Dave Gray-Donald
@dgrdon.bsky.social
Publisher and editor of The Grind in Toronto.
I asked @spaikin.bsky.social about his trip to Israel and wrote about how it's troubling and should be a reminder to watch for how "balanced"-seeming journalists can still influence issues by narrowing the bounds of discourse and leaving out hard questions. For @thegrindto.bsky.social.
OPINION: Paikin’s Israel Trip Is Another Troubling Sign
Former TVO The Agenda host Steve Paikin says he paid for his trip, and he called the Israeli politician’s group photo tweet “stupid.” But his participation raises questions about how his journalism…
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February 13, 2026 at 10:11 PM
I asked @spaikin.bsky.social about his trip to Israel and wrote about how it's troubling and should be a reminder to watch for how "balanced"-seeming journalists can still influence issues by narrowing the bounds of discourse and leaving out hard questions. For @thegrindto.bsky.social.
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At the presser now about the arrest of nine police officers, the first question from media referenced the Umar Zameer case. Zameer was acquitted 20 months ago and police promised an investigation, including into possible police collusion. We're still waiting for that investigation.
Possible Police Collusion Investigation Still Unresolved After 18 Months
When a jury cleared Umar Zameer for his role in the death of a Toronto police officer, the judge flagged possible co-ordinatedd police testimony, prompting an investigation into three Toronto officers...
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February 5, 2026 at 3:34 PM
At the presser now about the arrest of nine police officers, the first question from media referenced the Umar Zameer case. Zameer was acquitted 20 months ago and police promised an investigation, including into possible police collusion. We're still waiting for that investigation.
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More back-sliding on climate: Carney is eliminating the Electric Vehicle Availability Standard that would have mandated 100% EVs by 2035. New target is 75% EVs by 2035, 90% by 2040 but it's not clear if not-yet-finalized policy will achieve this www.canada.ca/en/innovatio...
Prime Minister Carney unveils Canada's new automotive strategy to protect jobs and position our country as a global leader in next-generation vehicle manufacturing - Canada.ca
Canada is, and will remain, a nation that builds cars. For over 100 years, the automotive industry has been a cornerstone of our economy, underpinning advanced manufacturing, driving innovation and su...
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February 5, 2026 at 4:10 PM
More back-sliding on climate: Carney is eliminating the Electric Vehicle Availability Standard that would have mandated 100% EVs by 2035. New target is 75% EVs by 2035, 90% by 2040 but it's not clear if not-yet-finalized policy will achieve this www.canada.ca/en/innovatio...
At the presser now about the arrest of nine police officers, the first question from media referenced the Umar Zameer case. Zameer was acquitted 20 months ago and police promised an investigation, including into possible police collusion. We're still waiting for that investigation.
Possible Police Collusion Investigation Still Unresolved After 18 Months
When a jury cleared Umar Zameer for his role in the death of a Toronto police officer, the judge flagged possible co-ordinatedd police testimony, prompting an investigation into three Toronto officers...
www.thegrindmag.ca
February 5, 2026 at 3:34 PM
At the presser now about the arrest of nine police officers, the first question from media referenced the Umar Zameer case. Zameer was acquitted 20 months ago and police promised an investigation, including into possible police collusion. We're still waiting for that investigation.
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#Breaking: Toronto police officers arrested in large-scale probe into organized crime and corruption
7 Toronto police officers arrested in large-scale probe into organized crime and corruption
York Regional Police are expected to release results of their investigation, dubbed Project South, at 10 a.m. The chiefs from York and Toronto police will “provide comment” on the probe.
www.thestar.com
February 5, 2026 at 3:18 PM
#Breaking: Toronto police officers arrested in large-scale probe into organized crime and corruption
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A teenager in provincial care is found dead on a northwestern B.C. trail near Highway 16—aka the notorious 'Highway of Tears'
Hear more on APTN News Brief:
Hear more on APTN News Brief:
APTN News Brief: Number of First Nations fatalities grows on trail near B.C. Highway of Tears
Our featured story: a teenager in provincial care is found dead on a northwestern B.C. trail near Highway 16—aka the notorious 'Highway of Tears'—one of many First Nations victims in the area.
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February 5, 2026 at 3:01 PM
A teenager in provincial care is found dead on a northwestern B.C. trail near Highway 16—aka the notorious 'Highway of Tears'
Hear more on APTN News Brief:
Hear more on APTN News Brief:
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NEW: Palestinian-Canadian engineer Amjad Ramadan is suing his former employer, NTN Canada. He was fired soon after a video clip circulated of him protesting outside an Indigo bookstore in the GTA. By @rdassaly.bsky.social.
An Engineer Was Fired After Speaking Out for Palestine. Now He’s Suing His Former Employer
Palestinian-Canadian Amjad Ramadan is seeking nearly $400,000 in damages after he was abruptly terminated by NTN Canada, the manufacturing company he’d worked at for 15 years. He was fired soon after…
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February 4, 2026 at 6:47 PM
NEW: Palestinian-Canadian engineer Amjad Ramadan is suing his former employer, NTN Canada. He was fired soon after a video clip circulated of him protesting outside an Indigo bookstore in the GTA. By @rdassaly.bsky.social.
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New story in The Grind.
Amjad Ramadan, a 52-year-old Palestinian-Canadian, is suing his former employer for wrongful dismissal after he was abruptly terminated for speaking out for Palestine.
"There is a campaign to silence us," he told me.
@thegrindto.bsky.social
Amjad Ramadan, a 52-year-old Palestinian-Canadian, is suing his former employer for wrongful dismissal after he was abruptly terminated for speaking out for Palestine.
"There is a campaign to silence us," he told me.
@thegrindto.bsky.social
An Engineer Was Fired After Speaking Out for Palestine. Now He’s Suing His Former Employer
Palestinian-Canadian Amjad Ramadan is seeking nearly $400,000 in damages after he was abruptly terminated by NTN Canada, the manufacturing company he’d worked at for 15 years. He was fired soon after…
www.thegrindmag.ca
February 4, 2026 at 6:48 PM
New story in The Grind.
Amjad Ramadan, a 52-year-old Palestinian-Canadian, is suing his former employer for wrongful dismissal after he was abruptly terminated for speaking out for Palestine.
"There is a campaign to silence us," he told me.
@thegrindto.bsky.social
Amjad Ramadan, a 52-year-old Palestinian-Canadian, is suing his former employer for wrongful dismissal after he was abruptly terminated for speaking out for Palestine.
"There is a campaign to silence us," he told me.
@thegrindto.bsky.social
Decent article about the IDF "comedian" who spoke in Toronto this week.
The big question that hasn't been answered though is: What happened here between the Israeli consultate and Canadian government? Hochman's team says he was let in only after the consulate intervened.
The big question that hasn't been answered though is: What happened here between the Israeli consultate and Canadian government? Hochman's team says he was let in only after the consulate intervened.
Canada briefly detains Israeli comedian after complaints over conduct in Gaza
Guy Hochman says he was interrogated for six hours after legal group filed complaint accusing him of war crimes
www.theguardian.com
January 21, 2026 at 3:40 PM
Decent article about the IDF "comedian" who spoke in Toronto this week.
The big question that hasn't been answered though is: What happened here between the Israeli consultate and Canadian government? Hochman's team says he was let in only after the consulate intervened.
The big question that hasn't been answered though is: What happened here between the Israeli consultate and Canadian government? Hochman's team says he was let in only after the consulate intervened.
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NEW: After being defunded by Doug Ford’s government, Parkdale Queen West Community Health Centre scrambled to find an alternative model that would allow its safe drug consumption site (SCS) to continue operating. The feds stood in the way.
By @emmapaling.bsky.social.
By @emmapaling.bsky.social.
EXCLUSIVE: Carney Government Prevented Parkdale SCS from Staying Open
After being defunded by Doug Ford’s government, Parkdale Queen West Community Health Centre scrambled to find an alternative model that would allow its safe consumption site (SCS) to continue…
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January 21, 2026 at 3:12 PM
NEW: After being defunded by Doug Ford’s government, Parkdale Queen West Community Health Centre scrambled to find an alternative model that would allow its safe drug consumption site (SCS) to continue operating. The feds stood in the way.
By @emmapaling.bsky.social.
By @emmapaling.bsky.social.
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Confused by the changes to Ontario's recycling program?
@dgrdon.bsky.social breaks down the new rules and looks at some of the problems.
@dgrdon.bsky.social breaks down the new rules and looks at some of the problems.
What’s Going on with the Changes to Recycling?
A company named Circular Materials took over recycling in Ontario at the start of 2026. More items are now accepted in the recycling stream, but that doesn’t mean the new company is actually going to…
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January 20, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Confused by the changes to Ontario's recycling program?
@dgrdon.bsky.social breaks down the new rules and looks at some of the problems.
@dgrdon.bsky.social breaks down the new rules and looks at some of the problems.
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Thoughts on the Finch LRT for The Grind: www.thegrindmag.ca/not-so-rapid...
Not-so-rapid Transit on Finch
Why is the new Line 6 so slow, what’s being done to fix it, and will the Eglinton LRT be as bad? Transit expert Steve Munro digs into the nitty-gritty.
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January 19, 2026 at 9:37 PM
Thoughts on the Finch LRT for The Grind: www.thegrindmag.ca/not-so-rapid...
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If we truly care about the right of Iranians to live with dignity and freedom, we must be extra vigilant to differentiate between demands from inside Iran as distinct from those of the Trump and Netanyahu camp, Gita Hashemi and Shivam Chadha write.
OPINION: The People of Iran Are Rising Up Once Again. What Can We Do?
We must be extra vigilant to differentiate between demands from people inside Iran as distinct from those of the Trump and Netanyahu camp, writes artist Gita Hashemi with Shivam Chadha.
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January 18, 2026 at 4:39 PM
If we truly care about the right of Iranians to live with dignity and freedom, we must be extra vigilant to differentiate between demands from inside Iran as distinct from those of the Trump and Netanyahu camp, Gita Hashemi and Shivam Chadha write.
Informative essay on what is happening in Iran, and on the lack of an organized left inside the country (the result of decades of repression).
"Threatened simultaneously by external war and internal crisis, the state chooses to wage economic war on its own populations rather than purchase domestic peace through welfare." New online: Iman Ganji and Bahar Noorizadeh on the protests in Iran. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
Iran’s Three-Body Problem | Iman Ganji and Bahar Noorizadeh
The ongoing uprising is rooted in the political economy of structural adjustment, which forms the unstable medium through which revolt becomes contagious.
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January 18, 2026 at 7:07 PM
Informative essay on what is happening in Iran, and on the lack of an organized left inside the country (the result of decades of repression).
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David launched dozens of careers and mentored many more, helping Indigenous journalists find a voice in an industry that had rarely welcomed them. Story by @karynpugliese.bsky.social
Dan David 'Father of APTN News' passed into the spirit world
Dan David, an icon for hundreds of journalists, Indigenous and non-Indigenous, in Canada and South Africa, and changed how stories are told.
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January 16, 2026 at 11:25 PM
David launched dozens of careers and mentored many more, helping Indigenous journalists find a voice in an industry that had rarely welcomed them. Story by @karynpugliese.bsky.social
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Yesterday Elon Musk retweeted "white solidarity is the only way to survive". In our numb overwhelmed media environment it barely made headlines that the world's richest man endorsed blood-curdling white nationalism. My brief writeup for @religiondispatches.org
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Elon Musk Just Endorsed Blatant White Nationalism And the Silence is Deafening
On Thursday morning Elon Musk retweeted (with a ‘100%’ endorsement) a post declaring that:
If white men become a minority, we will be slaughtered. Remember, if non-Whites openly hate White men while...
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January 9, 2026 at 5:15 PM
Yesterday Elon Musk retweeted "white solidarity is the only way to survive". In our numb overwhelmed media environment it barely made headlines that the world's richest man endorsed blood-curdling white nationalism. My brief writeup for @religiondispatches.org
religiondispatches.org/elon-musk-ju...
religiondispatches.org/elon-musk-ju...
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🚨 BREAKING: Israeli forces have killed 7 Palestinians, including 5 children, the youngest 5 years old, in less than 24 hours by striking tents and homes sheltering displaced families across northern and southern Gaza, Palestinian Civil Defense spokesperson Mahmoud Basal said today.
Since that...
Since that...
January 8, 2026 at 6:24 PM
🚨 BREAKING: Israeli forces have killed 7 Palestinians, including 5 children, the youngest 5 years old, in less than 24 hours by striking tents and homes sheltering displaced families across northern and southern Gaza, Palestinian Civil Defense spokesperson Mahmoud Basal said today.
Since that...
Since that...
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Advertise in the next issue of The Grind, out Jan. 24! Copies are available for free at 500 GTA locations, including 170 streetboxes and 20 TTC stations.
There are options for every budget. Contact ads[at]thegrindmag[dot]ca
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January 6, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Advertise in the next issue of The Grind, out Jan. 24! Copies are available for free at 500 GTA locations, including 170 streetboxes and 20 TTC stations.
There are options for every budget. Contact ads[at]thegrindmag[dot]ca
There are options for every budget. Contact ads[at]thegrindmag[dot]ca
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The Voice of Hind Rajab is playing at TIFF this week and has a wider release starting Jan. 23.
The film follows Palestinian ambulance dispatchers as they desperately try to save six-year-old Hind Rajab from being killed by the Israeli military in Gaza.
The film follows Palestinian ambulance dispatchers as they desperately try to save six-year-old Hind Rajab from being killed by the Israeli military in Gaza.
Review: The Voice of Hind Rajab
A devastating new film about the desperate attempt to save six-year-old Hind Rajab in Gaza City from being killed by the Israeli military, using real audio of phone calls with Hind…
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January 5, 2026 at 3:28 PM
The Voice of Hind Rajab is playing at TIFF this week and has a wider release starting Jan. 23.
The film follows Palestinian ambulance dispatchers as they desperately try to save six-year-old Hind Rajab from being killed by the Israeli military in Gaza.
The film follows Palestinian ambulance dispatchers as they desperately try to save six-year-old Hind Rajab from being killed by the Israeli military in Gaza.
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“We’re going to be very strongly involved in it,” Trump says about the future of Venezuela’s oil industry on Fox News
January 3, 2026 at 2:41 PM
“We’re going to be very strongly involved in it,” Trump says about the future of Venezuela’s oil industry on Fox News
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If you haven't done it yet, this is your reminder to donate to your fave local media outlets to end 2025 — or to start 2026!
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The Grind is behind on a few bills and could really use a boost. Etransfer info[at]thegrindmag[dot]ca or visit www.thegrindmag.ca/support-the-...
December 31, 2025 at 3:51 PM
If you haven't done it yet, this is your reminder to donate to your fave local media outlets to end 2025 — or to start 2026!
The Grind is behind on a few bills and could really use a boost. Etransfer info[at]thegrindmag[dot]ca or visit www.thegrindmag.ca/support-the-...
The Grind is behind on a few bills and could really use a boost. Etransfer info[at]thegrindmag[dot]ca or visit www.thegrindmag.ca/support-the-...
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now seems like a good time to remind you all to support independent, worker run, billionaire free, and/or reader funded news how and where you can.
December 22, 2025 at 12:09 AM
now seems like a good time to remind you all to support independent, worker run, billionaire free, and/or reader funded news how and where you can.
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Some drama at York University's Goldfarb Gallery.
An artist says the administration censored her recent exhibit, which featured pro-Palestine content. Later, the gallery's curator was abruptly fired.
Now, dozens of faculty are pushing back. For @thegrindto.bsky.social
An artist says the administration censored her recent exhibit, which featured pro-Palestine content. Later, the gallery's curator was abruptly fired.
Now, dozens of faculty are pushing back. For @thegrindto.bsky.social
York University Censored Exhibition at Goldfarb Gallery then Fired the Curator
Artist Amy Ching-Yan Lam says York demanded changes to her exhibition critiquing university repression of pro-Palestine protest. Then the admin fired the curator, a decision dozens of faculty members…
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December 17, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Some drama at York University's Goldfarb Gallery.
An artist says the administration censored her recent exhibit, which featured pro-Palestine content. Later, the gallery's curator was abruptly fired.
Now, dozens of faculty are pushing back. For @thegrindto.bsky.social
An artist says the administration censored her recent exhibit, which featured pro-Palestine content. Later, the gallery's curator was abruptly fired.
Now, dozens of faculty are pushing back. For @thegrindto.bsky.social
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NEW: York University Censored Exhibition at Goldfarb Gallery then Fired the Curator
Artist Amy Ching-Yan Lam was forced to change her 'Acceptable Protest' animation, removing a 'Free Palestine' sign and reference to a university president character. By @rdassaly.bsky.social.
Artist Amy Ching-Yan Lam was forced to change her 'Acceptable Protest' animation, removing a 'Free Palestine' sign and reference to a university president character. By @rdassaly.bsky.social.
York University Censored Exhibition at Goldfarb Gallery then Fired the Curator
Artist Amy Ching-Yan Lam says York demanded changes to her exhibition critiquing university repression of pro-Palestine protest. Then the admin fired the curator, a decision dozens of faculty members…
www.thegrindmag.ca
December 17, 2025 at 11:23 PM
NEW: York University Censored Exhibition at Goldfarb Gallery then Fired the Curator
Artist Amy Ching-Yan Lam was forced to change her 'Acceptable Protest' animation, removing a 'Free Palestine' sign and reference to a university president character. By @rdassaly.bsky.social.
Artist Amy Ching-Yan Lam was forced to change her 'Acceptable Protest' animation, removing a 'Free Palestine' sign and reference to a university president character. By @rdassaly.bsky.social.
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This former inmate says he was assaulted by guards. Maplehurst lost the security camera footage that could corroborate his claims
This former inmate says he was assaulted by guards. Maplehurst lost the security camera footage that could corroborate his claims
A lawyer described it as a suspicious pattern for the Ontario jail, which was recently criticized for losing footage of abusive mass strip searches.
www.thestar.com
December 11, 2025 at 2:05 PM
This former inmate says he was assaulted by guards. Maplehurst lost the security camera footage that could corroborate his claims