Scott
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Shame on the courts for allowing an active biohazard situation to drag out for *11 months*, and shame on the BC government for allowing them to do so.
From flu outbreak to ‘Ostrichfest’ to high court, how B.C. ostrich cull saga unfolded
Universal Ostrich Farms in Edgewood, B.C., has spent more than 10 months opposing a cull order from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency that would result in the deaths of hundreds of its birds.
www.ctvnews.ca
November 7, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Shame on the courts for allowing an active biohazard situation to drag out for *11 months*, and shame on the BC government for allowing them to do so.
CFIA says B.C. ostrich cull will go ahead after Supreme Court dismisses farm's appeal | CBC
www.cbc.ca
November 6, 2025 at 4:17 PM
I don't see how you can square "Canadians are going to have to make generational sacrifices" with "here's a pot of money for trying to get into Eurovision!"
November 5, 2025 at 12:13 AM
I don't see how you can square "Canadians are going to have to make generational sacrifices" with "here's a pot of money for trying to get into Eurovision!"
Jacobin not understanding compound interest explains so much
November 4, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Jacobin not understanding compound interest explains so much
Interesting that many of the people who are normally apoplectic at the mere suggestions that the Notwithstanding Clause might be used are conspicuously silent today as a bunch of premiers and MPs call for the federal government to use it
October 31, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Interesting that many of the people who are normally apoplectic at the mere suggestions that the Notwithstanding Clause might be used are conspicuously silent today as a bunch of premiers and MPs call for the federal government to use it
127 Hours but its just a French dude nonchalantly sipping wine
A French cyclist survived for three days after a horrendous 130-foot fall into a ravine, kept alive by the bottles of red wine he had in his shopping bag, police said.
Cyclist falls down 130-foot ravine in France, survives 3 days by drinking wine he had in shopping bag
A helicopter airlifted him to hospital, with a rescue doctor calling his survival "a miracle."
cbsn.ws
October 31, 2025 at 3:06 PM
127 Hours but its just a French dude nonchalantly sipping wine
Cool, can't wait for this to spread while farmers spend a year litigating bird culls
www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...
www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...
Avian flu on the rise in B.C., 9 outbreaks confirmed this month in poultry flocks
There’s been a surge in avian influenza outbreaks in British Columbia’s Fraser Valley as the fall migration season for many birds takes flight.
www.ctvnews.ca
October 28, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Cool, can't wait for this to spread while farmers spend a year litigating bird culls
www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...
www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...
Hear me out, what if instead we bridged the Saanich inlet or put a tunnel under the Malahat?
In addition of course to building rail transit
In addition of course to building rail transit
Dozens of people gathered outside the B.C. Legislature Wednesday to protest a proposed Malahat Highway expansion along Goldstream Park, saying it would interfere with the surrounding salmon population.
‘Taking this to their steps’: Malahat Highway widening roadside protest moves to B.C. Legislature
Dozens of people gathered outside the B.C. Legislature Wednesday to protest a proposed Malahat Highway expansion along Goldstream Park, saying it would interfere with the surrounding salmon population.
cheknews.ca
October 24, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Hear me out, what if instead we bridged the Saanich inlet or put a tunnel under the Malahat?
In addition of course to building rail transit
In addition of course to building rail transit
I'm partial to long Manhattan
October 23, 2025 at 4:46 PM
I'm partial to long Manhattan
A future of 100 million torontonians still waiting for the Eglinton Crosstown to finally open
need a century initiative but for toronto alone. 100 million torontonians. liberty village should have its own accent
October 23, 2025 at 3:30 PM
A future of 100 million torontonians still waiting for the Eglinton Crosstown to finally open
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This sort of thing is absolutely going to happen in Vancouver after The Big One and it will be miserable.
when you make the *existing city* illegal to build again today this is the obvious and inevitable consequence: www.latimes.com/california/s...
October 22, 2025 at 4:01 PM
This sort of thing is absolutely going to happen in Vancouver after The Big One and it will be miserable.
"Chris Evans, who owns the property adjacent to Beedie’s site, told the board that he just finished construction of the Keefer House hotel on his land. Evans said he was 100 per cent supportive of Beedie’s condo project."
October 21, 2025 at 11:53 PM
"Chris Evans, who owns the property adjacent to Beedie’s site, told the board that he just finished construction of the Keefer House hotel on his land. Evans said he was 100 per cent supportive of Beedie’s condo project."
Between this and the Ottawa LRT, have we considered that Ontario has angered the transit gods and has been cursed by them?
collided in the yard*
I think that pretty much puts to bed any hope for this line opening in 2025. see you again in 2026, eglinton crosstown
www.thestar.com/news/gta/egl...
I think that pretty much puts to bed any hope for this line opening in 2025. see you again in 2026, eglinton crosstown
www.thestar.com/news/gta/egl...
Eglinton Crosstown LRT testing stopped — source says two trains collided
The Eglinton Crosstown LRT had begun its final round of testing on Oct. 7, but two trains collided in the Mount Dennis train yard on Thursday, leading to a pause in the test, according to a source.
www.thestar.com
October 21, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Between this and the Ottawa LRT, have we considered that Ontario has angered the transit gods and has been cursed by them?
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Gonna be a real downer here and argue that Canadian Governments are, in fact, a problem in many fields and the easiest place to see this is to look at how long it takes to build an apartment wherever you live
This oped nicely makes the point that Mark Carney, and Ottawa generally, are beholden to an out-of-date, 90s-era economic ideology that treats government as a problem to be minimized and citizens as mere consumers, not as assets to be mobilized for the public good.
The threat facing Canada cannot be met with pipelines. We must do this instead
The threat to democracy requires cultural and political resilience.
www.thestar.com
October 20, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Gonna be a real downer here and argue that Canadian Governments are, in fact, a problem in many fields and the easiest place to see this is to look at how long it takes to build an apartment wherever you live
Many people are saying that Star Wars needs to do a waring states period
Honestly, all I want out of Star Wars post prequels is a warring states period where creatives and gamers have permission to make their own weird little microfactions. The sequels suck for gaming because they explicitly rule out cool stuff happening anywhere else.
October 19, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Many people are saying that Star Wars needs to do a waring states period
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Honestly the most Canadian thing will be some Canadians doing NoKings protests this weekend in Canada. we just can’t help trying to import US political discourse to Canada
October 16, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Honestly the most Canadian thing will be some Canadians doing NoKings protests this weekend in Canada. we just can’t help trying to import US political discourse to Canada
Gregor Robertson continues to under perform my already low expectations of him
nationalnewswatch.com/2025/10/14/h...
nationalnewswatch.com/2025/10/14/h...
Housing minister won't commit to Liberal election promise to cut…
National Newswatch: Canada's most comprehensive site for political news and views.
nationalnewswatch.com
October 14, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Gregor Robertson continues to under perform my already low expectations of him
nationalnewswatch.com/2025/10/14/h...
nationalnewswatch.com/2025/10/14/h...
I did not know this exists but I'm 100% intent on getting this
Reminding me I have to start my little one on the Children's Illustrated Clausewitz (a real thing that really exists: www.helios.house/books/childr...) early, so she can learn basic things many security 'professionals' have failed to, like, 'what is war and what is it for, exactly?'
There’s the joke about Sun Tzu being basic instructions for idiots like “feed your troops” but the most important part of Clausewitz is also just “think about what you are actually trying to accomplish”
October 13, 2025 at 10:59 PM
I did not know this exists but I'm 100% intent on getting this
Constituionalizing policy choices is a genuinely insane way to govern a state or country.
Reminder that California golf courses have a special massive property tax benefit over and above Prop 13. www.evolve-ca.org/news/hole-in...
October 13, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Constituionalizing policy choices is a genuinely insane way to govern a state or country.
The unsympathetic nature of Chip and the over the top rhetoric aside, I don't think a citizen in a democracy should be fined for expressing their own political views via a sign on their own residential property
Elections BC fines billionaire Chip Wilson over signs in front of mansion #Vancouver #MetroVancouver #YVR
Elections BC fines billionaire Chip Wilson over signs in front of mansion - Metro Vancouver News
Elections BC says billionaire Chip Wilson contravened third-party election advertising rules when he put up signs in front of his Vancouver mansion last year, one of which said the NDP is "Communist."
www.castanet.net
October 8, 2025 at 8:02 PM
The unsympathetic nature of Chip and the over the top rhetoric aside, I don't think a citizen in a democracy should be fined for expressing their own political views via a sign on their own residential property
We used to be a proper country
October 6, 2025 at 5:38 PM
We used to be a proper country
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Breaking up the massing's final boss
October 6, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Breaking up the massing's final boss
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As a former combat arms guy, I saw this and I laughed. Then my back laughed. Then my knees laughed. So funny.
October 3, 2025 at 8:24 PM
As a former combat arms guy, I saw this and I laughed. Then my back laughed. Then my knees laughed. So funny.
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The real danger lies not in the growing size of today’s deficit, but in failing to plan prudently for what comes next.
My latest for @TheHubCanada on federal finances: thehub.ca/2025/10/01/... #cdnecon #cdnpoli
My latest for @TheHubCanada on federal finances: thehub.ca/2025/10/01/... #cdnecon #cdnpoli
Trevor Tombe: The budget warning that Canada cannot ignore
thehub.ca
October 1, 2025 at 3:26 PM
The real danger lies not in the growing size of today’s deficit, but in failing to plan prudently for what comes next.
My latest for @TheHubCanada on federal finances: thehub.ca/2025/10/01/... #cdnecon #cdnpoli
My latest for @TheHubCanada on federal finances: thehub.ca/2025/10/01/... #cdnecon #cdnpoli