"There is a house / Somewhere in this City / Where Alleline and the others - meet Witchcraft's London representative." Like poetry. 🤔
Brian F. Kelcey
@stateofthecity.bsky.social
🍁Was @stateofthecity on Twitter. Veteran of a B-Grade, Film Noir genre of politics known as "local government." Current gig: second tour of duty in the Winnipeg Mayor's Office. Hometowns: Victoria, Winnipeg, Toronto. Working on 'Debt City' (see debt.city)
One thing I'm gonna miss is if its next Mayor ( 🤔) actually fixes Hamilton, Joey Coleman is going to have to create a whole new online persona, because his daily sotto voce "Hamilton has screwed up something basic yet AGAIN" straight man deadpan tone is going to be obsolete. ;)
Joey Coleman@joeycoleman.ca · 8h agoWe are getting no official results from the City of Hamilton. Still 0 of 267 tabulators reporting. #yhmcc #yhmvote
Pity my grandfather - the Dunkirk/Burma veteran who retired from the Army to the BC Leg security service, stationed behind those very steps - wasn't alive and on duty. He knew what to do with Nazis.
CHEK News@cheknews.ca · 8h agoThe morning after B.C.'s election, a dozen masked men stood on the steps of the legislature displaying a white nationalist slogan. https://cheknews.ca/doerkson-denounces-white-supremacist-stunt-at-b-c-legislature-1356640/
Los Angeles, CA mayoral race
Elizabeth Chou@reporterliz.bsky.social · 14h agoIn the last stretch of the LA mayor's race before polls close next Tuesday... and I think the biggest "race mechanics" news rn is this one... A couple of pro-Bass IEs staff recent former aides of Bass's, which experts say necessitates investigating. www.latimes.com/california/s...
Winnipeg Mayoral Race. Waiting alongside the journos for Scott Gillingham (Mayor!) to release his final platform for his 2026 re-elect campaign.
English metro mayors. Worth noting to my Ontario audience that these mayors have similar authority to Ontario model "strong mayors," including the 'implicit veto' provision for budget approvals. in fact, it seems likely that much of the Ontario model was cribbed directly from theirs. So...
Centre for Cities@centreforcities.bsky.social · 21h agoAs mayors gain greater powers and control over funding, how should scrutiny and accountability evolve? Book your place👇 buff.ly/xDMI37K
The automatons had an automated mole in the system
Daniel Aldrich@danielaldrich.bsky.social · 21h agoTexas has suspended the construction permits of 17 data center projects and disabled a web portal that automated filing for new permits after it was discovered that they were still being issued a month after calls for the process to be paused. www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...
How did she happen, exactly? Might be a good time for some UK soul-searching to answer that question carefully...
POLITICO Europe@politico.eu · 21h agoLiz Truss claims the U.K. would have managed successful missions to Mars within years — if only her 49-day premiership hadn’t been cut short.
Did this guy sneak onto my late parents' property, or what
Canadian Paintings@canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 22h agoLate Fall, Manitoba Lionel LeMoine FitzGerald 1917
Winnipeg mayoral race. Today's big Klein campaign play is a live webcast of a petulant, woe-is-me-I'm-misunderstood interview. Several LOL gems in there, but this one stands out for its fresh insight... (I've included a photo of another guy for comparison to confirm his theory)
You'd think it'd be the other way around, but it's harder to run against a guy who just lies all the time than it is running against someone with a sterling reputation for truth and credibility. And the fact that it's harder to deal with a stream of lies says something about the process in 2026.
