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Victor Marx in the lead
Pew research polling showing most Republicans do not believe in human caused climate change.
Pew research polling showing most Americans believe the world will not do enough to avoid the worst impacts from climate change.
Puddle coming from deep underground
An investment portfolio entirely in the red
Cherry blossom close up
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Sun sets on Cineplex Beaches
Foggy streets
Spadina
Taddle Creek Park
Depressing ghost art at Union Station Toronto
To start with, councillors should ask to see the 2025 budget alongside the city's actual results for 2023 and its projections for the 2024 results that will come out later this year. That is information well-run businesses and not-for-profits provide, and it is information that is readily available for other governments, notably the Ontario government. We should be seeing historical and projected key numbers - revenues, expenses and resulting bottom line - on a consistent basis. Toronto's budget does not show these numbers. Most notably, past and projected surpluses get no mention at all. Too few people know what is clear from Toronto's financial statements: It has consistently recorded more revenue than it has spent. In 2023, the city ran a surplus of $1.25-billion. Add that to its past surpluses, and its accumulated surplus - its net worth, reflecting its capacity to deliver services - totalled $33.7-billion. The minority who follow these numbers would bet that, when the books are closed for last year, the city will report another healthy surplus. The absence of these numbers from the budget supports a narrative that Toronto's finances are dire, and that its residents and ratepayers must either face reduced services or pay a whopping additional tax bill.
She’s 16. It’s not like she’s four.
Lots of green tracts around Palmerston
2 minutes ago The New York Times In Catia la Mar, a city just west of the Caracas airport, the air strikes hit a three-story civilian apartment complex, knocking out an exterior wall and killing at least one older woman, the victim's family said. The woman, Rosa González, died in the strike and a second person was seriously wounded, the family said. One woman in the building said she was hit and nearly lost her eye. Another person, a 70-year-old man named Jorge who declined to give his last name, said he "lost everything" when the bomb exploded.
Order of Nine Angles The Order of Nine Angels (ONA or O9A) is a Satanic left-hand path and terrorist network that originated in the United Kingdom, but has since branched out into other parts of the world. Claiming to have been established in the 1960s, it rose to public recognition in the early 1980s, attracting attention for its neo-Nazi ideology and activism. Describing its approach as "Traditional Satanism", it also exhibits Hermetic and modern Pagan elements in its beliefs.
A still from the 2024 movie Universal Language in which a character says Winnipeg is a strange destination for tourism