"Fortress North America does not create leverage. It’s a self-serving offering to Trump that exploits public fears in Ontario about the trade war to further contested aspects of Premier Ford’s agenda." #onpoli thestar.com/opinion/contribu…

Doug Ford’s daughter makes $250k at this hospital. She has a two year diploma from Conestoga College in broadcasting #onpoli #topoli

RT @davetroy: 1/It's important to note that the bipartisan America 250 Commission was created by President Obama in 2016, and it has tried…

Again: The whole thing is a grift to personally enrich the trumps

And a super majority of Canadians believe that all AI images should be identified as such and that AI should not be used in political campaigns. .

One and all were aware of Notre Dame cathedral, in Paris -- which burned by accident. We should be aware of this, too.

flashback: Google made it's search engine WORSE to make users have to click through more pages (with more ads)... then it tried to fix that with the AI Overview, but that contains false summaries much of the time.

RT @Heidi_Cuda: An ‘Extraordinary Passivity’ — A Q&A with Keir Giles, Part 1 Author Keir Giles explains why he knew in July ‘24 how the Am…

Per-km cost of subway building in Ontario doubled the moment Ford gave the file to Metrolinx and IO, and it has doubled again since. Costs were out of control before the pandemic and inflation became a handy excuse. We're now among the most costly places in the world to build.

I'm not surprised this cartoon came true.

Classy. Happy 250, USA, this is you now.

“Creating a pipeline of low-cost, high-volume advertising would thrust Canada into the kind of attack ad free-for-all which has corroded the United States’ democracy.”

My latest. This story is based on FOI documents released before the Ford government changed the law. Under the new rules, the province will now be able to keep records like this secret.

MUST READ! Long time #CPC senior advisors thoughts on @chriswarkentin's post! dimitrissoudas.substack.com/…

For decades, both Denmark and Canada claimed Hans Island in the High Arctic. During what became known as The Whisky War, each side planted their flag and left alcohol for the other nation. On June 14, 2022, the 49-year-old Whisky War finally came to an end.

Carney: Canada is a mosaic, not a melting pot. And this is the distinction that matters. Because a mosaic doesn't dissolve or blend its pieces. Each is stitched to each and all the pieces hold all. And the beauty is in the arrangement, not in the blending.

What’s happening on the South Lawn tonight will be familiar to anyone who studied the decline of Imperial Rome. The spectacles got bloodier as the emperors got crazier. huffpost.com/entry/trump-lov…

Lisa is so stupid. Blames the left for a racist troll, and this is how he responds

🍁 🍁🍁🍁🍁 Monsanto wanted its growth hormone in every glass of Canadian milk. One government scientist stood in the way and his own bosses spent 14 years trying to destroy him for it. His name was Dr. Shiv Chopra. Born in India, 1934. Came to Canada in the 1960s. PhD in microbiology. Senior scientist at Health Canada's Bureau of Veterinary Drugs. 35 years reviewing drug applications. Approve the safe ones. Reject the unsafe ones. Protect the public. For 20 years he did it quietly. Then Monsanto came knocking. A new drug. Bovine growth hormone. Brand name Posilac. Inject it into dairy cows, get 10-15% more milk. Bigger profits for the industry. Far bigger profits for Monsanto. The FDA had rubber-stamped it in 1993. Monsanto expected Canada to follow. The file landed on Chopra's desk. He started reading the science. He started finding holes. The data was thin. Long-term safety studies were missing. The cow studies that did exist showed lameness, mastitis, reproductive failure, shortened lifespans. If it was doing that to the cow, what was it doing to the milk? His recommendation: reject it. Demand real safety data. His managers had a different idea. Approve it. The Americans approved it. Why are you holding it up? Just sign off. He refused. So the pressure started. Closed-door meetings. Attempts to pull the file and hand it to someone friendlier. Gag orders don't talk to the media, don't talk to anyone. Suspensions. Reprimands. Demotions. Dead-end reassignments. He kept refusing. Two other scientists refused with him. Dr. Margaret Haydon. Dr. Gérard Lambert. Same data. Same alarm. Same answer. In 1998 the Canadian Senate launched an investigation into what was happening inside Health Canada. Chopra and his colleagues did something almost nobody does. They walked into the Senate and testified under oath. Said managers were pressuring them to approve unsafe drugs. Said industry was running the regulator. Said the system was broken. It made headlines around the world. In 1999, Health Canada rejected Monsanto's application. rBGH would not be approved. Europe banned it next. Then most of the developed world. Sit with that. One immigrant scientist in Ottawa beat one of the largest chemical corporations on Earth — and won. Then his own government fired him for winning. July 14, 2004. After 35 years of service, Health Canada fired Chopra, Haydon, and Lambert on the same day. Official reason: insubordination. Real reason: he embarrassed them in front of the country. The same year, the Prime Minister mailed him a gold watch for "illustrious service." While they were firing him. He called it comedy. He sued to clear his name. The fight took 13 years. He lost appeal after appeal. The final ruling came down in 2017. Three months later, in January 2018, he died. 83 years old. Never reinstated. Never given his pension back. Never owed an apology by anyone. But here is what they could never take back. rBGH is still banned in Canada today. Every glass of Canadian milk is still hormone-free — because one man refused to sign. And the United States? Never banned it. It's still legal there. Right now. He kept it out of Canada and they fired him. The system he fought is still pouring it into glasses across the border. So tell me below was Shiv Chopra a hero, or just a troublemaker who got what was coming to him? Pick a side. Because someone in those meetings is still telling scientists to "just sign off."