Who exactly asked for a publicly-bought oil pipeline that will risk the survival of the endangered southern resident killer whales (and like, humanity) other than your rich friends?

Local man says his work must keep secret from those paying him to do his work.

“You don’t change the law to clamp down on transparency unless you have something to hide,” [Marit Stiles] said in a statement. “It couldn’t be clearer that Doug Ford gutted Freedom of Information laws to cover up his tracks." #OnPoli

NEW: It's official. The Ford government has now applied it's restrictive new freedom of information law to our request for Premier Doug Ford's cellphone. NDP says that shows hiding phone records was the purpose of the changes. #OnPoli globalnews.ca/news/1194357...

When Nova Red mining of Vancouver hired Kristi Noem was it to shoot dogs on their property? This woman has no business dealing with any Canadian company or attempting to get her hands on Canadian resources. Kick her butt back over the border. www.youtube.com/shorts/PFcCR...

We live in the upside-down. Carney's Liberals are pushing for sweeping police and surveillance powers and Poilievre's Conservatives are the ones campaigning for privacy. www.conservative.ca/cpc/stop-onl...

Carney is so right wing, he has us siding with goddamn tech giants on internet privacy (though obviously we have different reasons for our concerns). www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...

Prime Minister Carney says the war in Iran was "worth it". I want to know who he thinks it was worth it for.

Star Investigation: As a Ford government staffer, he helped get through permits for a controversial gold mine. Now he works for the company as a lobbyist. New from @emmamci.bsky.social:

I’m a climate scientist. Let me fix this headline. “Nearly a century ago, scientists showed that burning fossil fuels warms the planet. Today, we know human emissions account for over 100% of the warming. Yet dark money and disinformation still work to keep Americans addicted to fossil fuels.”

Local Liberal MPs still quite mealy mouthed about this. The deal the the federal gov't signed has been warped by anti-democratic moves. This will be a defining moment for local MPs.

It won't be soon, but one day public opinion will catch on to just how many horrible decisions Mark Carney's government is making.

NEW: Another twist in the Doug Ford cellphone saga. The government's attempts to appeal have been dismissed and civil servants are once again being ordered to obtain a copy of the premier's cellphone records to work out what to release. #OnPoli globalnews.ca/news/1186106...

Exactly this. For Doug Ford to call this decision ridiculous, when he, as Premier, pulls the levers that could direct more funding to Waterloo Region to build the affordable housing we so desperately need would be laughable if it weren't so frustrating. #ONpoli

State of emergency in Canada’s ERs. Toronto Star reader letter by @dralandrummond.bsky.social www.thestar.com/opinion/lett... via @thestar.com

They should cross the floor to the NDP. Take that majority away. Knock the banker down a couple of pegs back where he belongs. And get back to a minority government that has to work for Canadians, not the banker's big business fetish.

As MAGA Alberta Premier pushes an independence vote, important to remember: Alberta separatist movement largely based on lies, conspiracy theories, intolerance, and myths of a magical past... My take: thewalrus.ca/albertas-sep... cc @jaredwesley.ca @ryanjespersen.bsky.social

On Thursday night, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith laid out her government’s plan to have a referendum about having a referendum about Alberta leaving Canada somewhere down the line. Danielle Smith is selling out Canada to save her job. #Opinion piece from the Star's @rwarnica.bsky.social

Every interview with a tech CEO youtube.com/shorts/ZseOJ...

Doug Ford may think that his voice is the only one that matters. I believe that Toronto residents should be able to have a say about the future of their city’s waterfront.

Bike-lanes don’t cause traffic congestion. Car dependency, dumb land-use sprawl, too many (& bigger) cars being driven too much taking up too much space, highly subsidized driving costs, and not enough choices in how to get around, ALL cause traffic congestion. Think about it. THAT’S common sense.

“We can’t afford to be passive. Car interests will use this pandemic to convince us that cars are safe, and transit isn’t. If what we get out of COVID-19 is more sprawl and more car dependency, our future will get much darker.” — my quote, included in @grantennis.bsky.social’s book “Dark PR.”

The Carney government’s expansion of police data powers could hit you in the cellphone bill archive.ph/T4Rln

ICYMI, decided global folks needed a reality-check on how the struggle to confront the climate crisis is going in 🇨🇦. In short, the climate movement has found the last year disorienting – reeling from the disconnect between the promise and reality of Carney – but it's getting its bearing back.

1/ PM Carney’s public service cuts are dismantling food safety in Canada. From food inspectors to agricultural researchers, the government is abandoning workers and the public interest. And tech won’t save us: you can’t algorithm your way out of a listeria outbreak!

Canadian prime minister Mark Carney is not the climate guy you thought www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

To be fair, he's exactly who I thought he was, and I've been saying so for over a year now.

Doug Ford is doing this. It's so hard to not be in a state of perpetual anger right now. "On 4 occasions, Bisson’s life was saved as the site’s staff reversed her overdose, she said. If the centre closes, Bisson said she is certain she’ll end up behind bars, in hospital or dead on the street."

Whatever else we think about how Prime Minister Mark Carney is doing — and I’ve had no problem at all applauding him on a number of things — it’s undeniable that he’s been terrible so far on the #ClimateAction file, one of the most important leadership responsibilities of ANY national leader. #truth

Three surprising benefits of HPV vaccines we didn’t anticipate when they were approved: 1. They protect against FIVE types of cancer 2. They are creating herd immunity 3. They last a long time. “We have people who are 20, 30, 40 years old who are seeing protection from the HPV vaccine.”

29 years ago today, Frank Grimes (or Grimey, as he liked to be called) first met the #TheSimpsons. “Homer's Enemy” first aired on May 4, 1997.

Rural Ontarians should be enraged the province spends billions of public dollars in Toronto on infrastructure projects its residents don't actually want, while the province lets remote emergency rooms slowly wither away

Ben Shapiro is coming to Canada (soon!) as part of a conference “against antizionism.” The depth of human cruelty required to put on this kind of conference is pretty incredible. Particularly when you contrast it against the eyewitness accounts of those living through Israel's genocide in Gaza:

29 years ago today, May 4, 1997, #TheSimpsons episode “Homer's Enemy” first aired on Fox.

Every National Post Pitch Meeting youtube.com/shorts/rywNL...

Andrew Tate says “chances of him visiting Canada are zero” after learning nation frowns on indicted sex offenders

pretty rich coming from a former drug dealer, but hey what do I know

The spring economic update was a missed opportunity to address the crushing cost of living crisis. In a country as rich as ours, there is no reason life has to be this hard.

The government should be protecting our public airports, not selling them off for parts. History is littered with examples of the failures of privatization. It drives up costs for the public, quality suffers, and workers always end up paying the price.

Pierre Poilievre's economic ideas a just blithering idiocy. This is the same guy who thought the post-pandemic inflationary spike and the housing crisis were somehow manifestations of too much government spending.

The Ford govt slow-walked this & now the door is shut. Outrageous. "On Monday, the ministry informed The Trillium that all 219 records “fall within the exclusion under the (new law) relating to records held by ministers, parliamentary assistants & their offices,” & would not be released." #OnPoli

Secret government is totalitarian government. Full stop. Any water carrier is on that side. There are many.

Doug Ford should be in prison, not running Ontario.

How about the assets continue to belong to Canadians

Ford barely shows up to work and has been skipping out on Queens Park his entire tenure globalnews.ca/news/1181649...

I would bet conservatives in Canada are taking note. In fact, I am sure some are doing so.

Chris Selley is as useless as fishnet condoms. How do such mediocre people get such big platforms?

Oh, very interesting story. The knives might be out for Doug Ford. If we see more comments off the record from Conservative strategists and members of his government, you can bet that a few of them might want him to take one for the team (and some might have leadership aspirations.) #OnPoli