Michael Wheeler

ruh roh

Happy we kept a progressive mayor in TO. 4 years of double Brad after leaving Kingston where last night they relieved the Conservative mayor of his duties woulda been hard to swallow. Also interesting how Chow team managed to find new momentum at the end. Last time they faded hard and lost E Day.

@tempobasketball.bsky.social sharing my email with scam gym Goodlife so they can give an incredible 7-day offer makes me want to turn off all emails from Toronto Tempo.

Pretty wild that in the next 3 days we could have a Brad Brad Strong Mayor in TO and a totally unhinged Conservative Party running BC orrrrrr NDP everything.

1 game sample - the D Fence is *exactly who we thought they were*. Diff combos of the Scottie/CMB/Kawhi/Shead trap at half court is going to be a nightmare and every time it will lead to a dunk. #Raptors

My honest take on the TO Mayoral Race is that Olivia Chow is pretty good at governing and pretty bad at campaigning. We're voting for someone to be good at running the city and she is pretty good at that.

We've come so far from Lebronto and F Brooklyn. Kawhi came back on his own. Raps were only team he would extend with. Feels like the first good Raptors team not built on insecurity and a David and Goliath narrative. They're going to be good and everyone knows it's 3 years of Scottie and Kawhi.

I see the 2 most-likely-to-win candidates in Beaches East York are supporting Ranked Ballots for TO Municipal elections. Layton too, who will win his ward. Seems like maybe there will be some new momentum for this with the new City Council.

Important story from Star's Brendan Kennedy: The provincial agency responsible for online gambling secretly shelved a research study showing higher-than-expected problem gambling, and schemed how to ensure Ontarians never saw it www.thestar.com/news/investi...

I see the first thing Factory is offering with Kevin and Sascha in charge is free co-working for artists in the lobby. 1 Look some things can hapen in weeks not years. 2 An acknowledgement that being an artist also means being a producer. 3 Third Space gets a lot of talk not much action so good 2c.

Maybe there's one more brother? He cut his teeth at Deco before a year-long gap on the resume and a transition to working as a consultant to developers working on brand and business development. Brad Ford. He still like to hang at Kelsey's even tho his friends are banned.

Sweet. A great choice. Bring Back World Stage Gideon!

The enthusiasm gap between federal liberals and regular ppl for this v expensive project is large.

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The people on charge of AI are so obviously myopic, smart in one specific way that allowed them to maximize shareholder value, while also having extremely limited broad intelligence, that they are clearly not acting in the public interest. Maybe AI is cool? Hard to know with this crew in charge.

Being right about Apple scrapping its launch of airpods with cameras in them has me ready to make a new prediction: 3 times this week i have heard the assertion "agentic AI will be a trillion dollar consumer industry by 2030". Absolute nonsense. The tech is incredibly unpopular with consumers.

I'm so old I remember when Chris Alexander was a thoughtful and well-respected diplomat. Now he's the guy who promoted a racist government snitch line as Minister and ran for mayor on *checks notes* raising TTC fares.

Cool news but also keep it on the DL until after the Alberta referendum. Thx so much.

This is a very theatre professor thing to tweet, but looking back at what David Mamet had to offer theatre, Practical Aesthetics completely overshadows every text but one, and even that one is not aging well.

The best thing about having a social media account is having a place to show you were right about something. www.theapplepost.com/2026/09/09/7...

Ford wants to make it unsafe for this family to bike.

I don't love how this is shaking out for Canada. Dems want the midterms to be about Canada because it is a clear cost-of-living argument in Red states they need to flip. Trumpists want the same because they like the macho we can kick the cat around vibes after Iran the fiasco. Stakes is high.

Grabbing a couple of hours in the evening where I don't have kids to get some work done and Outlook is putting AI generated prompts into where I find emails prompting me to "wrap up my day" and when you click it is a bunch of nonsense about summarizing things i don't need summarized. Thx guys.

From the Hamilton sub I wonder what the spending limit for a by-election is? Libs dropped 10K on FB to claim only they could win before coming a distant 3rd. www.reddit.com/r/Hamilton/c...

While it is not becoming to celebrate the misfortune of others... Before Raps won it all in 2019 the Clippers were really pushing the envelope sending execs to EVERY GAME he played trying to illegally recruit him as a Raptor. Unsurprising they went along with Uncle Dennis. Anyhow, 10 1st Rd Picks!

As I return to Toronto.

kinda chic to move back to a place where the government is obsessively working to make life less safe for me and my family.

"we should rename Mar-a-Lago something funny, make Google display that" My brother in Christ, the Ontario legislature can declare Google's workers in Ontario to be unionized and assign their collective labour rights to whichever union will be most militant, think bigger

If nothing else, all of this has justified my longtime interest in US politics. Our politics is your politics, we just don't get to vote.

You can't afford to take VIA unless it's for work - but you can't use it to get to work because you have no idea when you will get there. There is no use case for rail travel in this country.

This is succinct, and sums up why as a Canadian i'm consuming news hourly all of a sudden. Did i even watch the TV news once when we negotiated CUSMA? No. Did I watch it the last 4 days? Yes. Tariffs are a cypher for will we become a client state of a country run be the actual worst people.

I'm sure Ford thinks this is an appropriate move for his 'tell it like it is' brand, but he has a responsibility to the people of Ontario to act at a higher standard in a crisis. This is not a hash dealer running for student council.

Carney told reporters 3 major changes the US position late were: 1 Still big tariffs on trucks. 2 Limit other trade deals. 3 Reduced protections for culture and identity. I can't imagine any scenario Mark Carney agrees to number 2, and so that leads me to wonder if it was a deliberate poison pill.

Canadian universities, colleges and public school boards need to find non-American software suppliers. We need alternatives to Meta, Google and Amazon.

Because we're only a few hours from understanding the US Canada trade deal, my personal opinion on what is important is that the auto industry is doomedeither way and fossil fuels will ruin the planet, while digital sovereignty will continue to grow in importance over time.

Today I took my kids to the pool in Ottawa and the municipal government charged me $28.50. Last week I took my kids to the pool in Toronto and the municipal government charged me $0.

Honestly, this guy is such a jerk, so willing to leverage and boost our worst impulses to gain power, that I would like the hazing ritual to last 2 years minimum. The political culture would benefit if he leaves a broken politician. A cautionary tale. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

I showed these mascots to my 6 and 9 year old, both of whom attended the Tempo's first ever win, and their emphatic response was these were the worst mascots they had ever seen. www.cbc.ca/news/enterta...

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