Last week, I had a chance to sit down with Shawn Jeffords to speak about the state of Ontario politics and the Liberal leadership race. #onpoli #olpldr www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

If you missed it, I've shared my thoughts on some immediate steps the Ontario Liberal Party can take to improve its nomination meetings and how it communicates with members #onpoli open.substack.com/pub/progress...

If you missed it, this weekend's episode of Progress Canada is all about rebuilding the #CBC and features a long-form chat with former Parliamentary Bureau Chief Chris Waddell. It's a great look at what we're getting right and wrong in Canadian media. youtu.be/_SE77AgAf6k

Shawn Jeffords asked for my take on the state of the Ontario Liberal Party in the wake of the nomination contest in Scarborough. You can read it on the CBC site here: cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Completed my civic duty! Don't forget to complete your Census by May 12! #Census2026

Ontario Liberals and political nerds: The Progress Canada Podcast will be releasing hour-long interviews with the #OLPLDR hopefuls every Wednesday in May. Subscribe on YouTube or your fave pod platform to catch 'em all. #onpoli

Today marks a year since the Liberals won the 2025 election. You can check out my 90 minute conversation with Campaign Director Andrew Bevan on YouTube or your favourite podcast platform: youtu.be/I7ckJ5u0Whs?...

Coming very soon! 🔍

This has to be one of theodt harrowing things I've ever read. Please read it. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/o...

With the #olpldr race officially kicking off, I want Liberals to know that I am inviting the leadership candidates onto the Progress Canada Podcast for hour-long interviews on why they should be the next Premier of Ontario. Some are already scheduled. More to come! #onpoli

After the commander of the Artemis II Moon mission sent me a tweet shortly after landing back on Earth, I got to spend the weekend reading thousands of responses from people all over the world who were moved by this mission. You can read my piece here: theresalubowitz.substack.com/p/we-rise-hi...

Well this has made my year. 🌎👨‍🚀

Dropping tonight at 8:30PM ET on YouTube and tomorrow morning on podcast platforms, here's our supersized 95-minute episode with veteran strategist Brian Topp on the path forward for the NDP after choosing a new leader this weekend. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ei_k... #ndp #cdnpoli

"The truth is that Nazi officials were one of the driving forces behind these policies. These policies weren’t designed to stop the fascists. They were designed by the fascists." time.com/6998445/nazi...

Let's be clear - this means Poilievre is okay with every female Canadian athlete being forced to undergo genetic testing to compete in the Olympics. What ever happened to Conservatives being the party of freedom?

How Doug Ford is tackling rising poverty.

How Doug Ford is tackling youth unemployment.

Carney has made reshaping Canada’s place in the world a signature priority, but the federal government plans to cut the budget of the diplomats charged with implementing that vision by $1.83-billion, according to government documents. www.hilltimes.com?p=495776

Ford isn't unbeatable. He has good timing. He's only hit 40+ during: - His first year in office - The first year of COVID - After ending COVID mandates - When Trump launched tariffs When he's has to wear his record, his folksy mask falls and his poll numbers crater.

Youth unemployment is the canary in the coal mine of the broader economy. Yet few are paying attention. That's why we've created The Youth Jobs Scorecard. It provides a data-driven audit of how Canada’s premiers are managing the economic future of the next generation.

I'm over at Gander Social now, who else is there?

With the NDP leadership race ending in March, our National Wrap-Up panel convenes to dissect the state of the contest following the final debate in BC. Watch on YouTube at 12:00PM ET: youtu.be/c8l7-Pdzy54 (Scheduled between Canada's two medal matches in curling today!)

Very cool to see how many languages #CBC translates hockey game into. I was born on Moose Factory Island, home of the Moose Cree First Nation. So many homes there are decorated in hockey colours because kids are hockey obsessed (the Cheechoo family hails from there). #olympics

No matter the result, Poulin is the Greatest of All Time. (Clarkson Cup, Ottawa, March 5, 2017)

Doug Ford slashed and burned the post-secondary system in Ontario. Now he's raiding student grants to come up with enough funding to prevent the entire system from collapsing. Young people will pay the price. Read more on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/progress...

#OLPLDR details: 🖱️ Online voting 🗳️ One-member-one-vote 🗓️ Feb 9 & July 3 official calls 💰 $150K candidate fee 🫰25% party tithe 🗓️ Nomination deadline July 31 🗓️ Membership deadline Sept 7 👨‍🎓 Student deadline Sept 25 🗓️ Final voting date Nov 20 🥇 Winner reveal Nov 21 #onpoli

I spent some time with NDP leadership Q4 2025 fundraising data this afternoon. The full analysis is available on our Progress Canada Substack: progresscanada.substack.com/p/what-q4-fu... #ndp #ndpldr #cdnpoli

Ontario Liberal friends - on Sunday, February 8 (the eve of the start of the leadership race), tune in to my conversation with former Ontario Premier David Peterson about rebuilding provincial liberalism. Hit 'Notify Me' on YouTube to get a reminder --> www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCA1...

As I do every year, I've compiled a list of #oscars nominations and their availability on Canadian streaming services, so you can get caught up before the ceremony on March 15. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Word of the day: kafkaesliue

While others laughed, some of us saw very clearly who he was 10 years ago.

Cat wandered in front of the camera during the #aurora long exposure

Over the last year, I've been taking a number of policy courses on the global Arctic. A big focus was the impact of climate change on sea ice and shipping routes. /1

"Damn right, he’s got the blues… and the scars to show for it. ' variety.com/2025/music/n... #HATM

Noga Landau knows what she's doing with shows about young adults. Spotted this reference immediately. #StarfleetAcademy

Very excited about this.

The Ontario Liberal Party has confirmed that Bonnie Crombie is stepping down as leader immediately and will not wait until the end of the still yet to be started leadership race.

Connor and Hudson present the award for Best Female Supporting Actor - Television!

These remind me of the Antarctic Hägglunds I got to ride in several years ago in Christchurch that they use during Antarctic expeditions.

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.

This was also true of the Beer Hall Putsch, as I pointed out back in 2021. Hitler was hardly punished then turned his eyes to electoral victory instead of violent insurrection. He quickly consolidated total control after taking power. America is now approaching that same moment.

If you think what's happening in Venezuela doesn't matter to Canadian sovereignty, I'll remind you that Canada is the world's 4th largest oil extracting nation (Venezuela is 18th) and that Alberta separatists have publicly stated that they are regularly meeting with US officials.

Across the country, again and again, the numbers told the same story: Either “business activity remained pretty much constant,” Liu says, or “certain types of businesses became much more prosperous.”

Mark Carney will not stumble because he lacks intelligence or seriousness. He risks stumbling if he grows impatient with the need to explain himself to the public and earn permission in plain language. My latest: open.substack.com/pub/davidco...

We should have implemented a universal basic income in 1975 and indexed it to grow as productivity grew. That was the only realistic way of ensuring that productivity growth benefited all of us. To this day, UBI remains the most important thing to start to make sure we *ALL* benefit from GDP growth.

It's our year end episode, where we go over what were the top stories of 2025 and what expect out of 2026. With @theresalubowitz.bsky.social and @nathanielarfin.bsky.social #the905 #onpoli #cdnpoli #podcast buff.ly/c4iUuTa