The Toronto Star put the final nail in the coffin of Star Touch, its $20-30-million app for a device that most people don’t have or use. And, after praising themselves for its bold innovation, quietly laid off 30 journalists. Meanwhile, Canada gears up this weekend for a celebration of epic proportions: Peter Mansbridge is retiring. And confederation, something something. Finally we dig into Jonathan Kay’s Twitter mobs and how they’re killing free speech for anybody who’s not a National Post columnist. Vice Senior writer Manisha Krishnan joins us.

The $6 million lawsuit that killed an indie Alberta podcast. 

Somebody That I U.S. to Know.

Is there order to Trump’s tariff chaos?

Poilievre’s slogans can’t compete with “Buy Canadian.” 

A tariff reprieve and the trade war that wasn’t. 

Emboldened by Trump, Poilievre denies the existence of trans people in an interview on CP24.

Doug Ford cashes in his “Captain Canada” chips