Having the vast majority of your savings tied up in your principal residence, an undiversified, illiquid asset with high transaction costs and loads of idiosyncratic risk, is not a bright idea. www.theglobeandmail....

Stop treating your home as an investment, a nest egg and a retirement plan. It’s just a place to live

The belief that a home is an infallible investment has been seeded into the minds of a young cohort by homeowners who hit the jackpot. You can’t really blame them

The Toronto Star asked me for my thoughts on Russia covertly funding far-right media personalities, including Canadians. Clandestine foreign-funding or not, the fact is Canada remains one of the world’s biggest exporters of far-right media – and that problem is ultimately on us, not Russia

I cover the far right for a living. This is why I wasn’t surprised to find Canadians embedded in an alleged Russian propaganda scheme

Readers may be surprised to learn a number of Canadians are actually at the centre of an alleged foreign plot in the U.S.

I'm betting on spring.

Genealogy can be fun and can sure come up with surprises.

Olena Stiazhkina’s “Ukraine, War, Love,” a diary documenting the start of the events in 2014, can perhaps be best summarized by the line: “What’s it like when Russians come to ‘save Russian speakers,’ and then kill them?”

In 2014, one Ukrainian writer kept a diary during Russia’s occupation of Donetsk

The propaganda surrounding Russia’s 2014 invasion of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts has been so pervasive that, even a decade later, people continue to parrot lines about the need to "protect the Donbas ...

TL;DR version: my sister with cancer needs help. And will keep needing help for many months to be able to fight this thing. And then to live through it. Thank you for considering and shares are just as appreciated. 👍

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-not much older than her. The four of us have literally lived our whole own lives planning to have brutal cancer moderately young. But none of us thought each other could actually get sick. And definitely not Aly. That’s the thing about hereditary illness. It’s mean. gofund.me/c7e74f0c

Help Aly Overcome Stage 3 Breast Cancer, organized by Julia Casillas

Hi friends, I am helping raise money for my sister Aly who is 34 and was recent… Julia Casillas needs your support for Help Aly Overcome Stage 3 Breast Cancer

Brilliant podcast with @justinling.bsky.social on “effective polarization” and overcoming what Wendy Chung termed the “agitated clusters of comforting rage” caused by going thru a middleman algorithm like Google or FB designed by somebody who thinks that if they make you angry, you’ll engage more.

Fixing Canada: How can we bridge the partisan divide? — The Big Story

[You’ve probably heard—from politicians, experts or even just friends and family—that “Canada is broken”. Everyone can draw their own conclusions about that, but there’s no denying some key aspects of...

The actual quote: «Fuck aux réacs, fuck à cette extrême droite, fuck à tous ceux qui voudraient nous enfermer dans la guerre de tous contre tous !» Absolutely fantastic.

PEpolitico.euAug 6, 2024 2:14pm

Some voiced outrage in response to the 2024 Paris Olympics opening ceremony. In a new interview, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo shared her response to the critics: “Fuck the reactionaries, fuck this far right, fuck all of those who would like to lock us into a war of all against all."

‘Fuck the reactionaries’: Paris mayor to Olympics opening ceremony critics

Anne Hidalgo blamed the far right for stoking divisions in French society.

Hey, Ontario opposition parties, want to know how to defeat Doug Ford? Here's how: tvo.org/article/here...