David Bailey 🇨🇦🇺🇦

@boatical That wasn't bad luck.

marky delgado, that one night in mexico….

BREAKING: The New York Times is on to this now: ThermSpa is a corrupt company that lied to get the Ford deal (and he's thrown in a Science Ceentre too) A Wellness Company With False Claims, Global Aims and a Toronto Island savesciencecentre.com/false_claims

A new poll by Abacus Data found 63% want Progressive Conservative MPPs to vote against their own government and defeat the province's planned changes to the FOI laws. Why? Because the poll found a majority believe the changes are "primarily intended to reduce government accountability." #onpoli

@martinsafc1973 @tfcnewsoutlet @GarethWheeler C'mon Martin, give them some credit for intelligence. Granted, it might end up being hundreds of portapotties with handwashing stations but nobody would expect 17k additional bodies to use just the existing washrooms. Despite what they may be saying, the stadium isnt' done yet.

@tfcnewsoutlet @GarethWheeler I’ve been at the last two TFC home games in the south stand. With all those temp seats I didn’t see any additional restrooms to accommodate the people. Are all these people expected to squeeze into the ones at field level in the south stand?

BMO Field renovations cost $158M. Some of the major stadium upgrades included adding 17k seats ($45k capacity), 32 suites, 4000 hospitality seats, new turf, 4 video boards, boosted sound & Wi-Fi. 🍁 #TFCLive #CanMNT [🎥 @GarethWheeler] City of Toronto paid $133M. MLSE paid $25M.

@jussychecker @MrChelseaCheese @BenSteiner00 Add everything up and it makes sense. Replacing the sound system is going to cost several million all by itself especially once labour is factored in. It wouldn't surprise me if labour is in fact the #1 line item followed by the temporary seating itself.

@DABailey62 @MrChelseaCheese @BenSteiner00 Talking about wifi and sound mate $157 mill still sounds too much to me

The renovations at BMO Field are complete and added 17,000 seats to “Toronto Stadium.” It cost $157.9 million. Toronto City Council paid $132.9 million, while MLSE funded $25 million. The new stands will have fans this month for #CanMNT wakingthered.com/2026/03/24/227…

BREAKING: The Strait of Hormuz is no longer closed. It is no longer open. It is something the world has never seen before: a permissioned corridor run by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, priced at $2 million per vessel, payable in yuan. Three ships transited in the last 24 hours. Three. Out of a pre-war average of 60 per day. Total throughput: 310,000 deadweight tonnes. Three percent of normal. Four hundred vessels are waiting outside the strait right now. One hundred and fifty tankers. One hundred and twenty bulk carriers. One hundred and thirty others. Waiting for permission from the IRGC Navy to enter a 5-nautical-mile channel between Larak and Qeshm islands inside Iranian territorial waters. This is how the gate works. A vessel operator contacts approved intermediaries with IRGC connections, submitting full documentation: IMO number, ownership chain, cargo manifest, destination, crew list. The intermediaries forward the package to the IRGC Navy’s Hormozgan Provincial Command for sanctions screening, cargo alignment checks that prioritise oil over all other commodities, and geopolitical vetting. The toll is approximately $2 million per tanker. For a VLCC carrying 2 million barrels, that is $1 per barrel. Preferred currency: yuan. If the vessel passes, the IRGC issues a clearance code and route instructions. Upon approach, VHF radio hail, AIS verification, patrol boat escort. One ship at a time. Through the narrowest channel of the most important waterway on Earth. Iranian crude is still flowing. Approximately 1.1 to 1.5 million barrels per day, mostly to China, at near pre-war levels. Iran’s own oil transits the strait it controls. The blockade applies to everyone else. Iran is simultaneously the gatekeeper and the primary beneficiary. The toll funds the IRGC. The IRGC maintains the gate. The gate generates the toll. The circle is self-sustaining. Now look at what is NOT transiting. Fertiliser. Gulf nations supply 49 percent of the world’s exported urea. Ammonia requires the natural gas that Qatar declared Force Majeure on and that Iranian strikes disrupted at South Pars. Effectively zero fertiliser vessels have received approval through the permissioned corridor. The IRGC is prioritising oil because oil generates revenue. Fertiliser does not. The molecules that feed four billion people are trapped behind a gate that only opens for molecules that fund the gatekeeper. The yuan preference is the structural shift that outlasts the war. Every tanker that pays in yuan instead of dollars establishes a precedent. Every precedent weakens the petrodollar architecture that has governed energy trade since 1974. The IRGC is not just blocking a strait. It is building an alternative payment rail under live fire. The $2 million toll in yuan is not a fee. It is a proof of concept for a post-dollar energy settlement system, stress-tested in the most extreme conditions imaginable: a three-front war with the world’s largest military. The world’s central banks are trapped by the same strait: the Fed cannot cut, the ECB is hiking, the BOJ is tightening. Six countries are rationing fuel. Japan’s 10-year yield hit a 27-year high. Slovenia has QR codes at the pump. South Korea is barring government vehicles one day per week. And behind all of it, 400 ships wait outside a 5-nautical-mile channel for a clearance code from the IRGC Navy, payable in a currency that is not the dollar. Twenty percent of the world’s oil supply. Controlled by a VHF radio call and a yuan transfer. The strait did not close. It changed ownership. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

Turkish Airlines flight TK403 is returning to Istanbul. St. Petersburg airport has been closed several times last days because of drone attacks.

@LDsportsniagara @GarethWheeler It helps.

@DABailey62 @GarethWheeler Nice

I was at Toronto Stadium today. The pitch upgrades are outstanding. Most other changes were necessary to bring the facility up to standard. North Stand is not ready yet. The biggest issue is the overwhelming feeling of temporary: seats, stands, hospitality. Missed opportunity.

The transformation is real. ✅ More capacity ✅ Upgraded AV & broadcast tech ✅ Next-level fan experience Think massive LED screens, better Wi-Fi, modern sound, and premium lounges. Toronto is set. Are you ready? #WeAreToronto

@JerryChilds @tomnsue5 @Mikeggibbs Seek therapy. You need it, badly!

@tomnsue5 @Mikeggibbs You don’t give a shit about the pilots. You are yourself saying to the world, “Look at me! I care and I can trash other people for not meeting my purity test.” Up yoirs, you narcissistic sociopath. You’d gladly see pilots die every day so you can pound your chest.

What I don't understand: why didn't the fire truck stop? The Air Canada jet was VERY visible with its front landing gear lights on. Do they not look before they cross runways?! They just blindly follow instructions? #AirCanada

@tomnsue5 @Mikeggibbs That is really out of line. Shameful comments.

@Mikeggibbs Fuck off idiot. You do not give a rats ass about these 2 pilots. You only want to politize it and you should be ashamed of yourself.

@RichUnderhill @Mikeggibbs That instruction was given too late.

@Mikeggibbs And the instructions were to stop

@BLackgold_5 I'd choose the Emirates A380 as I've never flown on the Super Jumbo.

Five widebody giants lined up side by side If you could board one right now… which one are you choosing?

The view from the top of the south temporary stands at BMO Field (Toronto Stadium). The full field will be in view for World Cup games. (📸: IG / cityofto)

@TFLbinz @BenSteiner00 Lol, yes, let's play our games in a stadium that seats only 42.5k.

@BenSteiner00 When does the FIFA tournament happen? and what dates will it play at the Rogers Centre 🧐

@w2truong @BenSteiner00 Lots are saying FIFA.

@BenSteiner00 Really ppl say FIFA or the FIFA? I've always heard "the World Cup"

@GarethWheeler @onesoccer Should we have paid another $150M or so of our tax payers money to have a permanent 45k for a TFC that averages less than 30k?

@HockeyBusiness @GarethWheeler

@GarethWheeler No access to the new stands to see what those vantage points will be like? And will the new temporary sections be covered on the sides at all, like at golf tournaments? Or will the scaffolding be left exposed?

@LDsportsniagara @GarethWheeler

@GarethWheeler They will add coloured sheet tarping to the temp stands all over so it will look much better

@mrosati86ix @GarethWheeler @onesoccer Yes they are.

@GarethWheeler @onesoccer Are they not going to cover the outside so you don’t see steel scaffolding?