The company GFL which was awarded the blue bin recycling contract by the new private corporation Circular Materials has relocated to the US. #ontario #onpoli #vaughan #woodbridge

Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.

If you aren’t already following Christy’s phenomenal journalism, you should immediately fix that. Great reporting here!!!!

Can we call this whole thing "fascism" yet, Tom, or is it still too early for your sensibilities?

International Station xkcd.com/3195/

Silicon Valley’s alliance with Donald Trump was a mask off moment and showed the world we can’t depend on US tech companies. For the past few months, I’ve been trying to get off US tech and I put together a guide so you find alternatives too. I hope you find it helpful!

this is the only good video podcast

Cartoonish villainy, but all too real. When will Canadian politicians fully wake up to the new reality? It feels like many of us ordinary citizens (except for feckless partisans on Bluesky) desperately want the Carney government to stop cowering and do more.

WATCH: If you really STILL don’t understand how car-dependent suburbia is HEAVILY SUBSIDIZED by downtown & all the urban parts of your city, please watch this EXCELLENT video by #NotJustBikes helped by #UrbanThree & @StrongTowns.org. And then please SHARE it as much as possible. youtu.be/7Nw6qyyrTeI

If you didn’t know or even if you do this is an interesting analysis of how we subsidize suburban sprawl.

*Whereas all the rest of the world considers that the peace is about to be broken by Germany, that it is Germany that is threatening to attack Poland over Danzig, here in Germany, in the world the local newspapers create, the very reverse is being maintained." Shirer, Berlin Diary, Aug 1939

Lancet study finds “no evidence” that Tylenol use in pregnancy increases the risk of autism, ADHD, or intellectual disability, despite claims by Trump and backers, by Jennifer Yang www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com

Canada’s AI Minister “has been accused of naively embracing AI rather than working to mitigate its harms, and of listening mostly to voices from the tech sector—those who stand to benefit most from rapid AI adoption.” Good article on the issues with Evan Solomon’s approach to tech and AI.

Cory Doctorow thinks Evan Solomon, Canada's Minister of AI-everything, might not know what he's doing, and that the tech sector needs to be regulated in the public interest. www.hilltimes.com/story/2026/0...

Quite frankly, it’s outrageous that Mark Carney is cutting Statistics Canada. If he was Stephen Harper or Pierre Poilievre, I feel like this would be getting a lot more backlash. Carney of all people should know the importance of high-quality data and information about the country.

JFC

“In the wild, of course, they’d be natural enemies—but they do just fine together if you get ’em as pups.”

The best time to plant a tree, it’s said, was 20 years ago. The second-best time is right now. That also holds true for leaving X, @maxfawcett.bsky.social writes.

Canada has the opportunity to help create a global tech landscape that isn’t dominated by US oligarchs. That won’t happen if our political leaders refuse to quit toxic platforms like Twitter. What are they waiting for? #cdnpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/12/o...

"If the Government of Canada can’t be bothered to do the easy things, to preserve the most basic sense of principle and dignity in the face of glaring red line offenses, then we can’t possibly trust it with the more difficult and complex issues." emmettmacfarlane.substack.com/p/is-canada-...

This policy is illegal in Ontario.

I will accept no moral high ground from a government that refuses to ban a platform that is actively, in real time, right in front of our faces, creating child sexual abuse materials. They're not banning it and there are still government departments with official Twitter accounts. Fuck Carney.

Hey time to tell @evansolomon.bsky.social it's time to ditch one of the largest producers of CSAM for government communications. Better yet, ban the whole damn platform.

In a now-deleted tweet, the Toronto Sun's Ottawa bureau chief, Bryan Passifiume, incites violence against the left while preparing for a LAN party in his mom's basement.

Hi hello, the Toronto Sun's email is [email protected] in case you'd like to inquire as to how they feel about their Ottawa Bureau Chief making these kinds of statements about innocent women being shot by militarized thugs in the street! Let's make his weekend extra fun :)

A deleted tweet by a Toronto Sun national politics reporter.

If the US government were bending over backwards to defend masked ICE agents murdering a woman in cold blood any harder they'd qualify for the fucking Olympics.

Danish guy gets it

If Greenland falls, Canada is next. It is time for the people of Denmark to invoke Article IV of NATO and to call Trump's bluff. Either Europe stands up to him or we descend into an era of global gangsters. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUoZ...

Active Clubs contribute to the rise of a new form of white nationalism: less overtly political, more cultural and therefore more difficult for law enforcement — but also parents, educators and civil society — to detect and challenge. Frédérick Nadeau and Tristan Boursier write. 🥊

I've been tracking the spread of nonconsensual deepfakes on X for more than two years. Here's a timeline of how Musk's leadership allowed the practice to flourish from a once-underground market to a viral trend, with little recourse for victims or legal enforcement. spitfirenews.com/p/grok-csam-...

“Survey after survey has shown that business owners overestimate how many customers drive to their stores vs walking or biking. In a 2012 Los Angeles study, more than half of the store owners on the bike-laned part of the boulevard thought most of their customers drove. The actual number was 15%.”

For the past 2 years, a widely debunked NYT article was used as propaganda by our government to justify its support of Israeli genocide in Gaza. A genocide that, despite a “ceasefire,” is ongoing.

What a quote.

A man: who, knowing his whole true self, cannot be used or possessed by any power other than himself, and whose life therefore is lived for life’s sake and never in the service of ruin, or pain, or hatred, or the dark.

Spookily prescient “Fascism doesn’t arise suddenly in an existing democracy. It is not easy to get people to give up their ideas of freedom and civility. You have to do trial runs that, if they are done well, serve two purposes.” 1/2

The fucking gall. She has never been a journalist, and her version of building trust is giving a veto to Stephen Miller (or Donald Trump) about whether they are sending innocents to be tortured in a foreign gulag. The Who-Me destruction of institutions is a pervasive modern cancer in society

For those who actually care about evidence-based city-making, there’s a ton of evidence that decongestion pricing has been a massive success in New York City, by every measure of success, and many ways that can’t be measured.

Next year will see a bit of a showdown between Enbridge Gas and two Ontario municipalities that are trying to resist a decades-old agreement that allows the fossil fuel company to build pipelines on public land free of charge. I really want you all to read about on Christmas Eve.

BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

Hadn’t seen this one before. The good news is that we have many smart solutions to address the surrendering of cities to cars that don’t involve tire spikes. But they DO involve actual political will, strengthened by public understanding of the serious need to act. Via @xkcd.com

Transparent lie from a censoring fascist who shouldn't have a job cleaning floors at a high school student newsletter let alone running (ruining) a major media organization.

I don’t know how people who defend and enable sending innocents to be tortured in a foreign gulag can sleep at night

Petition: We will not be divided after Bondi. Add your name: jewishcouncil.good.do/unity/jewish...

CBC has put together an impressive collection of clips exposing Diagolon and Second Sons in their own words. These are white nationalists and neo-Nazis who want an ethnic cleansing and believe "violence is the answer." Largest group of its kind in Canadian history. www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

“May our flames be a recommitment: We will put everything on the line to fight for one another.”

On the Science Centre closure, the provincial government "claimed the roof was imminently about to collapse. We now know that the roof has not collapsed winter after winter. In fact, the roof has more integrity than the Ford government itself," says Councillor Josh Matlow.

Alberta is headed by a hate-filled, vicious government, and its time more people and organizations fought back.

One reason Rob Reiner’s death was so shocking is that he was a living embodiment of a gentle, righteous, kind humanity. Trump’s reaction, meanwhile, was an embodiment of his inhumanity, vile as it is. We all get to choose which one we would want to be. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...