- One of the many reasons that it is very good that Pierre Poilievre was defeated on Monday is that it stops him from cancelling the Housing Accelerator Fund, which offers municipalities money on the condition that they loosen their zoning laws to allow fourplexes in areas near major transit lines. Predictably, there is some opposition from suburban councillors, but the city really needs the money, and now that the best argument against it - that Poilievre was going to win the election and cancel it before applicants get the money - has disappeared, the zoning changes - and resulting funding - have a good chance of going through.
- The Ottawa-area riding of Carleton, which just turfed Pierre Poilievre, had the highest voter turnout in the province and one of the highest in the country at over 81% (the national average was just under 69%). One wonders if the fact that many of those people commute to downtown Ottawa and thus had a front row seat for the clownvoy whose leaders Poilievre cozied up to had something to do with it.
- A funnel cloud was spotted over the hamlet of Kleefeld in Hanover, Manitoba on Wednesday. My general impression of Hanover suggests that it will be interpreted locally as some kind of divine warning telling them to crack down on all those sinners, or else.
- The CBS show 60 Minutes has long been noted for having much more editorial independence than is usual for American TV current affairs programming. Recently, though, this has been coming into question thanks to a pending lawsuit against the show by Donald Trump over an interview the show ran with Kamala Harris, and to a pending sale of CBS' parent company Paramount that requires Trump's approval. Last week the show's executive producer resigned because he felt that the show's independence was at risk; this past Sunday the show's host lambasted the company's executives on air. I suspect he knew he didn't have much to lose by that point anyway.
- The Trump regime's deportation of people suspected of being illegal residents without due process is too much even for Joe Rogan, who called the policy "dangerous" and "an overcorrection".
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