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Canada created more jobs in 2025 (! year of the economic attack!) than the U.S., tho the U.S. job market is 7.5 times bigger.
"Health" generated 41% of the new jobs. "Care" (incl educ) almost 1/2.
Demographics guarantees that this job juggernaut will continue to dominate. Demand>supply everywhere.
The supposed explosion of the federal public service looks less explosive if you put it in per capita numbers and draw a line graph back to the mid-80s.
Scoop from me: Sources say the Premier is considering building an artificial island off Toronto's waterfront for a massive new convention centre. One expert calls the idea "insane." #Onpoli #TOpoli
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What does this imply for those of us who are not Christian, and who labor under the assumption that we're protected by the First Amendment?
“This is the most transparent Department of Justice in history,” said an unidentified spokeswoman.
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"Investigators said members of organized crime were buying data and addresses from Toronto Police officers, which were then used to co-ordinate shootings and other crimes – including an attempted hit on a corrections officer at his home."
From Molly Hayes:
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#Iran #HolyWar
Prime Minister Mark Carney cancelled what would have been his first press conference since his India trip began 5 days ago with his office citing lengthy meetings in New Delhi that have strained his schedule.
So far he has not taken 1 question from Canadian journalists on a trip that began Feb. 26.
"We invoke international law and the 'rules based international order' when adversaries engage in unlawful actions, but abandon those same rules entirely when it’s the Americans doing the bombing."
#Opinion from former foreign minister Lloyd Axworthy
Our @alexbozikovic.bsky.social on the proposed new Ontario Sciece Centre. (Spoiler: He does not like it one bit.)
Because that's all they told us.
They also claimed that overall the new facility was 400,000 square feet, a number they later clarified includes the renovated Pods and Cinesphere, the bridges and the basement. But even that number is wrong: It's actually 372,519. The vacated former Science Centre is 568,000 square feet.
My confusing day: Government claims the new, smaller proposed building will actually have more "exhibition space" than its shuttered predecessor, despite releasing numbers showing it in fact has less -- and then couldn't explain itself.
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This result shows
1 English voters will swing to whichever party of the left will keep out the crazies
2 Even with star candidates Reform fizzles, discouraging the consolidation of the far right
3 The Starmer tack of treating Reform delusions as “legitimate grievances” has no future
Goes w/o saying the entire Men's team should have 100% declined the WH invite
4 of the 5 who declined are MN natives
Guentzel - Woodbury, MN
Nelson - Warroad, MN
LaCombe - Eden Prairie, MN
Oettinger - Lakeville, MN
It is beyond shocking that $100m can be spent on *pre-construction* for two simple rail stations.
It should also be shocking that Tory a) ran on a laughably unserious back-of-envelope "plan" b) gave city money to the province to build stuff they were going to build anyway
Another weekend in the suburbs and once again, contra every urbanist, it feels incredibly obvious that the vast majority of people in this country don’t consider the car-dependent suburb as a “problem to be solved” at all. It is simply the way things should be.
"Months before Jesse Van Rootselaar became the suspect in the mass shooting that devastated a rural town in British Columbia, Canada, OpenAI considered alerting law enforcement about her interactions with its ChatGPT chatbot, the company said."
It is very troubling that the insane elderly person babbling on my TV right now is in charge of this country.
A point I’ve been making a lot is that the tariffs are 1) the policy most personally important to Trump 2) the least popular policy with the American people according to polling 3) substantively destructive and incoherent 4) genuinely opposed by large swaths of conservative constituencies.
Donald Trump, addressing his tariff loss, actually just said, of the countries he's launched trade wars against:
"They're dancing in the streets. They won't be dancing for long."
He sounds like a fucking Batman villain.
Translated lede:
"Doug Ford justified the mandatory return of public servants to the office by saying that in-person work increased productivity. But the department responsible for the measure disagrees, reveals a document obtained by Le Droit under the Access to Information Act."
#OnPoli
Update: FAMU says banning the word Black from a law student’s Black History Month flyer was a mistake, and the result of an “overly cautious interpretation” of Florida law
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Trump’s racist video is by far the most widely denounced thing he’s done since January 6
The Board of Governors decided, unilaterally, that no published textbook in the field of sociology could be used in compliance with the law for an Intro to Sociology class. None. Victor: There's not a single existing textbook on the market that could be used that would qualify under state law? Zachary: Correct. Victor: I'm sorry, that's kind of funny. Like, the absurdity of not a single sociology textbook getting past the censors. I mean, it makes me kind of proud of our colleagues, but...
I do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors.
Great work everyone.
The president constantly lying about stolen elections, after staging a coup attempt, & now threatening to federalize & steal future elections, should be the primary news story in the country 24/7 & on every front page until he is impeached & removed next week.
