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3/10 The Port of Longview didn't just get lucky. They spent a decade preparing.
They removed 1,000 creosote pilings, demolished old silos, and secured a US$90-million rail corridor doubling freight capacity.
While Canada stalled, Longview got shovel-ready.
They removed 1,000 creosote pilings, demolished old silos, and secured a US$90-million rail corridor doubling freight capacity.
While Canada stalled, Longview got shovel-ready.
December 5, 2025 at 6:31 PM
3/10 The Port of Longview didn't just get lucky. They spent a decade preparing.
They removed 1,000 creosote pilings, demolished old silos, and secured a US$90-million rail corridor doubling freight capacity.
While Canada stalled, Longview got shovel-ready.
They removed 1,000 creosote pilings, demolished old silos, and secured a US$90-million rail corridor doubling freight capacity.
While Canada stalled, Longview got shovel-ready.
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Alberta's 'dual-practice' healthcare plan will increase wait times: experts https://www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/article/wait-times-key-concern-of-albertas-public-private-health-system-plans/
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December 5, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Alberta's 'dual-practice' healthcare plan will increase wait times: experts https://www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/article/wait-times-key-concern-of-albertas-public-private-health-system-plans/
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NEW: Alleged drug traffickers from the Balkans bragged about exclusive rights to smuggle cocaine alongside bananas in shipping containers exported by the family firm of Ecuadorian president Daniel Noboa, according to Croatian prosecutors’ documents.
www.occrp.org/en/project/t...
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Cocaine and Bananas: How Balkan Traffickers Used Fruit Shipments From the Ecuadorian President's Family Firm to Smuggle Drugs
Cocaine smuggled from Ecuador to Europe in banana boxes found by police in Munich, Germany, in 2019.
www.occrp.org
December 4, 2025 at 8:31 AM
NEW: Alleged drug traffickers from the Balkans bragged about exclusive rights to smuggle cocaine alongside bananas in shipping containers exported by the family firm of Ecuadorian president Daniel Noboa, according to Croatian prosecutors’ documents.
www.occrp.org/en/project/t...
www.occrp.org/en/project/t...
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7/8 We are left with a grim paradox.
Culling is the "major tool" to stop the spread, yet it triggers the rage that silences the regulators.
Canada bought 500,000 vaccine doses, preparing for the worst.
Culling is the "major tool" to stop the spread, yet it triggers the rage that silences the regulators.
Canada bought 500,000 vaccine doses, preparing for the worst.
December 3, 2025 at 10:40 AM
7/8 We are left with a grim paradox.
Culling is the "major tool" to stop the spread, yet it triggers the rage that silences the regulators.
Canada bought 500,000 vaccine doses, preparing for the worst.
Culling is the "major tool" to stop the spread, yet it triggers the rage that silences the regulators.
Canada bought 500,000 vaccine doses, preparing for the worst.
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Sale of #Canadian armoured vehicles to ICE agency ‘deeply troubling’: Kwan #RoshelArmouredVehicles
Anti-armament advocates say Canadian firms shouldn’t be selling armoured military vehicles to United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement,
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www.bnnbloomberg.ca/business/int...
Anti-armament advocates say Canadian firms shouldn’t be selling armoured military vehicles to United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement,
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Sale of Canadian armoured vehicles to ICE agency ‘deeply troubling’: Kwan
Anti-armament advocates say Canadian firms shouldn’t be selling armoured military vehicles to United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or any other organizations with sketchy human rights re...
www.bnnbloomberg.ca
December 3, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Sale of #Canadian armoured vehicles to ICE agency ‘deeply troubling’: Kwan #RoshelArmouredVehicles
Anti-armament advocates say Canadian firms shouldn’t be selling armoured military vehicles to United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement,
/1 thread
www.bnnbloomberg.ca/business/int...
Anti-armament advocates say Canadian firms shouldn’t be selling armoured military vehicles to United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement,
/1 thread
www.bnnbloomberg.ca/business/int...
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1/7
🇨🇦 EXPERTS WARN OF CATASTROPHIC PIPELINE RISK 🇨🇦
When the Denali earthquake hit Alaska in 2002, the pipeline held because engineers knew exactly where to build.
In B.C., experts warn of flying blind over "poorly understood" terrain.
Leyland Cecco reports.
#Pipeline #BCPoli #SeismicRisk
🇨🇦 EXPERTS WARN OF CATASTROPHIC PIPELINE RISK 🇨🇦
When the Denali earthquake hit Alaska in 2002, the pipeline held because engineers knew exactly where to build.
In B.C., experts warn of flying blind over "poorly understood" terrain.
Leyland Cecco reports.
#Pipeline #BCPoli #SeismicRisk
December 4, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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🇨🇦 EXPERTS WARN OF CATASTROPHIC PIPELINE RISK 🇨🇦
When the Denali earthquake hit Alaska in 2002, the pipeline held because engineers knew exactly where to build.
In B.C., experts warn of flying blind over "poorly understood" terrain.
Leyland Cecco reports.
#Pipeline #BCPoli #SeismicRisk
🇨🇦 EXPERTS WARN OF CATASTROPHIC PIPELINE RISK 🇨🇦
When the Denali earthquake hit Alaska in 2002, the pipeline held because engineers knew exactly where to build.
In B.C., experts warn of flying blind over "poorly understood" terrain.
Leyland Cecco reports.
#Pipeline #BCPoli #SeismicRisk
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An Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees a staggering reduction in homelessness. The program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years, and at the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees staggering reduction in homelessness
The state program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years. At the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
www.streetroots.org
November 21, 2025 at 2:35 AM
An Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees a staggering reduction in homelessness. The program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years, and at the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
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Phonemakers have been ordered to pre-install the Indian government’s “Sanchar Saathi” cyber safety app on all new devices and ensure it cannot be “disabled or restricted.”
Apple Rejects India’s Order Forcing Smartphone Makers To Install State-Run App, Report Says
Phonemakers have been ordered to pre-install the Indian government’s “Sanchar Saathi” cyber safety app on all new devices and ensure it cannot be “disabled or restricted.”
www.forbes.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Phonemakers have been ordered to pre-install the Indian government’s “Sanchar Saathi” cyber safety app on all new devices and ensure it cannot be “disabled or restricted.”
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Today the Ontario Auditor General report is out and it's scathing wrt the Ford Gov't. Just last week Ford threatened to send auditors after non profits that support lefty things. Watch if his thoughts on audits and auditors might be different this week.
December 2, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Today the Ontario Auditor General report is out and it's scathing wrt the Ford Gov't. Just last week Ford threatened to send auditors after non profits that support lefty things. Watch if his thoughts on audits and auditors might be different this week.
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2/ According to the WSJ, talks between Trump's golfing friend Steve Witkoff, his son-in-law Jared Kushner, and Russian envoy Kirill Dmitriev have bypassed the US national security and diplomatic apparatuses to focus on economic benefits for well-connected American companies.
November 29, 2025 at 3:06 PM
2/ According to the WSJ, talks between Trump's golfing friend Steve Witkoff, his son-in-law Jared Kushner, and Russian envoy Kirill Dmitriev have bypassed the US national security and diplomatic apparatuses to focus on economic benefits for well-connected American companies.
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Extraordinary WSJ article: "Make Money Not War: Trump’s Real Plan for Peace in Ukraine"
Witkoff, Kirill Dmitriev & Kushner are preparing to loot $300 bn of frozen Russian assets & develop privileged US business in Russia, ignoring Ukraine.
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
Witkoff, Kirill Dmitriev & Kushner are preparing to loot $300 bn of frozen Russian assets & develop privileged US business in Russia, ignoring Ukraine.
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
Make Money Not War: Trump’s Real Plan for Peace in Ukraine
The Kremlin pitched the White House on peace through business. To Europe’s dismay, the president and his envoy are on board.
www.wsj.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Extraordinary WSJ article: "Make Money Not War: Trump’s Real Plan for Peace in Ukraine"
Witkoff, Kirill Dmitriev & Kushner are preparing to loot $300 bn of frozen Russian assets & develop privileged US business in Russia, ignoring Ukraine.
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
Witkoff, Kirill Dmitriev & Kushner are preparing to loot $300 bn of frozen Russian assets & develop privileged US business in Russia, ignoring Ukraine.
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
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Sadly the current right-wing coalition government in Finland has cut the funding for the nation’s “Housing First” success story, & homelessness is now on the rise again. That just reinforces the fact that such programs work, if political ideology doesn’t stand in the way.
ysaatio.fi/en/news/home...
ysaatio.fi/en/news/home...
Homelessness on the Rise in Finland - Y-Säätiö
Asunnottomien ihmisten määrä on kääntynyt kasvuun. Nyt asunnottomien määrä kasvoi Helsingissä, vaikka asunnottomia asutettiin vuoden aikana vaikuttava määrä.
ysaatio.fi
November 24, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Sadly the current right-wing coalition government in Finland has cut the funding for the nation’s “Housing First” success story, & homelessness is now on the rise again. That just reinforces the fact that such programs work, if political ideology doesn’t stand in the way.
ysaatio.fi/en/news/home...
ysaatio.fi/en/news/home...
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Lawsuit alleges social media giants buried their own research on mental health harms https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/article/lawsuit-alleges-social-media-giants-buried-their-own-research-on-teen-mental-health-harms/
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November 27, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Lawsuit alleges social media giants buried their own research on mental health harms https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/article/lawsuit-alleges-social-media-giants-buried-their-own-research-on-teen-mental-health-harms/
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I wish I was surprised. Buried in this Budget is a plan to slash the Digital Services Tax, giving a multi-billion tax cut to US tech giants and the likes of Elon Musk.
That's right, cutting taxes for the world's richest man while hiking them for millions of hard-working Brits.
That's right, cutting taxes for the world's richest man while hiking them for millions of hard-working Brits.
November 27, 2025 at 9:30 AM
I wish I was surprised. Buried in this Budget is a plan to slash the Digital Services Tax, giving a multi-billion tax cut to US tech giants and the likes of Elon Musk.
That's right, cutting taxes for the world's richest man while hiking them for millions of hard-working Brits.
That's right, cutting taxes for the world's richest man while hiking them for millions of hard-working Brits.
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EXCLUSIVE: US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff advised Russia on how to pitch Ukraine plans to Trump, in audio files reviewed by Bloomberg
Witkoff Advised Russia on How to Pitch Ukraine Plan to Trump
US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff, fresh from the triumph of the Gaza peace deal, held a phone call last month with a senior Kremlin official to suggest they work together on a similar plan for Ukraine — and that Vladimir Putin should raise it with Donald Trump.
bloom.bg
November 25, 2025 at 7:52 PM
EXCLUSIVE: US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff advised Russia on how to pitch Ukraine plans to Trump, in audio files reviewed by Bloomberg
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Someone (Rubio?) is MEGA pissed at the Ukraine peace plan situation if they leaked a full on *recording* of this Witkoff call (with transcript, lol).
November 25, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Someone (Rubio?) is MEGA pissed at the Ukraine peace plan situation if they leaked a full on *recording* of this Witkoff call (with transcript, lol).
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Anderson Cooper: So it's more expensive to have a chronically homeless person living on the streets than it is to actually subsidize an apartment for them?
Answer: Yes, we’re paying more as taxpayers to walk past that person on the street and do nothing… #HousingFirst
Answer: Yes, we’re paying more as taxpayers to walk past that person on the street and do nothing… #HousingFirst
100,000 Homes: Housing the homeless saves money?
Giving apartments to the chronically homeless can save taxpayer dollars, advocates say
www.cbsnews.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Anderson Cooper: So it's more expensive to have a chronically homeless person living on the streets than it is to actually subsidize an apartment for them?
Answer: Yes, we’re paying more as taxpayers to walk past that person on the street and do nothing… #HousingFirst
Answer: Yes, we’re paying more as taxpayers to walk past that person on the street and do nothing… #HousingFirst
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NEWS --> BBC confirms to me that they did edit a line out of historian @rutgerbregman.com's speech. It called Trump "the most openly corrupt president in US history."
BBC also confirms this was done on the advice of lawyers. So Trump's threats worked.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
BBC also confirms this was done on the advice of lawyers. So Trump's threats worked.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
Trump’s Fury at BBC Gets Unnerving Results with Pro-MAGA Edit Stunner
First, British Broadcasting Corporation execs resigned after Trump complained about a segment. Now the BBC edited out a line from a historian that was critical of Trump. Where does this end?
newrepublic.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:10 PM
NEWS --> BBC confirms to me that they did edit a line out of historian @rutgerbregman.com's speech. It called Trump "the most openly corrupt president in US history."
BBC also confirms this was done on the advice of lawyers. So Trump's threats worked.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
BBC also confirms this was done on the advice of lawyers. So Trump's threats worked.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
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My attendance record in the European Parliament was the 4th worst out of 751 MEPs, yet I managed to turn up to vote AGAINST plans to tackle Russian misinformation.
Thankfully this is of no interest to the media.
Thankfully this is of no interest to the media.
November 24, 2025 at 9:20 PM
My attendance record in the European Parliament was the 4th worst out of 751 MEPs, yet I managed to turn up to vote AGAINST plans to tackle Russian misinformation.
Thankfully this is of no interest to the media.
Thankfully this is of no interest to the media.
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"Aggressive accounting," "favorable treatment off the balance sheet," and "convenient assumptions" all in the headline and subhead. Geez.
November 24, 2025 at 3:48 PM
"Aggressive accounting," "favorable treatment off the balance sheet," and "convenient assumptions" all in the headline and subhead. Geez.
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One sign of a bubble is when the major players do gimmicks to hide the cost of the bubble.
If the thing was clearly a good value, they'd just say "look at us investing in this valuable thing," rather than this obvious shell game to avoid booking the cost of building a data center.
If the thing was clearly a good value, they'd just say "look at us investing in this valuable thing," rather than this obvious shell game to avoid booking the cost of building a data center.
Meta’s data-center accounting gets the Jon Weil treatment:
It’s “financed with debt, and neither the data center nor the debt will be on its own balance sheet. That outcome looks too good to be true, and it probably is.”
@wsj.com $META
www.wsj.com/tech/meta-ai...
It’s “financed with debt, and neither the data center nor the debt will be on its own balance sheet. That outcome looks too good to be true, and it probably is.”
@wsj.com $META
www.wsj.com/tech/meta-ai...
November 24, 2025 at 12:02 PM
One sign of a bubble is when the major players do gimmicks to hide the cost of the bubble.
If the thing was clearly a good value, they'd just say "look at us investing in this valuable thing," rather than this obvious shell game to avoid booking the cost of building a data center.
If the thing was clearly a good value, they'd just say "look at us investing in this valuable thing," rather than this obvious shell game to avoid booking the cost of building a data center.
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St Anne’s, the magnificent Anglican church that burned June 2024, has released a statement saying it’s being treated as arson.
November 24, 2025 at 4:05 AM
St Anne’s, the magnificent Anglican church that burned June 2024, has released a statement saying it’s being treated as arson.
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People moan about AI taking people’s jobs, so interact and keep demand high for in person jobs
- Go to the post office when you need to renew/post/register things
- Go to the bank and get money out
- Go to the shops and spend money, stop buying online
- Go use public transport
- Go to the library
- Go to the post office when you need to renew/post/register things
- Go to the bank and get money out
- Go to the shops and spend money, stop buying online
- Go use public transport
- Go to the library
November 10, 2025 at 7:52 AM
People moan about AI taking people’s jobs, so interact and keep demand high for in person jobs
- Go to the post office when you need to renew/post/register things
- Go to the bank and get money out
- Go to the shops and spend money, stop buying online
- Go use public transport
- Go to the library
- Go to the post office when you need to renew/post/register things
- Go to the bank and get money out
- Go to the shops and spend money, stop buying online
- Go use public transport
- Go to the library
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WATCH: If you really STILL don’t understand how car-dependent suburbia is HEAVILY SUBSIDIZED by downtown & all the urban parts of your city, please watch this EXCELLENT video by #NotJustBikes helped by #UrbanThree & @StrongTowns.org. And then please SHARE it as much as possible. youtu.be/7Nw6qyyrTeI
November 22, 2025 at 4:57 PM
WATCH: If you really STILL don’t understand how car-dependent suburbia is HEAVILY SUBSIDIZED by downtown & all the urban parts of your city, please watch this EXCELLENT video by #NotJustBikes helped by #UrbanThree & @StrongTowns.org. And then please SHARE it as much as possible. youtu.be/7Nw6qyyrTeI