How Doug Ford made the drug problem on the TTC worse If we want to see less public drug use and people sheltering on transit, we must begin by reopening and expanding supervised consumption sites and by addressing housing unaffordability.

My latest for @thestar.com. Increasing surveillance and extending police powers doesn’t solve homelessness or drug use on transit — it merely opens up the broader public to arbitrary punishment, including the potential for jail time and $10,000 fines. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Not new at Toronto city hall, where "tranches" of funding have long been discussed.

Israel may be splitting Lebanon in two, Lebanese cabinet minister says The purpose may be to create a buffer zone, just as it has done in Gaza and elsewhere

Israel is planning to create a south Lebanon “buffer zone” like the Yellow Line in destroyed Gaza, minister says.

My report from Beirut

Russia struck the center of Sloviansk with three aerial bombs.

At least two people were killed and 11 residents injured, including a 14-year-old girl.

Tomorrow’s AI models are learning from today’s polluted research The research ecosystems AI models train on are changing in ways policymakers aren't yet attuned to.

MAHA-aligned research is entering the training data of AI models that millions of people (and increasingly governments) rely on.

My friend Paul Conroy, war photographer who laughed through the pain Lindsey Hilsum worked in some of the world’s worst conflict zones with the brave photojournalist, who has died aged 61 — but above all she remembers his jokes

My friend #PaulConroy war photographer who laughed through the pain @reflextv.bsky.social
Lindsey Hilsum worked in some of the world’s worst conflict zones with the brave photojournalist, who has died aged 61 — but above all she remembers his jokes
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MY BROTHER Paul Conroy🥹 @reflextv.bsky.social Hey Doug, that’s so very touching mate. Hopefully when it’s released we can all watch together on a huge cinema screen in Canada and have a few well deserved beers together. Thank you so much for your generosity mate, you know I really appreciate it 🙏🙏

MY BROTHER Paul Conroy🥹 @reflextv.bsky.social Hey Doug, that’s so very touching mate. Hopefully when it’s released we can all watch together on a huge cinema screen in Canada and have a few well deserved beers together. Thank you so much for your generosity mate, you know I really appreciate it 🙏🙏

🕯️ Russian strike on Kharkiv apartment kills 10.

Among those killed were two children, 9-year-old Hordii Udovichenko and 13-year-old Yelyzaveta Polianska, along with their mothers, Olena Udovichenko and Yana Polianska.

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Kremlin claims international law "no longer exists" and vows to build up Russia's potential Dmitry Peskov, press secretary for Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin, has complained that international law no longer exists and said Russia needs to focus on its own interests and build up its capabiliti...

Russia complaining about the collapse of international law is like Elon Musk complaining about the spread of disinformation…

Biggest boom yet in central Beirut. Just before 8 am here on a Monday…

My BROTHER @reflextv.bsky.social

@reflextv.bsky.social Rest in Peace my dear BROTHER

HEART BREAKING NEWS my dear friend #photojournalist #PaulConroy died today There are just no words I am beyond devastated @reflextv
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Russia has succeeded in massively destroying Ukraine's infrastructure & environment, which will take decades to recover.

More irreparably, it has killed at least 14,000 civilians, not counting the tens of thousands presumed dead in occupied Mariupol, as well as at least 55,000 Ukrainian soldiers.

Photos: Marton Monus, Oleg Petrasiuk, Zohra Bensemra, Nina Liashonok / Reuters
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Selfie of the author and Vladyslav Heraskevych

🇺🇦 A true Olympian was on Independence Square tonight.

Ukrainian athlete Vladyslav Heraskevych achieved much more than a medal, having stood up for his principles.

Trump’s Suddenly High-Stakes State of the Union The president is visiting Congress in a dramatically different place from where he was a year ago.

“Trump did not handle the SCOTUS decision well. He eviscerated the justices in a remarkably angry news conference. Then, in a particular fit of pique, he declared that he would no longer use capital letters to refer to, as he put it, ‘the supreme court’” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

"It’s not just about social media or our collective attention span. Ukrainians – who had sought for two decades to join the NATO military alliance but were never allowed in – feel more alone than ever. And they are."

🔴 According to the Ukrainian think tank DIXI Group, over the past four years, Russia launched 12,700 attack drones and 2,900 missiles against Ukraine's energy infrastructure.

Assad made a hell of Homs, and my friend Marie Colvin his target As the Syrian conflict reignites, the photographer remembers 2012 and events in the opposition stronghold when he was injured and the Sunday Times journalist was killed

Assad made a hell of Homs, and my friend Marie Colvin his target

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Danish military evacuates US submariner who needed urgent medical care off Greenland Denmark’s military says its arctic command forces evacuated a crew member of a U.S. submarine off the coast of Greenland for urgent medical treatment.

This follows the emergency evacuation of a US submarine crew member to a hospital in Greenland's capital Nuuk: apnews.com/article/gree...

Trump Announces Greenland Hospital Ship Mission as Mercy and Comfort Sit in Alabama Shipyard President Donald Trump announced on Saturday via social media that the United States will send a hospital ship to Greenland to provide medical care, posting alongside an illustration of the...

As of late January, the 1,000-bed hospital ship was firmly in drydock at Alabama Shipyard in Mobile, where it has been undergoing scheduled maintenance since July 2025
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A person is placing a pin on a map of Ukraine at the Zoloti Vorota station

A woman looks at her native city on a map of Ukraine.

People place a pin at their native city on a map of Ukraine

🇺🇦 Lots of emotions...in the Kyiv metro, at the Zoloti Vorota station, there is a map of Ukraine where everyone transiting through can place a blue and yellow pin to show shere they come from.

"Hundreds of thousands of people from all over Ukraine travel the Kyiv Metro every day...

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Such a powerful story from #Ukraine #HeroicJournalists
The @theglobeandmail.com @markmackinnon.bsky.social, second from left, was in Pokrovsk in 2024 with photojournalist @olgaivashchenko.bsky.social translator #KaterynaHatsenko and driver #SerhiyMaistruk.

Volodymyr Kiselov, a special-forces fighter who was killed in action shortly after I interviewed him early in the war/Nazar Borovitskyi,an officer in the HUR military intelligence service who helped rescueThe Globe’s translators from Afghanistan in 2021, only to be killed defending his own country .

The tragic war in Ukraine has become tragically normal Four years after Russia began its full-scale invasion, the rest of the world is distracted by other news – but the conflict is more violent and devastating than ever

“Four years later, the sirens still scream, and the Russian attacks have become even deadlier.

What’s changed is the world has become accustomed to the war raging in Europe. We’ve come to accept that things are never going back to the way they were before.”

My essay on four years of war in Ukraine

Thanks for your continued reporting :)

Great piece.