Why is the Ontario government not giving this training money to the province's colleges that are being starved of funding by the government and forced to charge exorbitant fees to international students to make up the shortfall. www.thestar.com/politics/pro...

I spent some in Texas recently, looking at Trump's America a year(ish) after his election last year. www.thestar.com/opinion/igno...

My review of Allan Levine's Dollar a Year Men - cihe.ca/2025/11/10/t...

An update on my column: Parliamentary committee drops most contentious parts of its demand for data on research funding. It now wants aggregated, not disaggregated data. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

How much are MPs entitled to know about research grants? Not as much as they think. A parliamentary committee is asking for researchers' personal information in what seems like an anti-DEI crusade, by @picardonhealth.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... via @theglobeandmail.com

I tried to cobble together a narrative of the industrial-scale corruption of the Trump state, and to think about why it's not breaking through. www.bugeyedandshameless.com/p/guide-to-d...

If you've been watching the Blue Jays, you've probably seen Ontario's Ring of Fire ads and if you're anything like me, flags may have gone up in your brain. Appreciate this reporting from @thenarwhal.ca that looks into this some more. thenarwhal.ca/opinion-blue...

saw David Byrne last night at Massey Hall in Toronto - spectacular show even better than described in this Variety review from a couple of weeks ago before the tour started - variety.com/2025/music/r...

Job opening. The Globe and Mail is seeking a Quebec-based reporter to team up with Eric Andrew-Gee. jobs.dayforcehcm.com/en-US/theglo...

Ontario limiting first-round applications for residency positions from international medical graduates to only those who completed at least two years of high school in the province, by @alannasmith.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com #MedEd #IMGs

I really enjoyed this Coyne column. Said tech oligarchs need to way more attentive to the way public opinion is shifting against them. Coyne is just about the furthest thing from a "soak the rich" socialist, and yet.... www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

More shit for the Ontario voter to eat. Eat it up yum.

"Speight Rasees collapsed on Nov. 28. The next day, during the first race, two-year-old Mad Chatter had to be euthanized." @nickhunebrown.bsky.social 📸: @chloeellingson.bsky.social @thelocal.to thelocal.to/breakdown-at...

"digital asbestos" is such a good term for the ai-ification of everything

I do think the 2026 EV target needs to be pushed back at this point. But it’s increasingly obvious that, even as Canadians may be eager to distance themselves from Trump’s America, we’re increasingly at risk of being on an island with that country when it comes to EV adoption.

Trigger warning. “In crashes, SUVs are more likely to strike vital organs in the core of adults’ bodies & heads of children. Hitting pedestrians above their center of gravity means they’re more likely to be knocked forward & down and then be driven over.” Plus more likely to hit in the 1st place.

Doug Ford is barking up the wrong tree with a ban on animal research. Nobody likes the idea of cute little puppies being killed. But populist pandering to emotion is anti-science rhetoric that serves no one, by @picardonhealth.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... @theglobeandmail.com

Come work with me! @thelogic.co is hiring a business reporter to work on the finance desk in Toronto. More details here: thelogic.applytojobs.ca/editorial/41... Please send a DM if you want to hear how great it is to work here, or have any questions. Please share! #cdnmedia #journojobs

"We’re witnessing, in real-time, a profound consolidation of power & collusion among political & tech elites... wherein the tools and technologies that this industry has built... can now be deployed in service of an authoritarian regime" — @katie-drummond.bsky.social www.status.news/p/wired-kati...

The Trumps fine ever-more ways to make money at the expense of their MAGA marks: The Trump Family Cashes In on ‘the Infinite Money Glitch’ www.wsj.com/finance/inve...

The war on Gaza has exposed a breaking point between young people in Canada and traditional media, writes @imankassam.bsky.social Beyond the famine frame:

The hostile reaction of U.S. lawmakers to Canadian forest fires reveals more about U.S.-Canada relations than any stack of trade statistics. The chorus of complaining from Republican politicians shows we’re now not dealing with decent people. #Opinion

The longest-ballot folks balloted so hard they end up creating the shortest ballot. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

There should be a discussion forum in which nations can post examples of their Trump-appointed US ambassadors being crass, ignorant, insulting, undiplomatic boors, and then, in manner of Eurovision, we could vote on which one is the Trumpiest. Canada’s candidate is the appalling Pete Hoekstra.

Did you know we live in the WORM CAPITAL OF THE WORLD? Read this excellent story by @royinori.bsky.social !!!

More than 100 nights a year, immigrant workers go out to farmland in southern Ontario and pick hundreds of thousands of nightcrawlers. How Ontario became the worm capital of the world: thelocal.to/ontario-nigh...

On the triple contradiction of Trumponimics. He wants three things: Lower rates, reshoring of manufacturing, and a smaller working-age population. If he gets any one, the other two become implausible. If he seriously tries for two, the world economy crashes www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/e33036f...

CBC’s visual investigations team reveals where some of Canada’s white nationalist 'active clubs' gather to prepare for violence www.cbc.ca/newsinteract...

Canada is apparently now open to changing its domestic policies to appease Trump. Seems a very slippery slope... www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...

Eight lessons learned in 27 years of covering personal finance and investing – the final column from @theglobeandmail.com's personal finance columnist, Rob Carrick ‪@rcarrick.bsky.social‬, who retires at the end of this month www.theglobeandmail.com/investing/pe...

The MAGA movement’s child health manifesto is a muddle. The Make America Healthy Again report is a strange mix of self-loathing, bravado and revisionist nostalgia, by @picardonhealth.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... via @theglobeandmail.com

This year's Michener Awards finalists. A testimony to the efforts of investigative journalists in Canada to expose problems and force governments to make changes. www.michenerawards.ca/media-releas...

Congratulations to the finalists for the Michener Award for Meritorious Public Service Journalism, Canada’s highest honour in #journalism: Global News, The Globe and Mail (2 entries), La Presse, Toronto Star, and The Vancouver Sun. www.michenerawards.ca/media-releas...

Need Carney to up the weirdness factor to compete with these two though. Where’s the alt zodiacmemes account he runs?

A detailed story from @kimbolan.bsky.social on the tragedy in Vancouver. vancouversun.com/news/driver-...