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Jack Hauen @jackhauen.bsky.social · 6h

NEW: David Piccini, the minister whose office picks Skills Development Fund recipients, was in Paris this weekend at the wedding of a lobbyist whose clients received millions from that fund.

From me and @charliepinkerton.bsky.social.

www.thetrillium.ca/news/politic...

Ontario labour minister attended lobbyist’s wedding after granting his clients millions in training funds

Two clients of lobbyist Michael Rudderham have received more than $8.5 million in Skills Development Fund grants, records show

www.thetrillium.ca

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Mairi Babb @mcbabb.bsky.social · 1d

I knew it!!!

The Biking Lawyer LLP @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social · 2d

A vehicle registered to one of Doug Ford’s cabinet ministers blew past an automated speed camera, going 70 km/h in a 40 zone and netting a $450 fine.
globalnews.ca/news/1146373... @ColinDMello

Vehicles registered to Ford cabinet ministers caught by speed cameras more than 20 times | Globalnews.ca

Documents obtained by Global News reveal that, over three years, vehicles registered to Ford’s cabinet minister received more than $3,300 in fines for speeding.

globalnews.ca

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 7d

On the eve of the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, Pierre Poilievre spoke out for the group he says faces the most hate-based violence.

Um, and apparently that group is…Christians? (It isn’t).

I called for backup on this one. Luckily @pampalmater.com answered:

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Heather e^-1/x^2 @heathermoandco.bsky.social · 7d

Brilliant takedown of #PierrePoilievre by Adam van Koeverden.

“Earlier this year when the leader of the Conservative Party lost his job he didn’t lose his house.

That’s because he lives in government subsidized non market housing.” …yet PP always opposes such assistance for others.
#cdnpoli

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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 8d

According to Indigenous Watchdog, work on 16 calls to action hasn’t started, 22 have stalled, 42 are in progress and 14 are complete.

Are the TRC calls to action be answered?

A not-for-profit organization that is keeping track of how governments across the country are responding to report by the TRC.

www.aptnnews.ca

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Clare Blackwood @clareblackwood.bsky.social · 8d

I feel like it would have been both easy and anti-inflammatory to put the word "Incorrectly" after our Glorious Conservative Leader's name in the title, given the data present in the article, but what do I know www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Poilievre claims Christians 'may be the number 1' victims of hate-based violence | CBC News

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said Monday that Christians and their places of worship are being targeted and, if elected, he will crack down on religion-based hate.

www.cbc.ca

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Schmutzie @schmutzie.com · 10d

The wolf is at our door, Canada.

"We believe in the mission and values of Turning Point USA and we share their heart for faith, family, and freedom…

The truth is simple: the only way Turning Point chapters can truly take root in Canada is through students themselves." #CdnPoli #CanPoli

A screenshot from turningpointcanada1000.ca which reads:

"TURNING POINT CANADA 1000
Let’s Help Launch 1,000 Chapters Across Canada!…

A GRASSROOTS MOVEMENT FUELING THE NEXT GENERATION OF LEADERS."

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Barrett @mbbsoron.bsky.social · 10d

In Canada, dangerous drivers kill more than twice as many people than murderers do.

These politicians are monstrous.

Glyn Bowerman @glynbowerman.bsky.social · 12d

In a statement, Vaughan Mayor Steven Del Duca pivoted from speed cameras to violent crime, suggesting we should spend more time focussing on the latter. That’s illuminating. Vehicles obviously present the bigger statistical threat, especially to children. But we accept those injuries and deaths.

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Toronto Star @thestar.com · 12d

As Doug Ford announced a speed camera ban, I held up a radar gun on the road outside. Here's how many were speeding

As Doug Ford announced he would ban speed cameras, I clocked speeds on the road outside. This is what I found

On a miserable and wet day, I created a vigilante speed trap as Doug Ford spoke next door. The final results were startling.

www.thestar.com

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Michael Druker 🇨🇦 @mdruker.app · 13d

Doug Ford: cities can do speed cameras

cities: good, we will

police, schools, cities: speed cameras have now been shown to work and therefore will reduce deaths

Doug Ford: my friends yelled at me about speeding tickets so more deaths it is

Ford government says it will ban speed cameras across Ontario | CBC News

Ontario Premier Doug Ford called the traffic enforcement tool a "cash grab" at a news conference in Vaughan Thursday. He said his government will introduce new legislation to ban speed cameras.

www.cbc.ca

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 14d

Repeat this over and over. Doug Ford will kill people.

Alex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic.bsky.social · 14d

This will kill people. Doug Ford is going to kill people. So we’re clear. www.thestar.com/politics/pro...

Doug Ford will outlaw municipal speed cameras this fall: Sources

Sources say Ford's Progressive Conservatives will table legislation later this fall to outlaw the "automated speed enforcement" devices.

www.thestar.com

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Mairi Babb @mcbabb.bsky.social · 12d

Can some Ontario journalist please file an FOI for Doug Ford’s speeding tickets or his driver’s speeding tickets or his developer friends’ speeding tickets??? There HAS to be some BS behind this.

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Archie 🇨🇦 @junkycosmonaut.bsky.social · 14d

Automated cameras cut speeding by 45 per cent in Toronto school zones, study finds
First-of-its-kind research by TMU and SickKids shows how cameras can make streets safer for children #topoli #onpoli

www.torontomu.ca/news-events/...

Automated cameras cut speeding by 45 per cent in Toronto school zones, study finds

First-of-its-kind research by TMU and SickKids shows how cameras can make streets safer for children

www.torontomu.ca

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 18d

This is amazing.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 19d

I remember this speech when Jon Stewart gave it. It was powerful. And urgent. And 100% true. And like too many things over the last many years, it wasn’t taken nearly seriously enough.

Melissa Nadia Viviana @resistrebelrevolt.net · 19d

🔥💯 Jon Stewart's prophecy from 2022:

"When a democracy is under threat: comedians are the ones who get sent away first. Authoritarians are the threat to comedy, to art, to music, to thought, to progress. It ain't the pronoun police, it's the Secret Police. It always has been & it always will be."

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David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 26d

SCOOP

“I have folks claiming my information is all over 4chan telling me in the same breath that they hope I get ‘raped and killed’" @rachelgilmore.bsky.social tells me, after her information was posted to a site called Charlie's Murderers

www.wired.com/story/right-...

Right-Wing Activists Are Targeting People for Allegedly Celebrating Charlie Kirk's Death

Extremists and an anonymously run website are posting identifying details about people accused of celebrating Charlie Kirk's murder online. Some of those targeted are now getting death threats.

www.wired.com

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 27d

I’m officially scared.

Because of this ONE tweet being afraid of potential reverberations of right wing political violence from this — something many others have said — I’m now the first result on a website called “charliesmurderers.”

This is putting me in genuine danger.

What the fuck do I do

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Nora Loreto @nolore.bsky.social · 27d

This plus them hiring Ben Mulroney to host The West Block is the company announcing its getting out of journalism.

Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 27d

Global News laid off 26 journalists in B.C. and Alberta today.

In B.C. the layoffs include virtually all of the online team, along with many others.

The business is increasingly cruel, and the hollowing out of newsrooms providing fair and reliable information continues to suck.

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Mairi Babb @mcbabb.bsky.social · 27d

And these are the folks @markcarneyforpm.bsky.social invited to speak to his cabinet.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 27d

The Heritage Foundation released the following words from the organization's president, Kevin Roberts, about the death of Charlie Kirk: “His martyrdom must be a turning point for our country.”

Yes, he said "martyrdom." Remember, we don't even know who killed the man or why.

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Douglas Cheape @douglascheape.bsky.social · 28d

Oh come on! They're doing their best, what with the wee short legs, nervous disposition and all.

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Paula (upalag resists) @upalag.bsky.social · 27d

Four politicians in Minnesota were shot, two dead. TFG never said anything at all as far as I recall about those four innocent people, but shortly after Charlie Kirk is shot, and now dead, he’s blubbering all over the media.

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Mícheál de Brún @thriftonaut.bsky.social · 29d

So Russell Brand is being rehabilitated by getting the lead in the Bagpuss movie?!?! Directed by Polanski?!?! You couldn’t make it up!

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Clare Blackwood @clareblackwood.bsky.social · 28d

Doug Ford ordering the city to get rid of one of the few things that keep car owners in check because the drivers don't like it is so on the nose it's practically up in it scrambling his brain around like an ancient Egyptian undergoing mummification

www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti...

‘Get rid of the speed cameras,’ Doug Ford warns municipalities after at least 16 damaged in Toronto overnight

Toronto police are investigating after at least 16 speed cameras were damaged across the city overnight in what one city councillor is calling “coordinated” vandalism.

www.ctvnews.ca

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Sean Marshall @seanyyz.bsky.social · 28d

Sixteen damaged speed cameras last night.

Meanwhile Doug Ford – who loves to talk tough on criminals – is now telling municipalities he wants the cameras gone.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

16 Toronto speed cameras damaged overnight, as Ford urges city to do away with 'tax grab' | CBC News

More Toronto speed cameras were found damaged on Tuesday morning, only two days after the Parkside Drive speed camera was cut down for the seventh time in less than a year.

www.cbc.ca

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mlongfield.bsky.social @mlongfield.bsky.social · Sep 7

FFS. This deserves a full on press conference with the local Councillor, the Mayor, and the Chief of Police stating clearly that these acts are not just "vandalism" but are deliberately and recklessly making Parkside Drive a hazard to all road users.

Plain Kate @k8thek8.bsky.social · Sep 7

Fuckers will seriously wage a vigilante war against an inanimate object rather than just drive safely, I mean come on.

Toronto's Parkside speed camera cut down for 7th time in less than a year

YouTube video by CP24

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