Once you get that fire going, it's easier to burn down other programs like grants to arts and cultural, heritage, publishing, and so on. Bike lanes represent getting around, a right of mobility. But Houston/Fillmore said bike lanes=privilege, and so do arts, culture, heritage, etc.

Came across the phrase "cognitive DDOS" to describe our present culture. Understood instantly what it meant.

So approx 50% of all HRM revenue comes from inside the center plan area.... and council seems to think its under taxed and over served.... Idiots. Idiots. Please can we elect someone that can read and who believes in facts/science/economics. Is that too much to ask???

The abandonment of the easiest, most conservative incentives to change consumer behaviour with regards to fossil fuel consumption by multiple levels of government was not on my bingo card for the 2020s.

The $1.2 B deficit caused entirely by them spending $1.6B outside the budget without debate or oversight. So really a $400M surplus if they hadn't gone on a semi legal spending spree

"Solving" problems they went out of their way to create out of thin air. If Houston had done *nothing* we would be in better financial shape.

A common refrain of progressive urban politics is that “new, ‘luxury’ housing will not help solve the housing shortage,” Henry Grabar writes. But, according to a new study, “more housing supply of all kinds leads to lower prices in general terms”:

Hmmm.... tough choice here but I think ill pick Jamaica this week. 🤣

If you’re look at Trump raging against SCOTUS, remember that PM Stephen Harper raged against Canada’s Supreme Court when he was in power. There’s no difference in RW leaders anywhere. www.ourwindsor.ca/politics/fed...

Another day, another paper showing new market rate housing reduces displacement and increases housing opportunities for low income families.

Andy Fillmore and his terrible, horrible, no good, very bad budget committee week Story by me with a huge thanks to @dentremy.bsky.social for editing this and everything I tossed at her this week! She had to manage that, plus everything else. www.halifaxexaminer.ca/government/c...

Butter alert. $4.98 superstore on young street.

I need a "Don't blame me, I voted for Waye" bumper sticker.

"We've tried destroying everything and it hasn't worked. So with that wild success behind us we're going to continue destroying"

Happy hump day!!! 4 days home from Mexico and 4 days until Jamaica 🏖️😁🌤️

The absolute first thing Democrats will do when (if...) they re-obtain power will be to cave in to every demand the republicans make. One of the first of those will be pardons for Trump and everyone involved in his government and everyone in the Epstein files.

I know liberals see this as "Yay! Building up that majority! Bleeding Poilievre dry!" But for the rest of us, this is a huge red flag. These people ran on a platform of hate, xenophobia and fear mongering. What does it say that they feel seen by the Liberals right now? Yikes.

Am I the weirdo for never taking Costco samples?

So when thousands of women (and children) were being duplicated--including in non-consensual AI porn--it was no big deal. But it took "only a 15-sec clip" of these two famous white men to draw outrage and fear. Gotcha. Cool cool.

That's correct. Of the roads that have ever had volumes assessed, about 75% have less volume than at least some of the bike network.

Whoever hacked the weather network to show -35 for my flight home..... its a good prank. 🤣 but I use windy

I think it would be extremely helpful if Americans understood their own immigration system. It would be helpful if everyone, canada too, went back and took some basic civic lessons. And the media told the truth

“Pierre Poilievre was Housing Minister in Stephen Harper’s Conservative government, which allowed 800,000 affordable rental units to be sold off to corporate landlords and developers. Under Harper, the average home price in Canada went up 70%, and Poilievre refused to do anything about it.”

we are on the titanic, cutting the lifeboats free, because someone said they’re too heavy and dragging us down.

I hate the fact that stories about this ignore that bike lane spending is $65 million out of a $3bn capital budget of which we can only actually pay for $1.8bn of $3bn before we run out of money and debt. Cutting 0.021% of the capital budget is not fiscal responsibility, it's affordability suicide.

Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions have now been ‘flat or falling’ for 21 months www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...

Thread: the obvious difference is similar for most economic measures and the same trends extend to canada.

Im a "fly to mexico" and deal with it later.

Canadians, don't fall into the "hate trap". We know better. One hurting person, hurt other people with guns. Let us take care of the hurting people we can, every hurting person. Let the government take care of the guns.

I would rather live in Bad Bunny’s world than trumps any day. I take joy and love over hate and violence🫶🇺🇸🎉

always so funny to me when people are like “how am I supposed to explain Gay to my kids?” my kid asks me way harder shit all the time. “why did they build the road this way? why are some people bad?” I don’t know. please ask me about Gay

Tina who??? (Robs wife, technically im 3rd wheeling but hard to tell)

So the petition to stay is *actually* at 450k, the ones trying to separate are *hoping* to get 177k. Media: constant coverage of how many are signing the separation one. AB gov: blatantly ignoring the first and treating the second like its a done deal.

Remember how we almost had a constitutional crisis when the feds told provinces they could have more Healthcare money if they spent it on helathcare? Provinces collectively lost their shit for a full year. How do you think they will treat *actual* infringement of their powers?

Then why couldn’t we charge the convoy truckers with assault?

🤣🤣⤵️

How did it get like this? Because the cons, NDP, Greens ... have been blaming the Federal Liberals since PM Trudeau took office. "A lie told often enough becomes the truth." And we are seeing the same thing for healthcare, fire fighting, provincial infrastructure ...

GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

Leaving for mexico in 12 hours. Almost time to start packing... not yet though

Brief thread. My head is going to explode from the sheer civic illiteracy that We The Media have fostered by making everything a federal issue, and being absolutely allergic to holding premiers to account for failures in their jurisdictions.

So if I've got this right, we're 100% against gender affirming care for anyone.... except penis enlargement for men. 😅 (and breast implants, and cosmetic surgery, and etc, etc, the usual hypocrisy list)

I believe (someone correct me here) that if they do the maintenance in a normal way they have to pay for it from regular rates HOWEVER, if they wait for it to be storm damaged they can bill it back to consumers on top of regular rates its a financial incentive for them to NOT do preventative maint

Yes, it should.

There's something utterly heartbreaking about hearing Shakespeare (et al) write words pleading for us to recognize that the stranger among us is human, and that we should imagine ourselves suffering as they do... ... and to realize that, for at least 400 years, we've not gotten this right.

journalists are workers who deserve to be paid fairly for our labor and I think that far too few consumers of media recognize or even care about this fact

Media promises to only fall for the ‘maybe Poilievre has changed’ story 4-5 more times (podcast)

You know what probably would work without disrupting the market? Universal Basic Income - preventing people from going into debt/suffering in the first place so they can obtain a stable life where they can save money.

How 3 small Nova Scotia towns improved their finances--Three Mayors in #NovaScotia focused on development, pooling resources, population development and finding new revenue streams www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...