Paul Dechene

If I had a nickel for each time in recent memory a farmer straight up murdered a guy and got off scot-free, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but weird that it's happened twice. #SKpoli #Saskatchewan #SKnews

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More Tech and Venture Capital Execs Are Coming Out as MAGA Believerswww.rollingstone.com Elon Musk, Bill Ackman, and other tech and finance leaders used the attempted Trump assassination to declare support for his 2024 campaign.

Very much not surprising how Silicon Valley now moves to support Trump. Tech's libertarian beliefs and Trump's agenda of destroying any form of active state and government (aside from his own personal will) go together perfetly. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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The City Whereyoutu.be In 2017, I was listening to far too much Negativland. This is the result of that. (Actually, it's the one listenable bit out of a much longer audio collage … "thing.") I've lost the original Audacity files and can't find the source I pulled these sound clips from.

Trump-Vance isn't designed to win over more voters, but ensure the next coup attempt proceeds more smoothly

The Republican Party has nominated a man for Vice President who says he would have ended American democracy if he’d had that role in 2021. abcnews.go.com/Politics/jd-...

Slowly compiling audio nonsense I've made over the years, mainly for the Queen City Improvement Bureau. This is an excerpt from a larger sound collage project where I was piecing together audio from old city planning films with field recordings of Regina traffic. youtu.be/gbfgJvMtQs8?... #urbanism

Did a 9km round trip bike ride on Regina's sidewalks today — b/c the streets are just to perilous for cyclists. Only encountered ONE pedestrian the entire time. Note that Regina is only 15km wide.

Recent additions to the Infrastructure Playlist: Defiance Ohio, Migo & Buzz, Mattafix, Desaparecidos, Negativland. youtube.com/playlist?lis... #urbanism

Infrastructure Songsyoutube.com A playlist of songs about municipal infrastructure, urban planning and city building. Core songlist compiled by Elan Morgan. I've been adding to it as songs ...

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After Deadly Hurricane, Texans Using Whataburger App to Track Power Outagesfuturism.com Nothing spells dystopia quite like using the Whataburger app to track damage from a hurricane — but in Texas, they make do.

Do government so badly on purpose that when a corporation steps in to fill the gap, it looks like capitalism is smart. futurism.com/the-byte/tex...

Oh man… so there is an infill development coming to Cathedral & commenters in their FB group are setting their fucking hair on fire over it. So far though, as far as i can tell, this pic of a pic is all anyone outside of immediate neighbours to the property have seen. /1 #yqrcc

I've been live tweeting city council meetings since 2013. I find it to be a useful & informative exercise. But this debate about what to do with central branch is pointless. It has been going on since I started covering council in 2008. There is no reason to cover it today. Nothing will be decided.

Council has been going on for over ninety minutes now and NOTHING new has happened. We're having an identical central library debate to dozens council's had over the last 15 years. #yqrcc

If you're interested, Regina City Council's special make-up council meeting is streaming live www.youtube.com/live/4UKP0Ag... #yqrcc

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I have to be honest with you Bsky (b/c you can't say this on twitter or you'll get run out of town) the current central library is not a "fine looking" heritage building. It's a garbage box. It represents the worst of mid-20th century perfunctory design. #yqrcc

I was going to write that about this central library debate that I am in hell but this isn't hell, it's purgatory. I am in purgatory. Grey, dusty, immutable, tedious, repetitive, dreary purgatory. #yqrcc

Regina is having a special city council meeting today b/c they are so far behind on their work. /1 #yqrcc

That grocery store pic (top R)… Cathedral has a reputation for NIMBYism but when the 13th Ave Safeway renovation was being debated, residents were saying they’d prefer a design that included several storeys of housing on top over the boring store design we ended up getting.

If you think Calgary is just a city of suburbs, sure it has lots of those, but it also has really good urban transformation areas, many of which I was proud to work on. Bridgeland/“The Bridges”, the University District, East Village and more. Dense, mixed, walkable and transit-oriented.

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With latest departure, City of Regina's senior executive team has had complete turnover since 2022 | CBC Newswww.cbc.ca With the departure this week of deputy manager of financial strategy and sustainability Barry Lacey from his job, every City of Regina executive employee who was in place at the start of 2022 has either been fired, retired or quit.

@pauldechene.bsky.social !!! "…every [Regina] city executive who was in place at the start of 2022 has now either been fired, retired or quit." www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #YQR #YQRCC

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Do not lose hope. Scream, yell, demand better, and say these thieves' names. You are being given less so that others can have more, you are having things taken from you by corporations because they must always please the nebulous form of the shareholder. wheresyoured.at/tss/

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Generative AI is a tool that only seems revolutionary to people that haven’t written, coded, drawn, or created anything in years. Yet these are the people at the top of the tech industry, forcing billions of dollars into unprofitable, unsustainable tech. wheresyoured.at/tss/

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Generative AI is exciting to the disconnected business freaks running our economy, as it’s a way to abstract and outsource even more forms of labor. It's part of their nihilistic corporate fantasy - a company with no employees and one rich CEO. wheresyoured.at/tss/

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When you have a society and economy dominated by people who neither create nor understand the things they’re selling, people that don’t experience or respect labor, their natural thought will be that any form of creativity or “work” can be automated. wheresyoured.at/tss/

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Shareholder supremacy is poisoning every industry, making Boeing's planes lethal, making movie companies *deliberately not release movies*, all thanks to a management sect that doesn't use their products and holds a deep contempt for their customers. wheresyoured.at/tss/

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Canada’s Changing Climate Reportchangingclimate.ca

“Canada is such a northern country, don’t we want a little global warming?” I often hear. In a nutshell, NO. We’re warming 2x faster than the rest of the world, driving extreme heat, flood, and sea level rise we are not prepared for. The wildfire season started in Feb this year. Feb! #canadaday

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All Together Now | Pembina Institutewww.pembina.org This year, the Pembina Institute has again partnered with Simon Fraser University to compile a comprehensive assessment of the state of climate action by governments across Canada. Canada has a key ...

AB failed on 17/23 climate policy indicators. AB has the highest emissions in CAD. AB represents 38% of CAD's emissions. AB emissions have grown 7% since 2005. The oilsands are 38% AB emissions and 12% of CAD. Oilsands emissions grew 142% since 2005!!! AB is letting CAD down. #ABPoli #ABLeg #CDNPoli

Whose responsibility is it to reduce emissions in Canada? Some provinces are doing far more than others to deliver clean, prosperous, equitable economies for their citizens. Our latest report shows who is leading – and who is falling behind. ⬇ www.pembina.org/pub/all-toge...

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Everything you need to know about TC Energy’s alleged playbook to sway governments | The Narwhalthenarwhal.ca Leaked recordings of TC Energy meetings revealed claims of ‘remarkable results’ of pro-pipeline tactics. We break down the details

Today, July 4th, most Americans will celebrate their independence by sitting in traffic on subsidized highways in cars they financed via high-interest loans from multinational banks and that they fueled with dinosaur juice imported from petrostates that hate the U.S.

We got a (discredited) inquiry into imagined political influence by environmental groups. Meanwhile, here's an oil exec EXPLAINING ON TAPE how they manipulate the media, civil servants, politicians & indigenous leaders. So… when are the hearings?

I was on CBC Sask w/ the very excellent Vanessa Mathews of the UofR & Judith Veresuk of Regina Downtown BID talking about downtowns in Saskatchewan and how to make them vibrant. youtu.be/QRNzSgSVloM?... #urbanism

Are downtowns and city centres dying?youtu.be Downtown, what works, what doesn't?We are going to spend a lot of time in the Queen City, but really this conversation applies to all downtowns. There's been...

The Leader Post's Larissa Kurz has posted a Municipal Election "Who's Running?" page. leaderpost.com/news/local-n... #yqrcc

Who's running for city council in Regina this fall?leaderpost.com The Leader-Post is keeping tabs on what candidates have put their names forward so far for the 11 seats on Regina's city council in 2024.

Regina city councillor for Ward 1, Cheryl Stadnichuk, announces she will not be seeking reelection. #yqrcc

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