52 PM
lol, going to Roy Cohn’s birthday party? not great
going to Roy Cohn’s birthday party *in 1979*? lol lmao
going to Roy Cohn’s birthday party *in 1979*? lol lmao
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I’d like to save the Ford Government of Ontario $9 million dollars of the public’s money.
No, a 60km tunnel under highway 401 isn’t feasible.
In fact, it’s colossally stupid.
It’s possible that it’s all a distraction from the failure to properly invest in public transit.
You’re welcome.
No, a 60km tunnel under highway 401 isn’t feasible.
In fact, it’s colossally stupid.
It’s possible that it’s all a distraction from the failure to properly invest in public transit.
You’re welcome.
Yesterday: Ontario huffy that federal budget didn’t include commitment to idea of tunnel under Hwy 401
Today: Ontario announces award of $9M contract to see if the idea of this 60km dig is even feasible
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Today: Ontario announces award of $9M contract to see if the idea of this 60km dig is even feasible
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Taxpayers on the hook for $9M to study Doug Ford's Highway 401 tunnel idea | CBC News
Ontario taxpayers are set to spend $9.1 million to learn if or how it is feasible to build a tunnel under Highway 401
www.cbc.ca
November 7, 2025 at 1:07 AM
I’d like to save the Ford Government of Ontario $9 million dollars of the public’s money.
No, a 60km tunnel under highway 401 isn’t feasible.
In fact, it’s colossally stupid.
It’s possible that it’s all a distraction from the failure to properly invest in public transit.
You’re welcome.
No, a 60km tunnel under highway 401 isn’t feasible.
In fact, it’s colossally stupid.
It’s possible that it’s all a distraction from the failure to properly invest in public transit.
You’re welcome.
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The Sandwich Guy jury deli-berated on the verdict in only a few hours
November 6, 2025 at 8:37 PM
The Sandwich Guy jury deli-berated on the verdict in only a few hours
I live on the Danforth so I laughed.
Our gyro
Sandwich man leaving court
November 6, 2025 at 11:13 PM
I live on the Danforth so I laughed.
It got uploaded beyond the cloud.
What the hell is wrong with the sun? Why is it disappearing like this?
November 6, 2025 at 9:58 PM
It got uploaded beyond the cloud.
Calling it a law enforcement surge is journalistic malpractice, @apnews.com
BREAKING: A man who threw a sandwich at a federal agent during Trump’s law enforcement surge in Washington, D.C., is found not guilty of assault.
Man who threw sandwich at federal agent in Washington is found not guilty of assault charge
A former Justice Department employee who threw a sandwich at a federal agent during President Donald Trump’s law enforcement surge in Washington has been found not guilty of assault.
bit.ly
November 6, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Calling it a law enforcement surge is journalistic malpractice, @apnews.com
Thirtysomething Brooklynite who lives with her parents meets a baker.
Western town gets a new sheriff with a new look.
Two reporters spend their days making a lot of phone calls and getting doors slammed in their faces.
November 6, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Thirtysomething Brooklynite who lives with her parents meets a baker.
Two reporters spend their days making a lot of phone calls and getting doors slammed in their faces.
Explain a film plot badly:
Irish manual labourer meets English cabaret performer and discovers something unexpected.
Irish manual labourer meets English cabaret performer and discovers something unexpected.
Giant ape who hates planes reluctantly travels to New York to impress a blonde on his first date.
November 6, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Two reporters spend their days making a lot of phone calls and getting doors slammed in their faces.
Good for her.
Supporters of Netanyahu and his punishing war on Gaza are condeming Toronto's mayor for calling it a "genocide" - Olivia Chow isn't backing down, saying she's following the lead of the International Association of Genocide Scholars www.thestar.com/news/gta/cit...
Mayor Olivia Chow defends calling Gaza war a genocide
Chow's comments have sparked complaints to both the provincial human rights tribunal and the city's integrity commissioner.
www.thestar.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Good for her.
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Tonight's even more proof the mainstream reporters who are still on Twitter are suffering from a brain problem akin Havana Syndrome that is preventing them from accurately doing their jobs. They are being cooked alive by a snuff-focused apartheid algorithm.
November 5, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Tonight's even more proof the mainstream reporters who are still on Twitter are suffering from a brain problem akin Havana Syndrome that is preventing them from accurately doing their jobs. They are being cooked alive by a snuff-focused apartheid algorithm.
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Why do we need to hear from republican David Frum on the future of the Democratic Party on CBC radio?
November 5, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Why do we need to hear from republican David Frum on the future of the Democratic Party on CBC radio?
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I agree with the end of this article when it posits that liberals fear socialists mostly because they fear a successful outcome by a socialist government will raise the bar on the meaning of good governance. Liberals are all about lowering expectations.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Mamdani’s victory is a rebuke to the failed strategies of the Democratic party | Moira Donegan
The Democratic party appears listless and unprincipled, unwilling to fight because they do not believe in anything. Zohran Mamdani is the opposite of this
www.theguardian.com
November 5, 2025 at 1:03 PM
I agree with the end of this article when it posits that liberals fear socialists mostly because they fear a successful outcome by a socialist government will raise the bar on the meaning of good governance. Liberals are all about lowering expectations.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Watching Ontario being repeatedly betrayed by big auto companies while China is just *cranking out* affordable excellent little electric cars makes me think we picked the wrong side 🫤
$TSLA - BYD WIDENS LEAD OVER TESLA IN U.K. EV MARKET Chinese automaker BYD sold nearly seven times more cars than Tesla in the U.K. in October, according to new industry data. BYD’s year-to-date sales jumped over sixfold to 39,103 vehicles, while Tesla’s fell 4.5% to 35,455.
November 5, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Watching Ontario being repeatedly betrayed by big auto companies while China is just *cranking out* affordable excellent little electric cars makes me think we picked the wrong side 🫤
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David Frum spewing just absolute bullshit on CBC Toronto right now. Why is he being interviewed, exactly?
November 5, 2025 at 1:18 PM
David Frum spewing just absolute bullshit on CBC Toronto right now. Why is he being interviewed, exactly?
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Just to remind ppl that zohran campaigned as unapologetically pro-Palestine so stop saying it’s an untenable position
November 5, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Just to remind ppl that zohran campaigned as unapologetically pro-Palestine so stop saying it’s an untenable position
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I don't know what will happen in NYC tonight, but I do know that regardless of outcome, any number of public figures, celebrities, politicians and institutions that oppose Mamdani have done so with a level of rhetorical ugliness, racism, and dishonesty that should neither be forgotten nor forgiven.
November 4, 2025 at 7:27 PM
I don't know what will happen in NYC tonight, but I do know that regardless of outcome, any number of public figures, celebrities, politicians and institutions that oppose Mamdani have done so with a level of rhetorical ugliness, racism, and dishonesty that should neither be forgotten nor forgiven.
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Silly me. I'm naive enough to believe that investing in the future means investing in people, not in technology.
Education, Health Care, Mobility, etc.
Give people these things and the future will sort itself out.
Education, Health Care, Mobility, etc.
Give people these things and the future will sort itself out.
November 4, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Silly me. I'm naive enough to believe that investing in the future means investing in people, not in technology.
Education, Health Care, Mobility, etc.
Give people these things and the future will sort itself out.
Education, Health Care, Mobility, etc.
Give people these things and the future will sort itself out.
1. He probably doesn’t remember who he voted for.
2. Bet the house he voted for Cuomo.
2. Bet the house he voted for Cuomo.
Q: It's election day in NYC. Did you vote for Mamdani or Cuomo?
Schumer: "Look, I voted, and I look forward to working with the next mayor to help NYC."
Schumer: "Look, I voted, and I look forward to working with the next mayor to help NYC."
November 4, 2025 at 10:40 PM
1. He probably doesn’t remember who he voted for.
2. Bet the house he voted for Cuomo.
2. Bet the house he voted for Cuomo.
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Dick Cheney led America into a disastrous war based on false evidence. But he did so with civility, and for that I am eternally grateful.
by David Brooks
by David Brooks
November 4, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Dick Cheney led America into a disastrous war based on false evidence. But he did so with civility, and for that I am eternally grateful.
by David Brooks
by David Brooks
Dodger fans curse themselves for using up all their fireworks on Saturday.
November 4, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Dodger fans curse themselves for using up all their fireworks on Saturday.
I was wondering why the sun was out this morning.
Let's all allow Dick Cheney's peaceful passing at the ripe old age of 84 to remind us of the importance and joy of speaking ill of the dead when the dead were assholes.
November 4, 2025 at 4:07 PM
I was wondering why the sun was out this morning.
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rip dick cheney, you wouldve loved the illegal war in south america we’re about to start
November 4, 2025 at 12:19 PM
rip dick cheney, you wouldve loved the illegal war in south america we’re about to start