The government says new changes are to protect frank discussions without worrying about "blowback." As you can see from this screenshot, discussions are already pretty well protected. #OnPoli

🧵Doug Ford's former chief of staff traded in his old phone without properly backing it up, losing months of texts from a key period in 2023, including around the Greenbelt fallout. How do we know? An FOI request which wouldn't be allowed under the new rules. #OnPoli

BREAKING: Ford govt to exempt Premier, cabinet ministers, parl. assistants and their offices from FOI legislation. Says this aligns with feds and most other provinces. Move would trump court ruling requiring Premier to release his cellphone records. #OnPoli www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Wow. A near-miss that could have resulted in a "high-fatality" crash on a train carrying 120 passengers. The train travelling 80+km/h faster than it should. Grateful to the person who leaked it. May a whistleblower & good journalism result in changes. #GiftLink 🎁 www.thestar.com/gift-redeem?...

They are being explicit about turning corporate media into state propaganda.

So, this makes the use of Strong Mayor powers to increase possible housing 0-2? (Or more accurately, 0 to negative 2, as it's been used twice to *block* decisions to increase housing)

"Allowing jets at the airport will necessarily impose tighter height limits on developments in the Port Lands—reducing housing potential in one of the few parts of the city where there’s at least the possibility of major new homebuilding at scale" www.tvo.org/article/anal... #onpoli

I've talked about this here before, but my experience as a journalism instructor is that Grammarly makes students' writing worse. This was true even several years ago, pre-GenAI hype. The mushy, even incoherent sentences it created were what caused me to start warning them off it.

Updated: Ford confirms he will expropriate Toronto's stake in the island airport to get around the Mayor's objections to allowing jets and expansion, but provides few details #ONpoli #TOpoli www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...

Ford confirms that he will expropriate Toronto's interest in Island airport to override Mayor Chow's objections to jets, expansion #ONpoli #TOpoli www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...

Ford this morning confirmed our scoop, story coming. He says he will expropriate the city's interest in the Island airport to go ahead with plans to allow "small jets" and more flights and passengers. #ONpoli #TOpoli www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

If you’re roughly my age, it’s wild to reflect on the optimism for the future Americans felt when Obama was elected — young Americans spontaneously took to the streets to celebrate! — and contrast with what we face today. The falloff over the past 18 years is hard to process.

I'm sorry WHAT

Ford: "We’re going to move forward with the Island airport, with co-operation with the federal government. And I know Mayor Chow wants to expand it. She may disagree with the jets, but those jets are coming in there, one way or another." #ONpoli #TOpoli www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

I get yelled at for saying this but for many hundreds of years people went to university not to get diplomas or be employable but because immersion in the humanities was considered foundational to a good life, and school must return to its original purpose: the joy of learning.

6:11a on a Saturday what are we doing here.

Canada created more jobs in 2025 (! year of the economic attack!) than the U.S., tho the U.S. job market is 7.5 times bigger. "Health" generated 41% of the new jobs. "Care" (incl educ) almost 1/2. Demographics guarantees that this job juggernaut will continue to dominate. Demand>supply everywhere.

The supposed explosion of the federal public service looks less explosive if you put it in per capita numbers and draw a line graph back to the mid-80s.

Scoop from me: Sources say the Premier is considering building an artificial island off Toronto's waterfront for a massive new convention centre. One expert calls the idea "insane." #Onpoli #TOpoli www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

What does this imply for those of us who are not Christian, and who labor under the assumption that we're protected by the First Amendment?

He's not running. www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...

“This is the most transparent Department of Justice in history,” said an unidentified spokeswoman. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

"Investigators said members of organized crime were buying data and addresses from Toronto Police officers, which were then used to co-ordinate shootings and other crimes – including an attempted hit on a corrections officer at his home." From Molly Hayes: www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

#Iran #HolyWar

Prime Minister Mark Carney cancelled what would have been his first press conference since his India trip began 5 days ago with his office citing lengthy meetings in New Delhi that have strained his schedule. So far he has not taken 1 question from Canadian journalists on a trip that began Feb. 26.

"We invoke international law and the 'rules based international order' when adversaries engage in unlawful actions, but abandon those same rules entirely when it’s the Americans doing the bombing." #Opinion from former foreign minister Lloyd Axworthy

Our @alexbozikovic.bsky.social on the proposed new Ontario Sciece Centre. (Spoiler: He does not like it one bit.)

My confusing day: Government claims the new, smaller proposed building will actually have more "exhibition space" than its shuttered predecessor, despite releasing numbers showing it in fact has less -- and then couldn't explain itself. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

This result shows 1 English voters will swing to whichever party of the left will keep out the crazies 2 Even with star candidates Reform fizzles, discouraging the consolidation of the far right 3 The Starmer tack of treating Reform delusions as “legitimate grievances” has no future

Goes w/o saying the entire Men's team should have 100% declined the WH invite 4 of the 5 who declined are MN natives Guentzel - Woodbury, MN Nelson - Warroad, MN LaCombe - Eden Prairie, MN Oettinger - Lakeville, MN

It is beyond shocking that $100m can be spent on *pre-construction* for two simple rail stations. It should also be shocking that Tory a) ran on a laughably unserious back-of-envelope "plan" b) gave city money to the province to build stuff they were going to build anyway

Another weekend in the suburbs and once again, contra every urbanist, it feels incredibly obvious that the vast majority of people in this country don’t consider the car-dependent suburb as a “problem to be solved” at all. It is simply the way things should be.

"Months before Jesse Van Rootselaar became the suspect in the mass shooting that devastated a rural town in British Columbia, Canada, OpenAI considered alerting law enforcement about her interactions with its ChatGPT chatbot, the company said."

It is very troubling that the insane elderly person babbling on my TV right now is in charge of this country.

A point I’ve been making a lot is that the tariffs are 1) the policy most personally important to Trump 2) the least popular policy with the American people according to polling 3) substantively destructive and incoherent 4) genuinely opposed by large swaths of conservative constituencies.

Donald Trump, addressing his tariff loss, actually just said, of the countries he's launched trade wars against: "They're dancing in the streets. They won't be dancing for long." He sounds like a fucking Batman villain.

Translated lede: "Doug Ford justified the mandatory return of public servants to the office by saying that in-person work increased productivity. But the department responsible for the measure disagrees, reveals a document obtained by Le Droit under the Access to Information Act." #OnPoli

Update: FAMU says banning the word Black from a law student’s Black History Month flyer was a mistake, and the result of an “overly cautious interpretation” of Florida law www.orlandosentinel.com/2026/02/10/b...

Trump’s racist video is by far the most widely denounced thing he’s done since January 6

I do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors. Great work everyone.

The president constantly lying about stolen elections, after staging a coup attempt, & now threatening to federalize & steal future elections, should be the primary news story in the country 24/7 & on every front page until he is impeached & removed next week.

This makes me so sad. www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...

NEW: A public servant got a bizarre voicemail after complaining about Ontario’s return to work policy The voice was unmistakable: Doug Ford Ford shared advice passed down from his mom: “You don’t like it, go get another job” And then he hung up From @emmaarkell.bsky.social and @ericwickham.ca 👇

There is an echo-chamber problem. But it is only one side of the political spectrum who are climbing into echo chambers. The rest of us consume media for information and to shape our opinions with diverse voices. The right consumes stuff that affirms pre-existing affinities and validates prejudices

It's (finally) official, despite last-minute concerns about emergency brakes. After 15 years and $13-billion, the Eglinton Crosstown is supposed to open on Sunday. But there will be no ceremony that day, and no Shuffle Demons, TTC says. #TOpoli #Onpoli www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...