Ontario’s botched blue box reform is less about recycling and more about politics: a costly, rushed shift that offloads blame and expense onto municipalities. It reflects a pattern of Ford government decisions: minimal consultation, poor planning, and using policy as a shortcut for political gain.

Ontario’s botched Blue Box reform is a showcase for everything wrong with Doug Ford’s Ontario. It's been so watered down it can no longer reasonably be expected to achieve the policy goals for which it was originally designed. #StarEditorial

Shocking, I know. These are some of the funds being directed away from Ontario’s taxpayer-owned community colleges. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

when criticism of tech giants started to spike around 2010 there was a parade of furrow-browed people in tech and tech media who believed criticism went overboard now every single day you see evidence that these companies are actually WAY worse than the most hyperbolic criticism implied

I spent 12 years working with the survivors of St. Anne's residential school in their attempt to get justice. The government spent millions fighting people who could barely afford the bus ride to the hearings. There is no reconciliation without justice for St. Anne's. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Huh. Started in Feb 2025, congrats to her, I guess? I read Head of Global Policy but with Palantir it’s probably six of one etc

The press generally doesn't find this sort of thing interesting enough to cover, and the outlets that CAN be bothered approach it with typical "he said, she said" framing so the reader never really understands this was being driven by AT&T and friends

Carr is killing this program because AT&T does not like the precedent of government offering poor children free internet access they believe their families should be overpaying for. But Carr can't just SAY this, so he had to make up a bunch of bullshit about what the program actually did.

This hurts those school kids in so many ways … for example, some areas have remote class days due to inclement weather, implemented because funding is contingent on the number of class days.

It'd be really cool if we could have clean air in my kid's kindergarten. Is that asking too much?

My grandfather was in the Civil Rights Movement and both he and other elders I grew up with have said part of the reason they were so successful was how organized they were, which included icing out anyone who showed any hint of being a radical opportunist lol

RFK Jr. just hired Mark Blaxill, one of the original anti-vaxxers, to work for the CDC. via @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/r...

"Republicans fail to get the 60 votes needed to pass their continuing resolution and keep the government open" Fixed it for you. That's how you wrote the headlines in previous years when Republicans successfully filibustered Democratic bills.

Canadians can see how the extremist playbook is tearing apart Europe and the United States. MAGA MAPLE have been setting up the ground for it to be unleashed here. The hate storm is coming. We need to call this guy out for his manipulations and rage baiting.

What the actually fuck fuck fuck

How, exactly, do the Canadian Armed Forces deploy on operations with an ally who doesn't respect ROEs?

Some rare and remarkable processes are taking place this week, that we are not likely to observe for a long time! These 2 Atlantic hurricanes are closer than any since at least the 1960s. They are now connected - in each other’s orbit, pivoting. Follow along 1/

Here’s hoping the Yankees and Red Sox do three 17-inning games to determine the winner of that series

My goodness I forgot how good this song is youtu.be/N8FxwSGNBZA?...

#Rays broadcaster Andy Freed is a class act. One of the nicest guys in the business. This is a great opponents' call. #Bluejays

Public education across Canada has been under attack for some time. Relatedly, we need to have a serious talk about providing public services vs “running things like a business”. Not everything needs to turn a profit to benefit us economically, never mind social benefits

Genius

Is this not illegal? This lawless land continues to upset me every day I open my eyes and breathe. People just gonna be homeless now. Which funnily enough is the argument most of us have been giving about homeless people. A lot of em have jobs! The housing crisis isn't about money.

SpaceX now controls enough spectrum to offer commercial-grade mobile services globally — and the company is positioning itself to replace every other mobile operator with a service that operates entirely beyond national jurisdiction, warns British MP Tom Tugendhat. wapo.st/3IlM56R

Court-watchers confirm this cruel ICE agent has been reinstated. Last week, in the briefest moment of decency, violently throwing a woman to the floor was “beneath the men and women of ICE.” This week, it’s back to business as usual. The cruelty, after all, is the point.

About to be the family that owns TikTok.

Police in Chicago have open a criminal investigation into a malicious assault carried out by Trump's secret police on a CBS News camera crew. This is one of more than a dozen incidents of assaults by ICE officers against journalists in the last week. www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Your Toronto #Bluejays are the American League Eastern division champions.

guys set your respawn point in case life crashes

They're calling them Medbeds? Odds Star Citizen content gets scraped up by the AI slop is now not zero lmao

Marc-Andre Fleury perfect in net in emotional Penguins farewell

Thank you Fleury. Enjoy retirement

omg yes uggghhh

Damn!

Meanwhile on TruthSocial, desperate Trump supporters express hope this is true. Just awful.

This was always the funniest conspiracy theory to me — that there are MRI machine-like devices that can cure all known illnesses in seconds, but the government has been hiding them — and Trump just posted an AI generated video of himself announcing they're real. We're cooked!

<drunken poem> my wife is the best She puts up with all my shit </drunken poem >

But a show on CP24 today said we should really consider visiting the Florida Keys 🙄

Okatsuka posted the censorship rules for the controversial comedy festival, noting how many "You can’t say anything anymore!" comedians have signed on. www.avclub.com/riyadh-comed...

Blasting Muse while I work on the house since everyone’s out for the afternoon 🎶

Monty Python responses to the troops patrolling our streets are the best responses to the troops patrolling our streets

Best of luck to Canada’s Rugby World Cup team today — go get it, ladies!!!! I don’t watch a lot of rugby, but the couple of matches of theirs that I have managed to watch have been highly entertaining. These women are super talented. #Canada #Rugby #WorldCup

She won by FORTY POINTS

Well don't I feel stupid

UPDATE: The man ICE violently arrested has been identified as Job Arias-Mendoza. Two weeks ago he published a video to his social media accounts of ICE handcuffing a man in front of a liquor store—it has more than 200,000 views on TikTok. streetcarsuburbs.news/arias-mendoz...

Re: the male loneliness epidemic, there is *still* not enough emphasis on how many heterosexual girls and women are staying single out of self-preservation, because the sexual norms that many heterosexual boys and men have adopted are exceptionally dangerous.

Happy Marc-Andre Fleury Day! 🌸

“We should want to take advantage of the post office’s unique, nationwide infrastructure to provide more and better services to Canadians instead of dismantling something that we may never be able to rebuild.” @parismarx.com

A lot of free speech absolutist are being awfully quiet about this sort of thing.

The "God Bless the USA" bible and Constitution distributed to school children in Oklahoma has a US Constitution which has been bizarrely manipulated. Missing: the 13th Amend abolishing slavery, the 19th Amend granting women the vote and the 22nd Amend limiting a president to two terms.