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Court thwarts Doug Ford's attempt to reduce Toronto city council
Stick that in your pipe and smoke it, Dougie!
Justice Edward Belobaba says Ford's Progressive Conservative government "clearly crossed the line" with its Better Local Government Act, which aligns municipal ward boundaries with provincial ridings, cutting the potential number of councillors from 47 to 25 after the Oct. 22 election.
In his highly anticipated ruling, Belobaba calls the act "unconstitutional."
"Passing a law that changes the city's electoral districts in the middle of its election and undermines the overall fairness of the election is antithetical to the core principles of our democracy," Belobaba says in his written decision.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/judge-ruling-city-council-bill-election-1.4816664
Hi applegrove. Hope all is well!
Trump takes a jab at Hillary on Twitter
All class, this man. As usual. 
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1038774320972095488
Reminder: This is why we kneel
https://twitter.com/terror_2/status/1037903683772530688Sen. Mike Lee is so concerned about "this witness" (Kavanaugh)
having a copy of any document he's asked about because it's only fair.
And yet I didn't hear Sen. Lee speaking up about the Democrats trying to confirm that same candidate without having access to more than 100,000 pages pertinent to Kavanaugh's judicial record.
Let's hear your predictions for best and worst teams in the NFL
Who ya got finishing on top of the NFL overall standings this season and which team will be the cellar dweller?
The Bills have secured the basement, IMO. Nathan Peterman named starting QB. There's nothing that stands out about this team at all. They'll go 2-14. Maybe they want the first pick next year. Tampa Bay and Miami will only be marginally better, IMO.
Best team this year, record-wise, will be the L.A. Rams at 13-3. Great receiving corps, arguably the best RB in football, a young and capable QB and a top-5 defense. While many are picking the Eagles to be on top, I think the situation at QB is going to hamper them early in the regular season. Wentz's surgically rebuilt knee isn't ready to go yet. Foles isn't Wentz. The Eagles are still your Super Bowl winners, I'll bet but they won't have the best record in football.
Forbes: Capitalism Will Starve Humanity By 2050 Unless There Are Changes
Revisiting this op-ed in Forbes from 2016, which contains many facts and figures. Do you agree or disagree with the premise that capitalism is unsustainable in its current form? If so, how optimistic/pessimistic are you that it will actually change for the better. The election of Donald Trump as president doesn't instill much hope or confidence, IMO.
• Species are going extinct at a rate 1,000 times faster than that of the natural rate over the previous 65 million years (see Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School).
• Since 2000, 6 million hectares of primary forest have been lost each year. That’s 14,826,322 acres, or just less than the entire state of West Virginia (see the 2010 assessment by the Food and Agricultural Organization of the UN).
• Even in the U.S., 15% of the population lives below the poverty line. For children under the age of 18, that number increases to 20% (see U.S. Census).
• The world’s population is expected to reach 10 billion by 2050 (see United Nations' projections).
https://www.forbes.com/sites/drewhansen/2016/02/09/unless-it-changes-capitalism-will-starve-humanity-by-2050/#1b1ad1577ccc
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