One final point here for members of the PC caucus at Queen’s Park to consider: they are being asked this week to vote to make it easier for the premier to make decisions behind closed doors, and to lock those doors even more firmly. Government House Leader Steve Clark has presented a motion to whip the budget measures bill through the legislature without committee hearings, including the section that will eviscerate Ontario’s freedom of information laws. Many in this government find journalists and their insistence on factual answers annoying, fine. But the events of the last few days are a reminder that a culture of insularity and secrecy is bad for governments, and Tories might want to ask whether leaning into that dysfunction is really what they need right now.

New from me at TVO, on the whole jet thing: www.tvo.org/article/anal...

lol

WATCH: The Ford government's solicitor general and associate solicitor general apologize to MPPs for repeatedly and incorrectly telling them wrongly released inmates are immediately reapprehended #OnPoli

Precisely this.
The only safe way to use something like generative AI (but also algorithmic decision-making programs) is if you already have pre-existing expertise. But if you use these, you’ll erode your expertise. And if you come up using these things, you’ll never develop it in the first place.

Doug Ford to sell private government jet days after purchase was revealed Decision to buy jet for Premier’s travel set off wave of criticism, with opposition members nicknaming it the gravy plane

Breaking: Ford to sell $29m private jet he just bought.
www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

It's absolutely *crystal* clear!

youtu.be/gmnNi8oPsrQ?...

Ontario buys used $28.9M private jet for Doug Ford: sources A senior official confirmed that the province this week took possession of a 2016 Bombardier Challenger 650 executive jet.

NEW: The Ontario government has purchased a used $28.9 million private jet for the use of Premier Doug Ford, the @TorontoStar has learned. The 2016 Bombardier Challenger 650 was delivered this week.

www.thestar.com/politics/pro...

Suburban expansion costs increase to $465 per person per year in Ottawa | CBC News Infill development is known to be much cheaper for cities than adding new subdivisions, and City of Ottawa staff have shared estimates for how much the municipality saves — and spends — depending on w...

It costs the City of Ottawa $465/person each year to serve new low-density homes, over & above what it receives from property taxes/fees.

On the other hand, high-density infill such as apartment buildings pays for itself plus an extra $606/person each year.

Sprawl costs, infill saves. #UrbanTruth

Screencap from Ember Energy report reads: "Peak fossil demand. The era of peaking fossil fuels began before the 2020s twin shocks. OECD fossil fuel demand peaked in 2007. Global fossil energy use in industry plateaued in 2014. In buildings, 2018. In road transport, 2019. Fossil fuel demand in the world outside China has been flat since 2019, and China’s own fossil consumption is now plateauing. Growth in fossil-fuelled power generation has stalled: in the first three quarters of 2025, solar and wind grew fast enough to exceed new demand. With solar, wind, electric vehicles and batteries growing exponentially, decline is near. The twin shocks pull the peaks forward, shorten the plateaus, and steepen the declines."

I'd hope this paragraph would give pause to Canadian business and political leaders whose immediate response to the shutdown of the Strait of Hormuz has been to howl for more pipelines

doordash grandma DoorDash does not have a specific policy for seniors or helping grandparents, as the provided articles do not mention DoorDash's policies or services for seniors. If you have a follow-up question, feel free to let me know. how the fuck do I just search WaPo articles? To search Washington Post articles, you can use the "Ask The Post Al" tool, which is a generative Al tool that provides summary answers and curated results directly to users. If you have a follow-up question, feel free to let me know. I asked. Show me article about "doordash grandma" There is no information about DoorDash and grandma in the provided articles. If you have a follow-up question, feel free to let me know.

WaPo website replaced search with AI and it's going great

"We do not have to use our imaginations to see what can happen when boastful, bombastic leaders take control of our political life and guardrails like Ontario’s rules against partisan ads are taken away."

#OnPoli

....Ontario tends to follow the outliers, like Hungary and Belarus.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Higher-level government unilaterally diminishes the possibility of “priority misalignment” with lower-level by

1) reducing municipalities' policy scope
2) their organizational autonomy and
3) interfering directly (appointments).

While local autonomy has generally increased around the world,...

The length of teachers' college in Ontario will soon be cut in half, from two years to one. #Onpoli
globalnews.ca/news/1177348...

“If you live in one of the affected regions, come October you neither get to elect the head of your regional council directly nor indirectly through your own local representatives, and now that head of council is going to be more powerful than anyone you can actually vote for” #onpoli

Congrats, man! Welcome! Will
be great to see you around the Pink Palace. Been a while.

Ontario is right to abandon rule that limited international grads’ access to medical residency spots Provincial policy announced in the fall was quickly met with constitutional challenge

Ontario is right to abandon rule that limited international grads’ access to medical residency spots. Policy was doomed to fail because it clearly violated constitutional rights, by @picardonhealth.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com

"Google has created a misinformation crisis. Studies have shown that people tend to trust what an AI tells them without question, with one report finding that only 8 percent of users actually double checked an AI’s answer."

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Advocacy groups file constitutional challenge of Ontario’s Special Economic Zones Act Law is ‘dangerously undemocratic,’ and a ‘Trump-like’ power grab, Democracy Watch co-founder says

Ontario's legally exempt special economic zones give Premier Doug Ford "king-like" powers, groups launching constitutional challenge say. (And yes, I do mention Henry VIII.) #Onpoli
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

EMERGENCY RELEASE from Gen. Eaton.

I think people are allowed to draw conclusions about the American people based on their decision to put this man in office bsky.app/profile/pear...

This is quite obviously a threat to use nuclear weapons. It is very important to recognise this.

Government won’t say how much it is spending on its ‘Protect Ontario’ commercials | Globalnews.ca Questions from Global News to the premier's office asking for a full list of different campaigns and how much they are budgeted for have gone unanswered.

NEW: "That's how we Protect Ontario."

It's a phrase you're likely to hear almost every time you turn on the TV or radio.

The Ford government is currently flooding Ontario with - but won't say how many campaigns there are or how much they cost. #OnPoli
globalnews.ca/news/1175773...

Ford government ignoring IPC orders: “Kosseim’s office emailed a statement noting that wilfully failing to comply with such an order is a provincial offence. Prosecution could be triggered by anyone but only with consent of Ontario’s attorney general — a member of the Ford government” #onpoli

‘I still think it’s one of the great films of all time’: All the President’s Men turns 50 In April 1976, the flawless Watergate film premiered in Washington – cast members and reporters share their memories of ‘the granddaddy of journalism movies’

This is a great piece. I am long overdue for a rewatch. Also I really need to replicate Redford's glorious corduroy suit.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

the important thing, as ever, is to remember that time AOC said "uh" or "um" while answering a question about American policy on Taiwan

There is no excuse for downplaying or eliding the insanity of Trump’s morning post. It is the most unhinged public comment by a president in US history and should be reported and remarked upon as such.

This is an actual post. This is not funny. This is beyond desperate. This is a deeply unwell man who doesn’t belong anywhere near the levers of power. Every member of his cabinet and Congress is complicit in not demanding his removal now.

Anything else of headline-worthy note in that statement, Bloomberg?