Paul Dechene
@pauldechene.bsky.social
Writing about city council in Regina, Saskatchewan. Co-host of the Queen City Improvement Bureau on 91.3FM CJTR - www.queencityib.com. Columns in Prairie Dog Magazine. There will be swearing. Proceed at your own risk.
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QCIB Nov 20 2025 - Happy Draft Budget Day!
YouTube video by PD City Hall — Paul Dechene
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The Queen City Improvement Bureau's first thoughts on the 2026 Regina city budget, now on Youtube: youtu.be/d2shJTM2TfM?... #yqrcc
No, fuck, no. A baseball stadium would INTERMITTENTLY increase parking demand and likely NOT AT ALL IN THE WINTER WHEN YOUR BASEBALL STADIUM SITS EMPTY & WASTING CITY RESOURCES. #yqrcc
November 29, 2025 at 5:45 PM
No, fuck, no. A baseball stadium would INTERMITTENTLY increase parking demand and likely NOT AT ALL IN THE WINTER WHEN YOUR BASEBALL STADIUM SITS EMPTY & WASTING CITY RESOURCES. #yqrcc
It's budget time so at the end of our interview w/ Mayor Bachynski, we gave him a printed poster of the image below. It's the density vs services vs taxes venn diagram that @brenttoderian.bsky.social often shares around. It includes Regina-related explanatory notes. #yqrcc
youtu.be/FMwOpoT4IAw?...
youtu.be/FMwOpoT4IAw?...
November 29, 2025 at 3:51 PM
It's budget time so at the end of our interview w/ Mayor Bachynski, we gave him a printed poster of the image below. It's the density vs services vs taxes venn diagram that @brenttoderian.bsky.social often shares around. It includes Regina-related explanatory notes. #yqrcc
youtu.be/FMwOpoT4IAw?...
youtu.be/FMwOpoT4IAw?...
In case you missed it, the Queen City Improvement Bureau interviewed Regina's mayor, Chad Bachynski. We talked budget 2026 for pretty much the whole hour. You can listen on Youtube now www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMwO... #yqrcc
QCIB Nov 27 2025 - A Mayor In The Subbasement
YouTube video by PD City Hall — Paul Dechene
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November 29, 2025 at 3:16 PM
In case you missed it, the Queen City Improvement Bureau interviewed Regina's mayor, Chad Bachynski. We talked budget 2026 for pretty much the whole hour. You can listen on Youtube now www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMwO... #yqrcc
People are making these political cartoons with AI. I see them on Facebook a lot. They're so ploddingly literal & humourless, I'm like, "Wow, you're so uncreative you can't even imagine a decent AI prompts."
November 29, 2025 at 3:03 PM
People are making these political cartoons with AI. I see them on Facebook a lot. They're so ploddingly literal & humourless, I'm like, "Wow, you're so uncreative you can't even imagine a decent AI prompts."
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It also clearly shows that Carney bent the knee to Danielle Smith to get nothing in return. This MOU will not secure interprovincial peace, and it won't mollify Alberta separatists, and instead he's threatened his whole climate framework and pissing off every other province.
Complete amateur hour.
Complete amateur hour.
November 29, 2025 at 2:10 AM
It also clearly shows that Carney bent the knee to Danielle Smith to get nothing in return. This MOU will not secure interprovincial peace, and it won't mollify Alberta separatists, and instead he's threatened his whole climate framework and pissing off every other province.
Complete amateur hour.
Complete amateur hour.
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Elizabeth May schools Andre Scheer. You love to see it.
November 28, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Elizabeth May schools Andre Scheer. You love to see it.
New QCIB: Our interview with Mayor Chad Bachynski about the 2026 city budget is now on youtube. #yqrcc
youtu.be/FMwOpoT4IAw
youtu.be/FMwOpoT4IAw
QCIB Nov 27 2025 - A Mayor In The Subbasement
YouTube video by PD City Hall — Paul Dechene
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November 28, 2025 at 8:11 PM
New QCIB: Our interview with Mayor Chad Bachynski about the 2026 city budget is now on youtube. #yqrcc
youtu.be/FMwOpoT4IAw
youtu.be/FMwOpoT4IAw
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See CarbonTracker’s new report “Petro-Provinces at Risk”.
Energy transition puts at huge risk provincial revenues from oil & gas in 2030s:
- AB ⬇️ 85%
- BC ⬇️ 72%
- SK ⬇️ 78%
Oil & gas expansion is increasingly a “high-risk, low-reward strategy”.
Energy transition puts at huge risk provincial revenues from oil & gas in 2030s:
- AB ⬇️ 85%
- BC ⬇️ 72%
- SK ⬇️ 78%
Oil & gas expansion is increasingly a “high-risk, low-reward strategy”.
Petro-Provinces at Risk - Carbon Tracker Initiative
How oil- and gas-dependent Canadian provinces face fiscal strain as the energy transition progresses A number...
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November 28, 2025 at 5:35 PM
See CarbonTracker’s new report “Petro-Provinces at Risk”.
Energy transition puts at huge risk provincial revenues from oil & gas in 2030s:
- AB ⬇️ 85%
- BC ⬇️ 72%
- SK ⬇️ 78%
Oil & gas expansion is increasingly a “high-risk, low-reward strategy”.
Energy transition puts at huge risk provincial revenues from oil & gas in 2030s:
- AB ⬇️ 85%
- BC ⬇️ 72%
- SK ⬇️ 78%
Oil & gas expansion is increasingly a “high-risk, low-reward strategy”.
So we're just not using "fewer" any more, eh?
November 28, 2025 at 4:54 PM
So we're just not using "fewer" any more, eh?
Well crap. List of the winners of the Finding Middle Ground housing design competition have been released. Apparently, my Besźel/Ul Qoma proposal to superimpose a second city on top of this one didn't make the cut. Congratulations to the winners, anyway.
Regina.ca/FindingMiddleGround
Regina.ca/FindingMiddleGround
November 28, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Well crap. List of the winners of the Finding Middle Ground housing design competition have been released. Apparently, my Besźel/Ul Qoma proposal to superimpose a second city on top of this one didn't make the cut. Congratulations to the winners, anyway.
Regina.ca/FindingMiddleGround
Regina.ca/FindingMiddleGround
A Mayor Chad Bachynski walks into a subbasement. He gets quizzed for an hour about Regina's 2026 budget. That's yr new Queen City Improvement Bureau. #yqrcc
queencityib.com/podcasts/202...
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Nov 27 2025 - A Mayor In the Subbasement — Queen City Improvement Bureau
Drat. It's performance review day for the Bureau as Mayor Chad Bachynski drops in to the subbasement. We also talk about the 2026-27 city budget instead. Theme by Ryan Hill (aka Guidewire). Occasional...
queencityib.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:56 PM
A Mayor Chad Bachynski walks into a subbasement. He gets quizzed for an hour about Regina's 2026 budget. That's yr new Queen City Improvement Bureau. #yqrcc
queencityib.com/podcasts/202...
queencityib.com/podcasts/202...
Again… the Indoor Aquatic Facility project is not "a new swimming pool." It's MANY swimming pools and other rec facilities in an aquatics facility. It is going to be huge and well used. And, based on 2025 dollars, cheaper than the stadium we built for a professional football team. #yqrcc
November 28, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Again… the Indoor Aquatic Facility project is not "a new swimming pool." It's MANY swimming pools and other rec facilities in an aquatics facility. It is going to be huge and well used. And, based on 2025 dollars, cheaper than the stadium we built for a professional football team. #yqrcc
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No it fucking won't.
They've been gorging themselves on grievance porn for decades now. Nothing any government does is going to calm them.
They've been gorging themselves on grievance porn for decades now. Nothing any government does is going to calm them.
November 28, 2025 at 3:30 AM
No it fucking won't.
They've been gorging themselves on grievance porn for decades now. Nothing any government does is going to calm them.
They've been gorging themselves on grievance porn for decades now. Nothing any government does is going to calm them.
The Queen City Improvement Bureau sits down with Mayor Chad Bachynski in half an hour on 91.3FM CJTR, AccessNow Community Radio. accessnowradio.ca/live/ #yqrcc
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November 28, 2025 at 12:37 AM
The Queen City Improvement Bureau sits down with Mayor Chad Bachynski in half an hour on 91.3FM CJTR, AccessNow Community Radio. accessnowradio.ca/live/ #yqrcc
Hey! I'm finally sitting down to lunch but it's still too hot to eat. So how about I run through a budget thing that ISN'T a proposed cut.
Well, it isn't a proposed cut… yet.
Let's talk about city staffing! #yqrcc /1
Well, it isn't a proposed cut… yet.
Let's talk about city staffing! #yqrcc /1
November 27, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Hey! I'm finally sitting down to lunch but it's still too hot to eat. So how about I run through a budget thing that ISN'T a proposed cut.
Well, it isn't a proposed cut… yet.
Let's talk about city staffing! #yqrcc /1
Well, it isn't a proposed cut… yet.
Let's talk about city staffing! #yqrcc /1
So now on google image search, if I'm searching for a photo reference for a thing and include "-shutterstock" or try to exclude any of the fucking shit image farms from my search, the number of results shrinks to near zero.
Google: undermining boolean searches for profit.
Google: undermining boolean searches for profit.
November 27, 2025 at 6:35 PM
So now on google image search, if I'm searching for a photo reference for a thing and include "-shutterstock" or try to exclude any of the fucking shit image farms from my search, the number of results shrinks to near zero.
Google: undermining boolean searches for profit.
Google: undermining boolean searches for profit.
Hey Folks! I just got word that the CJTR 50/50 is over $19k in the pot (winner takes half). That's some shiny jink right there. I'm not eligible to enter but YOU CAN! And it would make me enormously happy if it was a QCIB listener who won the pot, so please! Buy tix if you haven't! #yqrcc
November 27, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Hey Folks! I just got word that the CJTR 50/50 is over $19k in the pot (winner takes half). That's some shiny jink right there. I'm not eligible to enter but YOU CAN! And it would make me enormously happy if it was a QCIB listener who won the pot, so please! Buy tix if you haven't! #yqrcc
I swear at least once a month for my ENTIRE LIFE a supermarket tabloid has had an update on Robert Wagner and Natalie Wood’s death.
November 26, 2025 at 9:12 PM
I swear at least once a month for my ENTIRE LIFE a supermarket tabloid has had an update on Robert Wagner and Natalie Wood’s death.
Reposted by Paul Dechene
Wifi signal produce too many theraputins in the blood narnia. And that’s when your body gets dangerously low on hectares and thorazines.
November 26, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Wifi signal produce too many theraputins in the blood narnia. And that’s when your body gets dangerously low on hectares and thorazines.
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“When you get the vaccine, pee is no longer stored in the balls”
November 26, 2025 at 6:12 PM
“When you get the vaccine, pee is no longer stored in the balls”
Today is your last full day to enter CJTR's 50/50 Raffle. Pot is over $9000!
CJTR has provided the QCIB w/ a home on the electromagnetic spectrum for TEN YEARS! Doing that show is part of why I keep live tweeting council!
Help support our city hall coverage by supporting CJTR! #yqrcc
CJTR has provided the QCIB w/ a home on the electromagnetic spectrum for TEN YEARS! Doing that show is part of why I keep live tweeting council!
Help support our city hall coverage by supporting CJTR! #yqrcc
Fall 50/50 Raffle! | AccessNow Radio 91.3FM
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November 26, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Today is your last full day to enter CJTR's 50/50 Raffle. Pot is over $9000!
CJTR has provided the QCIB w/ a home on the electromagnetic spectrum for TEN YEARS! Doing that show is part of why I keep live tweeting council!
Help support our city hall coverage by supporting CJTR! #yqrcc
CJTR has provided the QCIB w/ a home on the electromagnetic spectrum for TEN YEARS! Doing that show is part of why I keep live tweeting council!
Help support our city hall coverage by supporting CJTR! #yqrcc
Hey folks! The 2026 Regina budget is coming. Did you know, ANYBODY in the city can sign up to be a delegate? It's easy! The registration form is here www.regina.ca/city-governm.... Deadline to register to speak to the budget is Dec 11! #yqrcc
November 26, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Hey folks! The 2026 Regina budget is coming. Did you know, ANYBODY in the city can sign up to be a delegate? It's easy! The registration form is here www.regina.ca/city-governm.... Deadline to register to speak to the budget is Dec 11! #yqrcc
Executive Committee meeting coming up in a few minutes. I'll lightly live tweet from @pdcityhall.bsky.social #yqrcc
November 26, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Executive Committee meeting coming up in a few minutes. I'll lightly live tweet from @pdcityhall.bsky.social #yqrcc
Thurs at 7pm on the Queen City Improvement Bureau: Mayor Chad Bachynski will be making his way into the subbasement to talk about the 2026-27 city budget! We're hoping to discuss why the Bureau hasn't had an increase since… shit, the 1970s. Listen live …
accessnowradio.ca/live/ #yqrcc
accessnowradio.ca/live/ #yqrcc
Listen Live Player | AccessNow Radio 91.3FM
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November 26, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Thurs at 7pm on the Queen City Improvement Bureau: Mayor Chad Bachynski will be making his way into the subbasement to talk about the 2026-27 city budget! We're hoping to discuss why the Bureau hasn't had an increase since… shit, the 1970s. Listen live …
accessnowradio.ca/live/ #yqrcc
accessnowradio.ca/live/ #yqrcc
You don't want to miss Light The Lights this year (Dec 2, 6pm) because IT COULD BE THE LAST! Yup. Light The Lights is also in the Appendix M13 list of possible service cuts! #yqrcc
November 26, 2025 at 2:40 PM
You don't want to miss Light The Lights this year (Dec 2, 6pm) because IT COULD BE THE LAST! Yup. Light The Lights is also in the Appendix M13 list of possible service cuts! #yqrcc