Star Investigation: As a Ford government staffer, he helped get through permits for a controversial gold mine. Now he works for the company as a lobbyist. #onpoli New from @EmmaMci: trib.al/WeC3iH3

I don't think anybody really grasps how desperate this situation is. University professors are now saying they are unable to teach history because reading long books and passages is how a person learns history. College kids are incapable of reading more than a few pages. Some classes don't assign any reading at all now, only lectures. There is an assumption among the people managing this decline that reading is just a way of receiving information. It isn't. Proper reading is how we build the mental muscle to synthesize ideas and evaluate them. If the catastrophic decline in reading and literacy is not addressed now, we risk losing everything. Western civilization cannot survive the death of reading because it was built by people with the kind of cognitive depth that a culture of deep reading brings: Complex reasoning, extended internal dialogue, the capacity to hold opposing ideas in tension. Our systems and institutions are complex, and they require well ordered minds to maintain them. Reading forms minds, and the West was built by the richest minds in history.

Those with private cottages don’t need urban green space. The Toronto Islands are an irreplaceable waterfront experience for city residents who have nowhere else to go. @fordnation @Peter_Tabuns @juliedabrusin @MarkJCarney @NoJetsTO

The federal government says it is launching consultations on the future of Toronto’s Billy Bishop airport as the Ford government moves to expand the airport into a busier facility that could accommodate higher passenger volumes, as well as jets. cp24.com/local/toronto/2026/…

@MarkJCarney and his Toronto MPs have a chance right now to put five new Board members on the Toronto Port Authority and put an end to the jet port nightmare proposal. #TOpoli #cdnpoli #NoJetsTO environmentaldefence.ca/2026……

Social Security needs reform, but neither party is willing to take the lead on doing so. If we continue doing nothing, Social Security payouts will be cut automatically by 24% in 2032… That’s only two presidential elections away. 👉🏻 crfb.org/nostatespared

@fordnation is willing to put an American firm over the people of Toronto. Are we, the people of Ontario, going to bail out JPMorgan for their bad investment @OntarioPCParty, @MarkJCarney, @juliedabrusin, @liberal_party