Niamh McKenzie
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Morning After Snow, High Park || Group of Seven member J.E.H. MacDonald’s 1912 depiction of a snow-covered High Park trail seems like the perfect work for today, the first day of winter. Come see this month’s RBC Art Pick on your next visit to the AGO.
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December 21, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Morning After Snow, High Park || Group of Seven member J.E.H. MacDonald’s 1912 depiction of a snow-covered High Park trail seems like the perfect work for today, the first day of winter. Come see this month’s RBC Art Pick on your next visit to the AGO.
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I’m at the combination Pizza Hut and Kennedy Center.
December 18, 2025 at 7:54 PM
I’m at the combination Pizza Hut and Kennedy Center.
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It hasn't even been twelve hours, but all three of us have been overwhelmed with requests from media for comment and I'm mostly writing this now so they'll leave me alone.
this is such a painful loss. my heart is broken.
“The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them — words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they’re brought out. But it’s more than that,...
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December 15, 2025 at 10:14 PM
It hasn't even been twelve hours, but all three of us have been overwhelmed with requests from media for comment and I'm mostly writing this now so they'll leave me alone.
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It’s very funny to me that countries are trying to pass laws banning teens from social media until they’re older and can “handle it” as if the last decade hasn’t been about watching rich middle aged men nuke their brains on Twitter and then run the USA via shitpost.
Dude. Yes. Alito and Thomas are of course the standout examples, but all of the Republican justices have tells in their writing and their questioning indicating that they are, to varying degrees, marinating their brains in dumb bitch juice
My theory, fwiw, is that Supreme Court Justices are not immune to Twitter brain poisoning. I suspect all six have horrific information environments and have therefore lost the ability to understand the people who don't agree with them.
December 8, 2025 at 6:13 PM
It’s very funny to me that countries are trying to pass laws banning teens from social media until they’re older and can “handle it” as if the last decade hasn’t been about watching rich middle aged men nuke their brains on Twitter and then run the USA via shitpost.
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People seem to have no problem with learning to correctly pronounce Renée Zellwegger, Arnold Schwartzenegger or Timothée Chalamet.
In Opinion
Early in Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral campaign, “it was easy to assume that failure to learn his name reflected a failure to take him seriously,” John McWhorter writes. But “as a matter of pure linguistics, it would be surprising if people didn’t have trouble with the name Mamdani.”
Early in Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral campaign, “it was easy to assume that failure to learn his name reflected a failure to take him seriously,” John McWhorter writes. But “as a matter of pure linguistics, it would be surprising if people didn’t have trouble with the name Mamdani.”
Opinion | I Now Mispronounce You the Likely Next Mayor of New York City
A lot of people seem to trip over Zohran Mamdani’s name. The reason may not be as simple as it seems.
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October 31, 2025 at 2:55 PM
People seem to have no problem with learning to correctly pronounce Renée Zellwegger, Arnold Schwartzenegger or Timothée Chalamet.
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Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:
September 18, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:
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I don’t care what this adds to Canada’s deficit. Fund those scientists up here. Build whatever they need.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary and a longtime vaccine critic, announced in a statement Tuesday that $500 million worth of vaccine development projects, all using mRNA technology, will be halted.”
RFK Jr. pulls $500 million in funding for vaccine development
The Department of Health and Human Services plans to cancel contracts and pull funding for some vaccines being developed to fight respiratory viruses like COVID-19 and the flu.
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August 5, 2025 at 10:54 PM
I don’t care what this adds to Canada’s deficit. Fund those scientists up here. Build whatever they need.
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Like everything else the Trump administration does this airlift the Afrikaners initiative is brought to you by racism and conspiracy theory. Gift link.
White South Africans Granted Refugee Status by Trump Leave for U.S.
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May 12, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Like everything else the Trump administration does this airlift the Afrikaners initiative is brought to you by racism and conspiracy theory. Gift link.
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CBC Kids asked the party leaders to give advice to Canada’s children and they all really really reflect who these politicians are: Poilievre didn’t respond at all.
April 1, 2025 at 7:50 PM
CBC Kids asked the party leaders to give advice to Canada’s children and they all really really reflect who these politicians are: Poilievre didn’t respond at all.
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Sure, this is bad for Johns Hopkins, bad for its employees, bad for America, bad for the world, but that's just the price we have to pay for the eugenics project of bored billionaires who long for the good old days of apartheid.
Federal Cuts Prompt Johns Hopkins to Cut More Than 2,000 Workers
The university, a leader in scientific research, has been hard hit by the Trump administration’s cuts, which will slash at least $800 million from its budget.
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March 14, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Sure, this is bad for Johns Hopkins, bad for its employees, bad for America, bad for the world, but that's just the price we have to pay for the eugenics project of bored billionaires who long for the good old days of apartheid.
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How to remove Copilot AI from your Office 365 subscription: hit ‘cancel’
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How to remove Copilot AI from your Office 365 subscription: hit ‘cancel’
Here in the UK, Microsoft is now helpfully updating your Office/Microsoft/Copilot 365 subscription to charge you for the Copilot AI slop generator! Being Microsoft, they’re making the opt-out stupi…
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February 6, 2025 at 12:36 PM
How to remove Copilot AI from your Office 365 subscription: hit ‘cancel’
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You receive intelligence almost every day as Prime Minister that you can neither act on, nor tell anybody about.
I think the conspiracy theories are far-fetched, but this is super weird behaviour from the Opposition Leader.
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I think the conspiracy theories are far-fetched, but this is super weird behaviour from the Opposition Leader.
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Poilievre rejects terms of CSIS foreign interference briefing | CBC News
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is rejecting the terms of a briefing from Canada’s spy agency regarding foreign interference because it won’t enable him to act on the information, his office says...
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January 29, 2025 at 7:52 PM
You receive intelligence almost every day as Prime Minister that you can neither act on, nor tell anybody about.
I think the conspiracy theories are far-fetched, but this is super weird behaviour from the Opposition Leader.
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
I think the conspiracy theories are far-fetched, but this is super weird behaviour from the Opposition Leader.
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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The "he's not gonna listen to her" reactions are missing many points. Lots of other people are also hearing it. Lots of people can see him hearing it, then weigh what she's said with what he'll do. Lots of people can see her refusal to surrender these ancient teachings to the latest face of empire
Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde to Trump: "I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now. There are gay, lesbian, and transgender people in Democratic, Republican, and independent families, some who fear for their lives ... and the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals"
January 21, 2025 at 9:03 PM
The "he's not gonna listen to her" reactions are missing many points. Lots of other people are also hearing it. Lots of people can see him hearing it, then weigh what she's said with what he'll do. Lots of people can see her refusal to surrender these ancient teachings to the latest face of empire
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Costco has 7% annual staff turnover (93% retention), an incredibly loyal and respected customer base, solid quality, and refuses to change its food court pricing much beyond what it was 3 decades ago. It’s the third largest retailer in the country. Capitalism doesn’t have to be cruel.
All I'm saying is ain't no one hunting this man down. And I guarantee you he's not starving. You can be a CEO and still be wealthy and not fuck your customers over for a few extra nickels in the pockets of your investors.
December 25, 2024 at 4:05 AM
Costco has 7% annual staff turnover (93% retention), an incredibly loyal and respected customer base, solid quality, and refuses to change its food court pricing much beyond what it was 3 decades ago. It’s the third largest retailer in the country. Capitalism doesn’t have to be cruel.