keen powers of observation✴️ @pletzer

People think we exaggerated about #DougFord. Ontario Science Centre. Ontario Place. Royal Ontario Museum(ROM), Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), McMichael. Wasaga Beach. Conservation areas. Greenbelt. Toronto Islands. Northern protected lands. Billy Bishop. #Ontario. Wake the F*ck Up

Please enjoy my cartoon for Thursday's @TorontoStar

@PublicHealthSD Is there an #AlertReady regional notification?

#ONpoli Doug Ford flew in the OPP plane to Michigan today to get his “honorary” degree

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@fordnation after passing Bill 97 #omnibus

@Lake_Laurentian Whom might I speak with regarding a donation of a wood duck nesting?

🚨BREAKING: Two researchers from UPenn and Boston University just published a paper that should be uncomfortable reading for every CEO automating their workforce right now. The argument is straightforward. Every company replacing workers with AI is also eliminating its own future customers. Laid off workers stop spending. Enough of them stop spending and nobody can afford to buy anything. The companies that fired everyone end up selling into an economy with no purchasing power left. Every executive can see this. The math is not complicated. But here is why nobody stops. If you do not automate, your competitor does. They cut costs, lower prices, take your market share, and you collapse anyway. So every company automates knowing it is collectively destructive because the alternative is dying alone while everyone else survives. The researchers proved this is a Prisoner's Dilemma playing out in real time. The numbers are already moving. Block cut nearly half its 10,000 employees this year. Jack Dorsey said AI made those roles unnecessary and that within the next year the majority of companies will reach the same conclusion. Salesforce replaced 4,000 customer support agents with AI. Goldman Sachs deployed a coding tool that lets one engineer do the work of five. Over 100,000 tech workers were laid off in 2025 and AI was cited as the primary driver in more than half those cases. 80% of US workers hold jobs with tasks susceptible to AI automation. The researchers tested every proposed solution. Universal basic income does not change a single company's incentive to automate. Capital income taxes adjust profit levels but not the per-task decision to replace a human. Collective bargaining cannot hold because automating is always the dominant strategy. They also identified what they call a Red Queen effect. Better AI does not solve the problem, it accelerates it. Every company chases faster automation to gain market share over rivals but at the end everyone has automated equally, the gains cancel out, and the only thing left is more destroyed demand. The one thing the math says could work is a Pigouvian automation tax. A per-task charge that forces companies to account for the demand they destroy each time they replace a worker. The conclusion is that this is not a transfer of wealth from workers to owners. Both sides lose. Workers lose income. Companies lose customers. It is a deadweight loss with no market mechanism to stop it on its own. (Link in the comment)

Ontario's FOI system could be dramatically altered once the Ford government passes the budget this week (as early as today) But documents already show how bad the system already is. #onpoli

To privatize Ontario’s water, Conservatives are burying sweeping changes in omnibus bills. They know Ontarians value public water, so they hide their real plans. Peel and Niagara regions are first in line to have their public water systems corporatized for private profits. But CUPE members are speaking out, because we know can’t rely on the Ford government to put people first. See what Rick has to say about the importance of keeping our water safe, affordable, and public. Together, we can KeepWaterPublic.ca.

@mynamesnotgordy @ghost_gurney

Deer My Friends My goverments bin so busy pertecting Ontario we axidentally bought a privutt jet but I like to just jump in my truck and go talk with folks so I desided I don't need a jet and now that we got caught with it we will sell it cheep for parts like Ontario. Premair

"For the first time ever in the history of Ontario, they're going to have $750 on a purchasing card to buy what they need for their classrooms." The 2026 budget allocates the lowest percentage of spending to education in 30 years.

The amazing Ottawa Hospital is losing 400 staff due to underfunding by Ontario. Just to be clear, with today’s healthcare pressures, the Ottawa Hospital should be announcing adding 400 staff. This is so seriously wrong in every way possible. ctvnews.ca/ottawa/article…

Anyone else getting sick of living in Doug Ford’s Ontario?

my homie made a website that highlights all of doug fords lies/underspending/overspending and wow bro. I knew it was bad but this guy is criminal dougfordclownshow.ca

BREAKING: The Ford government is changing Ontario's Freedom Of Information act system, effectively gutting a tool journalists use to obtain documents related to government decision-making: - The Premier, Ministers and their offices will all be excluded from the FOI system. - This applies to all existing requests - Only civil servants can be FOI'd - The government is extending the response timeline from 30 calendar days to 45 business days. #onpoli

OH MY GOSH. JON THURSTON!😱 Canada’s 🇨🇦Jon Thurston pulls off what might be one of the greatest curling shots EVER - threading it through the port and hitting the thinnest of runbacks. Absolutely unbelievable. #MilanoCortina2026 #Paralympics2026

“When the Premier goes on national TV and says students spend OSAP on watches and cologne, it’s a slap in the face to all of us.” OSAP is about tuition, rent, and groceries - not luxury. Students like Raheem deserve respect and a fair shot. #onpoli

@NatKusendova Ford finally gets his Ferris wheel 😒