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Not Smooth Steve 🍁
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New video alert! The trailer for my next video, about unbuilt expressways in Toronto, is available now, and the full video has its live premiere Friday evening at 7:30 EST (0h30 UTC). Please check out the trailer and come back for the full video!

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Toronto's Unbuilt Expressways: Way or No Way?
YouTube video by notsmoothsteve
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November 12, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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This is the greatest story ever told:

A person in Hamilton, ON stole a city bus and then proceeded to make the stops along the way, allowing passengers to board and exit freely. The person actually refusing someone looking to board with an expired pass. 🔥🔥
hamiltonpolice.on.ca/news/police-...
Police Arrest Man After HSR Bus Joy Ride
On Tuesday, November 11, 2025, at approximately 9:00 p.m., a Hamilton Street Railway (HSR) bus driver pulled into the McNab Bus Terminal and exited the vehicle for a short break.During this time, an a...
hamiltonpolice.on.ca
November 12, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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My editorial cartoon in the Wednesday Hamilton Spectator: www.thespec.com/opinion/edit...
November 12, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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One day I dialled my last phone call on a rotary phone and I had no idea.
November 11, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Q: What did the masochist like about their favourite salon?

A: They do great lashes.
November 11, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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A bunch of folks have asked me what this looks like in local currency terms. Here's the chart.

It's a similar story: The performance of the U.S. stock market during the Trump presidency is... ~~meh~~
November 11, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Looks like it's been into the vodka.
Russia's 1st humanoid robot was revealed today. A bit like a mobik, it fell over as if shot and our efforts at hiding the disaster convinced no one.
November 11, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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Today marks the 100th anniversary of the Toronto Cenotaph — a quiet, carved reminder of the cost of war that has gathered Torontonians in reflection every November 11 since it was unveiled in 1925.

#remembranceday #war #sacrifice #cenotaph #memorial #TorontoHistory #toronto #canada #jeremyhopkin
November 11, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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HOW WAS BASEBALL ONE WEEK AGO WHAT THE HELL
November 9, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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WATCH: Seriously, if you’re following ANY bike-lane debate, you HAVE TO WATCH this news story. You actually can’t make this up. Ford claims without evidence that bike-lanes are bad for small business, and THE ACTUAL BUSINESS ASSOCIATION obliterates him with data.

Safe bike-lanes mean business.
Annex businesses tell Ford to back off Bloor bike lanes
Stores in the Annex say the Bloor bike lanes have been a big boost to business. As Michelle Mackey reports, the neighborhood's BIA wants the province to back off its new bill that could see the lanes ...
toronto.citynews.ca
November 8, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Eglinton Crosstown LRT update:

Positive: stickers have been added on the platforms telling people to move to the end where trains stop

Negative: gapping/bunching continues, 6200+6249 still has at least one flatspotted wheel, drivers are still having trouble stopping in the right place
November 8, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Conservative MP thinking of crossing floor wakes up with severed head of a John A. Macdonald statue in his bed
Conservative MP thinking of crossing floor wakes up with severed head of a John A. Macdonald statue in his bed
OTTAWA – Milton Smolyak, a “red tory” who has been rumoured to be mulling over a switch to the Liberal Party, woke up this morning with the severed head of a John A. Macdonald statue in his bed. “I wa...
thebeaverton.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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Defence laggard no more, Canada’s reuniting with the climate laggards. My cartoon in the Friday Hamilton Spectator: www.thespec.com/opinion/edit...
November 7, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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Not now, carnivorous death ball
November 6, 2025 at 8:42 PM
He had a beef with the Trump administration.

Or maybe it was a cold cut combo.
November 7, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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Doug Ford is paying someone NINE MILLION DOLLARS to figure out how to say "no, that's stupid" without using any of those words.
Yesterday: Ontario huffy that federal budget didn’t include commitment to idea of tunnel under Hwy 401
Today: Ontario announces award of $9M contract to see if the idea of this 60km dig is even feasible
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Taxpayers on the hook for $9M to study Doug Ford's Highway 401 tunnel idea | CBC News
Ontario taxpayers are set to spend $9.1 million to learn if or how it is feasible to build a tunnel under Highway 401
www.cbc.ca
November 6, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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Trent's brother Vent
May 5, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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“Assault with a deli weapon.”

[checks statutes)

Nope, not here.
November 5, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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If the sub didn't split, you must aquit
Defense says that the officer's testimony was "very questionable" because he said the sandwich both exploded in spray of mustard and onions and also landed in its wrapper on the ground.
November 5, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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Raging narcissist claims that an election that rejected everything he stands for wasn't about him. Good try, Donald. Loser. 😎
November 5, 2025 at 4:21 PM
You Don't Mess With The Zohran
At just 34 years old, Zohran Mamdani culminated a meteoric political rise Tuesday by scoring a decisive victory in a polarizing mayoral election.

He will become the youngest mayor in over a century, the first Muslim to lead New York City.

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Mamdani Makes History With Victory in Mayor’s Race
More than 2 million New Yorkers cast a ballot in a high-stakes election that smashed recent turnout levels.
www.thecity.nyc
November 5, 2025 at 3:41 AM
The Rule of Two states that at any time there can only be two Sith Lords.

Who will become @darthputinkgb.bsky.social apprentice?
November 5, 2025 at 3:38 AM
If he's only his half-brother, does that mean he f***s love seats?
Democrat Aftab Pureval has been re-elected Mayor of Cincinnati.

His Republican opponent, Cory Bowman, is JD Vance’s half-brother.
November 5, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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News In Photo
November 4, 2025 at 5:47 PM