John Michael McGrath
@jm-mcgrath.bsky.social
Ontario politics and policy for TVO. Writer and Podcast co-host, #onpoli
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RFK Jr, probably: "two for one? what a deal!" phys.org/news/2025-11...
High rates of antibiotic-resistant bacteria found in raw milk
Raw cow and sheep milk is frequently contaminated with antibiotic-resistant bacteria that could pose a threat to human and animal health, reports a new study led by Tahir Usman of Abdul Wali Khan Univ...
phys.org
November 13, 2025 at 10:54 AM
RFK Jr, probably: "two for one? what a deal!" phys.org/news/2025-11...
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The attorney general and the FBI director, a manosphere podcaster bro, pulled into the situation room a member of Congress best known for getting kicked out of a Beetlejuice musical for drunkenly giving her date a handy, in order to pressure her about the president's child sex trafficking scandal.
November 12, 2025 at 11:23 PM
The attorney general and the FBI director, a manosphere podcaster bro, pulled into the situation room a member of Congress best known for getting kicked out of a Beetlejuice musical for drunkenly giving her date a handy, in order to pressure her about the president's child sex trafficking scandal.
hahahahaha
Councillor Myers' motion to request a SmartTrack audit as part of the Auditor General's 2026 work plan CARRIES 16-3.
November 13, 2025 at 12:36 AM
hahahahaha
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This isn’t even the stuff they’re trying to actually stop from getting out.
November 12, 2025 at 10:59 PM
This isn’t even the stuff they’re trying to actually stop from getting out.
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Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
November 13, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
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The moral failing in attempting to prove Hitler was the victim of a genetic something-something is the same as the moral failing in claiming Trump is mentally ill. Their acts are those of conscious adults who’ve justified them in writing — they’re very fundamentally victimizers, not victims
"The research will probably provoke controversy, both for its having been done and for its findings."
Absolutely atrocious decision by everyone involved to do this research. The findings add nothing to historical understanding or political prevention, and hold immense potential to do harm.
Absolutely atrocious decision by everyone involved to do this research. The findings add nothing to historical understanding or political prevention, and hold immense potential to do harm.
Exclusive: Adolf Hitler’s DNA has been sequenced by scientists
It has:
- shown he had a disorder which impacted his sexual development
- debunked rumours about his ancestry
- shown a high likelihood that he had a neurodivergent condition and/or bipolar disorder
www.thetimes.com/article/e728...
It has:
- shown he had a disorder which impacted his sexual development
- debunked rumours about his ancestry
- shown a high likelihood that he had a neurodivergent condition and/or bipolar disorder
www.thetimes.com/article/e728...
November 12, 2025 at 7:24 PM
The moral failing in attempting to prove Hitler was the victim of a genetic something-something is the same as the moral failing in claiming Trump is mentally ill. Their acts are those of conscious adults who’ve justified them in writing — they’re very fundamentally victimizers, not victims
Excellent. www.liberalcurrents.com/liberalisms-...
November 12, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Excellent. www.liberalcurrents.com/liberalisms-...
I biked almost all of last winter BUT this week saw the first real snow in Toronto, a Canadian city that has a learning disability when it comes to snow so I've been using the TTC, but it's supposed to be relatively clear tomorrow and I'll be back on my bike
Communicating winter cycling is a balancing act.
Explaining to people in milder climates that winter is a big deal here. We can’t “just bike through the snow”.
But also explaining to Canadians that it’s not that different from other things we do in winter (requiring clothing, plowing, etc.).
Explaining to people in milder climates that winter is a big deal here. We can’t “just bike through the snow”.
But also explaining to Canadians that it’s not that different from other things we do in winter (requiring clothing, plowing, etc.).
November 12, 2025 at 7:20 PM
I biked almost all of last winter BUT this week saw the first real snow in Toronto, a Canadian city that has a learning disability when it comes to snow so I've been using the TTC, but it's supposed to be relatively clear tomorrow and I'll be back on my bike
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Raja the elephant, welcome to @thewaroncars.bsky.social
Fun for all road tolling advocates!
(And yes, I suspect that from a wildlife perspective this is probably not ideal.)
www.bbc.com/reel/video/p... #dktrp
(And yes, I suspect that from a wildlife perspective this is probably not ideal.)
www.bbc.com/reel/video/p... #dktrp
Raja the elephant asking for a road toll
In Sri Lanka, a charming elephant cheekily halts traffic for treats.
www.bbc.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Raja the elephant, welcome to @thewaroncars.bsky.social
Couldn't help but notice that the only thing that seemed to displace sports betting ads during the World Series was debt counselling services. Anyway, I'm sure this is all perfectly sustainable. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
Ontario wins case to expand online gambling to bettors outside of Canada
Move was opposed by seven other provinces that argued it could increase illegal online gambling in their jurisdictions
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Couldn't help but notice that the only thing that seemed to displace sports betting ads during the World Series was debt counselling services. Anyway, I'm sure this is all perfectly sustainable. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
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Mike here committing the unpardonable sin of taking the words "housing is a human right" seriously when the people who use those words don't actually mean it to be taken seriously.
New MMI piece: We look at the 3.5 million people in Canada who live in a home that is too small to meet their needs, and how a mismanaged push by governments and urban planners towards densification is at odds with the human right to housing.
Read here: www.missingmiddleini...
Read here: www.missingmiddleini...
November 12, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Mike here committing the unpardonable sin of taking the words "housing is a human right" seriously when the people who use those words don't actually mean it to be taken seriously.
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Great piece by Zadie Smith. When the right talks about classics or "Western" culture, these works are only important to the extent that it demonstrates their superiority, they have no interest in art in and of itself beyond that www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
November 12, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Great piece by Zadie Smith. When the right talks about classics or "Western" culture, these works are only important to the extent that it demonstrates their superiority, they have no interest in art in and of itself beyond that www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
oh how I enjoyed this one
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www.youtube.com/shorts/LWTaG...
November 12, 2025 at 3:44 PM
oh how I enjoyed this one
www.youtube.com/shorts/LWTaG...
www.youtube.com/shorts/LWTaG...
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you should quit social media if you can.
if you can't, you should use apps that give you and old-school reverse chronological feed of posts from people you follow. yes, like bluesky.
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/you-should...
if you can't, you should use apps that give you and old-school reverse chronological feed of posts from people you follow. yes, like bluesky.
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/you-should...
You should quit social media for good
Platforms optimized for engagement warp our politics, erode attention, and harm our wellbeing. Here’s how I minimize time on the (anti‑)social web.
www.gelliottmorris.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:01 PM
you should quit social media if you can.
if you can't, you should use apps that give you and old-school reverse chronological feed of posts from people you follow. yes, like bluesky.
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/you-should...
if you can't, you should use apps that give you and old-school reverse chronological feed of posts from people you follow. yes, like bluesky.
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/you-should...
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"The environmental review process is still in the early stages, and may be done by 2027."
For a bike path. That voters approved in 2016.
This is malicious bureaucratic delay and agency capture by carbrains. This *never happens for highway or road-widening projects.*
www.sfgate.com/la/article/l...
For a bike path. That voters approved in 2016.
This is malicious bureaucratic delay and agency capture by carbrains. This *never happens for highway or road-widening projects.*
www.sfgate.com/la/article/l...
How a billion-dollar California bike path ended up in bureaucratic hell
The project closes a gap between existing paths along the Los Angeles River.
www.sfgate.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:14 PM
"The environmental review process is still in the early stages, and may be done by 2027."
For a bike path. That voters approved in 2016.
This is malicious bureaucratic delay and agency capture by carbrains. This *never happens for highway or road-widening projects.*
www.sfgate.com/la/article/l...
For a bike path. That voters approved in 2016.
This is malicious bureaucratic delay and agency capture by carbrains. This *never happens for highway or road-widening projects.*
www.sfgate.com/la/article/l...
smash cut to Derek Guy's cellphone vibrating on his desk
Joyce Carol Oates sitting across a desk from Kendrick Lamar:
"So I'm putting a team together..."
Isaac Chotiner knocks on the open door.
"So I'm putting a team together..."
Isaac Chotiner knocks on the open door.
Personally, I will be trying to avoid the notice of Joyce Carol Oates and Kendrick Lamar for the rest of my natural life
November 11, 2025 at 7:39 PM
smash cut to Derek Guy's cellphone vibrating on his desk
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Joyce Carol Oates sitting across a desk from Kendrick Lamar:
"So I'm putting a team together..."
Isaac Chotiner knocks on the open door.
"So I'm putting a team together..."
Isaac Chotiner knocks on the open door.
Personally, I will be trying to avoid the notice of Joyce Carol Oates and Kendrick Lamar for the rest of my natural life
I need Joyce Carol Oates to be mean to me online so I can get my life together
November 11, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Joyce Carol Oates sitting across a desk from Kendrick Lamar:
"So I'm putting a team together..."
Isaac Chotiner knocks on the open door.
"So I'm putting a team together..."
Isaac Chotiner knocks on the open door.
New from me at TVO: Ontario's highest court has issued a decision that could impact how municipalities build for cyclist safety — just not the decision you're thinking of. www.tvo.org/article/anal...
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www.tvo.org
November 11, 2025 at 6:07 PM
New from me at TVO: Ontario's highest court has issued a decision that could impact how municipalities build for cyclist safety — just not the decision you're thinking of. www.tvo.org/article/anal...
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Women were excluded from clinical trails until 1993 in the U.S. and 1997 in Canada. @namshine.bsky.social talks with @docmcohen.medsky.social (@queensuhealth.bsky.social) about excluding women has shaped medicine and harmed women’s health, on (MIS)Treated: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/w...
November 11, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Women were excluded from clinical trails until 1993 in the U.S. and 1997 in Canada. @namshine.bsky.social talks with @docmcohen.medsky.social (@queensuhealth.bsky.social) about excluding women has shaped medicine and harmed women’s health, on (MIS)Treated: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/w...
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Noah Smith is paid in the high six-figures to write a blog read by Americans who believe themselves to be intelligent. Yet, he is both unable to read a sign and also for some reason chose to have a 90 minute layover for a flight that takes 90 minutes.
onemileatatime.com/news/economi...
onemileatatime.com/news/economi...
Economist Doesn't Follow Signs At Heathrow: Proof The UK Is Failing?
A economist had a bad experience connecting at Heathrow, suggesting it's reflective of bigger issues in the UK. There's only one issue...
onemileatatime.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Noah Smith is paid in the high six-figures to write a blog read by Americans who believe themselves to be intelligent. Yet, he is both unable to read a sign and also for some reason chose to have a 90 minute layover for a flight that takes 90 minutes.
onemileatatime.com/news/economi...
onemileatatime.com/news/economi...
Few months ago my father, aunt and uncle went to Norwich, England and gave a little talk about my grandmother who served as a Red Cross nurse during World War II, including excerpts from her wartime letters to her family back home. The video is here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMOI...
Silver Wings: Margaret Fahey, American Red Cross Talk
YouTube video by The Forum Norwich
www.youtube.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Few months ago my father, aunt and uncle went to Norwich, England and gave a little talk about my grandmother who served as a Red Cross nurse during World War II, including excerpts from her wartime letters to her family back home. The video is here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMOI...
If for some reason you aren't sick of my face and voice, I showed up on someone else's show tonight
November 11, 2025 at 1:32 AM
If for some reason you aren't sick of my face and voice, I showed up on someone else's show tonight
Apparently this was NOT exclusive to the Ottawa region when I was growing up but some people don't believe me when I try and describe it.
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youtu.be/P1xfPFicUTw?...
November 10, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Apparently this was NOT exclusive to the Ottawa region when I was growing up but some people don't believe me when I try and describe it.
youtu.be/P1xfPFicUTw?...
youtu.be/P1xfPFicUTw?...
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Doug Ford and the PCs continue to lead in Ontario, holding majority-level support. But beneath the surface, there are signs of voter fatigue and questions about progress on key issues.
Read the full findings: abacusdata.ca/ontario-pcs...
Read the full findings: abacusdata.ca/ontario-pcs...
Ontario PCs Still Lead by Wide Margin but Ontario NDP Rise Four in a Month - Abacus Data
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abacusdata.ca
November 10, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Doug Ford and the PCs continue to lead in Ontario, holding majority-level support. But beneath the surface, there are signs of voter fatigue and questions about progress on key issues.
Read the full findings: abacusdata.ca/ontario-pcs...
Read the full findings: abacusdata.ca/ontario-pcs...