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you will be visited by 3 spirits
From left ro right: Casey, Mr Dressup, Finnegan
December 9, 2025 at 4:12 AM
elliottanderson.bsky.social
Update: they are all crazy.
John Rustad @JohnRustad4BC I have not resigned, I have not been removed, and I am not going anywhere. A political party’s board can throw around whatever creative terminology they like, 'professional incapacitation'? Give me a break Let me be clear : That’s not a constitutional mechanism
December 3, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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Some fairly Liberal-leaning economists are looking askance at both the government plans (or lack thereof) and their response to this report.
‪Dr. Mike P. Moffatt‬ ‪@mikepmoffatt.bsky.social‬ · 6h The fed reaction to PBO's housing report makes clear what I said at a conference last week: The gov't has no long-term plan, no targets, no KPIs, no accountability metrics. 5 years from now we won't know if BCH worked, because there's no benchmarks.
December 3, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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From the PBO report.
www.pbo-dpb.ca/en/publicati...
Budget 2025 proposes to further reduce funding for CMHC Housing Programs by a total of $2.4 billion across 2026-27 to 2029-30, and $860 million per year thereafter. Beyond 2028-29, most continuing CMHC funding is existing reference level funding originally established to support existing housing programs. Given the non-discretionary nature of spending to support existing housing under the social housing agreements, to achieve the targeted spending reductions will likely require more significant cuts to funding for social housing outside of the social housing agreements.
December 3, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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What do you feel is missing from the headline?

The PBO seems to be laying it out in black and white (and purple) but the story is: cuts.
https://www.pbo-dpb.ca/en/publications/RP-2526-020-S--build-canada-homes-outlook-housing-programs-under-budget-2025--maisons-canada-perspectives-entourant-programmes-logement-dans-cadre-budget-2025
December 2, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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Sean Connery in Zardoz.
November 30, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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In the Simpsons Season 8 Episode 11 Disco Stu points to a chart noting the exponential growth of disco record sales. The chart ends in 1978
November 20, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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A grey squirrel feels intense social embarrassment and shame. Photograph: Gordon Hulmes Nature/Alamy
November 19, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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A scene from the film The Big Short in which Jared Vennett illustrates how unstable the mortgage derivative market is by using jenga blocks. Its not a good thing.
November 6, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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No longer should we think about our political process as settling for the lesser of two evils. We can demand a greater good. - Zohran Mamdani in groovy font
November 6, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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This paragraph sums up the spirit of Mark Carney's Budget.

Taking healthcare from refugees to give yacht-buyers a tax break.

www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
November 4, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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Max Von Sydow... you probably know him as Brewmeister Smith from "Bob and Doug Mackenzie's Strange Brew"?
L to R Bob Mackenzie, Doug Mackenzie, winner of the Best Actor award at the 1982 Venice Film Festival Max Von Sydow
November 3, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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A picture of Winnie the Pooh with the text WE WILL BURY YOU
October 27, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Image from season 4, episode 14 episode from the Simpsons, "Brother from the Same Planet" - in which Homer "adopts" Pepi through the Litte Brothers program out of spite and proceeds to intruct him in his worldview. The text here read: "Learned Pepi! It's spelled L-E-A-R-N-E-D"
October 20, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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When did Nobel jump the shark?

I still think 1973 takes it but this year is a contender.
The war criminal and mass murderer Henry Kissinger receiving the Nobel Peace Prize
October 10, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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That large land mass at the top of the map is Russia. They may be in the Ocean that *borders most of their country*

Is Canada "sneaking" around up there?
A map of the Acrtic Ocean.
October 9, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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"Un-Canadian" you say?
Quisling Canadian Premier Danielle Smith, rapist convict Donald Trump and Kevin O'Leary during a recent visit to Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach, Fla.
October 7, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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On the one hand, positive trend for humanity.

On the other, I am posting this on social media.
A chart showing time on social media peaking in 2022. From here: https://www.ft.com/content/a0724dd9-0346-4df3-80f5-d6572c93a863?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
October 7, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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Think we have reached peak Gomperism over at Unifor.
Unifor @UniforTheUnion · 2h “Our message to Stellantis is clear – we need to get our workers back in that plant. Our gov’t will continue to protect workers, to protect their jobs, to protect the communities & we will always have their backs,” says @fordnation on retooling pause at Brampton Assembly Plant.
October 5, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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"Uninvestable"
September 22, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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光榮的領導人習近平高聳於太陽能板的海洋之上，為中國人民提供負擔得起的可持續電力
September 21, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Good Christian.

www.nytimes.com/2012/05/31/u...
In Milwaukee Post, Cardinal Authorized Paying Abusers Share full article By Laurie Goodstein May 30, 2012 Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York authorized payments of as much as $20,000 to sexually abusive priests as an incentive for them to agree to dismissal from the priesthood when he was the archbishop of Milwaukee.
September 19, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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I know! I know! The lamestream media can't be trusted!
The man who Mark Carney called "a transformational President" Donald Trump points at a lying reporter who can't be relied on to tell the truth. Imposed text reads "fake news"
September 17, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Like a fool I believe what is being reported in the media. I am confident that you are of the belief that Big Daddy is doing the Right Thing in secret and we shouldn’t believe our lying eyes.
Defence sources, however, confirmed to the Ottawa Citizen that American officials were told that the February 2005 decision by then-prime minister Paul Martin not to join an existing U.S. missile defence system was no longer valid. At that time, the U.S. wanted Canada to join a largely unproven multi-billion dollar system which was to use ground-based interceptors to destroy incoming missiles aimed at North America. The Prime Minister’s Office confirmed that there are “active discussions ongoing” with the Trump administration over the Golden Dome. In a statement, Audrey Champoux, a spokesperson for Mr. Carney, said the talks were also connected to the North American Aerospace Defence Command, the 67-year-old binational airspace surveillance system. At a White House event to tout US$25-billion in prospective funding for the system, which would expand the U.S.’s defences against missile and drone attacks, Mr. Trump said that Canada had asked to join.
“Canada has called us and they want to be a part of it, so we’ll be talking to them. They want to have protection also, so as usual, we help Canada as best we can,” the President said Tuesday in the Oval Office.
September 17, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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An image of Simon MacCorkindale as Jonathan Chase, the word MANIMAL, then a series of images depicting Simon MacCorkindale’s transformation into a panther because he is Manimal motherfuckers. He’s Manimal.
September 13, 2025 at 3:30 AM