Agreed. The actual research shows we have enough room for 2mil homes spread across the golden horseshoe without needing to dip into the greenbelt, something specifically designed to restrict urban sprawl and promote densification.
healthetank
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Wow, I swear every news article that comes out about this gets wilder and wilder. I'm hella impressed with the investigating that some of the reporters have been doing.
Just this week there's more proof Ford knew about these changes well before he was claiming he did, one of his big defenses against the claims he tipped off key developers of the changes. (Proof he knew by June 2022, not Nov 2022 like he's claiming).
For those who don't know/haven't followed, there is tons of proof of sketchy things around this greenbelt changes like TACC development (one of the big developers) buying protected land at a ridiculous 21% interest rate less than a year before the greenbelt changes.
Here is a link to the Narwhal that does a good job of summarizing the situation for anyone not in the know. They've been doing a great job digging at this story, along with the Star reporters.
Lol.
plus acknowledgement that CAF members had their rights violated
What?
“The brief snippets of (plaintiffs’) stories are hard to read, but with the approximately 150,000 pages of evidence we have the stories get worse and the abuse of power in the chain of command is very apparent,” she said.
I'm not entirely sure where they pull the $1mil per plaintiff from either. There's no mention of damages (ie something that would warrant it), though it is just a news article and not the court docs.
The article goes into more detail, but its wild what they're pushing for. I can't imagine they'll be successful with the court case, especially with the lawyer using phrases like
Christensen said she is proud of the plaintiffs in her case, describing them as the “tip of the spear” in making both the Armed Forces and Canadian government accountable for the “past three years of tyranny” in Canada’s military command.
That does look much simpler and cleaner than mine!
And if it works, I wouldn't overthink it - you built it for a purpose, and it works for that.
I've got a 2019 Specialized Elite Rockhopper, a hard tail cross country mountain bike.
Personally, I use mine for adventure races like the Wilderness Traverse, so lots of riding on old snowmobile trails, ATV trails, logging roads, and poorly maintained single tracks. Durability is the biggest and most important factor for me - if the bike breaks part way through, you've gotta pull out. I'd rather be a bit slower and always finish than try to be faster. This one I've had for one season and its been good so far.
It only has a rear derailleur (1x11 drivetrain), which took some getting used to. I definitely miss the top speed of my last set (3x9 drivetrain), but its one less part to break, and it's been an easy adjustment.
Wow, that looks great!
I did some work on an old trailer with my wife, and we removed a set of the old mirrored closet doors and did caning to try and improve airflow through them. A huge pain to get it tight, and our width was only about 14". It must've been tough to get it tight across that far.
How does it look from the inside? We trimmed our caning, but we should've started with a few inches more width so we could clean it up afterwards better. Its a little wild for us.
Definitely a nice looking cabinet! Well done
The problem I see is that much of the new is heavily slanted with inflammatory language. And I'm sure that's nothing new - that's how newspapers work. They have a story they want to tell.
But when reading comprehension is on the decline, then these stories aren't understood, regardless of whether they're basic reporting on the facts or a straight up opinion columnist. It's great to say that if we could all understand the basic facts then we'd be fine, but the basic fact of it is that we can get the same basic facts, but disagree about the why and how of those facts.
Easy example: for decades, we've had proof that the climate has been changing. That fact, most people are aware of and agree with. But a surprisingly large number of people will disagree with the why, and claim its because of natural temperature swings and humans aren't really impacting it. I am pretty firmly the other way, but I've had these arguments with people, and even after showing them data like this XKCD, they refuse to understand or change their minds/actions.
Man, that table is a nightmare to try and make sense of. I'm not an accountant, so it likely makes more sense to someone with experience in the field, but I can't even pull out an approximate number for how much it costs the government in reduced taxes from that table.
Still wild that we subsidize a sector so heavily, especially when its so harmful to the planet.
Man that's wild. I can't imagine just...giving up and hoping the government forgets about you after they've issued the notice. She can't ask tenants for a phone bill, credit card bill, anything from 2021? Sounds like she provided data for other years, none from 2021.
Interesting paper here from 2018 on costs of incarceration.
Estimated cost per offender, 2016-17
Type of Inmate Annual
Male Minimum $47,370
Male Medium $75,077
Male Maximum $92,740
Female (all levels) $83,861
Segregation (Incremental) +$463,045
Healing Lodge $122,796
Youth $73,632
Regional Treatment Centre1 $139,128
There's no reason to keep him on maximum security when he'll be costing us more. Its not like medium security prisons are just plain fences and no security - they both have razor wire, they both have guard towers, etc.
Finally, we don't want to set the precedent of our Public Safety Minister (Marco Mendicino) stopping or interfering with an independent judicial branch which is following the law. Seems like a big overreach of government to try and do that.
While the NDP campaigned on introducing rent control in its sole victorious campaign of 2015, it refused to do so once in power. And the issue has not been mentioned by the party since.
Oof that's never a good sign. They also talk about how their campaign manager is an AirBNB lobbyist, while also trying to promote subsidies for low-income housing. Makes it easy for people to label them as self-serving.
Which is exactly this - the bad thing is to pull the lever and kill two extra people. It's not as bad for you, like in the prisoners dilemma, since they're not known to you. The best thing for all is for no one to pull a lever and you each lose one loved one rather than all your loved ones.