GLOBAL CONVENIENCE - Cosmo Dean / Trevor Wheatley, 2026

Working on an archive project for my past council coverage and some of these old quotes from Councillor Brad Bradford are wild in retrospect. This was April 2022! Not that long ago!

Though I remain very skeptical of WE Charity’s merits, I can’t say I’m unhappy about this!

“one of the largest publicly-disclosed defamation settlements against a Canadian media outlet in recent years” - Jesse Brown will pay a total of $885,000 in damages and costs to Theresa Kielburger www.newswire.ca/news-release...

Old Fire Hall in the Port Lands, six years, one month and two days apart (they also physically moved it 78 feet to the west and raised it to a new grade along with the rest of the area) 2020-05-03 /// 2026-06-05

The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896)

I feel like people who used to work for Canadaland should be calling Jesse out. I don't think it's appropriate that he issues targeted attacks on other journalists and misrepresents reality without pushback from his peers and colleagues who helped legitimize him

It is absolutely ridiculous that actual media can't post on meta but one loud dude can.

this annoys me beyond measure daily

We need aggressive signal updates - from my observation, the primary source of congestion below appears to signal timing mismatching traffic flows. Transit priority ~and updates to ensure real-time adaptive for all modes - should've happened a long time ago.

in toronto the driver would have already been in, and just stopped in the streetcar lane lol - we'd also have like 20 different orgs yelling about how having a dedicated lane for them doesn't make sense (this one doesn't even appear painted, just a tiny curb)

Fun fact: ginkgo is one of the oldest tree species on earth - approximately 290 million years old - having survived “The Great Dying”. Most planted ~today are male cloned cultivars because the female fruit smells bad, but it takes 20-35 years for them to mature to tell if it's fruit-bearing

Leave the World Behind (2023)

united states of america's "paper of record" lol

whole thing is wild but I mean this alone, considering the margin, pretty much requires a contesting of the results - and the ontario liberal party should’ve been the one calling for it instead of leaving it to the candidates lol

The owner of Nieuport Aviation, the J.P. Morgan-affiliated IIF, is registered in the Cayman Islands. A former J.P. Morgan banker, Hai-Gi Li, sits on the board of Nieuport Aviation. A 2023 document from J.P. Morgan also lists Nieuport Aviation under its portfolio/operating companies roster.

Toronto’s position on our own public parks seems to range from negligence to outright animus

Can't imagine why the parks are always a torn up, muddy mess

when i worked for the city of fort mcmurraypicking up trash we weren't as disrespectful to our parks as Toronto's park workers are. yeesh

why is this still happening in every park

Come down to the calm serenity of Ontario Place now with provincial police station - highway patrol, a helipad and a provincial horse mounted unit news.ontario.ca/en/release/1...

The Doug Ford gov't has passed its 2026 budget bill, which officially removes Ontario's right to know. How he governs, why decisions get made—we'll never know. The same bill consolidates conservation authorities. That's your democracy & your drinking water being impacted #onpoli

welcome to toronto

militarily imperative ballroom

the Artemis crew took photography classes so they could take the best photos possible up there 😭

this policy only means Canadians will be forced to upload identity documents to popular platforms to prove their age, it doesn't mean kids will be protected from the internet at large because thats impossible. This is dumb

maybe an unpopular take but I think they need to deal with other issues (priority signalling, intersections and switching) before dealing with stop spacing because stop spacing is a functional change and with the other issues present just makes it moderately less functional but still slow

a fair question!

toronto, man

trying to understand how someone like Doly Begum aligns herself with someone like Marilyn Gladu

this is hell

This is real

Radio syndicator of Canadaland, CFUV - Victoria's non-profit community radio station, ended their service exchange agreement with Canadaland at the end of February

after a few hundred comments, Globe and Mail closed the comments section on this completely out-to-lunch opinion-hit piece with the addendum, "All articles covering the Middle East [?] are closed to commenting to prevent further misinformation and abuse in the comments." -

Brown admits to sending messages to Mark Bourrie and several Reddit users as part of an investigation that involved “IP tracking,” but the media critic flatly denies any involvement in or knowledge of any emails sent to the several other journalists"

The Canadaland subreddit is back with 4 new moderators.

says he’s dealing with “more reasonable” people yet threatening to blow up desalination plants, power plants and oil infrastructure - not great

Good rundown of the facts before the supposed “investigation” released by Brown this week.

Jesse Brown is saying people are "jump[ing] to wild conclusions surrounding his IP tracking saga - that he is referring to as "Reddit Drama" - so I laid out just the facts in a Substack post here -https://open.substack.com/pub/toomuchanalysis/p/canadaland-reddit-drama-mark-bourrie

Jesse Brown (finally) comments on this and claims people are "jumping to conclusions" (despite being asked directly what's going on by several journalists, like Scott below) so these are the facts, laid out in a google doc - as far as I can tell - docs.google.com/document/d/1...

setting up a sock puppet email scam and a sock puppet reddit mod scam (that's traceable because the real mod knows!) only to call a guy on the phone (Bourrie) to send him the same kind of link directly.... to apparently uncover sock puppets... is some extremely concerning psychological behaviour ngl

lol'd irl

I can confirm the following journalists received phishing emails from the mysterious “Canadaland Tipster” who shared links to pages on @canadaland.com’s website containing an embedded IP tracer: • Me • Rachel Gilmore • Scott Martin • The Maple • Nora Loreto • Ethan Cox • Karyn Pugliese

For those following #Canadalandgate #Metoo : weird messages with links. Got one on Dm'd Bluesky, and four in an email.

I got the same IP spear phishing email from the so-called "Canadaland tipster" linking to a page on Canadaland's website with an IP tracer I'm aware of several other journalists who've also received this If you received this too, please DM or email me: [email protected]

Update: It looks like there's an IP tracker embedded into the Canadaland dot com slash Bourrie page that appears to be tracing the IP addresses of visitors to the Bourrie page It links to the website: tracemyip.org Maybe @canadaland.com can explain what is going on here? [h/t @edwardrow.com]

No clue what is going on but Canadaland now has a page on its website called www dot canadaland dot com slash bourrie The page is literally just a photo of Mark Bourrie in what appears to be his high school yearbook? www.canadaland.com/bourrie/