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Today, we marked 1,000 days since the RCMP launched a criminal investigation into Doug Ford's government over the Greenbelt land grab. 1,000 days. And Ontarians still don't have the truth about what happened. So here's a reminder of what this is about. The order: Doug Ford promised, on camera, that he would never touch the Greenbelt — protected land meant to stay green for good. Then he ordered it carved up anyway. The insiders: Housing Minister Steve Clark's office took specific land-removal requests directly from a handful of well-connected developers. Some of them had bought their land only weeks before. The rush: Instead of a real review, the government ran a secretive three-week process. Public servants were given almost no time, and the public was kept in the dark. The fix: The criteria for which land got removed were quietly rewritten to fit what the developers wanted. 92% of the land pulled out of the Greenbelt came from sites developers themselves flagged. The payday: Those developers stood to make an estimated $8.3 billion. Off land that was supposed to be protected forever. The cover-up: We only know this because of Freedom of Information requests and the Auditor General. And since then, Ford's government has gutted the very transparency tools that exposed it. That's the legacy. 1,000 days under criminal investigation, and a Premier who still won't tell Ontarians the truth. Ontario deserves better. The Ontario NDP is fighting for it.

The journalism rule I live by For four decades, across thirteen books and articles for the NY Times, the New Yorker, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, and other legacy outlets, I never got to publish anything of consequence alleging wrongdoing without two independent, credible sources. On the most sensitive material, a lawyer also cleared it before it ran. That discipline is not an editor's whim. It is the only thing that separates journalism from advocacy. Nicholas Kristof's May 11 Times column, alleging Israel used dogs and carrots to rape Palestinian prisoners, was published without that discipline. It leaned on anonymous and Hamas-affiliated sourcing. It ran in Opinion, not News. The reaction was immediate and severe: Israel's foreign ministry branded it a blood libel, Prime Minister Netanyahu threatened legal action, and the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations formally condemned it. At the time, the Times stood behind it and moved on. Now, more than a year later, we finally have the internal answer everyone in the business has been waiting for. Executive editor Joe Kahn, in a podcast interview with Peter Kafka, said plainly of the column: "It wasn't edited by the newsroom." Pressed on whether the news division would have run it, Kahn first offered "we probably wouldn't have," then corrected himself to something firmer: "No, we wouldn't have done that exact piece." Read that again. The most senior news editor at the New York Times is telling the public that his own newsroom's standards would have kept the piece off the page. That is an admission that the sourcing and verification process opinion editor Kathleen Kingsbury described in May — "a rigorous vetting process," fact-checked, reviewed by standards and legal, with "no errors" found — did not meet the bar the news side actually applies to comparable claims. Two senior Times editors, a year apart, describing the same piece in irreconcilable terms. One says it was properly vetted. The other says his newsroom wouldn't have touched it. Both cannot be right, and nobody at the paper has explained the gap. That is the real story here. Not the politics of Israel and Gaza, which will be argued forever. The story is a fundamental journalism failure — a serious accusation published without the sourcing threshold that any accusation of that gravity requires — and now, finally, confirmed from inside the building.

🚨🚨JAPAN 🇯🇵 Issues a TERRIBLE Warning for ‘Covid-Vaccinated People’ “Compared to those who are not vaccinated… the mortality rate is five times higher if you get vaccinated twice. We cannot continue with these mRNA ‘vaccines’…” - Professor Dr. Seiji Kojima CHILLING!! H/T Red Pill Project