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Derick
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Winnipeg. Environment, economics, art, Jets/Bombers/golf.
President of non-profit org. awasisakmeskanowgreenway.ca
Support Ukraine 🇺🇦 #GoJetsGo
My website: https://aroundthistown.ca/
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NEW BLOG POST: 6 things you need to know about the Carbon Tax

It may be gone, but it's still an election issue. We need to clear a few things up.

aroundthistown.ca/2025/04/02/a...
A Carbon Tax Eulogy: 6 things you need to know
Why economists love carbon pricing, and other fun facts about the carbon tax
aroundthistown.ca
A nonexistent football team has one of the biggest party rooms at the #CFLGreyCup

#GoSchooners
November 15, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Let's take a trip down memory lane and recall how Shawn Lamb became a murderer ... 🧵
November 14, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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New single by @dropkickmurphys.com just dropped. Helluva Veterans Day tribute, filmed IN UKRAINE. Watch and share. And BZ to all who wore the uniform—and who still stand for freedom.

"Who'll Stand With Us?"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3rt...
“Who’ll Stand With Us” featuring O’Hamsters [Recorded in KYIV 🇺🇦]
YouTube video by VALOR Media Network
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November 11, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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Ugh. Get the Jets out of California please.

#GoJetsGo
November 10, 2025 at 5:08 AM
We need to have a conversation about how to regulate eBikes and other alternative electric vehicles. The industry has evolved quickly and regs need to catch up.

Retweeting this as food for thought. Let's talk about this issue and find reasonable solutions.

h/t @juno2.bsky.social
@peopleforbikes.bsky.social looks at the problem of "e-motos" that are confused with e-bikes. There is confusion everywhere in the e-bike world; it's time to clarify and simplify the rules and get the too-big too-fast two-wheeled things out of the bike lanes.
When it comes to e-bikes, we need "clear, simple, straightforward rules that a nine-year-old can explain."
People for Bikes has recommendations for dealing with the confusion between "e-motos" and e-bikes. I have some too.
lloydalter.substack.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Just for fun: some of the new federal strategies and agencies announced in the budget yesterday:

Trade Diversification Strategy
Defence Industrial Strategy
Climate Competitiveness Strategy
Build Canada Homes (Agency)
National Anti-Fraud Strategy
Financial Crimes Agency
Defence Investment Agency
November 6, 2025 at 4:54 AM
It might be too early to call this a turning point for the Dems, but maybe they will draw lessons from tonight that will help them Federally.

Not in terms of actual policies (gov't run grocery stores are a terrible idea) but in terms of engaging the base and exciting voters 1/2
November 5, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Look at this beauty
November 4, 2025 at 1:12 AM
The #WorldSeries outcome feels like a grave injustice.

Toronto came so close so many times. I feel they wanted it more and they deserved it more.

LA winning is proof that money can buy championships. Toronto winning would have shown that character and heart wins the day. #BlueJays
Thank you, Toronto Blue Jays.

You united #Toronto and the whole country with your passion and plays. Even without a World Series title, we #GotItAll.

#WantItAll
November 2, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Nine Inch Nails #BlueJays
October 28, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Chili Peppers #BlueJays
Weezer #BlueJays
Has anyone mentioned the play-to-commercial music on these broadcasts? It's been pretty good through the whole post season. Queens Of The Stone Age that time. #BlueJays
October 28, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Weezer #BlueJays
Has anyone mentioned the play-to-commercial music on these broadcasts? It's been pretty good through the whole post season. Queens Of The Stone Age that time. #BlueJays
October 28, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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Caught some Broken Social Scene in game 1 too
October 26, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Has anyone mentioned the play-to-commercial music on these broadcasts? It's been pretty good through the whole post season. Queens Of The Stone Age that time. #BlueJays
October 26, 2025 at 1:40 AM
@emmaewood.bsky.social Good luck tonight!
October 25, 2025 at 11:33 PM
A great thread ... love stories like these:
Robert Clothier was known across Canada as Relic on The Beachcombers.
But long before that show premiered, he was a decorated Second World War pilot who flew over 50 combat missions in Europe and had to learn to walk again following a crash.
This is his amazing story.

🧵 1/11
October 21, 2025 at 10:30 PM
That ... um ... is not great.
"We found agents' responses to individual tax questions were accurate only 17% of the time," says Auditor General Karen Hogan as she speaks about new audit regarding the accuracy of information relayed to taxpayers by the Canada Revenue Agency's call centres.

#cdnpoli
October 21, 2025 at 3:59 PM
I admire your ambition little bean, but I don't think you're going to make it
October 19, 2025 at 10:12 PM
That was pretty. #GoJetsGo
October 19, 2025 at 1:43 AM
The Graham Ave "reimagining" was doomed. Pedestrian only streets work where sufficient density of businesses already exists. This is cart before the horse.
October 15, 2025 at 1:18 AM
What is this play calling? We need 4 yards and you have Callaros throwing deep when he's been terrible throwing deep all game?
October 12, 2025 at 1:50 AM
A super-human effort by Wilson to catch that badly underthrown ball from Collaros. Crazy play. #CFL #GoBlue
October 12, 2025 at 1:34 AM
If the Elks win and nobody is there to see it, did it really happen? #CFL
October 12, 2025 at 1:02 AM
That didn't look good for Demski
October 12, 2025 at 12:16 AM