laura hopcroft

I have a brain and I'm not afraid to use it

[Ontario Liberal Party | Parti Libéral de l'Ontario @OntLiberal]

When your boss buys himself a $28.9M private jet, charging taxpayers $16,000 in hotels must feel like chump change.

Stan Cho lives seven subway stops from Queen’s Park. He even has his own driver. In no world can this be justified.

Doug Ford and his Conservative government treat the public purse like it’s their personal piggy bank.

After eight long years, it doesn’t get any more out of touch than this.

#onpoli

[Colin D'Mello | Global News @ColinDMello]

NEW: A senior cabinet minister in the Ford gov’t billed taxpayers thousands of dollars for hotel rooms in downtown Toronto, despite living just a few kilometres away from Queen’s Park — public money that he’s now promising to partly pay back.

https://t.co/LTZuC4IAvg

#onpoli

[Corruptario @corruptario]

😉 #IDUPlaybook

Doug scratches the Rogers' back, and the Rogers scratch his. 😂

Rogers fired Tina Yazdani earlier this year, as a favour to Dougie.

Melinda here helped him set up his private plane bait and switch.

[Corruptario @corruptario]

The fact that Toronto gives the pigs a billion a year is what will stop Toronto street festivals.

Cops don't prevent crime, cops don't solve crime.

Cops show up after the shooting is done, and stand around with their thumbs up their arse, harassing their ex's on their phones.

[Tired of the BS 🇨🇦 @nursemomdog]

Yes they got money from us “received almost $64 million from several Ontario ministries in 2023-24”
Profits:
Rogers Communications reported a net income of $1.73 billion in 2024, more than doubling its $849 million net profit from 2023

[TDot Resident @TDotResident]

You know our women’s team won medals in 3 straight Olympics and made the World Cup quarterfinals, right?

[Faisal Hassan @FaisalAHassan]

How are you feeling, Toronto?  Brad Bradford has never lost a family member to violence. Never grieved with our city. But now he’s using a tragedy to launch his campaign for Mayor. Who’s he blaming? Politicians like himself?  This isn’t leadership. It’s exploitation. Toronto deserves better. #TOpoli #MayorTO

[My Info @cottageboy51]

Today's 64,000,00 question : why didn't dime bag Doug take an air Canada flight to the stampede? No other premier flew on a private jet to Calgary, fords flight cost 58,000.00 ? Its not like the stampede was a last minute thing !

[P.b.Freire @Freire1Pb]

Ken Drew Pape lost a sister Kim, after a speeding driver ran her down at a crosswalk.
"What the hell Mr. FORD! You know what FORD stands for? FOUND ON ROAD DEAD. Now that was funny when it was about a manufacturer. It's not funny about the people we love."

[Juanita Broaddrick @atensnut]

This contraption from a hundred years ago would be neat to have today.

[Martien 🇳🇱 @MartienBall]

Argentina are officially the first nation in World Cup HISTORY to reach the semi-finals without facing a single Top 10 ranked team.

Must be a coincidence… of course.

[David Pirajá @davidpiraja_]

Minhas CONSIDERAÇÕES sobre cada semi-finalista sendo a campeã:

Espanha: para mim, seria a campeã mais chata. Joga um futebol cartesiano e burocrático. Uma redução do que foi o Guardialismo no Barcelona. Sem contar que não engloba uma grande história por trás. Não gosto.

França: Faça de dois gumes: essa França campeã seria comparada ao Brasil de 70 e estaria no pedestal dos maiores times da historia. Se perder, entra no ramal do Brasil de 82 como um flop histórico. Eu gosto pelo fato do bonde da história, mas não é minha favorita.

Argentina: Lionel Messi. Seria mágico. Incrível. Messi seria inevitavelmente comparado com Pelé para o resto da história, e essa geração argentina seria premiada como uma das mais brilhantes da história - depois de um fracasso histórico em 2018. Eu gosto muito, mas…

INGLATERRA: Its coming home. Oasis. Kane. Bellingham. Os ingleses tem todos os competências possíveis para serem os vencedores mais legais de uma copa tão boa. Seria um roteiro lindo. Premiando um time que conseguiu resgatar o espírito inglês desde de seu belo vídeo de convocação com Come Together.

Dito isso, declaro oficialmente que eu estou FECHADÍSSIMO com a armada inglesa. É isso.

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

Ten years ago you could make jokes about Jane Eyre and Dracula on twitter and most people would get them; nowadays I have to explain references to Alice in Wonderland and The Hobbit as if we’re living in a very on-the-nose film adaptation of Fahrenheit 451.

[dave lawrence 🐟🐟🐠 @dave43law]

That priceless moment when you can tell how much P:osh Spice loves football 🤣🤣

[🇨🇦 Henri A 🇨🇦 @HenriAGS]

BREAKING: My boycott of U.S. products and travel has been extended beyond the Donald Trump presidency

I'm going to continue spending 100% of my budget on Canadian businesses ONLY and 100% of my travel will be elsewhere other than the U.S.

This will remain in effect for 15 years

[GENCO @genco_19233]

Keşke bütün öğretmenler böyle olsa.!

[Maryam @hell_line0]

But of course, MEN BUILT EVERYTHING...🙄

[𝓐 ⭑ @ayojoestar]

just heard a woman explaining to her kid that you don’t walk up to a dog without asking.

that dogs have boundaries too.
and if the dog bites because you ignored those boundaries… that’s on you.

I swear I wanted to hug her 😭

[Бианка @BiankaB12]

One of my longest-standing arguments is that we are not living in Orwell’s 1984, where truth is centrally suppressed and censored by force (that’s former communist societies, modern-day China, Russia, North Korea).

We are living in something much closer to Huxley’s Brave New World.

The truth is not hidden - it is almost always readily available. But it is buried beneath an industrial quantity of noise: propaganda, outrage, half-truths, conspiracy theories, influencer theatre, algorithmic rage bait and an endless stream of content designed not to inform us, but to keep us emotionally stimulated.

The modern information system does not need to censor the truth when it can simply drown it in noise.

A fact no longer has to be disproven - it only has to be surrounded by a hundred competing claims, stripped of context and nuance, turned into partisan ammunition and pushed into the same feed as celebrity gossip, memes and 15 second videos engineered to deliver the fastest possible dopamine hit. By the time the truth reaches us, it appears as just another piece of content competing for our attention.

That is the more sophisticated form of control: not preventing people from knowing, but exhausting their capacity to care.

Orwell feared a world in which people would be deprived of information. Huxley feared a world in which they would be given so much distraction, stimulation and triviality that they would lose the desire to seek it.

The defining struggle of our age is therefore not simply between truth and censorship, but between truth and indifference.

[Mackenzie Gray @Gray_Mackenzie]

Here are some of the details on what Canada had to give up to open the Gordie Howe Bridge, as per a Canadian government source.

For the first 15 years, Canada gets 50% of toll profits and the other 50% goes into a regional "economic development fund." What that fund does and who runs, is not clear

Under the previous agreement, Canada was to receive 100% of toll profit until they were made whole on the $6.4B they spent to build the bridge, which Michigan/the US contributed $0. The agreement also says it could be 50+ years before Canada was whole, that timeline is now longer.

The Americans will have to agree if Canada wants to increase the bridge tolls by more than 10%, or lower them below compared regional averages.

That clause helps out the owners of the Ambassador Bridge, the Maroun family, who have donated to the Trump administration and previously to US ambassador to Canada Pete Hoekstra, to try and stop the new bridge from opening #cdnpoli