Of note: Police do not say what he's alleged to have said.

Also ... is it normal for Toronto police to issue a press release about charges AFTER the accused's first court appearance?

Both are just Simpsons references for a millennial of a certain age, tbh.

I can't help but wonder what this will do to distortions in purchasing behaviour. I bought an old-ass house for the yard and in my price range. I could've gone with a new home in the far suburbs or a duplex. Maybe that would've driven the price down on older houses?

Well, my parents will be thrilled to hear I'm now making scads of money and getting a wife and kids.

Really fun stuff from Colby Cosh on Alberta's vodka-jug meltdown. (Vodkagate? Juggate?)

link.nationalpost.com/view/5ea85fdaf…

I think about this a lot. And it's funny because the Billboard 100 offers a bit of insight. The top male artist is Morgan Wallen, whose music has the emotional complexity of a plastic whiskey bottle.

And weirdly, country music is (sometimes) really good at articulating this.

glad for my The Washington Post friends that DC isn't in the path of totality

Huh. Alex Jones, noted conspiracy theorist, is a Pierre Poilievre fan. I'd missed this yesterday.

wut

Jacob Flickinger, the US-Canadian citizen killed by the IDF while delivering food aid in Gaza, was a retired master corporal who served 11 years in the Canadian Army including a tour in Afghanistan.
He was dad and sole provider to a one-year-old baby boy.

This raises some interesting points of potential conflict for a future prime minister Pierre Poilievre, whose housing strategy is, at least in part, about trampling other jurisdictions.

Renfrew murderer Basil Borutski died in prison: cbc.ca/news/canada/ot…

I'll never forget being in Cairo and my driver just ... rear ended someone to get past. And then later, someone nudged us so they could get by. Wild experience.

Elliot has said he didn't mean to imply causality here. That's fair — my bad, that's how I read his tweet.

That said, I do think this context is important, because it's easy to imagine the Canadian gov't's stance on Israel *has* affected its electoral chances.