Nathan Cole

Award-winning wildlife scratchboard artist and photographer (photographed 400+ species across 5 countries), writer of cultural essays.

[Jill Davis @Jdavis_Halton]

It’s a cruel government.

[David Brown 🇨🇦💪 @OrbitStudios]

I keep saying it: Doug Ford has about 15 scandals that, on their own would’ve brought down any other government. And yet, no updates on any of these investigations. When is the Ford government gonna be held accountable for literally anything?

[Adam ⚾️ @GradyTripp00]

If you require a massive police presence to carry out an order that overrides the wishes of a democratically elected local government, then you have become the fascists, @OntarioPCParty @fordnation.

[Gil Meslin @g_meslin]

Provincial Minister from Brampton, who ignored 19,000 comments received during consultation as well as internal advice against bike lane removals, ‘has a clear mandate’ to remove local bike lanes on city streets in a municipality where his government lost 15 of 25 ridings.

[Chris ☮️ Fullan @FullanChris]

Toronto residents paying millions of dollars for the privilege of having their bike lanes taken away from them.

[Bob Chandler @leftylabourtech]

If you live outside of Toronto, the Ontario government is blowing $50 million of you tax dollars on ripping bike lanes out of Toronto. This is money that could be spent on keeping your local hospital's ER open or fixing your local school's roof.

[Jennifer Keesmaat @jen_keesmaat]

An expensive culture war stunt.

People will die.

Senseless.

[Samuel K @SamuelKOfficial]

Arguably no other crime in modern times revealed the extent to which international law is a complete farce.

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

Kinda seems like a story 🇺🇸 media should be covering

[Gil Meslin @g_meslin]

I hope @lordcultural are proud of their work on this file. Study-washing the actions of a bad faith government. A smaller facility with a diminished mission in a worse location, robbed of its iconic home, for twice the cost of simply repairing & renewing the institution in situ.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

When India accidentally wiped out its vultures, half a million people died in five years.

The bird doing zoomies in this video runs the most extreme digestive system in the animal kingdom. Vulture stomach acid sits near pH 1, strong enough to destroy anthrax, rabies, and botulism in the carcasses they eat. A flock strips a cow to bone in about 45 minutes.

India had 50 million of them. Free sanitation at national scale, in a country where religious custom means most cattle die natural deaths and every dead cow becomes a carcass someone has to deal with.

Then the patent on diclofenac expired in 1994. Farmers started using the cheap painkiller on livestock. Trace amounts left in a carcass cause kidney failure in vultures. Within a decade, 50 million birds fell to a few thousand. The fastest collapse of any bird species since the passenger pigeon.

The carcasses didn't disappear. Feral dogs took the vultures' place and brought rabies with them. Rotting remains leached into waterways. In districts where vultures once thrived, human death rates rose more than 4 percent. Economists at Chicago and Warwick put the toll at 100,000 extra deaths a year and $69 billion in annual damages.

So yes, the goofy bird sprinting down the walkway is adorable. It's also a disease firewall that evolution spent millions of years building and one generic painkiller nearly erased in ten.

[Cheri DiNovo @CheriDiNovo]

When you wait in an ER with your child, when you send your child to a crowded classroom, when you still can't get to work on time...
Know your hard earned money is going to pay for Ford and Metrolinx's corruption
Arrest all 120+ executives at Metrolinx and demand Ford's resignation

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

I saw a post on Reddit that said that “The underlying purpose of AI is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth.” And I don’t think I’ve ever seen AI described so incisively.

[Emily Spanton @whatdoesntkillu]

DYK: Canada cut the rural emergency radio station

Multiple communities have said they had little to no warning to evacuate and many lost internet and phone access long before they lost power.

@MarkJCarney must reverse his cuts to emergency comms.

https://t.co/HkKmLB240O

[Gil Meslin @g_meslin]

This is what attracts visitors. This is what makes Toronto a better place in which to live and work. This is world class.

Protect the islands. Invest in the waterfront. Realize the full potential of the Port Lands. Keep jets out of Billy Bishop.

[Gil Meslin @g_meslin]

On a positive Toronto note, I visited Biidaasige Park last weekend, and it’s an absolute home run. Best new park opened in my lifetime. Great river interface. Wetland greenery. Amazing playground. Trails. Bridges. Picnic areas. Quality materials. And a thousand skyline views.

[Edward Row 𓃡 @edwardrow]

they didn’t just provide inaccurate statements - they stole tens millions of dollars from hundreds of thousands of people - overcharging them for more than two decades - and yet they get a fine that isn’t even a fraction of what they stole

[Tina Yazdani @TinaYazdani]

NEW: ‘Protect Ontario’ and other ad campaigns cost taxpayers $55 million last year across 3 ministries.

The latest FOI records we obtained reveal the Ministry of Finance spent $21.4M on ads last year.

We are still waiting for records from 5 other ministries.