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

The older I get, the more my politics mature from childish, naïve beliefs like "the world is complicated and leaders have to make hard decisions" to more serious, adult principles like "hurting people is bad and helping people is good."

One of my neighbors has been putting up these fish facts posters. All kinds of different fish, marine, freshwater, deep, shallow, all kinds. This is a good one. “Stg this real fish” took me out. Good work, neighbor.

September 17, 2024.

Our episode with Ontario NDP leader Marit Stiles is now available on podcast platforms. If you missed the YouTube premiere last night, you can stream it on demand. #onpoli

A reminder on #WorldAIDSDay that after promising not to cut foreign aid during the election, Carney is cutting $2.7B in foreign aid, including a 17% cut to our contribution to the Global Fund that helps prevent AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria. It's the first cut ever to the Fund.

I love this movie. And every year I talk about what a great primer it is for effective fundraising. So this year I wrote about it!

Breaking: An Epstein survivor just silenced press conference attendees when she delivered the following remarks: “Today we stand in a moment that will decide whether our government belongs to the American people, or to those who prey on them.”

Pivot to ‘economic reconciliation’ risks ‘squandering’ political goodwill as Indigenous social programs face funding gaps: observers www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/1...

Chief of the General Staff of the Polish Armed Forces Wieslaw Kukula: “Poland is in a pre-war stage,” Russia has begun preparing for war with Poland. At this time it is conducting cyberattacks & acts of sabotage on Polish soil. Several countries including France have sent jets to boost defences.

You can help fund the Trillium's investigation. www.thetrillium.ca/account/supp...

Why does Ford's brand of fiscal management almost always involve the police? #onpoli

Really wish I had gotten a better shot of this but holding a phone that says “who else was just ‘following orders’?” up to a riot cop is hard as hell

This is how every contract is award in Ontario - donate to Ford, and you'll be promised a contract, years before the project even enters the RFP process. globalnews.ca/news/1152044...

Lessons from Mamdani's win for progressives: - Be truly & proudly progressive - Be clear & authentic - Focus on affordability - Make young people voters - Seek & build new coalitions - Engage non-traditional media - Punch back against disinfo #nycmayor

The Ontario Liberal Leadership Dilemma #queenspark #ontarioliberal #OLPAGM #the905 #onpoli #cdnpoli #podcast buff.ly/Efy5KWH

Newsom, like Starmer, believes in nothing, and turning on the trans community for an edge *when it's not even clear it will give you one* really answers any questions you might have about the accuracy of that statement

Some advice from me for the incoming members of the Ontario Liberal Party's Executive Council: theresa-lubowitz.medium.com/some-advice-...

illinois gov. JB pritzker responds to ken paxton's threat to arrest TX democrats who fled the state: "they're here in illinois. we're going to do everything we can to protect every single one of them."

Total estimated Canada #wildfire emissions to end July already marking 2025 as 3rd most extreme year in #CopernicusAtmosphere GFAS dataset. Most extreme year for Saskatchewan & Manitoba with no sign of the number of fires reducing across the country. Read our @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social summary ⬇️

Okay, mea culpa, I finally got around to listening to @theresalubowitz.bsky.social chat with @bonniecrombie.bsky.social on her #podcast. It’s a great listen and insight into what went wrong for the Ontario Liberals last time around #onpoli #cdnpoli podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/p...

"A person hit by a vehicle travelling at 30 kilometres an hour has a 90-per-cent chance of surviving... A person hit at 50 kilometres an hour has only a 20-per-cent chance of living." www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/edit...

For those interested, you can now watch my full, nearly 70-minute long conversation with OLP Leader Bonnie Crombie on the campaign and the leadership review -> www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdU3... #onpoli #olpldr #cdnpoli

Our 70 minute episode with Bonnie Crombie on the election and the leadership review will premiere in video format on YouTube today at noon. Click the notify button to be notified when we go live: youtu.be/zdU3Htj1TXI?si…

This isn’t the female gaze. This is the male gaze. It’s men who are obsessed with the physicality of other men. Women, in the main, would much rather see a man who looks like he’d make himself a stack of buttered toast and let you steal a slice

A lot of interesting data out from @pollara.bsky.social in their annual Trust in Media Report. But I suspect this one is the headline-maker politically: Despite a multi-year campaign against the CBC by Conservatives, the public broadcaster remains the most trusted news desk by Canadians.

Available now!

fantastic policy change. techcrunch.com/2025/07/09/y...

It's Sunday, so I want to highlight the most important thing I've read this week. It's by Timothy Snyder and it's on a topic not enough people are paying attention to: how Trump now has his Dachau. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

#toronto response to #heatwave is to do the least possible. Starting at noon on Saturday, July 5, 2025 and while the Heat Warning is in effect, Metro Hall will operate as a 24/7 cool space. (One site for all of Toronto. Not advertised or promoted.). Web site not even updated. Shabby.

These people are… evil. In a self-conscious, gloating way that we don’t like to imagine exists outside comic books or history’s darkest chapters.

Damn, it looks just like the photos of the disappeared that were put up by relatives in the South American dictatorships

The feds do not MERELY hand money over. the Canada Health Act is responsible for ensuring coverage meets certain criteria If the Liberals fail to do this, they are breaking the Canada Health Act So long as the CHA exists, healthcare is both federal and provincial in practice.

Report: UFC confirms plans for event at White House in 2026 reut.rs/44rN4ZX

This is sooooo dumb but it made me laugh…

This week we sit down with former Deputy Premier of Alberta Thomas Lukaszuk to discuss the anti-separation referendum petition he has submitted to Elections Alberta. The episode will be available tomorrow wherever you get your podcasts! #Separatism #Alberta #cdnpoli #abpoli

Meanwhile, also happening in Florida…

Cruelty is their goal, they enjoy the cruelty inflicted on vulnerable people.

In today's episode, we tackle the upcoming OLP leadership review to determine whether Bonnie Crombie will remain as leader. Available wherever you get your podcasts! #onpoli open.spotify.com/episode/7HfZ...

We're releasing a Wrap-Up: Ontario episode on the upcoming Ontario Liberal Party leadership review vote tomorrow morning! Here's a clip from the episode. Listen wherever you get your podcasts! #ProgressCanada #olpldr #onpoli

Listen in tomorrow morning when the pod drops for more hot takes, unsolicited advice, and a little silliness from Darrell, Theresa and I about Bonnie Crombie's September leadership review vote. Subscribe on Spotify here: open.spotify.com/show/6Etut7t... #onpoli #progresscanada #cdnpoli #olp

city councillors when nobody but septuagenarian homevoters show up: this is the finest tradition of local democracy at work city councillors when literally anyone else shows up: well that's not REAL public consultation

Mentorship isn’t always glamorous. But it’s essential to political movements. It’s how values survive, lessons are learned, and teams are rebuilt after defeat. Here's my take on this unsung legacy of the Peterson era. thepetersonyears.ca/how-a-40-yea... #ThePetersonYears

he's right and he's right to say it

Venetians plan to march in the streets, swim in the canals to disrupt Jeff Bezos's wedding While some Venetians welcome the lavish party, others see it as a symbol of inequality and over-tourism www.cbc.ca/radio/asitha...

JUST IN: "Tonight was not our night," Cuomo says before adding that he has called Mamdani to congratulate him.

The NYC mayor's race can be boiled down to old-guard moderates running against younger, energetic candidates with ambitious — often expensive — ideas. It's the same dynamic that will likely play out across the country over the next few years.

Pandemics, eugenics and fascism go hand in hand. The moment people accepted the narrative that “only the vulnerable” had to worry about covid, they ceded considerable ground to fascists. They effectively “othered” an entire class of people. It may start with the disabled, it won’t end with us