From No Clearcuts Kingston substack #ygk noclearcutskingston.substack.com/p/some-dates...

Return To Normal Hank's concerned his side hustle as a TV Antenna Adjustment Agent is in jeopardy and free TV is over. Boyd is still perplexed that when he turns on Channel 11 to watch CKWS TV, CHEX TV comes on. Cousin Cletus is excited to be hired as a door to door Cogeco salesman. #ygk

Return To Normal Boyd and Tourism Kingston are excited about the consultant's report. Audrey thinks high-speed trains will bring delegates with expense accounts to a future Downtown Conference Centre. Hank believes a consultant is the client’s best friend money can buy. #ygk

Return To Normal Beulah is concerned that all the driveway and car pressure washing bros will have to find a new affordable hobby. Hank flushes the toilet while he can still afford to... #ygk

A minority of Kingstonians that vote in municipal elections probably paid attention to this City Council motion last night. The majority of Kingstonians that don't vote in municipal elections are probably oblivious to this and many more municipal matters. #ygk

Mayor96 dusts off his 2022 re-election campaign priorities for 2026 election. Helping Ease Cost Of Living Pressures: Affordability, Housing & Food Security #ygk

Return To Normal Hank believes it should be "CAO for a Day" if we're talking about who really leads this City... #ygk

No indication yet whether an MSC designation will be required to ensure the Service is well-positioned to meet the changing needs of the community and the financial viability of the Service. #ygk #Kachingston

"If we can generate more economic growth, we take those extra revenues to reduce debt to do more on climate action. It makes sense to take the middle of the road approach. This is a good baseline." -Mayor96, May 8, 2019 But first, we need an MSC so we can take on new debt... #ygk

Kingston Climate Emergency Day 2,660 Many see minerals extracted from the Earth. Some see economic gain. Few see climate action. ❤️Kingston. It's The Economy We're Trying To Sustain #ygk

We're old enough to remember when First Capital Day was a thing in this town... Audrey and Boyd in a cartoon from June 14, 2008 #ygk #ygkHistory

Proposed Municipal Services Corporation: "the numbers don't add up." Imagine that... #ygk open.substack.com/pub/vickisch...

To be fair, Utilities Kingston did warn us that the shit is going to hit the fan... #ygk #MSC #ygkHistory

Kingston Climate Emergency Day 2,659 Only 55 more sleeps! There is no indication at this time if the City will spread wollastonite on the St. Lawrence River to absorb and offset the enormous amount of CO2e created by this fossil fuel burning event. #ygk #ClimateAction

Return To Normal Hank wonders if the Business Case for a Municipal Services Corporation prepared by KPMG LLP (“KPMG”) for Utilities Kingston (“UK”) is also an AI hallucination... ❤️Kingston. Where Questions And Hallucinations Thrive #ygk

ICYMI Sir John A Macdonald's funeral train and procession in front of City Hall on June 10, 1891. #ygk #ygkHistory

City Hall: We'll survey some local residents but not all the 59 households it will affect. Knock, knock. Who's there? ❤️Kingston. Honestly, It's Not For Everyone #ygk www.thewhig.com/opinion/mcla...

Kingston Climate Emergency Day 2,655 Please feel free to use A/C today, if you have it. We'll spread more wollastonite to offset the carbon footprint of Ontario's electrical energy resold to you from Utilities Kingston, soon to be an MSC carrying an increased debt load paid by users...

The Rogue City Diner apologizes for any inconvenience customers experienced from serving staff asking how much change they would like returned when paying cash. Our customers don't barter over meal prices. Our staff shouldn't assume guaranteed gratuities. Especially if they can't make change. #ygk

The burden of payment of new MSC Utilities #YGK debt will be upon the utility users. The City can then free up its borrowing capacity without putting a larger debt burden on taxpayers. ❤️Kingston. Where A Reduced Burden On Taxpayers Will Allow Them To Pay Increased Utility Bills

Air to breathe Water to drink Human waste flushed away(preferably not into our water source) Shelter Food Nothing else matters. The City doesn't consider water and wastewater or affordable housing a "core" service. But Slush Puppie Place is... ❤️Kingston. Honestly, It's Not For Everyone #ygk

Return To Normal Hank wants to ask if there will also be a Bylaw to regulate local taxis moving in reverse but he recognizes Beulah's not amused facial expression, so he doesn't... #ygk

Kingston Climate Emergency Day 2,654 No indication if wollastonite was spread on the road during the bus tour to offset and capture its CO2e... #ygk #ClimateAction www.thewhig.com/news/local-g...

Freedom of Information request reveals secretive decision-making at City Hall about Kingston's water and wastewater, affordable housing and the airport. Remember folks, we can elect a new council and mayor every four years but Bureaucrats are forever... Something is rotten at 216 Ontario St. #ygk

Kingston Climate Emergency Day 2,653 A reminder that we live on a finite planet which is the ultimate physical and ecological constraint on human civilization, defining the fixed stock of resources and the limited capacity for waste absorption. ❤️Kingston. Where Spend Consume Dispose Thrives #ygk

Kingston Climate Emergency Day 2,652 Now that Canadian Environment Week is over, you may resume degrading our planet in your insatiable quest for money, success and consumption. #ygk

Former local City Alderman and member of the Upper Canada Legislature, Sir John Alexander Macdonald was the first Prime Minister of Canada, serving from 1867 to 1873 and from 1878 until his death on June 6, 1891. The City keeps his statue in an abandoned arena. #ygk #ygkHistory

Sometimes, all I need is the air that I breathe... #ygk

Return To Normal Hank is excited to receive the Final Property Tax Bill from the City, although he wonders where they will get money next year for their spending habit and the new Official Plan. Beulah realizes that words do matter and hope it really is final. #ygk

CHEX TV masquerading as CKWS TV announced Wednesday that the Invista Kingston plant was laying off employees. There is no indication if the Invista Centre rink naming rights fee will be rescinded and refunded to provide economic relief for local humans losing their jobs... #ygk #Ecosystem

Return To Normal Hank's excited to pay his taxes this month so the City has enough money to complete the $9,000,000 waterfront promenade and $400,000 swimmin' hole. Beulah can't wait for Tour Boat tourists to toss trinkets and coins into the Basin for swimmers to retrieve. #ygk

Kingston Climate Emergency Day 2,649 Local researchers test a new method of measuring the amount of CO2 removed from the atmosphere through rock weathering just in time for Cruise Ships to offload walking wallets on Downtown asphalt... #ygk #ClimateAction www.thewhig.com/news/beneath...

Kingston Climate Emergency Day 2,649 An opportunity for "meaningful conversations" about the most important climate actions no one talks about: 1.Reduce consumption 2.Reduce growth 3.Reduce motor vehicle speed ❤️Kingston. Where Everything Is Connected #ygk #ClimateAction

Return To Normal Hank figures most folks that participated in No Mow May overlooked wild food or plants with medicinal properties growing on their lawn. Beulah is amused that the French call dandelions pissenlit. Audrey can confirm that Boyd understands the term... #ygk

Kingston Climate Emergency Day 2,648 Where meaningful conversations thrive... Twas ever thus. #ygk

Return To Normal At the Diner, Hank dares everyone to take the EarthFest Kingston pledge. Cousin Cletus thinks Hank is in a cult. Audrey and Boyd are convinced that ecosystem is a local economic development term because KEDCO keeps using it as such... #ygk

Happy Canadian Environment Week to all who didn't know or care that it is Canadian Environment Week. #ygk

Return To Normal Hank wonders if the June Commuter Challenge is still a necessary thing because the City spent $180,000,000 on a bridge to provide the biggest opportunity to meet their long term transportation goals of increasing local walking and cycling. Reflect. Connect. Flow. #ygk

Return To Normal Beulah continues to take ginkgo supplements to maintain and improve her own data centre. Hank figures since Napanee is getting a Data Centre, City Hall will demand an AI Data Centre to lure more economic development. Boyd amuses himself by creating silly images with Grok. #ygk

Return To Normal Hank wonders how the Downtown Economic Consumption Zone will survive when AI displaces a certain segment of consumers that spend in the area. Beulah recalls Mayor96's economic concerns when Empire Life began to work remotely yet KHSC also plans to relocate... #ygk

Return To Normal Hank devises a security plan involving cameras and barbed wire to protect the 24 tomato plants and 16 pepper plants in his garden. Beulah is a firm believer of eating in season and eating local. Audrey and Boyd hate being inconvenienced... #ygk www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

We're old enough to remember when the Kingston Frontenacs fired Coach Cassidy on a northern road trip through North Bay, Sudbury and the Sault in September 2009... Frontenacs: Championship Free Since 1973 ❤️Kingston. You'll Be Amazed At What You See #ygk

Knock, knock. Who's there? UHKF fund raising canvasser. No thanks. We pay a Hospital Levy on our Municipal Taxes... Twas ever thus. #ygk

Return To Normal In a moment of profundity after his 4:20 pm ritual, Hank opines if Exile On Main Street, Abbey Road Side 2, Born To Run and the Pink Floyd catalogue aren't on Heaven's Radio, he doesn't want to go there... Beulah would be satisfied with The Hip, Vince Gill and Roxy Music. #ygk

"The sign, better known as a wrap, was paid for by a grant from the provincial government, Visit Kingston CEO Megan Knott clarified, not from the city’s coffers. She estimated the wrap cost between $10,000 and $15,000" Ontario taxpayers won't mind. #ygk #ygkQuote www.thewhig.com/entertainmen...

Return To Normal Hank hasn't participated in the local ecosystem economy or spent money in town since May 15. Beulah's impressed with the City's world class innovation that punches above its weight, especially when so many local social failures are rampant. #ygk www.thewhig.com/news/kingsto...

Conny Glenn running to be Mayor97 #ygk www.thewhig.com/news/kingsto...

Goober, Floyd and Andy are back in Mayberry after spending Saturday night in Raleigh and are finalizing plans to travel to Montreal for Game 3...

Coming Soon: AI hallucinated hurricanes Canada will be the first country to launch a hybrid AI weather model forecasting system beginning in the last week of May. #ygk www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...