healthetank

I can't say I'm too surprised. I'm not involved in the auto sector in anyway, but the media I've seen about it with respect to Canadian manufacturing has been all negative - US companies or US owned companies pulling their manufacturing out of Canada despite deals made (looking at you Stellantis). If our auto sector is diminishing/pulling out, what do we have to protect?

That being said, I'd like to see more manufacturing jobs here as part of that deal, but I'm entirely uninformed on how that would work or what it would look like.

Problem is people aren't good judges of what is, in fact, a safe speed.

Edit: the second problem is that making it feel unsafe while not being unsafe (or unfeasible to maintain or prohibitively costly) leaves very few options.

Studies done up and down streets and in areas with rotating speed cameras show a long lasting impact in the areas most likely to have children crossing the roads.

Its not a fix-all solution for everywhere, but its sure as shit better than what we have, and the revenue from them was legislated to be used TO create those traffic calming measures you want.

Wild. I'm a tall guy (6'5"), and I can just barely squeeze into normal seats if my wife is beside me, letting me knees flare out wide. I cant imagine I'd even fit into these seats, particularly if I didnt know/realize this was a change that had happened.

Time to avoid westjet until they sort out that shit.

Unless I'm mistaken, hydronic systems like those USUALLY require a pump to circulate the water.

I'm glad there IS data to do this comparison. Nothing I've seen from proposed cuts has made me believe that they are in the best interest of mail delivery, and its good to see that Canada Post is doing so well relative to other countries.

This reeks of the same type of stuff as "just get outside to cure your depression" or "have you tried just not thinking like that?" for mental health issues.

If someone could be reached by telling them "just reach out, its that simple", they weren't the ones we need to be reaching. For sure it'd help, and there may be some people this resonates to. If so, great for them. But we have a major problem with isolated men, and those usually aren't ones who this will be helpful for, any more than an article addressing the mental health crisis by saying "just try more" solves that problem.

I think we need to be reaching out, but IMO the focus isn't on using words that are incredibly loaded, particularly for those people we're trying to reach and connect with. Those of us who are doing better should be reaching out, like the author said, and making those connections, but that won't solve this loneliness crisis.

I'm confused - are you arguing for lower property values as a driving method to reduce COL, or for trying to redistribute housing prices?

50 per 100,000 people.

I don't think we should be using the States as our goal/bar as to what is normal or acceptable for violence. What are the rates in Europe? What about Japan or Korea?

Arguing that were not better than the US or Russia (the two biggest neighbours and both much more aggressively imperialistic than Canada), is extremely disingenuous.

I think Canada has the potential to do better and I'm not about to give it up or roll over for another country to come in, particularly one like the US who has shown an incredible swing towards facism and aggression to LGBTQ and POC. Me defending this country, if they were to invade, would have direct benefits to those of my family who are LGBTQ and those of my friend group who are immigrants. Arguing that because Canada has a problem with wannabe monopolistic companies and a bleed over of American individualism its basically as bad as any other is a stance I disagree with.

The most likely deployment for these forces would be natural disasters and support - something I'm interested in doing anyway. If this does come out its something I'd explore and see if its a good fit.

Its been a nightmare working with CAs recently (last 3yrs), but that's largely due to budget cuts and staffing losses.

Fund them properly and set strict guidelines for plan review turnarounds, and you'll see improvements.

But alas its the classic "defund then claim its not working" be that he pulls everywhere.

I mean at the least it looks like we're taking some steps to avoid the clusterfuck that the USMCA resigning is likely to be by getting ahead of it.

Its not hard to double exports to other countries when your main trading partner (US) stops taking your stuff. Talking out of my ass, but it seems like doubling exports to other countries wouldn't be that hard when we wind up having a surplus because US trade dries up. Seems like it'd push prices of our goods lower and hurt Canadians, which is what he seems to be implying to me.