Yep, it's a crime against humanity.

Canada's government elected and bureaucrats are criminals.

Thanks kindly.

Thanks. I've always wanted to give it a try. The commendation's appreciated.

“Months later, prominent rights advocacies such as Human Rights Watch reported “credible allegations of torture and other egregious abuses” by Azov and other volunteer batallions”

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I didn't know it was in the 2025 budget, too, nor how much the cost's ballooned. Thanks for sharing that.

It's interesting that @mayorandreahorwath.bsky.social's long-touted Housing Secretariat admin. has been cut by 43.5% and yet its policy & relations has been increased by 190.9%.

Housing Services' capital repair maintenance & contracts' budget line has been cut by 53%; homelessness sys. op., 7.6%; housing-focused st outreach, 34.2%; and housing services admin., 11.6%. Community & social housing > 10.5%, but how sustainable is that?

And again projected capital financing from 2026 to '35 gives the library $19,550 over that time and the cops $62,974. That's 3.2x as much money. Books or cops, people; books or cops. Also, Bd of Health gets $3,505 (17.9x less) in that range; CityHousing, $9,409 (6.69x less). So...again...yeah....

Oh never mind: the DC exemptions beyond block funding are supposed to grow to $3500 and by '31 be at $10182 and then drop in '33 to $6739. So...yeah....

It's nice to see the exemptions from development charges dropping over time, though. 'From each, according to ability; to each, according to need'. I'll give credit where it's due.

The highest 2026 capital investment in this ward is 'Confidential': $4,100. Then it's, under the same budget line, from '27 'til '35, $10,000 EACH year. That's, far and away, the most money in the capital budget in this ward and it's...confidential?

I'm happy to see that they're piloting e-paper HSR displays across the city, though, and expanding transit shelters and landing pads. Those shelters are sorely needed.

(Please bring the HSR transit app, not Google Maps, back and, even more, the HSR Bus Check phone no. and make it toll-free.)

Can we talk about how Ancaster and Waterdown, two of the wealthiest areas in the city, are getting their seniors centre's gym expanded and a pool/rec. centre, respectively, in '28 and '29? I'm not opposed to expanding rec. services, obviously, but they should be going to the poorer areas, first.

In that same period of time, the library budget's projected to increase by only 20.7%. In '27, when the cops get their 10.4%, the library gets 5.0%, less than half.

More books. Fewer cops.

If you thought a 6.8% increase for policing costs was bad for 2026, the year after that they're predicting a 10.1% increase. 2028's a 4.5% increase. 2029's at 6.1%. That's going from $238.9m this year to $292.5m by '29, $53.6m in 3 years, a 27.5% increase.