Toronto ER doc here. I'm less worried about World Cup measles, norovirus and Mpox than I am about the ER patient on a regular day who waits 8-10 hours to be seen, stays 2-3 days in a hallway stretcher or who sits in agony in a chair. We have our priorities backwards.
The Carney government just dropped a $3.2 billion food security strategy and it’s worth understanding what it actually does.
Right now, only 11 cents of every dollar you spend on groceries reaches the farmer who grew it. Five companies control 80% of the grocery market. And Canada exports billions in agricultural products while turning around and importing processed versions of the same food from the US at a markup.
This plan attacks that problem structurally. $1 billion goes toward food terminals and distribution hubs so independent grocers can buy directly from Canadian farmers, cutting out the middleman. The Competition Bureau gets a funding boost to go after the property control tricks big grocers use to block competitors from moving in nearby. And Farm Credit Canada gets $1 billion for domestic food processing so we stop exporting raw product and importing it back as something more expensive.
The targets are concrete: expand the Ontario Food Terminal by end of year, open two new food terminals and 10 regional food hubs by 2028.
This isn’t a handout to Loblaws. It’s infrastructure to break their stranglehold on the supply chain.
Will it fix your grocery bill overnight? No. But building real competition into the system is how you get lasting price relief, not a rebate that disappears after one quarter.
🚨 Russia just threatened Canada.
The country that started the biggest war in Europe since Hitler — the one bombing apartment blocks and stealing Ukrainian kids — went on state TV today and called CANADA the warmonger. 🇨🇦
Why? Because we agreed to build drones for Ukraine on Canadian soil.
So Moscow's mouthpiece, Maria Zakharova, announced Russia will publicly publish the addresses of those Canadian factories "so people can be informed."
That's not a press release. That's a target list.
Every accusation is a confession. They invade, then call the victims terrorists. They threaten our factories, then cry that WE'RE the dangerous ones. Pure projection, and it only works if we flinch.
We don't flinch.
I broke the whole thing down — the threat, the playbook, and why the only correct Canadian answer is "absolutely not, now build more drones." 👇🔗 https://t.co/PxQQhSdWZh
Subscribe. Share it with your Ukraine-skeptic uncle. Informed Canadians aren't optional right now.
— Dean
Three days and 36,000 flowers later, the Canadian flag is back along Highway 401. 🇨🇦🌸
Last week, our parks team was hard at work planting the floral Canadian flag display. From months of tending to the begonias in our greenhouses, to preparing the bed and hand-placing each and every flower, this display is truly a labour of love.
Thank you to our floral crew for all of their work in bringing this iconic Belleville landmark to life! 🍁
As I called on them to do last week, the federal government has stepped in on Billy Bishop airport expansion. Now's our chance to let the government know we're against an expansion meant to line the pockets of American bankers.
Say no to expansion here: https://t.co/eyEh84U15B
My god. Sickeningly unethical.
Email directive from Bari Weiss to 60 Minutes executive producer Tanya Simon:
“Can we make the protesters look more violent? […]
The other thing was, Renee Good’s car. You need to describe her as driving toward the officer.”