So after spending hundreds of thousands (millions?) of dollars rebranding EB Games to GameStop during the meme stock bubble, the parent company is selling the Canadian operation and they're going to un-rebrand them back to EB Games across Canada.

www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

So Governor Shapiro's official residence in Pennsylvania was torched at 2 AM. The suspect's name is Cody Balmer, age 38, who admitted he haboured "hatred" against Shapiro.

Gee, Cody, I wonder why you would hate a man named Shapiro so much?

www.cbc.ca/news/world/p...

See? I knew this would come up the moment we could no longer count on the USA. Even if Trump cools down his 51st state nonsense, we still need to worry about Russia and other bad actors. We need to defend ourselves.

Terrible for non-proliferation though.

www.bnnbloomberg.ca/business/int...

So two science fiction anthogies I co-edited, and one that I wrote a foreword for, are all in LibGen, the pirated book database that Meta (Facebook) used illegally to train its AI.

Search for your own writing here:
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

This is the way to do it! Co-develop sophisticated defense technology with a reliable, Commonwealth ally like Australia. We don't need the Americans to do this, and if Trump eventually realizes Putin isn't his friend, he can ask nicely to use these radars for NORAD.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Imagine, you can avoid egg shortages and avian flu by managing supply and preventing agribusiness from driving small farmers into bankruptcy.

The horror!

www.npr.org/2025/03/18/n...

Goddamn right they will. You can't talk to someone who questions your right to even be at the table.

www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

FAFO in a nutshell. Even if Trump cancelled all the tariffs tomorrow and apologized, how could we ever trust the US again as a supplier of major weapons systems?

www.newsweek.com/canada-f-35-...

It's absolutely real. Trump is trying to turn the USA back into a territorial empire like it was after the Spanish-American War in the 1890s. When they took Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Phillipines from Spain and decided to keep them.

globalnews.ca/news/1100859...

Not that I think this scenario is terribly likely, it's probably just more of Trump's "look over there!" distraction technique. But with him, you can never be 100% sure.

In any case, accurate assessment in case the impossible does happen.

theconversation.com/attempting-t...

A sneaky plug from my day job at the Ottawa Library.

Sat, Dec 7, 2 PM we're hosting Super Authors!

Comic book writer Jack Briglio and me will discuss writing comics & graphic novels, at the Manotick Branch of the OPL. If you're interested, please register.

biblioottawalibrary.ca/en/event/sup...

This is an important article, from The Ottawa Citizen.

Antisemitism suddenly seems cool (again), across a wide swath of the population. And y'know what? It isn't. Supporting Palestinian rights, which is legitimate, doesn't give anyone a free pass to shit on us.

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Hi again, everyone. 7 months after my first post, I'm back again, in the midst of the great abandonment of Twitter.

Since I virtually never use Twitter, this is really just adding a social rather than replacing one, so we'll see. I'll still probably be more active on FB.

Hi folks! My first post on Bluesky! Please note the moment of historical importance. ☺️

Not much to say right now, but if you're a resident of Ottawa, please note that all branches of the Ottawa Public Library are accepting donations of your used eclipse glasses, for shipment to South America.