New study links concealed carry firearms and rising gun homicide rates
“The Ford government requesting an ethics investigation into their own political staff is like someone accused of robbing a bank demanding the police focus on their get-away driver. This is a strategic play in response to their Greenbelt corruption scandal. Don’t fall for it.”
Credit: @joshmatlow
#Greenbelt #Corruption #OnPoli #DougFordIsCorrupt
Ontario’s Financial Accountability Officer has found that the Ford government failed to spend $7.2 billion of its budget last year, including $1.7 billion unspent on health as ERs are closing and surgery waitlists are growing https://www.fao-on.org/en/Blog/Publications/2022-23-expenditure-monitor-q4 #onpoli
#canada
Break Up Postmedia, or Else!
If you picked up a National Post today – a physical newspaper, not the website – do you know where you’d find the first news article about the #Ontario Auditor General’s report into Doug Ford’s #Greenbelt land swaps that are due to make his developer friends $8 Billion in profit?
👉 Page 5 of the front section.
#DougFord #CanadianMedia #conservatives #onpoli #cdnpoli #topoli #Poilievre
#Conservative staff members "regularly" delete emails to avoid accountability.
They even used their personal emails to do government business with lobbyists.
That's dodgy.
#corrupt #DougFord #onpoli #ontario #bill23 #AuditorGeneralReport
Very glad I live in a place with “Heights” in the name…
https://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/here-s-a-look-at-the-scenes-from-the-flash-flooding-in-ottawa-1.6513818
Remember RSS? It’s still alive and it still works. I feel it’s a solution to the Facebook and Google attempt to control access to news. https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2023/08/08/Use-Really-Simple-Syndication/
Billionaires think they can do anything, so have Zuckerberg do the surgery during the fight. I’m sure that will work out just fine. https://globalnews.ca/news/9881316/elon-musk-surgery-mark-zuckerberg-fight/
The distinct, glacier-capped peak of Mount Amery in Banff National Park at sunrise.
Remember that time the UCP created a moratorium on new fossil fuel projects until the industry cleaned up their multibillion dollar abandoned oil well mess? Me neither. #Alberta https://albertapolitics.ca/2023/08/danielle-smith-in-damage-control-mode-as-freeze-on-new-renewable-electricity-generation-projects-sparks-hostility/
For a fair fight, you really a few alligators in that cage. And tigers. Maybe some sharks too for good measure. https://www.reuters.com/technology/musk-says-fight-with-zuckerberg-will-be-live-streamed-x-2023-08-06/
Saw something I haven't seen in weeks yesterday evening while out cycling with @TAV; an OC Transpo LRT (noisily) moving on the tracks between Pimisi and Bayview stations.
Tongass National Forest has a great sense of humor about "bear petting." 😜 Another place to visit on my bucket list. It's 16.7 million acres and is in Southeast near Juneau. I've been to Juneau, just not to the forest and I will NEVER pet a bear!
#Alaska #TongassNationalForest #DontPetBears
Steve Schmidt says Ron DeSantis "may be the worst presidential candidate of the last 50 years who has received any attention whatsoever from the national media" But when I see DeSantis I can't help thinking of Scott Walker, the former WI governor. The political media was briefly infatuated with him, he was the GOP's next great hope, and then he imploded.
I never understood the fascination with walker. I thought he was terrible. Zero charisma, terrible ideas, goofy looking.
College professor, part time nerd and sci-fi enthusiast. Not actually a duck, but what’s Humphrey Bogart got that I ain’t got?