Ryan Harper 🇨🇦

Great episode this week, Mike! On the dugout location topic, do you think the Jays might have chosen the 3B side in order to avoid the sun when the dome is open? As a fan, I always choose to sit on the 3B side to keep the sun out of my face. Wondering if maybe the players would prefer that too?

Everyone wants there to be a grand scheme behind all of this but the terrible truth is that extremely stupid people are in charge and they have a fanatical devotion to wrong, childlike concepts of society and economics cooked up by right wing radio hosts in order to sell tainted dietary supplements

YouTube video by Jeff Douglas We Are Canadian

You've been asking yourself "where is the Canadian guy"? But you knew he would show up just when we needed him.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ozb...

Doug Ford wins third majority after gambling on winter election Doug Ford defied the odds in the Ontario election to become the first premier to win three consecutive majority governments since Leslie Frost in 1959.

Ontario's election by the numbers:
45.4% of registered voters bothered to vote
42.9% of those voters voted for Doug Ford's team
They won 80 of 124 seats.

📣19.5% of Ontario's eligible voters gave Doug Ford 65% of the voice of Ontario's people.📣

www.thestar.com/politics/pro...

DOUG FORD’S DIRTY DOZEN: How Ford spent Ontarians’ money and what he could have paid for instead, by Rebecca Gao, from the latest issue of West End Phoenix.

A $15.98 BILLION MEGA THREAD 🧵

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Election Day is Thursday February 27th. We deserve a better government in Ontario and the only way that happens is if voter turnout is high. Don’t forget to vote!

Kate Dupuis has been a tireless advocate for public education and healthcare. When we were fighting for safe schools at the start of the pandemic, she was there with us. I’m happy to throw my support behind her and I believe that she’ll be an excellent MPP for Beaches East York.

Today’s the last day for advance polls in the Ontario election, and it took me 5 minutes to cast my ballot. No voter card or advance registration is needed. You just need to show up with your ID.

#OnPoli

Justin Ling: Please: Anyone but Doug Ford His stunning failure to address the crises in housing, health care, education and more mean he is unfit to lead, writes Justin Ling.

Please: Anyone but Doug Ford.

Ford is uniquely unqualified and unsuited to be a leader for this moment. His years in office have been defined by shortages — a lack of homes, doctors, teachers, jobs, skilled workers, subways, buses, and bike lanes. #Opinion

Between this and the hot mic that caught him praising Trump, the people of Ontario should be very concerned about what Doug Ford says when reporters aren’t around. I can only imagine what he supports in private conversations with his family, friends, and his PC caucus. #OnPoli

Why annexing Canada would destroy the United States Americans have already been defeated by insurgents all over the world. Invading Canada would be no exception.

This piece is excellent. Take a few minutes and give it a read.

Annexing Canada would initiate am insurgency that would destroy the US, argues UofT professor Aisha Ahmad.

theconversation.com/why-annexing...

The graphic shows arrows going from 11 general agencies and institutions to Musk companies which include SpaceX, Tesla. neuralink, x, and Musk himself. The text at the top reads: Trump firings hit agencies with oversight of Musk's companies Staffing changes, including the firing of several top officials, have affected agencies with federal investigations into or regulatory battles with Elon Musk's companies. The graphic is credit to Malika Khurana for the New York Times

A historic graphic of corruption.

The 11 federal agencies so far targeted for firings or dismantling by Elon Musk have more than 30 ongoing investigations into his companies.

(📸 Malika Khurana for NYT)

I genuinely can't believe he got caught saying this on a hot mic during an election campaign that's supposed to be about standing up for Ontario against this exact guy.

Sadly, it's not hard to believe, because he's been showing his cards and praising Trump for years. The biggest obstacle in this Ontario election is about introducing enough people to the real Doug Ford, and not just the one he wants us to see.

Doug Ford posts on X about pulling US liquor from LCBO shelves starting Tuesday February 4, 2025.

I just want to remind everyone that when it serves him, Ford boasts the power of our LCBO but let’s not forget he just ACTIVELY UNDERMINED THEIR STRONGHOLD IN THE SECTOR.

Ps This is another critical lesson on the necessary role of our public sector.

New Poll Finds Majority of Ontarians Reject Doug Ford’s Reason For Calling an Early Election Over six-in-ten Ontarians say Doug Ford’s Ontario PCs failed to accomplish goals from last election and “do not deserve to be re-elected”

New poll finds majority of Ontarians reject Doug Ford’s reason for calling an early election

Over six-in-ten Ontarians say Doug Ford’s Ontario PCs failed to accomplish goals from last election and “do not deserve to be re-elected”

This is a great thread that goes into detail with facts about the absolute corruption surrounding Doug Ford’s shady deals to sell off #OntarioPlace and the #ScienceCentre for next to nothing.

Blaming unions for your own economic insecurity is not the answer. Standing together, working-class people and their unions are stronger and can demand more from the wealthy and corporate interests.

#canlab #1u

A bunch of yahoos making big-idea mistakes that can’t be fixed, and making Ontario worse in the process

People are often surprised when I tell them this: both Twitter and Facebook/insta/threads are now specifically engineered to downgrade, hide, suppress real journalism. If this platform is different, that's a huge change

The number of Canadians who are pretending the tariffs are based in objective reality, much less logic, might be having some trouble with reality themselves.

Ford government to ban lawsuits against province if cyclists are hurt or killed on streets where bike lanes were removed Transportation Minister Prabmeet Sarkaria tells cyclists: for your own safety, stay off Bloor, Yonge and University when bike lanes are removed.

This is proof they know what they're doing will kill or injure people. This is a malevolent gov't. Treating it as rational is a pantomime of some fantasy benign and good faith politics of yesterlore that doesn't exist. www.thestar.com/politics/pro...

‘Government by the worst’: why people are calling Trump’s new sidekicks a ‘kakistocracy’ The word is trending as Trump makes cabinet picks – but it’s not the first time it’s been used to describe lousy leadership Matt Gaetz running the justice department. Fox hosts in charge of the Pentagon and transportation. Elon Musk as head of layoffs.…

‘Government by the worst’: why people are calling Trump’s new sidekicks a ‘kakistocracy’

Swimming in a poisoned pool of bad information. I’ve had long talks with people who think like this. It’s trust issues, trauma, political affiliation sometimes, lots of stuff. Really sad.

I just devoured an excellent Italian deli sandwich made on a housemade sesame baguette from Circles and Squares in East York, and this is what I miss tweeting about. Sorry, no photos. This isn't instagram either.

It's all just becoming a blur...I'll see myself out.

Hey Matt! Just checking this app out, and figured you'd be a good person to follow, as you always were on the app formerly known as Twitter.