Sometimes known as ‘ribeye of the sky,’ sandhill cranes have made a comeback from nearly going locally extinct in Ontario. Now, for the first time in a century, hunters will have a shot at them come September. thenarwhal.ca/ontario-sand...

Ontario’s hunt reopens for once-threatened bird | The Narwhal

Sandhill cranes almost disappeared from Ontario. Now they’re back — and fair game for hunters, as farmers lament destroyed crops

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New from The Etobicoke Voice, our first full length podcast on Term Limits in municipal politics. As I started writing I felt this was bigger than an article, so I started to talk & pressed record! So please be kind about any tech issues! #TOpoli theetobicokevoice.substack.com/p/how-long-i...

How Long Is Too Long? A Conversation About Term Limits In Municipal Politics

Listen now | Aug 19 2026 - a podcast special

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What kind of AI economy Ontario is choosing to build and whom will it serve? According to @policyalternatives.ca, the current plan is without proper safeguards for the public or the environment. By Rachel Pettigrew #onpoli www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

Ontario’s new AI data centre playbook is flawed. We can fix it. | CCPA

The playbook frames AI data centres in economic terms, without proper safeguards for the public and the environment.

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Back to school for teachers and students. Back to smear campaigns by Doug Ford and the Cons. It's not about sick days. It's about distracting you from the fact that the provincial govt has intentionally underfunded public education since 2018 to create a "useful crisis." Don't fall for it. #OntEd

TheTrillium.ca@thetrillium.bsky.social · 3d ago

Ford government preparing education ads taking aim at teacher unions as contract talks grind to a halt: leaked script

BREAKING: The Premier of Ontario is a hot air balloon. A goose has been dispatched. 🎈 Protect Ontario (From Doug) 🎵🎶 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Krgs... #onpoli #ontario #dougford

PROTECT ONTARIO FROM DOUG — Doug Ford & the announcement graveyard (claymation satire music video)

YouTube video by Alex Huot AI

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Carney’s CEO summit could put public assets on the table The world’s largest investors are coming to Toronto, with airports and other public infrastructure potentially up for grabs canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...

Carney’s CEO summit could put public assets on the table

This September, a who’s who of global finance will descend on a luxury hotel in downtown Toronto for an invitation-only event, the first-ever Canada Investment Summit. As Bianca Mugyenyi writes, the s...

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Traffic is at a standstill near Billy Bishop Airport, where Doug Ford wants to add jets and increase traffic. Doug Ford is not a smart man.

‘Reconciliation is losing the battle to a budget’: Ontario cuts residential school search fund, researcher says

‘Reconciliation is losing the battle to a budget’: Ontario cuts residential school search fund, researcher says

Program cut from $32M to $20M, forcing ‘difficult decisions’: Survivors’ Secretariat

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Chronic underfunding + increasing healthcare privatization = hospital crisis 😨 😠 #OntarioHospitals#HealthcareCrisis#SupportOurNurses#OnPoli

Sadly the current right-wing coalition government in Finland has foolishly cut the funding for the nation’s “Housing First” success story, and homelessness is predictably now on the rise again. That just reinforces the fact that such programs work, if lazy political ideology doesn’t get in the way.

Homelessness on the Rise in Finland - Y-Säätiö

Asunnottomien ihmisten määrä on kääntynyt kasvuun. Nyt asunnottomien määrä kasvoi Helsingissä, vaikka asunnottomia asutettiin vuoden aikana vaikuttava määrä.

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This astonishing amount of waste is what huge defence budgets fund when there is a lack of oversight, no accountability. I am totally disgusted that PM Carney chose this company. Landmark partnership? Absolute Trash. #canpoli www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/news...

Prime Minister Carney announces landmark partnership with General Dynamics Land Systems-Canada to build new fleet of armoured combat vehicles for the Canadian Armed Forces

Building on this momentum, the Prime Minister, Mark Carney, today announced a new strategic partnership with General Dynamics Land Systems-Canada (GDLS-Canada).

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Jesse Coburn@jessecoburn.bsky.social · 5d ago

You and I — all of us taxpayers — funded this $533 million artillery plant outside of Dallas. It hasn’t produced a single usable shell. Yet the defense contractor, General Dynamics, has never been held publicly accountable. Nor has it had to pay a penny back… 1/

An excellent conversation I urge Canadians to listen to. @maxfawcett.bsky.social & @patricklennox.bsky.social (I hope I’m tagging the correct person here), discuss the grave #CdnNatSec threat of #AlbertaSeparation & more I’ve tried sounding this alarm too, but it needs to be way louder. #cdnpoli

Canada is sleepwalking into a national security crisis - Power Lines with Max Fawcett

YouTube video by National Observer

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With lots of talk about AI data centres in Waterloo Region, the Journal does a deep dive into questions surrounding this discussion.  #aidatacentre #kwawesome #onpoli #kitchener #waterloo 

Waterloo Region’s AI Data Centre Debate: What Is Being Built, Who Controls It and Could Residents Pay More?

Concerns about water, electricity and public costs are legitimate—but online debate has blurred together an existing Cambridge project, a potential Wilmot investment and a regional study that has not approved any new development

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For the drivers celebrating, a primer on congestion via @wearetvo.bsky.social Drivers w/o cycling infrastrucre on Univeristy Av, Bloor St & Yonge St your communtes will be longer & you'll purposely be putting vulnerabe road users in danger. What is induced demand? www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4Dn...

What is induced demand?

YouTube video by TVO Today

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Matt Elliott@graphicmatt.com · 6d ago

"The legislature is free to legislate to remove a bicycle lane from a road – indeed, it may remove a road entirely – without implicating the Charter,,” says the Court of Appeal. Provincial government wins. coadecisions.ontariocourts.ca/coa/coa/en/i...

New ruling released today re Bill 212. Documents commissioned by the province and obtained throughout the litigation process estimated removing the lanes would increase collisions by 54 per cent for road users without reducing congestion. #onpoli for @nationalobserver.com

Ontario’s highest court gives Ford government power to remove Toronto bike lanes

The Court of Appeal ruled Friday that Bill 212 is “the sort of decision legislatures make routinely without attracting any concerns about the constitutionality of their actions.”

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Excellent thread about the latest scheme from Doug Ford’s corrupt govt to undermine Ontario public education. Thanks for sharing your insights with some humour @jennyleeshee.bsky.social ! #onted #onpoli

Jenny Lee Shee@jennyleeshee.bsky.social · 6d ago

The provincial government has chosen Staples (again) as the vendor for their new teacher spending program. Surprise! I have some thoughts about this. Thread starts below the gift article in the next link. #OntEd

Check out this week's Grand River Watershed Update: #ONpoli #WaterlooRegion #Brantford #CountyofBrant #Kitchener #Wilmot #GrandRiverWatershed #Caledon

Grand River Watershed Regional Update

Weekly newsletter with news, events, actions related to environment, planning, land use, water, municipal, provincial and federal politics, protecting and improving the Grand River Watershed in Southern Ontario and beyond

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Joan Faux@joantelferfaux.bsky.social · 6d ago

#Ontario have your say on AI data centres. Let #DougFord know what you think about it. #ONpoli #Cdnpoli ero.ontario.ca/notice/026-0...

Local man says he sees nothing, he knows nothing, and stuff happens - which he will continue to know nothing about.

‘Stuff happens:’ Ford acknowledges PCs sent someone to surveil former Liberal leader on Jamaican vacation

Ontario Premier Doug Ford is acknowledging that the Progressive Conservative party spent $3,000 on travelling to Jamaica to spy on Bonnie Crombie shortly after she became leader of the Liberal party i...

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This is disgusting, and Doug Ford does not get to shrug it off. Spying on a woman who is one of your political opponents on her private vacation is creepy Trump-style politics that has no place here. Women already face enough barriers in politics without this kind of behaviour.

Pete Hoekstra says the U.S. doesn't need Canada. Cool. Sign this petition to let Pete know Canada doesn't need him. www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-7531

Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁@minibubbly.bsky.social · last wk.

As of just now 72,107 signatures - Petition in thread here #GoCanada 🔥💪🏻🍁🇨🇦 Nearly 60,000 people had signed the petition as of Wednesday morning, almost double the number of signatures 24 hours earlier. /1 thread www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Look out, #Toronto.

Whereas in Ontario, first the Liberals and then the PCs embraced secrecy, unaccountability & privatization in infrastructure financing & delivery, and then shrugged off the resulting deficiencies, conflicts of interest and skyrocketing costs #p3fail #onpoli bsky.app/profile/john...

John Bowker@johnbowker.bsky.social · last wk.

“Mok pointed to Italy, where transit-building costs rose in the 1970s and 1980s, but were eventually brought down by anti-corruption and transparency laws. North America has also suffered from a lack of expertise in the public sector, he added” www.thestar.com/news/gta/dou... #onpoli

It's worth remembering that the oil sands companies are largely American owned. Their interests are not our own

Conor Curtis@conorcurtis.bsky.social · last mo.

When we waste tens of billions of taxpayer dollars on marketless oil pipelines: www.pembina.org/media-releas... To satisfy U.S. oil interests that are desperate to keep Canada from going renewable, and want us to waste that money: www.theenergymix.com/u-s-owned-oi... We lose control of our future.

It's equal parts weird and pathetic. This time, federal politicians Gary Anandasangaree, the MP for Scarborough—Guildwood—Rouge Park and minister of public safety, and Michael Coteau, who represents Scarborough-Woburn were also on hand for the performance of an announcement. #OnPoli

TheTrillium.ca@thetrillium.bsky.social · 2w ago

Federal and provincial officials delivered prepared remarks at ‘photo op’ with no media

Chief of the Taykwa Tagamou Nation, a nation investing millions in the Crawford Nickel Project in northern Ontario, speaks on the federal government's approval for the project but also the impacts it will have.

Approved mining project to damage Indigenous rights, environment

First Nations in Ontario are torn over a mining project which would create jobs but permanently destroy several key habitats and watersheds.

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