Brett Lamb

This is the pilot episode of my animated series, Muscle Bodies. youtu.be/Xghe-D5hREU

Meanwhile, pro-democracy, pro-Europe protesters in Tbilisi, Georgia, are tonight nearing their 700th consecutive day of protest against the pro-Russian government. They haven't missed a single day in the last 23 months.

From 1968 to 1975, Rochdale College was a student-run alternative education and co-operative living experiment operated in an 18-storey tower in Toronto. It started with promise and high ideals but eventually crime and drugs took over. This is the story. 📸 Don Dutton 🧵 1/12

Walter Koenig as Oro in the Canadian sci-fi series The Starlost. The Canadian produced show was filmed in Scarborough, and only aired for 16 episodes in 1973. Due to budget cuts and production difficulties, show creator Harlan Ellison left before the first episode aired.

I’ll say it: it shows what disgusting pigs Americans are that they eat their cheesecake right there at the factory instead of waiting for it to be delivered to a store or restaurant

Okay so a) as a journalist I don't actually want to encourage this behaviour and also b) genuinely howling at "like, you know, we can't be trapped in the binary"

After letting a few private career colleges rip off the OSAP system with impunity, the Ford govt used the scam as an excuse to cut OSAP grants for all students, accusing them of wasting money on “basket weaving courses” & “fancy watches & cologne” www.thestar.com/opinion/cont... #onpoli

The IDU is an international syndicate for far-right authoritarians, and Canada’s Conservative Party is actively aligned with it. Keeping membership in this organization is a direct betrayal of democratic values. An editorial by @taylornoakes.com.

I'm guessing Carney's book 'Values' is just a list of prices.

Avi Lewis: "The right has not been afraid of rage. And what they've done is redirected it to immigrants, to trans kids, to people living on the street. Instead of directing that rage upward to the people who are amassing vast fortunes on our economic misery."

Sunday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...

Here they are. They’ve generated a wave of hate.

In 1969 in London, Ontario, Gary Shaw opened The PoP Shoppe. The company quickly found success and grew thanks to its famous mix-and-match system. But by 1983 it was gone...only to return two decades later. This is the story. 📸 The PoP Shoppe 🧵 1/7

Treaty 6 was signed in 1876. Treaty 7 was signed in 1877. Treaty 8 was signed in 1899. Alberta joined confederation in 1905. This was treaty land before Alberta existed. This is still treaty land.

I am happy to see this story still getting mentioned almost two months after getting published. pressprogress.ca/toronto-mayo...

And don't forget, Brad Bradford's singular achievement after 8 years as a city councillor is his campaign for mayor.

Shopify money fuels the fash and shit like "Juno News".

quick take on the cost of public intellectuals writing with AI - on the philosophy channel youtu.be/sc_3VyrAiv4?...

Our list of Brad Bradford's endorsements has been updated to include National Post founder Conrad Black and a former leader of the Conservative Party of Canada.

somersaults

I swear to god if I hear another person talk about “the mainstream media” while mainlining disinfo slop online all day, I’m going to lose my mind

Never forget.

And remember...

Crime is down. Toronto is objectively a safe place. Why does Bradford want us scared? www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

It would be grand, then, if the Government of Canada would terminate any use of X/Twitter. And don't say, "Oh, we need it to get our messages out," because then you are "caught in a situation where we are reliant on one provider."

The last paragraph of @alexbozikovic.bsky.social's piece on Brad Bradford crystallizes why I am keeping my fingers crossed he does not become the next mayor of Toronto. I am tired of politicians who dwell on bad vibes and who criticize but don't offer constructive alternatives.

Alberta is restricting when the Treaty 6 and Métis Nation flags are flown at schools to the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. Pride flags will NEVER be allowed to fly. But you can fly the Vatican City flag. www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/art...

While some 30,000 people are waiting for surgery in the area, this major Ontario hospital required to cut 37 jobs in surgery @hamiltonspectator.bsky.social @hamiltonhealth.bsky.social To manage $150M deficit amidst rising costs for wages supplies & demand paywalled www.thespec.com/news/hamilto...

In Mark Carney’s vision for Canada, finance trumps human rights every single time. For all his talk of values, contempt for human rights runs consistently throughout his actual policy decisions. This is not pragmatism. It is a conscious betrayal of fundamental ethics that diminishes Canada. 🧵1/

At least $50 billion for another pipeline. $82 billion in new military spending in 5 years. $300 billion in corporate welfare and mega incentives at an investment summit. But the cupboard is bare for Parks Canada.

Editorial: Toronto is falling apart, so let me finish it off - by Brad Bradford

All this talk of protecting children and teens and it turns out that the middle-aged and older are the most easily preyed upon 🙄

As if tomorrow, 2000 of the very best pods out there 🥳

Canadians can’t afford rent. Food bank use is at a record high. Wages are stagnant while the rich are getting richer than ever before. Of all the people who could use this kind of federal support right now, venture capitalists are at the bottom of that list. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

NEW: Bradford Doesn’t Respond to Surveys from Renters, Cyclists and Environmentalists Olivia Chow committed to nearly everything in surveys from the Toronto Environmental Alliance, tenants group ACORN and from Cycle Toronto. Bradford didn't respond to any of them.

Paul Calandra has put 8 Ontario school boards under supervision for financial mismanagement so having Stan Cho - who spent thousands of dollars on Toronto hotel rooms despite living in the city - as his parliamentary assistant makes perfect sense in Doug Ford’s Ontario. 🙃

Another one spotted in the wild. People are running with this idea.

Where the Toronto mayoral race stands now: some thoughts!

the brunchlord press is "incapable" of pointing out that a sizeable chunk of these efforts are about naked information warfare

Fun @tosoarch.bsky.social lecture last night on designing quality housing! Architects Adam Feldmann (aA), Aleris Rodgers (Studio Vaaro), and Naama Blonder (Smart Density) presented their expertise and research on what makes good multi-unit housing.