Kathleen Edwards

I am putting out a new record today. It’s just me on the cover but the list of incredible people who made it possible are standing there on the beach just out of the shot. Thank you for listening to it and thanks to everyone who stood in my corner and made it happen. Live by the ocean. Have a beautiful life. The leafs still suck at playoff time.

@bojje_se @debasersthlm This is the bass rig we use at home. We’d love to borrow it.

@kittythefool @debasersthlm I have a Fender Rumble 500 bass combo amplifier that you can borrow.

Hey Sweden : we are coming to town in 2 weeks to play @debasersthlm with the full band. we are struggling to find some backline gear for the show. anyone know a great person who wants to come to a show and let us use a drum kit, a bass amp and two guitar amps? (happy to pay for this!). Spread the word we'd appreciate it so much.

.@kittythefool headlines @masseyhall for the first time in September with special guest @Ken_Yates exclaim.ca/music/article/…

@DavidGogoBlues @B_more_BaZ 🤣

@kittythefool @B_more_BaZ I spent a week there one day….

Hey @kittythefool what's your latest tour called, I see ads for the Lincoln in DC; M sure the folks here, & in the #DMV would be pleased #To0 sell this one out if they Knew it was true . . .

@DavidGogoBlues @B_more_BaZ That is weird. I opened for them in fort Mac. Let’s just say….. I don’t need to go back.

@kittythefool @B_more_BaZ They had my name on the poster last year in Fort Mac and no one had EVER contacted me regarding the show! Weirdorama! 🤷🏻‍♂️

@JoeyHorta @kron4news CHONKERS LOL

The latest social media sensation in San Francisco- Chonkers the sea lion- is making a splash at Pier 39. He weighs close to 2,000 lbs and is making a rare appearance. @kron4news

@Sean_Speer @build_canada Thank you

The high cost of politeness This week, @build_canada, a non-profit organization with links to Canada’s entrepreneurial and start-up community, published a memo titled “Say It” that deserves credit for raising issues too few business-facing organizations have been willing to confront directly. Its core argument is that Canada’s secular economic problems are real, serious, and compounded by a culture of avoidance and euphemism. As the memo puts it: “The cost of politeness is not zero. It compounds.” That line captures something important about modern Canada. And Build Canada’s distinctive voice in our public policy debates. Canada’s model of “Laurentian capitalism” is one in which governments provide protection and subsidies to certain industries and firms in exchange for them carrying out quasi-public functions like sustaining unprofitable news organizations or providing financing to marginal companies or households or maintaining transportation options to small regions and communities. This proximity between business and politics can deter business leaders from speaking out against bad public policy and its economic and social consequences. Doing so risks unsettling the political compact that rewards them with protected markets or regulated profits. The incentive, therefore, is often to go along to get along. The result is a permissive environment for policy drift, weak accountability, and economic underperformance. Governments face less pressure to reform because many of the actors best positioned to challenge bad decisions are also among those most invested in preserving the broader arrangement. Business becomes less a counterweight to state overreach and more a junior partner in its administration. That helps explain why Canada can sustain persistently poor outcomes—weak productivity, slow business investment, housing scarcity, and declining living standards—without a commensurate level of elite dissent. And make no mistake, policy failures are at the heart of many of Canada’s challenges. They were shaped in part by the Trudeau government’s sweeping policy experimentation, including elevated spending and chronic deficits, unsustainable immigration levels and a shift in favour of low-skilled immigration, and climate policies too often detached from competitiveness and affordability. Build Canada is uniquely positioned to “say it” about these policies because many in its networks aren’t participants in the Laurentian capitalism model. They’ve built successful businesses despite government rather than because of it. What makes Build Canada’s intervention healthy, though, isn’t just that they said something. It’s also what they said. It’s fundamentally a message of agency. If misguided policies helped produce our current economic malaise, then sounder policies can restore growth, investment, and confidence. If we contributed to our own problems, we’re capable of solving them. But that process starts with honesty. It requires acknowledging what has gone wrong, why it happened, and what must now change. It means being more candid about trade-offs and more ambitious about reform. Build Canada deserves credit for pushing that conversation forward. Canada needs a renewed willingness to tell the truth—and then act on it.

@EvanLSolomon I hope it knows how to handle payroll

We’re building the first public AI supercomputer, owned and operated in Canada, to power innovation across every sector. From healthcare to clean energy to startups scaling here at home, this is about making sure the future is built here. Applications are open. 🇨🇦 Nous construisons le premier superordinateur public dédié à l'intelligence artificielle, appartenant à et exploité par le Canada, afin de stimuler l'innovation dans tous les secteurs. Des soins de santé à l'énergie propre, en passant par les start-ups qui se développent ici même, notre objectif est de faire en sorte que l'avenir se bâtisse ici. Nous acceptons désormais les candidatures.

Stop taking advice from people who've never built anything. If they haven't put something on the line, their opinion on your risk isn't worth hearing. The people who judge the attempt are never the ones making one.

Just announced 🎶 @wxpnfm welcomes an evening with @PattyGMusic & @kittythefool, as the two fill the air with folk, country & a little bit of rock & roll ~ Friday, July 17 at the @scottishriteauditorium ✨🎻 🎟️ Tickets on sale friday, 4/17 at 12pm! Presented by @camdencountynj Board of Commissioners.

@JeremyPyatt @harleyf @MrLeslieRoberts

@kittythefool @harleyf @MrLeslieRoberts This doesn’t make sense. It’s the taxes keeping people alive longer. That’s the point.

Québec: #1 in North America for life expectancy Feels a lot like a blue zone. Joie de vivre. Strong community. Slower meals. Deep connections.

@WVeness25273 @kimber_tweets @ClydeDoSomethin Spicy! You're fun!

@kittythefool @kimber_tweets @ClydeDoSomethin Just because you do pop or folk or whatever you do. Doesn't mean you can't produce a live show like your CD.. Hence Nine Inch Nails, Lamb of God. Some bands care how they sound live.. You do not.

All the talent has left Canada. What in the hell would you call this performance at the Juno awards?

@WVeness25273 @kimber_tweets @ClydeDoSomethin I really know nothing about live bands, you're correct!

@kittythefool @kimber_tweets @ClydeDoSomethin WTF does that have to do with a live show... Wow, tell us you know nothing about seeing live bands in concert...lol.

@WVeness25273 @kimber_tweets @ClydeDoSomethin google post production bud

@kittythefool @kimber_tweets @ClydeDoSomethin Really, maybe go look at a Nine Inch Nails concert because that is "LIVE". Please explain more to us about sounding good "live".

@kimber_tweets @ClydeDoSomethin well said. also ppl are so used to hearing "tracks" on live tv nowadays they forget many live vocal performances (one that likely had many technical challenges - because it's LIVE TV) are fraught with imperfections. that's live singing, folks!

Mixing Inuit throat singing with modern music. Not to everyone’s taste but the concept is brilliant and Tanya has represented Canada around the world and has worked with Bjork, spreading awareness of indigenous Canadian culture. If you don’t like it, just don’t listen to it. But, throat singing is very difficult to do. There are variations of it around the world including Tibet and Mongolia. I went to college with Tanya and I’m very proud of what she’s accomplished. youtu.be/KNb2ZDjeiU4?si…

@Golden_Pup will the bathrooms have a "for customers only" sign?

This will fail in short order, of course, and for a multitude of reasons. But I'm genuinely curious to see the pricing model is like. Do they keep the same loss leaders as private retailers or will the price be flat? People may save 15%ish on dry grocery, but likely lose or have negligible savings on staples like milk, butter, eggs, pop, etc, which are typically sold well, well below cost. Also, will there be any sales? Generally vendors offer rebates in exchange for retailers selling their items below cost for the duration of a flyer. Not sure there's any upside in vendors offering rebates to four public Toronto grocers. So optimistically, maybe expect pricing similar to no frills but without any promotional activity. Standard grocery margins are razor thin. They recover that margin by expanding into other areas like hot meals, beauty, home goods and clothing. Those auxiliary departments are what save you money on groceries, indirectly. Without those, there aren't many savings to be had. Anyway, shouldn't take long for the innumerate commies to get a rude awakening.

.@brennanwedl signs to @AntiRecords, covers @kittythefool with @k_crutchfield stereogum.com/2493406/brenna…

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The band and I are thrilled to be playing the 2026 Winnipeg Folk Fest, July 9-12 at Birds Hill Park. We can’t wait to see you!