Providing non-police crisis response is great. Framing it as a safety issue for not-in-crisis transit riders perpetuates the perception of mental illness as a threat to others. www.thestar.com/news/gta/ttc...

An Israeli airstrike killed at least 22 Palestinians near a market in Gaza City on Wednesday, according to the Palestinian Civil Defense rescue service.

Was nearly smoked this morning by a driver speeding through a safety zone. "Bullied."

After hospitals were acquired by private equity firms, patient death rates in the emergency departments rose by 13% compared with similar hospitals, according to research published in Annals of Internal Medicine.

The New York Times analyzed these videos; interviewed policing experts; and reviewed law enforcement policies to understand how an attempted immigration arrest turned deadly so quickly. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Smoky skies may've had an unexpected upside for Canada's canola crop: www.reuters.com/sustainabili... by Ed White

@reuters.com has just launched an Arabic language site. See it here: reuters.com/ar/ Big thanks to Muhammad Yamany and the Reuters Arabic language service team. Tremendous work! #News #Arabic #Mideast

Israeli strikes kill 31 people in Gaza City, medics say, as tanks advance reut.rs/3IxZkkM

Not sure protocol's the issue here? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...

Love @shawnmicallef.bsky.social's idea of Toronto as teenager: obnoxious, undergoing growing pains, struggling toward something better. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Israel presses on with Gaza City assault, 34 Palestinians killed reut.rs/3Vnn91D

The Pentagon said on Friday that it would require journalists to pledge not to gather or use any information that had not been formally authorized for release or risk losing their credentials to cover the military.

leaping into weekend like

NEW: The Trump administration will terminate deportation protections for thousands of migrants from Syria, homeland security officials said on Friday. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/u...

This happens a lot: Government depts break the law to take years on a request, then give you a deadline to tell them you're still interested. What especially peeves me is their repeated refusal to update the time frame of requests filed three, five years ago.

Doug Ford: “The only thing proven is that they take money out of taxpayers’ pockets." Ontario police chiefs: “The evidence shows that if (automated speed enforcement) cameras are removed, speeds will increase in community safety zones and more pedestrians will be at risk." #OnPoli

Every phone update is like wow hope you hated using your phone for reading or messaging and also we are using AI to parse your inner thoughts for marketing purposes opt out using these 12 simple steps.

Canada is sending more asylum-seekers to the US - July was the highest month in at least a decade - even as the US threatens to deport those asylum-seekers to countries not their own. www.reuters.com/world/americ...

Thread on the long journey of the genocide charge against Israel (since Oct 7, 2023): a) December 29, 2023: South Africa launched a case against Israel at the ICJ: Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip.

The Trump-Miller administration's single-minded focus on migration is starting to impact the availability of drugs in the US, according to this detail from a very good investigation @wsj.com published today. www.wsj.com/world/americ...

‘Running from death to death’: Gaza City residents face impossible choice

Note to NYT staff from the publisher just now. "My ask to all of you: Keep doing your important work — seeking the truth, helping people understand the world, holding power to account — as you always have, without fear or favor."

"Release under the Access to Information Act does not require prior release to the public" is a sentence I just had to type in an email to a Senior ATIP Analyst. Great sign.

For no reason at all, I strongly recommend making a donation to the Committee to Protect Journalists (either one-time or monthly): give.cpj.org/campaign/667...

“The Trump administration has ordered the removal of signs and exhibits related to slavery at multiple national parks, according to four people familiar with the matter, including a historic photograph of a formerly enslaved man showing scars on his back.” www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

"Senior officials in the federal government have taken over a conservative media entity to talk about a crackdown on anti-conservative thought and speech" www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

Ugh

PMO: At a virtual meeting on the Middle East, "Prime Minister Carney expressed solidarity with Qatar following Israel’s strikes in Doha, which violate Qatar’s sovereignty and pose a grave risk of escalating conflict throughout the region..."

This is what malnutrition does to children's bodies. www.nytimes.com/interactive/... via Pablo Robles @stephanienolen.bsky.social Aaron Boxerman

That isn't true. Even if someone pays to get smuggled into Canada and files a refugee claim, that claim gets adjudicated by an independent board member. If they lack a solid basis of claim, they don't get refugee status.

“We have a right to know the charges against us, to know who has made the charges and to review them and defend ourselves,” they said. “But none of that has happened, which is why we’re in Kafka-land … It is an enormous breach of trust.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

NEW: Sec. Marco Rubio casts himself as a top general in Trump's new war in Latin America. He has steered the administration toward military strikes on drug traffickers, without due process. One killed 11 people. And he pushes mass deportations. Our story: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/u...

You know it's still summer because no one is answering their phones.

Looks like Canada wants to criminalize protest outside certain buildings, per CBC: www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Exclusive: Trump administration plans push at UN to restrict global asylum rights - www.reuters.com/world/africa... via @tedhesson.bsky.social @jonathanlanday.bsky.social

@cancivlib.bsky.social calls on the feds to ground bail reform in evidence - and collect data on what they're doing. mcusercontent.com/de85a14a3dca...

Most of the people in Canadian jails (80% of those in Ontario institutions) got "jail, not bail." www.conservative.ca/restore-safe...