Hoffman is Hoffmanning.

I visited in 2014, so it’s only been 12 years for me. But as the Tiffany’s salesman said, it gives one a sense of solidarity, almost of continuity with the past. Now I’ll pivot to wondering if there’s still women’s underwear hanging from the fence post outside Stompin’ Tom’s old school.

And *boy* did Canadians find a Third Way bullshitter to move into 24 Sussex Drive: Mark Carney, an austerity-crazed central banker who will endorse *incredibly* progressive policies...provided he never has to *do* any of them. 7/

Toronto is a great city. It has to be, to survive the idiots in charge.

Carney is too busy thinking up ways to make America great again to help Cuba, as much as I’m certain Canada has what Cuba needs.

Under no circumstances do I consent to "help make America great again".

You know what stinks about being a copyeditor? You find out that Chevrolet introduced the Biscayne for the 1958 model year and now your eyelid twitches uncontrollably every time you hear Joni Mitchell sing “Raised on Robbery.”

The city chose not to fight what could've been a winning battle on this. Shameful. www.thestar.com/news/gta/how...

Enough is enough. “Douglas” and I are sick of AI slop poisoning the local discourse. It’s time to restore some integrity to the TO election. Sign the petition to explore introducing guidelines re: Gen AI use by candidates and advocacy groups: www.change.org/p/stop-the-s...

Reducing our dependency on the US if necessary, but not necessarily reducing our dependency on the US. Also, apparently Canada is open for business. Does that hit differently coming from a PhD than from a community college dropout? www.thestar.com/politics/mar...

Oil & gas is only 5% of Canada's GDP. So, if you're single issue voter with no macro analysis and think strictly of the economy, the math still isn't mathing.

I knew Guilbeault was an environmentalist but I only realized today that he's the one who got arrested for scaling the CN tower back in 2001 in protest of US/Canada environmental policies. How many more environmentalists need to come out against Carney's policies before people start listening?

Yeah, this is totally what Chrétien, McMurtry and Romanow had in mind when they drew it up. Also, you turdburglar, it’s not “section 33 of the notwithstanding clause.” Section 33 of the Charter IS the notwithstanding clause. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

wild to turn on ctv and see the globe & mail’s queens park bureau chief calling steven guilbeault an environmental extremist. this country is so fucked on the climate front. mark carney is legitimizing a form of climate denial on all levels.

Utter horseshit from the military of a shithole country.

But it also illustrates the differences between “left” messaging and “centre-right” messaging.

It’s unintentionally hilarious that Chow is touting her achievements on cost, crime and congestion, which are literally Bradford’s 3 C’s, just in a different order.

Could’ve done without the bullet point about hiring 720 more cops. But I guess it plays well with the centrists.

"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

It’s time to play “Trump vs. Carney: Can you spot the difference??” 🤷🏼 (courtesy of @tryangregory.bsky.social)

This guy virtue signals as enthusiastically as his predecessor, on whose watch the project started.

I honestly do not understand how you make the country strong by selling critical infrastructure

And now, for the 468,000th consecutive time, here’s Kate Bush with “Running Up That Hill.”

“Get a better job” is not the answer to people being unable to pay their bills. Even if you get a better job, your previous job will still have crappy pay, and the person who fills your spot will be the one with that crappy pay. Individual solutions do not solve systemic problems.

These 14 malcontents can go and sit as independents if they have any problem with this brilliant man and his infallible vision. Carney is a great political tactician who could easily attract 14 replacements from the opposition benches. /s

And while I’m at it, to hell with the mayor for voting for this. Time to shit or get off the pot. Are you running for reelection or not? And if you are, maybe it’s not a good look to vote for harebrained motions by your opponent. Being absent is a strategic option you’ve taken before.

Narrator: It will.

And fuck Perks for voting yes to this. Glad he’s retiring.

Bradford is in IntegrityTOelection mode but Kandevel? During his scandal? After his belly aching populism that the suburbs are different than the core, votes no on a downtown intiative that has nothing to do with him. You love to see it in realtime.

David Wallace-Wells is spot on here, and — although I doubt he would put it this way — for me this means that the leadership class is revealing how comfortable they are with mass death, whether in Gaza or on our future planet, so long as it upholds the system from which they benefit most.

(1/4) By now it’s unsurprising that Carney’s Liberals are openly anti-worker, repeatedly caving to corporate interests and violating the right to strike through Section 107 of the Canada Labour Code. www.thestar.com/politics/fed...

Fuck Bradford for voting no.

Strong leadership is the farthest thing from what we'd have if this slaphead were in the mayor's chair.

That would be another job his dad used to have, so...

Hey students, you’ve been told. You don’t matter. See, City Council is where the truth shines bright.

Like Paula Fletcher, Neethan Shan is another mediocrity the NDP has inflicted on Toronto City Council.

Do fuck off, James. Line 5. Line 6. The Scarborough subway extension. GO train electrification. Metrolinx is incompetent. The province’s record is abysmal. Even the TTC’s work on the Spadina extension looks sterling by comparison.

City staff taking Metrolinx’s word for it… hmm.

Fletcher voted against a 26-storey building on Broadview? What, will it cast shadows on the high-rises on Cambridge?

Hey Gord, maybe we should scrap the minimum-temperature bylaw as well. It must be an undue hardship for landlords to have to maintain and eventually replace furnaces.

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

Shithole country.

Seriously, fuck this guy. Up the workers. www.thestar.com/politics/fed...

“Look, Eby, you’re on record as supporting LNG terminals and opening new mines. All I’m saying is let’s add some oil tanker traffic to really finish the job.”

Truly, the last thing I want is to be posting about Carney as much as I am. It's just the bad stuff seems to be accelerating. Nihilistic climate policy walk backs. Drastic deregulation of pesticides. Pushing a whole population of whales closer to extinction. I could go on. It's upsetting.

Look, I live in Fletcher’s ward and I don’t like her one bit, but could somebody good and decent please, please run against Colle? I’d also accept a reasonable challenger to Fletcher, but since she’s the NDP’s anointed candidate for life, that would be too much to hope for.

The waterfront is not for $5M condos or $3M condos, but by gum, it sure as stink is for $2500/month studios.

Matlow’s an interesting no vote on this.

Honestly going to miss the Perks Putdowns.

Zing!