The first Toronto Mayoral Debate is being moderated by an absolute buffoon

Jesse Brown? Are we fucking serious?

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According to a press release issued today by the Jewish Lawyers of Canada, their organization will be hosting the first mayoral debate of the 2026 Toronto Municipal Election, on September 8^(th) in front of a hand-picked audience of 1,200 people, specifically “to discuss public safety, antisemitism”, and other unenumerated issues. Most notably, the moderator of this debate will be none other than Jesse Brown, of Canadaland infamy.

If you’re unfamiliar with this notorious man, allow me to bring you up to speed. https://www.jakelandau.ca/p/the-first-toronto-mayoral-debate

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I dunno, man. First off, I can’t seem to find “Hitler font” anywhere in my Google Docs. Second, it’s not even the same fucking font.

There are legit things in that package that someone who read it might find a reason to argue about. But of all the dumb takes available, Jesse picked the one that can’t even pass a visual fact-check.

Make of this what you will, but Jesse Brown of Canadaland is holding an event on July 21, 2026, at 7 p.m. in the Pearl Sullivan Engineering Building,

He says it's about restoring 'civil discourse' on campus after Oct. 7, but the talk will only be about things that happened on the campus; no talk about Israel or Gaza allowed, apparently.

Somehow, I only see this making things worse, based on how Jesse behaves on X, where dude turns disagreement into personal attacks and lateral violence. Anyway, if you are a stan, that's happening.

did anyone catch this on the pod? Jesse says he’s pulling up to the University of Waterloo to host an event that will “restore civil discourse” after Oct. 7 because the campus vibes are cooked and everybody needs to learn how to disagree respectfully.

Dawg, be serious. Dude's X feed is basically an opp roll call. Rachel Gilmore, Jake Landau, Mohyeddin, Halper — he stays coming for people, especially women, then starts moving like the victim the second somebody claps back or checks the facts.

And he is going to have this discussion while also refusing to discuss Israel. He wants to talk about everything that happened after Oct. 7, complain that other people are being 'uncivil' while the actual substance of the argument are somehow off-limits.

That math is not mathing

what's dude going to do if students don't abide by his rules and decide to discuss the genocide? How will he explain his own shit "discourse" on X? What dumbass at Waterloo decided Jesse was the person to teach students how to talk civilly to one another? I'm dead💀

it's free. July 21 for the stans

San Grewal is competent but damn man he is snoozy. Clearly Sam Konnert wants it. I'd rather San than him.

So Canadaland's disclosure page says journalists generally shouldn’t take money from people or companies they cover but Canadaland does. So therefor disclosure is the “golden rule,” and that if Jesse covers someone he’s done paid speaking for, he’ll disclose it on the show and on that page.Cool. Love that. Small issue: the page does not appear to have been updated since 2016.So what are we doing here, dude?Did Jesse really have no paid speaking gigs since 2016? Or did he just stop updating the page? Because if he was paid by TAFSIK — and it sure seems likely, given that other speakers were paid and Ben Shapiro was obviously not showing up for free — then where is that disclosed?And what about this new event with Yalla, Chai Tech and B’nai Brith? Is he being paid for that too? Maybe he is, maybe he isn’t. But some clarity would be great, because the line between journalism, punditry and advocacy is getting real blurry here.A lot of what Canadaland is putting out lately is not straight reporting. It looks like speculation, opinion and advocacy — and often not especially rooted in checked facts. So if Jesse and others at Canadaland are taking money from groups connected to the causes, issues or narratives they are pushing, people deserve to know that. Jesse's own standard used to be disclosure. There is nothing here from Noor or Same or anyone else. So did Canadaland stop doing paid gigs, stop updating the page, or stop believing in their own rule?

For once, I’m actually locked in to Caryma S’ad’s X feed. I figured she’d pull up to film any protests outside the World Symposium Against Anti-Zionism. Tiny protest outside. Maybe seven people. A few acting fully unwell, tbh, https://x.com/CarymaRules/status/2056199284173734113?s=20

I wonder if the speakers are mad they didn’t get a bigger protest to prove their point.

Caryma maybe bought a ticket, because she posted a screenshot. looks like from inside, showing CUPE Ontario president Fred Hahn in a slideshow montage about Canada’s “world protest circuit” and “hate" industry.”https://x.com/CarymaRules/status/2056199944814362902?s=20

And who are they?