Jake Landau (He/Him) 🇨🇦🇵🇸🇺🇦

NEW COLUMN: Chow Big Winner, and Right-Wing Big Mad! www.jakelandau.ca/p/mayor-chow...

NEW PODCAST: Jeremy Appel from @readtheorchard.org returns to the show to discuss his new book Dark Phoenix, chronicling the political history of Alberta’s Danielle Smith! Tune in! www.jakelandau.ca/p/episode-59...

NEW PODCAST: Tonight, former Ontario Liberal Leadership candidate @ericlombardi.ca comes on the program to discuss his now-ended candidacy, and his endorsement of Lee Fairclough! Tune in! www.jakelandau.ca/p/episode-58...

NEW COLUMN: Ontario Liberal establishment figures like Tom Allison sought to “save the party” from Nate Erskine-Smith. It doesn’t seem like it worked. www.jakelandau.ca/p/the-by-ele...

NEW PODCAST: Political Commentator Matt Kercher returns to the program to discuss the recent wave of defections away from Kerry-Lynne Findlay’s Conservative Party in British Columbia! Tune in! www.jakelandau.ca/p/episode-57...

I've purged the Venezuelan flag from my handle. They've fully become a neocolonial holding of the United States with this deal to hand over all oil. I don't want to create the impression I support the puppet regime.

NEW COLUMN: Prime Minister Carney has backed out of the unfair deal. Thank God. www.jakelandau.ca/p/prime-mini...

I don't follow NWSL since it's not my country's league but boy howdy is this woman cool!

Y'all fuck with Johnny Clegg? I've been really fucking hard with Johnny Clegg lately. Got Impi by Juluka stuck in my head. Bro had immaculate vibes.

I'm gonna be here more now that Twitter is cracking down on monetization. It was a beautiful system where I could monetize bigots calling me slurs, stealing their blue check money like a bounty button poker tournament. I made enough money to kinda afford some food. Subscribe at jakelandau.ca.

The media’s refusal to interrogate whether loud outrage is in good-faith — or whether there’s some underlying, nefarious motive fuelling that rage — is one of our most dangerous habits. Now, a man — Jason Arday — is dead. So it’s beyond time we have a discussion about this:

Mamdani is succeeding in part by projecting joy Ossoff is succeeding in part by projecting steely ferocity We’re in a moment when attitude is nearly as powerful as ideology, because we all need courage. And these are two ways of summoning it

You're telling me a fully atomized and individualized capitalist society breaks down the bonds of community?

Hi, I'm a real person whose soul is trapped inside a customer service and sales chat window on this enterprise software website. If you close this window without purchasing, they put my soul in a rainbow box and send me to hell.

NEW COLUMN: Why must our election be a circus for Jesse Brown’s nonsense? www.jakelandau.ca/p/the-first-...

NEW COLUMN: The Ontario Liberal Party has held their first debate for their leadership contest, and it was an utter waste of the audience’s time, with little clash or substance. www.jakelandau.ca/p/the-first-...

GAME REVIEW: For the 25th anniversary of Halo: Combat Evolved, we receive a lovingly-crafted remake with plenty of additional content to keep both newcomers and veterans happy. www.jakelandau.ca/p/game-revie...

NEW PODCAST: This show is back, and so is @normsworld.bsky.social, to discuss the recent victory of NoJetsTO over the Ford Government against the latter’s plan to pave Lake Ontario. Tune in! www.jakelandau.ca/p/episode-56...

NEW COLUMN: Tobi Lütke has strong opinions about democracy. More specifically, he thinks he should get five more votes in every election than you do. www.jakelandau.ca/p/the-ceo-of...

Always astonished that people still choose to go on Canadaland and be interviewed by Jesse Brown.

@maxfawcett.bsky.social Canadaland? Really?

NEW COLUMN: Trump is very happy. His country built a bridge, and they’re gonna make Canada pay for it. www.jakelandau.ca/p/the-yankee...

NEW COLUMN: The FIFA Men’s World Cup has been a blast for the people of Toronto, and we should consider hosting CONCACAF events in the future, since these will better fit the scale of our city. www.jakelandau.ca/p/the-fifa-m...

NEW COLUMN: Nate Erskine-Smith is retiring as a Federal Liberal MP, and opting against running for Ontario Liberal leader. What comes next? www.jakelandau.ca/p/nate-erski...

For those confused as to how adding Kingston between Peterborough and Ottawa will slow down Alto and add a shitload of curved track, behold this Microsoft Paint diagram, illustrating the Straight Path vs the Fuckass Curve:

Ontarians: Mr. Ford, we need healthcare Ford: Gotcha Ontarians: We also need affordable housing Ford: Totally Ontarians: Also we can't afford to eat Ford: Don't worry, I have a plan Ontarians: Great, what is it? Ford: I'm gonna make cars go so fucking fast www.cp24.com/politics/que...

NEW COLUMN: Alto High-Speed Rail is a good idea, but Kingston’s unreasonable demands are about to ruin it for everyone. www.jakelandau.ca/p/kingston-w...

NEW COLUMN: Mayor Soraya Martinez Ferrada has criticized the SPVM for systemic racism. She also thinks the SPVM should be allowed to ticket people for criticism. I am greatly confused. www.jakelandau.ca/p/mayor-ferr...

But Roy, this is cool as fuck!

NEW COLUMN: After nearly three-quarters of a century on television, Hockey Night in Canada has been murdered by capitalism. Thankfully, with the growing popularity of the PWHL, there is still a chance that the show can be reborn. www.jakelandau.ca/p/after-74-y...

Update, my appeal was successful! I told the Twitter support that this was "an attack by the woke mob on free speech" and they reversed it lmao, didn't think that would actually fucking work lol

This piece appears to have gotten me permanently suspended from Twitter. I'll file an appeal, but in all likelihood I'm going to be hanging out here more lmao

NEW LONG-FORM PIECE: Upset about your country demanding your Photo ID to access the open web? Here’s a quick and easy guide on how to tunnel your internet traffic through another country. www.jakelandau.ca/p/how-to-tun...

sorry the only "real" new yorkers are the rats who work in the kitchen in Muppets Take Manhattan

NEW COLUMN: In Toronto’s High Park, a small group of Canadian Jews met yesterday for the city’s first Jewish Diaspora Fest, joined by a shared refusal to “walk with Israel”. www.jakelandau.ca/p/meet-the-g...

NEW COLUMN: Carney once again surrenders authority over Canadian law to Trump’s Yankee Empire, and our elbows have never been floppier. www.jakelandau.ca/p/carney-sur...

NEW PODCAST: Matt Kercher returns to the show to discuss the new leader of the B.C. Conservative Party, as well as personal news from his own life that I can only describe as astounding. Tune in! www.jakelandau.ca/p/episode-55...

NEW COLUMN: In Alberta, the secessionists seek to use the thin veneer of “independence” to create a colonial resource extraction vehicle for the United States. In this, the Yankees will carve a new Katanga out of Canada. www.jakelandau.ca/p/the-yankee...

NEW COLUMN: The Ontario Liberal Kangaroo Court has handed out their ruling, and Nate Erskine-Smith’s appeal is summarily dismissed. Walk through the full reasoning of their 17-page decision with me, as we examine their suspect logic. www.jakelandau.ca/p/the-ontari...

NEW COLUMN: @saveosc.bsky.social held a community event with Councillor @joshmatlow.bsky.social to plan new uses for the Science Centre campus in the Don Valley. I’m optimistic about what the future holds. www.jakelandau.ca/p/josh-matlo...

NEW PODCAST: This week, President of the Oxford Provincial Liberal Association @votejkent.bsky.social joins the program to discuss the drama inside the Ontario Liberal Party! Tune in! www.jakelandau.ca/p/episode-54...

NEW COLUMN: Do you wish the Canadian census was longer and more often? Boy, do I have a proposal for you! www.jakelandau.ca/p/canadas-lo...

NEW COLUMN: Ahsanul Hafiz has defeated Nate Erskine-Smith to become the Ontario Liberal candidate for Scarborough Southwest, but the fallout from his victory will be extremely messy. www.jakelandau.ca/p/the-fallou...

NEW COLUMN: Nate Erskine-Smith makes some Liberal insiders afraid. That’s why they’re running a shadow campaign to stop his leadership before it gets off the ground. www.jakelandau.ca/p/scoop-onta...

NEW PODCAST: Jeremy Appel from @readtheorchard.org returns to the program to discuss his recent scoop, revealing that millions of Albertans have had their personal information leaked by a separatist group. Tune in! www.jakelandau.ca/p/episode-53...

NEW COLUMN: Israel targets Canadians once again…but don’t expect the Carney Liberals to care one bit. www.jakelandau.ca/p/israel-jus...

NEW COLUMN: Mark Carney’s Spring Economic Update has a lot for the investor class, but very little for the average Canadian struggling to get by. www.jakelandau.ca/p/carneys-sp...

NEW PODCAST: Freelance writer @rdassaly.bsky.social joins the program to discuss his recent piece for The Grind, covering Toronto Police surveillance of Palestinian cultural events in the city. Tune in! www.jakelandau.ca/p/episode-52...

NEW COLUMN: Canada has mostly purged gerrymandering from our politics, but Danielle Smith is about to bring it back in a terrible way. www.jakelandau.ca/p/danielle-s...