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"Vancouver’s estimated costs... have swelled from roughly $240-million in 2022 to $624-million shared between all three levels of government."

Remarkable contrast with Vancouver's recent austerity budget. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
Costs for hosting FIFA World Cup games soar in Toronto and Vancouver
While the U.S. has arrangements that have kept budgets relatively in check, Canadian cities have seen their estimated costs go up by hundreds of millions
www.theglobeandmail.com
January 30, 2026 at 5:35 PM
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Trump, five days apart. A pathological liar.
December 9, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States.

🔗 www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...
DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing
Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the Trump administration’s promise to go after the “radical left” a study showing most domestic terrosim is far-right was disappeared.
www.404media.co
September 16, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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President Trump made false and misleading claims about crime in Washington, D.C., during a news conference on Monday as he announced that the administration would take federal control of the police. Here’s a fact-check. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/u...
August 14, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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Trump today: "I'm surprised he [Jerome Powell] was appointed. I'm surprised frankly that Biden put him in."

Trump in November 2017: "It is my pleasure and my honour to announce my nomination of Jerome Powell to be the next chairman of the Federal Reserve."
July 16, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Here’s some perspective about fentanyl crossing the borders both north and south.
February 3, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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President Trump granted a pardon to Ross Ulbricht, the creator of the Silk Road drug marketplace.

Ulbricht was serving a life sentence for creating a site in a shady corner of the internet to sell heroin, cocaine and other illicit substances.
Trump Pardons Ross Ulbricht, Creator of Silk Road Drug Marketplace
Ross Ulbricht was serving a life sentence for creating a site in a shady corner of the internet to sell heroin, cocaine and other illicit substances.
www.nytimes.com
January 22, 2025 at 1:51 AM