Martha Rogers is the meanest tweeter

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Martha Rogers @MarthaLRogers

I see Ed has appointed himself the Chairman. LOL. This should be taken as seriously as if he appointed himself the King of England. #OldGuardDown

A flurry of 3 a.m. weekend tweets from Martha Rogers brought her family boardroom battle to a new level, as her brother kept fighting her mother for control of Rogers Communications. Edward Rogers has also now been revealed by the Toronto Star as opposed to the idea of keeping Masai Ujiri as president of the Raptors.

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Toronto’s 2022 election begins

Joe Cressy @joe_cressy

Thanks for all the extremely kind messages - now it’s back to work. We have a 90% vaccination target to achieve, a 5-11 year old immunization campaign to prepare and rollout, and a Board of Health meeting first thing in the morning. So, let’s get to it.

toronto.ctvnews.caJoe Cressy says he won’t run in next year’s Toronto electionDowntown city councillor Joe Cressy says he does not plan to run in the 2022 municipal election and his future endeavours will not involve elected office.

Elected office is no longer part of future plans for Toronto city councillor Joe Cressy, whose criticism of limited parental leave was followed by frustration with the distance from his family at the peak of the pandemic. Cressy’s exit after two terms means John Tory has one less potential left-leaning challenger for his probable third run.

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Eric Church played for an apparently significant number of maskless country music fans in Saskatoon. Calls to cancel the Saturday night show went unheeded, as Church was among the first to cross the border for indoor arena concerts in 2021. But accompanying his visit to Saskatchewan was a concerning COVID-19 case count.

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Defamation from the basement

YouTube videos claiming Erin O’Toole was looking to bring sharia law to Canada, because his Conservative leadership campaign chair Walied Soliman is Muslim, didn’t work out for Daniel Boardman. A judgment that details the defamatory broadcasts, dispatched from his parents’ basement, resulted in a $500,000 victory:

Walied Soliman @waliedesq

Thank you ⁦@btaplatt⁩ for shining light on this important decision and for the great job by my friends at ⁦⁦@LaxOSullivan⁩ : O'Toole's campaign chair Walied Soliman wins $500K defamation award against 'alt-right' commentator | National Post

nationalpost.comO’Toole’s campaign chair Walied Soliman wins $500K defamation award against ‘alt-right’ commentatorDaniel Bordman attacked O’Toole for having Soliman on his leadership team, including in one video titled: ‘Erin O’Toole’s Connections to the Muslim Brotherhood’

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The News Forum wants the must-offer licence that couldn’t save Sun News Network. A network “where all voices matter” is hosted by right-wing talking heads, under the direction of Christian media executive Tore Stautland. Sun News lobbying led the CRTC to force TV providers to supply bandwidth for Canadian news channels.

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Finally, talking cancel culture

Peter Shurman being told his services were no longer required at Global News Radio, after being hung up on amidst a contentious interview, led the former Ontario PC MPP to hit the circuit to explain what happened. Stephen LeDrew, who lost a job with CP24 after a spot with Tucker Carlson, had Shurman try to sum up what happened: