James H McLaren @JamesHMcLaren@qoto.org

Ontario Place is PROFITABLE. It made a RECORD profit in 2022, of $5.7 million.

But Doug Ford and friends are clearcutting it, spending hundreds of millions on an underwater parking garage, and building a giant private spa on a 95-year lease.

https://www.thetrillium.ca/news/municipalities-transit-and-infrastructure/29-million-visited-ontario-place-in-2022-internal-letter-7640700

Take action: https://ontarioplaceforall.com/

#OntarioPlaceForAll #OntarioPlace4All #OntarioPlace #Ontario #ONPoli #WaterfrontTO #Toronto #TOPoli

What do Henry Ford and Elon Musk have in common?
By the way, he'll probably think this is a compliment.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/09/19/the-comparison-to-ford-is-apt/

Comparing and contrasting app privacy policies for Threads, Bluesky, Twitter and Mastodon:

Here we go again! Another land deal for friends of the Ontario Cons. #ONpoli #NeverVoteConservative #Ottawa #Hamilton
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-ottawa-hamilton-urban-boundaries-greenbelt-1.6984470

If you are reading this, you're probably just killing time on the Internet and putting off things that you really should be doing. Me too!

The fact that 'fifteen-minute cities' is now a dirty word really puts into perspective all the time people spent agonising over whether 'defund the police' and similar slogans were too radical.

A friend on Twitter asked where the science is on home COVID tests now. I responded that I expect that they're good. Most tests have antibodies against the spike and nucleocapsid proteins. Spike is under heavy selective pressure, but nucleocapsid, that the immune system doesn't use, not so much. Tests should continue to work well against them.

They rightly pointed out that the bit after "I expect that they're good" is kind of word soup to the non-biologist, so I unpacked it for them...

Absolutely thrilled for Manitoba as they make history by sending Wab Kinew to office as the first Indigenous Premier of a Canadian province in the country's history.

May this example inspire others to fight and succeed for a progressive Canada.

#mbpoli
#manitoba

Last chance to vote #Manitoba! Maybe vote for a party that isn’t an obvious pile of ghouls? Just a thought. You know, the one that said it wouldn’t search the landfill thereby inviting every serial killer in the country to hide their victims there…

Instead maybe… Unrelated emoji of an orange. 🍊 K. Internet post done. Thanks peeps. #Winnipeg #MBpoli

https://www.usluck.com/71667/avocado-green-wasnt-just-for-appliances-in-the-70s-the-1979-pontiac-grand-prix/ Avocado green wasn’t just for appliances in the 70s- The 1979 Pontiac Grand Prix #Ads #Advertisements #OldSchool #Vintage #VintageAds #VintageAdvertisements

I have redesigned the product you use to help make you more productive.

Pray I do not redesign it further.

If you are opposed to same sex marriage, then you can simply say no when someone of the same sex proposes to you.

Leave the rest of us alone. See how that works? That’s actual #freedom. #ssm #gay #gaymastodon

Oh phew! The #EnglishNationalists pledge to deliver us from the "meat tax", "compulsory car sharing" & the "need to split rubbish into seven different bins".

Comic, were it not for the familiar ring. Remember how Brexit saved our sons from conscription into a "European army", from the "admission of Turkey", and from all that food & goods importation and exportation "red tape"?

Inventing things, and then delivering us from them. There must be a name for this political gambit....

Lying?

Important announcement. CONDIMENT COW

Do you eat breakfast?

And by "breakfast", I mean the first meal of the day, and actual food (coffee, tea, and juice, don't count as food but smoothies do)

#poll

Please boost for a wider demographic! 🙏