PM picked quite a week to argue that the climate plan he inherited was too expensive and divisive

Two-star [Canadian] chef in London puts currants in his butter tarts. I don’t know whether this something to celebrate or fight over as the country turns 159 www.ft.com/content/c57f...

New face of Canada's two billion trees plan?

🚨🚨🚨GONDOLAS 🚨🚨🚨 www.thestar.com/news/gta/osh...

"While it might be more convenient for police if the media report only what the police would like the public to know, that is stenography rather than journalism" www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/edit...

Before the SUV was developed, families walked everywhere. Little known fact

Being on the ninth floor of a 32-storey building is no reason not to enjoy a patch of grass

One of the most irritating parts of social media is people who present contestable opinions as fact, pretend they are rational and learned and anyone opposed is emotional and dumb, then whine when they get attacked

If you buy a steel bike and no one nicks it it will last the rest of your life. Of course, you’ll replace bits and pieces along the way. Bike of Theseus

Cause of the World Cup, I have to assume, there’s a lot more long jean shorts on dudes in Toronto this summer

Metrolinx impressing the tourists.. Guy looks at the departure board at Union Stn and says to his family “platform information in 18 minutes, are you kidding me?”

There's nothing else to do at the reflecting pool but loiter. It's literally the whole reason it exists, it's a public space where people are invited to linger and loiter.

The best approach, as always, remains *don’t read the comments* But if you do read them, occasionally you run across one that makes it almost worth the slog

According to this Guardian reporting, the ban started at noon today: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

So you can't buy alcohol during the coolest hours of the day? I admit to being confused by this policy

Big money is coming to the shocking realisation that big money alone cannot buy political success www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Junius has concerns. A lot of concerns www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/edit...

Same councillor last month. Glad we're educating those kids about the use of phones while crossing the street. Maybe we could expand the program?

Six Toronto councillors voted against even debating the possible creation of a Pedestrian Streets Program

More mayors need to stand up for urban nightlife

Have we watched enough? Asking for a nation

Inbox: "A full-service Red River Co-op food store and pharmacy is coming to downtown Winnipeg as part of the redevelopment of the former Portage Place" Big news for the Peg. Can't remember latest figures but something close to 20,000 people live downtown. A proper grocery store will be a big asset

The #TOpoli haters will try to tell you that SmartTrack is not a real thing

Imagine if Toronto police worried as much about traffic deaths as the possibility that pedestrian crowds can lead to trouble. Cops wanted $3M for security for the two-month pedestrianisation of a few blocks www.thestar.com/news/gta/cit...

A retread of the age-old question: are cities for those who live in them, or for people who come once a year to party? www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Is the idea that you take the subway to College stn and then hop the 506? I’ve gotta say, bad advice. Instead go to Christie stn and walk ten minutes south

At this point, why is it going through Peterborough? Why would you not take the rail corridor out of Union Station that's literally called the Kingston Subdivision?! IT GOES DIRECTLY TO KINGSTON!!!

I suspect the sort of people who take seriously the WSJ editorial board already believe the DSA is under their bed www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...

What a world. We've got record numbers of people using food banks and also a "booming pet wellness industry, which includes such five-star treatments as deluxe 'pawdicures,' blueberry facials, canine massages and reiki" www.theglobeandmail.com/life/style/d...

Video is insane. Guessing the car‘s software mistook the driveway for the road. Either way, he crashed into a *brick* house so hard he drove into it and killed someone inside. And Jensen Huang thinks the regulation of cars is a good example for the regulation of AI www.nytimes.com/2026/06/21/u...

Otherwise known as lying

A special circle of hell for whomever thought of putting a sound system on jet-skis

Today in unexpected convenience store names. Keswick, Ontario

Only one way to deal with a bully www.cnn.com/2026/06/19/p...

This is getting a bit painful

Cool that World Cup advertising includes the national oil company of a country that killed and chopped up a journalist

Amazing what a former newspaper proprietor can get published.. "Assuming that a nuclear agreement is promptly agreed to and implacably enforced, the peace will have achieve the primary objectives of denying Iran nuclear weapons" and opening the Strait of Hormuz nationalpost.com/opinion/dont...

Wild. In Quebec City it's against the bylaw to speak disrespectfully to cops or public officials. And, on average, more than 150 people are getting fined monthly www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Toronto changed the traffic light sequence at College and Spadina to put the left-turn signal at the end, after the green instead of before. And it is freaking everyone out

Depressing in that it suggests that for many single people work is their primary or only social outlet

A *staggering* stat in a recent speech from the mayor of Halifax.. "In 2025, Halifax accounted for 93 per cent of Nova Scotia’s net real GDP growth"

If the kind of "new social norm" he favours is akin to the way we've normalised and accepted 1.2M road traffic deaths globally every year, well, I do have some concerns

All the big crime stories in Toronto recently turn out to be the same story

Was explaining to an out-of-towner today the mechanics and pricing of Toronto's bixi system. She was blown away that it had almost 8M rides last year. And this year will surely be much higher. It feels this spring that the system finally tipped. Seeing people on the bikes everywhere, all the time

Strong *last call and everyone but me is hooking up* vibes

Now that’s how you write a hed www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

What fresh hell is this?

"The purpose of a system is what it does. Not what it says it does. What it actually does" venat.substack.com/p/the-purpos...

Depressing line in an overall depressing piece.. "Homelessness accelerates aging so much that, in homelessness research, people 50 and older are considered seniors" www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

It's called a paywall and I'm curious how you propose news organizations pay for their journalism.