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7 years

I like this guy.

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BuzzFeed is shutting down HuffPost Canada and HuffPost Québec, just two weeks after they filed for union certification.

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March 2020: "My husband and father of my children died from cancer" May 2021: John Tory had him killed in order to bring in communism

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It’s so rare that the entire narrative of a press conference is demolished with two questions:

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The world's most prestigious photojournalism contest has named "Kawhi Leonard’s Game 7 Buzzer Beater" by Mark Blinch as the single best sports photo of the year:

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8 years

My cousin has spent the past two months bringing increasingly elaborate meals to Blue Jays games:

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Anthony Bourdain, the only celebrity who was honest about Toronto:

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At a $200/ticket gala in midtown Toronto last night, the National Post’s biggest columnist received a standing ovation for calling Canada’s news media “mendacious,” “incompetent, “compromised,” “corrupt,” “illiterate,” “stupid,” and “vile”:

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4 years

"We will check the records, and we will verify." "No no. It's true. I called him a racist."

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5 years

The highlight of the CBC's coverage was Rosemary Barton's casual dance on the grave of the People's Party:

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6 years

In lighter news, Stephen Colbert just spent several minutes pressing Hank Azaria about Apu, and this is how it culminated:

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4 years

In which this has never been disclosed to Sun readers:

The Columnist Who Covers Doug Ford for the Toronto Sun Lives with Doug Ford’s Press Secretary

Brian Lilley has been involved with Ivana Yelich since at least 2019

www.canadaland.com

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5 years

Just two years ago, the Conservatives' campaign manager was a founding director of a company that produced a video in defence of blackface that's been viewed 602,375 times:

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3 years

I didn't know Breakfast Television had this kind of energy. (watch the whole thing)

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3 years

Premier Doug Ford is receiving applause - and facing backlash - after publicizing the fact that he helped people during yesterday's storm. @sid_seixeiro and @dinapugliese share their thoughts.

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3 years

People standing on trucks. Flags. Dancing. Thumping beats. This is a pride parade for people who have never been to one.

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2 years

Not even 20 years ago, the Toronto Police Association sued the Toronto Star for $2.7 billion over a data project showing police engaged in racial profiling:

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3 years

To me, it's not a Canadian election until I've made a collage of two dozen Postmedia papers running identical endorsements:

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6 years

Let's take a stroll through Canada's mainstream media…

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9 years

A friend from high school moved to Germany and became a history teacher. He has the best Facebook updates. http://t.co/6WVOYqg9PG

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1 year

Chloe Brown is going to finish this race ahead of two current and two former Toronto city councillors.

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6 years

As of today, and for the first time since the summer of 1995, Giorgio Mammoliti is no longer the holder of any public office.

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8 years

Anti-Islam protesters have apparently adopted as their anthem a song by a Muslim Somali refugee who entered Canada through the States.

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Now they're blaring Somali-Canadian rapper K'naan's "Waving Flag" while waving the flag.

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5 years

Whoa, the Art Gallery of Ontario is going to be free for anyone 25 and under, and will offer a $35 annual pass to everyone (dramatically less than the current individual membership rate of $110):

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5 years

holy crap

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6 years

Phillips was chair of Postmedia when it eliminated counselling services for employees.

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4 years

oh my god

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5 years

In which I concede that yes, Doug Ford is displaying basic competence, but please reserve your praise for someone who *didn't* spend years dismantling a social safety net that is now having to be frantically rebuilt:

#18 Doug In The Time Of Cholera

Doug Ford has been widely commended for his response to COVID-19. Are people just looking for comfort or has the crisis truly brought out the best in the Premier?

www.canadaland.com

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4 years

I'm mostly perplexed that they've had years to prepare for when this inevitably broke, yet couldn't advance a strategy more sophisticated than "You're ugly."

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2 years

At the end of a long day criminalizing the use of parks, Mayor Tory goes home to a condo with a 1,000-square-foot terrace.

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4 years

Doug Ford's Deputy Chief of Staff 8:11 pm: "We respect all journalists" 10:11 pm: "You're a disgusting cave dweller who looks like he’s never had the physical embrace from a partner"

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CBC asks panellists to respond to Ezra Levant tweet. Michael Coren: "With respect — and, please, I don’t mean this with any lack of respect — but why are we bothering to quote this man? It’s irrelevant. It doesn’t matter what he says and what he thinks."

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6 years

The advantage that conservatives will always have over progressives is that it's so much easier to destroy systems than build them.

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2 years

Today has brought so many incredible, pissy replies from the Loblaw corporate account (), but my favourite has gotta be: Can't afford Loblaws on minimum wage? Try No Frills!

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4 years

There's a pilot in Halifax whose flight path today took the form of a clenched fist, and it appears to not be his first sky painting:

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4 years

Doug Ford Is Actually Good, writes columnist whose company is currently lobbying Ford's government on behalf of 19 different clients:

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6 years

"As a rule"

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2 years

After covering 19 Ford events going back to 2010, it appears I am no longer welcome:

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8 years

"Hey, what should I write in the 'What's New' field?"

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3 years

Jagmeet Singh seems to genuinely appreciate the opportunity to shut down The Rebel:

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4 years

Rex Murphy has written 750 words about how, unable to cook for himself, he has been eating nothing but Kraft Dinner, and it's on the front page of tomorrow's Post:

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3 years

The front page of Tuesday's New York Times misidentified Toronto as Ottawa:

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6 years

I don’t think it occurred to the government that people are actually *more* available to protest in the middle of the night.

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It’s astounding what is happening here. People demanding to be let in to the galleries to watch this travesty. It feels like the beginning of significant resistance.

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Trudeau (in response to question from Lantsman): "Mr. Speaker, Conservative Party members can stand with people who wave swastikas. They can stand with people who wave the Confederate flag…" Lantsman: The PM is trashing me and my party by calling on us to denounce Nazis.

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6 years

It was perhaps only a matter of time before a Sun columnist complained about politicians being "anti-white supremacy."

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3 years

Yes, but he will also continue to employ Nick Kouvalis:

Colin D'Mello | Global News

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3 years

NEW: Premier Doug Ford will travel to London, ON to attend a vigil tonight for the victims of Islamophobic attack on Sunday which, he says, "has left our province in mourning." Ford will make a statement at 11:30 as well. #onpoli

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3 years

“Sorry, I don’t answer questions from Rebel News.”

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2 years

With 30 cabinet members and 43 parliamentary assistants, 88% of Doug Ford's caucus is now making more than the standard MPP salary. Basically, he's given members of his own party a raise, while the salaries of those in other parties remain frozen.

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5 years

Less than two years after being profiled in The New York Times as an example of "Canada’s embrace of the Syrian refugees" (), Soufi's restaurant is closing due to Bernier-related death threats:

Toronto Suddenly Has a New Craving: Syrian Food (Published 2018)

This already diverse city has welcomed thousands of Syrians and their cooking, supporting a small boom in food businesses.

www.nytimes.com

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4 years

Oh good, one of the new owners of the Toronto Star gave the maximum amount to Maxime Bernier's Conservative leadership campaign:

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3 years

Two weeks later, there has still been no acknowledgement or disclosure of Brian Lilley's relationship from himself, the Sun, or Postmedia. He continues to regularly write about the Ford government for the paper.

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7 years

Kellie Leitch is out. I have been holding on to these to set off like fireworks:

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4 years

Their last day is expected to be Monday, and while no details have yet been announced, it's believed that job losses may be total. They had 23 employees, plus managers, as of late February.

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4 years

Erin O’Toole’s victory, literally represented by Ontario Proud’s Jeff Ballingall dancing around with a bottle of Veuve:

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4 years

Here's the exchange:

Pierre Poilievre

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I point blank asked the Kielbergers 4 times if their law firm hired private investigators surveil reporters. All 4 times, they refused to answer.

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3 years

Perhaps it's a metaphor that, until not too long ago, we just kinda assumed that statues were firmly affixed to their bases.

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3 years

This was satisfying…

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4 years

To be clear, these are part of larger cuts across the company, but the Canadian operations are the only ones being shuttered entirely. (The U.S. newsroom has been unionized for about five years.)

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3 years

Me, watching Ford’s speech: It’s a low bar, but this does challenge my assumptions about what Doug Ford would be like as premier. 10 minutes later: Ah, that’s more like it.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford was in Muskoka area as Ottawa dealt with escalating convoy protests

As the City of Ottawa prepared for a state of emergency, amid what police services in the region believed was an “insurrection” by "Freedom Convoy" protesters, Ontario’s Premier Doug Ford was spotted...

toronto.ctvnews.ca

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4 years

Rather than have a union. Fuck these guys.

Sara Mojtehedzadeh

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BREAKING: @foodora_ca says in a statement it has "taken the difficult decision to exit the Canadian market"

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In 2016, a man told police that Bruce McArthur had just tried to kill him. McArthur turned himself in but assured police that wasn't his intent. Well, the police decided after a hard's day work, that's good enough for us.

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3 years

Here’s Trudeau telling The Rebel that they need to “take accountability for some of the polarization we’re seeing in this country”

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4 years

Fun fact! In Ontario, there would be zero legal grounds to suspend the officers without pay.

BuzzFeed News

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UPDATE: The mayor of Buffalo says the 75-year-old man shoved by cops is in serious condition. Two officers have been suspended without pay.

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"Are you centralizing or controlling editorial strategy?" Postmedia CEO, Oct. 4: "This has absolutely nothing to do with the centralization of editorial strategy.…we want to make sure that we offer a wide range of voices that aren’t always represented in the media landscape."

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In lighter news, the Toronto Sun had to print one of these yesterday, due to a Brian Lilley column that was found to have baselessly smeared a couple NDP MPPs:

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3 years

The London Free Press is a Postmedia paper that republishes content syndicated from the Toronto Sun and elsewhere. Here's some of the Sun stuff they've run in the last few years:

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3 years

The clip of Trudeau telling off The Rebel has gotten nearly a third as many views as the new Matrix trailer:

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6 years

Here is a video of Premier Doug Ford posing for a photo with white supremacist Faith Goldy:

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In things-that-used-to-be-news news, Torstar paid its top five executives $4,751,652 last year, equivalent to 70% of what it expects from the media bailout.

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5 years

The Munk Debates throwing a Twitter tantrum is the first great thing of the election.

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If true, this is unacceptable and should prompt every Canadian to ask what kind of democracy we want.

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6 years

Congratulations to the new editor-in-chief of the Sun newspapers across Canada.

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"Please check your privilege" is the 21st Century anti-white equivalent of the N-word.

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5 years

Mattamy Homes is also responsible for the largest known donation to Ontario Proud.

CP24

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JUST IN: Peter Gilgan, founder of Mattamy Homes, is donating $100 million to SickKids hospital. This gift is the largest single donation ever given to The Hospital for Sick Children.

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3 years

Leave it to Paul Fromm to ask the obvious:

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Ford: "I would never imagine in a million years, a democratically elected government, by 2.3 million people, being overturned by one appointed judge. That's shocking." Smyth: "But that's the judicial system." Ford: "That is absolutely shocking to me."

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Thanks to the Emergencies Act inquiry, we learn that at the same time Amanda Galbraith was praising the Ottawa Police as a pundit on @NEWSTALK1010 , she was personally carrying out $30,000 worth of comms work on their behalf:

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4 years

sometimes there’s so much beauty in the world, my heart fills up like a balloon that's about to burst

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6 years

Tory declares, "The racists and the peddlers of hate have no place in this city!" Tory's team:

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In a very Toronto turn, our new police chief is married to the senior director of corporate security at Rogers.

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Today, the Board announced it has selected @TPSMyronDemkiw as the next Chief of the @TorontoPolice . He's a highly respected national police leader, dedicated to enhancing public safety in partnership with Toronto’s diverse communities. See our statement:

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BREAKING: The committee has decided to go ahead with a forensic audit of Faith Goldy's mayoral campaign.

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And now The Rebel's Keean Bexte asks a question to Bloc leader Blanchet about Western separatism. Blanchet says up front that he won't answer a question from The Rebel.

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Trudeau: “The fact of the matter is that I’ve always — and you’ll know this — been more enthusiastic about costumes than is sometimes appropriate.”

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2 years

It’s become increasingly clear that, across the country, the RCMP are just generally ill-equipped to deal with… things happening.

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7 years

National Post live-tweets an NDP convention:

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6 years

I promise you they will amalgamate Brampton out of existence, so that Patrick Brown can no longer be mayor.

Lauren Pelley

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BREAKING: The province is launching a sweeping review of Ontario's regional government system, raising the prospect of future amalgamations. A total of 82 municipalities will be included in the review. More to come.

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Whaddya want us to do, *investigate*? may be one of the funniest things a Toronto officer has ever said on the record.

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The CBC’s personal finance expert says that to cope with rising housing costs, simply ask your boss for a raise (or get a better-paying job):

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The Toronto Sun, doing its part to encourage vaccination:

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Find the Canadian in the FiveThirtyEight liveblog:

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6 years

(It's worth remembering that the Munk Debates specifically exist to shift the parameters of political discussion rightward.)

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4 years

I'd forgotten the actual context, and oh wow,

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6 years

"sadly hate is everywhere" / "Islamophobia is a term made up by Liberals"

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The chair of Rogers Communications and the Toronto Blue Jays posed for a pic with Donald Trump last night:

CANADALAND

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Looks like Rogers chair @EdwardSRogers was hanging out at Mar-a-Lago last night:

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7 years

The private investigators hired to cast doubt on the Barry Sherman murder-suicide theory have successfully done so:

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6 years

The convergence of Canada's mainstream right and far right is occurring right on schedule.

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5 years

Happy one-year anniversary to this tweet:

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2016: "Come on, you're talking like Trump's going to put people in concentration camps" 2018: "First of all, I think it's offensive that you refer to them as 'concentration camps'"

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2 years

@paulisci Per @TeamStarKid , the sentiment dates to at least the Middle Paleolithic:

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1 year

In her concession speech, Bailão says she "was not allowed to be on social media" during the campaign, making me wonder what they were concerned might happen?

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4 years

I was curious about the people who asked the Ford government to get rid of paid sick days…