This heat wave feels like a good time to talk about RBC, the biggest fossil fuel financier of the big five banks according to a recent report, and how they're responding to criticism

This story feels big - so big - and yet the attention level continues to be less than lukewarm. I look at the numbers and I scratch my head as to why the levels of concern and action are not far greater.

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Breaking: Brits replace their right wing party with centrist party for pretty much the same reasons Canadians will soon replace our centrist party with right wing party

I tried to take two weeks off to get married and go on a honeymoon. In that time someone tried to assassinate former President Donald Trump, there was a global IT outage, and President Biden dropped out of the 2024 race. I’m back this week.

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CBC paid $18.4 million in bonuses after hundreds of jobs at the public broadcaster were eliminated. More than $3.3 million of that was paid to 45 executives, who got an average bonus of over $73,000, more than the median family income after taxes in 2022. thestar.com/news/canada/cb…

I am mostly resigned to the fact, after 20 years of writing about it, that most readers just don't care about prisoners in Canada. Even still, I'm surprised there isn't more public outrage about Jennifer Pagliaro reporting on strip searches in Ontario's youth jails. thestar.com/opinion/editor…

“I have concepts of a plan” is what I tell editors when I have zero words on the page.

nolan Clearly, Emily's on what we'll call the "Plot Convenience Visa." This mythical visa allows her to waltz into Paris without a care in the world, bypassing all those pesky visa interviews, language tests, and financial proof requirements. It's like she's got a golden ticket that

Update | Lead-tainted water at over 40 Ottawa-area schools & daycares has prompted parent concern and action, with calls for urgent steps to protect children’s health. Reporting by Rhythm Sachdeva & Robert Cribb ijb.utoronto.ca/news/lead-tain…

Surprised this isn't bigger news. Lead tainted drinking water in Ottawa schools? OCDSB says test results and actions are shared with the ON govt, OPH, and posted to website. Parents need to be directly informed to prevent exposure. CBC News OCDSB

The problem isn’t the immigrants. The problem is the decades of underinvestment in the health and education systems and handing housing so completely to private developers and speculators. As long as we hold on to the neoliberal model, none of that will change.

Ontario’s Appeal Court has ruled seven youth have a case against the Doug Ford government over its “inadequate” emissions reduction target. Fatima Syed / @fatimabsyed.bsky.social spoke to their lawyer thenarwhal.ca/ontario-youth-…

an ivy league grad is the main suspect for shooting the united healthcare ceo and the person who snitched was a mcdonalds worker. shakespeare couldn’t have written this shit.

The Onion never misses.

Disappearing a man for protesting state violence is fascism.