John McCullagh

Nice job #ldnont. Some surprising (to me) results mean we should have a somewhat progressive council and the future is a little more optimistic.

Mental health and addiction issues may make someone more vulnerable but homelessness is actually caused by a lack of housing that people can afford to live in. That is attributable, in very large measure to the extreme commodification of #housing provision.

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. 🙃

Troy Hawke spreading positivity in Toronto youtu.be/ro-0mhNSXPw?...

This is why it’s hard to take it seriously when cops say they are underfunded.

"Cutting Red Tape" - is a Conservative phrase for removing environmental protections and letting big business do what it wants. It's truly pathetic that you are doing it and trumpeting it, as if it's something to be proud of. There is no Liberal party anymore. @markgerretsen.bsky.social

As always Carney says what Canadians want to hear while quietly doing the opposite. We are paying for defense spending going mostly to the US at the cost of the environment and needed services: National Defence Has Doubled New Contracts With U.S. Tech Giants www.readthemaple.com/national-def...

The construction vehicles may have left, but they'll be back (maybe even tonight). The bike lanes will be torn up. The only real power to stop this is at the ballot box. But this still feels like a victory, and I hope the mobilization can increase impactful political organizing for Torontonians.

I’m deeply saddened to learn of the incredible Irene Mathyssen’s passing. Irene was a force who fought relentlessly for our movement, and for a Canada that upholds the dignity of every person.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #ldnont

Canada has lost a great fighter for justice and democracy. Irene Mathyssen has gone to the angels. I had the honour to serve with her in parliament. She was a tireless advocate for people. I loved Irene and her beautiful family. She worked to make Canada a better place. She is with the angels.

Can we add up how much $$$ #Ford has cost this province? From the beer stores to Ontario Place to his stupid ads, to .... I can't even list it all. This is why we don't have $ for schools, health care, social services. He's too busy making sure his buddies are satisfied and taxpayers keep paying.

*flicks cigarette* yeah i know the muffin man

This is the exact same approach the Liberals fought under Stephen Harper. Now, they're bringing back that very same agenda and Harper is cheering from the sidelines.

The Liberals and Conservatives just voted together to attack labour, environmental, and Indigenous rights to fast-track corporate mega projects. www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...

Bank of Canada security officers have been on strike for 100+ days. The Bank has been caught twice violating federal anti-scab law and even hired Pinkertons, a contractor notorious for violent strikebreaking. PM Carney says he stands with workers. Why won't he condemn this corporate lawbreaking?

Once again, for the politicians, business leaders, and journalists still actively posting on X/Twitter: why? You're using a platform that's owned by someone who's trying to break up your country. The juice isn't worth the squeeze.

We can rant about Doug Ford all we like, pointing out that he’s an incompetent buffoon, poor fiscal manager, and unscrupulous grifter, but apparently he’s just giving the people what they want. Too many of our neighbours look at the PCs and say “yes, that most closely aligns with my worldview”.

One thing I find endlessly funny about the rise of AI is that it has revealed that there is a large number of people who believe that the reason they wrote essays at school or university is their teachers were desperately waiting for them to provide a definite answer to “Lear: what’s up with him?”

I do think this should put some of the hand-wringing over the uniquely sinful American electorate, uniquely feckless institutions, etc in perspective. The truth is that there is a large trans-national constituency of people who actively want this. They aren’t deceived. They want this.

Advance polls are open today in #LdnOnt! As a Trustee candidate I hope to have your support. If you live in wards 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6, you can mark your ballot for Bloxam from 10 AM to 8 PM. Link below to advance polling locations: www.bloxam.ca/vote-for-mike/ #LdnOntVotes #TVDSB #SchoolBoard

Throwing billions in public money behind a pipeline at a time of climate breakdown – while sweeping aside environmental protections, meaningful Indigenous consultation and workers’ right to strike – is absolutely not in the national interest.

Somehow this is only a crisis when building things like trains, not pipelines.

A lifetime of goodwill erased in an instant

“In elections across Canada, centre and left-wing politicians can’t let anti-trans arguments set the terms of the conversation” from @melwoods.me @xtramagazine.com xtramagazine.com/power/politi...

"Vaccines work" isn't a political statement. "Immigrants do not increase crime" isn't a political statement. "Climate change is real" isn't a political statement. "Genocide is bad" isn't a political statement. Stop neutralizing the power of facts by framing them as "politics." Reality matters.

The last thing my burrito hears

#SONGTODAY Here's the latest release by Peter Gabriel from his forthcoming album o/i youtu.be/gzyvAcn90YQ?...

My soon to be winning team in the Movie Fantasy League

If you're wondering. Scherzer and Verlander ending with a tie in strikeouts, so neither can retire, is the funniest possible outcome.

New Tegan and Sara! And Lights! youtu.be/rsnnyfxdo-Q?...

I also have White Coat Syndrome & need my bp taken 3 times for accuracy. 😱🫨🫤🩸

Be serious. Bert and Ernie are not “in love.” Maybe they used to be, once

POV it's Canadian Thanksgiving 2026

Great version of Dancing in the Dark from @eileenlaverty.bsky.social . Nobody better at sad songs. youtu.be/_zgl6HksRIQ?...

It was over 50 years ago that David Lewis called out “corporate welfare bums”. And here we are still doing the same stuff generations later. Maybe it’s time to try a different strategy.

I think a lot of people think the point of sports is that your team will win and then you will be happy. That is not the point of sports. The point of sports is to be sad in a group

Where’s that venn diagram? I hope the residents of #ldnont realize that voting for tax freezes also means voting for services freezes. We won’t get any resolution to homelessness, addiction, or even the additional police you think you need (you don’t) without additional funding.

Even locally during this municipal election campaign . There are openly active transphobic candidates running for #ldnont city council but no one is talking about it.

As we sit on the precipice of another election in BC—particularly considering the climate with the Democrats in the U.S. right now—it's worth pushing progressive politicians to vocally affirm their support of LGBTQ2S+ folks (and particularly trans people), rather than accepting silence as support.

Gotta love a government that sees labour rights and environmental protections as barriers to overcome because sovereignty or something like that.

Carn(ey)age. Rolling back a half century of progress in environmental and climate protection. For what? Oh right, profits for the already very fucking rich & some jobs in the extractive sector, while the rest of us are fucked by climate, ecological and democracy’s collapse. Danger: Banker At Work.

one thing that baffles me about the current canadian political dynamic is how more people haven’t become in incredibly disillusioned seeing all these liberals ministers and MPs flip on so many issues because now banker daddy carney is telling them what to do and believe instead of justin trudeau

Rehab to where? Ontario mayors want to force people into treatment without giving them somewhere to live: ricochet.media/justice/reha...