Add to the fact that Halifax has a terrible ability to plan fucking anything. There are new subdivisions that don’t have proper fire fighting infrastructure (not old ones either).

Someone like red tape. Developers would lose money! /s

Planning oil pipelines in 2025 is like planning canal building in 1900. Fossil fuels are a huge part of the current human existence, but there’s necessarily very limited return on investment.

The challenge with agriculture is the limited timeframe, which does rather gel well with a temporary work crew that follows the harvest north and returns to their home country afterwards. However, they should always be paid appropriately.

Wonder how much this fruitless battle is costing taxpayers.

Animals can only be used in research when there is convincing scientific justification, when expected benefits outweigh potential risks, and when scientific objectives cannot be achieved using non-animal methods. In Canada, there is federal and provincial legislation overseeing the humane treatment of animals.

This type of intervention makes scientific evidence appear secondary to partisan political opinion, weakening the integrity of the research enterprise. Moreover, such actions embolden activist campaigns that often misrepresent the reality of modern animal research and are usually counterproductive. These campaigns frequently ignore or sidestep the strict welfare standards and regulatory requirements that govern research facilities, as well as the medical breakthroughs that benefit both human and animal health.

Incredibly shortsighted and he’s demonstrating his ignorance of the laws of his own country.

Fund alternatives to cars, not Lada. Global car manufacturers are doing a fine job of the new car aspect.

Under the new deal, attendants would receive 50 per cent of their salary for 60 minutes of boarding and cabin secure checks for narrow body planes and 70 minutes for wide body planes.

Still bullshit. 50% salary capped at 60 min? Does AC want half the safety checks done? How long do they spend getting from their car to the gate, I wonder? That’s also unpaid.

The agreement took about seven hours but followed eight months of bargaining

Labour action makes a difference.

Fuck right off, indeed. Unpaid work is barbaric, no matter the profession. No way nurses are working unpaid; they get overtime for that. I had several skilled teachers who through careful planning made certain they weren’t working off the clock. Etc.

Instead, they’re bypassing environmental assessments

Unbelievable ignorance.

Freedman said the current budget for Ontario’s wildfire program is $130 million. “It might sound like a lot of money to folks, but to be honest, in a program with this many aircraft and personnel … that covers a wildland fire region double the size of France, $130 million just keeps the lights on,” he said. "To put it in perspective, [Premier] Doug Ford spent $103 million on commercials last year. We really need to start thinking about proactively funding the program so that we can buy things before we need them, whether that’s aircraft or even paying our pilots more so that we can actually fly the water bombers we own, much less buy new ones.”

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/wildland-firefighters-budget-1.7576491

spent approximately $1.1 billion on temporary hotel housing for asylum seekers since 2020.

Wonder what the tolerances are. That is a big piece to fixture.

That’s a high pucker factor situation.

Plus, apps are an additional means of tracking beyond that which is possible with websites.

“Share your location to find the parking spot you are in”

Etc.

I shouldn’t need an app to pay for parking.

Well, five times and then they killed someone, but will they retain their license?

How many times do you get to do a thing before it’s decided that rehabilitation isn’t possible?

This, exactly. I am all for universal housing but frankly the cost of a house in materials alone is beyond the ability of many people to afford (tiny homes don’t really work out for people with they are going to have children, and children are the foundation of our future economy.

I think the government has a place in providing housing for those in need, but landlords also have a role.

When people trash rental units or skip out on rent and abuse process - regardless of whether the landlord does their duties - it does not encourage small scale landlords to assume the risk. However, it’s a rounding error to Blackrock.

Industrial scale financialisation of housing is not good for anyone.