Stephen Staley

[Michael Geist @mgeist]

Exceptional editorial on Mark Carney’s antisemitism speech and its lack of courage:
“He should have said: ‘If you oppose Israel’s existence, if you demonize Jewish-Canadians, you are wrong, you are hateful and I stand against you.’”
https://t.co/tG4AYUhra8

[David Frum @davidfrum]

Powerful editorial in Canada's @globeandmail on the failure to speak plain about antisemitism: "The price of freedom of conscience and safety for Jews ... is set by their enemies."

https://t.co/ZpZt1z3eRO

[Sean Speer @Sean_Speer]

This is such a cynicism-inducing announcement from the Trudeau/Carney government.

For years, the Liberals dogmatically pursued the Online Streaming Act despite overwhelming evidence that it would drive up prices and undermine choice for consumers and distort market access for Canadian creators.

Then as the CRTC goes about implementing the government's (predictably) bad law, the minister intervenes on affordability grounds.

At the risk of sounding partisan, let me reiterate (and it's as much in begrudging appreciation as it's in disdain): the Liberal Party's shamelessness is its superpower.

[Sean Speer @Sean_Speer]

This type of flawed analysis will invariably lead to poor policy outcomes.

It's the equivalent of saying: "Saskatchewan supplies roughly 85% of America's potash imports, far above its approximately one-third share of global potash production."

The new economic nationalists are seeking to replace comparative advantage with state-directed sovereignty economics that's bound to make us poorer and less competitive.

[The Hub @TheHubCanada]

Mark Carney delivered a powerful speech directly naming antisemitism as a distinct crisis facing Jewish Canadians, but now the real test begins: will these strong words translate into meaningful action? Read @stevestaley's latest piece on this in The Hub.

https://t.co/rBVEo3cVG3

[Mike Fegelman @MikeFegelman]

🧵.@CBC published an entire story about a missing 14-year-old girl whose posters are being torn down across Toronto — and somehow never once used the word “Jewish.”

Not once.

Readers were told the posters being ripped down were “upsetting for the community.”

[Variety @Variety]

Jimmy Kimmel shares hilarious stories and gets emotional during Adam Carolla's Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony:

“Adam and I, as you probably know, don’t agree much when it comes to politics, but I love him dearly. I have never worked with anyone funnier.”

[Jesse Brown @JesseBrown]

https://t.co/nRB7vqIFUy

[Lindsay Shepherd @NewWorldHominin]

I tried asking APTN what their involvement is in the CBC "prank show."

Their comms director accidentally sent me an internal email stating that they were going to ignore my inquiry because I'm just a lowly Canadian citizen and not a media outlet (not that they will give a sufficient answer to the media either.) I followed up and asked who I can contact then, and they just didn't respond.

It's actually crazy that these taxpayer-supported institutions think that they don't need to answer to anyone. They don't even think I deserve a modicum of an answer to my questions, even though they shouldn't be difficult to respond to.

[The Hub @TheHubCanada]

.@stevestaley: Bombshell report on Canada’s airports highlights our enforcement crisis

https://t.co/qgqlTgVWjG

[John Podhoretz @jpodhoretz]

I can’t believe Taylor Lorenz is real. It’s like she’s a construct of the Babylon Bee.

[Adam Zivo @AdamZivo]

The useless bureaucrats at Toronto City Hall have started to include a “drug toxicity crisis acknowledgement” in some of their documents. The language, of course, is ideologically slanted towards radical harm reductionism (e.g. suggesting that drug stigmatization is bad).

[Jamie Sarkonak @sarkonakj]

“Oh it bothers you that the guy who randomly stabbed your father/husband/friend to death is now allowed to live in the community? Too bad, he’s better now. Just be careful because we still consider him a threat to society.”

Canadian justice strikes again

[Steve Guest @SteveGuest]

Vox with a BOMBSHELL admission in the wake of the demise of RCP8.5.

“Those numbers shaped a decade and a half of climate journalism, including a lot of my own when I covered climate change at Time magazine. I didn’t always know — and didn’t always communicate — that the scenario behind the most apocalyptic, attention-getting findings was largely an attempt to imagine how bad things could get, not a true forecast. But I wasn’t alone. RCP 8.5 was a frequent background presence in climate journalism.” https://t.co/hS5SCyG8W6

[Adam Zivo @AdamZivo]

Are you a young man who likes to lift weights? Well, I guess that makes you a racist fascist now.

[Chris Brunet @chrisbrunet]

looking forward to Canadian universities having mandatory hiring quotas for homeless people

[J.J. McCullough @JJ_McCullough]

I’m glad our crack journalists finally got to the bottom of this political scandal by doing some hard-hitting investigating.

Oh, my mistake they just waited till she went on a podcast and then published her self-serving version of events verbatim.

[TrendingPolitics.ca @TrendPolCa]

WATCH: Ontario Premier @fordnation blasts an Ontario Superior Court ruling that bars the Region of Waterloo from clearing a Kitchener encampment needed for a major transit hub project, calling it "the most ridiculous ruling I've ever seen.”

[Chris Selley @cselley]

"Allowing fans of the Habs to gather only 40 minutes from the doorstep of the Canadian Tire Centre doesn’t make any sense for the league or the Senators."

Can't quite believe I just read that.