Renowned sports journalist, formerly of @GlobeandMail. Specialties: Olympic sport, figure skating, horse racing, Best-selling author. Music is now my life.

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#BREAKING: Hockey Night in Canada will no longer air on CBC after the current season, ending a tradition that has been on Canadian TV since 1952. Sportsnet and CBC announced the end of their 12-year NHL partnership. 📺 🇨🇦
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BREAKING: Ontario’s Information and Piracy Commissioner weighs in on premier Doug Ford changes to the FOI: “This amendment is about hiding government-related business to evade public accountability.” On Doug Ford’s use of a private cell phone for gov’t business: The Government of Ontario is currently seeking leave to appeal a court ruling that unanimously upheld my office's order to produce call logs from the Premier's personal cellphone that relate to government business. This is to ensure independent examination to determine whether they may be subject to access under the law. Based on evidence showing that the Premier routinely uses his personal phone to conduct government business, it is likely that they are. By changing the law retroactively, the government's message is plain: if oversight bodies get in the way, just change the rules. Full statement: #onpoli
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This is what eight years of Doug Ford has done to our healthcare. Patients who need a hospital bed are stuck in the ER for 17 hours. The government's own target is eight hours, and even that's too long. Three-quarters of ER doctors say their departments are critically overcrowded. Doug Ford broke our healthcare system. theglobeandmail.com/canada/a…
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Don’t forget that Loblaws also buys up land and simply to stop other healthcare, grocery, physio, doctors office from building in the area 🤷 Besides gouging us over food and healthcare, they also own physio! Galen owns distribution centres, so the costs should be cheapest😳
Conservatives will tell you how grocers only make 3% in profits, blah blah, but conveniently ignore the fraud Like the landlord Loblaws pay rent to is Loblaws. So the company owns real estate, pays rent to itself, then doesn't count rent as profit Burn this whole bullshit down!
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🚨Ice dance duo Laurence Fournier Beaudry and Guillaume Cizeron have officially announced they will continue competing! ⛸️✨ Their ultimate goal is the 2030 Winter Olympics on home soil in the French Alps. Speaking to L'Équipe, Cizeron shared that the prospect of performing in front of a home crowd was the perfect motivation to commit to this new four-year Olympic cycle. #FigureSkating #Olympics
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Elon sold Starlink to rural customers as a lifeline and now that many have signed up, their costs are increasing 500.00 a year now that Starlink is going public and the rural people have no other alternatives. Just another rich man shakedown and is he looks to create his own monopoly for rural areas. Source: Yahoo News
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Two things that struck me this week: People are losing the ability to remember without prompts. People are increasingly able to lie to themselves.
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This is a must read. The Ford government is out of control. Doug Ford was not crowned king of Ontario, he was elected to be an official representative reporting to the public. Ontario is not a PC Party dictatorship. Read and pass this on.
Doug Ford is hiding a FOURTH police investigation, this time involving the Ministry for Seniors and Accessibility. It was triggered by one of 19 forensic audits this government has been forced to undertake. @stephaniesmyth is telling @fordnation to release the audit. #onpoli
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Replying to @Ben_oharabyrne
he is such an asshole
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This week, Bill C-16 passed. But there were 40 MP’s that voted no. Every single one of them are Conservative MP’s. Including Durham MP Jamil Jivani. The bill includes measures to strengthen protections for women and children, including recognizing femicide as first-degree murder in certain circumstances, creating a coercive control offence, and increasing penalties for child predators. Yet 40 Conservative MPs voted NO. Can someone explain why? Conservatives routinely criticize crime, “catch and release” justice, and weak penalties for offenders. So why vote against legislation that strengthens protections for victims, women, and children? I’m especially interested in hearing from Jamil Jivani, who is currently touring the country speaking about men’s health and well-being. Protecting women from violence and protecting children from predators should be something all parties can support. The bill passed. But constituents deserve to know why their MP voted against it.
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Shit meet fan.
The El Niño weather pattern has officially begun and threatens record global heat, US scientists say bbc.in/4ege0AG
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CNN's resident fact-checker Daniel Dale hasn't conducted an on-air fact check of Trump in more than three months, a stretch that coincidentally began around the same time Paramount announced its merger with WBD status.news/p/daniel-dale-cn…
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my god. 3500 parking spots on the waterfront. goodbye peace. goodbye greenspace. goodbye wildlife. goodbye clean water. hello hellish pollution and traffic. what does the premier have against the lake?! seriously.
NEW: Ontario announces it has awarded a $198 million contract to design and build new parking structure at Ontario Place, to Canadian company Pomerleau Inc. after procurement process. Says it will include 3,500 parking spots, 680 EV charging stations and bicycle parking. #onpoli
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NEW: Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s approval rating falls to its lowest level since he first took office in 2018. The latest Angus Reid data shows a 10 point drop down to 21% approval. Ford also finds himself at the bottom of the list among fellow Premiers. #onpoli
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Did anyone else know that Ontario only allows Pap tests every 5 years now. That’s insane! My daughter just went for one and has to pay for it. This used to be covered annually. Fuck you @fordnation and @SylviaJonesMPP
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Doug Ford's Minister of Education spent the entire session standing in front of cameras across Ontario and even in London UK to announce fake funding for our classrooms. Minister Calandra thought he could silence students and educators by performing accounting tricks on camera. Instead, he got caught with his pants down after documents revealed his $750 for classrooms were all smoke and mirrors.
Ontario promised $750/year for teachers to buy supplies. It turns out it's not all new money trib.al/9KqQfQ7
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Ontario blocks release of seniors' ministry audit linked to police investigation thetrillium.ca:443/insider-n…
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