Rick Caine
@rickcainejourno
Journalist and proud Enemy of the People. Ex-AP, Worldwide TV News and documentary filmmaker (Manufacturing Dissent, Citizen Black, The Frank Truth, etc.)
Special shoutout to NDP Chris Glover, MPP for Spadina-Fort York, who was on the right side of this issue immediately. Thank you! His constituents are most affected by this. TO voters put him in office and he stood by us, in our time of need. Enjoy the Toronto Islands and the waterfront!
Need a reminder of how dum(b) MAGA influencers are? Loomer exercises an informal, outside sway over Trump by leveraging her large social media following, direct access to President, and opposition research to impact administration personnel. Pretty sad Zelenskyy had to sit for an interview with her.
President Trump’s speech at rescheduled at White House Correspondents Dinner tonight is described as “unifying but vicious” by WH. Here’s hoping those in attendance will forcefully defend press freedoms, First Amendment rights.Trump admin forced to drop subpoenas against NYTimes reporters yesterday.
Blame the Blue Jays for this moment. They were 5 strikes away from preventing this whole thing. Then,being that close,the Blue Jays experienced a rapid unscheduled disassembly and are now basement dwellers in American League East.Trump has routinely vilified, victimized and terrorized Los Angelinos.
Transparency is cornerstone of well functioning democracy. DoFo changes to FOI laws designed to cover up past, and future, controversies; criminal probe into the Greenbelt land-swap, allegations of "pay-to-play" corruption in the Skills Development Fund, and the taxpayer-funded private jet purchase.
Bald face lie by Transport Minister Steven MacKinnon. He, nor Liberal MPs in Toronto, are listening to any Torontonians who don’t want jets ruining Toronto’s waterfront. He doesn’t even answer letters, he has comms staff ditch them. Don’t underestimate how angry TO is about how they’re going this.
“We will of course listen to the people of the GTA. We will of course listen to the voice of Toronto…” BS! They’ve removed City of Toronto from tripartite agreement, declared Special Economic Zone bypassing environmental, health and safety regulations all to bail out American investors. No jets TO!
and car exhaust among other things, and they're bad for your heart and your lungs, and they can also get directly to the brain through the blood. This Fine Particulate Matter literally accelerates cognitive decline, adversely affecting your memory and makes you senile and dumb.
Liberals solicit input for Billy Bishop Airport’s future with stilted survey. They mention economic benefits several times in preamble but not one word about these really tiny particles of air pollution, 30 times smaller than the width of a human hair. And these particles are released by jet exhaust
JPMorgan Chase backing Billy Bishop Airport jet expansion makes sense if you consider: They’re the world's largest private financier of fossil fuels since the Paris Agreement. They’ve providing billions in funding for oil, gas, and coal expansion, investments that impact fragile ecosystems…
Trump’s ambassadors have a thing or two to learn about diplomacy. Too bad they’re unqualified and aren’t learning fast enough on the job.
Prediction: Neither of the TV personalities who advanced to general election in California will win. But they will spend the next five months bloviating and tearing down both Californians and California down. Trump’s endorsement of them backfires. Meanwhile California will keep on keeping on.
…particularly by owners, promising that there won’t be editorial interference and you’ll have the freedom to report things out as you see fit. As long as it’s truthful. The problem arises when their truthful doesn’t align with reality and facts.
I’ve been to three town halls since Ford’s speech. I’ve written everybody. Carney passes buck to transport and environment ministers. My MP representing Spadina-Harbourfront has same talking points and in my follow up I suggested, in support of 275,000 Toronto waterfront residents she oppose this.
JP Morgan Chase made bad investment, unable to foresee Covid travel reductions and Trump admin hostility towards Canada. Mark Lawson, deputy Chief of Staff to Ford in the Progressive Conservative government, has lobbied for bypassing regulations to ruin TO’s waterfront. Thank Lawson for Therme Spa.
So, Ontarians, we end up with the worst of both worlds. Because of Trump admin threats and tariffs Conservative-majority Ontario Provincial Government overreacts by introducing Bill 110. So long after Trump gone or lame duck, TO’s waterfront saddled in perpetuity with noisy, polluting jets. Just no.