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Under the agreement announced Monday with New York City’s Department of Consumer and Worker Protection, Starbucks will pay $3.4 million in civil penalties, in addition to the $35 million it is paying workers. The company also agreed to comply with the city’s Fair Workweek law going forward.

Creepy crook.

Numbered company registered to Mayor Patrick Brown and his wife buys downtown Brampton properties for $1.45M Mayor Patrick Brown said he has “consistently” checked with Brampton’s integrity commissioner “to ensure there is no conflict of interest.”

So Brampton’s Mayor Patrick Brown would have us believe he had “nothing to do with” his wife’s purchase of a downtown property in the heart of the City slated for redevelopment.
The acquisition was made using a private company of which he is Vice President.
🤷🏼🤔🧐🤨🤷🏼
www.thestar.com/news/investi...

Sask. Premier Scott Moe shares optimism on pipeline MOU, criticizes B.C.’s David Eby “Every team I've played on, I want all of the players to score, not just myself,” Scott Moe said on the Evan Bray Show. “And Premier Eby isn't sharing that same approach to this project.”

Get your head around this: the Premier who quite literally passed the Saskatchewan First Act is claiming that the Premier of BC isn't acting as a team player because he opposes something that the Sask Premier agrees with.

Removing speed cameras won't help. #safestreets

Mel Lastman told councillor David Miller that "you will never be mayor of this city."

Of course, the next mayor of the city of Toronto was David Miller.

Doug Ford tells someone protesting his disastrous Bill 60 to find a job.

The gall of the laziest premier telling someone to get a job.

He’s a loathsome human and absolute shambles of a leader who has never had the best interests of anyone but himself in mind during his reign of destruction.

11 years of assault.
Suspended w pay at $357,000 per year.
Friday 5pm news release.

How Canadian Artists Brought Cultural Boycotts of Israel to the Mainstream Boycotts of Israel and institutions supportive of the occupation of Palestine were a fringe activity just a couple years ago. But artists across the country have made them impossible to ignore.

Once a fringe activity, cultural boycotts of Israel and have gone mainstream, especially in the Canadian arts.

"We are gaining momentum and it’s not the time to slow down,” one organizer tells @rdassaly.bsky.social.

If you're keeping score this week, Carney is:

* Negotiating backroom deals on pipelines with Alberta and without BC or Indigenous folks.
* Undermining anti-greenwashing laws.
* Making deals with the UAE despite their role in Sudan.
* Cutting funding for infectious disease work in Africa.

This is so weird.

I thought I invented this.

Friday evening, we were drinking beer on a patio. Today, it's snowy.

The snow is beautiful, though. I'm not complaining. I'll always be excited about the first snow of the year.

What more is there to say at this point?

Zohran Mamdani Wins Decisive Victory in NYC, Triumphing Over Billionaire Onslaught Mamdani is one of just a few democratic socialists to ever win the seat for the largest city in the U.S.

Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani won the New York City mayoral race on Tuesday, marking a historic win for the left over a high-powered, moneyed coalition of establishment forces that came together in hopes of defeating him.

Zohran Mamdani spent last night with the late-night workers he said are often forgotten — can drivers at LGA and hospital workers on a 7-7 shift at Elmhurst Hospital, before walking to Kebab King and then having a midnight press conference in Jackson Heights

"When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which men will wonder, not their ferocity." - CLR James, "The Black Jacobins"

Alberta students walk out of class in support of teachers Hundreds of students across Alberta are protesting in support of teachers following the province’s use of the notwithstanding clause.

Students across Alberta show support for teachers in walkout

Nurses and health-care professionals from the North York Family Health Team (NYFHT), who provide care and services to approximately 95,000 people, are on strike today following the failure of their employer to negotiate a first collective agreement.
More: https://ona.org/news/20251020-nyfht-strike/

Critical support for bulldozing the (entire) White House.

Second "No Kings Day" protests likely the largest single-day political demonstration since 1970, with 4.2-7.6 million participants Here are the initial results from our crowdsourced crowd-counting estimates

Good evening. We estimate that between 4.2 and 7.6 million people turned out for the No Kings Day demonstrations held around the country on Saturday. This makes Oct 18 very likely the biggest single-day U.S. protest event since 1970. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...

The 1996 GM Oshawa occupation By Doug Nesbitt In October 1996, Canadian autoworkers struck General Motors in a battle against outsourcing and other concessions. 25,000 workers walked off the job for three weeks and held back the ...

19-10-1996 CANADA: When General Motors tries to break a Canadian Autoworkers strike by removing equipment, union members occupy the Oshawa plants. www.rankandfile.ca/the-1996-gm-...

Critical support for No Kings

News headline from Global News: "Vehicles registered to Ford Cabinet ministers caught by speed cameras more than 20 times"

Now it makes sense. DoFo is an apologist for dangerous drivers, including those in his cabinet. Personally, I prefer safer streets.

John Sewell deserves better than that.

At tonight’s “consultation”…

When a high school kid tried to raise concerns about the teachers strike, Bruce McAllister cut the kids mic and then suggested his parents should have beaten him more.

Listen to the clip yourself…

It’s…

Telling.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

The apple doesn't fall far from the tree. He's corrupt like his old man. Where are the envelopes of cash?

A graphic reading "The Grind's summer fundraising goal is $7,000. Help us reach it by Sept 21. Keep local, independent journalism alive in Toronto! thegrindmag.ca/support " And there is a red and white progress bar showing $2,000 of the way to $7,000.

We're up to $2,000! Let's keep the momentum going until the campaign wraps on Sunday. Can you make a donation this evening? More info: www.thegrindmag.ca/support/

Trump Spends Entire U.K. Trip Trying To Figure Out Where He Knows Prince Andrew From LONDON—Claiming that he recognized the member of the royal family, but his memory was hazy, President Donald Trump has spent his entire trip to the U.K. trying to figure out where he knows Prince Andr...

Trump Spends Entire U.K. Trip Trying To Figure Out Where He Knows Prince Andrew From

Photo of muppet Bunsen Honeydew who bears a strong resemblance to the US ambassador to Canada.

Where do they find these clowns?