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[D-Von @Devin_Byrnes]

@mattgurney TSN's app needs an Apple devi ce to connect, and it sucks too. We have two sports networks with a shared monopoly, and they both manage to suck.

[Bryan Breguet @Prominent_Bryan]

Notice how this is only happening now that the Boomers are mostly all retired

Truly a sociopathic generation. The most selfish one ever

[D-Von @Devin_Byrnes]

@Plan_Prep_Live Oh fuck. When the medics parachute in, things are really, really bad.

[Ted S @ClearReason]

If October 7 happened in the United States, adjusted for population:

42,000 Americans would have been killed and nearly 8,700 kidnapped in a single day.

Now imagine what the American response would look like.

[Lexer @LexerLux]

i HATE how an engineer invented the correct way to write recipes like 20 years ago and nobody else ever used it

[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?

[🇨🇦 Jamie Carroll 🇨🇦 @jec79]

For the F35 fans out there, anybody wanna explain how this is different than what we’ve all been worried about? “Kill switch”, spare parts, software throttling… whatever the method, the risk is now undeniable.

[Riley Donovan @valdombre]

By the way, the Carney government is removing Labour Market Impact Assessments (LMIAs) for high wage foreign workers.

The job market for Canadian STEM grads could get even harder as they are forced to compete with more foreign labour.

[John Bowker @bowker_john]

Internal docs show MTO staff warned against Ford govt’s bike lane removal: “No empirical evidence that ties bike lanes as the sole source of congestion, nor is there data that shows removing bike lanes help with better traffic flow” https://t.co/phWlQBPcwc #onpoli #bikeTO #TOpoli

[Dr. Mike P. Moffatt 🇨🇦🏅🏅 @MikePMoffatt]

This is such revisionist nonsense. Back when I was at the federal cabinet retreat pleading with them to get the international student situation under control (and getting called a racist for my efforts), Alberta was in the media asking for the population to grow *faster*.

[D-Von @Devin_Byrnes]

@longleysunsport That is hilariously expensive for an event with 35$ ticket prices.

[Bacarr🇨🇦 @Bacarr7]

Cutting off Starlink is a warning about our F35 purchase. We need a platform that is immune to the whims of our southern neighbours. Gripens now.

[Eric Lombardi 🇨🇦🚀 @EricDLombardi]

Yes, just like the RCMP has been “investigating” Ford for the Greenbelt scandal for like 4 years now.

Still shocks me that RCMP leadership sees it as appropriate to drag it out so long.

Really makes you wonder if our policing agencies really serve the public interest anymore.

[D-Von @Devin_Byrnes]

@TheIndyClowns TORONTO!!!!!!!!!!

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

Well-known Ukrainian military aerial reconnaissance specialist Oleksandr "Serg Marco" Karpiuk writes on Facebook:

"...Starlink is a civilian communications system. And SpaceX is responsible for its civilian use. Standard Starlink terminals currently have a default speed limit of 22 m/s.

To enable flight at speeds above 22 m/s, Ukraine signed contracts for Starshield, which is overseen by the Pentagon. This is already a military system, with Starlink terminals that offer greater functionality, although the accounts are considerably more expensive.

And it was the Pentagon that did two things in a single day: restricted intelligence sharing and changed the parameters of Starshield accounts.

This was a decision by the head of the Pentagon, Pete Hegseth. Clearly on Trump's orders...."

Maybe this is the key to understanding what exactly happened.

[D-Von @Devin_Byrnes]

@Tay_Murph @MLB You gotta watch Bananaball League with the kids on YouTube. No ads, and family friendly. 2 hour tine limit, and wasy faster action to keep them engaged.

MLB is for when threy are older.

[Tablesalt 🇨🇦🇺🇸 @Tablesalt13]

‼️The Canadian "Private College" scandal gets BLOWN OPEN

New information: About 14,800 students at just three “Academy of Learning” franchise locations received more than $219 million in non-repayable OSAP grants in 2024–25, according to freedom-of-information data obtained by The Canadian Press.

Students at every publicly funded college in Ontario combined qualified for about $385 million that same year. Three strip-mall-style career colleges took in well over half of what the entire public college system received in grants.

The locations are Academy of Learning Bay Street in downtown Toronto, Brampton East, and a North York branch of the Brampton campus. They share a parent company.

Career Colleges Ontario had already flagged them, along with other private schools, for OSAP application growth of 500 to 600 percent in two years while most campuses were flat.

Court records from the schools’ challenge of a provincial funding cutoff show what inspectors reported. One Brampton student’s quizzes and final exam in a business-writing course were all completed the SAME DAY.

The exam took six minutes.

Another final was finished the first day the student opened the course. Inspectors said some students could not name their school, program, or courses, and that the Bay Street campus could not show OSAP-funded students were actually participating. Ottawa also raised concerns about growth, shared applications, and rising defaults.

These are grants, not loans. The money does not come back. Our money is being given away. We need answers.

[David Knight Legg @KnightLegg]

A couple of Canada’s activist judges just got busted by journalist Jamie Sarkonak @sarkonakj for some particularly gross views of hard drugs and two-tiered racial views of defendants.

- B.C. judge Catherine Murray decided she would praise two hard-drug traffickers, and invent a Charter right to deal those drugs.
- Ontario judge Faizal Mirza thought the law should have a race-tiered application in sentencing Canadians, then deployed it.

Disgusting ideas. Thankfully not Canadian law. So when these activist judges tried to impose them, Jamie called them out.

Great journalism.

But then the “Advocates Society” wrote a letter to defend the judges. They made two points and both backfire: First, these judges “make their decisions on the facts and the law – not popular opinion or political expediency.” Second, journalists “vilifying judges who make unpopular opinions or demanding their removal is not accountability. It’s pressure.”

Nice try.

First, these activist judges didn’t apply facts or the law. They applied personal views not found in Canadian law. Second, calling them out and demanding their removal isn’t ’vilifying’, its asserting a democratic fact: activists don’t get to hi-jack the bench to impose drug dealing and two-tier race screens that Canadians haven’t consented to through legislation.

If Catherine and Faizal wish their weird views were the law, they can resign and try to get a legislature to agree. That’s what politics is for.

But thats not how jurisprudence work. Activists don’t get to hi-jack the bench for their personal ends just because they sit on it.

The Advocates Society knows this.

Great journalism by Jamie @sarkonakj defending Canada from activist judges whose bizarre ideas make everyone less safe and less equal before the law.

[Jamie Sarkonak @sarkonakj]

It has come to my attention that I have been denounced by @Advocates_Soc for criticizing judicial decisions — and yes, individual judges.

Here's the thing. When someone, for example, spends her lawyerly career writing op-eds in favour of migration and calling herself an activist, and then becomes a federal judge, and from that seat allows all sorts of undesirables to remain in Canada on weak grounds, people are free to draw a connection from A to B.

When a judge, for example, spends his lawyer years advocating fiercely for more race-based law, and then later throws out gun charges of black men on his (unsupported) assertion that police were racist during their arrests, people are free to question whether he's really a fair adjudicator.

When a judge, for example, says that a ban on drug trafficking is unconstitutional, and then *applauds* vigilante drug dealers for their self-proclaimed safe supply program — applauds them for supporting the business of organized crime and feeding the addictions of street people — that's beyond the pale. You're worried about democracy being poisoned? Worry about the judge who threw out Parliament's law against selling heroin because she felt it was "common sense" that it was supported by science.

I agree that it's not right to criticize a judge personally for impartially applying the law and coming to an unpopular decision (which they may even privately disagree with). But when their professional history, or their conduct in court, suggests allegiance to a cause that they happen to be ruling softly on, it will get noticed.

Bringing the administration of justice into disrepute is a two-way street, you know.

[Mike Schreiner @MikeSchreiner]

Let's get the timeline clear here:

1. Career Colleges Ontario warns the Ford government about suspicious OSAP activity in January 2023. Ford lets private career colleges abuse the system for years.

2. Earlier this summer, we learn that just seven private career colleges received $385M in grants, the same amount as all public colleges in Ontario combined.

3. Instead of holding bad actors accountable, Ford punishes all students who rely on OSAP.

Young people are already struggling to get by in an economy stacked against them. Doug Ford needs to reverse these OSAP cuts, take accountability for his own mismanagement, and hold the bad actors responsible instead of punishing all students.