Tom Fougere Tom Fougere

No one wants this, but she’s doing it anyway.

Except for Separatism. Danielle’s one success has been to hand over her party, the UCP, to Separatists. Do you wonder why we aren’t having a provincial election in which there’s a big-tent conservative party and a big-tent progressive party and a handful of fringe parties (greens, separatists, communists, etc.)?

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McBride’s McBride’s

ICE trucks roll up in front of Crestwood School

Sandy is out front planting flowers when four ICE trucks roll up in front of Crestwood School and a dozen agents spill out into the courtyard. She stares in shock for a moment before dropping the spade and running for her front door. She grabs the whistle off its hook, spins around, and begins blowing with all her might.

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Cut & Paste:

The first time McGrogan came to the Bakery he was nice enough. All man-to-man, you know? The sanctions had just been imposed, and I had responded with targeted criticism of him, which led him to visit the Bakery.

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Sign, Sign, Everywhere a Sign

There are forty-five people running for office right now, without wards, so everyone is running everywhere. In this sense, the abundance of signs isn’t so surprising, although it is getting tiresome now that we’re a month into it.

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The Document

7 pages of standard conservative priorities: population growth, business development strategies, more police and surveillance cameras, and mainly low-cost suggestions for dealing with street-level disorder.

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Case Study: Kingsway

Kingsway hosts some businesses that make it an auto hub, but several auto businesses have failed there, too. It has hosted some non-profits, and lost others, but it is not a service delivery hub. As a commercial zone, results are clearly mixed.

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Dear Ted,

I wasn’t there for the Ted years. While you were Mayor, I had little kids, my business wasn’t doing so hot, I was up early every day, and the bandwidth I had available for politics was provincial level and up.

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