NEW: Another twist in the Doug Ford cellphone saga. The government's attempts to appeal have been dismissed and civil servants are once again being ordered to obtain a copy of the premier's cellphone records to work out what to release. #OnPoli globalnews.ca/news/1186106...

"An exhaustive review of Ford’s daily calendars from his nearly eight years as premier shows he essentially stopped flying commercial in late 2025, switching almost entirely to private or charter flights, which he seldom took just a few years ago" #onpoli

Ford government goes to court to fight FOI disclosure of blue licence plate documents

Carpenters’ union officials resign as probe continues

Canada has fallen behind countries around the world in building out fibre telecom infrastructure for faster internet speeds. Many of these countries have maintained public ownership in their markets while Canada’s public telecom shrinks. 🛜 perspectivesjournal.ca/rebuild-public-telecom

Carpenters’ union bought second multimillion-dollar home in Nobleton

Art Eggleton: “As Toronto mayor, I supported the island airport. This is why I now oppose its expansion” www.thestar.com/opinion/cont... #onpoli #TOpoli

Ontario’s transparency watchdog is urgently asking the government to explain an apparent freeze on all freedom of information work, after senior civil servants were told to pause all transparency requests globalnews.ca/news/1185920... #onpoli

“New data show that grant money given to students at publicly assisted universities and colleges has remained relatively stable over the last eight years — while grants given to those at private career colleges have skyrocketed” www.thetrillium.ca/news/educati... #onpoli

Ford government freezes FOI requests amid controversy

The reflex to treat strikes as a public policy ‘problem’ instead of a democratic tool to rebalance power shows how Carney sees unions: disruptions to contain, not organizations workers rely on for fair wages, safety, and a voice. www.thestar.com/politics/fed... #canlab #cdnpoli

$500M expropriation claim involving a friend of the premier is ‘unique’: expropriation lawyers

Since switching from passive to active management (and the fees, commissions & high executive pay that come with it), the CPP has not beaten the performance of a boring index fund. So the CPP changed its benchmarks. Executive pay soars even higher www.thestar.com/business/opi... #cdnpoli

“Disaster in the making”: FOI documents show Metrolinx, whose mission supposedly is regional transit integration, refused repeated council requests to reintegrate the Hurontario LRT with the Brampton Gateway Terminal, risking the safety of transferring riders seanmarshall.ca/2026/05/15/a... #onpoli

Government has a role to facilitate economic activity - but Liberals are turning us into Canada Inc. We are a country, not a corporation. Public assets are resources to be used for Canadians’ benefit, not for “catalyzing” private interests. It’s shortsighted to sell them off. x.com/sarobertson_...

an editor at the star called to tell me they’re pulling my column this week on SSW bc star QP bureau did not like me pointing out that their reporting on the story referred to below was objectively wrong (which star obv conceded to given they issued a major correction) Rachel gets into it here

From Safe Parkside: look what happened on Parkside Drive after Premier Doug Ford banned speed cameras.

The new FOI request axe continues to swing at Queen's Park. This time, one from @allisonjones_cp to the minister of health has been chucked out. The request, which may have given a glimpse into potential hospital cuts, was delayed and then killed. #OnPoli globalnews.ca/news/1185034...

“The speed camera was definitely helpful ... It reminded them that this is a street where families and children are going to the park or coming home, and now we don’t have that. Now, it’s a free-for-all” toronto.citynews.ca/2026/05/14/s... #onpoli

Turns out the Carney Liberal government is specifically targeting endangered BC orcas with its proposal to allow projects like pipelines to go ahead even if they could wipe out an entire species, @althiaraj.bsky.social reports www.thestar.com/politics/fed... #cdnpoli #bcpoli

Just in from @althiaraj.bsky.social: The Carney government’s proposal to legally allow projects — such as ports and pipelines — to go ahead could jeopardize the existence of the endangered southern resident killer whale population, sources told the Star Wednesday. #cdnpoli

We don't want another Walkerton. The reminder by @lindamcquaig.bsky.social about Ontario's drinking water tragedy is timely. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

"In 2013, when it was revealed in the Edward Snowden leaks that the NSA had built backdoors into telecommunication systems to collect precisely this kind of metadata, that was an earth-shattering revelation" #cdnpoli

Metrolinx, which covered up serious problems with the tunnelling for the Scarborough Subway Extension, is refusing to explain why the project has been delayed by another three years www.thestar.com/news/gta/sca... #onpoli

This is what people hiding criminal activities do.

NEW: Official government documents written and saved in Google Docs are no longer covered by Ontario’s freedom of information laws, the province has decreed, as its transparency clampdown continues to roll out. #Onpoli globalnews.ca/news/1184611...

Today's @thestar.com op-ed by Peter Donolo - a former Chrétien communications director - calls out the lack of willingness by Toronto's 23 #LPC MP's to stand up to Doug Ford and say #NoJetsTO. A direct contrast to the Chrétien governments of the 1990's. #cdnpoli www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Ontario’s new freedom of information restrictions ‘reduce transparency by half’: theijf.org/article/onta...

Doug Ford won’t disclose how much public money Metrolinx gave to his good friend for implausibly-valued air rights he didn’t even own, calling it “private sector business” www.thetrillium.ca/news/governm... #onpoli

Ontario's Auditor General finds that private career colleges are falsifying truck driver training records and skipping lessons like "left turns at major intersections, reverse parking and emergency stopping" www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #onpoli

Be normal or be sent home: "A damning indictment of a government that has abandoned its responsibility to Ontario’s most vulnerable learners ... The system isn’t just strained; it’s fundamentally ableist" www.cp24.com/local/toront... #onpoli #onted

Most classroom teachers unable to adequately support students with special education needs: AG

AUDITOR GENERAL: When procuring medical AI vendors, the Ford government weighted "accuracy" at only 4% of total score. Most approved vendors had inaccuracies in their results, including “incorrect information, AI hallucinations and incomplete information" www.thetrillium.ca/news/health/... #onpoli

Metrolinx's outdated crash recorders have failed at least 6 times since 2020, leaving investigators without key info after a GO train crashed into a car, another blew past a stop signal, and another drove into an area where people were working on the tracks www.thetrillium.ca/news/municip... #onpoli

Bahrain saw some of the worst repression during the "Arab Spring," when a peaceful movement for reform was brutally crushed by the monarchy with help from the Saudis. Now there's a new crackdown taking place amid the Iran war. www.northsouthnotes.org/p/the-view-f...

This graph shows two things, 1) obviously that the cameras reduced speeding, but 2) that the improvement kept getting better over time. Speeders tend to get one or two tickets and then learn and change their behaviour. This isn't a cash grab, it's an extremely useful intervention.

None of the three realized they were victims of labour trafficking and in all three cases, the employers have faced no penalties. Labour trafficking cases like these are on the rise and expected to grow, experts warn: “We are concerned this is a ticking time bomb.” Read more from Ghada Alsharif:

When local Liberal MPs say they’re in the dark about plans too, they are lying. Their own agency is sitting on secret reports. Ask your Toronto liberal MP to stop lying to you.

The owner of Nieuport Aviation, the J.P. Morgan-affiliated IIF, is registered in the Cayman Islands. A former J.P. Morgan banker, Hai-Gi Li, sits on the board of Nieuport Aviation. A 2023 document from J.P. Morgan also lists Nieuport Aviation under its portfolio/operating companies roster.

Markham’s former commissioner of development services is accused of pocketing over $140,000 from a developer whose zoning request he endorsed, for a project allegedly being secretly influenced by a discredited builder barred from selling homes www.thestar.com/news/investi... #onpoli

“It’s worse than what Harper did,” says former Liberal environment minister in response to Mark Carney’s plan to make it easier to kill off endangered species, pollute waterways & risk human health to fast-track private-sector development projects www.thestar.com/politics/pol... #cdnpoli

“It’s worse than what Harper did,” says former Liberal environment minister in response to Mark Carney’s plan to make it easier to kill off endangered species, pollute waterways & risk human health to fast-track private-sector development projects www.thestar.com/politics/pol... #cdnpoli

Wage gains and structural fairness are key features of a new collective agreement voted on last night by Unifor Local 252 members. Ratified by 93%, it is the first union contract negotiated with Walmart in North America. www.unifor.org/news/all-new...

I went home recently to write about Alberta’s separatists. What I found was a movement wildly, dangerously disconnected from reality. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...

After the Star began asking questions about this failed privatization model, the firm hired by the Ford government reminded service organizations they were bound by NDAs & a "non-disparagement" clause prohibiting them from sharing concerns with media www.thestar.com/politics/pro... #onpoli

The Nunavut MP who once said the second generation cut-off is a rule "that perpetuates sex and race-based discrimination" will now help the Liberal government block amendments to abolish it. www.aptnnews.ca/national-new...

Infrastructure Ontario claimed a “key strength” of Therme’s Ontario Place bid was its construction partnership with Aecon — but the partnership didn’t, and doesn’t, exist www.thestar.com/business/ass... #onpoli

In what is believed to be a first in Ontario, the government has “relieved the board of governors of their duties” and is appointing Linda Franklin to run Conestoga after audit found illegal severance payout, a luxury trip and alcohol-heavy meal expenses. www.thestar.com/news/gta/ont...

A deep dive into the devastating environmental effects of allowing #jets at Billy Bishop #Toronto City #Airport. This is the report that the Toronto Port Authority kept secret for nine years. Read @spacing.bsky.social online spacing.ca/toronto/2026... #toronto #onpoli @waterfront4all.bsky.social