When Clark was asked Thursday if he planned to allow the current budget bill to have public hearings — after it had been sitting for two weeks at the committee stage with no movement — he was cagey. "I've made no decisions," he said, a couple of hours before tabling his 1,238-word motion. The motion also seeks to schedule one day each of public hearings on a bill that overhauls school board governance and another that prevents municipalities from requiring that developments follow certain environmentally friendly standards.

Combined with Conservative MPPs giving themselves months and months off, more and more the Ontario Legislative Assembly just seems to be a rubber stamp for Doug Ford cosplaying as a legitimate legislature.

called my mp over this. for once i got to speak with a staffer and it was hard to hide my utter frustration

first they cut the carbon tax and then they SUBSIDIZE MORE CARBON EMISSIONS ARRRGGH

Lebanon death toll surpasses 200 after Israel launches assault despite U.S.-Iran ceasefire | CBC News A wave of Israeli airstrikes swept across Lebanon on Wednesday, leaving at least 112 dead and hundreds wounded, according to the Lebanese Health Ministry.

1/ Hours after Iran and the U.S. reached a ceasefire deal, Israel launched one of its most devastating attacks on Lebanon to date.

Over a hundred strikes in ten minutes - carnage in Beirut, where hundreds of thousands of displaced people are sheltering.

www.cbc.ca/news/world/i...

With all due respect, what’s the point of a Holocaust Memorial Museum that capitulates to fascists?

The Machetes were great. A real Toronto deep cut.

Jesse Brown Insists He’s Done Nothing Wrong Banned from Reddit and accused of phishing critics, Canadaland’s founder is leading a chaotic 'investigation' into an army of sockpuppet accounts

What an weird mess. I am looking forward to listening to whatever Canadaland ends up posting about Brown's adventure's on Reddit, but I've decided to spend my local journalism money elsewhere.

Oh man the last few episodes are incredible! I mean the whole show is, but the penultimate one is something else. It’s unreal that show is Star Wars.

John Lorinc: Provincial governments are acting like schoolyard bullies. It’s time for voters to take a stand Section 33 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms was supposed to be used only in exceptional circumstances. It’s proven to be a blunt tool

Provincial governments are acting like schoolyard bullies. It’s time for voters to take a stand | #Opinion

The funniest thing about the Claude Code leak (www.ccleaks.com) is that they are trying to get stuff taken down via copyright claims. I wonder how they square that circle internally.

The Emperor Protects: A Warhammer 40,000 Musical YouTube video by Warhammer 40,000

I know everyone hates on Internet April Fools pranks, but the level of effort Games Workshop put into this one is pretty great.

I don’t think the Ontario voter gives a shit. Nor do any of the water carriers on the driver entitlement file in our feckless establishment: from the Board of Trade to the pandering former Liberal leader whose runs Vaughan now. This is all on them. It’s what they want. Honest Ontario.

No one likes C3PO more than R2D2. But for some reason big tech is obsessed with C3PO-style computers that speak and act like humans you can love (and make love to) – instead of R2D2-style charming machines that beep, bloop and are joyfully and obviously machines.

The New Reality for Toronto's Crossing Guards | The Local Once a job for local retirees backed by the police, today's crossing guards are poorly paid contract workers employed by private companies. As they confront growing road rage and speeding drivers, the...

The role of crossing guard was once seen as an idyllic job meant for local retirees. Today, most crossing guards are poorly paid contract workers employed by private companies, and their job is more dangerous than ever, writes Angela Misri @karmicangel.bsky.social. thelocal.to/crossing-gua...

Folks, the budget update is not good.

Veteran prosecutor accused of telling Toronto cop he should have given ‘false evidence’ under oath — ‘We protect our own’ “What am I supposed to do? Lie?” — That’s what Const. Edin Hasanbasic said he responded after veteran Crown attorney Marnie Goldenberg confronted the officer about his testimony.

"we protect our own"

Hit and killed a crossing guard (who wear high visibility gear and carry a stop sign) and took off.

Months after the provincial government forced municipalities to remove their speed enforcement cameras in school zones.

"Doug Ford isn’t responsible for the current spike in oil prices, but all of Ontario is more fragile and less resilient to oil shocks because of decisions he’s made."

Ontario to seize ownership of Toronto Island Airport lands and declare it is a special economic zone Premier Doug Ford says the provincial government will be seizing ownership of city-owned lands at Toronto’s Billy Bishop Airport and declaring it a special economic zone, invoking new powers that will...

Invoking Bill 5 to designate the island airport a "special economic zone" isn't just overreach on municipal authority.

It also allows the Ford government to circumvent all responsibility for harms caused to the land, water, wildlife, and human health around the airport — including future lawsuits.

“I am political,” Ms. Rachel told me of her new effort to free kids from ICE detention.

“It’s political to believe that children are worthy of love … and that our care shouldn’t stop at what we look like, our family, at our religion, at a border. Mr. Rogers was very political.”

Not keeping up with inflation as the population ages is a quieter way to cut healthcare. These are passive cuts to healthcare, more invisible than Harris and Eves' closing of thousands of hospital beds. Good on the OHA, the ONA, and unions for trying to help the public understand.

#OnPoli #OnHealth

The internet that could have been. (Though I joined a blog ring yesterday and was working on making a blog roll for one of my blogs, so there is still some juice in blogging.)

Canada Is A Nation Of Cheapskates What does the prime minister's decrepit residence have to do with national decline? More than you think.

Canada is a nation of cheapskates. If we can't even up the head of government up in an adequate residence, do we really think we can take on the massive and growing challenges we face?

www.davidmoscrop.com/p/canada-is-...

see?
here's the thing. A lot of people are like, the earth is fucked, it's beyond salvation, it's hit the tipping point, but time and time again we see that if we just fucking fixed the problem, it rebounds so incredibly fast. Imagine what could be done if people actually cared

No paywall on this important article, which identifies three reasons for the decline in GO’s locomotives and rail cars.

– COVID service suspensions, where maintenance was reduced on stored trains

– longer periods between regular maintenance

– The botched 2024 DB service contact

Some good advice on the etiquette around sharing LLM output with your peers.

This comic was so fantastic. Loved it.

Cover of the comic dust jacket. Deluxe edition.

Book cover, Kara on a beach, looking beat up a little.

I have wanted to read this comic book for some time, Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow.

While we’re distracted by new convention centres and island airports. While hospitals fall apart and students forced to take on more debt. While housing isn’t getting built.

Flooding the zone.