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In a world of nonsensical, uncritical reporting, the work Isaac and Colin do stands out - they’re actually reporting, while many of the others (I’m looking at you, CP24) parrot and exaggerate for clicks.
🚘🕳️ Through 2025, Colin D'Mello and I invested a lot of time looking into Ontario Premier Doug Ford's dream of tunnelling under Hwy. 401. Through sourcing, freedom of information and lots of questions, here's what we found (in chronological order) #OnPoli
December 31, 2025 at 9:27 PM
In a world of nonsensical, uncritical reporting, the work Isaac and Colin do stands out - they’re actually reporting, while many of the others (I’m looking at you, CP24) parrot and exaggerate for clicks.
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More people killed in traffic collisions than by homicide. Imma gonna assume road safety and VisionZero will be a big campaign issue this fall.
December 31, 2025 at 6:32 PM
More people killed in traffic collisions than by homicide. Imma gonna assume road safety and VisionZero will be a big campaign issue this fall.
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1> Politicians who hype the myth of high crime
2> Bad media like CP24 that repeats the same crimes ever few minutes ( Toronto is a war zone if you watch)
3> Bad faith social media accounts (IntegrityTO) who hype it and stupid social media influencer accounts who play on this
4> Police union hype
2> Bad media like CP24 that repeats the same crimes ever few minutes ( Toronto is a war zone if you watch)
3> Bad faith social media accounts (IntegrityTO) who hype it and stupid social media influencer accounts who play on this
4> Police union hype
Inbox: "A new Liaison Strategies survey ... has identified a profound disconnect ... While official police data from Toronto, Peel, and York Regions highlights historic declines in high-profile crimes like homicide and auto theft, the vast majority of residents believe these crimes are surging"
December 31, 2025 at 4:24 PM
1> Politicians who hype the myth of high crime
2> Bad media like CP24 that repeats the same crimes ever few minutes ( Toronto is a war zone if you watch)
3> Bad faith social media accounts (IntegrityTO) who hype it and stupid social media influencer accounts who play on this
4> Police union hype
2> Bad media like CP24 that repeats the same crimes ever few minutes ( Toronto is a war zone if you watch)
3> Bad faith social media accounts (IntegrityTO) who hype it and stupid social media influencer accounts who play on this
4> Police union hype
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50 ICE agents swarming a public library to arrest one person.
This isn’t policing — it’s authoritarian spectacle.
Armed intimidation, fear as policy, and taxpayer money burned to terrorize communities.
This is fascism in plain sight. #TrumpWatch #Resist
This isn’t policing — it’s authoritarian spectacle.
Armed intimidation, fear as policy, and taxpayer money burned to terrorize communities.
This is fascism in plain sight. #TrumpWatch #Resist
December 30, 2025 at 4:19 AM
50 ICE agents swarming a public library to arrest one person.
This isn’t policing — it’s authoritarian spectacle.
Armed intimidation, fear as policy, and taxpayer money burned to terrorize communities.
This is fascism in plain sight. #TrumpWatch #Resist
This isn’t policing — it’s authoritarian spectacle.
Armed intimidation, fear as policy, and taxpayer money burned to terrorize communities.
This is fascism in plain sight. #TrumpWatch #Resist
Renounced stardom, embraced bigotry.
Brigitte Bardot, the French actress who became a sex symbol in the 1950s before renouncing movie stardom, has died at 91.
Brigitte Bardot, French Movie Icon Who Renounced Stardom, Dies at 91
“And God Created Woman” made her a world-famous sex symbol in the 1950s. She later gave up acting to devote her life to animal welfare.
nyti.ms
December 28, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Renounced stardom, embraced bigotry.
If by “activism,” you mean ardent bigotry, I guess
Brigitte Bardot, one of cinema’s most iconic sex symbols who quit the business to focus on activism, has died at age 91.
Story: www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...
Story: www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...
December 28, 2025 at 4:56 PM
If by “activism,” you mean ardent bigotry, I guess
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I regret to inform you we have to reduce the character limit to the point where they have to say “racist.”
Brigitte Bardot, an international sensation and emblem of female sexual emancipation, died at 91.
The actress and singer later became an animal-welfare campaigner and incendiary right-wing commentator.
The actress and singer later became an animal-welfare campaigner and incendiary right-wing commentator.
Brigitte Bardot, French femme fatale and cultural phenomenon, dies at 91
The actress and singer was a symbol of sexual revolution. She later became an animal-welfare campaigner and incendiary right-wing commenter.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 28, 2025 at 1:59 PM
I regret to inform you we have to reduce the character limit to the point where they have to say “racist.”
Maybe check to see how the “just following orders” defence worked out at Nuremberg before posting this vapid nonsense.
Just thinking... we give so much attention (as we should!) to the victims of state violence, ie, people sent to CECOT.
But, we give little consideration to the psychic violence suffered by those tasked with carrying out the physical violence.
Yes, they "chose" those jobs. But...
But, we give little consideration to the psychic violence suffered by those tasked with carrying out the physical violence.
Yes, they "chose" those jobs. But...
December 28, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Maybe check to see how the “just following orders” defence worked out at Nuremberg before posting this vapid nonsense.
When our kids were younger, we changed all the clocks on the main floor of our house by 4 hours every NYE so we counted down at 8 PM, then tucked them in.
Hey can we just do the ball drop real quick at like 6:30 this time around? It's just it's enough with the things this year
December 28, 2025 at 4:25 PM
When our kids were younger, we changed all the clocks on the main floor of our house by 4 hours every NYE so we counted down at 8 PM, then tucked them in.
The US is not a safe country right now. For anyone.
Also, America is treating Canada like shit for funsies, apparently.
America is a flyover state.
Also, America is treating Canada like shit for funsies, apparently.
America is a flyover state.
I suspect it's going to affect all the games, especially those not involving the US. Lotta people probably don't want to risk getting jailed by ICE, kinda puts a damper on the tourism
Watching the broadcast makes it seem like it's about half full. I wonder if many Canadian fans, despite being close, said no way to spending money in the US. I'm sure that's a factor for many.
December 27, 2025 at 3:26 AM
The US is not a safe country right now. For anyone.
Also, America is treating Canada like shit for funsies, apparently.
America is a flyover state.
Also, America is treating Canada like shit for funsies, apparently.
America is a flyover state.
With all due respect (which is to say: none), America is far less advanced than many countries its bamboozled jingoistic citizenry views as “Third World”.
December 27, 2025 at 12:40 AM
With all due respect (which is to say: none), America is far less advanced than many countries its bamboozled jingoistic citizenry views as “Third World”.
If you can’t even trust us to assist in covering up your concentration camps, what even can you trust us for??? 🙄
The Atlantic suggesting, without evidence, that Canada's Global TV broadcasting the '60 Minutes' segment on CECOT that CBS distributed to it may have been an act of "treachery."
🔗: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
🔗: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
December 24, 2025 at 4:24 PM
If you can’t even trust us to assist in covering up your concentration camps, what even can you trust us for??? 🙄
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lol yeah that’s fuckin airtight wrap it up everybody no one’s ever been stupid and evil at the same time
December 23, 2025 at 9:55 PM
lol yeah that’s fuckin airtight wrap it up everybody no one’s ever been stupid and evil at the same time
If “treachery” is a betrayal of trust, wtf has every god damn thing that mouldy orange down there has said about/done to Canada over the past year and a bit been?
The Atlantic used to BE something.
The Atlantic used to BE something.
The Atlantic suggesting, without evidence, that Canada's Global TV broadcasting the '60 Minutes' segment on CECOT that CBS distributed to it may have been an act of "treachery."
🔗: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
🔗: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
December 23, 2025 at 11:42 PM
If “treachery” is a betrayal of trust, wtf has every god damn thing that mouldy orange down there has said about/done to Canada over the past year and a bit been?
The Atlantic used to BE something.
The Atlantic used to BE something.
History will not be kind to assholes like this
The Bari Weiss hysteria continues. Exactly what in "this piece isn't ready" and "try harder to get comment from the administration" constitutes the death of American journalism? www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
What Bari Weiss Got Right
And what she got wrong
www.theatlantic.com
December 23, 2025 at 9:44 PM
History will not be kind to assholes like this
Another similarity: Americans ignored it was happening until years in the last time around, too
The CBS investigation portrays a modern concentration camp, similar to the Soviet GULAG (like CECOT, an acronym): sadistic guards, 24 hour lighting, isolation cells.
Americans once opposed this inhumane system.
The Trump administration sent innocent people there to suffer.
Americans once opposed this inhumane system.
The Trump administration sent innocent people there to suffer.
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Another similarity: Americans ignored it was happening until years in the last time around, too
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another day going to the website where I go to post “holy shit!!!” after an incredible TD catch, and reading about how the most powerful people on earth have perpetrated the worst crimes imaginable with no repercussions, all before finishing my coffee. this is probably good for my mental health
December 23, 2025 at 1:30 PM
another day going to the website where I go to post “holy shit!!!” after an incredible TD catch, and reading about how the most powerful people on earth have perpetrated the worst crimes imaginable with no repercussions, all before finishing my coffee. this is probably good for my mental health
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Hey, if you live in Ontario, apparently the latest great gift Doug Ford is giving big business is expiring loyalty points (that's been illegal for a long time). It's buried in an omnibus bill.
Just a reminder that this is a change no one asked for that does nothing positive for anyone.
Just a reminder that this is a change no one asked for that does nothing positive for anyone.
December 23, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Hey, if you live in Ontario, apparently the latest great gift Doug Ford is giving big business is expiring loyalty points (that's been illegal for a long time). It's buried in an omnibus bill.
Just a reminder that this is a change no one asked for that does nothing positive for anyone.
Just a reminder that this is a change no one asked for that does nothing positive for anyone.
At almost every gate I’ve been at pre-boarding in the last several years, they’ve made an announcement asking for volunteers to check their carry-on “at no extra charge” (oooh! Lucky us!) because everyone tries to avoid paying for checked luggage and carries the max allowable size of carry-on.
So anyhow, I opened the Air Canada app to do the check-in, and after offering to check bags for me for the fee, I entered no bags. But then, something new, a notice that there probably won't be enough overhead bin space for carry on luggage. Would I like to check my carry on bag for free?
December 21, 2025 at 5:04 PM
At almost every gate I’ve been at pre-boarding in the last several years, they’ve made an announcement asking for volunteers to check their carry-on “at no extra charge” (oooh! Lucky us!) because everyone tries to avoid paying for checked luggage and carries the max allowable size of carry-on.
It’s wild that they’re just now noticing this
It all might make more sense if he actually were drinking. But Trump, with his "alcoholic's personality," seems even less inhibited in a way that has many in Washington shaking their heads and wondering if the leader of the free world has lost it. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
Shouting, Ranting, Insulting: Trump’s Uninhibited Second Term
www.nytimes.com
December 19, 2025 at 1:32 AM
It’s wild that they’re just now noticing this
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Shout out to all the libs who commended MTG for standing up to Drumpf
Breaking: House Republicans pass Marjorie Taylor Greene's bill to criminalize doctors that provide gender-affirming care for trans kids. Her bill imposes jail time penalties up to 10 years. Now, it's headed to the Senate where it is not likely to advance as it would need 7 Democrats to sign on
December 18, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Shout out to all the libs who commended MTG for standing up to Drumpf
Indeed. When he pops his clogs, we’ll pop the champagne.
For better or worse, public figures are judged when they die — their character, contributions, beliefs. It's undeniable that millions have mourned Rob Reiner's tragic death, celebrating his talent and contributions. I suspect when a certain public figure kicks the bucket, sentiments wont be the same
December 15, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Indeed. When he pops his clogs, we’ll pop the champagne.
Honestly, I hope they keep him on. They might otherwise choose someone electable.
December 14, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Honestly, I hope they keep him on. They might otherwise choose someone electable.
Poilievre’s skull’s as thick as his make-up
ROSIE: You've now lost two MPs to the Liberal Party... Is this a problem of your leadership?
POILIEVRE: No, it's a problem of Mark Carney's leadership that after Canadians clearly rejected a costly Liberal majority... he is trying to manipulate his way through backroom deals.
POILIEVRE: No, it's a problem of Mark Carney's leadership that after Canadians clearly rejected a costly Liberal majority... he is trying to manipulate his way through backroom deals.
December 14, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Poilievre’s skull’s as thick as his make-up
Then let it die
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
buff.ly
December 14, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Then let it die