Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has no business holding a referendum #Opinion

Here's a lovely story about someone falling in love in the way that falling in love often happens - when you weren't looking for it and it was the last thing you expected. www.thestar.com/life/travel/...

I spent yesterday combing through the social media history of Jesse Van Rootselaar, the 18-year-old responsible for a mass shooting at a B.C. school. It doesn't explain why the shooting occurred. But it hints at how it might have been prevented. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...

IT’S A BRAND-NEW EPISODE OF DEEP LEFT FIELD!!! This week, we go live to Dunedin where @gregorchisholm.bsky.social gives us the latest from #Bluejays camp. Hear attempts to pin Ross Atkins down on a question. Also, Closer controversy? And the mailbag!

Magna billionaire Frank Stronach’s sex assault trial begins. ‘She cried and repeatedly said no,’ Crown says

My cartoon in today's Toronto Star

On the tragedy in Tumbler Ridge: www.thestar.com/opinion/edit...

What Olivia Chow’s latest property tax hike has done to her approval rating

Ontario midwives should get pay increases, new mediator report says: ‘We have a burnout and attrition crisis’

Inflammatory claims about Tumbler Ridge shooter identity surge as elected official claims ‘trans violence’

Power and privilege exposed: Lessons from the Jeffrey Epstein files on moral failure #Opinion

Britney Spears sells the rights to her entire music catalogue

Motive remains unclear as RCMP releases more details about Tumbler Ridge shootings

Tumbler Ridge reels as survivors recount ordeal. Shooting leaves 9 dead, including suspect, mother and stepbrother

What’s Team Canada’s identity at these Olympics? This is a relaunch of the national team, and this version seems to be, be Canada. And be good enough that you can outplay your goalies until you find one who works. www.thestar.com/sports/olymp...

#Breaking: U.S. House votes to slap back Trump’s tariffs on Canada in rare bipartisan rebuke of White House agenda

Donald Trump is furious about the Gordie Howe bridge. See if you can follow his logic... #Opinion

James Van Der Beek, the ‘Dawson’s Creek’ star who later mocked his own hunky persona, has died at 48

These communities had been told they’d finally get recycling under Ontario’s new system. Instead, ‘It’s a big disappointment’

Bondi clashes with Democrats as she struggles to turn the page on Epstein files furor

#Breaking: Canadian ice dancers Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier win bronze medal

#Developing: Police identify 18-year-old female Jesse Van Rootselaar as Tumbler Ridge school shooter

Here’s my story on the unfortunate #Bluejays injury news that came out today:

The IOC reacted to Ukrainian luger Vladyslav Heraskevych's helmet depicting dead Ukrainians with a compromise that tells you a lot about where the IOC is going: they will compromise even in the face of a clearly indefensible war. www.thestar.com/sports/olymp...

Some thoughts on the US right-wing crash-out over the Olympics. "That so many Americans would rather lose while remaining ideologically disciplined speaks to a great many problems..." for @thestar.com. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Mark Carney’s tells Tumbler Ridge families, ‘The nation mourns with you’

The NHL is finally back at the Olympics after 12 long years. Team Canada will be put to the test

Hear those rumours of an election call? Here’s what’s really happening #Opinion from @stephenmaher.bsky.social

More than 16,000 Toronto students are at risk of suspension over vaccination records. Why some parents say they’re not to blame

Const. Timothy Barnhardt, denied bail in Project South, once pleaded guilty to ‘serious misconduct’ at a police tribunal. Here’s what happened

‘No way’: Nathaniel’s babysitter texted a friend that the toddler was not injured at her home, trial hears

From Kyiv to Paris and beyond, Tumbler Ridge mass shooting prompts grief, condolences

12-year-old Tumbler Ridge shooting victim ‘fighting for her life,’ mother says

Canadian figure skater Stephen Gogolev is ready to break out on Olympic ice. Off the ice? Not so much #Opinion

A person has been detained for questioning in the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, AP sources say

#Developing: 10 dead, including suspect, in shootings at school and home in Tumbler Ridge, B.C.

Carney government to select private-sector ‘strategic partners’ in new defence industry strategy: source

‘Multiple victims’ in school shooting in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., police say

King Charles III seeks ‘moral high ground’ with pledge to help police as Epstein scandal deepens

Quite obviously the next episode of Deep Left Field, which was going to be about #Bluejays spring training opening, will be centred on the Santander/Bieber news. Have your voice heard by filling up the mailbag at [email protected]!

The biggest blowout in the history of the US-Canada women’s hockey rivalry at the Olympics showed that the gap between these teams may be so big that ever Marie-Philip Poulin could not close it. www.thestar.com/sports/olymp...

Active shooter in school in Tumbler Ridge in east-central British Columbia, police say

Blue Jays’ Anthony Santander needs shoulder surgery, out 5-6 months; Shane Bieber dealing with arm fatigue

Airlines sending empty planes as 10,000 Canadians fear being stranded in Cuba

15-year-old boy arrested in connection with shooting death of 16-year-old in Scarborough Tim Hortons

Ontario’s deficit projection dips slightly to $13.4 billion

Olivia Chow’s 2026 city budget makes it through council despite criticism

Scarborough youth crime prevention programs get a last-minute reprieve from city council

Carney government paying ‘small amount’ to keep options open on F-35 fighter jets

Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi sizzle in sexed-up, shamelessly trashy ‘Wuthering Heights’ #Review