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Responding to US policy shifts is also something where the Canadian government has a lot of levers. Right now a ton of our fiscal capacity is tied up in trade war supports. If Dems lighten the pressure there even a bit, we can - and should - become more ambitious in other areas.

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Toronto hospital to greatly expand permanent housing program that reduces ER visits | CBC News

“The federal government will invest more than $25 million to get the third building up and running, with units for about 80 people. The City of Toronto will contribute $19 million while UHN Foundation will pony up $20 million for the broader build.” - www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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A Toronto hospital network is set to greatly expand its unique permanent housing program that largely serves homeless people who visit hospital emergency departments an inordinate amount of time.

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Dems won’t be able to do anything policy-wise without the White House, and even if they win in 28 and keep Congress, they’re still going to have to deal with a couple other major veto points that are harder to shift. Either they spend a couple years on systemic fixes or they do nothing.

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I forget where but I saw some reporting recently on science showing that the extreme countermeasures we’d been deploying against tree pests - basically wiping out whole stands at the first sign of infection - might have been inhibiting the evolution of resistant lines.

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Isaiah Bishop @isaiahbishop.bsky.social · 19h

It’s a really simple geometry problem, put in stark terms. Infrastructure costs scale with area served. You need to add enough revenue capacity in that area to pay for the infrastructure OR you need surplus revenue over costs somewhere else.

The cover of “You’ll Pay for This!” By Michel Durand-Wood

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the thing that always gets me is that denser development literally always pays for itself

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Kevin Wilson @kwilsonhfx.bsky.social · 19h

The total property tax revenue out of Bayers Lake is ~$24.6m/year on roughly 860 acres of developed land. If it had the same revenue per acre profile as Downtown ($38.5m/year on ~110 acres), it would generate approximately $300m in taxes per year, or roughly a quarter of all current revenue.

A bar chart showing revenue per developed acre in major employment areas in Halifax. Downtown pulls away from the major suburban commercial areas.

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We also need to be seriously engaging with the idea of what the prerequisites are for maintaining our sovereignty when we can’t casually draft off the regional hegemon’s aggressive economics stimulus.

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I think Carney’s been asked about them a couple times and has been very circumspect and generally fallen back on hyping his “cooperative federalism” strategy. Given how the Canadian news media hyperventilated about him casually mentioning long tail risk planning once, I think that’s the right move.

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American litigation funders could absolutely cause a lot of trouble by selectively tying projects up in courts, and with a high degree of deniability by choosing the right plaintiffs.

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After the courts looked at the Ottawa Convoy - which was literally preparing to violently overthrow the gov’t, and only failed because of poor planning - and said “nah, that’s a legitimate political activity” I don’t blame the gov’t for employing a light touch strategy.

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Biggest split in Canadian politics right now is “we are actually under attack by a faction of Americans who want to destroy our country, and we need to take extraordinary measures to prevent that” (basically the Carney gov’t and a couple premiers) vs “lol situation normal” (literally everyone else).

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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 21h

Yeah and even the separatists who aren’t openly pro-US annexation are more “ffs stop talking about it you’re making us look bad” than not. Now assume the Feds have known about this from the start and are looking for countermeasures that don’t involve a lot of really awkward espionage trials.

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Kevin Gausman, welcome to The War on Cars.

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Nick P @npilon.bsky.social · 22h

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... literally everything about this makes my head hurt. A new traffic roundabout? Do other post-secondary institutions know they get free highway signs? How long has this policy been in effect?

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CBU promotional sign near causeway stirs controversy | CBC News

Months after the provincial shutdown of a visitor centre near the Canso Causeway, local residents and municipal leaders are mystified by a large sign promoting a campus nowhere near Port Hastings.

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Rich Lafferty @rich.lafferty.ca · 22h

The Pope has been influencing for centuries!!!

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Nick P @npilon.bsky.social · 22h

“No no we’re not in favour of the bad ethnonationalist kind of separatism we’re just not against good collective socialist separatism.” So you reject ethnonationalism and anyone who endorses it then? “Now let’s not be hasty!!!”

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Safe Kjipuktuk @safehrm.bsky.social · 22h

this is what "Haligonians like to park out front" actually looks like

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Oh shit you’re right I have exactly the same voice thing going on after my held cold that refused to leave

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Yes, there’s no other accountability. Just like when a cyclist is riding on an MUP it’s their responsibility to not collide with pedestrians. If I recall correctly, what you described is entirely legal for motorcycles in California at *highway speeds* - or was, at least, extremely common.

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Then the driver of the car should be more careful to not casually turn their vehicle into a weapon. Perhaps if they are unable to control their vehicle, a speed governor should be installed to keep them from exceeding a safe speed.

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햏 @hehheh.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My experience is that functionally they don’t exist. Which, yes, fucking sucks. Virtually nowhere is willing to guarantee separate prep areas, and even places that are willing to make ingredient substitutions or omissions are few and far between.

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An ad that proves pedestrian zones makes the town more attractive.

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Kevin Wilson @kwilsonhfx.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"Most stadiums lose the cities that build them money" This is true, but 1) it's an ammenity, not to revenue generating exercise. 2) the city isn't building it, the private sector is. THAT'S THE WHOLE APPEAL OF THE PLAN, GUY. THAT'S WHAT YOU WERE MAD ABOUT, BUDDY.

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Michael Spratt @mspratt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

New from me: Ezra Levant’s attacks on an honourable Crown prosecutor go far beyond legitimate criticism. We should scrutinize the justice system. But smears and dog whistles undermine the good-faith debates we badly need: www.canadianlawyermag.com/news/opinion...

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Ezra Levant’s smears of a Crown counsel are unacceptable

I often disagree with Moiz Karimjee, but I am obligated to defend him against unwarranted attacks

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Big cities have stadiums. If Halifax has a stadium it’ll transmute into a big city.

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Colleen @cbailey6.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Yeah if the PQ gets a majority it’s because politics in Quebec is a fractured mess.

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The fact that Marianne Meed Ward had to explain to a bunch of other mayors that they might be able to cut DCs by reviewing their books for things that they aren't actually building and removing them sort of says everything that you need to know about how real the DC review numbers are.

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Of course Robert Fife is a Havana Syndrome truther. Incredible stuff here. Breaking: the government has not investigated whether the operation of a Russian newtype “psycommu” weapon was responsible for mysterious reports of “ringing noises - like a bell?” 🙄

A manga panel from a Gundam manga, with a ziptone and line drawing of Char Aznable, a masked man in an orange fash-y uniform. His speech balloons declare: “no more about this. Do not share your views with me.”

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