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In the end, the 2025 Ontario election wasn't about anything. The thrice-re-elected Doug Ford government will now have to deliver on big promises with huge environmental impacts — the same promises they've made since 2018. Some quick thoughts from me @thenarwhal.ca thenarwhal.ca/ontario-elec...

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The Ontario election is spicy in Parry Sound-Muskoka where the Progressive Conservatives and Greens are literally NECK-TO-NECK!!!!

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For over a year, it's been unclear why a lot of farmland is being assembled in Wilmot. @thenarwhal.ca & Waterloo Region Record have learned it's for a possible Toyota site to keep the automaker here amid Trump’s tariff threat An election eve scoop by me & Terry Pender thenarwhal.ca/ontario-wilm...

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The Region of Waterloo is buying up farmland and threatening some farmers with expropriation, following the Doug Ford government's push for industrial land. The Narwhal, in collaboration with The Waterloo Record, has learned the site is for a future Toyota plant. thenarwhal.ca/ontario-wilm...

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Rural Ontario is the Progressive Conservatives' base, but in Waterloo Region, Ford's push for industrial land has weakened his vote. @fatimabsyed.bsky.social and the Record now know why the region is buying farmland and even threatening expropriation: a Toyota plant. thenarwhal.ca/ontario-wilm...

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A controversial project to assemble 'shovel-ready land for industry,' as the Ford government so often puts it, is underway in Wilmot. In our first collab with The Waterloo Record, @fatimabsyed.bsky.social and Terry Pender learned it's planned for a future Toyota site thenarwhal.ca/ontario-wilm...

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For over a year, it's been unclear why a lot of farmland is being assembled in Wilmot. @thenarwhal.ca & Waterloo Region Record have learned it's for a possible Toyota site to keep the automaker here amid Trump’s tariff threat An election eve scoop by me & Terry Pender thenarwhal.ca/ontario-wilm...

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Hello Ontario, there's an election on Thursday! We read all the platforms and asked all the parties questions about major environmental questions (how will you help communities adapt to extreme weather? What are your plans for fossil fuels?). Here's what you need to know before you go vote

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Salute to the CTV staffer who's showing a little extra love to the AP tonight 👍

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The Ontario election is a week away — time flies when you don't have time. Here's a thread of what @thenarwhal.ca's Ontario bureau has been working on in the lead-up:

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Just another day where the Metrolinx Milton Line has decided not to operate any trains on a Monday morning because it cannot sustain extreme Canadian weather. But all the Ontario party leaders "promised" to "invest" in public transit in the Family Day debate so things will be fine, right?

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"Power to the people: how energy is shaping the Ontario election" by @fatimabsyed.bsky.social A helpful overview of all the stuff that's happened on energy over the last few months! thenarwhal.ca/ontario-elec...

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I love that we at The Narwhal get to have fun conversations about the natural world with authors, politicians, musicians, athletes and more. Here's one that's just make you smileeeeee, timed for Valentine's day!

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The Doug Ford government has made a lot of energy announcements in this last month leading up to the election. Here's @fatimabsyed.bsky.social with a l'il roundup and a l'il context: thenarwhal.ca/ontario-elec...

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NASA workers were told to "drop everything" and spend their time scrubbing mentions of women in leadership, indigenous people, and environmental justice from the web: www.404media.co/nasa-dei-dro...

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Losing NOAA would be devastating. Project 2025 authors want to get rid of it because it monitors climate change, and privatize the information it currently provides for free, so you'll have to buy information about the weather and the winds (imperative for mariners).

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The U.S. #NationalWeatherService, housed within #NOAA, is a truly world-class meteorological predictive service, perhaps singularly so. It costs only ~$3/yr per taxpayer, & yields ~10:1 return on investment--saving economy 10s-100s of billions, not to mention thousands of lives.

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"Fandom is fickle ... It’s easy to heckle a rival and cheer for a winner. It’s much harder to put in the time and effort to build a team — or a country — that really works." @balkissoon.bsky.social with the perfect reflection on Canadians booing the American anthem www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

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Haven't seen American media take this much interest in Gaza ... Ever

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Agricultural trade between Canada and the U.S. is worth US$70 billion. As tariff threats fly, @jsrutgers.bsky.social writes, farmers in Manitoba and Minnesota are trying stay optimistic as they worry about crop revenues dropping as the cost of fertilizer spikes. thenarwhal.ca/manitoba-far...

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More than 4 years after Ejaz Choudry, a 62-year-old father with schizophrenia, was fatally shot in his Mississauga apartment, CBC found the officer who shot him had previously tipped a paraplegic man from his wheelchair during an arrest. @shanifanasser.bsky.social fought the publication ban and wow

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the headline is not “trump blames deadly plane crash on DEI” but “trump seizes on deadly plane crash to attack minorities”

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Today is the first day of the Ontario election campaign, but for many Canadians, it's first and foremost the National Day of Action against Islamophobia commemorating the 2017 Quebec City mosque attack — something neither Ontario PC leader Doug Ford nor Ontario NDP leader Marit Stiles have marked.

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Census data obtained by @thelocal.to shows the number of immigrants in construction who’ve been in Canada <5 years has surged by 220% nationally and nearly 150% in Ontario between 2001 and 2021! Immigrants are literally building Canada, reports @royinori.bsky.social thelocal.to/construction...

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“Like farm workers in the fields, immigrants are indispensable to fire, flood & hurricane recovery in the US. There is absolutely no rebuilding without them.” Incredible piece by @ninalakhani.bsky.social connecting Trump's immigration policy to climate disasters www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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The relationship b/w Silicon Valley & Donald Trump has seemingly galvanized Canada’s tech leaders. Some have adopted the language of their American counterparts, with calls for Canada’s own DOGE, and attacks on “wokeness." A deep, sobering read v/@thelogic.co thelogic.co/news/the-big...

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Begging @bsky.app for a bookmarks function so I can save all the great things I'm seeing here.

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From Chinatown to Little Italy, every ethnic enclave in Toronto began with a single newcomer setting up shop. For @thelocal.to I wrote about how that works in 2025 (can it?!) and TO's first Ivorian restaurant that's just the latest in this long lineage thelocal.to/ivory-coast-...

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It's so special to have your work featured by the journalists you've long looked to for inspiring, powerful journalism 🥹🥹🥹 This story took a year to report and is increasingly relevant as more and more people seek asylum and arrive at our doorstep (the Greater Toronto Region)

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Doug Ford says Canada should flip the light switch off if President Donald Trump follows through on tariff threats. How will that impact the electricity grid Canada and the U.S. have shared for more than a century? @fatimabsyed.bsky.social explains: thenarwhal.ca/canada-us-el...

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Natural disasters (LA fires) and conflicts (Gaza, Ukraine, Sudan) are escalating, harming land, air & water. Both require urgent global climate action, which is becoming harder. @meyer.bsky.social & I discussed this with Canada’s international development minister. thenarwhal.ca/canada-globa...

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Canadian water bombers battling L.A. fires are just one example of cross-border climate action. The Narwhal spoke with International Development Minister Ahmed Hussen on Canada’s past, present and future role in the worldwide fight against climate change: thenarwhal.ca/canada-globa...

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Natural disasters (LA fires) and conflicts (Gaza, Ukraine, Sudan) are escalating, harming land, air & water. Both require urgent global climate action, which is becoming harder. @meyer.bsky.social & I discussed this with Canada’s international development minister. thenarwhal.ca/canada-globa...

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Nov 3 '23: Palestine TV's Salman Al-Bashir throws his press gear after a colleague was killed. "Neither press vests nor helmets protect us" Jan 15 '25: Al Jazeera's Anas Al-Sharif reports a ceasefire in Gaza & removes his gear. "I can now take off this vest that exhausted me" Journalism Matters

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www.reuters.com/world/israel...

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Since 2023, Peel Region—west of Toronto—has struggled to house a ⬆️number of asylum seekers in overwhelmed shelters: two have died, a third this weekend My #longreads for @thelocal.to explores Peel's fight to help while handcuffed by forces that will bring more asylums 🧵 thelocal.to/refugee-shel...

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