I’m really out of the loop, hence my delay (sorry), but I don’t think there’s so much a controversy as our #1 (Kelly) and #2 (Arbuckle) choices are injured, so we’re going deeper into our roster.

Nice win for the Bombers over the RBs ;)

I was surprised the Riders lost to the Als last week! As a baseball fan, I feel kind of strange saying the Argos “walked off” the Elks last week, because you always play till the end of the clock in football (I think), but it was a thrilling last-minute victory nonetheless. I felt a little spoiled because I got to watch the Blue Jays and Argos both get walkoff wins within like 5 minutes of each other :P. I’m probably due for some Argos’ pain now going forward

Days of that labeling (calling racism out) in the mainstream media may have passed 😬

Alt Text: Police walling a street off, preventing the anti-hate group from following the hate group

Great info here!!!

1. Video of how much bigger the anti-hate group is
2. Photos and videos of Toronto Police Service trying to block the anti-hate group from following the hate group (example above)
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Alt Text: Man with a sign in his hands that reads:
Christie Pits
Nazi-Free
Since '33
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Alt Text: Christie Pits has been lovely this afternoon. Huge neighbourhood turnout in support of immigrants and against fascism.

I loved the Korean performances: Taekwondo, drumming, singing, dancing. Magicians and story telling for kids. Lots of live music.

A few dozen dejected fascists, drowned out (both audibly and visually) by overwhelming numbers of antifascists.

And this sad guy walking around with a Knights Templar flag and a Christian flag, both on a hockey stick. On which he has written “In this sign thou shalt conquer.”. Desperately seeking his people, as hundreds of people nearby enjoy Palestinian folk songs.

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Alt Text: A large crowd at the southwest corner of Christie Pits [a downtown park in Toronto] with pro-immigrant and anti-racist signs

Alt Text: A bunch of white tents set up in the “pit” part of Christie Pits with people gathering, either having just finished or preparing to start walking?

There’s plenty of research about road safety outcomes, for example around school zones. Here’s research conducted in Toronto published in July 2025: https://www.sickkids.ca/en/news/archive/2025/automated-speed-enforcement-significantly-reduces-speeding-in-toronto-school-zones/

I might go! Too bad details are on FB via a bitly link, but the most important details of when and where are provided on the webpage

A rematch of Redblacks and Lions should be good, after a 1-point difference this weekend passed.

I imagine Bomber Nation’s reeling right now with Collaros’ premature exit from the game this weekend. Any injury update?

A. J. Ouellette sure looked good in an Argos’ uniform 😅. Nice running play for a Q3 TD for the Riders in the Banjo Bowl 🤘

I believe all those green checkmarks mean your IP address is ‘good’. If the whole list for you is green then this method hasn’t identified a problem

Really? That’s wild. I didn’t see before HT. In Q3, there doesn’t appear to be precipitation but the field looks kinda boggy

To seriously suggest that the Conservatives would have the same environmental policy is not only childish beyond belief, stunningly ignorant but that level of false equivocation is fundamentally dangerous.

You disagree with Greenpeace and I, that’s fine. I think the thing that unsettles me the most with Carney - and maybe you feel somewhat similarly with your invocation of US politics examples - is that I fear Canadian politics is descending to the 2-party system in the US where neither party serves working class interests, the two parties are very similar on many fronts (except more socially conservative ‘issues’), and the system is so easily gamed by the filthy rich to prevent positive change. (I feel the NDP is sadly missing the opportunity to be Mamdani-like, cater to the 90+% of Canadians that supported Air Canada Flight Attendants’ strike action, fill the void left of the political centre, etc.) It instills me with hopelessness and it can rile me up in an angry way. Carney has really disappointed me. I know a plurality here hold out hope that he’ll reveal a positive character later in his term, but I don’t share that belief. I remember Trump favouring Carney more than PP during the campaign for the federal Canada election. I don’t fully understand it, but it makes more sense to me now than it did before Carney was elected

CBC’s coverage and your reading of it isn’t critical enough of the LPC, imo. For CBC’s part, their coverage surrounding Air Canada’s labour issues the other week made that pretty clear.

The pause appears indefinite for now, the part you cite does not say the pause will be for 60 days, but it might be by intention that you read it that way.

The EV mandate will be paused as the government conducts a 60-day review of the policy, and is being waived for 2026 models.

I predicted Carney’d postpone this days ago in another post. My other prediction is that Assolini will not participate in a fair CUSMA renegotiation - nothing about his first 8 months suggests he will.

CPC must be pretty ecstatic. If they can ditch PP for his excessive social conservativism, they can easily win the next federal election as Carney is Conservative. Greenpeace gets it:

However, Greenpeace Canada was quick to criticize the EV mandate delay.

“What was the point of electing Mark Carney when we get Pierre Poilievre’s climate policy?” said Keith Stewart, senior energy strategist with the activist group.

I don’t know if you’re joking but it reminds me of a post that said the only problem with vaccines is that they’re so effective that after a couple generations people may forget how important they are. Similarly, Labour Day is for celebrating weekends (days off) and many other things that labour organizers had to fight for that many take for granted these days

This is anti-public health censorship

Labour Day Weekend had a couple of great games, with Elks @ Stamps being a blowout. This week, the CFL’s efforts to avoid Sunday games is very apparent, as I think it will be the rest of the way. I don’t think I’m a fan of 3 games on Saturday, which is probably more of a pain in the arse for prairie and West coast folks. Seems like they’ll usually do 2 on Friday and 2 on Saturday.

This week, I’m most looking forward to the battle for the East between the Ti-Cats and Als as well as the Banjo Bowl (Riders @ Bombers) that either team can win.

I learned something about CFL rules this week. I didn’t realize play is stopped at 3 minutes to HT or end-of-game (or maybe any quarter) for a TV commercial break. I also didn’t realize that after the 3 minute mark, timekeeping switches from ‘running time’ to ‘stopped time’ (in other words: from the timer continues between plays to the timer is paused between plays).

I really like the TSN panel, like Kate Beirness, Milt Stegall, Henoc Muamba, and Davis Sanchez

Battle of Alberta - Stampeders up 13-4 at HT. Elks’ Defence is keeping them in this