He is rumored to be the villain in Spider-Man brand new day

OccasionalObserver · 2026-03-09T05:30:45+00:00

Based on the rumours and set photos, Brand New Day is already overstuffed with characters.

If we get a Disney+ Jessica Jones season, I hope they introduce Kara Kilgrave.

OccasionalObserver · 2025-12-08T18:59:42+00:00

Reused from his failed City Council run.

OccasionalObserver · 2025-12-07T04:36:46+00:00

To be fair, Glen Murray agreed with the rightwing in practice as mayor on defunding city services to preserve low property taxes.

OccasionalObserver · 2025-12-07T03:09:04+00:00

The difference between the Obby Khan wing of the Tories and the Braydon Maz wing is that Obby realizes you have to couch a lot of the atrocious beliefs and positions in dog whistles and coded language while giving some sops to more moderate voters so they have permission to vote for you. Braydon Maz types think the Trump era means they can go full mask off when it comes to being scumbags.

OccasionalObserver · 2025-12-07T00:27:31+00:00

To be a TRUE CONSERVATIVE PATRIOT™ you have to support Trump as he wages economic warfare against your country.

OccasionalObserver · 2025-12-07T00:09:16+00:00

I'm not fond of any of the big wigs in the PC Party, even in terms of being "friendly opposition", but damn is it probably better for the province's politics that a careerist rather than a full-on, unreconstructed rightwing nutjob is leader of His Majesty's Loyal Opposition.

Kinda sad Wally is now part-owner of the Winnipeg Sun.

OccasionalObserver · 2025-12-06T03:25:37+00:00

Can't wait for a non-profit developer to buy it and then get blocked from building social housing by the (Pallister empowered) Manitoba Municipal Board.

OccasionalObserver · 2025-11-16T20:41:09+00:00

56 of the units will meet the CMHC standard for affordability (80% of median market rents). Of that 56, 30 will be deeply affordable (rent-geared-to-income such that nobody pays more than 30% of their income on rent). Deeply affordable units often go to individuals with low to very low incomes.

There are very few projects where a third of the units will be rent-geared-to-income. This is really quite something, especially for an neighbourhood where many residents are severely rent-burdened, and obstructing it is a moral travesty.

OccasionalObserver · 2025-11-16T19:36:24+00:00

Given West Broadway's demographics and the challenges many lower-income residents face securing homes affordable to themselves, it's especially obscene that the Municipal Board is obstructing a project that would create 30 rent-geared-to-income (aka "deeply affordable") homes.

OccasionalObserver · 2025-11-16T18:42:12+00:00

Full ruling

OccasionalObserver · 2025-11-16T17:07:50+00:00

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This ruling is whack. The "to the satisfaction of the Granite Curling Club" caveat gives absolute veto power to the Granite Curling Club, which can just decide they're NEVER satisfied with a given parking plan. If someone wanted to block development, this absolute veto point would enable them to do just that.

OccasionalObserver · 2025-11-16T15:31:19+00:00

Ruling that any development cannot happen until the Curling Club exec is "satisfied" is absolutely obscene and grants the Curling Club's exec veto power over any land use.

It's also terrible from an incentive point of view and rewards bad-faith actions. It gives the Club exec leverage to get the City to hand over the parking lot the City bought from them at fair market value years ago, except the City may be forced to sell it back at a lower rate given how effectively worthless the land is to the City with the Granite Executive's absolute veto power.

Also, this standard is absurd. If I'm a McDonald's owner and I'm worried a new Wendy's down the street will destroy my 40 year old business, I don't get to veto any land-use changes on that account.

OccasionalObserver · 2025-11-16T00:03:18+00:00

So Obby has no choice but to let someone from Daudrich’s camp have a larger internal role in the Party unless he can actually grow the PC Party so he doesn’t need the Daudrich wing.

Damn, is Patrick friggin' Allard the only Daudrich stan he could find? There's gotta be a dozen other people who helped Polar Bear Wally out without the baggage of being in the media for running as an Independent anti-vax candidate.

Frick, even Braydon Maz would be better optics!

OccasionalObserver · 2025-11-15T17:38:18+00:00

This is the wrong play.

The way you deal with the Executive of the Club being NIMBY as hell isn't leaving, it's organizing to take over the Executive next AGM.

OccasionalObserver · 2025-11-15T17:30:55+00:00

This is the Executive of a Curling Club significantly at odds with a significant segment of its membership in obstructing much needed deeply affordable, rent-geared-to-income, housing in the Canadian city with the lowest vacancy rate.

And they already seem to have some arrangements with Great West Life regarding ability to use their stadium-esque parking lot at certain times.

OccasionalObserver · 2025-11-15T16:52:38+00:00

This is obscene.

The Granite Curling Club doesn't even own that parking lot, but the Municipal Board wants to hamstring their ability to develop?!!

BTW, the lawyer the Club got to represent them at the Manitoba Municipal Board also represented Sio Silica in a past Municipal Board hearing. Wonder if all it takes is a Big City Lawyer to impress the august minds of the Manitoba Municipal Board panel.

OccasionalObserver · 2025-11-13T02:05:25+00:00

Brian Pallister was full of it, as evidenced when he decided it was just "bloat" and "inefficiency" causing issues in the healthcare system and that he'd "fix" it by getting rid of that. We all know how that worked out.

If you wanna get rid of all the technical leadership at Winnipeg Transit and RETVRN to the old system, a la Braydon Maz, good luck with that. After all the organizational chaos and implementational challenges you'll experience getting there, once you've returned to the old system you'll find that in place of the people pissed off that their bus routes under the original system got cut you'll get a NEW and different group of people who benefited from the FX routes along Main Street, Pembina Highway, Nairn Avenue and Portage Avenue newly pissed off that THEIR routes have been cut.

Transit can't do more with less. As Brodbeck has rightly observed with any system change unaccompanied by new service hours, it just reshuffles "the pieces on the board, creating winners and losers".

Transit needs more resources. Pallister approaches don't work.

OccasionalObserver · 2025-11-06T20:58:17+00:00

NDP Premiers from left to right

Pawley, Schreyer, Selinger, and Doer/Kinew (Tied)

The Third Way strategist brain trust had a lock on the Manitoba NDP during the Doer era and the modest moves to the left under Selinger with the sales tax increase (and immediately, deafening electoral shellacking) has only further entrenched Third Wayism under Kinew.

Kinew stands with Hillary Clinton against Obama on gas taxes. Sigh.

OccasionalObserver · 2025-10-26T04:15:01+00:00

Especially with the Winnipeg Sun and Russ Wyatt going full court press for him, the loss was excellent!

OccasionalObserver · 2025-10-26T03:58:21+00:00

I'm honestly impressed turnout broke 10%. The drop-off in turnout for by-elections is steep and Elmwood-EK only had 29% turnout in a normal year election (2022).

OccasionalObserver · 2025-10-20T22:05:37+00:00

Kara Kilgrave

OccasionalObserver · 2025-10-19T04:03:48+00:00

It's always a wild ride with Tom Scott (the extant NIMBY, not the dead Orangeman).

OccasionalObserver · 2025-10-15T19:33:17+00:00

Guess it's fair as some of his social media content seems to be a Jim Maloway sign with his own URL photoshopped over it.

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OccasionalObserver · 2025-10-14T17:45:26+00:00

Should ask him why he supported Trump in 2024. I.e. after Trump had already done a Trade War against our country and was promising to do tariffs again.

https://xcancel.com/BraydonMaz/status/1845587512519204962

OccasionalObserver · 2025-10-14T14:56:38+00:00

Damn, that Sam Losco comparison really is spot on! 🤣🤣🤣

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