That is one serious smackdown to the FBI case. www.thestar.com/news/gta/coc...

It is very funny that they did all that and yet didn’t know they had to send a kill to syndication.

The boys of ‘EMPz 4 Life’: How life, death and murder haunt the ‘hero’ of this acclaimed Toronto documentary One of my favourite pieces of Toronto this year. From the Star’s Betsy Powell, who’s one of the country’s absolute best court reporters. www.thestar.com/news/gta/the...

And the cold open in the very next episode included the same voicemail message three more times, in full. This is *bizarre* storytelling.

‘Random’ OPP drug sweeps on Ontario Northland buses should never have happened, judge rules, tossing cocaine case You almost have to admire the gumption of the cops who went to the judge to ask for a warrant to search any coach buses coming through Thunder Bay. And they got it!

After 23 years in jail, Toronto man is exonerated in murder of 10-year-old Darla Thurrott. Crown will not pursue retrial www.thestar.com/news/gta/aft...

God how the stars did fall. I looked for blackness, holes in the heavens. The Dipper stove.

It is wild how much of the script in Pluribus is made up of long chunks of verbatim repetition. I have never seen anything like it.

increasingly irritated by how helpless these people think we all are

Snap reaction: I would think SGA or Summer. A Canadian with a legit claim to be the best in the world at a global sport that isn't hockey. That's so very special!

I'm going to talk up Donald Shebib's "Goin' Down the Road" (1970) as the best film depiction of Toronto every chance I get, and here's a chance. No other movie has ever starred Toronto as well as this film does. (And no, I don't disagree with James' thread) www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Yp9...

Bell is trying to give me one year of Perplexity Pro for free — allegedly a $249 value!

I want us to hang on to the fact that the people who were murdered were just civilians out in boats, most likely fishermen, who had never even heard the sketchy conclusions of American officials for which they were executed, much less had a chance to defend themselves.

I can’t think of a more existential threat to journalism right now than AI-generated content masking as original reporting. Once the well is poisoned we’re all toast. @thelocal.to is taking a stance with our new AI policy. thelocal.to/ai-policy/

‘I’ve been labelled a killer, and I’m not’: Court tosses Toronto man’s conviction in the 1989 murder of Darla Thurott, 10

This by @j-pags.bsky.social & @calvileon.bsky.social is my favourite piece of crime reporting in years. The fact this guy filed his indignant lawsuit while under FBI investigation — after he was interviewed by the FBI! And that it's the Star who told his civil lawyers he's in jail. *chef's kiss*

Man, the NBA can be so electric when the endgame isn't bogged down by fouls and timeouts. More of that, please.

In which Senior Ontario judge Paul Currie explains he delayed turning himself in to police on assault charges because he was ‘terrified’ of spending the Easter weekend in Maplehurst jail. More great reporting from Jacques Gallant.

I could not agree more strongly with this. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Baby bathtubs need to come with seatbelts.

The man who double-crossed Ryan Wedding: The inside story of the life and murder of an FBI witness

Toronto deliberately killed apartment construction in the early 1970s, after a generation-long building boom. Almost all of that housing was built by “the market.”

That sure is an interesting version of “lawyer stuff.”

Laughing at Donald Trump saying he'd definitely feel comfortable living in Zohran Mamdani's New York on the same day that half the consultant brain-poisoned Democratic party voted to condemn socialism

The Star’s Jacques Gallant is such an incredibly good court reporter.

The Trump family has been bragging that Trump's energy policy has enabled their Bitcoin-mining bonanza. Turns out they're running part of their mining operations in Canada. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...

He’s not capable of pulling this off. We say. Over and over again. As he keeps pulling a surprising number of these things off.

“Sadly I think editors and publications are at risk from bad actors.” Damn right we are. The risk is radioactive. thelocal.to/investigatin...

The allegations of GTA lawyer Deepak Paradkar’s involvement in the Ryan Wedding case and the assassination of an FBI witness, go *considerably* beyond what was reported yesterday. Great reporting, as always, by Calvi Leon. www.thestar.com/news/world/i...

He really does find a new low each day, somehow.

Hell of a defensive win for the Raps.

I mean. She’s Linda Tubb when she’s in trouble.

Few things annoy me so consistently as the fact I can't set Windows 11 to never, ever use the "group by" function inside my file folders. I want to sort by name, or I want to sort by date, or I want to sort by type.

The traditional vices are mostly pretty bad, actually. www.nytimes.com/athletic/680...

Some people like the thrill of skydiving. Me? I live for the rush of cross-referencing the names of an ancestor’s parents in a handwritten note on WW1 service and pension records.

I tell ya, there is no greater high than finally breaking down that wall after days of family research led you nowhere. Genealogy, man. This stuff rocks so hard.

This is awful and also part of a larger pattern where we have completely normalized the fact that harassing and threatening people online is a thing a lot of people do Can we as a society talk about addressing that???

Ontario judges are (rightfully) upset that a man who executed a Crown witness in 2001 — a security guard who was days away from testifying against him — was invited onto a panel at an educational conference for the judges themselves. Really great get from Jacques Gallant.

Trump and Epstein has always had the feel of how the cruises scandal was the biggest sword over the head of the Roy empire in Succession. And, well, the point of that plot (and the whole show) was how there’s a level of wealth beyond which you get away with anything. So here we are, testing that.

Maybe unpopular take but: Dems really quite adeptly managed to turn the page on the government shutdown situation by releasing those Epstein emails. You kinda gotta hand it to them.

Q: "Why are White House officials…meeting with Rep. Boebert in an effort to try to get her to not sign this petition calling for the release of the [Epstein] files?" Leavitt: "I'm not going to detail conversations that took place in the situation room."

It is genuinely hard for most people to grasp how poor the past was.

Children’s Aid fired three workers after 12-year-old boy’s harrowing death, Ontario murder trial hears This prosecution is shining one hell of a spotlight on what look like some egregious systemic failures in Ontario’s child protection systems.

Part of the reason I think there isn’t as much pressure around stopping ChatGPT re: suicide/psychosis as compared to stuff like Panera Lemonade is because people are inclined to blame it on mental illness versus the tech, a kind of victim-blaming mentality that fits neatly into just world fallacy

There is some serious class action potential with OpenAI and the other LLMs. Not least because these products straight up can’t do many of the tasks they advertise and charge (exorbitantly) for. But also, the suicide. abc7news.com/post/openai-...

Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market. This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.

Why is the maple leaf black on the hockey sweater?

yup

Ross Douthat right now: