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YGK Rogue City🍁 @ygkrogue.bsky.social · Nov 10

A city that has a Weather Severity Index for roads but not for humans living in tents tells you everything you need to know...

❤️Kingston. Where Pothole Key Performance Indicators Thrive
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YGK Rogue City🍁 @ygkrogue.bsky.social · 2h

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In the Age of Surveillance Capitalism and the struggle for privacy, Hank is amused that humans willingly carry tracking devices and post information online in hopes of gathering more followers.

Audrey and Boyd are inconvenienced at the thought of using cash
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YGK Rogue City🍁 @ygkrogue.bsky.social · 2d

Tourism Kingston hires New York City firm during all the fun of the tariff war and 51st State threats...

❤️Kingston. Because
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YGK Rogue City🍁 @ygkrogue.bsky.social · 2d

City Council Meeting October 21, 2025

Appendix A to Report Number 25-227
TOURISM KINGSTON’S CORE ACTIVITIES / METRICS

6 years, 7 months, 12 days deep into Council's declared Climate Emergency and they still only measure tourism money because economic growth cancels CO2e...
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YGK Rogue City🍁 @ygkrogue.bsky.social · 7d

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Hank plants deciduous trees on the south and west of his yard to provide shade on the house for the future when electricity is too unaffordable and/or unavailable to power the A/C

Audrey and Boyd think trees are messy and despise leaves on their lawn.
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YGK Rogue City🍁 @ygkrogue.bsky.social · 8d

Imagine not having enough money to feed yourself and/or your family this Thanksgiving weekend after paying rent, etc., with no transportation option to get to the Food Bank in Rideau Heights before it closes for the Holiday and it's only the tenth day of the month...
#ygk #Hunger

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YGK Rogue City🍁 @ygkrogue.bsky.social · 9d

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Despite having a two page list, Audrey and Boyd count their blessings this Thanksgiving weekend even though being the local winner of $75M on Lotto Max ain't one of them...
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YGK Rogue City🍁 @ygkrogue.bsky.social · 9d

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Hank considers paving his driveway with wollastonite and negotiating with City Hall to reduce his taxes in lieu of this wonderful local "climate action" since the City is subsidizing trucking costs of the rock for local farmers' climate action.
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www.thewhig.com/news/local-n...

Kingston's Canadian Wollastonite to supply rock for climate project

Kingston mining company to provide wollastonite for agricultural project.

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YGK Rogue City🍁 @ygkrogue.bsky.social · 9d

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Hank goes to the Library and is dismayed that the book he wanted to read was unavailable yet nonetheless had hope as a citizen in a such a parochial garrison varsity healthcare prison tourism town awash in public sector money where people still live in tents...
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YGK Rogue City🍁 @ygkrogue.bsky.social · 10d

Anyone know if the Mounties have arrived yet?

They left for Queen's Park the day after Thanksgiving [October 10, 2023]

#GreenbeltScandal #ygk #NeverVoteConservative #OnPoli #ForFuxSake

YGK Rogue City🍁 @ygkrogue.bsky.social · 11d

Meanwhile at the Oval Office Comedy Hour:

Canadian conservatives couldn't comprehend cagey Carney's charming calculated control creatively captivating childish cartoon character...

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YGK Rogue City🍁 @ygkrogue.bsky.social · 11d

Kingston Climate Emergency Day 2,409

Utilities Kingston pitches their Climate Leadership Plan to Council tonight.

Relentlessly pursuing something something by 2040...

❤️Kingston. Where Reducing Non-Fugitive Emissions As A Lucrative Business Model Thrives
#ygk #ClimateAction

YGK Rogue City🍁 @ygkrogue.bsky.social · 12d

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Unconcerned about a Downtown Starbucks closing and Tim Horton's coffee price increase, Hank harvests dandelion and chicory roots from his yard to process, roast and store before the climate apocalypse supersedes Trump's tariffs.

Audrey and Boyd are already jittery...
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YGK Rogue City🍁 @ygkrogue.bsky.social · 13d

Re: Performance Review

Because PoiLIEvre is all about political theatre...
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Poilievre to undergo Conservative Party leadership review in January | CBC News

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre will face a mandatory leadership review in January, after the party failed to form government in the last federal election.

www.cbc.ca

YGK Rogue City🍁 @ygkrogue.bsky.social · 13d

Man concerned about upcoming performance review writes desperate letter to the Prime Minister during a national postal strike and gives it to the media instead.
#ygk #CanPoli
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'No more losing,' Poilievre tells Carney in scathing letter ahead of PM's face-to-face with Trump | CBC News

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has penned a scathing letter to the prime minister ahead of his meeting with the U.S. president on Tuesday, saying Mark Carney has been a disappointment on the tra...

www.cbc.ca

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YGK Rogue City🍁 @ygkrogue.bsky.social · 13d

Speed Camera Political Theatre, take 2.
#ygk #OnPoli
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Vehicles registered to Ford cabinet ministers caught by speed cameras more than 20 times | Globalnews.ca

Documents obtained by Global News reveal that, over three years, vehicles registered to Ford’s cabinet minister received more than $3,300 in fines for speeding.

globalnews.ca

YGK Rogue City🍁 @ygkrogue.bsky.social · 15d

During this Month of Meaningful Baseball, the Baseball Gods would like to remind you that pitching, defense and timely hitting win championships with runs and outs being the currency of the game.

It's hard not to be romantic about baseball.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
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YGK Rogue City🍁 @ygkrogue.bsky.social · 15d

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Now that a trendy Downtown coffee franchise has closed, Hank is concerned for the hip local citizens of reliable economic means and where they will be able to score their branded, overpriced central nervous system psychoactive stimulants to consume in public...
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YGK Rogue City🍁 @ygkrogue.bsky.social · 16d

Two-thirds of the Kingston Trio celebrate the grand opening of Martha's Table dining room after renovations were recently completed.

Mayor96 must have been unavailable due to economic development and solving other problems for po' people...
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YGK Rogue City🍁 @ygkrogue.bsky.social · 16d

Kingston Climate Emergency Day 2,405

In other climate related news, Imperial Oil is slashing 20% of its workforce and selling their Calgary head office.

Apparently their work there is done...
#ygk #ClimateAction
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Calgary experiences hottest September on record, driest in 140 years | CBC News

Summer 2025 has come to an end in Calgary — a season that might be remembered for its soggy start and prolonged warm and dry end.

www.cbc.ca

YGK Rogue City🍁 @ygkrogue.bsky.social · 19d

If you know how to read and it's not too inconvenient, look at this:
thewalrus.ca/trc-introduc...

The Stark Reality Ten Years after the Truth and Reconciliation Report | The Walrus

“We have to wonder: should we just abandon ‘reconciliation’ altogether?”

thewalrus.ca

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YGK Rogue City🍁 @ygkrogue.bsky.social · 19d

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YGK Rogue City🍁 @ygkrogue.bsky.social · 20d

City Hall may consider cancelling Toys For Tickets, a program offering residents the chance to clear parking violations with toy donations and replace it with Get On The Air Canada Bus, a round-trip penance for fines over $100 to ensure its financial sustainability...
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YGK Rogue City🍁 @ygkrogue.bsky.social · 21d

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Hank removes his clothes line because his next door neighbour's hobby is burning pallets and renovation debris.

Audrey believes some one's right to contribute CO2 emissions shouldn't infringe on another's right to not use electricity to dry clothes during a climate emergency.
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YGK Rogue City🍁 @ygkrogue.bsky.social · 21d

Kingston Climate Emergency Day 2,400

In Future Kingston, to keep annual tax increases to 5.3%, all homeowners will be expected to burn their brush and leaves in backyard firepits, which will also add a smoldering ambiance to the je ne sais quoi that is #YGK
#ygkBudget #ygkTaxes

YGK Rogue City🍁 @ygkrogue.bsky.social · 22d

❤️Kingston. Where The Raging Testosterone Fuelled Development Bull Rampaging Through The City Thrives

We concur...
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