early vote ballot drop-offs are burning

omfjc… Thanks for the heads up. Link for anyone else who blinked and missed this on Monday.

Authorities, including the FBI, were investigating Monday after early morning fires were set in U.S. ballot drop boxes in Portland, Ore., and in nearby Vancouver, Wash., where hundreds of ballots were destroyed.

jfc… racist humour is always so stupid and lazy.

Hinchcliffe also referred to Puerto Rico as a “floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean” and made a remark about Black people who “carved watermelons” instead of pumpkins for Halloween.

A politician having trash like this warm the crowd for them should be shocking.

If I understand it right, convenience stores are exempt from recycling requirements, and it looks like the real losers in this deal are independent grocers.

Mike Sharpe, who runs a store in Campbellford, got one of the new licences set to take effect Thursday. But after seeing the new rules, he said he will not be participating.

“The idea of having a huge back room where we’re sorting and doing this makes no sense,” he said.

“Everything sounded great, so we applied, and then every day since they’ve issued a licence, the deal has gotten worse for us.”

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Olivia Chow has been abscent from this discussion since it started.

Chow says she can fix the “irritants” that residents in the area have flagged, including concerns about parking and taking away car lanes.

Bringing in provincial legislation to tackle those issues is “like using a big hammer to go after a fly,” she said. CBC - Oct 11 '24

And as someone who actually cycles to her job, she has stonewalled CycleTO.

Stonewalled? cycleTO is rightly focusing on the provincial govt and they understand that DoFo is using this as a demonstration of the municipal powers he can yoink at any time, and they know Chow is pushing back against that. I don’t know where you’re getting your facts.

She’s going out of her way to not present herself as a cycling mayor for some reason.

The mayor, often seen using a bicycle and who ran on adding more bike infrastructure in her 2023 election campaign, told CBC Radio’s Metro Morning this week that she’s asked the premier to hit pause on potential new legislation for the moment.

“I’ve asked the premier to give me some time to work on it and I’m working on it flat out,” she said. “I could show him that I could help mediate and find a solution that works for everyone.”

“I’m trying to come up with a compromise that would re-open some car lanes but keep the bike lanes…so make the design work better,” the mayor said. As for what that might look like, she didn’t say.

Chow says she and a fellow councillor and city staff met with the Kingsway Business Improvement Area and local residents on Oct. 7 for multiple hours to discuss the issue.

… To anyone reading, the petition to the Provincial Government that CycleTo put together is here.

DoFo in campaign mode is the slimiest.

He’s also straight up virtue signalling for the O&G industry. War On Cars and all that.

She says Jan 6 was about “love” directly in the face of a woman whose life she previously threatened on that day. But she has to say it, because that’s what the cult told her last.

“Nothing done wrong at all,” Trump said.

"There were no guns down there. We didn’t have guns. The others had guns, but we didn’t have guns.

“And when I say we, these are people that walked down - this was a tiny percentage of the overall which nobody sees and nobody, nobody shows. But that was a day of love.”

These individuals need deprogrammers, not debate.

I’m turning into a fan of the Lincoln Project’s work. Does the heart good to see conservatives working against the worst the country has to offer.

Anyone else think this is a direct reaction to Dave Bautista calling him a whiny little bitch? Masculinity by proxy/osmosis??? The fuck is this…

"Arnold Palmer was all man, and I say that in all due respect to women,” Trump said. “This is a guy that was all man.” […]

“When he took the showers with other pros, they came out of there. They said, ‘Oh my God. That’s unbelievable,’” Trump said with a laugh. “I had to say. We have women that are highly sophisticated here, but they used to look at Arnold as a man.”

Whole thing was a good read. Thanks for linking it.

So there are eligible voters in the USA literally afraid to try voting in case they’re jailed for it. It’s not just confusion.

Fear also drives reluctance. In the face of confusing eligibility regulations, people who are trying to put a criminal conviction behind them often don’t want to risk making a mistake that could send them back to prison. In Florida, several people faced that exact possibility in 2022, after an office set up by Gov. Ron DeSantis began arresting voters who allegedly cast ballots while ineligible to do so.

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For example, in Nebraska, the bill legislators passed this year changed state law to allow anyone with a felony conviction to register to vote upon completion of their sentence. This modified a 2005 law that automatically restored voting rights for people with felony convictions but required a two-year waiting period upon completion of a sentence.

But then a non-binding opinion by Attorney General Mike Hilgers suggested that not only this year’s law but also the prior 2005 law were unconstitutional, creating a significant cloud of uncertainty for impacted people until this week’s state Supreme Court ruling.

“We were getting lots of calls from people, ‘I’m not going to bother. It worries me too much, and I’m not going to go back to prison,’” said Smith, with Civic Nebraska.