Michael O’Shaughnessy
@mdnoshaughnessy.bsky.social
takesman and jokesman
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And this is without any real specific cuts in the public documents.
Axing the sustainability department doesn’t net you $100M in savings. There are more shoes to drop. Then we get to do this all over again in the new year.
Axing the sustainability department doesn’t net you $100M in savings. There are more shoes to drop. Then we get to do this all over again in the new year.
Up to at least 645 now
November 12, 2025 at 7:36 AM
And this is without any real specific cuts in the public documents.
Axing the sustainability department doesn’t net you $100M in savings. There are more shoes to drop. Then we get to do this all over again in the new year.
Axing the sustainability department doesn’t net you $100M in savings. There are more shoes to drop. Then we get to do this all over again in the new year.
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*looking at my opponents winning political victories* you have no idea what you've unleashed, you FOOL. every time you do this i will shitpost harder
meanwhile, the fiume avant-garde lady of the NYC New Right thinks Mamdani is going to cause an artistic revolution for reactionaries
November 10, 2025 at 11:03 PM
*looking at my opponents winning political victories* you have no idea what you've unleashed, you FOOL. every time you do this i will shitpost harder
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lol why put it this way
November 7, 2025 at 10:01 PM
lol why put it this way
pizza pizza is good i will die on this hill
November 7, 2025 at 8:58 PM
pizza pizza is good i will die on this hill
i cannot believe this guy is still premier honestly
Yesterday: Ontario huffy that federal budget didn’t include commitment to idea of tunnel under Hwy 401
Today: Ontario announces award of $9M contract to see if the idea of this 60km dig is even feasible
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Today: Ontario announces award of $9M contract to see if the idea of this 60km dig is even feasible
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Taxpayers on the hook for $9M to study Doug Ford's Highway 401 tunnel idea | CBC News
Ontario taxpayers are set to spend $9.1 million to learn if or how it is feasible to build a tunnel under Highway 401
www.cbc.ca
November 7, 2025 at 12:25 AM
i cannot believe this guy is still premier honestly
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Boys do cry: The Toronto Blue Jays challenge sport’s toxic masculinity with displays of love and emotion
Boys do cry: The Toronto Blue Jays challenge sport’s toxic masculinity with displays of love and emotion
Rather than uphold a dominant hypermasculine image of men in sport, this years’ World Series might have opened our eyes to a counter-narrative in sport.
theconversation.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Boys do cry: The Toronto Blue Jays challenge sport’s toxic masculinity with displays of love and emotion
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Matt Walsh’s “As a man, I have never changed a diaper, and if you have you’re spiritually gay” take is a pretty apt summation of the New Right’s stance on men’s duty to take basic care of their family.
November 6, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Matt Walsh’s “As a man, I have never changed a diaper, and if you have you’re spiritually gay” take is a pretty apt summation of the New Right’s stance on men’s duty to take basic care of their family.
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There is a meaning to the fact that Dreher cites here and it's this: religious pluralism is great! Qualified people can become leaders in our society without having to abandon or dissemble about their religious faith! Score one for pluralistic liberalism over laïcité or ethno-religious nationalism!
Rod Dreher is a racist.
He’s not an intellectual or thought leader or whatever BS.
He’s a gutter racist authoritarian, and there’s nothing else to him.
He’s not an intellectual or thought leader or whatever BS.
He’s a gutter racist authoritarian, and there’s nothing else to him.
November 5, 2025 at 5:42 PM
There is a meaning to the fact that Dreher cites here and it's this: religious pluralism is great! Qualified people can become leaders in our society without having to abandon or dissemble about their religious faith! Score one for pluralistic liberalism over laïcité or ethno-religious nationalism!
i think it's worth saying that bc has 5 million people and 8 years in the province hasn't been able to deliver universal $10 a day childcare - and it's NOT for lack of funding or lack of trying
i really hope mamdani succeeds bc the cynicism that would follow a failure would be catastrophic
i really hope mamdani succeeds bc the cynicism that would follow a failure would be catastrophic
A lot of time gets spent talking about election campaigns and analyzing why candidates connect with the public.
But it’s the grinding work of turning those promises into reality that actually impacts people, and is full of pitfalls.
anyways this is about uhhhhh let’s say port moody
But it’s the grinding work of turning those promises into reality that actually impacts people, and is full of pitfalls.
anyways this is about uhhhhh let’s say port moody
November 5, 2025 at 8:31 PM
i think it's worth saying that bc has 5 million people and 8 years in the province hasn't been able to deliver universal $10 a day childcare - and it's NOT for lack of funding or lack of trying
i really hope mamdani succeeds bc the cynicism that would follow a failure would be catastrophic
i really hope mamdani succeeds bc the cynicism that would follow a failure would be catastrophic
my favourite vancouver council moment today was abc accusing the opposition of being political in one breath and accusing anyone who opposes their agenda of wanting to bring CHAZ to vancouver in the next
November 5, 2025 at 8:27 PM
my favourite vancouver council moment today was abc accusing the opposition of being political in one breath and accusing anyone who opposes their agenda of wanting to bring CHAZ to vancouver in the next
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A lot of time gets spent talking about election campaigns and analyzing why candidates connect with the public.
But it’s the grinding work of turning those promises into reality that actually impacts people, and is full of pitfalls.
anyways this is about uhhhhh let’s say port moody
But it’s the grinding work of turning those promises into reality that actually impacts people, and is full of pitfalls.
anyways this is about uhhhhh let’s say port moody
November 5, 2025 at 2:28 AM
A lot of time gets spent talking about election campaigns and analyzing why candidates connect with the public.
But it’s the grinding work of turning those promises into reality that actually impacts people, and is full of pitfalls.
anyways this is about uhhhhh let’s say port moody
But it’s the grinding work of turning those promises into reality that actually impacts people, and is full of pitfalls.
anyways this is about uhhhhh let’s say port moody
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The slow-growth coalition that has dominated big city politics for the past 50 years is losing its grip on power as an ascendant YIMBY movement demands new homes in the places people want to live.
New York completely rejected left-NIMBYism today. we elected a socialist pro-housing mayor, and passed pro-housing ballot measures with a diverse coalition that was strongest in the Bronx, winning every borough by double digits (except the MAGA NIMBYs Staten Island)
November 5, 2025 at 4:46 PM
The slow-growth coalition that has dominated big city politics for the past 50 years is losing its grip on power as an ascendant YIMBY movement demands new homes in the places people want to live.
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New York completely rejected left-NIMBYism today. we elected a socialist pro-housing mayor, and passed pro-housing ballot measures with a diverse coalition that was strongest in the Bronx, winning every borough by double digits (except the MAGA NIMBYs Staten Island)
November 5, 2025 at 6:21 AM
New York completely rejected left-NIMBYism today. we elected a socialist pro-housing mayor, and passed pro-housing ballot measures with a diverse coalition that was strongest in the Bronx, winning every borough by double digits (except the MAGA NIMBYs Staten Island)
mandani's campaign wasn't anti-popularist, it's actually popularism done correctly
- laser focus on the most salient issue
- abandoned old positions that are unpopular
prove me wrong
- laser focus on the most salient issue
- abandoned old positions that are unpopular
prove me wrong
November 5, 2025 at 6:23 AM
mandani's campaign wasn't anti-popularist, it's actually popularism done correctly
- laser focus on the most salient issue
- abandoned old positions that are unpopular
prove me wrong
- laser focus on the most salient issue
- abandoned old positions that are unpopular
prove me wrong
thank you mark, very cool
Out of budget lockup. I recently wrote: "Ottawa imposes a 10 percent luxury tax on yachts... yet a family buying a semi in Scarborough pays the equivalent of 15 percent in [DCs] and land transfer taxes."
Today the gov't addressed this by eliminating the luxury tax on yachts.
Today the gov't addressed this by eliminating the luxury tax on yachts.
November 4, 2025 at 9:59 PM
thank you mark, very cool
"land lift" irritates me a little bit. it implies that upzoning proactively lifts values when what it actually represents is land achieving its natural value by allowing more homes to be built on it.
if you zoned downtown Hope for 50 storey skyscrapers I doubt you'd see much lift, you know?
if you zoned downtown Hope for 50 storey skyscrapers I doubt you'd see much lift, you know?
November 4, 2025 at 5:08 PM
"land lift" irritates me a little bit. it implies that upzoning proactively lifts values when what it actually represents is land achieving its natural value by allowing more homes to be built on it.
if you zoned downtown Hope for 50 storey skyscrapers I doubt you'd see much lift, you know?
if you zoned downtown Hope for 50 storey skyscrapers I doubt you'd see much lift, you know?
kind of interesting that the police board presents its ask as roughly 5%, but this seems to show a 10% jump in spending from this year?
is it normal accounting practice to bake collective agreement increases into the existing budget and only present your incremental ask atop that larger number?
is it normal accounting practice to bake collective agreement increases into the existing budget and only present your incremental ask atop that larger number?
November 3, 2025 at 11:25 PM
kind of interesting that the police board presents its ask as roughly 5%, but this seems to show a 10% jump in spending from this year?
is it normal accounting practice to bake collective agreement increases into the existing budget and only present your incremental ask atop that larger number?
is it normal accounting practice to bake collective agreement increases into the existing budget and only present your incremental ask atop that larger number?
this is also true of the rest of the city's departments, and yet they're suffering from brutal and arbitrary budget cuts.
www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...
www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...
November 3, 2025 at 11:12 PM
this is also true of the rest of the city's departments, and yet they're suffering from brutal and arbitrary budget cuts.
www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...
www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...
As someone who isn't familiar with British politics, can someone learn me if we're likely to see floor crossings to the Greens in deeply progressive areas
Like, if the BC NDP were doing this poorly it wouldn't surprise me to see MLAs in East Van or Victoria consider it inews.co.uk/news/politic...
Like, if the BC NDP were doing this poorly it wouldn't surprise me to see MLAs in East Van or Victoria consider it inews.co.uk/news/politic...
'We face annihilation': Starmer braced for tense showdown with Labour MPs
Labour backbenchers are growing increasingly pessimistic about their prospects at forthcoming elections
inews.co.uk
November 3, 2025 at 6:35 PM
As someone who isn't familiar with British politics, can someone learn me if we're likely to see floor crossings to the Greens in deeply progressive areas
Like, if the BC NDP were doing this poorly it wouldn't surprise me to see MLAs in East Van or Victoria consider it inews.co.uk/news/politic...
Like, if the BC NDP were doing this poorly it wouldn't surprise me to see MLAs in East Van or Victoria consider it inews.co.uk/news/politic...
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One of my low-key favorite parts of the Mamdani campaign is that he walks around the city. People who love cities walk around their cities, but few political candidates do so.
Zohran Mamdani marching across the Brooklyn Bridge with supporters, including Tish James and Brad Lander, before delivering his closing campaign message in City Hall Park.
November 3, 2025 at 3:56 PM
One of my low-key favorite parts of the Mamdani campaign is that he walks around the city. People who love cities walk around their cities, but few political candidates do so.
if MLSE was 'nationalized' by the city of toronto the leafs unironically might win more often
dead serious - MLSE makes money because seasons tickets and box seats are common corporate gifts. winning and shareholder performance aren't really linked
dead serious - MLSE makes money because seasons tickets and box seats are common corporate gifts. winning and shareholder performance aren't really linked
I think sports teams should always be owned by the municipalities they play in, rather than by billionaires & corporations who take advantage of local pride while basically acting as parasites.
I'd care if a team owned by a Canadian city had lost. I just don't care that a team owned by Rogers lost.
I'd care if a team owned by a Canadian city had lost. I just don't care that a team owned by Rogers lost.
November 2, 2025 at 5:23 AM
if MLSE was 'nationalized' by the city of toronto the leafs unironically might win more often
dead serious - MLSE makes money because seasons tickets and box seats are common corporate gifts. winning and shareholder performance aren't really linked
dead serious - MLSE makes money because seasons tickets and box seats are common corporate gifts. winning and shareholder performance aren't really linked
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Average anti-Bluesky op-ed: this app is solely an echo chamber for left-wing politics
Average Bluesky post: baseball has taken everything from me
Average Bluesky post: baseball has taken everything from me
November 2, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Average anti-Bluesky op-ed: this app is solely an echo chamber for left-wing politics
Average Bluesky post: baseball has taken everything from me
Average Bluesky post: baseball has taken everything from me
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sports was a mistake
November 2, 2025 at 3:38 AM
sports was a mistake