“Is there the possibility you might entertain that your government may be a bit too cozy with some of the people getting the money? ..Piccini responded, “I don’t control private sector decisions on who hires whom to represent them. I don’t need a lobbyist to tell me to support first responders.” 🙄

This is an excellent article www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Let nothing be called natural in an age of bloody confusion, ordered disorder, planned caprice, and dehumanised humanity, lest all things be held unalterable! - Brecht

This is cool and good www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

BREAKING: Hungarian writer Laszlo Krasznahorkai wins the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature reut.rs/47fP0Hw

FAFO if you abuse Temporary Foreign Workers #Cdnpoli

Ontario labour minister Michael Rudderham attended lobbyist’s wedding after granting his clients $8.5 million in training funds www.thetrillium.ca/news/politic...

OpenAI is spending at a scale that even Silicon Valley can't quite believe, buying up 20 nuclear reactors' worth of computing power this year. But there are big questions around whether it can turn that power into profit. An #FTEdit 🧵on the ChatGPT maker’s $1tn bet on artificial intelligence 👇

But analysts warn of an AI bubble. OpenAI is set to lose billions of dollars a year. If AI does not keep growing exponentially, and if Sam Altman cannot turn a profit, the investor enthusiasm that has boosted these big deals could quickly falter.

Ontario taxpayers have a right to know who is dangerously driving their publicly funded vehicle.

And there it is. #Onpoli

More great investigative journalism from @thetrillium.bsky.social. #OnPoli

Louis CK is an avaricious arse. Apparently only two topics in Riyadh are taboo: “Their religion and their government.” Well, that’s OK then. It makes all the oppression easy to ignore. The rest of the comedians who are playing there are also arses. www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

Keep your eye on Alberta Government & its separatists #Cdn #Cdnpoli

Greta Thunberg among 171 Gaza flotilla activists deported by Israel; ceasefire negotiations due to begin in Egypt – Middle East crisis live

You've got to be kidding... Multiple vehicles assigned to Ontario cabinet ministers have been slapped with over $3,300 in speeding-related fines -- many of them caught on automated speed cameras. Average: 17 km/h over the limit. This is all @isaaccallan.bsky.social & his FOI skills. #OnPoli

The proposed bill would let: * mail be searched without a warrant * allow intelligence officials to cancel immigration documents * give access to online activity without a warrant The Canadian Civil Liberties Association worries it may violate charter rights www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Israeli media confirms the reports of the horrific ways in which Greta Thunberg was treated by Israel: x.com/academic_la/...

If you’ve never had the pleasure, this is guaranteed to make you smile… youtu.be/3urXygZXb74

Killing journalists is killing the truth. If we accept that reporters die in Gaza, we pave the way for other regimes to consider the murder of journalists a normal instrument of war, by @abellanger.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... via @ifjglobal.bsky.social #journalism

Canada Launches Defense Investment Agency to Modernize Procurement, Strengthen Sovereignty, and Support Jobs www.onestnetwork.com/post/canada-...

🇨🇦 Ahem, #Canada? 👋 How Germany outfitted half a million balconies with #solar panels The country’s residents installed 200MW of balcony solar during the first half of 2024. It’s becoming an increasingly popular way to take #climate action in Germany. #Energy www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol...

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

Jane Goodall was considered one of the world’s foremost experts in the field. She died today at age 91. #FromTheStarArchives: Goodall’s 5 reasons why we should be hopeful in the face of ecological disaster.

Jane Goodall's work insisting, with evidence from her brilliant and tenacious fieldwork, that we were not so separate from animals, and they were much more like us than the Eurocentric theorists asserted, was so important.

hot damn!

Wow. What a mess. Field day for lobbyists. "Ford government labour ministers have selected groups to receive hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars for worker-training programs against the advice of civil servants who’d evaluated their applications, Ontario’s auditor general has found." #OnPoli

On Oct. 1, 1972, The Beachcombers debuted on CBC. For the next 18 years, it aired over 350 episodes and become one of the most famous and successful dramatic series ever made for Canadian television. To this day, it remains a loved piece of our culture. 🧵 1/12

Humans are a cruel and careless race. #environment #wildlife

🤌🏼 Incendiary anti-immigration politics ends when there’s nobody to serve the Wagyu beef. Perfecto. www.thestar.com/politics/fed...

A lot of people have been sharing links to a series of articles I wrote 16 years ago about Premier Danielle Smith’s disastrous time on the Calgary Board of Education in the late 1990s. daveberta.substack.com/p/danielle-s...

Alberta's crude oil production hit an all-time high in July 2025, reaching 4.32 million barrels per day, but the province still has one of the highest unemployment rates in Canada at 8.4%. Pumping more oil with less workers helps the corporation shareholders but doesn’t help working Albertans.

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

The Ontario government is raising the minimum wage 40 cents — from $17.20 to $17.60 an hour — effective Oct. 1. Here’s how it compares to the rest of Canada.

"In the end, it’s all just politics to Doug Ford. Law and order is negotiable. Road safety is a nice to have not a need to have. Gut feeling always trumps documented evidence." afuitbs.com/2025/09/29/d...

🚨We must standup to the bunk! We can't let lies win. - Vaccines ≠ autism - Ivermectin ≠ cure for cancer, autism, or COVID - COVID vaccines ≠ "turbo cancer" or "sudden death"! Our statement, signed by over 20 leading health orgs, healthydebate.ca/2025/09/topi...

Zelenskyy condemns Russia’s ‘vile and brutal’ 12-hour bombardment of Ukraine

WHAT THE FECK??? 😡

Doug Ford wants to outlaw speed cameras. The irony, of course, is that Conservatives have long branded themselves as the law-and-order party. #Opinion

WIRED asked security and privacy experts for their advice for hardening personal privacy protections and resisting surveillance. Here are their recommendations.

Join us at the Broom Factory this Sunday Sept 28th for our afternoon Airwave YGK Matinee! Tickets available here: cfrc.ca/merchandise/... See you there!!

Portugal became the most recent Western country to extend formal recognition to a Palestinian state on September 21, a significant gesture made amid the ongoing war in Gaza. The announcement was preceded by a statement from Portuguese Foreign Minister Paulo Rangel in New York.

Canadian wildlife report. #Cdn #nature

everything changed, everything destroyed, everything gone

BREAKING: Canada officially recognizes the State of Palestine and is doing so with international partners to preserve the prospect of a two-state solution, according to a statement from PM Mark Carney's office released Sunday morning. #cdnpoli #canpoli www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

This happened the same day Canada announces a new law, Bill C-9 "the Combatting Hate Act", so it's pretty obvious who they are threatening here. I wonder how long until we're all jailed for pointing out the basic fact that all settler colonial projects are genocidal www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/...

Danielle Smith often calls herself the most 'freedom-loving' politician in Canada, yet she's repeatedly infringed on your fundamental human rights. Her actions are simply cruel, wrong, and politically motivated. youtu.be/QSt_msI0ayo

The government of Canada has come down harder on these rappers than on a state committing genocide. Israel still has an embassy in Canada despite Israel not only publicly endorsing violence and hate, but killing tens of thousands of people. Perhaps hundreds of thousands. We don't even know anymore.