1/ French investigators are reportedly looking at a possible Russian connection to the Louvre theft. A French-Russian man is said to be suspected of masterminding art thefts in France and placing former mercenaries in French museums as security guards. ⬇️ https://t.co/5hYjMfvtJA

A noteworthy thread. The neatly demarcated front lines shown on sites such as Deep State are in fact far more fluid and unclear, for reasons that this thread explains very well.

People have no idea how taxes actually work, and this clip is INSANE. A short rant 1. People are calling this unfair, but you need to realize that RRSP contributions aren't actually taxed until you withdraw for retirement. So when you contribute to the RRSP now, you actually

Losing trees increased mortality rate, study finds

Lib Dems really ought to be making better use of the situation

'It's devastating beyond all words': Families of victims of speeding drivers make emotional plea to Doug Ford to save speed cameras https://t.co/1moXtv5dne via @torontostar

A good piece on the drone & missile defence #adaptation battle in the skies over #Ukraine.

Despite military superiority, "the hard truth is that democracies have allowed their own information power to atrophy, and in some cases have contributed to that increased weakness. That imbalance is proving very dangerous." https://t.co/srnQRQyNIs https://t.co/srnQRQyNIs

I’d go one step further, as a scholar of authoritarianism: When companies or institutions cave despite the law being on their side, they are the ones who are making the law irrelevant. Law only works if you make it work. It has no agency of its own. We are all its agents.

Russia shoots down a commercial airliner full of European civilians over Ukraine, but Europe won’t shoot down Russian suicide drones over Europe.

A peerless opening scene.

Much of Toronto's early expansion took the form of "shacktowns," where owner-built housing on small private lots provided affordable housing for workers. @dylan_reid explores the seminal 1996 book "Unplanned Suburbs" that analyzed this phenomenon.

My article "Historic Clamour" in last year's "Noise" issue of @Spacing was nominated for a Heritage Toronto award! Many thanks to Dylan and Matt from Spacing for an opportunity to showcase my work and Heritage Toronto for having me as a nominee! https://t.co/MSAm9rFLDp

It's not the most important issue here, but this is going to devastate Florida's tourist industry. Who is going to bring their kids to Disneyworld with infectious diseases running rampant around them?

New reporting from Haaretz on Gaza ceasefire talks. - U.S. put Witkoff's face on a proposal that was really from Netanyahu. - Egypt and other intermediaries pressured Hamas to sign. - Hamas agreed. - And...Netanyahu walked away from the terms he himself had demanded.

“On Wednesday, as helicopters were still dousing the flames of the 9,000-acre Bear Gulch fire, federal officials drove up in SUVs, checked IDs, then escorted 44 of those firefighters off the premises, arresting two of them”

As Ukraine’s teenagers get ready for a new school year in a country at war, they face yet another threat — a network of Russian operatives trying to trick them into betraying their country. https://t.co/2pLF5GdKqb

The Long Battle For Yellow Creek — the ravine has finally found its way onto City Council's radar, but is there real money there to fix the damage inflicted by climate change, asks senior editor @JohnLorinc https://t.co/Vxkzj0BmXE

I think about this one often these days

“In some cases, officers on raids have gone to wrong addresses following leads that relied on artificial intelligence, increasing the chances of picking up the wrong person or putting an officer in danger, according to one current and two former officials”