YGK Rogue City🍁

Meanwhile, on the playing fields of Parliament:

PA Announcer: "Now batting for the Cons, Andrew Sheer."

Dan: "Well Buck, they seem to understand this is an important time of the game."

Buck: "Nyah, unfortunately the Cons don't have a deep bench to pinch hit for Poilievre."
#CanPoli

Perhaps one good thing to come of Mayor96's idea to include "other public places," such as sidewalks in the "Child Safety Zones" is that the municipal sidewalks might get plowed sooner rather than later after a snowfall so the children don't have to walk on the bare, plowed roads...
#ygk

No word if City Hall will consider repurposing Municipal Speed Cameras to monitor sidewalks designated as Child Safety Zones...

❤️Kingston. Where Ostentatious Grand Gestures Thrive™
#ygk #ygkHistory

⚠️Pedestrian Alert!

Mayor96 broadened the scope of the legal review of "Child Safety Zones" to include "other public places" where children may gather, such as municipal sidewalks...

❤️Kingston. Where Ostentatious Grand Gestures Thrive™
#ygk #ygkHistory

Downtown Kingston's 2021 pewter Christmas ornament commemorating Dr. Moore's COVID flipchart appears to be overstocked due to ongoing tarnish...

❤️Kingston. You'll Be Amazed At What You See
#ygk #CovidIsAirborne

Remember, remember the Fifth of November...

Happy Guy Fawkes' Day, y'all!
#ygk #onpoli

Imagine what Carney is up against.
Now.
Read this story.
Perhaps maybe now you understand why he apologized.
Tame the shrew. As it were.

I wish people would start thinking outside the box.
#cdnpoli

We will not be adjusting our time measuring devices this evening because the government has no right over our personal continued sequence of existence and events that occur in an apparently irreversible succession from the past.
#ygk #DaylightSavingTime

Don't forget to turn your clocks back an hour tonight as we begin the Dark Season Of Mass Consumption In The Name of Jesus.
#ygk #StandardTime #timetravel #ConsumingOurWayToNetZero2040

❤️Kingston. Where Community Involvement Is Not Required

Kingston city council to look at making changes to committee landscape Review of Kingston's municipal committee structure recommends changes, some minor, some major.

Kingston Climate Emergency Day 2,434

The Kingston Environmental Advisory Committee is to be dissolved and its role is to be assumed by city staff members who have increased their skills and understanding of the issue...

Your community voice? Not required.
🧵
#ygk
www.thewhig.com/news/kingsto...

This Physicist Says We Don’t Take COVID Seriously Enough | The Tyee We downplay the virus at our peril, warns Yaneer Bar-Yam. And children are more at risk than we thought.

"Now, nearly three years since COVID-19 first took over our lives, the worst of the pandemic is behind us."
-Mayor96, Nov.22, 2022

Spend. Consume. Dispose. Repeat

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause...
#ygk
thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

"Local tourism groups, like Kingston Accommodation Partners, have questioned the figures provided by VIA to maintain 154 weekly service stops as seemingly high."

Back in 2020, the City build a rail overpass because they said 50 trains per day was inconvenient for motorists...
#ygk

FACT CHECK:
Masking to hide one's identity on October 31 is socially acceptable.

Masking to protect one's health every day is suspect.
#Mask #ygk #Halloween #Idiocracy #TrickOrTreat #CovidIsAirborne

Kingston Food Insecurity Emergency Day 290

Anyone else giving out canned beans, soup or packages of pasta to hungry families that come to your door this Hallowe'en?
#ygkHunger #ygk

Mayor96 Reign Day 4,021

We would be remiss if we didn't belatedly recognize Mayor96's rise to power on October 27, 2014.

Twas ever thus...

❤️Kingston. Where Ostentatious Grand Gestures Thrive™
#ygk

Sure hope that with any service upgrades the City won't have to cover the cost of empty seats like they do with the Air Canada buses...
#ygk

Update:

Rogue City News has learned that once these cameras improve vehicular traffic flow, the City will focus their cameras and AI to improve human traffic flows from Encampments to Transitional Housing...
#ygk

Ford government opens door to ending indefinite leases for Ontario tenants Attorney General Doug Downey says current system discourages landlords from renting out vacant units

Ontario tenants: 1 year lease
Ontario Place spa scam: 99 year lease

Damn rent controls getting in the way of LandLord prosperity...

A reminder to #NeverVoteConservative #ygk #OnPoli

www.thetrillium.ca/news/housing...

Kingston Climate Emergency Day 2,425

Perhaps for $3,000,000 of our taxes the Clean Tech Innovation Lab that supports the commercialization of clean technology and "green" chemical technology can provide the City with non toxic fireworks to explode over our only drinking water source, eh?
#ygk

Overheard last night in the Baseball Gods Lounge:

"How about a 3 run Springer dinger caught by a fan wearing a Springer jersey?"

"Good one. People will call it karma."

"Yeah..."
#BlueJays #ygk

Return To Normal

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
#ygk

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

❤️Kingston. Because
#ygk

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...
#ygk

Return To Normal

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.
#ygk

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

Return To Normal

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...
#ygk

Kingston's Canadian Wollastonite to supply rock for climate project Kingston mining company to provide wollastonite for agricultural project.

Return To Normal

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.
#ygk
www.thewhig.com/news/local-n...

Return To Normal

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...
#ygk