The Netherlands is tightening its asylum policy, following Denmark and Sweden: https://migrant-integration.ec.europa.eu/news/netherlands-government-presents-new-asylum-and-migration-rules_en

Also IMO the whole customs and road network around the Rainbow Bridge should be cleaned up, as often times the line of cars crossing the bridge into the US spills out into the adjacent streets.

Liberals are going to have to get a handle on this sort of stuff because it is an extremely bad look especially during a time when Canadians already feel increasingly negative about the levels of mass migration into Canada...

Lots of taxes owed to the city on this property, I wonder if the city should just seize the rest of the property? https://www.torontotoday.ca/local/city-hall/chinatown-unpaid-property-taxes-222-spadina-arrears-9843308

Starmer is clearly out of his depth, as are the geriatric Thatcherite-clinger-on-ers in the Conservative party and both parties have wasted the large mandates that increasingly dissatisfied voters have reluctantly given them. I think the current UK parties are moribund- even Farage (who...

Also to add to it: https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/google-must-sell-chrome-to-restore-competition-in-online-search-u-s-justice-department-says-1.7389230

A bit underwhelming IMO.

Current context: https://maps.app.goo.gl/G8xo2kVUHVPmof2A9 What used to be on the corner: By the 50s it seems to have been cut down to its remaining form (fire?), with the corner rebuilt later: Good to see no significant heritage losses, but I question the wavy corner podium treatment, which...

I guess repairs are tied into the province's land lease deal with the city having to keep the OSC in good condition? Which makes this more apparent that the roof issue was ultimately an excuse to close down the centre (which I think is ultimately tied to the Ontario Place redevelopment plans)...

I think it'll be interesting to see an outward expansion of the arts into the outer suburbs, but I do think that the car-centric nature does work against it a bit (more limited movement, more controlled zoning, less spontaneity), while inner city areas that have barely entered the scene like...

Ultimately it all comes down to the cost of living, the cost of business, and the amount of spare cash the public has on hand to enjoy these events- there are very few cheap spaces left in this city, and it will always be more expensive to create these spaces from scratch (i.e. Artscape)...

Province to reduce this program: https://globalnews.ca/news/10875443/ontario-supervised-consumption-site-law-tabled/ Whatever it may be, I think that the concept of safe injection sites needs to be revisited to ensure that they are not simply managing the symptoms of an addiction crisis.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/11/19/keir-starmer-elon-musk-approval-rating-poll-jl-partners/

I mean it comes off as dishonest (and at best incompetent) when the mess was made under their watch. Could've, would've, should've... And of course buried in the lede: https://toronto.citynews.ca/2024/11/17/trudeau-says-he-could-have-acted-faster-on-immigration-changes-blames-bad-actors/

Also FYI, the processing backlog is now 260,000, a magnitude higher than what it was in 2019. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/editorials/article-the-meltdown-in-canadas-refugee-system/ Another issue is the asylum/refugee system which has already been gamed out by immigration lawyers: -...

I honestly wouldn't mind a smaller airport at Pickering dedicated to general aviation + some budget/charter lines.

Hopefully there will be some teeth to this and a way of actually tracking exit data (it seems like Canada does not actually do so at the moment). Because if it's like the UK, then there will be problems in actually enforcing returns...

Keep in mind the GEA was only ended in 2019, after the fall of the Liberals. Wynne was brought down primarily by massive hikes in hydro prices, partially brought around by mismanagement in generating capacity/needs, and generous subsidies to solar and wind to the tune of $3 billion a year on...

My gut feeling is that the next Democratic presidential nominee will likely be male, Latino, and probably from a military background.

Ford will survive because he's amoral and can turn on a dime if he feels like the political winds are blowing the wrong way. Compare that to the Mcguinty-Wynne Liberals who held onto their ill-fated Green Energy Act until it completely sunk their party. Ford's also a perpetual campaigner so...