Renata Ford, widow of former Toronto mayor Rob Ford, dies

The U.S. Ambassador to Canada held a 4th of July party on Saturday — and, well, all the ✨stars✨ were there! 

Hais guest list included Freedom Convoy organizer Tamara Lich as well as a who’s who (no really, who?) of the worst so-called media in Canada. Let's have a good cringe together:

Tamara Lich wasn’t the only one at Pete Hoekstra’s Fourth of July bash I did a head count: Over a dozen Canadian far-right activists and right-wing alternative media personalities, (including from the Juno and Rebel media outlets) got invites to the US ambassador’s official residence

@lukelebrun.ca explains how Ottawa convoy leader Tamara Lich has done an end run around her house arrest sentence. It occurred to me that Hoekstra probably admires her just as he does the Jan 6 participants

NEW: US Ambassador Pete Hoekstra hosted over a dozen far-right activists and right-wing media personalities at his ‘Fourth of July’ party in Ottawa this weekend The US Embassy says Freedom Convoy leader Tamara Lich, who was convicted on criminal charges last year, was accredited as a journalist

Hearing numerous people are getting their X accounts hacked after receiving DMs like this from real accounts they know – after clicking the link, they get tricked into entering their X password Checked the DMs on my dormant X account and received this message yesterday from a hacked account:

Hoekstra has a history of encouraging far-right political movements. www.politico.eu/article/pete...

Americans are rigging the World Cup:

US Ambassador Pete Hoekstra welcomed Freedom Convoy leader Tamara Lich to his July 4 party in Ottawa tonight Lich is currently serving a house arrest sentence in relation to a criminal conviction over her role in the convoy's three-week occupation of Canada's capital city

Gosh, so many people are suddenly pushing the message that Canada's "mainstream media" isn't telling you the full story about US Ambassador Pete Hoekstra... And they're all spontaneously saying the same thing on the July 4 weekend too... 🤔

There’s still time to crash Pete Hoekstra’s July 4 party

"Members of the group Patriot Front ride the metro as a commuter looks on, during the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 4, 2026. REUTERS/Cheney Orr"

Things are getting pretty homophobic over on Jamil Jivani’s X page

Cabo needs to send a player into the stands to bring that other player back onto the field

Not the most pressing issue at this stage in the game, but Lionel Messi really needs to grow some sideburns

Not sure "pragmatic" is a good adjective here given Carney is going to spend years defending himself against criticism from angry Liberals who voted for him

The Great American State Fair has closed until 5 pm due to extreme heat.

Have not been paying attention and thought this was a NFLD-only social network for the past few days

What happens if a referee goes rogue and refuses to end the game?

i called this stuff out when i was in the @gandersocial.ca beta, but the people running it seem to think this labelling is a good idea

WHAT!!!!

According to @gandersocial.ca’s label, McGill’s Centre for Media Technology and Democracy (headed by Gander adviser @taylorowen.bsky.social) also has a left-wing ideological bias on account of the centre’s academic work focusing on topics like climate change and democracy

The whole feature depends on people not wanting to read the article before having a prior belief about the veracity of the content and editorial of the article. Using a misleading tool to do that completely upends this. The feature is broken and this just seems like you're trying to blame users.

Hey, I'm one of the beta testers on Gander. I made a post there about how I hope their dev team will take your constructive critique about this on board, and it's already getting comments agreeing. It's important that they get these details right. I hope they don't double down on a bad choice.

Sorry, it’s Gander’s position that “Media Bias Fact-Check” is a credible tool for evaluating news sources?

I've lived in Ottawa most of my adult life, and I've never seen storms like this. The sustained thunder, massive rainfall, and lightning strikes were apocalyptic. And it went on for HOURS.

In case you’re curious, The Guardian and Juno News both have the same rating for accuracy (“mixed factuality”) on @gandersocial.ca

Curious how many people actually use “Media Bias Fact-Check”? It is such a low-quality website and seems like such an amateur operation, yet I routinely see people’s aunts and uncles in Facebook comment threads sharing links to MBFC and arguing over whether a media outlet is “fake news” or not

Signed up for that new Canadian @gandersocial.ca platform – not sure I will continue using it Shared a link from CBC News only to discover Gander adds ideological bias labels for news orgs based on ratings from a dubious American website called “Media Bias Fact-Check”…

UPDATE: Mark Carney has cancelled his Canada Day plans in Alberta after extreme weather events in Ottawa ground prime minister’s plane

Canada Day has been cancelled:

NEW: A retired class action practitioner in rural Alberta has initiated a proposed class action lawsuit against Alberta's government, the Centurion Project, David Parker and the Republican Party of Alberta for one of the largest data breach in Cdn history. open.substack.com/pub/theorcha...

He means the climate plan he inherited from a government that was led by most of his current cabinet members and endorsed by his own voters

Thoughts and prayers are with the people of Calabogie at this hour

Thank you so much for all of your happy birthday wishes. Honestly, I don’t really feel 100. I feel pretty good. I feel like I’m only 98!

Now accepting bets on whether Jason Kenney or Garnett Genuis will be first to tweet something out wishing everyone a happy "Dominion Day" tomorrow

Late breaking Canada Day Eve news: Jamil Jivani has been snubbed from Pierre Polievre’s shadow cabinet

NEW: Alberta separatist leader David Parker has been named in a new class-action lawsuit on behalf of 2.9 million Albertans whose personal information is alleged to have been doxxed through the Centurion Project's voter mobilization app

The Ford government just deleted every long-term care inspection report from before 2023 from their website, obfuscating a vital public record, especially from the devastating pandemic era. But we have 10,000 of those reports, and we're making them publicly available. thelocal.to/long-term-ca...

This is OBSCENE The developer who demovicted dozens of tenants from a heritage building at Bank & Nepean was being pursued for *$65 MILLION IN DEBTS* when the City of Ottawa rezoned the property to let the developer build a luxury condo No condo was ever built and the property is now up for sale

Morocco is advancing to the round of 8

This is OBSCENE The developer who demovicted dozens of tenants from a heritage building at Bank & Nepean was being pursued for *$65 MILLION IN DEBTS* when the City of Ottawa rezoned the property to let the developer build a luxury condo No condo was ever built and the property is now up for sale

I can’t understand why a social justice oriented organization like @oxfamcanada.bsky.social would not realize that this as a golden opportunity to demonstrate leadership and set an example for other workplaces

Workers at Oxfam Canada are on strike, fighting for higher wages, a broad definition of 'family' and paid leave for gender-affirming care and domestic violence survivors. A worker told me the strike is about being able to apply the policies that Oxfam works on globally to its own workforce.

Oxfam Canada Workers Pushing to Include Policies to Support 2SLGBTQ+ Workers and Domestic Violence Survivors in Collective Bargaining Policies protecting the rights of 2SLGBTQ+ workers have recently gained traction in public sector unions pressprogress.ca/oxfam-canada...

"A charity connected to the controversial group HonestReporting Canada, which claims to expose anti-Israel bias in news media, has launched two court battles against the attempted revocation of its registration by CRA ... CRA says it found that HRCCO was “not carrying out any charitable activities"

Is he trying to steal a bridge from any other nations?

This is called "gaslighting": "US Ambassador to Canada Pete Hoekstra insists US President Donald Trump is not taking aim at Canada with his tariff policy and past comments about not needing anything from one of its closest allies"

More than 30% of the country live in households that pay rent every month to a landlord. But to be appointed a Senator you must be a property owner, our Constitution says. www.canada.ca/en/campaign/...