The Winter Up There Must Give People Brain Freeze

[Mongrel]

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes: Tamara Lich denied bail

This is what happens when you're so removed from any sort of reality that a judge honestly can't tell if you'll actually do anything they tell you to or not.

[Büge]

The Federal Liberals and NDP have reached an historic confidence agreement. What that means is that the Liberals, who currently have a minority government, now have the backing of the NDP, which will allow the federal government to implement policies that both parties agree on, such as:

-Indigenous reconciliation
-Universal dental care
-Universal pharmacare
-Labour union support and 10-day paid sick leave
-And many more!

[hngkong]

Fuck, that's good.

[Mongrel]

I'm not gonna hold my breath until it passes, but its potentially very good yes.

[Mongrel]

Headline:

Which of Canada’s top military officers are accused of sexual misconduct so far? A continuing list.

[Büge]

[Mongrel]

DEAR GOD NO.

THE HORROR.

[nosimpleway]

This is the future liberals want








no really that's the joke

[Mongrel]

It's certainly hellish for everyone to be happy if your grand life goals depend on there being lots of angry people around!

[Mongrel]

[Mongrel]

the Tories have banned anyone in the party from commenting on the SCOTUS leak, lmaooooo

[Mongrel]

[Büge]

So this is horrible.

[Mongrel]

Pretty sure that's not even remotely constitutional.

They could invoke the notwithstanding clause, of course... except the notwithstanding clause does not apply to sections 16-23 of the constitution, which protects language rights. A protection included specifically for Francophones (albeit ones outside Quebec) hahahahahaha.

[Mongrel]

As if fertilizer prices weren't high enough, this just happened outside Calgary.



(That's all potash, in case it's not obvious)

Okay, it's just one train... but pretty impressive the way they fully accordioned like that.

[Büge]

[Mongrel]

John Derringer a sex pest, bully, and asshole? NEVER WOULDA GUESSED THAT ONE.

[Mongrel]

Toronto police fatally shoot man reportedly seen carrying rifle near schools in Scarborough

Almost seems like the guy was just aimlessly wandering around with a rifle slung over his shoulder, deliberately trying to attract attention.

Maybe he really did plan something horrible, but I can't help but wondering if this was just a guy who figured now was a perfect time for a suicide-by-cop.

[Mongrel]

It was a pellet gun... figured it might be a replica or something. Fuck.

[Mongrel]

Up here in Ontari-ari-o, Dougie is going to likely be reelected, which is honestly no real surprise (I'd like to especially thank the NDP for running the same tired leader with nothing new to show for the *fourth* time in a row). There's worse things to have happen (as Jason Kenney and the federal tories have clearly and repeatedly shown), but I'm not gonna pretend like it's great.

Kind of a lacklustre boring election all around. Main issue is a really stupid highway only the provincial tories want put through north of Toronto, which is just going to worsen sprawl. Not every argument for it is bad, but on the whole it's just the usual dated, boring "BUILD HIGHWAYS!" RW dullard policy.

Anyway... just a funny sort of story.

I was reading an article where they were talking to a farmer who's right on the edge of existing development, and it just struck me how it inadvertently managed to tell an entire subtextual story with almost no information.

It was a fairly typical story as far as these things go. The farmer's already gotten an easement which protects his land against development, accepting that any such easement devalues the land. He's working as an activist against the highway. Guy's had to fight off developer offers his whole life, as did his father. The family's been farming that land going back 180 years, and it's deeply important to them to see prime farmland like this preserved. Pretty common format for stories about sprawl-based development.

The bits' that caught my attention were:
- the family founded their farm in 1841
- the family's name is O'Reilly

Just a surname and a year. Funny how that's all you need to tell a story which speaks as loud as any thousand-page novel.

They ever pave that land, I fully expect a ghost story where ten generations of hungry ghosts haunt commuters, and woe betide any trucker carrying produce.

(P.S. Yes the main famine due to the blight didn't begin until 1845, but there had been earlier famines throughout the 20's and 30's, and in any case those alive in the New World are well-attested as sending remittances to their relatives and aid to others to enable their flight from otherwise certain death)