Andrew Wahl 🇨🇦

🤬 Stealing money from students. Lining their pockets with public education funds. And they complain about teachers’ unions.

Is there anything the Ford government does that doesn’t come with the stink of corruption?
#onpoli #onted

Bruce Arthur: The Blue Jays can be the biggest team in baseball and go for it every year. Will Rogers step up? Toronto’s ownership has spent money on the team in recent years, but this run was a first-hand reminder of what true ambition looks like, along with the results to match.

It's easy to say and hard to do, but the real lesson of these Jays is the highest level of ambition and commitment to this team will be rewarded with the biggest market in baseball. The Jays - and Rogers - should aim to become Dodgers north. www.thestar.com/sports/blue-...

Yukoners voted for electoral reform. They probably won't get it | CBC News Yukon's incoming premier may have campaigned on a message of "change," but when it comes to the territory's voting system, Currie Dixon says he's happy to keep things just the way they are. That's des...

Not enough people are talking about the actual biggest political story in North America this week.

A majority of voters in the Yukon voted (in a non-binding plebiscite) in favour of moving to a ranked-ballot voting system.

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Happy Beaver Supermoon, for those who celebrate.

How are Democrats not immediately suing CBS News over this?

Our Hoekstra Response Should be a Lesson in Diplomacy - Policy Magazine Restraint is central to the art of diplomacy. Diplomats are supposed to manage disputes, not inflame them by trading personal insults or creating a public

If US ambassador to Canada Pete Hoekstra keeps behaving as he has, the Canadian government will surely have to call him in for a formal rebuke. And if we don't, it will be a choice of discretion over valour, a sign that we have been cowed.

If I’m a Dodgers fan, the win last night ought to feel more like relief, not triumph. “Yay, they did the thing everyone expected thanks almost entirely due to the domination of a single pitcher.”

I was thinking the same thing.

Did they win the World Series? No.

But they didn’t lose. Dodgers won based on two (of four) extra-inning wins, both of which could have gone either way.

If LA didn’t have Yamamoto, things would have been much different.

Jays are still champions.

It’s not even choking.

You’re up against the best team money can buy who rolled through last and this playoffs against whoever they faced and they pushed them to extra innings in game 7 with two hobbled starters & a bunch of guys who started in the minors.

They deserve all the respect.

I appreciate they have a different lived experience, but…

The Dodgers are a ridiculously stacked, wealthy team that doesn’t reflect much about LA’s challenges.

No city “deserves” a sports trophy no matter how unjust or traumatic their politics.

I cheer for the Jays team, not Toronto the city.

Dodgers win it in 11 innings of game 7 against a team they expected to humiliate and take in 4. #WellDoneBlueJays you'll always be my champions!!!

I was thinking the same thing.

Did they win the World Series? No.

But they didn’t lose. Dodgers won based on two (of four) extra-inning wins, both of which could have gone either way.

If LA didn’t have Yamamoto, things would have been much different.

Jays are still champions.

i'd like to think Mr. Candy approved this spot.
it is halloween so who knooooows?

Could this be the last night for Rockin’ Rick?

He’s been jamming out and hyping up Jays fans since 1989 and is hanging up his drum sticks this year.

He was here in ‘92 and ‘93 — another World Series tonight?

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A tricker-or-treater, maybe 7, at the door just now: “If you go to our house there is a little baseball game going on!”

Yep, here too, kid. Here too.

Stay strong!

But do you really have all 50 left for that one lucky kid? 🎃 Those are just way too snackable.

CBS News kills its climate unit David Ellison, the new pro-Trump chief executive of Paramount Skydance, has dismantled the best climate change reporting team in cable news.

A scoop that I’m not happy to report:

CBS News has gutted its climate change reporting team, one of the best in the business, and one of the only ones on cable news that consistently called out fossil fuels as the main source of climate pollution.

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Almost 40% of CPC voters polled see Trump in tariff negotiations as "methodical & strategic" as opposed to "irrational & erratic". In contrast, 5% of both Liberal & NDP voters think Trump's "methodical & strategic" in his negotiations. So a big group of Canadians don't have Trump's number. #CdnPoli

The cover of "The AI Con" against an orange background

"The new Luddites aren’t afraid of AI. They’re afraid of the people who profit from pretending it’s intelligent." Erik J. Larson reviews "The AI Con" by Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-return-of-the-luddites/

Doug Ford’s Skills Development Fund doesn’t track the type of work recipients got, insider says No one in charge of the $2.5 billion program knows whether the employment numbers are for full-time, part-time or temporary work.

NEW: The ⁦‪@TorontoStar‬⁩’s ⁦‪@MoiraWelsh‬⁩ on how the government doesn’t know what kind of jobs Skills Development Fund program users are getting — because the data isn’t tracked.
#onpoli

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A common theme of Trump II is an utterly cowardly class of elites while everyday regular people have risen to the occasion

This looks like a concentration camp.

Sports Illustrated on Threads: More people are watching the World Series in Japan than Canada

BobNightengale: World series TV viewership for the first two games Us 12.6 million Japan 10.7 million Canada 7 million

a perfect apples-to-apples comparison between evenly-sized countries, great stuff SI

Just a 22-year-old who started the season in low-A ball mowing down the most expensive offence money can buy in the World Series

A Yesavage splitter to Ohtani is shown with arm side (away from a lefty) movement

If you looked at Trey Yesavage's repertoire in a 3D tunnel, you wouldn't even know he was right-handed.

His splitter goes *the wrong way*. It's like a throwback to screwballs before they stopped teaching kids screwballs in the 90s because it was melting their ligaments

What does “on an equal basis” mean? Equal to China?

11 Ks for Trey Yesavage ties his own #Bluejays record for most strikeouts in a post-season start. He did that in his playoff debut vs. NYY in the ALDS.

it also ties Don Newcombe of the Brooklyn Dodgers for the most Ks by a rookie in a World Series game. This is wild.

That was the first time in World Series history that two players have hit back-to-back home runs to start a game.

a blue jays logo with a red maple leaf on it Alt: a blue jays logo with a red maple leaf on it

Okay Blue Jays, play a good clean game!

Okay, Rogers, play a good clean stream!

(With my $30/mo SportsNet+ subscription renewing today, this game is costing me either $15 or $10.)

#GoJays