Today, Danielle Smith and the UCP caucus unveiled plans to rig the next election:
A new motion indicates the UCP's plans to manipulate the election maps for the next election in their favour, and without any requirement to consult the public.
This has never been done in Canadian history. /1
While there will definitely be diminishing returns with lengthier injuries, I wouldn't say it's counter productive as I'm not seeing any notable tactical benefits to being fully transparent. In contrast, even the diminishing returns can be notable with players like Saka.
Those teams aren't telling fans, they are providing the league with a valid reason for using the IR to free up a roster space. Without a similar ability and need, the benefit of keeping the opposition guessing outweighs managing the anxiety of fans.
This is one of the worst planning decisions I’ve ever seen a Canadian city do. This was “the Playbook” to a tee, weaponizing the words “blanket zoning.” Embarrassing for Calgary Council. The Mayor then adds insult to staff & years of good faith work by claiming it “broke the public’s trust.”
Awful.
Dear renters spending more than a third of your income in rent,
You didn’t fail. The reason you’re struggling is that the free market didn’t deliver on its promises.
Is this a lost art? Do contemporary engineering requirements unfavourabley tilt the cost-benefit analysis?
It's hilarious/sad how just yesterday, I was reading an article about how a Borough where I previously worked (Croydon) saw a drop in house prices after they adopted a design guide supporting suburban intensification. Guess what happened after the next local election...
Record housing starts + missing middle that isn't missing anymore - but don't worry, #yyccc will end it all soon because... single family home / parking cultural biases won't go away.
Gorton & Denton by-election, 2026 Source: Britain Elects SIAIS r EFTIES Green GAIN from Labour 40.7 28.7 25.4 1.9 1.8 Grn 427.5 Ref 414.6 Lab 725.4 Con 76.0 Lib 72.0 1.4 Oth 78.9
Starmer:
“If you don’t like our policies you can leave.”
Voters:
I wonder where this immigrant taking a job from a Canadian and depressing our wages comes from 🙃
This is a wild sequence, and deeply informative.
Also, given the subject matter that Dave’s pressing ChatGPT on, it’s performance art.
Swedish opposition politician compares the country’s government to… Tottenham 😆
It did accommodate a good thought exercise on how to beat his proposed tactic. I thought about ignoring one or two of his counter attackers to play a short corner.
Adult in the room has spoken. Slot deserves a lot of credit for this.
The MLS criticism is a bit overstated. He was basically trusted to defend 1-on-1 vs outstanding wingers, and while their "threat" came down his side, the only time they laid a glove on us was when three of their players executed with absolute precision.
"Insider capitalism" for @economist, "corruption" for you and me.
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
Terry Rozier? That's bad. Damon Jones? Worse. Chauncey Billups? Nightmare. The NBA, like every other league, chased easy sports gambling money. But this is the water pro sports swims in now, and it comes at a cost of trust, certainty, and the integrity of the game. www.thestar.com/sports/nba/t...
I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?
Reform poised to raise Kent council tax as Musk-inspired attack on costs falters ANNA GROSS - KENT Kent's local authority will probably raise council tax rates next year as Reform UK strugglesto find big savings under an Elon Musk-inspired cost-cutting drive. Kent was one of 10 councils that Nigel Farage's rightwing populist party seized in a swath of local election victories in May. He vowed to save "a lot of money" by abolishing "wasteful" spending. But Diane Morton, Reform's cabinet member for adult social care on Kent county council, told the Financial Times that services were already "down to the bare bones". "We've got more demand than ever before and it's growing." she said, stressing she did not believe access to those services should be limited. "We just want more money." As with many local authorities in England, the bulk of declined to say whether council tax Kent's budget went on adult and chil- would be raised but other Reform coun- dren's social care, as well as on children cillors said they wanted to avoid hitting with special educational needs, which the full 5 percent. together accounted for about 50 per Reform's experience highlights some cent of its £2.5bn annual expenditure. of the obstacles it may face in national All councils have a legal duty to bal- government if it won the next general ance their books and will set next year's election and pursued its pledge to slash budgets in February or March. Ahead of taxes and spending. "Everyone thought that, most councils in England are we d come in and there were going to be expected to increase council tax by 5 per these huge costs we could cut away but cent, the maximum allowed. there just aren't," said a third senior "I think it's going to be 5 per cent," Reform cabinet member in Kent. Morton said of where Kent would land Farage has set up a Reform Depart- on tax rises, adding that every 1 per cent ment of Government Efficiency team - increase equated to an extra E10mn. modelled on Musk's "Doge" i…
Anyone remember Reform promising to go into their new councils with DOGE-style units to slash “waste” and stop taxes from rising? Yeah, it went exactly as you’d expect if you put people in charge who have no idea how anything works.
In the late 19th century, millions of migrants left Germany as a result of religious persecution, economic hardship, and political uncertainty. Among them was Nikolaus Schrod, a cabinet maker from Frankfurt who - along with his wife Bina - moved to London to start a new life in the 1850s. Nikolaus died aged 45. But his and Bina's only son, Carl, the son of these immigrants who had arrived in the "German wave" of the 1850s showed demonstrated how migrants can assimilate. Changing his name to Charles he got a job with the Post Office and married an English girl, Ellen Abbott. Their daughter, Gladys, later married a descendant of French Huguenots called Harry Farage... and Gladys and Harry are the grandparents of this man. Maybe someone should ask him who of his ancestors he'd have liked to deport.
I hope @ottoenglish.bsky.social will forgive me for screenshotting his short thread. It is just perfect, so much so that I thought it should hit it one single blow, with no scrolling involved.
It's the old right-wing playbook of demonizing the homeless, gutting programs and essential services that eradicate homelessness, then further demonizing them as a drain on resources and a threat to social cohesion.
You can always judge a society on how they treat their most vulnerable citizens.
This framing is madness. Spreading hate against BPoC, LGBTQ people, immigrants, women who aren’t „submissive“, who want bodily autonomy, is not „practicing politics the right way“. Normalisation of a right-wing extremist. You can condemn his murder AND not whitewash the hate he spread. Jfc.
The fact that, in the New York City Mayors race, you can have 2 candidates as obviously corrupt and horrible as Cuomo and Adams, and still have so many folks expressing concern about a “socialist” in the race, just shows how successful the anti-socialism psy-op by the U.S. right wing has been.
While I can kinda see it with Canada, an explanation would be helpfully clarifying.
A man on the streets of the UK is asked about the “problem of immigration” and dismantles talking points with ease.
If you do, I'd recommend taking the Lizzie line to Woolwich station during the evening peak, walking over to Woolwich / Royal Arsenal pier, and taking the RB1 Thames Clipper back into central. You get to pass through the Thames Barrier and underneath Tower Bridge.
