Graeme Bayliss @gbayliss.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Brad Bradford is a clown car of stupid ideas: www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...thestar.comShuttering libraries. Selling the Zoo. Here’s what Brad Bradford’s Core Services Review really meansWe were all around for the last review - why would he proudly point to this disaster as a model to emulate 083
Graeme Bayliss @gbayliss.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Hey look, two guys who haven't done anything useful since 1986. 071
Graeme Bayliss @gbayliss.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I wrote about Premier Doug Ford's apparent indifference to human life for @thestar.com: www.thestar.com/opinion/star...thestar.comGraeme Bayliss: His cyclist friend was killed. Why did Doug Ford’s response include ‘lmao’?No one is expecting the premier to mash out the Bixby letter on his iPhone. Yet we might expect more than this. 10201102
Graeme Bayliss @gbayliss.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Smarties have been replaced with M&M’s in the rainbow cookies near me. If you’re going to sabotage your own product, fine, but a heads-up would be nice. 140
Reposted by Graeme BaylissSarah Sweet @sarahsweet.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I have had ME/CFS for 20 years. I would like treatment or, even better, a cure. At the very least, I would like people to treat ME/CFS as something that demands and deserves sustained medical research. 26616
Reposted by Graeme BaylissShawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I often think about the speed camera chopping vigilante who returned to the scene of their crime on Parkside Drive multiple times but Toronto police didn’t catch them & it led to Doug Ford banning speed cameras for 16 million people & now speeding is at epidemic levels & people will die. 2331080
Graeme Bayliss @gbayliss.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Brad Bradford smiles like he’s had a smile grafted onto his face and now his body is rejecting it. 040
Graeme Bayliss @gbayliss.bsky.social · 15/09/2026As a Soundgarden fan, I’m looking forward to the Productivity Ultramega OK Deduction. 010
Graeme Bayliss @gbayliss.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Robert Musil’s first draft of “The Man Without Qualities” was actually just a biography of Brad Bradford. 041
Graeme Bayliss @gbayliss.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Brad Bradford is Toronto’s answer to a question no one asked. 171
Graeme Bayliss @gbayliss.bsky.social · 08/09/2026“Launching a shitty sportswear brand to own the libs” 011
Reposted by Graeme BaylissJoshua Hind @joshuahind.bsky.social · 05/09/2026To anyone that matters, it doesn’t matter whether or not it makes sense. All that matters is that he can do it and nothing can stop him. That is Doug’s only calculus on this, and any issue. 22012
Graeme Bayliss @gbayliss.bsky.social · 04/09/2026I'm looking forward to the Toronto mayoral debate on Islamophobia that is definitely happening and about which news outlets will definitely make a big deal, for sure. 020
Graeme Bayliss @gbayliss.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Meritocracy strikes again! www.cbc.ca/news/enterta...cbc.caFormer Toronto mayor John Tory named as new chair of TIFF's board of directors | CBC NewsJohn Tory, the former mayor of Toronto, is the new chair of the board of directors of the Toronto International Film Festival. 071
Graeme Bayliss @gbayliss.bsky.social · 04/09/2026I'm worried that basing our country's entire culture on hating our country's biggest city for no reason was, in fact, a dumb fucking idea. www.thestar.com/news/gta/dou...thestar.comDoug Ford’s government rejected Toronto’s proposals to restore traffic lanes and keep bike lanes: sourcesToronto Mayor Olivia Chow says the province walked away from compromises to restore traffic lanes while keeping bike lanes on major streets. 031
Graeme Bayliss @gbayliss.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Canada: those stupid American hicks and their sad backwards slob country Also Canada: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...cbc.caFord government to begin ripping out, reconfiguring Toronto bike lanes after appeal court ruling | CBC NewsThe Ford government is going ahead with bike lane removal and reconfiguration on some of Toronto's busiest roads, the province announced Tuesday. 142
Graeme Bayliss @gbayliss.bsky.social · 02/09/2026"Yes but on the other hand fuck Toronto." — Ford Nation 0110
Graeme Bayliss @gbayliss.bsky.social · 02/09/2026I think we can all feel confident that this process will not be corrupt in the utter extreme. 0102
Graeme Bayliss @gbayliss.bsky.social · 01/09/2026This is incredibly stupid and embarrassing and a giant waste of money, but at least Ford was rude to a U.S. president for whom he would obviously have voted. toronto.citynews.ca/2026/09/01/t...toronto.citynews.caOntario begins restoring car lanes on Toronto's busiest streetsThe Ministry of Transportation confirmed that lane restoration is already underway on Bloor Street West in Etobicoke. 141
Graeme Bayliss @gbayliss.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Weird how elected officials aren’t lining up this time to impute Islamophobic motives to the perpetrator and call this an act of Islamophobia and denounce the scourge of Islamophobic violence in Canada. 132
Graeme Bayliss @gbayliss.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Ah, so conservatives merely need to *identify* as trying to ease traffic congestion. 082
Graeme Bayliss @gbayliss.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Will no one rid Toronto of this turbulent premier? 060
Graeme Bayliss @gbayliss.bsky.social · 15/07/2026England is the Toronto Maple Leafs of world football. Goddammit. 🏴 1101
Graeme Bayliss @gbayliss.bsky.social · 15/07/2026The yellowy air in Toronto makes you feel like you're trapped in the lens-filtered "flashback to Mexico" scene of some problematic TV crime drama. 270
Graeme Bayliss @gbayliss.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Today we lost the guy behind one of my favourite line deliveries ever. RIP, Mr. Cat Burglar. 172
Graeme Bayliss @gbayliss.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Also known as “Driver kills two pedestrians in Scarborough” 2112
Reposted by Graeme BaylissThe Local Magazine @thelocal.to · 30/06/2026The Ford government just deleted every long-term care inspection report from before 2023 from their website, obfuscating a vital public record, especially from the devastating pandemic era. But we have 10,000 of those reports, and we're making them publicly available. thelocal.to/long-term-ca...thelocal.toThe Ford Government Just Deleted Thousands of Long-Term Care Reports. Here They Are. | The LocalThe provincial government has eliminated access to long-term care home inspection reports from before 2023. We have over 10,000 of those reports, and are restoring access to the public. 8184117
Graeme Bayliss @gbayliss.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Ford's razor: never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by bumbling incompetence, unless the Ford government is involved in which case it's definitely both. www.thestar.com/news/hundred...thestar.comHundreds of support payments meant to help children sent to wrong people, Ontario Ombudsman findsThe Ministry of Education distributed more than $2 billion through a series of relief programs intended to help families whose children’s schooling was disrupted by labour strikes and the COVID-19 pan... 0144
Graeme Bayliss @gbayliss.bsky.social · 26/06/2026To resist America, we apparently need to become America? I wrote about it for @thestar.com. Don’t @ me, Carney stans: www.thestar.com/opinion/star...thestar.comGraeme Bayliss: We were supposed to be resisting America. Why are we mimicking them instead?When Americanization came pounding at the gates, Canada flung them open and said, "Come on in!" 3268
Graeme Bayliss @gbayliss.bsky.social · 19/05/2026Demkiw's law: any headline that asks "Did Toronto police do [loathsome thing]?" can be answered by the word yes. www.thestar.com/news/gta/did...thestar.comDid Toronto police conspire to plant a man’s ID as evidence in a gun case — or was it one officer’s ‘honest lie?’The accused walked out of court not only a free man, but with the $5,100 police had seized as alleged proceeds of crime. 0146
Graeme Bayliss @gbayliss.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Attention restaurants: if you’re going to be a freak and put raisins in your carrot cake, warn me. 380
Graeme Bayliss @gbayliss.bsky.social · 05/05/2026Once again the man who wouldn’t be mayor reveals himself to be a slippery weasel. 043
Reposted by Graeme BaylissShawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 02/05/2026Liberal MPs have been playing playing passive, coy & cagey w their real island airport feelings, but they’re deeply implicated - even making concrete expansion plans! I go thru some of them in my @thestar.com column today & why they owe Torontonians some honest loyalty. They could stop it today.thestar.comShawn Micallef: Toronto’s Liberal MPs have a duty to defend the city’s stake in the future of Billy Bishop airport. So why aren’t theyBilly Bishop is owned and operated by the Toronto Port Authority, a federally regulated agency, which gives Liberal MPs authority over any airport plans. 1920590
Graeme Bayliss @gbayliss.bsky.social · 25/04/2026Want to live like a prime minister? Real estate agent @clareblackwood.bsky.social is selling 24 Sussex Drive — free or best offer. Totally worth having to live in Ottawa! Read her sales pitch on @thestar.com: www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...thestar.comLooking for a new home? This Ottawa mansion has it all: history, charm, elegance. Also ratsIs 24 Sussex Drive the home of your dreams? You should probably see someone about your dreams! 1235
Graeme Bayliss @gbayliss.bsky.social · 25/04/2026Hey at least Ford is being transparent about Ontario Place. 072
