TJ Taylor

Proud to be born on PEI, lover of books, animals, cooking and my family!

[TJ Taylor @tj2don]

Sign the petition: Restore Funding for Early Years Centres on PEI https://t.co/ArW5vH5A89

[Leah 🇨🇦 True Crime Canada @CanTrueCrime]

Why hello @SkateCanada

Perhaps you need defunding for not standing up for women and girls👀

[Linda Blade @coachblade]

Well… @SkateCanada is going to find out quickly that throwing female figure skaters under the bus is NOT supported by the Canadian 🇨🇦public.

Watching. 👀

[TJ Taylor @tj2don]

@according2_taz So so gross!!

[Devin Duke @sirDukeDevin]

Exactly, they were silent.

[Bearded Wonder @MeBeardedWonder]

@CalltoActivism This is the winning ABC reporter who pulled Trump's chain-and guilty as charged or why else would turn into a vile individual
Mary Bruce

[AnatolijUkraine @AnatoliUkraine]

An ABC reporter just did what whole think tanks and “serious” anchors have dodged for years:
she stared down Trump and MBS and asked the questions everyone else whispers off-camera.

No screaming. No grandstanding.
Just two clean hits — on U.S. complicity, on Saudi blood money — that left the “dealmaker” and the crown prince blinking into the lights with nothing smart to say.

This is what real journalism looks like in an age of access-junkies and bootlickers:
one woman with a mic, cutting through billions in oil, arms, and ego with 20 seconds of courage.

Name her. Amplify her.
And maybe ask every other reporter at that gaggle why they weren’t the one swinging.

[Michelle LA🇨🇦 @MichelleLA1981]

This is the only flag that should be hanging at any government or municipal building in this country!
PERIOD!!

[Keira Connolly @keira_con]

Wise words

“My name’s Frank. I’m 64, a retired electrician.
Forty-two years I spent running wires through houses, fixing breakers, making sure people had light in their kitchens and heat in their winters. Never once did anyone ask me where I went to college. Mostly, they just wanted to know if I could get the power back on before their ice cream melted.

Last May, I was at my granddaughter Emily’s school career day. You know the drill — doctors, lawyers, a software guy in a slick suit talking about “scaling startups.” I was the only one there with a tool belt and work boots.

When it was my turn, I told the kids, “I don’t have a degree. I’ve never sat in a lecture hall. But I’ve wired schools, hospitals, and your principal’s house. And when the hospital generator failed during a snowstorm in ’98, I was the one in the basement with a flashlight, keeping the lights on for newborn babies upstairs.”

The kids leaned forward. They had questions — real ones. “How do you fix stuff in the dark?” “Do you make a lot of money?” “Do you ever get zapped?” (Yes, once, and it’ll curl your hair.)

When the bell rang, one boy hung back. Small kid, freckles, hoodie too big for him. He mumbled, “My uncle’s a plumber. People laugh at him ’cause he didn’t finish high school. But… he’s the only one in the family who can fix anything.”

I looked that boy in the eye and said, “Kid, your uncle’s a hero. When your toilet overflows at midnight, Harvard ain’t sending anyone. A plumber is.”

Here’s the thing nobody told me when I was young — the world doesn’t run without tradespeople. You can have all the engineers you want, but if nobody builds the house, wires the power, or lays the pipes, those blueprints just sit in a drawer.

We’ve made it sound like trades are what you do if you can’t go to college, instead of a path you choose because you like working with your hands, solving problems, and seeing your work stand solid for decades.

Four years after high school, some kids walk away with diplomas. Others walk away with zero debt, a union card, and a skill they can take anywhere in the world. And guess what? When your furnace dies in January, it’s not the diploma that saves you.

A few weeks ago, that same freckled kid’s mom stopped me at the grocery store. She said, “You probably don’t remember, but you told my son trades are important. He’s shadowing his uncle this summer. First time I’ve seen him excited about anything in years.”

That’s the part we forget — for some kids, knowing their path is respected changes everything. It’s not about “just” fixing wires or pipes. It’s about pride. Purpose. The kind that sticks with you long after the job’s done.

So next time you meet a teenager, don’t just ask, “Where are you going to college?” Ask, “What’s your plan?” And if they say, “I’m learning to weld,” or “I’m starting an apprenticeship,” smile big and say, “That’s fantastic. We’re going to need you.”

Because we will. More than ever. And when the lights go out, you’ll be glad they showed up.”

[Barney Panofsky's Best Intentions @mynamesnotgordy]

Doug Ford has 72 staff members working for him. The largest staff roster of any Ontario Premier ever.

Seventy-two elementary school teachers, for example, would staff three Ontario elementary schools.

But the photo radar "cash grab" is the problem.

[Tyler Watt 🇨🇦 @tylerwatt]

Ontario’s Conservatives passed a law in 2019 to allow speed-cameras on the taxpayer dime - now they’re making us pay millions to remove them. Another costly, dangerous flip-flop.

Why can’t we at least keep them in school zones to protect students? #onpoli
https://t.co/e9arUIEpaP

[John Fraser @JohnFraserOS]

Speed enforcement cameras keep kids safe, like they do here at Vincent Massey Public School.

Today, @fordnation is turning them off.

It’s a stupid and thoughtless decision.

One that will make our streets less safe, for our kids, and everybody else.

[Amsterdam Blonde @1StarAtaTyme]

How is a speeding ticket from a camera a "cash grab," but a speeding ticket from a police officer isn't?
And while we're at it, what about parking tickets?

[TJ Taylor @tj2don]

@MeghansMole What a dick!!

[Bradshaw @myabradshaw78]

Just can’t unsee it

[Ryan Gerritsen🇨🇦🇳🇱 @ryangerritsen]

From last night. Trudeau looks rough.

[TJ Taylor @tj2don]

@ryangerritsen They all look rough lol!

[TJ Taylor @tj2don]

@ericmmatheny Canada! So brutal how our country has changed.

[Dominic HK Beaudry @DhkBeau]

In Ojibwe our word for blue jay is gwiingwiish (pronounced gweeng-gweesh). Haida art by Glen Rabena.

[Cheri DiNovo @CheriDiNovo]

An almost all woman work force @AirCanada attendants work 35-40 hours a week without pay - any time not in air.
Funny how they settled with their mostly male pilots but refuse even to bargain with women?