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Ontario’s plan to ban bike lanes is ripped from the business lobby’s wish list ⋆ The Breach Buried in a new omnibus bill, the latest salvo in Doug Ford’s war on bikes is more than a vendetta—it’s a gift to corporate lobbyists

Ontario’s plan to ban bike lanes is ripped from the business lobby’s wish list breachmedia.ca/ontarios-pla...

America’s super-rich are running down the planet’s safe climate spaces, says Oxfam Data shows wealthiest 0.1% of the US burn carbon at 4,000 times the rate of the world’s poorest 10%

America’s super-rich are running down the planet’s safe climate spaces, says Oxfam

Doug Ford’s office has already received over ten thousand emails in the last 24 hours, saying no Bill 60, which would enable landlords to renegotiate leases every year, and refuse to renew without cause.

Acorn Ontario is calling this proposal “Ford’s most dangerous act” and they’re right #onpoli

🚨 ONTARIO RED ALERT THREAD 🚨

Canada’s spy agency now shares intel with corporations — thanks to a push from one of the country’s biggest oil and gas firms. Our reporter Zak Vescera explains.

#cdnpoli

Ontario Cities Are Clearing Homeless Encampments. Where Are People Supposed to Go? Amidst a housing crisis with no end in sight, municipalities across the province have been cracking down on the unhoused

Sharing this article again because it's the culmination of a few months of work from me - and people should be reading about it.

“Pierre, you moved from Ottawa to take someone’s job in Alberta. You are a temporary foreign worker….” #cdnpoli

Someone already posted on here that when the president of a country starts rebuilding the national monuments and naming things after themselves it means they do not intend on leaving the office.

I hope Americans realize how bad things have gotten and that they can't vote themselves out of it.

Doug Ford Moves to End Rent Control Doug Ford announced proposed changes to the LTB that would strip away key tenant protections, fast-track evictions, and open the door to ending rent control as we know it in Ontario.

Acorn Canada's breakdown of Doug Ford's landlord-friendly legislation to gut protections for renters

"They would make it easier for landlords to kick people out, harder for tenants to fight back, and make housing even more expensive"

From @acorncanada.bsky.social:

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC

built on theft and at massive environmental cost and most importantly, numerous studies keep demonstrating that genAI tools often work a little better than by chance. how is it that we can’t expunge these slop machines out of our institutions and communities

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Generative AI is a societal disaster Governments are deluding themselves into believing investment justifies allowing AI to upend society

The AI industry wants us to believe AI superintelligence is the real threat from generative AI.

But that narrative was crafted to distract from the many ways genAI is being used to tear our societies apart, as we saw this week when a deepfake video rocked the Irish election. It must be reined in.

No correct aspect ratio upload to be found on YouTube, and I could be more rigorous about my editing, but I genuinely think this is some of the funniest 106 seconds in comedy history, and definitely in my top five Simpsons jokes.

Ford blames Jays playoff ticket gouging on asshole premier who scrapped Ticketmaster law in 2019 QUEEN’S PARK - After resale tickets to the Blue Jays’ World Series immediately skyrocketed into the thousands of dollars, Ontario Premier Doug Ford held a press conference to place the blame solely on...

Ford blames Jays playoff ticket gouging on asshole premier who scrapped Ticketmaster law in 2019

Eglinton Crosstown LRT testing stopped — source says two trains collided The Eglinton Crosstown LRT had begun its final round of testing on Oct. 7, but two trains collided in the Mount Dennis train yard on Thursday, leading to a pause in the test, according to a source.

Something had to give for that home run. A price had to be paid to the civic gods.

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"Viewpoint diversity" about whether human activity is warming the planet, or whether vaccines work, is like "viewpoint diversity" about whether the sky is blue or whether the Earth is round. It falls outside the range of good faith scientific and academic discourse.
#ScienceUnderSiege

Ontario's hospitals have been starved to the point of collapse, but sure, find more savings because Doug Ford refuses to fund the system adequately.
Just appalling.

For the late/west coast crowd, my Loonie Politics column: Poilievre's call for lawfare is more Dollarama Trumpism #cdnpoli

One of the least fit for office party leaders in Canadian history.

This is shocking overreach: not only is the Ford government attempting to have a publicly elected official removed from office, they are also attempting to ban them from a future election — all in the name of "accountability."

This is not accountability. This is a vile assault on democracy.

Instead of ripping speed cameras (i.e. safer driving cameras) away from school children, maybe Doug Ford could concentrate on fixing a problem that prevented family doctors from seeing an additional 58,000 patients last year?

#OnPoli

I have to actively stop from yelling about 'problem locations' or 'school zones' because people, kids or not, are everywhere -- but this is way something like speed cameras get political currency first (or in Ontario, saved).

Anyway, Ford loves cops until...

Government secrecy clouds $237 million in funding to groups that endorsed Doug Ford Seventeen trade unions and industry groups that endorsed Premier Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservatives in the February election received $237 million from the government’s controversial Skills Develop...

Government secrecy clouds $237 million in funding to groups that endorsed Doug Ford

Nederlandse diensten delen minder informatie met de VS: ‘Soms vertellen we dingen niet meer’ Het aantal dreigingen dat op Nederland afkomt is groot, zien de hoofden van de AIVD en de MIVD elke dag: niet alleen Russische agressie, maar ook de opmars van China als digitale macht en binnenlands ...

Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1

Trickle-down economics was always a sham.

Nothing has ever trickled down.

For decades, the ADL hid behind a cover of civil rights while collaborating with the most repressive forces in the American state and society - from the FBI, DHS and the police to vigilante supremacist groups.

Speeds from 154 to 119

"Safe Parkside" filed a Freedom of Information request to get top speeds from the ill-fated & much abused Parkside camera. The speed limit is 40km/h.

Killers, all of them, with the ear & heart of Premier Doug Ford.

“Restore merit, end DEI” says man who could only get elected in Canada’s safest Conservative stronghold OTTAWA - Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre has launched a petition to "end DEI programs and restore merit", just months after losing his own heavily-favoured seat before running in an even more hea...

“Restore merit, end DEI” says man who could only get elected in Canada’s safest Conservative stronghold

"Restore the merit principle," I scream, having apparently developed selective amnesia about losing my job based on a complete and total lack of merit

Picture of the CN tower from around Grange Park in Toronto, warm, sunny fall weather with fluffy clouds

Pretty amazing weather today

So many similarities to GOP candidate Nixon dispatching Kissinger to sabotage LBJ's Vietnam talks, initiating a horrendous Cambodian bombing campaign after winning the 1968 election - only to sign essentially the same deal in 1973 that LBJ had put together 5 years earlier.
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