From the video, it honestly sounds like he wants to spend more time with the family and to just put an end to the early mornings that he has to do with BTV (which sounds a lot like what Dina herself said when she originally left the show).

Now if he does wind up joining a rival morning show, he needs to  show up in a costume and pull off the head to the shock of his new co-hosts. Those new co-hosts must then be subsequently fired by the station owners.

 

https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/shari-redstone-impossible-choice-60-minutes-paramount-1236384851/

Redstone had conversations with various Paramount executives, among them George Cheeks, the Paramount co-CEO who oversees the CBS business, about certain “60 Minutes” stories, according to a person familiar with the matter. Redstone asked whether stories that could irritate Trump were correct and balanced, and inquired whether multiple stories that might draw Trump’s ire had to run on the same night, this person says. Two other people familiar with the “60 Minutes” editorial process say Zirinsky and her team were specifically tasked with examining stories tied concerning the Middle East and politics.

Redstone never issued any edicts about stories tied to Trump policies, says the person familiar with the situation, noting that the show has run such reports all season long. At this point, the person adds, with the current TV season drawing to a close, there is no reason to hold off on any stories the show has in the pipeline, as any acquisition by Skydance is not likely to be completed in that time frame.

What's terrifying is that in just100 days, Trump and his acolytes have gone from arresting and deporting illegal immigrants to a concentration camp in El Salvador (which, to remind folks, the Nazis also had their concentration camp outside of Germany), to arresting and detaining Harvard scientists, judges, and now threatening to arrest members of the rival political party.

ICE has become Trump's SS. I've noticed that my Canadian friends who have been living and working in the US will not, under any circumstance, post anything negative about the Trump regime even though they know what's happening, because they know their social media posts are going to be looked at, and Trump could easily have them sent back to Canada using whatever justification. These are friends who have married Americans, have kids there and they are quietly fearful of being permanently separated from them.











 

I also watched CTV coverage mostly, but tuned into City and Global's coverage periodically when the talking heads kept going on and on... 

Funniest moment of last night for me: it looks like CTV was the first to declare that the Liberals would win the election then they asked their reporter who was in attendance at Liberal HQ why weren't the Liberal supporters celebrating? 

After a few moments they realized that the Liberals  weren't watching the CTV election coverage but watching another station's coverage instead (not a big shock, CTV has been the biggest pro-Conservative supporter  out of all the stations during the election run, even right now for their noon newscast they've been slanting their reporting more towards unhappy PC voters, talking about PP's record-breaking support, the fact that the PCs broke through in Ontario, etc. barely anything positive said about Carney).

Once CTV saw the Libs suddenly cheering, they realized that whatever rival news station they were watching had now also declared that the Liberals were the winners and the anchor had to chime in and remind viewers "but we called the win first" lol.


 

The problem here is that when the federal Liberals proposed  changing the capital gains tax to tax the wealthy more and raise more money that could be used to fund things like OAS (and support for Ukraine), the Conservatives instantly used it as a vector to attack the government with. Mark Carney then had to drop the idea completely since it would be political suicide in an election year.

So we can't tax the wealthy more to reduce the debt because the Cons will exploit it to get themselves elected (they already got a lot of mileage with an uninformed populace by harping on the so-called cost of the carbon levy), nobody wants to work 2 more years than they already do before getting their OAS (not when they see politicians in all the parties getting sweet pensions off the taxpayer dime), nobody wants to pay more taxes period, etc.  It's a political stalemate.

The solution isn't electing a right-wing federal government to solve that growing debt by the way. In Ontario, we already have soaring debt ($408 billion) but Ford had no problem issuing $200 bribes to the voters before the election, even though the vast majority of the $3.2 billion cost will be paid for by borrowing money to cover it. Not exactly "fiscally responsible" but Ford was in deep trouble over all his multiple scandals and a bribe is a great way to make people forget.

I note that Trudeau was ready to do something similar, even though he knew it would be fiscally irresponsible, but likely realized that the PCs were winning over voters through the tactic and had no choice but to match it. I would've liked the extra cash, but I'm glad that the Liberals didn't do it.

There's no route out of that debt unless the opposition parties will agree not to use whatever painful solution that the ruling government comes up with, as a future election tactic. And we know that's never going to happen.



 

Wouldn't those retired people be very aware of the fact that it was the Conservatives that raised the retirement age to 67?  Not exactly an audience receptive to voting for the party that wanted them to work two years longer (while PP himself has already earned a million dollar pension from taxpayers by age 30-something).
 

From https://x.com/kyledcheney/status/1914755258862940365

A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore Voice of America and several affiliated news services, finding the Trump administration's efort to dismantle it likely violated the law.

https://ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show_public_doc?2025cv1015-98

Radiowiz wrote:

The cast has an agreement that once a voice actor dies, the character(s) that person voiced also gets retired. 
No AI, no nothing. 
I am not aware what will happen to the voice of Milhouse though, since the voice actor (Pamela Hayden) did not actually die.
The decision to retire is all that happened there. 
 

I mean, that's crazy...Dan Castellaneta dies are they seriously going to retire Homer Simpson?  The show is over.  Or Nancy Cartwright, Bart Simpson just vanishes?

Whatever the agreement is now, those major characters are not going to be retired, to paraphrase Jeff Goldblum, Money finds a way.
 

Well now we know how he thinks he can run for a 3rd term... using the exact same playbook as Russia's Putin:



EXCEPT there's one hitch:



He and the GOP have more than 3 years to concoct some loophole that would enable him to run again and Elon to rig the election again, and for the red state governors to find ways to toss out Democrat votes again. The only real question is whether the right-wing news media would actually support them the next time around. If there's one thing billionaires won't get behind is a stock market that is tanking and Trump has been stock market poison. The news media played a huge role in making Trump seem like a viable (rather than insane) choice in the 2024 election but even lately FOX News and CNBC have been critical of Trump's crazy tariff plans.

Now China, Japan, and Korea have announced a united response to those tariffs (how insanely bad of a leader do you have to be to get China and Japan actually working together?)

Edit: some additional info courtesy of tonight's CityNews Toronto 6pm broadcast:

- One Republican congressman has already introduced legislation aimed at carving out an exemption for those who serve non-consecutive terms including Trump.

- Changing the constitution requires 2/3 vote in both the House and the Senate AND 3/4 of states will also need to ratify any changes to the Constitution.
 

He is installing more and more loyalists at the top ranks of the military and is trying to find ways to get rid of any judges that have opposed his executive orders. The constitution will not matter if he has the backing of the military. There is no one else left after that to enforce the constitution and it is just a piece of paper to Trump.

Signal-gate should have already led to the resignation of at least 4 of his cabinet. Nothing has happened, nothing will happen.  The only person that really is vulnerable is Elon Musk, because it is the public consumer that has the power to punish him severely by boycotting his products and destroying his brand, although Trump could undoubtedly keep Musk rich by simply handing him more and more exclusive government contracts worth billions.


 

Global News on Thursday for their 6pm newscast re-ran their 5pm to 5:30pm newscast instead (it was obvious given the announcer even said "You're watching Global News at 5" at 6:27pm as it went to commercial break)

CTV Toronto has had constant teleprompter problems since last year, which is easy to notice when the anchors suddenly break from talking to scramble for their sheets or try to complete the narrative on the fly from memory.  They introduced the wrong segment last week, then once that story ended Natalie Johnson had to state "And now here's the story we promised you..."

This sort of thing is happening with increasing frequency these days. It's not just CityTV for sure. If anything I think they've had the fewest problems compared to CTV and Global.