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The vagueness of "discouraging the general public from using or moving through public space" and "setting up temporary structures" sounds as if these plans were intended to be used to target homeless people as well as protestors, especially encampment protests like many of those at universities seeking divestment from Israel.

It's probably a lot easier to sell a policy to voters by (falsely) claiming it will eradicate homelessness than by telling them it will curtail protest rights.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/poilievre-public-order-dismantle-encampments-1.7516297

Legally kidnap people for setting up homeless encampments and having no where else to go instead of giving them affordable housing? Fuck PP! No compassion.

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It’s pączek time

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It's very true, but it also makes me think of that WW3 draft card that tvguts' brother made. Amusingly visceral takes on the state of the world being fucked.

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This after announcing they would eliminate the communications department of the provincial government. Concerning for a man who already shows disdain for journalists and frequently refuses interviews.

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it sounds stupid but nobody talks about how many years of joyful swimming transphobia and dysphoria take away from you

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finally, someone for tumblr

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY MEWTWO! 

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY MEWTWO! 

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It'd be great if any NDP party leader directed people to do more than just donate money or buy tickets to sit in a room with Jagmeet. Can't promote any organizations making local impactful change because people might donate to them instead.

Closest they do is get volunteers to knock on doors, but that's only ever after an election has been declared. Frequently the folks they nominate for a given riding are doing other work, but there only seems to be a connection to the NDP during the election period. If they don't win, toss them aside and hope there's someone else next time.

Forever annoyed Jagmeet Singh took the NDP leadership in one round of voting. To think we could have had Charlie Angus.

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canadian school starter pack

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Maybe sometime in the next decade we'll get a good Airachnid toy that isn't 3rd party to complete the Prime villain line-up. Or a Knock Out that looks accurate and transforms.

Transformers fans mixing and matching different versions of the same robots from twenty different iterations of the franchise trying to find a lineup that doesn't suck:

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Canada Post said Friday its financial situation is so grim it could run out of operating funds in less than a year, after the Crown corporation posted another whopping pre-tax loss of $748 million in 2023.

In its annual report released late Friday afternoon, the company predicts "larger, unsustainable losses in future years" without major changes to its operating model.

"Even with Canada Post's recently proposed stamp price increase, the Corporation projects that, without additional borrowing and refinancing, it will fall below its required operating and reserve cash requirements by early 2025," the report says.

Canada Post has been losing money since 2018. In the last six years, its losses have totalled $3 billion. [...]

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I've been seeing a lot fewer of this style of fibre sheet webbing around my neighbourhood this year, and more large webs with individual ropes for threads. Seems like a much safer option for wildlife, less of a pain in the ass to install and clean up, and more durable so you don't need to buy more every year. Hopefully that trend continues or spreads.

All of my friends that work at wildlife rehab centers have had to untangle animals from this stuff, or had animals brought in that died in it. This is especially nasty for small owl species.

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My dad had a copy of this book and taught me chess with it when I was a kid. Not only is the artwork fantastic, but the language is evocative and accessible, painting a strong mental image of the story of a chess match. Highly recommended!

Just today I got to see a chess book that I remember reading as a little kid. While it didn't give me a lifelong passion for chess, it did give me a lifelong passion for fantasy for its artwork.

The book is "Chess for Young Beginners" from 1975, and here's some of the artwork:

Like, this artwork goes hard. I especially appreciate the colour scheme for the black pieces, with its browns, bronzes, reds and oranges.

This artwork is amazing, evocative, exciting and dramatic. I recommend giving it a look if you have a chance - you can probably scrounge up a PDF of this thing with a bit of searching.

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Fuck Andy Fillmore. The reason the homeless population is increasing isn't because the municipal government has been too lax on quashing homeless camps and now they're coming here from across the country - what fucking homeless people have the money for cross-country travel, Andy? It's increasing because of the fucking housing market and the fact that parts of Halifax have a 0% vacancy rate. His campaign reads like someone who is desperate to undo the fractional improvements that the municipality has made to help homeless people, especially given that he also campaigned on reducing council tax - that's the only source of money the municipal government has, Andy, how the fuck is your mayor's office going to afford to do anything you piece of shit.

Former Liberal MP Andy Fillmore will be the next mayor of Halifax, fending off challenges from his nearest rivals in a crowded field of candidates to win Saturday's municipal election. He told a room full of supporters at a pub in north-end Halifax that he was "grateful and humbled" to be elected the next mayor of Halifax. "This is Halifax's time," he said. "Our opportunity is here in every corner of HRM. We'll embrace it, we'll meet this moment." Fillmore, a city planner before he entered federal politics in 2015, has criticized the municipality for allowing new homeless encampments, and campaigned on pledges such as speeding up building permit approvals and improving the flow of traffic.

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Getting Cornwallis's name off of anything is good, but "Queen Street" is not a great anti-colonial statement.

Council for the Town of Lunenburg has decided to move forward with the renaming of "Cornwallis Street" to "Queen Street" more than a year and a half after the town approved recommendations from its anti-racism special committee. This comes several months after a councillor was removed as deputy mayor after he was critical of the decision to go with Queen Street. A motion to rescind the name change to Queen was put before council by Coun. Ed Halverson — the same councillor who was removed from deputy mayor duties — on Tuesday and resulted in a tied 3-3 vote, leaving the motion dead on the floor. The street was originally named after Edward Cornwallis, who the town described as a "controversial former governor of Nova Scotia" who "issued a 'scalping proclamation' bounty in 1749 to anyone who killed Mi'kmaw men, women, and children."

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