Robin Edgar

Cheï Lévesque filmed an overzealous @SPVM #RiotCop assaulting me during the #March15th #COBP protest against #PoliceBrutality. #BrutalitéPolicière #BavurePolicière #ViolencesPolicières #PoliceStupidity #SPVM #MySPVM #MonSPVM #COPB #15mars #ManifEnCours #PolMTL #MTLpoli #CMMTL

Montréal was INCREDIBLE today for the St Patrick Day Parade 🇮🇪🇨🇦 Although the snow was falling, hundreds of thousands of people came out to celebrate this magical city 🙌🏻 HUGE thanks to Irelands diaspora in Montréal, esp the United Irish Society for making it all happen 🙏🏻

Happy birthday to William Shatner, born on this day in 1931 in Montreal! In his career, he has earned two Emmys, the Order of Canada, the Governor General's Performing Arts Award, a Golden Globe and has a star on Canada's Walk of Fame.

I’m Anglican but I have to hand it to the Catholics… the Notre-Dame Basilica of Montréal is beautiful

Finland is offering artists up to €3,800/month to slow down and just make work. No exhibitions required, no performances. Just you, a quiet countryside residence, and two uninterrupted months. The Saari Residence 2027 is open to artists, writers, poets, translators, composers and curators of all nationalities. Collective applications (up to 10 people) are also welcome. Deadline is 31 March 2026 and it’s free to apply. Full details on koneensaatio.fi/en/saari-resid…

We've got big news: The Globe and Mail is expanding its Secret Canada project for the first time since it launched three years ago, now offering a comprehensive guide on how to access court records in different jurisdictions across the country. theglobeandmail.com/business/artic…

@FreedomofPress @SethAStern I'm still waiting for the ridiculous "theology" of the Unitarian Universalist "church", which pretends blogging about "such despicable crimes as pedophilia and rape" committed by #UUAclergy constitutes #BlasphemousLibel, to be repudiated by #UUA leaders. emersonavenger.blogspot.com/2015/10/unitar…

"It’s unfortunate that it took this long for the Pentagon’s ridiculous policy to be thrown in the trash," FPF's @SethAStern says. It’s shocking that DOJ lawyers "had the nerve to argue that journalists asking questions of the government is criminal." theguardian.com/us-news/2026/m…

Without reforms to enforce ethical standards or stop prosecutors from downplaying the Privacy Protection Act, the next time a journalist’s home or newsroom is raided, it won’t be a mistake. It will be the new normal for press freedom in America. freedom.press/issues/judges-…

Secret Canada is a #FreedomOfInformation project created by The @GlobeAndMail's @RobynDoolittle. secretcanada.com Freedom of information laws give you the right to obtain records held by public institutions. This project helps you navigate Canada’s #FOI access system.

@FilmThePoliceLA "If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face— forever." George Orwell, 1984 #PoliceBrutality #PoliceViolence

This cop stepped on face of a guy who was handcuffed and had his legs bound. The LAPD said the cop did NOT make contact with his face and ruled my complaint was “DEMONSTRABLY FALSE.” They ended the investigation without even interviewing the cop.

LAPD Commissioners Skobin and Gerges Shields brought up the LAPD’s “demonstrably false” disposition (scam) and asked for a presentation. This loophole needs to end.

Stanley Kubrick predicted Pete Hegseth and a bald president back in 1964.

When the New York Evening Mirror published Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “The Raven” in 1845, it catapulted both the work and its author to instant fame. #WorldPoetryDay bit.ly/4rsatnN

Japan is using piezoelectric floor tiles in busy areas like Shibuya and Tokyo Stations to convert footsteps into clean electricity.

Why does the world still allow trophy hunting? We've done so much harm already. RT if you think there should be a worldwide ban on this barbaric practice. Nature is amazing. Protect it. #ActOnClimate #climate #TrophyHunting #nature #rewilding #GreenNewDeal #biodiversity

Ecomuseo del Caroní: A regional museum opened in 1997, which includes a wide variety of exhibits on numerous indigenous tribes of southern Venezuela. 📷 Wguayana More: megalithic.co.uk/article.php?si…

"They told us the paint was safe enough to eat. So we put the brushes in our mouths hundreds of times a day. And now our bones are still radioactive a century after we died.' They were called the Radium Girls. Teenagers who painted watch dials with glowing paint, who danced in the dark covered in their own light, who were told they had nothing to fear. Their employer knew better. They just never told the girls." Orange, New Jersey, 1917. Grace Fryer was eighteen when she walked through the doors of the U.S. Radium Corporation. The job seemed almost too good to be true: painting watch dials with luminous paint so soldiers could read their watches in the trenches of World War I. The pay was better than any factory work available to young women. The paint actually glowed. The girls painted their nails with it, their teeth, their faces—showing up to dances shimmering like something out of a fairy tale. They called themselves the Ghost Girls. Their supervisors told them the paint was perfectly safe. "You could eat it," one said with complete confidence. So they did. Every day. The technique was called "lip-pointing"—put the brush between your lips to make a fine point, dip it in radium paint, paint the number, repeat. Hundreds of times a day. Thousands of times a week. Gram after gram of radium-laced paint passed through their lips, settled permanently in their bones. The male scientists and supervisors working with the exact same paint wore full protective gear behind lead shields. They already knew what radium could do. They simply never told the women. By 1922, the sickness began. Teeth fell out. Jaws dissolved. Bones snapped from the smallest movements. And something else—something no one could explain. They glowed in the dark. At night, standing before their mirrors, their own bodies gave off pale greenish light. The radiation had buried itself so deep it was literally shining through their flesh. When Grace Fryer's symptoms appeared in 1923, she went to the company for help. U.S. Radium denied everything. Their hired doctors blamed syphilis—a deliberate, cruel strategy to label dying women as prostitutes. Grace found a lawyer in 1927. By then she could barely walk, her spine collapsing, weighing under 90 pounds. Four other dying women joined her. The company's legal strategy was simple: delay until they died. But when the women appeared in court in 1928, the public saw with their own eyes what the company had done. Grace had to be carried in. Quinta McDonald's face had sunk where her jaw was eaten away. The outrage was unstoppable. U.S. Radium settled. Each woman got about $175,000 in today's money. Grace died in 1933 at 34. By 1937, all five were gone. What they did can never be undone. Before the Radium Girls, companies faced almost no consequences for injuring workers. Their case changed everything—workers gained the right to sue for negligence, companies became legally required to warn about hazards, employers were held responsible for occupational injuries. Every warning label on a chemical container. Every required piece of protective equipment. Every workplace safety law. Five dying women built that. In 2014, researchers held a Geiger counter to Grace Fryer's grave. Ninety-one years after her death, her bones still registered radiation. They will glow for 1,600 years. "She could barely stand when she brought her lawsuit. Her spine was giving way. She knew she wouldn't survive. She sued anyway—not to save herself, but to save people she would never meet. Her bones still glow beneath New Jersey soil. Her name is written into every workplace safety law in the country. The company that poisoned her is remembered only for what it did. Grace Fryer will never be forgotten." © Tales Of Past #archaeohistories

"I am sure that as a woman I can do a very good skyscraper" - Zaha Hadid (1950-2016), award winning, Iraqi-British architect #WomensArt

Communities with LEAD Foundation are digging half moon bunds in Tanzania. Simple semicircles catch rainwater, bring dormant seeds and vegetation back to life, and restore the soil. Low tech, low cost, but making a huge difference.

The families of the five teenagers who were with 15-year-old Nooran Rezayi when he was shot dead by Longueuil police are suing the city and the police force for $1.9 million. montreal.citynews.ca/2026/03/19/fam…