Typical pattern. In #YQR years of mill rate freezes were accompanied by fee increases (water & sewer rates, "alley maintenance") that were even more regressive. Lower income residents shoulder even more of a financial burden. thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...

WHITE City. There's a strong case to make that explicitly banning rental units is a human rights violation. That there are self-proclaimed law enforcement officers residing in White City demeaning the lower-income residents they serve in public is even worse. www.change.org/p/say-no-to-...

Oil rig poisoning your land and your herd? Fuck off. Windmill blocking your view of the sky? UCP has your back. www.timescolonist.com/alberta-news...

Looking forward to joining the CUPE 3912 picket lines later this week in Halifax. CUPE 3912 members are an essential part of student education at Saint Mary’s University (SMU) and Mount Saint Vincent University (MSVU). cupe3912.ca/2025/11/07/o...

Katz's book, "Gangsters of Capitalism", is a good Remembrance Day read. It's a biography of the decorated American officer, Smedley Butler, who famously wrote "War is a racket". You won't be disappointed. jonathanmkatz.com/gangsters

On this Remembrance Day we should think about the fact that fascism didn't really die. It just went dormant. The fight continues. On the left is a pic my grandfather shared with me of German POWs. On the right, him and his buddies in Italy.

Andrew Scheer is an awful person and an awful representative. He needs to resign. .... Andrew Scheer and party whip Chris Warkentin "barged" into [d'Entremont's] office, pushed open the door ... and yelled at him about "how much of a snake" he was. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

A headline that makes sense. colenotcole.substack.com/p/zohran-mam...

New post on Canada's corporate welfare strategy for the auto sector. Doug and I are breathing new life into a labour news project that we started in 2011. @unifor.org @saskfedlabour.bsky.social www.rankandfile.ca/canadas-fail...

Sabbaticals are a privilege, but sometimes being locked up at work/home 24 hours a day comes with a price.

Textbook case of how wealthy elite in Saskatchewan exercise their influence. Council voted against his stadium proposal several times. Residents even said no to a mayoral candidates who ran on building this stadium. @pdcityhall.bsky.social leaderpost.com/news/local-n...

I've encountered a growing number of anti-immigrant comments all over social media in the last 12 months. I'm told we can blame newcomers for crime, yet here we go again with the most white, Regina-born Canadian murderer you can imagine. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Just another normal day around campus.

In Saskatchewan, the Riders call the shots. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

On the surface this is a fun story about what it means to sell the naming rights to a Sask village. But it's really about the death of small town Saskatchewan, and the growing infrastructure deficit facing our communities. Desperate times. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

“It takes all three orders of government to [address encampments]" The province's tone has finally changed. A former Minister of Social Service once said that he didn't believe homelessness was a real thing in SK. We're now at least 15 years behind. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Excellent move.

A dated, yet important, statement from my union (University of Regina Faculty Association). More unions need to be voicing their support for Palestinian human rights. @saskfedlabour.bsky.social @unifor.org @uswmetallos.bsky.social @cupescfp.bsky.social www.urfa.ca/news/stateme...

Imagine being a municipal leader and your job is to literally rebuild you city after it was destroyed in the wake of Israel's genocide. In #YQR, parking is the big issue. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BTM...

“That (coal) is going to be the bridge by which we get to that nuclear future". Hilarious and rich. So coal, which has been used as a source of energy for a couple of centuries, is now a "bridging" fuel? Got it. We're cooked. leaderpost.com/news/local-n...

What's fun about this read is how the Riders act as though they own the stadium and the stadium grounds. They are mere tenants who usually pay rent. This is Saskatchewan politics. #YQR @pdcityhall.bsky.social www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

"Keeping taxes low" was the mantra for a better part of the last quarter century. It just means under-funding core services and necessary infrastructure projects. No one wins, no one comes away happy. leaderpost.com/news/local-n...

Canada should have partially nationalized or demanded a controlling share of auto companies that begged for bail-outs in 2008 onward. Same with corporations demanding EV handouts. There's no way public $ should go into the pockets of companies planning to move operations south.

I love municipal politics.

@alexanderquon.bsky.social Well played with this headline, sir. Drive your truck to the game. Get drunk. Drive home. Blow a stop sign. Hit a car. No problem. Addicted to meth? It's the camps for you. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

My favourite time of year.

@pdcityhall.bsky.social RE: your conversation about the street re-biggening. This is a relatively wide street in Spain. Cars use it. People use it. Fire trucks use it. Bikes use it. And so it has been for over 1000 years. #YQR should be forced to adjust to better land uses.

In #YQR, the RPS is the largest source of inflationary pressure on the city budget. Let that sink in. It's not the +1,000 civic workers. It's not the hundreds of millions we spend on infrastructure and services. It's the police. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Last night our block was shut down during a SWAT operation unfolding next door. This morning I battled traffic getting to and from Spirit Halloween on the east end. No contest. I'd still prefer living next to gang members and enduring RPS operations than live in boring sprawl.

#YQR would often confuse disagreement and argument for dysfunction at the City Council table. Meanwhile, right-wing Reform councils in the UK.... www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

My nightmare come true. This is really gut wrenching. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Anyone remember this peace deal? Israeli fanatics shot dead their leader, as a result. The violence won't stop until the power in the middle stops funding genocide.

Peace in our time.

Let's be clear: both Biden and Trump allowed Israel to continue its genocide. Both should be judged accordingly. The US could have implemented an arms and financial embargo from day one. They didn't. There have been many ceasefires before. All have been broken. www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

Pipelines are a drug for petro-state leaders. Canada just opened one of the most expensive pipelines in our history, paid for by taxpayers. It brings crude to the coast, as demanded. leaderpost.com/news/local-n...

To all the SK folks who insist that homelessness should be handled by the province and the province alone… These folks are incompetent. And the Mayor of MJ needs to grow a spine. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

'Moe said the province is "unfortunately" in the shelter business due to the "poisonous drugs" in the province's communities.' Bullshit. You're in the shelter business because of structural and racialized inequality and poverty that runs rampant in SK. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

“Don’t take away my right to take other people’s rights away”. Keep it up @mark-carney.bsky.social! The notwithstanding clause is being abused by western premiers. www.ctvnews.ca/regina/artic...

Right wing politicians voice concerns about right wing violence against right wing influencers. Got it. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

@pdcityhall.bsky.social Does a city in Saskatchewan have jurisdiction over the environment? Yes. It's bolted into the Cities Act, which city councillors are sworn to uphold. I always hated the deflection.

Very sad. Calvert was the last sensible Premier of Saskatchewan. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Conservatives leadership: bailout canola farmers, but don’t allow Chinese EVs, despite the concession Moe is asking for. Anything to ensure we run on fossil fuels well into the 22nd century. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

#QCM seemed to be back to full strength this year. Events were packed, tons of volunteers, and hundreds of folks cheering on the runners

I'm pleased that the Temporary Foreign Worker Program is back in the media. There are systemic problems, but scrapping it won't resolve underlying issues. For starters, here's a list of #YQR offenders. Should they be trusted with any employee? www.canada.ca/en/immigrati...

Night Owl #QCM 5K with the boys. It’s going to be an amazing race weekend.

The U.S. military did such a splendid job bringing peace and tranquility to the cities of Iraq and Afghanistan, why not deploy troops to American cities? Maybe they'll finally discover the WMDs they were looking for. www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

"Stop using foreign workers", says the politician who stands by the exploitation of migrant agricultural workers employed through the SAWP. Where's the culpability of businesses who continue to bypass local workers and use the TFWP & IMP? globalnews.ca/news/1139042...

Dang. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Trump is doing splendid work bringing comrades together.

This is heartbreaking, but why do conservative politicians think that emulating US self-defence rights - the most violent industrialized nation in the world - will prevent or solve anything? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...