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The remains of Hamilton’s Tivoli Theatre are coming down

2 good things happened in the Cdn🇨🇦 election this year.

1. The CPC did NOT win the election.
2. The Libs did NOT get a majority.

Now, we're seeing:

1. Carney govern like a Con, with Bills the CPC fully supports.
2. The Libs almost at a majority with defecting CPC MPs

Not what 🇨🇦 voted for.

A family’s life has now been permanently an irrevocably shattered.😢

"Thank you to the province of Ontario for introducing legislation that will create jobs and build more homes in Barrie" - Mayor Alex Nuttall

Very interesting ad on the Toronto's Star website, with the mayor of Barrie thanking the provincial government for legislation.

Alex Nuttall was one of the only mayors really backing Ford lately, including the prohibition of speed camera enforcement.

The man who is unwilling to wear a flu mask usually is of the kind who expects everybody to listen to him when he speaks

Indianapolis Star, November 22, 1918

In New York City, Congestion Pricing Leads to Marked Drop in Pollution

"In the first six months of the program, traffic in the congestion zone dropped by 11 percent, accidents by 14 percent, and complaints of excessive honking or other noise by 45 percent."

It works, so impossible under the corrupt and incompetent #DougFord. #onpoli

e360.yale.edu/digest/new-y...

Same with a majority of Canadians, all while Liberal's AI Ministry rolls out the red carpet for tech bros. @ndp.ca

Reasons for Canada’s decades-long transportation enshittification, is made clear once I came to see fossil-fuelled cars and highways, as the demand-side equivalent to all the supply-side pipelines that we build.

VIA Rail Canada travelers. This is a page dedicated to Via Rail Canada. News, pics, articles, interesting stuff... It all goes here! We are not associated with VIA Rail Canada in any way, official inquiries should be referred t...

I've just discovered the sadness that is reddit.com/r/ViaRail/
Seems that VIA hired some MBAs from airline industry to do customer service/customer experience enshittification.
If ViaRail goal is to provide less service for more money then it's working great.
Not so much for the customers tho...
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Hamilton councillor Spadafora violated code of conduct when he accused staff of lying and ignoring motion | CBC News Hamilton councillor Mike Spadafora apologized to city staff Wednesday after the integrity commissioner found the Ward 14 representative made multiple violations of the Council Code Conduct when he acc...

#Hamont

Time person of the year cover for 2025

I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork

El Salvador teams up with Elon Musk’s xAI to bring AI to 5,000 public schools El Salvador President Nayib Bukele said Thursday that his administration is partnering with Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI to bring artificial intelligence into more than 5,000 public...

El Salvador partnering with Google for healthcare and Musk for education. 😬
Doug Ford is definitely watching this closely.

This isn’t the sleeper trains Canada needs!

Doug ford news article saying get back to work beside news article about 14 week winter break for Doug ford following 19 week summer break

I’ll just go ahead and leave this right here. #OnPoli

Anti-AI has traction among Canadians given we’re the least excited about it, of all countries polled.

More and more landlords letting their units sit vacant.

They’re literally indecipherable.

Ottawa hands corporate leaders 50 roles in government Ottawa plans to embed the private sector workers after adopting a business group's proposal — even naming the program after them, a briefing note reveals.

1/ The Carney government has fallen hard for AI hype, and it's endangering us all.

This unprecedented invitation of data-hungry tech execs inside our house (where all our confidential data is stored) is a disturbing betrayal of public trust.

dub.link/NDYvJU0

City-owned Burlington golf club reports more rounds, revenue this year City staff credited the “notable revenue growth” to several improvements.

Pfft! Can Burlington taxpayers operate 2 more golf courses, as well as a restaurant at one, like #HamOnt taxpayers do?

"Also unclear are the circumstances of the victim — whether he was crossing the street or heading straight. The sidewalk on at least one side of the road was inaccessible."

Gosh I wonder why people in other countries don’t suffer an identity crisis when considering the idea of replacing a big gas tank with a big battery?

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North American carmakers complaining about transportation modes being politicized. 😂

Worth AGAIN noting that this is not the first time ChatGPT has allegedly urged users to die by suicide.

Every single school and university system that has allowed this infection in, that is encouraging students to use ChatGPT should be asked to account for their choices.

Stealworkers

Doxers Posing as Cops Are Tricking Big Tech Firms Into Sharing People's Private Data A spoofed email address and an easily faked document is all it takes for major tech companies to hand over your most personal information.

SCOOP

I spoke to the leader of a doxing-for-hire group who showed me how it took just minutes for them to get sensitive personal data from Big Tech companies—with virtually no pushback

www.wired.com/story/doxers...

The Architects of AI Are TIME's 2025 Person of the Year The Architects of AI drove the economy, shaped geopolitics, and changed the way we interact with the world

And who stands to gain from pushing AI?

The owner of Time, billionaire Marc Benioff.

When billionaires take control of media, it’s not a win for free speech. It’s a win for oligarchy.

time.com/7339685/pers...

Statement from Ward 3 Councillor Nrinder Nann regarding the death of a seven-year-old child who was struck by a Hamilton Street Railway bus on Wilson Street near Emerald Street. #yhmcc

Council delays rollout of contentious ‘rain tax’ Councillors heard Wednesday the deferral would mean the hike would increase by approximately $16 to $77.65 annually.

Figures @thespec1846.bsky.social goes with "rain tax".
Rural councillors don't want you to know there are 1500 km of rural ditches (200 km more that sewer pipes) that ALL #HamOnt tax payers help maintain.
Here's the clip of staff tell councillors so:
www.youtube.com/live/vIKnvIp...

Part of the deal is that Disney+ will allow users to watch Sora-generated videos. This means we'll be paying to watch AI slop?? 😭