On June 13, the Moss Park safe consumption site will be shut down, along with 7 other sites in Ontario. @emmapaling.bsky.social has been reporting from the site for 18 months. She goes inside Moss Park during the final days of the city’s first safe consumption site. thelocal.to/moss-park-sa...

Closing the doors to #SafeConsumptionAndTreatmentSites will sever the only trusted connection many who are struggling have to mental health support, addiction treatment, primary care, and housing. Write to your MPP to save SCTS https://ottawamission.com/get-involved/advocacy/advocacy-cta-2026-scts/#SafeConsumptionAndTreatmentSites

The left is faltering in our response to antisemitism, argues Jordy Cummings. It must show up with principled, consistent solidarity. Anything else is a betrayal of the left’s historic responsibility—and a missed opportunity to win Jewish people to anti-Zionism. breachmedia.ca/the-lefts-op...

Canada exported $14.6 million worth of military goods to Israel last year. Total of 50 military export permits were utilized to sell these goods. Military goods were shipped *despite* Canada stating that it paused approvals of some new military export permits. www.readthemaple.com/canada-expor...

Canada's biggest labour body has voted to cut ties with its Israeli counterpart. How Palestine activists eked out a win at the Canadian Labour Congress: pressprogress.ca/clc-histadru...

Thousands of OPSEU community support workers strike across Ontario.

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

Niagara Parks employees, members of OPSEU Local 217 Niagara Falls, will be in a legal strike position as of 12:01 a.m. on May 28 as they demand fair wages.

Demand governments move beyond words and take concrete measures to end Israel’s impunity, including by imposing sanctions. The Freedom Flotilla Coalition reaffirms that Israeli violence will not deter us. Together we will #breakthesiege of Gaza, Palestine! freedomflotilla.org/2026/05/21/v...

Kill a Native to be held up as the victim. Only in an apartheid state.

The only thing people hate more than AI are the sociopaths shoving it down our throats.

Today, delegates at the CLC voted overwhelmingly in support of the amended resolution that calls on the CLC to cut ties with the Histadrut. In doing so, they voted to stand in solidarity with Palestine against Israeli occupation, apartheid, and genocide. www.labourforpalestine.com/statements/h...

Therme's bid to build a spa at Ontario Place cited Aecon as a ‘construction partner,’ according to a document obtained by the Star, but no partnership existed.

My God, it's like Ontario Political Corruption Bingo

May 5 is Red Dress Day, the national day of awareness and remembrance for missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and 2SLGBTQ+ people. Today is about honouring those taken and recognizing the ongoing impact on families and communities.

Never been so tempted to join TikTok before.

I’m running for City Council in Parkdale—High Park. I’m running because our neighbours deserve a councillor who has walked alongside them, fought for them, and knows how to turn community demands into real wins at City Hall. Join me at www.dianachanmcnally.ca.

After 40+ years of failed austerity politics and privatization, we're somehow still touting that we can "reduce costs" by handing over public services to for-profit, privatized entities. www.thestar.com/politics/car...

Broadcasting from the 3rd floor of Hart House, CIUT FM is as anti-establishment as it was the day it launched in 1987. In our next issue, a handful of staff & on-air volunteers tell us why working at the station still feels like a radical experience. www.westendphoenix.com/subscription...

When you give Toronto cops $1.4 billion per year, they have a lot of resources to waste.

On a new 🌾 @albertaadvantage.bsky.social 🌾 the team examine the province's reactionary backlash targeting trans people and children and unpack how it may be rooted in the cultural construction of childhood and education. albertaadvantagepod.com/2026/04/16/i...

Doug bought himself a #GravyPlane.

Columnist Jennifer Laewetz writes about Mark Carney's comment that Canada was forged on 'accomodation not assimilation.'

A tournament that’s been hosted by all manner of despots, fascists, and villains was never joyless. The joy has always been FIFA’s secret sauce. This is the first time there will be a joyless World Cup. Everything he touches….

When people are like, "Where is the money for X going to come from?" I'm like, the police budget. The money you are looking for is in the police budget. It's in police contracts (many of which mandate an annual increase--PVD's does) & police pensions, but it's also in things like the supply budget

A worker died at an Amazon warehouse in Oregon last week. For more than an hour, workers were instructed to continue working as the man lay dead. One worker wanted to help, but a manager told them to “Just turn around and not look. Let’s get back to work," according to @thewesternedge.bsky.social.

The testimony here about sexual violence by Israel against Palestinian prisoners is so beyond the pale everyone must see it. It is so bad I can’t in good conscience share a quote other than the headline, which somehow manages to understate the horror within. www.middleeasteye.net/news/i-wishe...

Hungary election live: Viktor Orbán concedes defeat in Hungarian election after 16 years in power

Today marks the 150th anniversary of the Indian Act. Over on @activehist.bsky.social, we’re running a year-long series examining its controversial history. Here’s the series introduction I contributed to: activehistory.ca/blog/2026/01...

Protesters rallied on Saturday to protest the end to Ontario's funding for supervised consumption sites announced for June 13. #HarmReduction

The orphan well inventory is way up. The orphan well levy is not. #ableg thenarwhal.ca/alberta-orph...

The great Pierre Houde 🐐 calling Cole Caufield’s 50th Habs goal of the season tonight at the Bell Centre

A rally was held in Toronto earlier this week by leaders and community members from Grassy Narrows and Wabaseemoong First Nation to seek an end to the consequences they have suffered from mercury poisoning in their river system.

The headlines are getting more truthful.

01-04-1903 CANADA: In Montréal, more than 2000 longshoremen go on strike at the beginning of the shipping season in the port. Militia are called out, and crowds rally to support the strikers. After five weeks, they win union recognition and more pay. montrealgazette.com/news/provinc...

In 1976, Israel killed 6 unarmed Palestinians protesting Israeli land seizures - the day is commemorated annually as Land Day. Since then, Israeli land seizures have multiplied and illegal settlements have eaten up the occupied West Bank amid regular settler attack. #Infograph

The brother of the Heated Rivalry casting director is now leader of Canada’s left party.

To every volunteer, donor, organizer and NDP member who helped power this history-making movement: thank you. We are building a new foundation for our party, and we are ready to come roaring back on the Canadian political stage. Let’s get to work!

Harm reduction saves lives. The Ontario government's decision to cut all public funding for supervised consumption sites in the province is a deadly policy decision that will result in more deaths from overdoses. Supervised consumption sites are a healthcare service for people who use drugs.

As a (former) labour rep, I've been saying this for years. Profit is secondary to control and power. Capitalists don't hate unions for hurting profit; they hate unions for taking control from them and putting it in the hands of workers. Accept this and a lot more about our world makes sense.

Venezuela wins the World Baseball Classic

What a time of cruelty we live in, where we systematically strip away the very few resources we allocate for people with the least resources, the least rights: inmates, refugees, migrants, homeless people, and people who use drugs. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

It serves a political purpose to create the problem of open air drug use across Ontario, especially in an urban centre like Toronto. Conservatives can claim that "crime is everywhere!" and weaponize the public's fear — no matter that they created the problem. No matter that thousands will die.

We are deeply concerned by reports that military commanders are framing the Iran war as “God’s plan” and invoking Armageddon in official briefings. Service members swear an oath to the Constitution — not to any religion. We are reviewing these reports and will demand accountability.

OMFG they think we are the dumbest people who ever lived.

I know I should be an old bitter Gen Xer complaining about the kids, but they're growing on me.

Each and every day.

No Crosby, no gold. Damn.

In the Toronto Star I write about Toronto Police's violent corruption scandal. Will it move the needle on police reform? It's a dramatic escalation in a long history of police intimidation, bullying their critics & broken trust. I argue 3 big things have to happen, including firing this chief.

Pierre Crinon hammered MacKinnon and threw down Wilson. I was impressed.