Councillor Derek Giberson

🇨🇦For Canada Day, here's some suggested summer reads from Canadian authors. All these books, each in their own way, provide insight into some of the challenges we're facing today. /1

I'm in today's Star with a piece on the Canadian government's "sovereign wealth fund", which is not in fact a sovereign wealth fund at all. Mark Carney may be talking like a Nordic social democrat but he is governing like a Thatcherite.

Toronto City Council needs a voice that knows her community and is in touch with reality. That's why I'm voting for Diana Chan McNally for Parkdale-High Park. @DianaCMcNally

This is what Doug Ford's gutting of FOI laws was always about. The Premier wouldn't be going to such lengths to lock up his records if he had nothing to hide. FOIs exposed the Greenbelt scandal, and are the reason that Ford is under RCMP investigation. He may think this is his get out of jail free card, but when they come knocking, it will be with warrants, not requests. As Premier, I will undo these changes, and bring accountability and transparency back to Queen's Park.

Remember that the next Ontario election likely will not be until 2030. @fordnation is applying a "scorched earth" policy to any and all public assets and services for their ultimate goal of privatization. They do not care about being popular because they maintain power.

Doug is killing it right now

ERs have run out of hallway beds. EMS can't offload. Patients lie on the floor. I call on Ontario to reverse the underfunding of our hospitals. It cannot continue like this. We don't need to wait for bad headlines about a patient's case gone wrong. cbc.ca/news/canada/to…

I was happy to talk to The Star about this. What we saw this winter is that @cityoftoronto can ensure that everyone who needs it has safe shelter during the extreme cold. This needs to become the city's playbook during all extreme weather events, including deadly summer heat.

It shouldn’t be possible to lose a court decision and then afterwards change the law to retroactively render your actions legal. It means that in matters of provincial jurisdiction there effectively is no binding law for those that govern us.

#BREAKING: Democracy dies in darkness. Doug Ford just passed a law to hide his phone records and 40 years of public records. Honest governments don't change the law to protect them from the truth. As Premier, I will roll back these changes and restore transparency, trust, and faith in our democracy.

#BREAKING: The Ford government just scheduled late-night sittings – until midnight – to ram through FOI changes. Just when you thought this government couldn’t get any worse, they’re now scheduling late night sittings to quietly change the rules, hoping to keep Ontarians in the dark.

Imagine the columns Brian Lilley would have written if literally any other politician had spent $30 million buying themself a private luxury jet

This morning, I called for a vote: Doug Ford should personally cover any losses from buying and reselling his $30M gravy plane. The purchase. The outfitting. The resale. All of it. Spoiler: The Conservatives blocked it.

Just a note that the Ford government is as we speak making substantial changes to school board governance in part because of $145K in travel and purchases by one school board for Italian statues. The aircraft formerly known as the Gravy Plane = almost 200 Italian statuary trips.

Palantir were kind enough to sum up its hideous ideology in 22 points. And I have taken the liberty of annotating each one of them. Here is my interpretation of all 22 of them (preserving the original numbering - for the original see their tweet below): 1. Silicon Valley owes an immeasurable debt to the ruling class who bailed out the criminal bankers that wrecked the livelihood of the majority of Americans. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley will defend that ruling class to the death (literally!), in the name of the majority of Americans whom they treat with contempt – i.e., like cattle that have lost their market value. 2. Palantir is eyeing the Apple Store, salivating over the prospect of creating its own technofeudal estate. Time to replace the iPhone with another device that dissolves what is left of people’s privacy. 3. Palantir shall give nothing away for free. It cares uniquely over its own growth which it pursues by sowing fear so that it can sell a fake sense of security. 4. Glory to brute force! Ethics is for suckers. The West needs more of Palantir’s murderous software. 5. AI-powered killer robots are coming. The task is to profit magnificently by building killer robots first and ask questions later. To be able to do so, Palantir will do whatever it takes to avoid at all cost any international treaties that limit AI-driven killer robots. 6. Every poor sod (lacking the connections to avoid being thrown into the trenches with killer drones targeting them from the sky) must be drafted into the army. Forget paying soldiers a salary. All payments should be directed to Palantir, where our own people will be serving their ‘national service’ – leaving the dying to non-shareholders. 7. Palantir works overtime to equip US Marines with killer bots that take away from the US Marines whatever remnants of ethical judgment they are left with on the battlefield. American society should be rendered perfectly incapable of any debate that restricts Palantir’s capacity to get the US Military to eliminate any remaining opportunity to reject its software’s choice of targets. 8. Palantir deplores the fact that the public sector is still not totally devoid of a conscience. Public servants must be fired en masse, except some very few approved by Palantir who will receive huge salaries, paid by taxpayers. 9. Palantir thinks that Donald Trump must be beatified for throwing himself into public service. Not forgiving folks like Trump everything risks our soul, not to mention that it raises the prospect of officials that restrict Palantir’s evil project. 10. Politics needs to be AI-like, devoid of anything that can be mistaken for human empathy. Those who look to the political arena to nourish their soul and sense of self must be sent to the gulag forthwith! 11. There are some people too eager to hasten Palantir’s demise. They should rethink, or else! 12. Palantir makes no nuclear weapons but is happily developing other weapons of mass destruction. We proudly announce that we are now ready to add to nuclear Armageddon the AI-driven threat to humanity’s existence. 13. No other country in the history of the world has committed so many war crimes in the name of progress and freedom. The United States offers infinite freedom to people like Palantir’s founders to profit so handsomely by inflicting so much damage upon humanity. 14. American power has feasted on causing one war after another, one putsch after another, one avoidable financial disaster after another. Too many have forgotten or perhaps have taken for granted America’s capacity to pursue forever wars in the name of peace and democracy. 15. German and Japanese Fascism must be made great again. The denazification of Germany was an overcorrection for which Europe is now paying a heavy price. A similar and highly misplaced commitment to Japanese pacifism must also end immediately! 16. We should applaud those who attempt to monopolise everything by means of generous government contracts. Billionaires must not be satisfied merely with their billions. To become even more obscenely rich they need grand narratives that help them convince the poor to use their freedom to keep them, the billionaires, in power. And, by the way, Palantir loves Elon, especially his grand apartheid-inspired narrative. 17. Silicon Valley must be free to do in America’s cities what it did in Gaza. Many politicians across the United States have essentially shrugged when it came to granting Palantir the right to annihilate all remaining civil liberties and human rights. This must end. 18. Epstein’s syndicate should be forgotten lest lovely people like Trump and the Clintons are deterred from entering government. The public arena must be scrutiny-free unless subversives like Sanders or Mamdani enter it. 19. We love banal public figures as long as they give Palantir all the juicy contracts. We also love colourful public figures who give Palantir all the juicy contracts. 20. We need more opium for the masses, as they are not sufficiently inebriated for us to be unimpeded in the pursuit of their complete subjugation. Questioning organised superstition is dangerous and must end. 21. Time to bring back Hitler’s hierarchy of races, with Palantir’s founders and Elon at its Aryan pinnacle. The idea that it is wrong to judge someone by the colour of their skin or their ethnicity or their religion must be jettisoned. 22. Blacks, Muslims, most Asians, and of course women, are inferior untermensch. Blokes in America, and more broadly the West, have for the past half century resisted putting these subhumans in their places in the name of inclusivity. It was a mistake. Such subhumans must never be allowed in, except as servants or sex service providers – at least until we can improve our robots, in which case we won’t need them at all.

Just scored a suh-WHEET deal on Facebook Marketplace on a customized OPP van and a private jet from a guy in North Etobicoke. He even throw in some really nice land near the Niagara Escarpment.

Local man tells post-secondary students money doesn't grow on trees and then picks private jet from private jet tree.

Doug Ford on OSAP: “Money doesn’t grow on trees” Doug Ford on a private jet for himself: “I have a busy schedule”

Local man says getting caught worst part of job.

Here's a look at the interior of a 2016 Challenger 650. Premier Doug Ford's government spent $28.5 million of taxpayer dollars on the private jet now dubbed the "gravy plane" #onpoli