Doug Ford’s speed camera ban could mean cuts to crossing guards, traffic safety agents without more provincial funding, Olivia Chow warns

1000% Just like removing speed cameras turned into $200,000,000 mob payout for “speed bumps” #FordFkdItUp

The fact that children in 2025 are suffering from diseases that should have been consigned to history is not just a public health failure. It is a moral failure. www.statnews.com/2025/11/12/c...

These emails really do highlight why rich folk are so impressed by ChatGPT.

Another thing that stood out at yesterday's GIC, that reflects the insanity of the Canadian and #HamOnt housing market, was when the head of Habitat for Humanity told council that their existence is now needed to even supply Sunshine List occupants with shelter! 👇 www.youtube.com/live/XQZGuQ9...

Rookie numbers Canada.

All lupus cases may be linked to a common virus https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/lupus-cause-epstein-barr-virus-study-rcna243364 𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗹𝘆 𝘂𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca/newsletter

just opening up the new Epstein docs at random:

Nearly two years after complaining to Hockey Canada about bullying and sexual misconduct on a #HamOnt youth hockey team, a family is relieved they don’t have to keep it secret anymore. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Ontario eliminates school boards. Alberta de-eliminates measles. The provinces are incompatible with democracy. Abolish the provinces

Big oil and big tobacco used the same marketing firms to shift the narrative about the harms caused by their products.

Mark Carney is about to announce more of his “elbows up” major projects. But under the surface, one that’s being sold as an Indigenous-led LNG project is actually — spoiler — American as hell. That’s not even the worst part! @emilylowan.bsky.social joined me to discuss:

Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far. So much work remains to be done.

Of course the entire school board supervision thing is about the Ford government selling land to their friends! The new grift is afoot! ‘I feel like they’re hiding something’: Secrecy at TDSB’s real estate arm worries trustees www.torontotoday.ca/local/educat... #topoli #onpoli #onted

Yeah....okay then.....

I think the ostrich situation is best understood as: The Canadian cranks don't have Trudeau to fixate on, and nothing else at the federal level has gained traction, so they just need some kind of esoteric outrage that keeps the machine running. It's basically a mid-season filler episode.

Google AI medical advice is the bane of my existence. 🤦‍♀️

The UK cuts off intelligence sharing on Caribbean drug trafficking boats with the US, calling the strikes illegal.

COVID was the ruling classes experiment to see if people would give up on the social contract to prioritize themselves, once they saw people were willing to let disabled, elderly and poor people die for their own convenience, they have slowly taken the mask fully off day by day and now we are here.

cc: @mark-carney.bsky.social

The doctor shortage isn’t an accident. It was policy. canadahealthwatch.ca/2025/11/10/c... @codeblackamerica.bsky.social

Look at the pockets of transmission in areas of low vaccination. Southwestern Ontario and Alberta. There must be accountability from Premiers Ford and Smith. Also from CPC whose leader, Poilievre, advocated for ending all vaccine mandates. Why is the head of the PHAC not being interviewed?

Between this and the speed camera stuff, there is a death drive in large parts of mainstream Canadian policy and society. Public safety conversations, bellowing, in Canada are all a sham and performative when looked at through these frames.

Public health depends on citizens accepting scientifically-grounded guidance. When official institutions produce politically-determined science and independent verification infrastructure is eliminated, the capacity for evidence-based health policy collapses, writes Renée DiResta.

This is *entirely* on Doug Ford and Danielle Smith. *Entirely*

And just like that, we lose our measles elimination status after 27 years. Three decades of work, gone. www.canada.ca/en/public-he...

WOW! #YYC firefighters are calling out Smith over her use of the notwithstanding clause. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

Cartoon by @rubenbolling.bsky.social.

Poilievre prevents more MPs from leaving by locking doors, swallowing key www.thebeaverton.com/2025/11/poil... via @thebeaverton.com #Cdnpoli #DEntremont #PierrePoilievre #PierrePropaganda

@aimlessmagneto brought this up on Xitter & it bears repeating. Pierre Poilievre chose to post photos w/ members of the London Ontario Police Service, only days after LPS came under review for a highly questionable trip to Dubai where members engaged in friendly events alongside 🇷🇺terrorists #cdnpoli

🎵 We're told that after the war, the Nazis vanished without a trace, But battalions of facists still dream of a master race🎵

“In all our discourse about male loneliness and alienation, we’ve given short shrift to the many ways political leaders have choked off healthy or neutral expressions of masculinity,” and that they’ve done so intentionally. www.offmessage.net/p/fascists-d...

A tragedy on Saturday morning.

Conservative MP thinking of crossing floor wakes up with severed head of a John A. Macdonald statue in his bed

Happy dead ostrich day to everyone that understands the basics of public health!

I’d like to save the Ford Government of Ontario $9 million dollars of the public’s money. No, a 60km tunnel under highway 401 isn’t feasible. In fact, it’s colossally stupid. It’s possible that it’s all a distraction from the failure to properly invest in public transit. You’re welcome.

They aren't planning for it because they know the economic costs would be eye-wateringly high -- and don't want voters to know about it yet. theijf.org/alberta-is-f...

🎵 So if you meet with these historians, I'll tell you what to say; Tell them that the Nazis never really went away. They're out here burning houses and pedaling racists lies, And we'll never rest again, Until every Nazi dies🎵

Proof (if we needed it) that algorithmic amplification is dramatically accelerating, and perhaps even driving, the unravelling of our democracies. Fixing the problem means tackling the algorithms themselves, not just trying - and failing - to address the harms they cause. on.ft.com/49LNvCy

Don’t think of it as “starving”, think of it more like “repetitive fasting”

A client just told me I looked like I was in my 30s. Absolutely made my day.

Two important quibbles: 1) The budget reinforces the government's commitment to industrial carbon pricing, which is the part of the Trudeau-era system that was expected to deliver (by far) the biggest emissions reductions. 2) Direct air capture is very different from carbon capture and storage.

*sigh*

1. Despite Pierre Poilievre’s partisan rhetoric, Conservative MPs feel ideologically at home in Mark Carney’s Liberal Party 2. Despite the Liberal Party’s partisan rhetoric, Conservative MPs feel ideologically at home in Mark Carney’s Liberal Party

This Minister of Education can pretend he doesn’t understand how funding cuts work but the facts don't lie. When you don’t fund education at the same rate as inflation and enrollment growth, that’s a cut. It’s that simple. Ontario students deserve real investment, not partisan spin. #onpoli #onted

VP Cheney will be honoured with a 21 gun salute accidentally aimed directly at 21 of his friends

Thinking of all the innocent people who died as a result of Cheney’s actions but were never eulogized with front-page obituaries

A piece of April nostalgia:

Very glad to see this. Hopefully just a first step. The Globe's investigative reporter and agricultural and food policy reporter have collaborated to dig into this story. This is complicated by our government's own funding cuts this year. This is just a task force at this point.