Our Laura Stone on the nomination race that Ontario's Liberals were watching closely ... #ONpoli www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

personally I think it's a very big deal that the Canada bureau chief for the @nytimes.com — certainly one of the highest-paid journalists in the country — asked an unspecified "AI tool" what Poilievre said & published its AI-hallucinated quotes in her reporting.

From meanwhileincanada.bsky.social (posted on FB): "A new report commissioned by the Alberta Federation of Labour... 29% of Albertans now rank as "highly disinformed"— nearly DOUBLE the national average. No other province even comes close." #cdnpoli

Any suggestions on a new name for the Ontario Place spa and waterpark? They might need one. #ONpoli www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

The U.S.-based carpenters' union HQ has stepped in to put its Ont. wing under supervision to probe the purchase of a $4-million house for its boss's use, as first revealed in The Globe. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

"The land of the free," mid-2026...

Many questions remain about this expansion to allow jets at Billy Bishop Airport on Toronto's waterfront. Among them: Cost? Is Ottawa in favour? And will taxpayers be footing some of the bill? #ONpoli #TOpoli www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Jessica Winter has been raising her children to detest A.I. Then her daughter’s public middle school began receiving Google Chromebooks, which came pre-installed with an all-ages version of Gemini, a suite of A.I. tools. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/M5gaYm

Klaxons, fire alarms going off in the Premier's Office

In an interview with the Port Authority's CEO, I finally found out how long Billy Bisop's jet-friendly runway needs to be, and how the agency intends to extend it into the lake to the west, in an attempt to spare Toronto's harbour. #ONpoli #TOpoli www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

The fine print in this bill goes way beyond the way the Transportation Minister described it to us on Thursday. #ONPoli #TOPoli www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Still so many unanswered questions about this. The Transportation Minister couldn't tell us how long the runways need to be, or why the chunk of park being expropriated along with the airport is needed. (His office says it will remain a park.) #ONpoli #TOpoli www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Ford tells Globe conference he has already sold controversial government jet #ONpoli www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

My investigation: Union bought $4-million home for leader to live in www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

New from me at TVO, on the whole jet thing: www.tvo.org/article/anal...

WATCH: The Ford government's solicitor general and associate solicitor general apologize to MPPs for repeatedly and incorrectly telling them wrongly released inmates are immediately reapprehended #OnPoli

Precisely this. The only safe way to use something like generative AI (but also algorithmic decision-making programs) is if you already have pre-existing expertise. But if you use these, you’ll erode your expertise. And if you come up using these things, you’ll never develop it in the first place.

Breaking: Ford to sell $29m private jet he just bought. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

It's absolutely *crystal* clear! youtu.be/gmnNi8oPsrQ?...

NEW: The Ontario government has purchased a used $28.9 million private jet for the use of Premier Doug Ford, the @TorontoStar has learned. The 2016 Bombardier Challenger 650 was delivered this week. www.thestar.com/politics/pro...

It costs the City of Ottawa $465/person each year to serve new low-density homes, over & above what it receives from property taxes/fees. On the other hand, high-density infill such as apartment buildings pays for itself plus an extra $606/person each year. Sprawl costs, infill saves. #UrbanTruth

I'd hope this paragraph would give pause to Canadian business and political leaders whose immediate response to the shutdown of the Strait of Hormuz has been to howl for more pipelines

WaPo website replaced search with AI and it's going great

"We do not have to use our imaginations to see what can happen when boastful, bombastic leaders take control of our political life and guardrails like Ontario’s rules against partisan ads are taken away." #OnPoli

....Ontario tends to follow the outliers, like Hungary and Belarus. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Higher-level government unilaterally diminishes the possibility of “priority misalignment” with lower-level by 1) reducing municipalities' policy scope 2) their organizational autonomy and 3) interfering directly (appointments). While local autonomy has generally increased around the world,...

The length of teachers' college in Ontario will soon be cut in half, from two years to one. #Onpoli globalnews.ca/news/1177348...

“If you live in one of the affected regions, come October you neither get to elect the head of your regional council directly nor indirectly through your own local representatives, and now that head of council is going to be more powerful than anyone you can actually vote for” #onpoli

Ontario is right to abandon rule that limited international grads’ access to medical residency spots. Policy was doomed to fail because it clearly violated constitutional rights, by @picardonhealth.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com

"Google has created a misinformation crisis. Studies have shown that people tend to trust what an AI tells them without question, with one report finding that only 8 percent of users actually double checked an AI’s answer." 🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠

Ontario's legally exempt special economic zones give Premier Doug Ford "king-like" powers, groups launching constitutional challenge say. (And yes, I do mention Henry VIII.) #Onpoli www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

EMERGENCY RELEASE from Gen. Eaton.

I think people are allowed to draw conclusions about the American people based on their decision to put this man in office bsky.app/profile/pear...

This is quite obviously a threat to use nuclear weapons. It is very important to recognise this.

NEW: "That's how we Protect Ontario." It's a phrase you're likely to hear almost every time you turn on the TV or radio. The Ford government is currently flooding Ontario with - but won't say how many campaigns there are or how much they cost. #OnPoli globalnews.ca/news/1175773...

Ford government ignoring IPC orders: “Kosseim’s office emailed a statement noting that wilfully failing to comply with such an order is a provincial offence. Prosecution could be triggered by anyone but only with consent of Ontario’s attorney general — a member of the Ford government” #onpoli

This is a great piece. I am long overdue for a rewatch. Also I really need to replicate Redford's glorious corduroy suit. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

the important thing, as ever, is to remember that time AOC said "uh" or "um" while answering a question about American policy on Taiwan

There is no excuse for downplaying or eliding the insanity of Trump’s morning post. It is the most unhinged public comment by a president in US history and should be reported and remarked upon as such.

This is an actual post. This is not funny. This is beyond desperate. This is a deeply unwell man who doesn’t belong anywhere near the levers of power. Every member of his cabinet and Congress is complicit in not demanding his removal now.

Anything else of headline-worthy note in that statement, Bloomberg?

NYT scrutiny on this site is often a bit much but this is legit sanewashing being called out. Even by overly fussy "objective journalism" standards, the proper way to cover this would be to describe it not as an "ultimatum" but as a "profane and inflammatory statement without precedent" or similar

The American president has lost his mind.

This reminds me of the time the National Post put Winnipeg in the wrong province. I was the Winnipeg correspondent at the time. The Winnipeg bureau was closed some months later.

Bloomberg scoop: Chinese EVs could be built in the Stellantis plant in Brampton, where a planned Jeep production line was cancelled last year and moved to the US. Stellantis has discussed with Canadian officials the idea of building Leapmotor EVs there www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Ontario's legislature observed a moment of silence this morning before question period. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

I don't need a summary of what's available online, in biographies, or even in my own notes. I need to comb through and find the great details, decide what interests ME. No, it's not efficient. It's slow and painstaking. But I don't believe in efficiency as an ultimate good, especially in writing. /

This is all reminding me of a conversation I had recently with an old friend who works in tech and extremely gung-ho about AI. When I told him about my process for writing a long New Yorker piece, he was absolutely sure that AI could make it more "efficient." / www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...