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@dsimeone.bsky.social

West Broadway, Winnipeg. For bikes, transit, and livable urban planning. Wrangles data for a living. Wrangles my children when I’m not.

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Or like a private railcar that just hooks onto the back of passing trains.

18.11.2025 18:13 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It’s really just a bus to Gimli for the Icelandic festival.

18.11.2025 18:01 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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WestJet Announces Non-Stop Winnipeg to Iceland Flights Winnipeg travellers will be able to jet directly to Iceland next summer through a new route offered by WestJet.

WestJet Announces Non-Stop Winnipeg to Iceland Flights www.chrisd.ca/2025/11/18/w...

18.11.2025 17:50 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 1

cARS aRe peOple Too

18.11.2025 14:25 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Although they may wish to wait until a century after Elvis’ birth to be sure. Ten more years.

18.11.2025 03:22 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Clearly, the drafters of the constitution meant Queen (as represented by Freddie Mercury) and the King (Elvis) to be the eternal monarchs. Any other interpretation is historically inaccurate, therefore the courts will rightfully determine the crown to have been extinguished in Canada.

18.11.2025 03:20 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

My thoughts as a riding association financial agent: NOOOOO.
(Although I fully respect @leahgazan.bsky.social to vote the best way possible and will happily support her for another election.)

17.11.2025 21:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The Canadian mile is highly variable and subject to space-time interference.

17.11.2025 17:40 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

“Bullet literal”???

17.11.2025 15:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

1998 in rural PEI was nothing but gangs of thugs committing crime after crime on unsuspecting passers by.

Or maybe I’m remembering my teenage D&D sessions.

Clearly a good basis for criminal law reform.

17.11.2025 14:25 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I give myself a veto over my neighbour’s cat.

16.11.2025 22:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The city should put out an RFP asking for bids to run the building.

16.11.2025 17:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

“What Winnipeg’s next election will mean for Canada-Liberia bilateral relations”

16.11.2025 16:29 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I just read the ruling (someone else shared it with me - apparently the Freep published it) and it just looks like vibes. No legal analysis at all. Administrative law at its worst.

16.11.2025 16:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Imagine if an unelected board gave the Foot Locker formal veto powers over what the owners of Polo Park do with their parking lot.

16.11.2025 16:18 — 👍 13    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

You can can tell your kid that your Bluesky habit just sold four tickets!

16.11.2025 15:06 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Tariff - Etymology, Origin & Meaning Originating from Italian and Medieval Latin, tariff means an official list or law of customs duties, derived from Arabic ta'rif meaning information or inventory o...

Maybe if someone tells him the word is Arabic he’ll be afraid of them.

www.etymonline.com/word/tariff

16.11.2025 14:59 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Can you share the ruling?

16.11.2025 13:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Great thread. But I just can’t get mandelbrot the cookie out of my head. I think I need to make some.

16.11.2025 02:15 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Thanks for a thought-provoking performance last night.

-The Guy Front Row far house left

15.11.2025 20:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Two shows for A NUMBER today in Winnipeg, and closing PANDORA in Ontario. It’s been a big November. Lots of feels.

15.11.2025 16:40 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1

The dress so good it is illegal in Ontario.

15.11.2025 15:53 — 👍 62    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

The location premium (Tuxedo, River Heights) is very high. My West Broadway house would be twice the value 500m away in Wolsley.

15.11.2025 13:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

And Winnipeg likely has a much higher variability of ‘normal’ residential property values. ( while Calgary no doubt has more high end). Parts of the North end have properties you can buy for <$100k.

15.11.2025 13:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

But, a property of the same value covers 4 times the proportion. So, twice the tax.

So the further your property is above the average Winnipeg property value - even if $150k less than house in Calgary - your relative share will be higher.

*Frontage, exempt properties, etc make it complicated

15.11.2025 13:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Calgary, 2025, total assessed value of $442B. The Winnipeg 2022 seems to be about $100B. Call Calgary $400B.

So a house the same price in both cities is (roughly) worth 4 times more of the assessed base in Winnipeg, as a %.

Winnipeg has half the per capita tax level of Calgary.

15.11.2025 13:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Wholesalers for small restaurants sometimes have stores regular people can buy from.

15.11.2025 03:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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It’s time to rethink slip lanes While slip lanes facilitate vehicle movement, they have a significant impact on the safety and comfort of pedestrians. Though the City of Toronto has been proactive in removing or modifying slip lanes, there is still much more work to do.

It’s time to rethink slip lanes

While slip lanes facilitate vehicle movement, they have a significant impact on the safety and comfort of pedestrians. Though the City of Toronto has been proactive in removing or modifying slip lanes, there is still much more work to do.

14.11.2025 19:42 — 👍 48    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 1

Tax historian here on why the IEEPA does not permit the president to impose a whole new tariff regime.

A 🧵 with guinea pigs, no. 14 sugar, and secondhand rope. Canadian illustrations

#cdnhist #tariffs

I'm responding to this: Katyal for biz, Sauer for Trump www.supremecourt.gov/oral_argumen...

14.11.2025 18:30 — 👍 12    🔁 8    💬 2    📌 1

I’m so messed up by doing the same in the maritimes, and then speaking French, that I can reliably be observed calling all three meals dinner.

Not helpful. The kids think it is hilarious.

Side note: in PEI, “a lunch” is a snack (say little sandwiches and dainties) in a hall after an event.

14.11.2025 18:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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