Nicholas P

[Nicholas P @NAP2030]

Eb Major Jon ❤️

[Matt Stoller @matthewstoller]

Wow. https://t.co/OqulWBUpIA

[Jeromy (Pathfinder) Farkas @JeromyYYC]

Property tax bills are due today. Imagine if Ottawa forced Alberta to collect a big federal tax hike on provincial letterhead. That's how municipalities are treated with the Province's 57% property tax increase over four years. It's time to keep property taxes local, with clear accountability and transparency.

Imagine if Justin Trudeau ordered Danielle Smith to collect a massive federal tax increase through Alberta's tax bill. She'd be furious.

That’s exactly what’s happening today to Alberta’s cities, with today’s deadline to pay your property tax bill. Not many of you may know, but now upwards of half of your property taxes go to the provincial government, and not the town, city, or municipality you live in.

The biggest increase on your property tax bill didn't come from City Hall. It came from the Provincial government.

The Province imposed a 21 percent increase on your property tax bill, the largest property tax increase in Calgary's history. Over the past four years, it has increased the education property tax by 57 percent.

By comparison, our Council held the municipal property tax increase to just 1.8 percent. That funds police, firefighters, roads, transit, parks, snow clearing, recreation centres, and the infrastructure that keeps Calgary moving.

Because of the Province's education property tax equalization formula, Calgary homeowners are paying about twice the increase faced by Edmonton homeowners.

Don't take my word for it. Here's how the Premier herself describes where a large share of your property tax goes.

"If we're going to rail against equalization at the federal level, then we can't keep doing the same thing to our municipalities..."

The Premier is right.

If we're going to oppose equalization at the federal level, we shouldn't be doing the same thing to Alberta's municipalities.

Property taxes are local taxes. They should stay local.

The Province should fund provincial priorities through its other revenue sources, and municipalities should collect property taxes for local services.

Thank you for supporting the City services that keep Calgary safe, moving, and growing.

[Into The Forest Dark @ElliottBlackwe3]

Returning to Didion's incredible essay "On Keeping a Notebook."

[Dr. Nika Soon-Shiong @nikasoonshiong]

This is fantastic news.

[ostonox @ostonox]

oh my god, Abdul doesn't just have the juice, he is the juice

[Zito @_Zeets]

I wrote about why penalty shootouts are so wonderful and capture the tension and drama and football, even though I can’t watch them

https://t.co/26orGcKkCu

[JoezMcfly🇩🇴 @JoezMcfLy]

Thats why he be talkin all that shit on fox

[@gdess @GDess]

For fans of Ernaux this is a reminder that she is indeed a great writer, for those who need an excellent introduction to her work, @tobihaslett has provided it
https://t.co/5TEwTSDHKR

[Rory McCarthy @roryisconfused]

I wanna read Knausgaard on Haaland, that’d be something

[The Knicks Wall @TheKnicksWall]

Powerful message

[Don Davies @DonDavies]

Palestinian-Canadians have human rights and their own narrative. It is a historical fact that a million Palestinians were displaced and dispossessed in 1948. They suffered massacres and destroyed homes. Instead of interfering with history, politicians would do better learning it.

[POLITICO @politico]

Why Bosnia's fans also cheer for Palestine https://t.co/wjEdVT21OD

[Bosnian Football @BosniaNTBall]

Support comes in from kids in Gaza🇵🇸……I’m not crying you are crying. We got to get this W tonight boys!🥹 #FIFAWorldCup #BIHUSA 🇧🇦🇺🇸

[Franklin Leonard @franklinleonard]

2-1 heartbreak to England in the Round of 32. Sadly, we now know the end of DR Congo's extraordinary World Cup story.

Take a moment to read how it began: the improbable road, and the faith, it took just to get here.

My piece for @VanityFair.
https://t.co/oqwiqYrVCf

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

When they called a library a 'biblioteca.'

Absolute banger of a word.

[KNEECAP @KNEECAPCEOL]

Pack of absolute amateurs 😂😂😂

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

Immediately after Oct. 7, Bill Ackman and his ilk organized a blacklist to bar Americans criticizing Israel from ever having a job in finance, law, Silicon Valley, etc. That led to a wave of mass firings over Israel.

Totally unsurprising that this created a massive backlash:

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

Erling Haaland, Norway’s large, maniacal striker, has several exceedingly Norwegian traits. He sometimes exercises by chopping wood in the forest. He consumes 6,000 calories a day. After training sessions, he drinks raw milk. He owns a tax-sheltered investment company in Luxembourg named Pillage. He bought an edition of the “Heimskringla,” a 13th-century Old Norse saga, for $130,000—then donated it to his local library because, he explained, “I’ve never been much of a reader.” He has flowing blond hair, often compared to a Viking’s. He brings the intensity of a raiding party to the sport. Haaland scores goals at a higher rate than almost any soccer player ever. He has said, “I think of football all the time.” His wake-up alarm plays the theme song for the Champions League. He once posted a photo of himself on a plane, staring ahead intensely, with the caption “Just raw dogged a 7 hour flight no phone no sleep no water no food only map.” The Guardian once called him a “ravenous Nordic goal-yeti.”

Haaland’s style of play elicits not wonder but terror. He is enormous: six feet five, 200 pounds, about the size and speed of the N.F.L. wide receiver Randy Moss. “Watching him, I sometimes find myself giggling as I might over a big, obscene crash at a demolition derby,” Zach Helfand writes. Read more: https://t.co/iAtLMOvrv0

[Brattani @Bratt_world]

Israel says Canada must not learn why the Gaza Strip exists, and what laws and human rights have consistently been broken since to ensure Palestinians are not given their lands back.

This is the same outlet that constantly demands “truth” in Canadas residential school system/death count and blames FN people for putting “property rights and values at risk”

Why not just let us have the facts ? I’ve yet to see one Jewish outlet deny any of the facts of this museum, only that THEIR side wasn’t added, and context was missing 🙄

[רון גרליץ 🟣 Ron Gerlitz @RonGerlitz1]

My op-ed in @haaretzcom - "In Israel, founded by a people who were the victims of the most brutal genocide in history, the ruling party has legitimized the idea of indiscriminate mass killing, while prominent members of it support committing genocide."

https://t.co/VJI7V01Y2X