James Wardlaw

‘Shades of the Greenbelt’: questions raised about Ontario’s $2.5-billion private career training fund An Ontario public-sector union is crying foul about grants given out from a multi-billion-dollar provincial fund for private career training, even as the province’s public colleges face unprecedented ...

Nothing to see here, everybody move on…

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I like it when the Boys are a little mysterious. Where did Jerry the garbage man get that bright white sports car? No one knows, even all these years later

Petition: Protect Our Freedom to Picket & Protest — Progress Toronto As Trump threatens our sovereignty, now more than ever we need to protect our Charter Rights and Freedoms. Sign our petition to tell city councillors and the mayor to defend your right to protest, str...

City Council is considering a bylaw that could limit our Charter-protected right to protest.

With Trump attacking Canada’s sovereignty and protest rights in the U.S., we must defend our Canadian rights and freedoms.

Tell your councillor and the Mayor: www.progresstoronto.ca/petition-pro...

After 20 year battle, over 16,000 part-time and sessional college faculty across Ontario join OPSEU/SEFPO in one of largest organizing drives in Canadian history Toronto, ON – College faculty union leaders had much to celebrate around the historic table at the Ontario Labour Relations Board (OLRB) today. After a long day sorting through thousands of ballots, w...

A lot of people worked hard for a long time to make this happen. Huge news for the labour movement and the college system.

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Pierre Poilievre used to work for Frank Stronach.

Amazing news! Go @amapceo.bsky.social!

This is the most wretched campaign of deliberate, explicit persecution the United States has perpetrated against a minority group in decades. Many of the most important people in politics and journalism are busying themselves trying to figure out how little to say or do about it.

I’d love it if my (Toronto) city councillor offered updates like this, instead of going on TV to whine about the consequences of the low tax agenda he’s been advancing for years as if he’s not at all responsible for them.

The cost of redeveloping Ontario Place, including adding a private spa, has been estimated at over $2 billion. Do you think it's worth the cost?

Whoa! Pallas Data poll done by Trillium/Toronto Today on Ontario Place MegaSpa approval:

Toronto:
88% NO
12% YES

GTA:
85% NO
15% YES

Poll confirms Ontario Place MegaSpa is DEEPLY unpopular! #topoli #onpoli

Ontario has the lowest levels of well-being of any Canadian province, according to new StatCan data. See below the analysis by my colleague @carolinaaragao.bsky.social

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It’s been all downhill for me since Halloween 2023

Doug Ford stoked housing prices, then crashed them, leaving economic destruction The damage from Ford's housing failure can be seen in lower retail sales, higher unemployment and slumping average wage -- while other provinces prosper.

Doug Ford failed to build housing or check speculation, stoking housing prices to new highs until the market exploded, spreading economic damage

Ontario now has higher than national average unemployment, lower average wages and stalled retail sales

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It was a much better service when they mailed you DVDs. Incredible selection. All kinds of things you couldn’t get at the video store

Instagram blocked teens from searching LGBTQ-related content for months Posts with LGBTQ+ hashtags were hidden under Meta's “sensitive content” policy which restricts "sexually suggestive content"

SCOOP: Instagram blocked teens from searching LGBTQ-related content for months.

Posts with LGBTQ+ hashtags were hidden under Meta's “sensitive content” policy which restricts "sexually suggestive content", Meta said they are fixing this “error” after I reached out for comment.

The number one movie at the box office on your 10th birthday is how 2025 will turn out for you.

Oh no.

They are great. It’s gross that the city taxes their residents at nearly twice the rate they tax home owners, for no reason

I went undercover as an Uber Eats courier and made just $1.74 per hour online. Here’s what I learned about the troubling cost of convenience For six weeks, I hustled for orders and made a shockingly low wage. Uber says my experience was 'atypical' — but workers I spoke to say differently.

I know people love taking Ubers and have their food delivered.

Next time you do, I hope you think about this “atypical” (as Uber says) experience.

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How D.C. tackled a child care crunch through a tax hike on the rich In Washington, D.C., a tax on residents earning more than $250,000 a year is boosting the wages of child care workers. Two years in, it's proving to be a great investment.

In Washington, D.C., a tax on residents earning more than $250,000 a year is boosting the wages of child care workers. Two years in, it's proving to be a great investment.

Great news!

How Stockholm Stuck Radiolab · Episode

I hope today you said the names of the women killed at Ecole Polytechnique 35 years ago.

If you’d like to think a little about the language that’s sometimes used when we talk about gendered violence, you might enjoy this from @radiolab.bsky.social

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They used MZOs to stop affordable housing from being built in communities that were asking for affordable housing

Post an Onion article that lives in your head rent free.

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Apply Now to Be a Contestant | Wheel of Fortune Being on Wheel could change your life! We’re always looking for bright, enthusiastic contestants. It’s easy to apply!

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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...

This Day in Labor History: November 21, 1927. Colorado state police massacred six striking coal miners at the Columbine Mine in Serene, in what was just one of so many instances in American history of government using police forces as the private strikebreaking army of employers!

On December 31, 2019 I made two resolutions: to spend more time alone, and to learn how to make sourdough bread. I’m so sorry

Maternity Leave by the Canadian Union of Postal Workers The struggle for maternity leave by the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) serves as a particularly powerful lesson on how Canadians won key social benefits. The Treasury Board of Canada, with wh...

If you benefited from paid maternity leave in Canada (or parental leave), you must support CUPW postal workers on strike today.

History lesson from the Toronto & York Region Labour Council Labour 150 project: labour150.ca/maternity-le...