Shawn Micallef

Desultory Fridays with Tony Dokoupil

People like John and Steve think this is totally normal and fine and assume everyone has access like this. Let me take you on a pedantic annoying journey back to 2016, where John implied there was a partisan effort against a bill of his rather than accept that people were… to his quote “Outraged”.

Clarifying hostile vibes from the south.

Malta was just a couple years

Bored of Peace

Russia has provided Iran with information that can help Tehran strike US military, AP sources say Russia has tightened its relationship with Iran as it looked for badly needed missiles and drones to utilize in its four-year war Ukraine.

Oh just thinking about Sarajevo in 1914 for no reason

We’re living in an age of impunity From small unfairness to gross injustices, we seem to have lost a sense of shame.

Does anyone else feel sick of it all? Wrote for the Star about Toronto Police, Open AI and everyone in power who deserves a public shaming. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

1010 and TVO have all the same points as his verbose statement earlier in the week. They all seem of a piece, like a coordinated comms push, all couched in this victim of bad politics stuff. It's weird!

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‘Mr. Tory put his private interests first’: Former mayor broke ethics rules with relationship, watchdog finds The city’s integrity commissioner released a 122-page report on former mayor John Tory’s improper relationship on Thursday.

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1010 & TVO framed Tory misconduct as an affair. FTR he had a secret romance with a junior staffer who reported to him. He helped get her a job at Rogers-owned MLSE in a role dealing with him & his office on issues involving public funds. He then voted at city council on an issue she handled at MLSE

why not?

heh

Toronto Harbour 40% covered by ice and snow (the southern part closest to the Islands and the eastern part opposite the Western Gap. Under a full grey sky blending into the open sea of Lake Ontario past the Islands, and the tops of buildings on the City shore in the foreground.

Day 4 of the Toronto Harbour March Ice Melt (I didn't get around to posting it yesterday - cut me some slack; no photo today).

Still holding on by its icy fingernails. But I bet it's gone by Monday.
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Shark takes revenge on aquatic park | Jaws 3-D | CLIP YouTube video by Boxoffice Movie Scenes

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Greenland isn't a member of the EU tho

We were just chatting about the "hands across america" moment the other day

There's going to be high speed rail Canada-Reykjavík-Hamburg and then easy to get everywhere else.

Why do British people, who have perfected humour, need SNL?

Foggy skyline

Queens Park is in a fog. Everything is as it usually is.

Amtrack Barolo. huh

required

Barolo even

The wrapping here is horrible! I either eat plastic or lose the seaweed.

Pac-12 is the CUSMA of conferences - old news!

I like the weight of the 1 euro coin

Cheap onigiri AND barollo.

Thank you for visiting my Prime Ministerial platform

ah ha!

The EU is getting closer to Canada. Natural we join. 🤝 Then we can extend to Japan.

It's actually easier to get to Pearson from the financial core via the train than to Billy Bishop in traffic (unless one takes the queen's quay streetcar but i'd wager most of their flyers don't do that, it's an uber crowd.)

this fight is 25 years old. comes back to life every few years. i am as tired as that emoji