Ontario’s housing crisis is at a breaking point, and we cannot afford to keep wasting time. But how did we get here? Although the crisis feels complex, the answer is simple: lack of leadership and political will.

Despite the rhetoric, Ontario is not on track to build 1.5 million

Wrong-way police pursuit of LBCO thief across 401 reached speeds estimated at 160 to 180 km/h

It ended in a six-vehicle pile up and explosion killing a man, a woman, their infant grandchild and the thief

Another person has sustained serious injuries toronto.ctvnews.ca/baby-grandpare…

'The increase to capital gains taxes is an important, if minor, reversal of tax cuts that increased the wealth and power of the richest families at the expense of everyone else.'

DT Cochrane on why #Budget2024 is a small step toward a grown-up economy: canadiandimension.com/articles/view/…

Unfortunately, Canadians will not be informed about these serious “remedies that actually restore competition”

The news entertainment industry is too busy promoting childish performative outbursts to report news

Proposed capital gains tax hike will be in its own bill, forcing Poilievre to take a position, which to date he has refused to do

I guess politics is just a game and the role of media is to sell tickets

If you’re doing a “Dark Day For Democracy” today I would like to remind you that the now-PM once called a Cabinet Minister a piece of shit in the House so maybe just maybe calm the fuck down

Performance art should be mentioned as a footnote to a news story, not the lede

Ford blocked a pilot project to prevent LCBO robberies but police will go on a high-speed wrong-way chase down the 401 to stop an LCBO thief

Where is the common sense?

The flagrant robberies of LCBO store need to stop and it is easy to do. Other provinces do it.

I hope Umar Zameer sues Ford personally and all Ontarians don’t again have to pay for his attack of freedoms

Not strangely, the freedom fakes in convoy politics and in media raise no concern about the threat to freedoms Poilivere darkly hints at, but won't say in public

Not strangely because their goal is freedom for themselves and screw everyone else

“I think you know exactly what I mean,” Poilievre told the police union

After his speech, Poilievre’s office “provided no official comment when asked for clarification” by reporters

So the cops — wink wink — know “exactly” what he means, but Poilievre won’t say it out loud

Poilievre hates rights and freedoms, loves far-right extremists

Poilievre tells police union conference he’ll override charter rights to keep an innocent man like Umar Zameer in prison without trial

Trust me to block courts from protecting rights, he says cbc.ca/news/politics/…

While judicial vacancies certainly play a role in the inability to meet constitutional speedy trial guarantees, there are other major issues - some of them even more critical. The failure to address those other issues will deny timely justice to victims and defendants.

The

Teacher-student ratios have been cut in every class range, an overall cut of 4990 positions since the Ford PCs took power in 2018, CCPA study finds monitormag.ca/articles/ontar…

“No real winner” in first Alberta NDP leadership debate, but Gil McGowan raised his profile and “surprised people,” said Trevor Harrison, a political scientist with the University of Lethbridge. calgary.ctvnews.ca/no-real-winner…

If you kicked a defenceless man in the head at work, you’d be fired. But you’re not a violent out-of-control cop

This cop kicked in the head a man lying on the ground, possibly unconscious, giving no resistance

Gets a demotion