Look the mayor of Vaughan and the Premier of Ontario have said drivers are hard done by. Give them a break.

She was thrown under a streetcar when a car driver knocked her off her bike. Her case was withdrawn. The mass withdrawal of road safety-related charges has become routine, the result of an overwhelmed court system leaving millions in fines on the table and letting dangerous drivers off the hook.

Ontario-based Algoma Steel Group Inc. will receive $500 million in federal and provincial loan assistance to help reorient its business to cope with the impact of U.S. tariffs. globalnews.ca/news/1145581...

Canada has listed the Bishnoi gang as a terrorist entity. This continues the trend of both listing criminal groups as terrorists and the politicization of our listings process. A short (grumpy) thread: www.canada.ca/en/public-sa...

“Russia paid 4 Moldovan Orthodox priests to make Moscow pilgrimages & gave them debit cards loaded with $$$$ on their return home. In exchange, priests created Telegram channels to influence Moldova's elections, warning against integration w/ the EU & promoting traditional values over ‘gay Europe.’”

And new paper out: Pleias 1.0: the First Family of Language Models Trained on Fully Open Data How we train an open everything model on a new pretraining environment with releasable data (Common Corpus) with an open source framework (Nanotron from HuggingFace). www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Lindisfarne Calm, painting by Scottish artist Deborah Phillips. #WomensArt

Canada Proud is a white supremacist neonazi terrorist group. That says everything you need to know about PP. #cdnpoli

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

A much more worthwhile effort than traffic enforcement workers and police. 👏🏼 #toronto

Ontario's patient ombudsman says in a new report that medical supply shortages last fall for palliative and home care patients were triggered by one vendor, but the actions and inactions of a government agency contributed. #OnPoli globalnews.ca/news/1144875...

U.S. launches anti-dumping investigation into Canadian mushroom industry. Canadian growers say the trade imbalance favours them because they've modernized production, unlike their American competitors. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/eco...

YouTube removed a channel that was dedicated to posting AI-generated videos of women being shot in the head following 404 Media’s request for comment. The videos were clearly generated with Google’s new AI video generator tool. 🔗 www.404media.co/ai-generated...

Science saves lives. #science www.bbc.com/news/article...

The opc supporters are simply selfish and/or jaded. There’s not a lot of room to explain why a person would vote for a party that worsens the ailing healthcare system and education of Ontario. Were they bad before? Yes. Are they worse now? Yes. #onpoli

We're counterprotesting a hate rally attempting to target trans kids' healthcare. Details in the poster.

I encourage everyone to write to your representatives and elections canada about this. A college student alleged their school made them do free political campaigning for the CPC, even alluding to helping the student with their residency. This should be bigger. #cdnpoli

Robo call scandal and now this? The CPC is a scam and the school should be fined. #cdnpoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Canada formally recognise State of Palestine. #cdnpoli #palestine www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/stat...

An excellent read.

As the long-delayed Finch West LRT progresses, TTCriders calls for timelines, an opening date, and a public inquiry into what went so wrong with Eglinton and Finch West's procurement, design and construction. ⬇️ toronto.citynews.ca/video/2025/0...

Toronto has over 200 publicly owned surface parking lots. This is where they are and how much they make per day per space. 92 of them being in less than $4 per space per day. Time to find something better to do with them. schoolofcities.github.io/underutilize...

Almost 700 people - plus 21 organizations - have signed the petition calling on Mayor Olivia Chow & City Council to bring back open streets by 2026. Please sign if you haven't already done so and share widely! #BikeTO #WalkTO #ActiveTO #OpenStreetsTO #TOpoli tinyurl.com/OpenStreetsP...

New city report says city trucks have no choice but to drive on the grass to pick up garbage in 186 parks. Reasons cited include “remote bin placement” and "High Pedestrian and Cyclist Usage on Paved Pathways.” secure.toronto.ca/council/agen...

"The ‘five Ps’ — that threaten science & scientists: plutocrats, petrostates, pros (specialists who use their credentials to promote disingenuous, and lucrative, contrarian views), propagandists and the press" @michaelemann.bsky.social @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...

While "Nearly half of white students admitted to Harvard between 2009 and 2014 were legacy students" "or Dean’s Interest List—a list of applicants whose relatives have donated to Harvard, the existence of which only became public knowledge in 2018 75% of them would not have been admitted otherwise

When it’s a few thousands dollar vs chronic underfunding, you know it’s a distraction. It takes time and real work to fix the education problem. But that does not get easy political score. #onpoli

Millions of Canadians continue to struggle with a ballooning affordability crisis as unemployment worsens, according to a new report.

PM @mark-carney.bsky.social , MP @evansolomon.bsky.social , i don’t understand the standing ovation for a hateful extremist influencer from a foreign country. Especially when our own intelligence report highlighted his rhetorics incited violence. The very violence we saw in a nazi march in Niagra.

2022 CSIS report on ideologically motivated violent extremism in Canada exclusively highlights right-wing extremism as the source of concerns for violence against people. publicorderemergencycommission.ca/files/overvi...

The latest CMHC data is out, and Ontario continues to struggle. Ontario housing starts were down 4% in August 2025 compared to 2024. So far this year, starts are down 23% in Ontario. Yet, they're up 4% nationally, even with the drop in Ontario. #ONpoli globalnews.ca/news/1140731...

Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide. As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire. End the genocide. Ceasefire now.

I have no sympathy for this. Annex residents complain that the a bikeway one street over has increased traffic on their street, but they don't want their street traffic calmed, they just want the bikeway ripped out. A failure of imagination.

Matt Elliott digs into data from Toronto's speed cameras and discovers that they are no cash grab. In fact, they are letting a lot of speeders off the hook www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

What violence on pedestrians and non-drivers look like. Blood on premier Doug Ford. #onpoli

On The Current just now, Matt Galloway amplified that Kirk’s shooter was “radicalized by the left” and “has a transgender romantic partner“ as motives for the shooting. Left as-is, no questions.

"A number of right-wing influencers and convoy personalities in Canada were also seen sharing or interacting with Williams’ fake posts before they were taken down, including a senior adviser to Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre."

Brian Kilmeade’s “just kill them” comment about homeless people is vile, but the fact that his co-hosts didn’t even blink is equally chilling. It’s a reminder of Karl Popper’s Paradox of Tolerance: if we tolerate the intolerant, we risk letting their toxic views erode the very foundation of society

In their Feb 2025 press release, Loblaws says “Revenue was $61,014 million, an increase of $1,485 million, or 2.5%” So sure, let’s all get those $25 bread theft rebates but don’t think this is justice 😐

Cat’s out of the bag: the LNG expansion was actually ready to go some time ago. The problem: the economic of it hasn’t worked out. Canada LNG is too expensive to compete globally. #cdnpoli #o&g #lng www.cbc.ca/news/science...

Massive anti hate crowd in the pits. Small Canada first group is on the run.

Is the electric vehicle mandate another tax? I sorted through some of the claims and misinformation that seem to be emerging on this #climate policy. #cdnpoli www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

This is why pm @mark-carney.bsky.social bill c-2 is dangerous. theintercept.com/2025/09/13/m... #cdnpoli

Rage farmer concerned about bountiful harvest. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Coastal wildflowers Whitby Agfa Vista (from Poundland, if you recall…) camera unknown. #Fotospeed PG Lustre paper, 5x7 #PrintYourWork