What a moment. What a performance. What a total delight to watch. That start was the full value of Scherzer’s contract for the whole year. So glad he’s a Blue Jay and helping this team win big games in October.

Connection. Empathy. Insight. Curiosity. Inspiration. Perseverance. Genuine engagement. These are what drive our weekly conversation. And Shane Hewitt usually has one word that provides a lens through which we explore the world.

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100 Days of Prime Minister Carney: @jellerton.bsky.social joined Sharan Kaur on The Vassy Kapelos Show to assess Carney's 100 days. They also touched on Nova Scotia's forest fire control measures and some of the rage from usual suspects in response.

A fascinating read on the burger behemoth’s challenges as McDonald’s reacts to losing their reputation for affordable, fast food.

This Blue Jays team just has all the moves. Grit, hustle and heart.

2 things are certain: -we all still need to communicate -people will search for reliable information. How & at what cost is up for debate. The Logic's Publisher @dskok.bsky.social with a timely reflection on evolving media practices & AI's impacts: 

A class act to the very end. A true leader in the community. Thanks, Masai. The gratitude you feel is shared by Toronto.

This is wild, even by North Korean dictatorship standards.

“Figuring out what content you liked or didn’t like used to actually involve you.”

Prime Minister Carney can enact critical changes in this Parliament. The opportunity to do it now with political consensus on big things ought to be seized. Read here:

Stories like this make me believe we're still very early days in the EV revolution.

“Don’t crown protectionists with victories that haven’t been earned yet.” A compelling case for trade and courage in our politics.

This x 💯. The expectation everything is 5⭐️ on these incessant asks for feedback is absurd. Average is fine, most of the time. Stop trying to pass it off as exceptional.

The war on encryption is dangerous—We have ceded so many of the core operations of our lives and institutions to tech, we must recognise that strong encryption isn’t the enemy of security — it is security… www.ft.com/content/a934... @meredithmeredith.bsky.social @financial-times.bsky.social

The race to define Mark Carney is on. @jellerton.bsky.social joined CTV Question Period to unpack the strategy driving the warring campaigns to define Mark Carney in the minds of Canadians.

Two reads stood out in my inbox this weekend, and they’re deeply intertwined: 1 - Dan Gardner on the historical shifting legal standards on free speech, in response to VP Vance’s chastising of Europe:

Fascinating insights from cutting edge research on dementia and Alzheimers.

Pierre Poilievre's Canada First speech was a manifesto for Canada's 21st century.  I shared some thoughts with The Hub on its politics and the existential threat Canada must confront.

This speech by Pierre Poilievre was an optimistic vision for what Canada can be. Pluralistic, productive, and patriotic.

So our Premiers on a “Team Canada🇨🇦” field trip get a meeting with mid-ranking White House officials, but only after paying some upstart GR firm in DC 💰💰💰.  Why do we staff + maintain a massive Embassy in Washington? Where’s our Foreign Minister?

A timely reflection on leadership, balancing competing interests, and the real costs of winner-take-all activism currently rampant in political discourse today.

At what point do our leaders drop the chest puffing, recognize reality, and offer a vision for real Canadian prosperity? There must be more to Canada’s response than trying to keep pace with the Trump pissing match thinking we can go headline for headline, tariff for tariff.

How’s the saying go again? “When people show you who they are, believe them.”

Maybe we’ll finally start to see BC wine selection on LCBO shelves. 🍷

If this isn’t enough to prove that Trump’s supposed rationale is a joke, remember that one of the first acts of his second presidency was to pardon the guy who created an online marketplace for illegal drugs.

Think it is safe to say Lois is a fan of her new dinosaur.

Why is Pierre Poilievre Still Talking About a Carbon Tax Election? https://s.mtrbio.com/cnlehjosdd #Cdnpoli

iOS 18.3 just dropped.

“The horse is out of the barn and into the hospital, and too many people are standing on the farm arguing about whether the barn door should have been closed.”

Hot off the press! Issue 2 of Urban Progress is available now. Thanks to the publishing team for hosting a fun gathering and bringing people thinking of urban improvements together for the launch. Get your copy at https://urbanprogressmag.com #Toronto

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NYC friends, please share: @theglobeandmail.com is hiring a New York correspondent. Great opportunity at one of the world’s great papers: can242.dayforcehcm.com/CandidatePor...

Why is Pierre Poilievre’s polling at almost 50% support? Conaptus’ Jamie Ellerton spoke to Reuters unpacking the strategy propelling the Conservatives as agents of change.

Still no Ontario. 😔

it's true tho

“When you write more, people understand less”. Those are the sage words of a UK government design manual which urges officials to write shorter sentences, in plain English. Unfortunately, the message is being lost.

You don't say.

Chaos on Parliament Hill rocked the nation yesterday. @jellerton.bsky.social joined @ctvyourmorning.bsky.social to discuss the Conservative's strategy from here + what's at stake with the fed gov in disarray. https://www.ctvnews.ca/video/c3048846-what-s-the-conservative-party-s-next-move-

Finally some explanations from the TTC about all the signal issues. Glad interim CEO Greg Percy is willing to be more transparent than Rick Leary.

Getting to the heart of why “Canada is broken.” Brian Dijkema's must-read piece for anyone trying to understand the root causes of dissatisfaction in Canada and ideas to resolve it.

Would you benefit from a news vacation?

“Like most people, I have always associated freedom with political or civil rights. It used to be an abstract concept to me. But that changed entirely when my rights were suddenly taken away.”

Good riddance.

For Mélanie Joly’s sake and ours, Canada needs a new foreign minister apple.news/AAyX-0OT5TTm...

“While he may be implementing a macroeconomic stabilisation programme by attacking the fiscal excesses of previous administrations, the real change is occurring at the micro level, allowing the population to break free of the shackles imposed by the political system.” www.ft.com/content/df26...

There’s an allegory that reaches far beyond genetic mutations in Epstein’s latest insights. open.substack.com/pub/davideps...

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The generated captions piece is really going to save a lot of time!

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