This patch of concrete with zero infrastructure is set to receive $200 million of federal financing. This is subsidiary farming at its worse. It should be a scandal.

As well as highlighting the need to curb climate disaster - this also highlights the critical importance of Canada developing complete food security rather than relying on importing the majority of our food.

#cdnpoli #canada

How Ford’s freedom of information changes could hide details of private jet purchase | Globalnews.ca The province took possession of a second-hand plane last week but was forced into a reversal by Sunday morning due to sustained public backlash.

Hamilton MPPs Donna Skelly, Neil Lumsden, and Monica Ciriello all want to slash your right to know how their government is spending public funds.
Here's an example of how the changes they champion could hide details about the Gravy Plane.
globalnews.ca/news/1180919...

Free plug-in solar panels to be rolled out to some households The technology is designed to be a simpler and more affordable way of benefiting from renewable energy

"Low-income households will get [free] plug-in solar panels to cut their energy bills, the Government has announced."

This is how you do a just transition.
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The Beaverton will buy Doug Ford’s used private jet for $7,000.00 TORONTO – In a special offer The Beaverton has graciously offered to let Doug Ford escape from his embarrassing ‘I bought myself a private jet with taxpayer money’ scandal this afternoon, by selling u...

The Beaverton will buy Doug Ford’s used private jet for $7,000.00

🤩 Final day to complete Transport Canada's survey about headlight glare: tc.canada.ca/en/corporate...

If it weren’t for the cruelty, incompetence, and corruption, this administration would have nothing left.

Y'all are gonna lose your minds when you hear about horses.

Nice of him to give back the jet that he wanted to impress DT, but I can think of a lot of things I would rather he give back - Ontario Place, Exhibition Place, Billy Bishop Airport, the Science Centre, environmental protections, bike lanes, public healthcare, school boards, rent control ...

These are going to come for the left too. They financially motivated — Macedonian teenager type stuff for the AI era. Scammers profiting off of easily enraged people. MAGA may be more susceptible to ragebait but worth understanding what’s going to happen in 2026 and 2028.

🎶“This is how legends are made.” 🎶

a man in a grey sweater says " okay " ALT: a man in a grey sweater says " okay "

Banning algorithmic pricing ought to be a no-brainer call for any government: people don’t like to be ripped off, surveilled, or treated differently from their peers.

Algorithm pricing does all three of those things.

Joe Shuster 🇨🇦

Born in Toronto 1914 and lived there until he was 10.

Yup, that’s the play.

That’s unfathomably awful and dystopian.

Petition is here:

www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

A national butter tart day could be possible with your help | CBC News John Meissner has loved butter tarts since he was a little boy living at a farm in Guelph, Ont. But it wasn't until he had an offensively bad butter tart while judging at a festival in February that h...

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"Have some discussions about raisins or no raisins or pecans or no pecans, those are the arguments we should be having as Canadians.”

(I despise squishy sultana raisins in my butter tarts, but 100% open to currants as per the OG recipe.)

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Yep. That was actually the main thrust of that section of the book: explaining how “innovation” is often businesses using algorithms to siphon value from labour, appear to give it to customers, and then re-adjust to pocket the value for themselves. Workers and customers both suffer.

Page 128 of Enshittification by Cory Doctorow: “Tech suppliers are doing everything they can to bring twiddling to the "real" world. Take the increasingly popular electronic shelf labels popping up in grocery stores. These e-ink displays are networked and can adjust the price of everything in a given store, or in all the stores in a chain, at the click of a mouse. In Nor-way, where electronic shelf merchants "adjust" prices more labels are popular, some than two thousand times per day.”

Happens all the time online. And @doctorow.pluralistic.net brings up something similar in “Enshittification”, related to “twiddling”: “the process of changing the costs, prices, recommendation weights, and search rankings through automated or semi-automated means.”

Page 128 of Enshittification by Cory Doctorow: “Tech suppliers are doing everything they can to bring twiddling to the "real" world. Take the increasingly popular electronic shelf labels popping up in grocery stores. These e-ink displays are networked and can adjust the price of everything in a given store, or in all the stores in a chain, at the click of a mouse. In Nor-way, where electronic shelf merchants "adjust" prices more labels are popular, some than two thousand times per day.”

Happens all the time online. And @doctorow.pluralistic.net brings up something similar in “Enshittification”, related to “twiddling”: “the process of changing the costs, prices, recommendation weights, and search rankings through automated or semi-automated means.”

Opinion: Are we approaching the ‘Silent Spring’ of artificial intelligence? There is a rapidly accumulating body of evidence about the risks AI can pose if given too much autonomy

Editors and reporters: Please, for the love of all that is holy, stop writing and publishing articles on “artificial intelligence” that don’t define the term precisely. They yield only useless pontifications. Focus on *specific* benefits and harms from specific tools and technologies.

Corb Lund: Facts dispute industry claims on coal mining Opinion:

"We are being asked to accept permanent environmental damage, long‑term public liability and water risks that can't be engineered away, all to support an industry in structural decline that contributes little in royalties and is largely owned by foreign investors."You tell 'em,@corblund.bsky.social.

Just a reminder that, on top of everything else, his idiotic tariffs remain in place.

A dark, gloomy staircase rised from a bare floor before flowing into two symmetrical branches going to the left and right. They lead top an elevated walkway against a rough stone wall punctured bu arched openings.

Kingston Penitentiary, Kingston, Ontario, opened 1835.

The ghost of Piranesi smiles.

#StaircaseSaturday
#SaturdayStairs

Ontario government buys $28.9M private jet for Doug Ford's use | CBC News The provincial government has purchased a pre-owned private jet for $28.9 million to be used by Ontario Premier Doug Ford.

Ontario can't keep emergency departments open, can't adequately fund home care, can't stop breaking the CHA with privatized primary care, but hey...

...at least the Premier can visit our struggling communities while comfortablely seated in "the widest cabin in its class" of Bombardier private jet.

A modest proposal:

We track it.

Report every kilometre.

And if he takes it within a 50 km radius of his cottage, everyone gets one ride in it to the destination of their choice.

Jet fuel on him.

Why are people such obviously selfish assholes?

/x

And he takes the “hard-earned” money of the “folks” and “taxpayers” that he claims to champion and spends it ON A GODDAMN PRIVATE PLANE. /2

Can we return to this? For the life of me, I can’t figure out how people like him—and there are way too many for my liking—are incapable of reading the f**king room. People (who voted for him, I bet!) are worried about their job, the cost of living, healthcare, their kids and <gestures vaguely>. /1

Got in a little hometown jam
So they put a rifle in my hand
Send me off to a foreign land
To go and eat the silver ham