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WRDSB Trustee (2018-2026). Board Chair (2021-2022). Affordable housing champion. Opinions are my own. He/Him.

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ANALYSIS: Toronto has bigger issues than the island airport | TVO Today The city needs to address housing, transit, and homelessness. The premier is focused on convention centres and jets.

"Thinking that you’re going to save Toronto’s economy by building a massive multi-part temple to business-class travel is a tragic case of the premier and his government putting the cart before the horse." — @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social

12.03.2026 19:55 👍 8 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1
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Trump and Iran Strike Defiant Tone as Oil Markets See Little Relief President Donald Trump and Iran’s new supreme leader both struck defiant tones on the 13th day of the war, offering little relief to energy markets despite fresh US efforts to curb oil prices.

Tuesday: The war would end "very soon"
Thursday: "Trump and Iran Strike Defiant Tone as Oil Markets See Little Relief" -- www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

12.03.2026 19:45 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
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Republican fumes at GOP senator's 'stupid' attack on poor people: 'Never do an interview!' Sen. Jon Husted (R-OH) is taking heat from a member of his own party after saying in an interview that poor people are not skilled at "navigating the real world" because they're too dependent on handouts."People living in poverty are just not very experienced at navigating the real world, right?" sa...

Sen. Jon Husted (R-OH) is taking heat from a member of his own party after saying in an interview that poor people are not skilled at "navigating the real world" because they're too dependent on handouts.

12.03.2026 19:45 👍 38 🔁 20 💬 16 📌 3
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The left doesn’t hate technology; we’re just not going to buy into shitty tech because the industry wants us to.

This week @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social joins @parismarx.com to discuss the problems with AI and digital tech, and why we deserve far better.

Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/319_...

12.03.2026 19:08 👍 92 🔁 25 💬 3 📌 3
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UBC hosted Rachel Maddow to discuss extremism and American global collapse. She brought two decades of research on a man picking trade wars with allies, threatening Greenland, and feuding with Canada’s Prime Minister. The Chan Centre was full. The irony was fuller.

12.03.2026 16:25 👍 397 🔁 185 💬 19 📌 9
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How Hegseth Came to See Moral Purpose in War as Weakness

What a generous puff piece for a war criminal from the NYT

12.03.2026 18:45 👍 25 🔁 6 💬 7 📌 8

Happy 6th anniversary to the time Sarah Palin sang Baby Got Back on the Masked Singer and then the show changed to Trump's address to the nation about COVID.

12.03.2026 19:09 👍 767 🔁 123 💬 16 📌 7
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Pentagon Bans Press Photographers After Ugly Photos of Hegseth The defense secretary apparently found some recent photos of him “unflattering.”

Pete Hegseth is banning press photographers from department briefings on the U.S. war on Iran because he didn’t like the way he looked in recent photos. trib.al/TsTaOyF

12.03.2026 19:10 👍 59 🔁 23 💬 19 📌 4
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Canada’s Conservative leader needs to make inroads with Trump. Is it too late? Why Pierre Poilievre has few friends in and around the White House.

Last election, Conservative MP Randy Hoback handed Poilievre a 70-page report on how to manage Trump’s trade war after consulting 290 stakeholders

Officials say Poilievre never read it; his office denies it.

In the report? “Exactly what Carney is talking about."

www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

12.03.2026 19:11 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 1
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In Beirut, Nowhere Is Safe From Israel's Bombing In an on-the-ground dispatch from Lebanon, displaced residents describe the toll of Israel's relentless attacks, as the Israeli military escalates its assault on the capital and advances in the south.

In an on-the-ground dispatch from Lebanon, displaced residents describe the toll of Israel's relentless attacks, as the Israeli military escalates its assault on the capital and advances in the south.

READ: In Beirut, Nowhere Is Safe From Israel's Bombing

zeteo.com/p/lebanon-is...

12.03.2026 19:11 👍 56 🔁 30 💬 2 📌 3
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Did a viral documentary help swing the Vancouver election?

Remember when Aaron went viral on purpose (for all the wrong reasons)? I bet he misses those days now.

thehub.ca/2022/11/09/k...

12.03.2026 18:29 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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a city skyline at sunset with the letter y visible ALT: a city skyline at sunset with the letter y visible

Well, that Gunn certainly backfired.

12.03.2026 18:27 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Wrote a piece for @thetyee.ca about this, including a short Q&A with Tla'amin Hegus John Hackett.

thetyee.ca/News/2026/03...

12.03.2026 18:16 👍 17 🔁 13 💬 4 📌 1
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"A ten-year record of shutting down our oil and gas sector"

12.03.2026 18:23 👍 31 🔁 16 💬 3 📌 1

Huge relief to hear nobody was lost.

*SUSPECT AT LARGE AFTER ATTACK ON A MICHIGAN SYNAGOGUE: AP
*NO DEATHS AFTER ATTACK ON MICHIGAN SYNAGOGUE: AP

12.03.2026 17:53 👍 1410 🔁 223 💬 10 📌 25
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Bombed Iranian girls school had vivid website and yearslong online presence An Iranian girls school that took a direct hit on the first day of the war had a yearslong online presence, including dozens of photos of the children and their activities, before it was bombed along ...

Bombed Iranian girls school had vivid website and yearslong online presence - www.reuters.com/investigatio...

12.03.2026 17:58 👍 4 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
The enemy is inside the gates.

The enemy is inside the gates.

Universities employed this man in a position with authority over students.

And they are still employing others just like him.

12.03.2026 17:53 👍 329 🔁 78 💬 23 📌 37
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Live updates: Police in West Bloomfield, Michigan responding to possible active shooter at Temple Israel | CNN Police are responding to reports of a potential active shooter at Temple Israel in West Bloomfield Township, Michigan, the Oakland County Sheriff’s Office said. Follow for live updates.

As we wait for more details to emerge from what appears to be an ongoing attack on the largest Reform synagogue in America, we send love and solidarity to the entire congregation and community.

Regardless of what exactly is happening, no community should have to live with this fear.

12.03.2026 17:42 👍 78 🔁 49 💬 0 📌 2
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Palantir CEO Makes Shocking Confession on Disrupting Democratic Power They’re saying the quiet part out loud now.

“This technology disrupts humanities-trained—largely Democratic—voters, and makes their economic power less. And increases the economic power of vocationally trained, working-class, often male, working-class voters.”
—Palantir CEO Alex Karp

newrepublic.com/post/207693/...

12.03.2026 17:42 👍 212 🔁 115 💬 36 📌 73

Times have been tough in this Ohio town since they closed the old money incinerating factory. So when Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth started spending $1 billion per day on a war with Iran, they finally had something to cheer about. But now the woke mob wants to take all that away.

12.03.2026 17:45 👍 269 🔁 27 💬 2 📌 2

New reminder that Sam Altman is being sued by his younger sister for childhood SA, and everyone just acts like this is normal.

12.03.2026 17:35 👍 59 🔁 27 💬 2 📌 1

Here’s a clip of me explaining why I think it’s easier to understand MAGA as a hate movement, rather than an ideology, from our latest main feed episode.

11.03.2026 13:08 👍 224 🔁 62 💬 3 📌 10
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I Watched 6 Hours of DOGE Bro Testimony. Here's What They Had to Say For Themselves The hours of videos provide fascinating, or perhaps horrifying, insight into the thinking of someone inside DOGE.

I have watched 6 hours of a DOGE bro deposition. The whole thing, start to finish. It's a fascinating, and horrifying, look at the people who caused so much damage, didn't really achieve anything at all, while still being so sure they are right. Here's what they said: www.404media.co/i-watched-6-...

12.03.2026 17:28 👍 3653 🔁 1347 💬 138 📌 108
Toronto Police Accountability Coalition : Bulletin - Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 163, March 10 , 2026.

The Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin that just came out is really good. I suggest you take a peek, share it around. Especially the stuff about how the police board chair, Shelly Carroll, worked to avoid public input on the budget. Ford is not the only one steamrolling local democracy.

12.03.2026 14:59 👍 47 🔁 31 💬 0 📌 0
nigel farage tweet:

The Bank of England is replacing Winston Churchill with a picture of a beaver on our bank notes.
This is the definition of woke.

nigel farage tweet: The Bank of England is replacing Winston Churchill with a picture of a beaver on our bank notes. This is the definition of woke.

i, for one, am delighted that we finally have a definition of “woke”

12.03.2026 08:23 👍 7161 🔁 1297 💬 378 📌 286
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What is the difference between dividing in half and dividing by half? Answer (1 of 6): Ans : * “ Dividing in half “ :- If you are talking about dividing numbers or objects into two equal parts, the expression to use is “divide in half,” not “divide by half.” * “ Divi...

If I thought he understood math (or basically anything), I'd say that he meant divide them by 1/2.

www.quora.com/What-is-the-...

12.03.2026 17:24 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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We took a little “excursion”.

12.03.2026 17:20 👍 1125 🔁 323 💬 75 📌 16
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Epstein and His Co-Conspirators’ New York Crimes: What NY officials can now do Options for New York Governor, Attorney General, legislature, and city officials in pursuit of accountability for Jeffrey Epstein's crimes.

I hope this is one of the most consequential pieces I will have ever written.

Epstein and His Co-Conspirators’ New York Crimes: What NY officials can now do

12.03.2026 12:22 👍 3185 🔁 1403 💬 83 📌 100
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58-year-old woman struck, killed by hit-and-run driver in Jamaica, Queens: police Police say a 58-year-old woman was crossing from north to south on Jamaica Avenue, when she was struck by a dark-colored sedan.

Three people killed by drivers this week in NYC. If this had happened on the subway we wouldn’t stop talking about the DaNgER

12.03.2026 02:09 👍 1084 🔁 260 💬 33 📌 7

almost literally Trump tonight

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