Edward Parker 🇨🇦

I hang around here sometimes, despite my better instincts. Vancouver - Calgary - Toronto. 🇮🇱 🇺🇦 🇮🇷 🇹🇼

[Ben Rabidoux @BenRabidoux]

In his defence, if I was stuck with a bunch of Trudeau-era clowns in caucus, I’d probably spend a lot of time yelling too

[Edward Parker 🇨🇦 @EdwardYYZ]

@melkuo Indeed. In the 31 days of May, I received 28 emails from the Conservative Party and 27 emails from the Liberal Party (both federal).

[Edward Parker 🇨🇦 @EdwardYYZ]

@EricDLombardi It would certainly be an improvement, but I still think twinning should be the standard to reach for. BC is in the middle of making the Trans Canada 4 lanes - no reason Ontario shouldn’t be able to do the same.

[IntegrityTO @integrity_to]

For Immediate Release: IntegrityTO donates $20,000 to Daily Bread Food Bank through Heritage T-Shirt Campaign

Toronto, ON — June 4, 2026 — IntegrityTO is proud to announce a $20,000 donation to the Daily Bread Food Bank in support of its ongoing mission to combat food insecurity and hunger across Toronto.

The donation was made possible through the sale of heritage “Yonge-Dundas Square” t-shirts, which tapped into public nostalgia and civic identity surrounding the former name of Toronto’s iconic downtown square.

“We are thrilled to have harnessed the collective memory and affection many Torontonians have for a beloved civic landmark in support of an important cause,” said Daniel Tate, Executive Director of IntegrityTO. “At a time when the cost of living continues to strain household budgets, too many people are relying on food banks simply to get by. Turning a civic conversation into meaningful support for a vital cause is incredibly gratifying.”

The contribution will help support the Daily Bread Food Bank’s efforts to address rising hunger in Toronto while continuing to advocate for long-term solutions to poverty and food insecurity.

"Today, more than 1 in 10 Torontonians rely on food banks—a 340% increase since 2019. That's a clear sign of how urgent the hunger crisis has become in our city, and a reminder that addressing food insecurity will require all of us to come together to create meaningful change. We’re grateful for this support, which will help put nearly 20,000 meals on the table for people across our community who are struggling to make ends meet." said Daily Bread Food Bank CEO, Neil Hetherington.

IntegrityTO sold a high volume of Yonge-Dundas Square t-shirts, tapping into Toronto’s collective memory, and turning a controversial chapter of Toronto history into an opportunity for positive change.

Media Advisory:
Media are invited to attend a cheque presentation ceremony at the Daily Bread Food Bank headquarters, 191 New Toronto St, Etobicoke on Monday, June 8th, 2026, at 11:00 a.m.

Media Contact:
Daniel Tate
Executive Director, IntegrityTO
[email protected]

[John Simpson @JohnSimpsonNews]

37 years ago the Chinese army killed large numbers of people in Beijing and elsewhere when it cracked down on student protests. I was there and saw it happen myself. Nowadays China tries to claim the Tiananmen massacre was invented by the international media. That’s a total lie.

[John Ivison @IvisonJ]

“Islamists arrive and are given permission to give vent to their ancient loathing by anarcho-socialists, and their naive campus enablers, who love Palestine but hate Canada, and despise Jews most of all.”
https://t.co/rtw0nkp3X6

[Kerry-Lynne Findlay @KerryLynneFindl]

The NDP have driven BC into the ground.

It’s time for strong Conservative leadership to get our province back on track.

This is my mission.

The times are changing! Stay tuned.

[Aaron Pete @Aaronpete_]

I'm prepared to go to jail over this.

My grandmother Rita Pete went to St. Mary's Indian Residential School. She experienced terrible abuse. As a consequence, she struggled with alcohol use most of her life.

My mother was born with FASD as a consequence of her using alcohol to cope with her trauma.

I am Chief of my community Chawathil First Nation. I am working to address the longstanding impacts of these past policies through renovating homes, building new homes, creating childcare, and growing businesses through economic development.

I have interviewed people who went to Indian Residential Schools. I have interviewed people who believe Indian Residential Schools were awful, horrible schools, meant to remove the Indian from the child.

I've also interviewed people who believe they were well intended, generous investments by Canadian taxpayers meant to assimilate a society and had shortcomings.

Like with many things, the history is dark, complicated, and with any policy that existed for a long time, across a whole country - there were different experiences.

No one story tells us everything. No report shares the full experience of the individuals who went. No commentator today can disprove someone's lived experience with statistics.

The path forward is not to criminalize speech, questions, or debate.

The path forward is empathy for past attendees.
The path forward is truth based on facts.
The path forward is real conversations.
The path forward is to lean into complexity.

If the government criminalizes this, then I will be a criminal for having these conversations.

If I am a criminal by the laws definition, then I am committed to going to jail over this.

[Tristin Hopper @TristinHopper]

What if I told you that the same magical system will allow Jews to feel safe, private property rights to be maintained and gay pride events to proceed without fear or interruption. It's called pluralistic, liberal Western civilization; the thing that Canada has been judiciously tearing down for most of the last 15 years.

[Edward Parker 🇨🇦 @EdwardYYZ]

@TristinHopper Maybe you're so sick of the pervasive smell of cannabis that cigarette smoke seems refreshing in comparison.

[The Globe and Mail @globeandmail]

Opinion: As Canada faces crippling debt, it must do the unpopular thing and cut elderly benefits https://t.co/AZNLE57JlU

[Edward Parker 🇨🇦 @EdwardYYZ]

@RioVeradonir This interests me. Have you written about your motivations?

[Edward Parker 🇨🇦 @EdwardYYZ]

@MadAboutPaper https://t.co/gn7R94Cjo1

[Edward Parker 🇨🇦 @EdwardYYZ]

I'm a cyclist - so not a bike hater - but I can't think of a better way to create more bike haters than to close DVP/Gardiner on a summer Sunday so bikes can use it, even for a worthy cause. Why not shut down the airport and use the runways for fundraising tennis matches too?

[Edward Parker 🇨🇦 @EdwardYYZ]

@jonkay What's exhausting is people who can say "we know everything we need to know about this for the issue to be settled" and have the audacity to call themselves "journalists."

[Art of Manliness @artofmanliness]

10 Things I Would Do If I Were Twenty-One - https://t.co/SH41xUUtH0

[Edward Parker 🇨🇦 @EdwardYYZ]

@Prominent_Bryan Devastated? No. She wasn't my first choice (I'd have preferred a younger leader), but she wasn't my last either.

And Ford, well... a past lifetime in BC inured me to crackpot politicians, but I look forward to the day he exits the stage.

[Edward Parker 🇨🇦 @EdwardYYZ]

PSA: If you're planning to take a half-naked bathroom selfie to post online in the hope that someone will think you're hot, choose a toilet-free angle (or at least close the lid).

[Jeff Blehar is *BOX OFFICE POISON* @EsotericCD]

It's the least of his problems right now, but notice that even as Graham Platner was juggling six women and posing nude with a towel on an app used primarily by teenaged girls, he was VERY CAREFUL to pose in just such a way as to conceal his Nazi tattoo.

Because of course he knew it was a turn-off.

[Edward Parker 🇨🇦 @EdwardYYZ]

@MadAboutPaper It’s always been reet-mans to me.

[Edward Parker 🇨🇦 @EdwardYYZ]

Grifters & self-serving narcissists have always been part of all (power-adjacent) parties, and always will, but we should resist the urge to assume the worst of everyone, especially those we disagree with. Many of those who seem evil to us are not grifters, but decent people unduly influenced (online) by others who want to foment dissent. The best response is to be present with positive engagement. The more that rational people flee, the more the rooms are controlled by the irrational.