MPP Chris Scott has been charged with assault and assault with a weapon. He is innocent until proven guilty. If convicted and sentenced to more than two years in prison, S. 750 of the Criminal Code includes some consequences substantially above and beyond jail time for those who hold public office.

Love the idea that releasing the MANDALORIAN trailer this morning is a Disney distraction -- do you people know how many departments were involved with this thing? How many different companies had to sign off on every single frame? Not everything is a corporate conspiracy! Just most things!

Links for September 21st, 2025 johnmcgrath.substack.com/p/links-for-...

look I know what "clinched" means but this team lately all I can think is DON'T JINX IT

America's beef cattle herd is the smallest in 75 years, in part because of drought. Beef imports are also down, because of tariffs. Unsurprisingly, beef prices are at record highs www.npr.org/2025/09/18/n...

Thinking about the Beltway reporters who in January told CJR they were relieved to have Trump back because he fed them more snackable content www.cjr.org/political_pr...

New from me at TVO, on the nuclear energy debate coming to the floor of this weekend's NDP meeting. www.tvo.org/article/anal...

Can anyone be surprised by a surge in US coke use during the presidency of a man defined by the '80s? www.wsj.com/world/americ...

Last night my kid interviewed me about 9/11 and I told him about watching the towers fall and listening to my friend reporting on WNYC and watching a fight break out at a bar, then almost being killed by a drunk driver and today he’s like “whoops we were supposed to record it” and relatable

Snuggly dog is snuggly

Chrystia Freeland: Helped breathe life into the Trudeau era, then ended it. Probably the most important non-PM cabinet minister since Paul Martin. I look forward to her memoirs. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

heck of a slide from the new Ember report on cleantech ("electrotech"): ember-energy.org/latest-insig...

Just realized the president implied yesterday that fishermen should stay out of the water because the U.S. may think you have drugs and kill you, and it's just a blip that barely warrants coverage.

New from me at TVO, on Crombie's departure and also some commentary about K-Pop Demon Hunters. www.tvo.org/article/anal...

Links for September 14th, 2025: johnmcgrath.substack.com/p/links-for-...

American soybean farmers don’t have a single order from China as they head into harvest season. China usually buys 25% of the entire crop. Crisis looms for the farmers and there’s only one man responsible.

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

I cannot fathom why anyone would want to spend a chunk of the one life God gave them writing or arguing about Blueskyism

Discovering computer as an adult makes you go crazy. Discovering computer as a baby makes you go crazy. In all of human history, there will only ever be one generation to discover computer at the correct age: 13

T-shirt purchased at FanExpo Canada, available from chopshopgoods.com

<fanfare>The ONpoli podcast has returned, I have a new nerdy tshirt care of @vsmcgrath.bsky.social, all is well in the world*. *not all is well but the podcast is still back, please click www.youtube.com/watch?v=o72s...

Just got rid of a dusty PS2 & PS3 and a pile of games but this baby still works and if I have my way the Biped will inherit it.

New from me at TVO, urging the Premier to remember that federalism means he doesn't need Ottawa's permission. www.tvo.org/article/anal...

Good advice from @jerusalem.bsky.social. www.theargumentmag.com/p/a-man-was-...

A reminder that simply not posting is always an option.

Vacancy trutherism is just an expression of anti-housing sentiments. Add some handwaving about demographics and season with your preferred ideological spice mix and you are all set with some pseudo-scientific anti-housing talking points.

New from me at TVO, pondering one specific sentence in the Ontario Liberal Party's campaign post-mortem. www.tvo.org/article/anal...

Part of the reason why major developers hate Mamdani is *because* he's become increasingly YIMBY. They understand that liberalizing land use endangers their chokehold on the market.

For anyone who cares to pay attention, the fact that major developers are lining up behind the NIMBY mayoral candidate tells you a lot about real-world housing politics and who the real shills tend to be in local YIMBY/NIMBY fights. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/n...

Today, I wrote about the Crusader Kings-inspired vision of fatherhood presented to young (especially right-wing men) conflicting with the unglamorous reality of modern fatherhood. www.cartoonshateher.com/p/youll-kill...

Congress has the Epstein birthday card from Donald Trump www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

"Increasingly, I wonder whether we will be able to do science here in the future." NIH employees I heard from say things are very grim over there, but they welcome the push for a "fighting CR" to rein Trump in — or a government shutdown if not.

the maga constitution doesn’t allow any institution, public or private, to explicitly work to ameliorate racial inequality but allows the government to racially profile

Paying a COVID-era mortgage rate is the devil’s bargain version of the people that bought homes in the early 2010s. www.wsj.com/personal-fin...

You're not obliged to agree with or even like Klein and Thompson or ABUNDANCE but so much of the anti sentiment is unmoored from facts. Eg, arguing that K&T are ignorant of the fact that homeowners are a powerful political constituency. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

“People who were neutral about Bonnie were not neutral about Nate, so that helped her.” www.thetrillium.ca/news/politic...

"Tory feels he has unfinished business at city hall" My longstanding (unprovable) theory is that if Raildeck had survived as a public project Tory doesn't run in 2022, anoints Bailao his successor. He wants something big his name can go on. www.thestar.com/news/gta/if-...

This @washingtonpost.com editorial doesn’t make it past the second paragraph without a glaring (and telling) factual error. President Washington didn’t create the War Department in 1789; *Congress* did: www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...

typhoid dairy

WSJ reports RFK Jr has instructed HHS to link autism with Tylenol use during pregnancy and folate deficiency.

“Canadian industry cannot persuade its boards or banks to make the big investments needed to ramp up production in response to promises or press releases from Ottawa. Only contracts from government will move the production needle, and that is what NATO demands of Canada today.”

🚨EXCLUSIVE: Federal judges tell NBC News the Supreme Court has got to do a better job of explaining emergency rulings, with frequent decisions in favor of Trump at least appearing to validate harsh criticism of the judiciary at a time of rising threats: www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

Man of Tomorrow. In theatres July 9, 2027

The TTC built the entire Union-Eglinton subway in 5 years.

So much dystopia crammed into one headline www.404media.co/shein-luigi-...