Sunday, 9 November 2025

TREE HOUSE NEWS 🏡

Land of Whispering Pines 🌲

Good Morning! May Great Spirit bless 🙏

Yeah, the wonderful world of cool, damp, cloudy, grey, gloomy, 💩 the pants 👖 weather 🌧 😴 has arrived. However, according to the long-range forecast after Tuesday, we will return to the average, ranging from 6 to 9 degrees, and possibly as high as 12 degrees, then drop back to 9 degrees, with partially sunny to cloudy. There's not much bad weather to report, except for some snow today, which won't even stay long enough to accumulate. It will be about normal weather for here in the Niagara Peninsula region until next Wednesday. Note: the trees have now entirely changed into their fall colors.

Otherwise, physicalIy, I feel that I've emerged from a meat grinder in one piece and have gone from mediocre to sunny-side up. Typical morning trend. That is about all I have to report from the Newsroom this morning. Thank you for reading TODAY'S NEWS.

TODAY'S DISCUSSION:

What do hungry, unemployed, desperate people with no home do with the onset of winter coming? They lost their homes and are<- THIS VERY MOMENT living in tents, helter-skelter, wherever they can set up an encampment. More people are joining the previous wave of individuals from the Elon Musk DOGE firings who were already living on the street in tents, likely lacking clothing for the approaching cold weather.

The police force will eventually be - TRUMPATISED - turned into Gestapos, er... should I say the Dunce Cadets? But one thing they seem to overlook about the populace. There won't be a shortage of firearms. Great Spirit, have mercy on those who use one of them. 🙏

Now, remember these lost souls will not have access to medical care. It is already happening as you sit here and read the news today, no job, no money, no food, no shelter, with no hope of any aid, NO AID OF ANY KIND, you have desperation, reminiscent of the GREAT DEPRESSION of 1929 to 1939. Do you know how many people survived? They worked togther caring for each other. If a needy person came to a farmer begging for a meal, they were given work on the farm, three square meals, and a cot to sleep in, either in the barn or the attic. It's as simple as that. It's called bartering

Let us take a moment to pray and meditate on the well-being and protection of these innocent souls being straved and frozen to death, by such VILE CREATURES as what are supposed to be good Christians. If that's so, please send me to a different Hell, G-d, I'll even volunteer to shovel the coal.

BREAKING NEWS:

Skyrocketing ACA premiums force enrollees to make tough decisions

Late last month, Elizabeth Wick got the email she had been dreading. Her insurer, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas, told her that the monthly premiums for her Affordable Care Act policy would soar to $1,380 next year, up from $862.

Wick, 57, currently gets $400 in federal premium subsidies, which makes the monthly cost of her health insurance more manageable. But the Arlington, Texas, resident is not counting on that assistance for next year since she also received a letter from the federal Obamacare exchange saying she likely won't be eligible for any help in 2026 if the enhanced subsidies expire at year's end.

The rising health insurance rates and lapsing subsidWick'suld upend Wick's life. A therapist who focuses on sexual assault survivors, she launched a full-time private practice earlier this year but depends on Obamacare coverage since she has preexisting medical conditions. However, having to pay three times her current tab is unaffordable and could force her to give up her practice and find a job that offers health benefits...

Agonizing tradeoffs:

'I have fought this so hard.' I want to live.'

Planning for the unexpected

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PUBLISHED Nov 9, 2025, 5:00 AM ET - 5 hr ago

- CNN -

Newsom says Democrats’ Tuesday wins, including Prop 50, represent ‘a new moment’ for party

California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Democrats’ sweeping election victory on Tuesday, including the approval of a redistricting ballot measure in his state, “represents a new moment” for the Democratic Party as it debates its path forward.

“Clarity, conviction, purpose, energy. On our toes, not on our heels. A resurgent Democratic Party, and it’s a party that understands what’s at stake for our democracy,” Newsom said during a wide-ranging interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper in Houston on Saturday.

Along with the approval of California’s Proposition 50, which creates five US House seats more favorable for Democrats, the party won in high-profile races across the country on Tuesday. Zohran Mamdani was elected mayor of New York City, while Abigail Spanberger and Mikie Sherrill won gubernatorial races in Virginia and New Jersey, respectively.

Newsom traveled to Houston on Saturday for a rally, during which he touted the win and also credited Texas Democrats for inspiring the push for Proposition 50...

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PUBLISHED Nov 9, 2025, 9:02 AM ET - 2 hr ago

- CNN -

Skyrocketing ACA premiums force enrollees to make tough decisions

Wick, 57, currently gets $400 in federal premium subsidies, which makes the monthly cost of her health insurance more manageable. But the Arlington, Texas, resident is not counting on that assistance for next year since she also received a letter from the federal Obamacare exchange saying she likely won’t be eligible for any help in 2026 if the enhanced subsidies expire as scheduled at year’s end.

The rising health insurance rates and lapsing subsidies could upend Wick’s life. A therapist who focuses on sexual assault survivors, she launched a full-time private practice earlier this year but depends on Obamacare coverage since she has preexisting medical conditions. However, having to pay three times her current tab is unaffordable and could force her to give up her practice and find a job that offers health benefits...

Agonizing tradeoffs:
‘I have fought this so hard. I want to live.’:

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PUBLISHED Nov 9, 2025, 5:00 AM ET - 6 hr ago

- CNN -

"Please, let us once more pause to pray and do whatever part we can to help these unfortunate people, like pieces of meat on Trumpo's meat-chopping block." 🪓 🪵

I shed tears 💧 as I pray 🙏

CANADIAN NEWS:

Could a rise in Indigenous-led developments move the needle on Canada's housing shortage?

New housing developments by First Nations offer affordable homes near cities

Jeff Messina and his wife were ready to start the next chapter of their lives. Newly married and eager to begin a family, they dreamed of owning a home that was big enough to raise their kids in — a place with space to play, maybe with a front and back yard. But in Metro Vancouver’s sky-high housing market, that dream seemed impossible.

“Vancouver, Burnaby, any of the Lower Mainland cities [in B.C.] were just unaffordable,” Messina told CBC’s Cost of Living. Then, one tip changed everything. His wife, who works in real estate marketing, learned about an Indigenous-led housing development on Tsawwassen First Nation land, south of Vancouver...

Owning a home on First Nations land:
WATCH | kʷasən Village is Burnaby's first Indigenous-led housing development:
Creating homes feels good, says chief:

‘I’m happy we moved here’:

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Posted: Nov 09, 2025 4:00 AM EST | Last Updated: 8 hours ago

- CBC -

Pushing, yelling from Conservative leadership ‘sealed the deal’ on defection: d’Entremont

MP says Conservatives felt like ‘part of a frat house rather than a serious political party’

Nova Scotia MP Chris d’Entremont says pushing and yelling from Conservative Party leadership "sealed the deal" on his choice to cross the floor of the House of Commons to the Liberals this week. After d’Entremont’s musings over a possible defection were reported by Politico on Tuesday, the MP says Conservative House leader Andrew Scheer and party whip Chris Warkentin “barged” into his office, pushed his assistant aside and yelled at him about “how much of a snake” he was.

“It really pushed me to a point where it’s like, 'OK, I guess my decision is made for sure now,'” he said in an interview on CBC's Rosemary Barton Live that aired Sunday morning. MP Chris d'Entremont says he joined Liberals because of Poilievre's leadership style...