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@lloyddavis.ca
Freelance copyeditor/proofreader of many Canadian best-sellers & award winners, and 5 (count ’em!) NYT best-sellers. Member of SABR & SIHR. WWOZ Guardian of the Groove. I’ve got a lot of patience, baby, and that’s a lot of patience to lose.
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Man who oversaw the largest breach of civil rights in Canadian history rewarded by Liberals yet again.
Bill Blair resigning seat, will become next high commissioner to U.K.
Former cabinet minister Bill Blair will resign his Toronto seat in the House of Commons, to take on a new role as Canada’s high commissioner to the United Kingdom. Prime Minister Mark Carney will also...
toronto.citynews.ca
February 2, 2026 at 8:31 PM
Man who oversaw the largest breach of civil rights in Canadian history rewarded by Liberals yet again.
This effing city.
In the department of incredible pissiness -- the City has decided to invoice the church for an "inspection" carried out at our property the day after they cleared the encampment in October.
February 2, 2026 at 8:59 PM
This effing city.
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I genuinely have no idea how to convey this to the American people, but I think the biggest impediment to any kind of immigration reform is that people are convinced that "legal" and "illegal" are immutable, intrinsic categories instead of a rapidly-shifting arbitrary constellation of regulations.
February 1, 2026 at 10:24 PM
I genuinely have no idea how to convey this to the American people, but I think the biggest impediment to any kind of immigration reform is that people are convinced that "legal" and "illegal" are immutable, intrinsic categories instead of a rapidly-shifting arbitrary constellation of regulations.
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Only if there’s a “none of the above” box to check. Because, after 41 years as an eligible voter, that’s my last best option.
"What we know from research is, if you don’t have compulsory voting, the people least likely to vote are poorer people, people from new migrant groups, and often the young," says an Australian scholar on what it means that Australia requires voting.
“An Egalitarian Pressure”: Australia Has Been Requiring People to Vote for 100 Years
As Australia compels voters to show up at the polls this weekend, a scholar lays out the genesis of
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February 1, 2026 at 4:40 PM
Only if there’s a “none of the above” box to check. Because, after 41 years as an eligible voter, that’s my last best option.
I’m reminded of myself, whenever I try to hit a high note in a Beatles song.
This is Zeus. He's 13 and can't howl quite like he used to. But that doesn't stop him from stepping pup when his community needs him. 14/10 #SeniorPupSaturday (IG: zeustheoldiegoldie)
January 31, 2026 at 6:01 PM
I’m reminded of myself, whenever I try to hit a high note in a Beatles song.
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Incredible short film Catherine O’Hara and Andrea Martin made for Late Night with David Letterman, so dark and nervy, filmed in Toronto too
youtu.be/ZwLTCayIeSw
youtu.be/ZwLTCayIeSw
'PMS- Premenstrual Syndrome' - David Letterman's Holiday Film Festival (1985)
YouTube video by D G
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January 30, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Incredible short film Catherine O’Hara and Andrea Martin made for Late Night with David Letterman, so dark and nervy, filmed in Toronto too
youtu.be/ZwLTCayIeSw
youtu.be/ZwLTCayIeSw
From the CTV coverage, it sounds like reporter Rachel Aiello fed him that line.
Tonight I watched Prime Minister Mark Carney take the actual Heated Rivalry Canada fleece from Hudson Williams, slip it on and say: “This is true soft power.”
January 30, 2026 at 4:00 PM
From the CTV coverage, it sounds like reporter Rachel Aiello fed him that line.
And Carney is raising the RCMP’s budget.
Carol Linnitt, co-founder and editor-in-chief, provides an update on The Narwhal’s court case against the RCMP. Amber Bracken finished cross-examination late Jan. 28. It took more than 12 hours.
To learn more about the trial visit www.thenarwhal.ca/press-freedom
To learn more about the trial visit www.thenarwhal.ca/press-freedom
January 30, 2026 at 3:51 PM
And Carney is raising the RCMP’s budget.
I’m waiting for Doug “Captain Canada” Ford to drive a Chevy Silverado into a brick wall to show us what he thinks about these turncoats at GM.
More layoffs by US automakers in Canada shows exactly why Canada needs an auto deal with China and to try to attract Chinese companies to manufacture in Canada.
We can’t rely on US auto companies to keep making cars here, even though they still expect us to buy them.
We can’t rely on US auto companies to keep making cars here, even though they still expect us to buy them.
GM Canada layoffs hit Oshawa plant, putting up to 1,200 autoworkers out of work Friday | CBC News
The day Oshawa, Ont., autoworkers have dreaded for months has arrived, as GM Canada is poised to cut a shift at the city’s plant, costing over a thousand workers their jobs.
www.cbc.ca
January 29, 2026 at 5:35 PM
I’m waiting for Doug “Captain Canada” Ford to drive a Chevy Silverado into a brick wall to show us what he thinks about these turncoats at GM.
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I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable.
Biden himself said they were fabricated!
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Biden himself said they were fabricated!
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
IDF accepts Gaza Health Ministry death toll of over 71,000 Palestinians killed in the war
Although Many International Experts Have Accepted the Health Ministry's Data as Reliable, and Even Conservative Relative to the True Death Toll, Israel Had Refused to Accept the Health Ministry's Coun...
www.haaretz.com
January 29, 2026 at 3:29 PM
I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable.
Biden himself said they were fabricated!
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Biden himself said they were fabricated!
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
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Carney's dangerous austerity plan means fewer food inspectors & less capacity to track food borne illness. As the US is gutting its food safety regulations & Canada imports over half our food from the US, how does cutting food inspection here make us safer? www.thestar.com/politics/fed...
Food inspection agency to cut more than 1,300 jobs, says union
The union representing employees at the Canadian Food Inspection Agency says staff have been told there will be 1,371 agency jobs cut as part of the government's cost-cutting exercise.
www.thestar.com
January 29, 2026 at 12:36 PM
Carney's dangerous austerity plan means fewer food inspectors & less capacity to track food borne illness. As the US is gutting its food safety regulations & Canada imports over half our food from the US, how does cutting food inspection here make us safer? www.thestar.com/politics/fed...
A policy Stephen Harper tried, and failed, to implement will be put in place by the Carney government in May. Par for the course, as Carney keeps saying he heads “Canada’s new government,” an old Harper slogan.
www.thestar.com/news/canada/...
www.thestar.com/news/canada/...
Canada will require refugees and asylum seekers to co-pay for health care starting in May
They will have to pay 30 per cent of the costs of services such as dental, optometry and physiotherapy and a $4 flat rate on each prescription.
www.thestar.com
January 29, 2026 at 1:55 PM
A policy Stephen Harper tried, and failed, to implement will be put in place by the Carney government in May. Par for the course, as Carney keeps saying he heads “Canada’s new government,” an old Harper slogan.
www.thestar.com/news/canada/...
www.thestar.com/news/canada/...
What a privilege it is to live in a province where the Constitution doesn’t apply.
www.thestar.com/news/gta/the...
www.thestar.com/news/gta/the...
The largest youth jail in Ontario is routinely strip searching children: ‘A systemic violation’
The largest youth detention centre in Ontario is still routinely strip searching boys in their custody, the Star has learned.
www.thestar.com
January 29, 2026 at 12:48 AM
What a privilege it is to live in a province where the Constitution doesn’t apply.
www.thestar.com/news/gta/the...
www.thestar.com/news/gta/the...
It has been so long since the last time a Canadian politician talked about cultures that I think they made a Heritage Minute about it.
Join me and Jenny Lewis—the esteemed casting director of Heated Rivalry and, yes, my sister—for a conversation about politics, entertainment, and what it will take to support Canadian-made film and television!
I'm excited for this one!
I'm excited for this one!
January 28, 2026 at 10:05 PM
It has been so long since the last time a Canadian politician talked about cultures that I think they made a Heritage Minute about it.
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"you can keep disappearing people but please have your ID visible"
SCHUMER says Democrats are “united” behind three DHS reforms
1/ End roving patrols; tighten the rules on warrants and require ICE to coordinate with local authorities.
2/ Enforce accountability; a uniform code of conduct.
3/ Require masks off, body cameras on, agents carry ID.
1/ End roving patrols; tighten the rules on warrants and require ICE to coordinate with local authorities.
2/ Enforce accountability; a uniform code of conduct.
3/ Require masks off, body cameras on, agents carry ID.
January 28, 2026 at 8:56 PM
"you can keep disappearing people but please have your ID visible"
That’s an odd way of saying abolish it
SCHUMER says Democrats are “united” behind three DHS reforms
1/ End roving patrols; tighten the rules on warrants and require ICE to coordinate with local authorities.
2/ Enforce accountability; a uniform code of conduct.
3/ Require masks off, body cameras on, agents carry ID.
1/ End roving patrols; tighten the rules on warrants and require ICE to coordinate with local authorities.
2/ Enforce accountability; a uniform code of conduct.
3/ Require masks off, body cameras on, agents carry ID.
January 28, 2026 at 9:55 PM
That’s an odd way of saying abolish it
“Trump administration breaks law/violates Constitution” is the new “Dog bites local man.”
Since we published this, Pam Bondi's X account has started posting mugshots of Minnesotans arrested for impeding ICE/CBP. Sharing a defendant's photo publicly in this way is forbidden under DOJ rules
ICE and CBP are at the head of Trump's campaign to terrorize Minnesotans. But the Justice Department is not far behind.
January 28, 2026 at 9:47 PM
“Trump administration breaks law/violates Constitution” is the new “Dog bites local man.”
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It’s funny he would say that because that is what believing in phrenology is actually, he hit the nail right on the head
In response to announcement that he will be a new CBS contributor, Andrew Huberman tweeted “I’ve always gone issue-by-issue on health & science, spoken to experts w/a range of takes & presented where I see the center of (data) mass pointed. I’ll do the same with @CBSNews”. In Sept he posted this:
January 28, 2026 at 2:06 AM
It’s funny he would say that because that is what believing in phrenology is actually, he hit the nail right on the head
That's weird.
Just tuned into QP and, uh, this is actually what the contrast between Pierre Poilievre’s face and hand looks like
January 28, 2026 at 3:12 AM
That's weird.
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I think that Toronto streetcars should be permitted to ram parked cars that are blocking the tracks. In fact, I they should have devices affixed to the front to better facilitate this.
January 28, 2026 at 12:51 AM
I think that Toronto streetcars should be permitted to ram parked cars that are blocking the tracks. In fact, I they should have devices affixed to the front to better facilitate this.
I’m enough of a uniform nerd to recognize that Sittler is wearing the very same sweater he wore that night in 1976. Not some cheap-ass Fanatics replica.
January 28, 2026 at 12:11 AM
I’m enough of a uniform nerd to recognize that Sittler is wearing the very same sweater he wore that night in 1976. Not some cheap-ass Fanatics replica.
I was also 9, and it was euchre night at my grandparents’, so I was in charge of refilling the bowls of potato chips and bridge mixture. My dad and a few other menfolk didn’t play, so the occasional roar from the living room was how I knew something special was afoot.
The Leafs are celebrating Darryl Sittler's 10-point game tonight at Scotiabank Arena. I was at the game in 1976 as a 9-year-old, with my dad. I wrote about that on an earlier anniversary.
More here:
puckstruck.com/2012/02/07/b...
More here:
puckstruck.com/2012/02/07/b...
big night
I remember trumpets. Trumpets and cornets, trombones, a sousaphone, maybe a, I don’t know, euphonium — a ruckus realized by a hidden horn section sounding the charge while falling downstairs, short…
puckstruck.com
January 27, 2026 at 11:54 PM
I was also 9, and it was euchre night at my grandparents’, so I was in charge of refilling the bowls of potato chips and bridge mixture. My dad and a few other menfolk didn’t play, so the occasional roar from the living room was how I knew something special was afoot.