Related: Driver charged after vehicle flips in front of Ottawa elementary school where speed camera used to be www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/artic... #onpoli #ottcity

It’s fairly telling of the order of things that Canada almost immediately defaulted to the government taking a financial hit to provide gas price relief, without paying for it through a windfall tax even being floated as a serious possibility.

BREAKING: A Delaware judge has ruled that Krafton must *reinstate* Ted Gill, the fired CEO of Subnautica 2 maker Unknown Worlds.

In the ruling, the judge accuses Krafton's CEO of using ChatGPT to come up with a strategy to get out of paying Unknown Worlds a $250 million bonus. Story coming shortly

Cute beaver sculpture in the playground at Biidaasige Park

Worst case Ontario Council, province, scheme to tax new housing in housing shortage

The value of having the province freeze development charges was that they're basically irresistible to local politicians.

They get to spend money, and none of the cost can be traced back to them.

Oh, you new house is $50k more expensive? Wow, that's crazy.

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The Rise of the Manhattan Mega-Mansion In the West Village and other historic neighborhoods, buyers are consolidating apartments and combining townhomes, a sign of New York’s allure to the ultra-rich.

Behind the preserved historical facades, the ultra-rich are buying up adjacent townhomes in the West Village and Upper East Side, combining them into a megamansion. It's part of a broader trend of small multifamily buildings being turned into single-family homes. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Coming back to this story, the care economy has been driving the Canadian job market since the pandemic, but especially 2024-2025, despite the clampdown on international study permits.
It's quite something that this sector is not part of the Canada Strong industrial strategy.

I honestly can't imagine predicting a $1.8 billion shortfall, ending up with a $2 billion surplus instead and then having the guts to call it "sound planning." It is actually very poor planning! www.thestar.com/news/gta/is-...

"(Region of Waterloo) currently lacks basic information on how much water the province has allowed companies to take, how many permits are active and what cumulative impacts those permits may be having. Concerns are also spreading beyond Waterloo." #onpoli

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At this point it seems no one understands reserve funds. They are majority unspent capital budget from previous years, not rainy day funds. Spending down the reserves is good.

Obviously a very small thing, but I found Bloc Quebecois leader Yves-François Blanchet departing from French just now to speak in English to the families in Tumbler Ridge quite touching.

Misplaced Nostalgia This short article appeared in the Coolidge Review, where it is much more nicely formatted.

"Was health care cheaper in the 1950s? Yes, though for many diseases, including heart conditions and cancer, treatment then consisted of asking whether you wished to see a priest, a minister, or a rabbi to send you off to the next world." www.grumpy-economist.com/p/misplaced-...

Like, force a Minister to put his name to a statement still but allow them to make a substantive response with cited facts and figures and then let the opposition make a responsive challenge but instead of doing it in five minute on camera do it over a few days or longer.

Genuinely think the public might be better served by abolishing it as a regular part of the parliamentary orders and moving the entire thing to written questions and answers published online (through a formal process documented in Hansard or the Gazette or whatever.)

9 Toronto police officers facing charges related to tow-truck violence: source | CBC News Nine Toronto police officers are facing charges related to violent incidents involving tow trucks and operators across the Greater Toronto Area, multiple sources tell CBC News.

"Officers are accused of trafficking, leaking addresses to hitmen, and leaking police officer addresses, the sources said.

The investigation also uncovered a conspiracy to kill a unit commander at the Toronto South Detention Centre, the sources said."

Holy Christ. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

John Madeley Sr. and Jr. are charged with numerous crimes.

I periodically feel self-conscious about the fact I ended up being a provincial political journalist like my dad but, hey, at least we didn't end up father-and-son criminal cops. (From today's charge list in the TPS corruption case)

It’s a tough burden being one of the few dozen who hold this objectively correct opinion, but it’s our cross to bear 😔

playing with fire here

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Modry says they've met with the US administration three times, and if the referendum passes but negotiations fail, Premier Smith could "declare sovereignty unilaterally," which other countries would acknowledge.

@dov.bsky.social holy shit they're literally doing the LPR/DPR + novorussyia plan lmao

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I understand that Canadian provincial sovereignty structured differently than U.S. statehood but this feels like U.S. Government officials are saying the U.S. back the seperatists in a possible Canadian civil conflict?

An underrated factor in "why don't people in wealthy societies have more kids" is changing societal norms that now expect even older kids to be chaperoned by an adult any time they are in public, and to be chauffeured by a parent as their only means of transportation

My colleague @dkspaulding.bsky.social inspired this excellent @cnn.com piece on #nuclear testing with this compelling story: blog.ucs.org/dylan-spauld...

everything I dislike is indefinably similar the vector of nastiness

I wonder about how seriously we should take one of the most interesting properties of LLMs ... backofmind.substack.com/p/everything...

I'll add that with a cap this low, Chinese automakers will have strong incentives to bring their higher-end models to Canada, not the cheapest ones. When the US restricted Japanese auto import volumes, Toyota developed the Lexus.

I think this still largely holds up: Ontario's problem isn't Chinese EV imports (which will be modest even with today's deal) it's a floundering domestic auto sector and no prospect for sufficient demand for the batteries we want to build. www.tvo.org/article/anal...

Hope the second recovery is faster!

genuinely baffled at how despite how rapidly we've made progress in recommender systems, actual recommendations have gotten worse

part of the reason i am genuinely irritated with the gAI/AGI cult is because there is real societal benefits in using ML techniques in medical care + weather analysis, and instead people get annoyed with anything that gets lumped in with the plagiarism machine

i hate to be all like “decline of culture” but, god damn, kids’ TV (outside apple TV+) has sloppified worse than any other genre. And don’t reply “what about bluey?” bc that’s not a show for kids, thats a show for parents produced so that kids don’t mind watching it and i will not debate that point.