Also, car companies are one of The Star's most important ad revenue.

It would be nice if the Libs and NDP didn't have such deep-seated mutual hatred — even as the NDP has drifted towards the centre. Perhaps the Libs don't like to be reminded that they're not really as left-of-centre as they pretend?

RBC, Scotiabank backslide on climate targets Two Canadian banking giants recently announced they are retreating from their climate targets, in part due to government policy.

Shameful 😡

We are following Trump and his billionaires

Where is “elbows up” for the environment and the climate emergency??

Maybe when the fires restart and smoke fills the air people will wake the fuck up.

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Cacel the jets. Offer them their own private luxury high-speed electric train.

“Someone else always picks up the tab.” Funny how that happens.

Excellent point. Opportunity cost is seldom figured in popular discourse, especially among the blithering chattering classes, but it is huge. Billions more even than the billions Ford has frittered away on corruption.

I can’t imagine his Mad Magazine “What? Me worry?” Face is doing him any favours.

A great argument for building your own private fire-proof library wherever you can.

And what they all really would like to do is get in an Ultimate Fight ring and beat someone to death but they know they’d lose in seconds so they lash out at others instead.

A part of the financial equation that’s rarely mentioned is that Purolator (majority owned by Canada Post) annually turns a tidy profit but is not included in CP’s bottom line; it undercuts CP’s profitability by being in direct competition with the post office’s parcel services.

👏 Canada 👏 Post 👏 is 👏 a 👏 public 👏 service 👏

Nothing proves how capitalism has brain rotted everyone than thinking the post office, hospitals, public transit, libraries, etc. need to turn a profit to be worthwhile.

Sure thing, Mark 👍🏻

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Well, has he *really* backed down on the Greenbelt? Seems like he's still building a highway through it and removing environmental protections and municipal oversight everywhere.

People will forgive and forget by the next election because he "listened and backed down" — just like he "listened and backed down" on the Greenbelt (he didn't, really).

I found it offensive enough when a store hid the price until you asked, then changed the price of old stock to the current retail price, effectively taking an extra profit. Surveillance pricing is miles more offensive.

Of course the piffleswipe hangs around with the fighting brutes of the UFC.
1. It’s a 🇺🇸USA invention that Nazi Trump adores.
2. He thinks it makes him look tough.
3. His mouth breathing base loves it.
Most 🇨🇦Canadians are, like, 🤷
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And a cheap loss, too. Showing he has "listened to the people" will distract from all the other power-grabbing, anti-democratic and corrupt things he has done and continues to do.

‘Not the right time’: Doug Ford promises to sell private jet Confirmed Friday, the $28.9-million plane purchase drew fiery criticism

It's good that our corrupt and incompetent Premier has felt the heat on his private jet purchase. Its not good at all that the heat he's recieved for his fascist changes to government accountability & transparency hasn't been sufficient to call him off. #onpoli
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TBF, the Brits did have a somewhat reasonable expectation that a Labour government would be a Labour government rather than Reform-Conservatives X2.

Similarly, in Canada...

If he thought he could use our money to buy himself a private jet just imagine what's on his phone records he doesn't want us to see.

Where are the James Bond or Mission Impossible-style rogue heroes when we really need them? Or maybe we've been pacified by those fantasies for too long?

They've been at madness for a long time already.

People voted for him on the basis of nothing more than "Get it done."

Sadly, it appealed on a gut emotional level much more than anything the Libs or NDP put out.

So much for the BC NDP's environmental credentials.

Was part of a community consultation for new parkette near Dufferin and Bloor and asked why the paved walkway in center had to be so ugly and wide. Was told design has to accommodate the city truck to drive in and get the garbage. We're literally designing a park around a truck!

Local TV is treating Doug Ford’s Gravy Plane as the scandal it is. It explains the hostile take over of Billy Bishop. The take off distance this Bombardier requires is VERY close to Muskoka’s runway length. Watch for a funding bill. I’m a pilot and I think this is a massive waste of my tax dollars.

Ontario pledge to tie attendance to high school marks, mandate final exams draws mixed reaction | CBC News New Ontario education legislation proposes to count attendance and class participation into high schoolers' final marks and to mandate final exams, drawing a mix of reaction from students, parents and...

So they'll be mandating sufficient HEPA filtration in schools as well right? Because otherwise this sounds like punishing kids for catching covid in schools that are perfectly designed for spreading airborne disease.

Get there fast and get away fast, too. Don't want to waste too much time on the little people when there's US billionaires to impress.

Well, you can't expect him to hobnob with Texas billionaires and GOP fanatics without his own private jet, can you? They might think he was just 'regular folk' or something. Think of his poor ego.

April 17, 2026 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE PRESS RELEASE: Doug Ford's "Gravy Plane" the real reason for Ford's sudden interest in jets at the island airport Today, the Toronto Star reported that Premier Doug Ford has purchased a jet that can only be flown from the island airport if jet expansion at the island airport goes through. "The timing of Ford's purchase of his taxpayer funded "Gravy Plane" and his sudden interest in expanding the island airport is not a coincidence, Norm Di Pasquale highlighted. "For eight years Premier Ford has not said a single word about the island airport, and suddenly he's hell bent on expand the airport to allow him to fly Gravy Plane jet from there. Ford continues to make decisions affecting Torontonians with the sole focus of him being able to get to work and his fundraisers across Ontario faster. Any other level of government that gets involved in this seemingly corrupt process will now be tarred with Ford's taxpayer funded Gravy Plane." NoJetsTO calls on the Government of Ontario to abandon this rushed plan and allow Torontonians to have their say on the airport by keeping the City of Toronto in the Tripartite Agreement.

NoJetsTO PRESS RELEASE: Doug Ford's "Gravy Plane" the real reason for Ford's sudden interest in jets at the island airport mailchi.mp/nojetsto/gra... #topoli #onpoli