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Queen's Park reporter for @theglobeandmail.com. E-mail: jgray@globeandmail.com. You can also contact me and other Globe journalists confidentially via SecureDrop: sec.theglobeandmail.com/securedrop

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Steffani Cameron 🇨🇦 @snarkysteff.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
MEANWHILE, in Canada, meet Brady Rogers, the reluctant politician who's fed up and thinks he can do better. His sign says "I barely want to do this." His website says, "I guess I'm running for Kelowna city council." His business? Recycling plastic into cool things.
lawn sign with a grumpy man in a "DADLIFE" sweatshirt and the sign says "I barely want to do this" with his name and campaignHi, I’m Brady.
Do I enjoy politics? No.

Do I know what I’m doing? No.

But am I qualified? Also no. 

I was born in Williams Lake and raised in Kelowna since I was 10. These are the streets I biked every day, the cars I threw crab apples at (sorry), and the parks I played in. Seeing this city grow has been cool, but with growth has come a whole new spectrum of challenges. Running for council is the last thing I saw myself doing this year. I don’t like meetings, I don’t like having to be certain places at certain times, and I’m allergic to stuffy offices. But unfortunately, I happen to like Kelowna, and think I can help do some good.I guess I’m running for Kelowna city council.
Support the campaignI graduated from UBCO in 2015ish (long story) and worked for 4 years as a robotic automation engineer. As cool as the job was, it was soulless, and I wanted to use my abilities for more than just helping huge companies save money. 

Since 2019, I’ve been building The Rogerie.
Starting as a farmers market booth beside the mall, my wife and I began turning plastic waste into new products in our laundry room. Seven painful years later, and we have a pretty awesome shop downtown by Sprout (come check it out!) where you’ll find me just about every day.
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Emerence 🍁 @damemyniah.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“The single most predictive factor in determining support for Alberta independence is not working in the energy industry, but the salience of religion in a person’s life” - pollster Janet Brown
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Jeff Gray @jeffreybgray.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Globe obit for David Marsden, who made the original CFNY the Spirit of Radio: www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
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Pop visionary David Marsden created Canada’s first alternative music station
His format-free approach to programming at CFNY inspired the Rush song The Spirit of Radio, which the band’s lyricist Neil Peart said he wrote to ‘represent all that radio should be’
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Jeff Gray @jeffreybgray.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I take a look at why Toronto's budget is always a soap opera -- a show I have had to watch on repeat in my past lives covering the Clamshell -- and what the leading mayoral candidates say they would do about it #TOpoli, #OnPoli : www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
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Toronto’s budget hole looms over mayoral race
Mayoral contenders offer their own solutions for the operating shortfall, but experts say the way cities are funded needs an overhaul
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John Michael McGrath @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
In other news, this is about as expected
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This sounds scary as hell.
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Robert Benzie @robertbenzie.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sadly, this is @MarinaHyde’s final column for the @guardian. We will miss her voice of sanity in a world gone mad. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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It's true: this is my final column. You have exactly 24 hours to complain before my inbox self-destructs | Marina Hyde
Yes, after 25 years I’m signing off, and I’ve cherished every moment – especially storming the French embassy with a (toy) AK-47, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
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Toronto Star @thestar.com · 01/10/2026
Long-shot candidate Eric Lombardi is out of Ontario’s Liberal leadership race after failing to make a $25,000 payment to the party Wednesday.
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Ontario’s Liberal leadership race down to four candidates
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”
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Graeme Bayliss @gbayliss.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I wrote about Premier Doug Ford's apparent indifference to human life for @thestar.com: www.thestar.com/opinion/star...
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Graeme 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.
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Andrew Kurjata @akurjata.ca · 27/09/2026
"A politician who gives the impression that they authentically speak their mind is likely to be seen by many as honest even if a high proportion of their actual words are not true." www.cnn.com/2026/09/27/p...
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I started fact-checking Trump 10 years ago. Here are 15 things I’ve learned | CNN Politics
Ten years ago this month, in my old job as Washington correspondent for the Toronto Star, I started what I believed would be a quick little side project: fact-checking underdog presidential candidate ...
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Les Perreaux @perreaux.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
There will be many debates about the cost-benefit of the bike race but one thing is for sure: there’s way more Italian being spoken on the bike paths than usual!
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Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Bless. Camden Town will chew those fascists up and spit them out so we’ll be left with sandwich boards floating in the canal alongside all the ditched e-scooters
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Brian F. Kelcey @stateofthecity.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is a rare thing - an *entirely* accurate story on Canadian (in this case, Ontarian) property tax policy, by @jeffreybgray.bsky.social. Ontario's situation is so hideously complicated that Jeff needs to drop several sidebar paragraphs to cover every base. Literally the only thing I'd add -
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Jeff Gray @jeffreybgray.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The tax-hike allergic Ford government is in no hurry to lift Ont.'s freeze on property-tax assessments, a leftover from COVID-19. For some, turning the system back on would indeed mean bigger tax bills -- but others have paid thousands extra for years. #ONpoli www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
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Ontario’s taxing problem with property owners
Lifting province’s property assessment freeze could cause municipal taxes to shoot up for some, while others may find they’ve been paying too much for years
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Mark MacKinnon @markmackinnon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
As the frontline nears, and Russian drones buzz overhead, the last Ukrainian-held corner of Donbas slowly empties out. “i don’t want to stay and see how they destroy my home.” My report from Kramatorsk, with photography @olgaivashchenko.bsky.social
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In the Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk, drones rule the skies and everything below
The last Ukrainian-controlled corner of Donbas has become a focus for both sides
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The Globe and Mail @theglobeandmail.com · 25/09/2026
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Volkswagen subsidiary delays opening of EV battery plant
PowerCo Canada said the $7-billion project in St. Thomas will begin operations in 2029
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Brian F. Kelcey @stateofthecity.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
There's a pol I know who started using A/I to write their speeches a year or two ago. We could tell because one speech - as delivered, on video - included facts that we knew the speaker would know were completely, obviously wrong. But they got read into the record anyway. It was surreal.
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Jeff Gray @jeffreybgray.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I wrote a feature for ROB Magazine about a company aiming to bring naval shipbuilding back to the Great Lakes, at the long underused Port Weller Dry Docks. The amazing Edward Burtynsky took the pics, which capture the places's immense size -- and potential. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/rob...
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Ontario Shipyards wants to build the next generation of military corvettes, but it faces rough seas ahead
The upstart underdog will have to persuade Ottawa that it’s up to the job as the Carney government pushes to re-arm in the face of new threats
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The Globe and Mail @theglobeandmail.com · 24/09/2026
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Ontario’s spending to lower electricity bills hit record high last year
Price tag of nearly $6.9-billion is equivalent to more than half of government’s deficit in the same period
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Micah @rincewind.run · 22/09/2026
“to the victor go the spoils” is basically the whole thing the UN was designed to prevent
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Jeff Gray @jeffreybgray.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Ford's cabinet shuffle: Ontario Premier moves labour minister -- facing ethics probe over his handling of a provincial skills training program -- to Infrastructure, a big job overseeing huge projects and budgets #Onpoli www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
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Ford names new labour, infrastructure ministers and Treasury Board president in cabinet shuffle
Ontario Premier’s office positions the move as a response to Canada’s trade war with the U.S.
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Jeff Gray @jeffreybgray.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Doug Ford will shuffle his cabinet this morning: www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... #ONpoli
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Ontario Premier Ford to shuffle cabinet Thursday
Office positions the move as a response to Canada’s trade war with the U.S.
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John Bowker @johnbowker.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
💥🤪🔫 #cdnpoli
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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
“I’m sure a lot of decent Americans exist, and feel very bad about all of this, just not bad enough to do anything to stop it…. The rest of us don’t exist to them. Foreigners aren’t real people. They do not care. This is not a country that wants to lead the world” open.substack.com/pub/theline/...
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Jen Gerson: (this is real)
I think we’ve reached the end of a real bilateral relationship with the United States. Friendship is over. Even a transactional alliance is pretty damn close to the brink.
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John Michael McGrath @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
It is *extremely* funny to me that Apple literally LITERALLY built its brand as an imagined hero against Orwellian manipulation of information and is, in 2026, re-writing maps because Donald Trump says so. Not ha-ha funny, exactly, but you get it.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/09/2026
the press has gotten completely habituated to the ugly and hateful behavior of the people in this government so i will be surprised if anyone ever asks hegseth why he thinks it is appropriate to mock children for wanting to learn, grow and maybe serve their country
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Matthew Mendelsohn @mendelmatt.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Good piece. I wish more people had not dismissed the warning signs for years and acted earlier. But it is good that we are all clear on where what we are facing -- let's name the authoritarian threat, reinforce democratic institutions, fight inequality and defend human rights and the rule of law.
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Matthew Mendelsohn @mendelmatt.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Good piece. When academics and journalists use the phrase "polarization" they are misnaming what has happened and they are adopting the assumptions of authoritarians. Stop describing radicalization on the right as "polarization."
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Jeff Gray @jeffreybgray.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Judge puts Ontario's cash-bail policy on hold pending Charter challenge #ONpoli www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
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Ontario court puts province’s new cash bail rules on hold
Justice grants injunction in case challenging the constitutional validity of system that was instituted in mid-August
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John Bowker @johnbowker.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
The LCBO’s store finder currently points to “Lake America,” despite Doug Ford’s big sign www.lcbo.com/en/stores/ #onpoli
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Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
A good universal rule of journalism is that you don’t call people and organizations and things what they want to be called; you call them what has meaning to your readers. This is also a rule of cartography
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Le Monde @lemonde.fr · 30/08/2026
Le lac Ontario devient lac d’Amérique pour les utilisateurs de Google Maps aux Etats-Unis
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Le lac Ontario devient lac d’Amérique pour les utilisateurs de Google Maps aux Etats-Unis
Donald Trump a signé jeudi un décret pour changer « immédiatement » le nom du lac situé à la frontière avec le Canada, qu’il accuse de « dépouiller » les Etats-Unis. Les utilisateurs du reste du monde verront les deux dénominations.
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John Michael McGrath @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
WHAT NO WHAT
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Pam Spaulding @pamspaulding.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
“That sounds like me. They have to pay a fair amount. And if they don’t pay a fair amount, we won’t make a deal. That’s fine.” — Trump to CNN's Jim Sciutto, who asked if the US had made late-stage demands of Canada. The People have a right to know whether POTUS has dementia. 🧾 t2m.co/6e0tEfMm
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Trump, 80, Appears to Forget That He Blew Up Canada Trade Talks
Seems pretty concerning that the president has little to no recollection of things that happened only last week.
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Carrie Tait @carrietait.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Canada's premiers present united front behind Prime Minister Mark Carney, but divisions emerge on next steps in trade war with the USA: www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... By @jeffreybgray.bsky.social and friends
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Premiers present united front behind Carney, but divisions emerge on next steps
Premiers lined up behind the Prime Minister’s decision to walk away from a trade deal with Washington, but differences quickly surfaced over retaliatory tariffs and how Canada should respond to Trump
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John Michael McGrath @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Premier Doug Ford at AMO, off-script: "Some days I forget I'm not a city councillor anymore" Eyebrow status: raised
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Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Freeland's contention that this is really ultimately just about power feels like the most coherent explanation. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/o...
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John Michael McGrath @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
New from me at TVO, about the demise of Doug Ford's airport dreams. www.tvo.org/article/anal...
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ANALYSIS: Did Doug Ford cost himself an expanded island airport? | TVO Today
By attaching himself to the project, the premier added political risk to an already risky proposal.
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
For those of you who are still over there because of "the reach" or "the discourse" or whatever.
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Jeff Gray @jeffreybgray.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Ford -- who came out swinging to try to force this no-details plan into reality, over the city's objections -- has been left hanging here. Our Laura Stone has the story. #ONpoli #TOpoli www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
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Federal government declines to allow jets at Billy Bishop airport ‘at this stage’
Ottawa’s rejection delivers a major blow to Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s agenda
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Jon Thompson @jonthompson.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Wow. Staff for Ontario’s emergency measures minister Jill Dunlop just audibly jumped in ON AIR and pulled her out of a CBC As It Happens interview on forest fire response. “Let’s just wrap it up now if that’s OK.” www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
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© CBC/Radio-Canada 2026. All rights reserved.
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Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Yesterday, the White House quietly admitted its 50% aluminum tariffs aren't working: "the domestic production and supply of primary aluminum, which is critical to the U.S. economy and defense industrial base, is still in insufficient supply" www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 21/07/2026
Why would anyone sign a trade deal with the USA when a tyrant's whim can contradict it with a mere "regardless"?
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Not a single word about how these tariffs violate both our WTO & USCMA obligations. Every time Trump does this, the NYT & other outlets simply write as if we live in an international vacuum, where the US has no obligations under signed, ratified international treaties. It's journalistic malpractice.
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John Michael McGrath @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
but hey, look what it got us bsky.app/profile/aaro...
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Donald Trump can’t claim the biggest failure of a peace agreement signed at Versailles, but he can claim the fastest.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
I actually think this statement is a big deal. Because it tells you all you need to know. They believe, in their bones, in an imperial presidency where the executive rules absolutely and uses his power to destroy enemies and enrich himself.
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Andrew Ti @andrewti.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
It's also so funny that most of this AI creative stuff is purely an unforced error, off of years of these dorks cackling about how their explicitly aim was to attack creative people on a personal level.
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