i spent something like three months yelling at the russians to take out the bridges over the dnieper, but they apparently didn't want to rebuild them. the russians are of the opinion that destroying infrastructure in ukraine is "barbaric", as they have intended from the start to take the country in tact.

frankly, i'm left to conclude that the russians haven't been taking this seriously and haven't been legitimately trying to win this war and this could go down in history as a very serious error. the ukrainians have no such qualms and have consistently done any sneaky dirty thing they can to win or advantage themselves against a clearly superior foe.

this is technically a war crime, but nobody is going to care.

conversely....do the ukrainians want the russians to actually start trying to win this war? if so, they should keep it up. this is a foolish escalation by a foolish government.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/ukraine-russia-seym-bridge-1.7299873

10 of the 23 supervised consumption sites in ontario are within 200 metres of child-care centres or schools?

what?

i would rather see a larger number like 2 km than 200 metres, myself, but it's some progress, i guess.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ontario-supervised-injection-change-rule-school-distance-1.7299376

this is why the bourgeois left is getting skinned alive everywhere on the ground right now.

ctv is not the best broadcaster in canada, but this short article should be everybody's memo everywhere tomorrow morning. these are absurd drops in the standard of living, and everybody knows they were worse in 2023 and are going to be even worse in 2024 and even worse in 2025 unless government steps in with substantive policy changes.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/statistics-canada-says-median-family-after-tax-income-in-2022-down-after-inflation-1.7006153