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No wonder the ex-Expos finally won

Oct 31, 2019
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Twitter avatar for @GlobalBCGlobal BC @GlobalBC
#BREAKING The B.C. government will introduce legislation to move to permanent Daylight Saving Time.
B.C. government to introduce legislation Thursday to make Daylight Saving Time permanentGlobal News has learned Premier John Horgan will be introducing enabling legislation on Thursday to make Daylight Saving Time permanent.trib.al

October 30th 2019

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Clock stock photos were put to good use in coverage of B.C. taking the first step to stop time from falling back each November. Daylight Saving would become the provincial standard under the proposed plan, despite arguments to stick to Standard Time.


Trick-or-treat faces defeat

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La Ville de Montréal invite les citoyens et citoyennes à passer l'Halloween vendredi, en raison de la pluie et des vents violents annoncés demain, ainsi qu'à prioriser la sécurité. Les services municipaux seront au rendez-vous.
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October 30th 2019

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Montreal officially postponed Halloween activities to Friday due to stormy weather, but some neighbouring municipalities are standing firm—and Toronto won’t budge. A permanent shift to Saturday nights was already being pushed by costume marketers.


Les Expos legacy won the World Series 25 years too late. Washington Nationals scored the first MLB championship for the franchise, which was transplanted to D.C. a decade after the 1994 baseball strike put a sudden stop to what might’ve been for Montreal.


Can’t stop the overthrow talk

Andrew Scheer’s failure to become PM “was like having a breakaway on an open net and missing the net,” said former Conservative cabinet minister Peter MacKay. But the reports of his quip at a Washington, D.C., event was followed with this midnight tweet:

Twitter avatar for @PeterMacKayPeter MacKay @PeterMacKay
I’ve repeatedly said I support @AndrewScheer + I worked v hard to help him in the campaign. Reports of me organizing r false. Recent comments r about our Party’s shortcomings & making the necessary improvements w modern policies + better coms so we can win the next election.

October 31st 2019

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Elizabeth May is mulling a run for Speaker of the House. The Green leader thinks her “less partisan” stance would make her ideal. Meanwhile, her party booster Pamela Anderson is asking Justin Trudeau to serve prisoners vegan meals to save tax dollars.


Daisy days and Daisy nights

Warren Kinsella’s consulting style is back in the news with a Globe and Mail report about how his firm provided strategic advice to the Ontario PC health ministry—and also provided free media training to an autistic self-advocacy group fighting its cuts:

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We were contacted by the Globe and Mail and are in this story about Warren Kinsella and the Daisy Group. Our official statement is the next tweet in the thread. Many thanks to @curryb for reaching out and being thorough
Kinsella firm provided free training to autism group, threatened suit after they questioned possible ties to Ford governmentThe unsolicited offer of free help from Daisy Group came during a controversy this year over the Ontario government’s cuts to autism fundingtheglobeandmail.com

October 31st 2019

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Bernard Slade dead at 89. The creator of The Partridge Family shifted from sitcom to stage with Same Time, Next Year and Tribute—plays that were made into movies. Born in St. Catharines, Ontario, he was profiled by Maclean’s in 1975, amidst the transition.


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Finally, a rewriting of Alphabet

Sidewalk Labs got unanimous approval from Waterfront Toronto to move negotiations for a revised Quayside smart-city plan to the next stage. Just before the vote was a peek at what Sidewalk wondered what it might do:

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Leaked document reveals that Sidewalk Labs’ Toronto plans for private taxation, private roads, charter schools, corporate cops and judges, and punishment for people who choose privacy
Leaked document reveals that Sidewalk Labs’ Toronto plans for private taxation, private roads, charter schools, corporate cops and judges, …Tomorrow, Toronto’s City Council will hold a key vote on Sidewalk Labs’s plan to privatize much of the city’s lakeshore in the name of creating a “smart city” owned by…boingboing.net

October 31st 2019

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