One of my favorite muffins of all time, these raspberry streusel muffins are hefty, moist, lemony, not too sweet, and absolutely tie-dyed with a constellation of raspberries inside. Plus, a really cool trick for streusel. smittenkitchen.com/2023/07/rasp...

What fresh hell is this Ontario? We discuss on The OShow 🔗 youtu.be/Dfp1yxwuWiE?...

The most important news of the day: Baby river otters at the Toronto Zoo are learning to swim youtube.com/shorts/aT5A0...

Liberal MPs have been playing playing passive, coy & cagey w their real island airport feelings, but they’re deeply implicated - even making concrete expansion plans! I go thru some of them in my @thestar.com column today & why they owe Torontonians some honest loyalty. They could stop it today.

Gee, I wonder why a state university in Michigan might be recognizing Doug. Oh wait. (From January) www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Well... Doug Ford has never earned a damned thing in his life. So, it tracks.

Written in an American context but is 100% relevant in a Canadian one as well: If We Want a Different Future, We Have to (Literally) Build It www.commondreams.org/opinion/univ...

This #CdnPoli piece really lays it out. What an indictment of Carney's values when it comes to making the lives of ordinary Canadians easier and better. On pharmacare:

"There is effectively no new money in Carney’s fiscal plan to support what he calls “essential social programs.” "...the Liberals would be wise to remember their support stems from women. And it is progressives that helped them win the last election." #CdnPoli 🎁 www.thestar.com/gift-redeem?...

Seen these and wondered what the heck they were. Stomp them!

This on top of PM Carney walking back his promise of pharmacare for all of Canada, instead turning it into a “pilot project” for only 4 provinces. WTF is going on??? #ONpoli #cdnpoli

It totally doesn't matter that there are v few women around the PM, what were you all complaining about?

This is never going to affect me personally (as in, within my own household) and I am *FURIOUS*.

Rather than paying doctors for the time they spend renewing prescriptions, the province has moved that cost onto us directly. I live in Ottawa where I'm a 1h45 minute *one way* bus ride to my Dr's office. I now need to make that trip every 3 months or else pay $25 every time I need my Rx renewed.

Blink has deleted this graphic from their Instagram.

I'm reading The Bone Season (Samantha Shannon) and the main character, Paige Mahoney, has big Sinead O'Connor energy.

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This makes me even more suspicious about Harper Collins' failures as a publisher with Heated Rivalry until they basically couldn't ignore it. And are still only doing the bare minimum.

"Jump-ick" is a great descriptor of our reaction when this popped up on Crave. (Do yourself a favour and watch Reggie Dinkins instead. Or heck, watch it again, it rewards a rewatch.)

This is not a "wealth" fund. Wealth funds, like those in Norway and Alaska, come from taxes and royalties on resources or other actual "wealth". They don't come from selling assets. It's like you sold all your possessions and then claimed you were somehow richer. It's a shell game.

I am chuckling at "Spinach?", while also fuming at the inaccessibility.

Fun fact: during the Regency period, McDonald's was banned in the UK... 🧵 (3/3)

Prime's subtitling AI really does have a food obsession... 🧵(1/3)

The Ford government's weakening of its FOI regime has cut off public access to hundreds of records about the Greenbelt scandal that were about to be released to @jessiecatherine.bsky.social. Processing versus cancelling timelines are notable. #Onpoli www.thetrillium.ca/news/the-tri...

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

In Canada we had a devastating second-hand smoke PSA about a waitress, lifelong nonsmoker, who developed lung cancer. I’ve never forgotten it. youtu.be/tW1fhtKGPb4?...

American Black women now have fewer voting rights and reproductive rights than their mothers did at the same age. Progress isn’t a straight line, indeed.

My @thestar.com column: Two little words are raising the stakes for this fall’s municipal election: “opt out.” Councillors are increasingly getting the ability to opt their wards out of change. It’s made councillors more powerful — and your vote even more important www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Carney is a Conservative who wanted to get elected. He didn't run on a privatization agenda. PM Goldman Sachs is using the Trump crisis as cover for his ideological, small government views. I've been in my old Bay Street 🧠 & posting about 'asset recycling' for the last 2 days. It's bad news.

Stripping the country, selling it for parts, and subsidizing the buyers. Liberals, is this what you voted for?

Is there one example where privatizing a public asset has turned out to be beneficial for Canadians as a whole? Between Petro-Canada, Air Canada, Highway 407, Hydro One, all I see are regrets.

The Trump administration rejected all four women farmers chosen by their peers to represent them in an industry group called the United Soybean Board earlier this year, a rare intervention by the U.S. Department of Agriculture that three of the women suspected was because of their gender.

Privatizing airports will not only make service worse but it will also deprive the feds of another revenue stream that will instead go to private interests that they’ll keep taxes low on. Absolutely disastrous policy and any economist that advocates for it is a craven worm.

Button-up squash is it?

Self-storage is the 'wait and see' of real estate. You're not *technically* leaving the land fallow, but you absolutely are trying to avoid doing anything permanent with it until it's worth more. Not what we need for a premier intersection.

Honestly, I'd be more inclined to donate to the NDP if the main message was either past wins or big, exciting plans released in engaging ways rather than just "current government sucks, money please!" Give me some hope! So the currentguy suck. What are *you* gonna do differently?

Apple pushed an update that stopped deleted Signal messages being stored in the iPhone’s notification database. This comes directly in response to 404 Media finding the FBI was using this technique to recover deleted Signal messages. No longer an issue now www.404media.co/apple-fixes-...

Exactly. The public either doesn’t know or doesn’t believe that the NDP can directly help at all, only raise our taxes, and a nightly feed of Marit Stiles yelling about Ford’s corruption *however accurate* is not enough. We have to make the case that government spending is *good* when wisely done.

The thing about Zohran is he promoted a bunch of (bold, progressive) stuff that he wanted to do and not just criticisms. To me that's what both the fed and provincial NDP need to get doing. Lots of people obviously know Ford is awful, but you need to give them an attractive alternative.

Good.

Purple Ontario really is a freak about not voting ndp despite being really good at oppositioning these days.

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"“If you do not want us to share personal data or feel uncomfortable with the ways we use information in order to deliver our Services, please do not use the Services,” the policy states." But if it's the only mental health proided by your insurance... or the only one with openings <6 months out

If anyone is in need of some joy today, a bunch of Blue Jays visited Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital 💙💚 www.instagram.com/stories/blue...

Our Who Pays? series is about the economic toll of climate change. Here, some animated labourers and I break down who *gets* paid: to run the oil and gas companies that emit the majority of Canada's heat-trapping emissions, and to do the environmental and health jobs that clean up the effects.

Of Canada's top 5 oil and gas companies, the *lowest* paid head exec made $4,995 an hour in 2024. The average pay for a forest firefighter is $25 an hour.

“Sam Altman made a dangerous suicide bot…but it’s up to us to figure out how to make it safe for him! Also, society is ‘good at figuring out how to mitigate the downsides?’ Have you met society, Sam?! What about our current situation seems to you like we’re nailing it right now?”

You ever think about how the Mafia boss in The Rocketeer has higher ethical standards than everyone who attended the WHCD