Same is true when you compare FTEs to municipal GDP (w/ a peak during COVID that has more to do w/ a pandemic-induced GDP drop) and FTEs compared to Operating expenses.

In other words, the city is getting bigger & doing more while staffing levels aren't keeping up. #yqrcc /11

This chart was prepared by Deloitte for the city & published in the 2026-27 budget document as Appendix M2.
And OH! Look at that! The city's full time equivalents per 100 residents has been dropping steadily from 2016 to 2024. #yqrcc /10

Elizabeth May schools Andre Scheer. You love to see it.

It also clearly shows that Carney bent the knee to Danielle Smith to get nothing in return. This MOU will not secure interprovincial peace, and it won't mollify Alberta separatists, and instead he's threatened his whole climate framework and pissing off every other province.
Complete amateur hour.

Closing the air space of a foreign country is an act of war.

We are now at war with Venezuela and the War Powers Act has been triggered.

One of my favorite Douglas Adams quotes:

“All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated, and well supported in logic and argument than others.”

More timely today than ever, don't you think? 💙

#WritingCommunity #WriteSky #BookSky

🎩Get this POS outta the White House! 🇺🇸

Trump Announces Pardon for Honduran Ex-President Convicted in Drug Case

"We blow up ‘alleged’ drug boats in the Caribbean but pardon actually convicted drug traffickers in the U.S. Someone help me make sense of this.”
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Screenshot of a Washington Post article titled ‘Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all.’ Subheadline states that as two men clung to a burning ship targeted by SEAL Team 6, the Joint Special Operations commander followed the defense secretary’s order to leave no survivors. The article is dated November 28, 2025, by reporters Alex Horton and Ellen Nakashima. Below the headline is a grid of aerial infrared images of a small boat at sea before and after missile strikes.

The second screenshot shows text from the article describing how Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth allegedly issued a verbal directive ‘to kill everybody.’ A missile launched off the Trinidad coast hit the vessel, which burned while commanders watched on a drone feed. When two survivors were seen clinging to the wreckage, the Special Operations commander ordered a second strike to follow Hegseth’s order, killing the remaining men in the water.

Pete Hegseth committed a war crime and then doubled down.

He instructed the military to murder civilians at sea and when there were injured victims he gave the order to kill them all.

Surviving victims were brutally dismembered at sea by US missiles.

This better not be happening at the same time that we’re looking at cutting other services or high increases in property tax.

🇨🇦 Public school teachers and education workers:

Classrooms are increasingly overcrowded – we need to hear your experiences to advocate for systemic change.

📝 Participate in the Parachute Survey. On now until November 12.
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Teachers and education workers, make sure to fill out the Parachute survey. Your voice strengthens our advocacy.

YouTube video by Toronto Sun Ontario launches $75 million ad campaign using the words of Ronald Reagan to argue against tariffs.

The ad that rattled Him
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Never do we want an enforced starvation of a population to ever happen again… to any population… in any time.

See the memorial stone explanation.

Replace Stalin with Netanyahu, Trump and any country that is sending arms or support to Israel.
#skpoli
#cdnpoli
#FreePalestine

I’ve seen so many people spreading the misinformation that PBS is shut down or is shutting down.

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has been shut down and PBS has been defunded.

HOWEVER!!! PBS still exists. It is more important now than ever that you donate to PBS if you can.

What a surprise that the budget went south

Bolton needed to be raided by the FBI for plenty of things but not what he was raided for today. That was just political retaliation by the Trump regime.

Only the Poor Will Help: What Trump’s Tariffs, Lotteries, and Layoffs Are Really Hiding From Ma Joad to MAGA, the burden of government has never been shared, it’s been shifted.

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Love this energy. ✊

My whole life American movies & TV have been churning out competence porn about their government. Their senators, presidents, their aides & officials: Serious! Smart! Ivy league! The best of the best! Nice to know that when the going gets tough, these hot shots crumple.

The takeover of Twitter was a preview of what we're all living with now and a stark example of why you can't let any one person have too much money: they go insane and make themselves everybody's problem

If you want to know why Saskatchewan's deficits are exploding its because we have a premier that claims to run a small fiscsl govt but also thinks Canada should blow tens of millions to protect the border for made up imaginary reasons from a lunatic.

Words matter. Trump’s proposal to ethnically cleanse Gaza of Palestinians will likely amount to another war crime. Thank you @amnanawaz.bsky.social.

Yesterday’s live is now on YouTube: m.youtube.com/watch?featur...

The reason there aren’t Canadian alternatives for every good or service is b/c we signed trade deals that assumed each region wouldn’t have to be self reliant. We were supposed to be a continental economy.

Tariff or no tariff Rusty‘s wild rice is always a good choice 👍 www.rustyswildrice.ca

If somebody has more cars than they have parking spaces for on their property, I'm not sure why I should be paying taxes to give them a parking spot on the street in front of their house.

I beg of Republicans, read a book.