Doug Ford and Jagmeet Singh riding bikes in Toronto in 2017. Ford: "One death is way too many. When it comes to bicycle riders, we have to make sure that they’re safe. And I felt so much safer when there was; it was separated." Stop #Bill60 #Bikes #OnPoli www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmsK...

no paywalls, billionaires or ads at @thenarwhal.ca! viable alternative models exist, which is how we’ve been able to grow every year as other outlets shrink.

"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." Malcolm X. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

‘Whiplash’ and ‘scar tissue’: conservation authorities grapple with Ontario’s most dramatic overhaul yet: thenarwhal.ca/ontario-cons... #OnPoli

Yes. All of this, YES. Any other +40 women out there who used to be people pleasers, doing all the emotional labour, always the “nice one”, now feeling like they have zero energy or desire to do the mental and emotional gymnastics anymore? I can’t go back even if I tried and I’m very ok with that. 💅

gofund.me/7d70edcd8 To cover Ember's expensive FIP treatment. @petpatrol.bsky.social #Cats

Alice Wong, Presente. Thank you for everything.

This breaks some people’s brains. In most cities, Costco stores fuel sprawl & car dependency. In Vancouver, our full-sized downtown Costco has residential towers above & a skytrain station next door. LOTS of customers don’t drive to it. We live a block from it. We call it “the convenience store.”

#Ontario #wastewater graph updated with November 2 data - Kingston, London, Toronto updated: wwater.ca/Ontario - Also updated: AB, BC, MB, NS, PEI, SK wwater.ca Source: health-infobase.canada.ca/wastewater/

🎁 article #CdnPoli www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/e24d2f3...

🚨 BREAKING 🚨 My office just uncovered that, buried in their Fall Economic Statement, Ford’s Conservatives are quietly seizing control of Exhibition Place. #ONpoli

This is the Science Centre all over again. Ford shutters or takes over a public institution because it's near a future transit line and his developer cronies want the land. Or he wants to build a gigantic parking garage to appease his Therme cronies. Or maybe both!

In decades to come, we will look back at 2025 - following the most devastating pandemic in a century - as the year we turned back hard-earned progress on combating infectious diseases. That means the comeback of preventable diseases. And the emergence of new ones. www.science.org/content/arti...

Appalling. Giving less to the world's poorest, following Trump's example and Conservative promises. What's the point of voting Liberal. #CdnPoli www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

"A city's priorities become as clear as the spaces they choose to maintain in the winter." Creative done with @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social

As good an explanation as I could find. www.the-sentinel-intelligence.net/the-shutdown...

Budget season is here! Speak up for public transit at budget input meetings happening November 18 and December 3 at 6pm. (1/2) Sign up to speak: www.regionofwaterloo.ca/en/regional-... Learn more about the budget and do the survey: www.engagewr.ca/region-water...

This is such an important episode. It explains a lot of experiences we have living in women’s bodies.

Remember who the tunnel and highways are really for: friends of Doug. Using taxpayer 💰 on projects like this that don't do anything substantive to improve transportation is a way to repay construction and developer friends. This man is asset-stripping Ontario to reward donors and friends. #OnPoli

Joining in the chorus to say that banning Sarah Kendzior from Bluesky is insane. What up @bsky.app @safety.bsky.app ?

Doug Ford’s new housing bill has been sold as efficiency reform, yet it prioritizes landlords over tenants. Long-term renters will face faster evictions, fewer protections, and higher rents while corporate landlords consolidate even more control of an already deeply financialized market.

"This government says the parent voice is so important but we don't feel like anyone is really asking us. Why aren't we at the table." Despite reaching out to all local area MPPs about the speed camera issue, they've only heard back from the NDP and Greens. www.cambridgetoday.ca/local-news/s...

The Ford govt turned down the FOI request, refusing "to share even a redacted version of the report, claiming it would mean publishing cabinet records, advice to government and third-party data, as well as posing a risk to the province’s economy." #OnPoli

BREAKING: "The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has notified the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) that Canada no longer holds measles elimination status."

omg. Meta clearly trying to polarize the issue of digital sovereignty by running this in the Hub.

My coworker (the one who is committed to not getting sick this fall) is still committed to discovering my secret, and today while we talked she looked back and forth from my air filter to my masked face before asking what vitamins I regularly take.

My colleague who has committed herself to not getting sick has noticed I am rarely ill and so she asked me what my secret is, and as I adjusted my mask I told her that I have no secret, and after staring at me she narrowed her eyes and said: I bet you meditate, is that it?

Could be you Ontario. Instead we elected a corrupt, unprepared, dope. A climate denier. Three times. Our electricity rates just went up, again. This time by 30%. Do you remember when Doug Ford promised to reign in the cost of hydro? I do. #onpoli #FordFailedOntario electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...

The truly maddening thing is that, unlike when I was a young man in science and the materials and engineering just weren’t there yet, the future is *right there.* The problem is *solved*. What’s holding us back is not just greed, but this bizarre nostalgia, an obsession with petro- masculinity.

Looking for a budget summary and you aren't an oligarch or the owner of a mid-sized company? Check out what the @ccpa has put together: www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

Attention WA/Seattle area! Oscar is a 5 year old male (fixed) cat looking for a home! His owner recently passed away and my brother is looking for a new home for him. He's up to date on all his shots. If you know anyone who is looking for a companion, let me know! Boosts are appreciated.

So many harms have already emerged from reckless and oppressive uses of AI, with such wide-ranging & far-reaching consequences, to so many groups of people, that it seems almost impossible to document them all. But we tried, in this open letter to Minister Solomon: bccla.org/policy-submi... (1/x)

What you can do - 1. Write to your MPPs 2. Sign this open letter to protect Tri-Council EDI Data (with over 4700 signatories from scientists/researchers across the country) and share widely 👇🏿 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

#Urgent: Protect Researchers’ Data and Equity in Canadian Science

Our politicians use the deficit as a rhetorical cudgel to keep their friends rich while pushing austerity on the rest of us.

$2.6 Billion of foreign aid cuts over 4 years on a 2024 budget of $6 Billion/yr (not including loans to Ukraine) This means maternal health, our AIDS research in the Global South, tuberculosis prevention, and rapid climate disaster responses are not going to exist. www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...

So the Ford appointed supervisors will make more than all School Board Trustees combined, and that money will come out of the education budget that’s supposed to go to student needs. Shame! globalnews.ca/news/1151063... #topoli #onpoli #onted

"What we see, I think, are a bunch of rich guys who have been comically out of touch with normal people for many decades, and more recently have blowtorched their brains into a smoking pile of ash on Elon Musk’s Twitter/X and in various group chats." Via @ryanlcooper.com prospect.org/2025/11/04/a...

thewalrus.ca/the-wild-ear... Fun read! From @thewalrus.ca #BlueJays

ICYMI: Some Calgary pharmacists say they've started waitlists for private COVID-19 vaccines because they can't get their hands on stock as frustrated Albertans turn to them for the shots www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Rent is high. Groceries are impossible. But instead of taxing billionaires, the govt is pushing Bill C-12 to deport workers. Syed Hussan explains how migrant blaming is a strategy to distract us. Stop Bill C-12. Stop the scapegoating: migrantrights.ca/StopC12 #StatusForAll

Holy shit. Teen Vogue had become one of the few sources doing actual, frequent journalism in the US.

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

"We cheer for teams, and fall in love with teams, because at some strange level, we think they represent us. These guys very much represented us... for much of October (and two days in November), we were all Blue Jay fans." — @spaikin.bsky.social

Premier Danielle Smith has used the “notwithstanding clause” for the first time in Alberta to shield the government’s strike-breaking bill against teachers from a court challenge. www.readthemaple.com/alberta-forc...

Imagine if Canada was investing in research and universities, instead of burning everything down.

Canada can't make up the gap from the US pulling back from science. But we can at least start to close the gap between us and others - like maybe try to just get to Australia's level as a % of GDP?

“To me that was completely trampling over democracy in any right,” Craig said. “To see her stand up and vote for it . . . I know that this is not in the best interest of the constituents in this riding.” #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli calgaryherald.com/news/politic...

In Ontario, electricity is heavily subsidized. The "rebate," paid with borrowed money, increases today to 23.5 % of the pre-tax electricity bill from 13.1%. The FAO estimates that the province's various energy rebates will cost well north of $100 billion over 20 years. /2 #ONpoli

It's possible we might not need billionaire opinions on absolutely everything all the time billmckibben.substack.com/p/climate-ga...