Jeff Zelem 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇨🇦 @JeffZelem

Canada, 22% of take-home income is spent on the necessity of food. That's not the statistic we want for contributing Canadians.

The Food Professor @FoodProfessor

3 weeks ago

Food now accounts for 22% of Canadians' take-home income, ranking Canada 10th among G20 countries for the share of disposable income spent on food. A few years ago, Canada ranked 6th. grocerybusiness.ca/food-now-accou…

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In 2020, smoke from the California wildfires suffocated Canadian cities and towns. What did Canada do? Canada sent hundreds of firefighters, water bombers and other crews/equipment to support the US fire fighting efforts. Same in 2025! Canada is a good neighbour!

The Hill @thehill

3 weeks ago

GOP senator to introduce bill to sanction Canada over wildfire smoke thehill.com/homenews/senat…

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Dad Jokes @Dadsaysjokes

3 weeks ago

My kids wanted to know what it was like for me growing up. So I took their phones, shut off the internet, gave them a popcicle, told them to go outside till the street lights came on.

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Casual train ride?

Sol Mamakwa @solmamakwa

3 weeks ago

This is near Armstrong, Ontario. When will the Canadian National Railway Company make a statement about this incident?

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Norfolk County provides nearly $4M for homelessness support simcoereformer.ca/news/norfolk-p…

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Wow!

Massimo @Rainmaker1973

a month ago

Autonomous UV robots provide a promising alternative to the billion pounds of chemical pesticides applied across American farms each year. American agriculture is embracing advanced technology as TRIC Robotics introduces large scale autonomous robots. These machines use

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In the 1920s, a Stanford psychologist tracked genius children for 50 years. Malcolm Gladwell breaks down what he discovered: Rich families → successful. Poor families → failures. Not average. Failures. Genius-level IQs that produced nothing. He spent 60 minutes at Microsoft explaining why we're wrong about success: The psychologist was named Terman. He gave IQ tests to 250,000 California schoolchildren. He identified the top 0.1%. Kids with IQs of 140 and above. His hypothesis: these children would become the leaders of academia, industry, and politics. He tracked them. And tracked them. For decades. The results split into three groups: The top 15% achieved real prominence. The middle group had average, moderately successful professional lives. And the bottom group? By any measure, failures. The difference wasn't personality. Wasn't habits. Wasn't work ethic. It was simple: the successful geniuses came from wealthy households. The failures came from poor families. Poverty is such a powerful constraint that it can reduce a one-in-a-billion brain to a lifetime of worse than mediocrity. There's a concept called "capitalization rate." It asks a simple question: what percentage of people who are capable of doing something actually end up doing that thing? In inner city Memphis, only 1 in 6 kids with athletic scholarships actually go to college. If our capitalization rate for sports in the inner city is 16%, imagine how low it must be for everything else. Here's something stranger. Gladwell read the birth dates of the 2007 Czech Junior Hockey Team: January 3rd. January 3rd. January 12th. February 8th. February 10th. February 17th. February 20th. February 24th. March 5th. March 10th. March 26th... 11 of the 20 players were born in January, February, or March. This isn't unique to the Czechs. Every elite hockey team in the world shows the same pattern. Every elite soccer team too. Why? The eligibility cutoff for youth leagues is January 1st. When you're 10 years old, a kid born in January has 10 months of maturity on a kid born in October. That's 3 or 4 inches of height. The difference between clumsy and coordinated. So we look at a group of 10 year olds, pick the "best" ones, give them special coaching, extra practice, more games. We think we're identifying talent. We're just identifying the oldest. Then we give the oldest more opportunities, and 10 years later they really are the best. Self-fulfilling prophecy. The capitalization rate for hockey talent born in the second half of the year? Close to zero. We're leaving half of all potential hockey players on the table because of an arbitrary date on a calendar. Kids born in the youngest cohort of their school class are 11% less likely to go to college. 11% of human potential squandered because we organize elementary school without reference to biological maturity. Now here's the part about math. Asian kids dramatically outperform Western kids in mathematics. The gap is enormous and consistent across decades of testing. Some people say it's genetic. It's not. It's attitudinal. When Asian kids face a math problem, they believe effort will solve it. When Western kids face a math problem, they believe the answer depends on innate ability they either have or don't. Here's the proof. The international math tests include a 120-question survey. It asks about study habits, parental support, attitudes. It's so long most kids don't finish it. A researcher named Erling Boe decided to rank countries by what percentage of survey questions their kids completed. Then he compared it to the ranking of countries by math performance. The correlation was 0.98. In the history of social science, there has never been a correlation that high. If you want to know how good a country is at math, you don't need to ask any math questions. Just make kids sit down and focus on a task for an extended period of time. If they can do it, they're good at math. Why do Asian cultures have this attitude? Gladwell's theory: rice farming. His European ancestors in medieval England worked about 1,000 hours a year. Dawn to noon, five days a week. Winters off. Lots of holidays. A peasant in South China or Japan in the same period worked 3,000 hours a year. Rice farming isn't just harder than wheat farming. It's a completely different relationship with work. There's a Chinese proverb: "A man who works dawn to dusk 360 days a year will not go hungry." His English ancestors would have said: "A man who works 175 days a year, dawn to 11, may or may not be hungry." If your culture does that for a thousand years, it becomes part of your makeup. When your kids sit down to face a calculus problem, that legacy of persistence translates perfectly. Now consider distance running. In Kenya, there are roughly a million schoolboys between 10 and 17 running 10 to 12 miles a day. In the United States, that number is probably 5,000. Our capitalization rate for distance running is less than 1%. Kenya's is probably 95%. The difference isn't genetic. The difference is what the culture values and where it spends its attention. Here's the most fascinating finding. 30% of American entrepreneurs have been diagnosed with a profound learning disability. Richard Branson is dyslexic. Charles Schwab is dyslexic. John Chambers can barely read his own email. This isn't coincidence. Their entrepreneurialism is a direct function of their disability. How do you succeed if you can't read or write from early childhood? You learn to delegate. You become a great oral communicator. You become a problem solver because your entire life is one big problem. You learn to lead. 80% of dyslexic entrepreneurs were captain of a high school sports team. Versus 30% of non-dyslexic entrepreneurs. By the time they enter the real world, they've spent their whole life practicing the four skills at the core of entrepreneurial success: delegation, oral communication, problem solving, and leadership. Ask them what role dyslexia played in their success and they don't say it was an obstacle. They say it's the reason they succeeded. A disadvantage that became an advantage. Here's what Gladwell wants you to understand: When we see differences in success, our default explanation is differences in ability. We forget how much poverty, stupidity, and attitude constrain what people can become. We refuse to admit that our own arbitrary rules are leaving talent on the table. We cling to naive beliefs that our meritocracies are fair. The capitalization argument is liberating. It says you don't look at a struggling group and conclude they're incapable. It says problems that look genetic or innate are often just failures of exploitation. It says we can make a profound difference in how well people turn out. If we choose to pay attention.

#GoFundMe: Has Been Set Up For The Doerksen Family, Who Lost Five Children In The📍Mapleton Crash.🕊️🌺 The Children’s Parents, Grandparents And Infant Sibling Also Suffered Injuries In The Crash. The fundraiser will help ease the financial burden facing our family, including funeral expenses, travel costs, lost income, and unexpected needs.🙏

401_da_sarpanch @401_da_sarpanch

2 months ago

#REPORT: Horrific Crash In📍Mapleton Township. Five Siblings Aged 4, 6, 8, 10, And 12 (Four Girls & One Boy) Pronounced Deceased After A Passenger Van And SUV Collided.🕊️🌺 5 Other Family Members Suffered Serious Injuries, Including Infant Sibling, Mother, Father, Grandmother &

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Canadian journalist says 67% of crime guns are domestically sourced — he was technically right but here's what he left out. Only 8% of crime guns are ever recovered. Only 20% of those are sent for tracing. 67% of those traced guns were ghost guns and 3D printed weapons — not firearms from licensed gun owners. Ontario and Quebec aren't even included in the data. The real number of crime guns sourced from licensed gun owners is 0.7%. @TWilsonOttawa from the @CCFR_CCDAF broke it down for us yesterday. You can get the scoop right here 👇

This Google insider just revealed what AI is actually being used for behind closed doors. It has nothing to do with chatbots. Mo Gawdat was a senior executive at Google for over a decade. He watched AI get built from the inside. He was in the rooms, in the labs, in the government meetings in China that almost no Western executive was allowed into. And he just went on Diary of a CEO and said things that no active tech executive would ever be allowed to say publicly: "What the general public sees about AI is overhyped but ineffective. What the real geeks see inside the lab is genuinely world-changing." The public gets chatbots and AI-generated videos while the labs are building autonomous weapons systems, military targeting technology, real-time surveillance infrastructure, and self-improving code that rewrites itself every microsecond without human oversight. As Mo put it: "As we speak, we are living in two major wars where AI is doing most of the killing." He talked about Palantir's CEO Alex Karp openly celebrating how his targeting technology identifies and eliminates people. He talked about the next generation of autonomous weapons costing $20,000 each, meaning any government with a $50 billion defense budget can literally rain drones on every corner of the planet. And as you remember, Anthropic was offered a $500 million military contract to allow their AI to be used for human targeting and surveillance. They refused and walked away from the money. OpenAI took the contract the following week. Mo's response: "You have to start observing who is actually behaving in a way that makes AI work for humanity, and who is behaving in a way that makes AI work for their share price." Now this is where it gets really interesting... In Mo's documentary Chasing Utopia, Altman literally says directly on camera: "I suspect that AI is likely going to end humanity, but we're going to create a lot of interesting companies in the process." That is the CEO of the most powerful AI company on Earth saying that he suspects his OWN technology will end the human race and then shrugging it off because the business opportunity is too good to pass up. Mo's prediction for the next decade: War, economic collapse, mass unemployment, surveillance expansion, and an absolute concentration of power at the top unlike anything in modern history. His prediction after that is if humanity survives the next 10 years, AI will eventually create a world of abundance where intelligence solves every problem we currently face. But the path between here and there is what terrifies him. And the men building the technology know exactly what they're doing. Do you think he's just exaggerating for attention, or is there truth in this?

Don’t mess with Canadian stuff! Doesn’t anyone remember Hienz ketchup? cbc.ca/news/canada/ne…

Did you know the Phillips head screwdriver was literally designed to fail? 🛠️🪛 ​In the 1930s, "camming out" (that annoying slip that strips your screw) was a feature to prevent over-tightening on factory lines. Now it just prevents us from staying sane during IKEA builds. 🫠 ​#ToolboxHistory #DIYFail #DidYouKnow #PhillipsVsRobertson #ScrewDriverWars

Husband rule book 😂😂

#ONStorm #ONwx WOAH! 😮 It looks like we very likely had a tornado touch down in the Belmont area not too long ago, as the tornado warned storm moved through the area. Dr. Sills from the Northern Tornadoes Project agrees that this was probably more than just a gustnado, like what we were seeing yesterday, but it will still need to be confirmed. Huge thank you to Stephanie who shared this video via Ontario Storm Reports - Alannah May 19, 2026

If Jaws was filmed in Canada:

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a scene from the crumbling marriage of two auctioneers

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🚫👁️Drinks on Saturday🇺🇸 @drinkonsaturday

3 months ago

When "matchstick artist" isn't just your title, but your centerpiece, that's when you know you've turned a hobby into a livelihood. Pat Acton, the Iowa-based master behind Matchstick Marvels, has done exactly that. For nearly 50 years, he's glued together nearly 10 million

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Super 70s Sports @Super70sSports

3 months ago

On this Kentucky Derby day, here’s your reminder that Secretariat was faster than any horse who has ever lived. The year is 1973 and this is his track record run. Untouched for 53 years. The GOAT.

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