Reporters. Please read: blundervalley.ca/blog/hamilto... @joeycoleman.ca @justinchandler.work @jordanomstead.bsky.social

It’s surreal seeing it come full circle. The people stuck in the crowded Church Street sidewalk are now free to roam the streets! (At least during the 2 month pedestrianization pilot) Streets are for the people!

Day 2 of church street pedestrianization. I am floored at how fast it happened. Nice work from the TSA interpreting a 8 sites. Even got into the Steps controversy (you can see the remnants of the steps in background)

No Toronto Liberal MP should take being reelected for granted. They continue to play this city. Their own TPA is making plans (900m runway), asking for non disclosure agreements and not revealing anything while MPs keep saying they know nothing, they’ll stand up for TO. Just constant emptiness.

The safe word is WHY

Rayah Cafe's landlord in Toronto is trying to illegally evict them - this happens to businesses all the time. Why? We have no rules that stop this from happening. @betterwayalliance.bsky.social is pushing for changes so businesses are free to negotiate from a place of fairness - instead of fear.

I have developed a niche brand of “hosting karaoke for picketers”. here’s me kicking things off for the hard working folks at Sistering who are holding our boy Dougie accountable for wages owed.

ever since i was a small boy i knew i wanted to charge the pepper grinder

Hamilton's datacentre debate is now a key election issue. We've launched an Election Tracker documenting where candidates stand on proposed hyperscale datacentres and on the need for stronger municipal regulation. Some have responded. Some have not. stopthedatacentre.ca/election-tra...

"WSJ analysis found 67% of Polymarket profits goes to just 0.1% of accounts." I am once again asking you to stop donating to the already wealthy.

Some news that flew under the radar last week: The City of Yellowknife is calling on Ottawa to replace first past the post with a Proportional Representation voting system. We've got a small and mighty population of Canadians up north! @cabinradio.ca | cabinradio.ca/286842/news/...

I too have remembered butter.

What are we even doing?

My Fixed Cost Crunch details how retail rents (your local cafe/dry cleaner/maker studio) outpaced minimum wage increases in Toronto from 2019-2024. Rent + insurance are killing good jobs & successful businesses in the city. But we can fix it. Find out how - commercialrent.ca/fixed-cost-c...

"In 2025 alone, over 11.7 million Instagram posts carried the hashtag #nostalgia, Google searches for “90s movies” had doubled since 2015." As they become teens + young 20s - Gen Z yearn for knobs, buttons, flip phones and physical maps. @yahoofinance.com | finance.yahoo.com/sectors/tech...

First they gave us the screaming cowboy - now two Australian states are piloting free transit in response to rising fuel prices. From @csmonitor.bsky.social | www.csmonitor.com/News-Briefs#...

NEW: Toronto is moving ahead with the construction of its Waterfront East LRT line, connecting downtown to new neighbourhoods in the Port Lands, after sealing a funding agreement with other levels of government. #ToPoli globalnews.ca/news/1175159...

Congrats @avilewis.ca and team for a historic victory. Our crew at @betterwayalliance.bsky.social is excited to work with you on a progressive vision for Canadian businesses. Let's build more social safety nets for the workers & business owners who keep Canada's main street economy running.

Since 2020 we've continued to live in wildly unprecedented times. What's not unprecedented is the history of floor-crossings in Canada's Parliament. However, @mark-carney.bsky.social could be the first PM to gain a majority gov't because of floor crossing. @cbcnews.ca | www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Amazing finish to a story that started with Toronto almost shutting down a corner store for serving coffee. Well done @anotherglassbox.bsky.social

this is like the thesis statement of our times

If banks are worried about AI overpromising and only delivering to shareholders - you should be too. It's time to rebuild a people-first economy and sandbox the tech-bros into their fantasy lands. @businessinsider.com | www.businessinsider.com/ai-layoffs-d...

Tumbler Ridge shooting highlights rural northern B.C.’s mental health deserts, by @andreawoo.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com

This is the real-time marketplace consolidation of information. I'm barely old enough to remember when the internet was new and bountiful with real info + humans. Now that AI has scraped it all, there's no need for the original source - so let 'em die. From Growtika | growtika.com/blog/tech-me...

@jenstden.bsky.social doing the good work again. News is often framed on X, Reddit, and Facebook by a small handful of coordinated accounts. They sell outrage, our brains get dopamine, and suddenly Russia's Ukraine invasion seems sensible. Read it in @thetyee.ca | thetyee.ca/News/2026/02...

My business uses Canada Post all the time. Great rates and they ship everywhere, literally everywhere, in Canada. UK Royal Mail privatized in 2013 - service tanked, prices went up and it was sold to a foreign billionaire in 2024. We can do better in Canada.

The pre-2020 headline is finally off the endangered list.

A man waits nearly a year for regulated psilocybin therapy to ease end-of-life distress and is denied. He applies for MAiD and is approved in 3 weeks. Bureaucracy moves fast when it wants to.

This is the first Prime Minister in my life time where the Red Tories and Blue Liberals in my family agree that they like the same guy.

It might seem like overkill but if we get another round of snow in Toronto - this is a genius level buy.

I think planning for a US civil war is much more of an urgent priority than planning for a potential US invasion of Canada. Borders, trade, humanitarian crises... how will Canada cope?

Now delivering to snow forts 📰 ➡️ 📭

Canada's Conservative Party is denying press credentials to media outlets while handing out 'content creator' passes to partisan personalities. This is a tactic straight from the USA's White House. @nationalobserver.com | www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/24/a...

Remember that 2025 polling shows only 9% of Canadians actually want to separate. Starting now, there are going to be a lot of new accounts on X and Facebook claiming otherwise.

My next LinkedIn post: Why Mark Carney's WEF speech about middle powers glowing up is actually just Canada's Eurovision pitch.

This is an artifact. Doug Ford before he became Ontario premier, opposite Avi Lewis before he became leader of the NDP (probably), with Evan Solomon anchoring, before he became a federal cabinet minister.

We didn't need a study for this - but here it is anyway.

Government leaders in Nunavut say that it is a good idea to show support for Greenland as annexation threats continue to come from the United States. APTN’s Justin Hardy has more.

Wow. Since 2020 we've lived in unprecedented times and this feels even less precedented than normal.

Vancouver-based Hootsuite is providing its social media management and monitoring technology to the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) at a time when DHS is facing criticism over its violent immigration enforcement tactics. @joshscott.bsky.social in @betakit.com | betakit.com/hootsuite-dh...

That any elected official is happy to refuse money for affordable housing just to score culture war points should be an indicator for the federal housing minister that they need harsher ultimatums. Honour the deals you signed or lose it.

One of the craziest videos coming out of Iran today appears to show one obscenely brave man trying to hold the door, protecting his fellow dissidents, as a band of regime thugs try to break in. (Reportedly filmed January 7)

In November 2025, 56% of Yukon voters said YES to electoral reform. Currie Dixon's Yukon Party told them to pound sand. Most political parties use ranked ballots to choose their own leaders. They know it works. But they won't give voters the same system. Read | yukon-news.com/2026/01/03/2...

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"But when the name 'Winnipeg' was chosen, I was very intrigued," Johnny Ma's script for The Mother and the Bear evolved to include many notable Winnipeg landmarks into the film - instead of just using the city as a generic backdrop. A feel-good story in @cbcnews.ca | www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Most business owners want to create good jobs - but our biggest costs keep spiking. Avg. retail rent in Toronto jumped from $19/sq ft to $49/sq ft between 2019 - 2024. That's a job, business and economy killer. We need to get this under control so Canada's small businesses can invest in workers.

At the @ndp.ca debate tonight. Youth unemployment is serious & small biz can't afford to hire. My biz insurance 3x'ed in 2024 = no summer hires. NDP needs to bring in small biz to build job solutions. @avilewis.ca @votetanille.bsky.social @heathermcpherson.bsky.social @tonymcquailndp.bsky.social

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