Seems to me that Canadians should start a social media campaign taking pictures of overcrowded transit and highways and use the hashtags the leaders try to use.

Doesn’t matter where in the world it is, return to office for people who don’t physically handle their work is a contributor to climate change, housing shortages, and a drag on productivity. Which is to say, a policy created by an idiot to satisfy real estate investors and car manufacturers.

Can the union organize sit ins in the leaders’ offices?

People are weird.

Had a neighbour who just left the basement door open and threw a bag of dog food on the floor for their dog and left for three weeks. I didn’t know what was going on or I’d have called someone - anyone. They were homeowners.

Over COVID I heard the apocryphal stories of support payments going out and landlords getting stiffed as they watched new TVs being delivered. I don’t believe a lot of that, though.

I do think that short of a serious effort to acquire, build, maintain, and expand public housing, small scale landlords are an important part of society. But they need a lot of controls and limits, and tenants likewise need to have reasonable respect for the property. It’s not always the case but I feel a small scale landlord is better positioned to be (and certainly isn’t always, as in this case) connected to the community than BlackRock.

It would be nice to have a public record for tenants and landlords to share warnings about bad behaviour, but that sort of thing gets corrupted so quickly.

I’d give half a consideration to the landlord but they live thousands of km away from the rental unit and mom (they’re claiming is going to move in) is in a care facility.

They saw an opportunity to make cash and now they get what they get. Sounds like a good situation. Long term tenants. But these people needed more!

The trickle up economy.

The people pay the government taxes, and the government hands out tax money to companies so that the shareholder value goes up.

White space sensitive languages are evil.

Technical people don’t understand the business, you see.

Fair point.

Truthfully I don’t remember what the reason was; it was multiple variables, but I don’t know what the variables were.

In any case, there’s vanishingly few of these trees remaining.

Obviously, no true First Nations person would disrespect their land, just as no true Scotsman puts sugar on their oatmeal.

I said be critical of everyone. Even - especially - the environmental organizations.

I don’t “paint all indigenous peoples with the same brush”. However, assuming their standpoint takes priority regardless of context would fit that description.

It has been many years since colonizers came and disrupted the way of life in Canada. It is importantly to think critically, whether the speaker is indigenous or colonial. More often than not, money beats out environmental concerns when humans are involved

I think I read that these trees won’t grow again, because of climate change. They grew up in an oxygen rich humid environment and that’s not there anymore. Without these trees, the forests dramatically change.

A notice posted on B.C.'s Forest Operations Map website shows the yellow cedar was felled in an area where Matchlee Ltd. Partnership, majority owned by Mowachaht/Muchalaht First Nation, holds a non-renewable forest licence.

Remember this when someone says that the precolonial peoples should take priority in environmental decisions.

ETA - but also remember this when anyone has environmental thoughts. Follow the money!

Every rule is a barrier for “development” if you ask developers, every where, every time. I’m tired of their whining.

It’s not a zero sum game but American politicians and healthcare companies want you to believe that.

Going pretty hard against the in-laws today, aren’t we Jimmy?

Speaking of cultural salad bowls, you’re a Roman Catholic omnivore, and your wife is a Hindu vegetarian.

There has got to be a joke in here about midwestern jello salad but I can’t figure it out.

ETA: I looked up his Wikipedia to confirm my suspicions about the vegetarian wife and wow, people aren’t using an altered meme photo, that’s his actual official portrait?!!

I think you can just as easily flip that on its head.

USA consistently weaponizes its companies through sanctions. If a country wants to be part of the global economy you need to do business with USA banks (eg SWIFT) and tech, and if your country is sanctioned, it cannot. Speaking of tech, the tech companies actively participates in wiretapping and that’s really old news - who knows what they’re doing today.

China is typically careful about throwing its weight around because of its high dependency on exports and limited deployment capability of its army.

In terms of a shooting war with the USA, China has a strategic advantage in being able to shut down Canadian transportation remotely, agreed.

I think recent events have shown, however, that there’s no guarantee that the USA would automatically be on the side of Canada. I’m thinking more it’s more along the lines of how Germany and Austria were “on the same side” in WWII ie Annexation.

How is China different than another belligerent nation, such as the one directly to the south of Canada? Thousands of vehicles with OnStar, Teslas, etc.? Ring? I mean the list goes on.

Canada has an auto industry? More like outsourced manufacturing. There’s no Canadian automaker (pace Edison) and the western automakers are retreating on the EV front (and thus far have targeted middle-high end range and also used Chinese components in many cases) so they’re less supporting the industry and more bailing out companies that aren’t innovating.

Why Canada would follow the USA in this tariff with the current trade war I can’t understand.

When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure; the more a quantitative indicator is used for decision-making, the more it corrupts the process it is intended to monitor.

It also imposes fines of up to $500,000 per day on doctors who take “concerted action” to challenge the government’s policies.

So, collective bargaining is out then.

But schools should be teaching critical thinking and reasoning, empathy, and expose children to different cultures.

You know, woke stuff.

When kids aren’t taught how to think critically, there’s a greater chance they’ll be caught up in the fallacies of the populist conservative movement.

That’s true, and but the part

they just don’t often get held accountable bcs it’s never to, for, or by the public (and pubic values, common morals, etc).

Is the “special” part of it. If they were held accountable by their peers, their peers might also be held accountable. Class solidarity in action.