Humans are social animals, you're the odd one out here from a social perspective, not that you're not entitled to that choice but choices have consequences.
I'd suggest just ignoring them. You aren't going to find a better work environment anywhere else unless you literally have no coworkers.
Strategically it doesn't make sense. It's better for him to run and lose intentionally, then step down after the loss.
That allows the people to get their hate out, and resets the playing field for the next election cycle when people realize the Conservatives haven't done shit all to make life more affordable.
The core problems Trudeau is being blamed for aren't really his fault. They're global trends happening everywhere, including places with conservative governments.
Just a shower thought. Seeing how these structures took decades to build in their times, and that too entirely with manual labour, I was wondering how long these architectural marvels would take to be built in this post modern era with the help of our technological advancements....
While Canada claims to be a climate leader, the oil and gas we export to other countries have the potential to produce more emissions in a year than every sector in Canada combined, an independent analysis reveals.
Social housing can never be the true solution. The government doesn't have enough money to make it have an impact. Even in cities in Europe that have 30-40% social housing, they are still having housing crisis situations where people can't move, people wait years to affordable units, and private housing is still astronomically expensive.
There is a proper fix, but it destroys almost all of the equity in the existing housing market which means voters will never go for it. Far too many people still own houses and would lose hundreds of thousands or even millions.
So instead we get this pandering shit, and prices will continue to rise for the next few decades.
None of those are solutions. They're all Band-Aids. No matter how much you do any of those things you proposed, prices will continue to climb.
Not a single developed country has managed to rein in prices, no matter what tactics they've tried. There are places with all of those suggestions, and still... expensive housing.
I'm championing land value taxes, but they won't pass until ownership rates drop another 20-30 percent over the next 20-30 years.
Honestly, the best option for my children (who are still quite young) right now is for me to try to make it worse faster so that we can make such a radical change sooner.
Their population hasn't increased at all in the last 6 years, so how does a lack of land explain the cost increases of housing they're seeing over that period?
Japan didn't have single family zoning, anyone could build dense housing anywhere residential in any of the major cities and they absolutely did, and yet it was never affordable. They have massively walkable cities, with great public transportation, and yet... not affordable unless you want to live in a 100 square foot closet that most north Americans couldn't even fit through the door on.
A bunch of US cities have no zoning and are still not affordable.
Zoning is a slight bottleneck, but it's not even close to the core problem.
I'm not saying don't change the zoning, go ahead, but expecting things to become affordable in a few years is an absolute pipe dream.
BC just did it, and developers are just shit talking the policy saying it doesn't change anything.
You're using the "no true scotsman" defence right now. There is no other country comparable to the size of Canada in the world other than Russia, so does that mean we can only look at them for policy?
"I don't know about this place so I'm not going to be able to even consider it's policies" - That's an ignorance argument.
Where's your proof that any of the policies you're suggesting will work? Do you have a single example of them working elsewhere?
The person who makes the original assertion needs to prove it, not the one that "asserts something logically stronger"
I can also just point to the fact that we've tried a bunch of these policies at a smaller scale, other places have tried a bunch of these policies at various scales, and as far as I know there isn't a developed country that has declining home prices in cities, or that have managed to keep any of their bigger cities affordable.
I really don't mind eating Vegetarian meals, but Vegan is too far for all but a handful of meals.
The lack of dairy is my cutoff point.
That being said, I'm not a Vegetarian, I just make vegetarian meals regularly for my family because they enjoy them. I also make a lot of reduced meat meals, where it's a flavour component rather than a significant nutritional component. Like throwing 30g of Bacon in a stew per serving, or halving ground beef with tofu on a rice bowl.
There are plenty of activities you could be doing that would have a hundreds of times more impact than going Vegan. You're right that your individual consumption actions don't really make a difference in the grand scheme, but that's not true for other actions you could be taking though.
You could work in the field of birth or population control, every baby you prevent being born is likely worth more than your entire lifetime consumption.
You could become a research scientist and work on recycling, pollution reduction, carbon capture, etc.
You could work together with others to purchase and protect large swaths of land or water.
The best thing an individual can do for the climate crisis is switch their home heating to an electric heat pump powered by renewable energy sources, in combination with better insulation and increasing the density of their housing (apartments require less heat/cooling per person than townhouses, which use less energy per person than detached houses)
Home heating/cooling is the single largest source of emissions for an individual (on average) in developed countries.
It sounds like you already eliminated or significantly reduced the personal car, which is the second highest average individual source.
The emissions from the food you eat is usually the third largest individual source.
100% Veganism globally would be expected to drop global emissions by about 17%, but even switching to just replacing 75% of red meat with other meats would still drop global emissions by 10%, and full vegetarianism (no meat) would drop it by 14%. Veganism is definitely the most reduction, but it's not necessary at all if we just reduce the red meat and fix some of larger heating/cooling and transportation issues.
And this is exactly why the security clearances don't matter. May says it's basically a nothingburger involving former politicians while Singh is suggesting in involves current policitians and acts as if he's quite upset, but apparently is not upset enough to actually hold the government accountable....
This is a national security matter, those people are likely being used to bait out further interference from 3rd parties and keeping their names hidden forces those third parties to have to worry about if they're being monitored or not.
The (Ontario Health) coalition, which advocates for improvements to the public health care system, is documenting experiences like Zammit's at hearings around rural Ontario this month. With input from opposition critics, the network of over 400 grassroot organizations wants to draft recommendations on how to improve local...
Dude was completely stable (no fever, vitals stable, etc.) while staying in the emergency room for multiple days from a normal illness. Then he suddenly died overnight after saying he was going to the night before to his daughter.
"Zammit doesn't know what caused her father's death but pointed to the lack of resources at the hospital as significant factors."
That doesn't sound like the hospital failed him, that sounds like he was 88 and people die around that age from natural causes all the time. I'm not saying hospitals can't save people, but people do die eventually, even in hospitals.
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This isn't accurate in Canada, Chicken is far more expensive here. Pork is usually the more affordable meat choice.
I can get a full pork loin (for chops) for $9/kg, but chicken breasts or boneless skinless thighs are $12-15/kg. Those are Costco prices which are cheaper than regular price at a normal grocery store.
I just checked Thrifty Foods (Sobeys) and they have Boneless Skinless thighs at $23.80/kg, breasts at $22.70 per kg, and pork chops at $17.60/kg.
Even ground beef is cheaper than chicken $10/kg at Costco, and $14.30/kg at Thrifties.
Tofu is $6.60/kg
Edit: Anyone care to explain why you're downvoting me? This was posted in the Canada community, and these are my local prices in Canada in a major city.
The graph displays protein per unit weight on the Y axis, but protein per 100g on the X axis.
Pork Chops are at a similar X location to Chicken breast, but chicken breast is lower on the Y axis, that means that the chicken should be cheaper. It isn't though.
The dead giveaway that this is going to be wrong is that it's in USD, which doesn't apply to Canada since we have supply management on poultry here.
"Emmanuel Macron, the French president, has announced that he is dissolving the national assembly, and calling for legislative elections on June 30 and July 7....
Yup, but people are dumb. We already have an example of what happens with no immigration, it's Japan. It's been economical stagnant for thirty years, and has lost even more quality of life than most countries.
Honestly it seems like a no-brainer to me to put a solar panel on the roof of electric cars to increase their action radius, so I figured there's probably one or more good reasons why they don't....
Israel has killed less than 1% of all Palestinians, so your bullshit logic is just that.
To add insult to your stupidity, the median age in gaza is 19 years, which makes the 60% number actually a good thing since 75% of the population is either a woman or a child.
If you kill 60% civilians and children, and the population is 75% civilians and children and the enemy is literally using them as human shields, you're showing that you're doing at least something to minimize the harm. Anyone with a heart should be furious that this is the way that Hamas has decided to fight. Anyone with a heart should be furious that they attacked over a thousand civilians to pop off this latest round of violence. It sure made the Israelis furious, that's why they're retaliating.
There's no such thing as a war with 0 civilian casualties anymore. This isn't the 1600s where people lined up for battles in nice lines. So every war is a genocide by your definition. Unfortunately they're still going to happen because the world isn't all rainbows and unicorns.
Civilian casualties are both real people and statistics. Again, the world isn't all rainbows.
How many people would you be willing to have the military kill to get your child back if they had been taken hostage?
If the kidnappers were hiding behind their own family, with their family knowing they've done an evil thing, would that change your answer?
I know I wouldn't care how many they had to take out, my child is worth worth more to me than terrorists (and their supporters) lives.
Would I prefer they don't take out women and children while getting my child back? Of course, but the whole point of using human shields is to make it difficult to do just that.
The Israelis got 4 hostages back today, and it looks like there were around 200 Palestinian casualties to do so. Too bad for them.
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has notified Israel’s Defence Attache in the United States, Major General Hidai Zilberman, of his decision to add Israel to the blacklist of countries and organisations harming children in conflict zones....
It doesn't make sense to abandon Israel from a western military point of view. They're the proxy in the war against the middle East (namely Iran) and losing that would end up harming western interests.
This whole war has never been about Palestinians, they never would have had the funds to fight Israel on their own. It's all been money funneled from Iran and other anti Israeli countries into Hamas or one of the other terrorist groups in yemen or Syria being used to attack Israel.
Google Iran Israel proxy war, I'm not making this shit up.
Always ask where the money is coming from, in every situation.
What does the US have to gain? Location, pressure, denial of certain attacks (like Israel assassinating Iranian generals), being able to position nuclear weapons close to Iran, as well as distracting Iran from attacking US targets directly, among a host of other benefits. This also extends to other countries in the same vicinity.
Israel would definitely have the funds to take out Palestinians if they weren't being supported by external forces. The Palestinians are flat broke, they have no advanced industries at all. The GDP per capita for Gaza is like $900 USD a year per person, and only double that in the west bank. Israel is around $50,000. The British really turbo-charged the Israeli economy while they were in control of the area pre-1948 and the effects of that are still extremely obvious.
Do you really think the entire western world is pissing off their citizens for fun? You really don't understand geopolitics at all. The support for Israel isn't just for shits and giggles, governments are sending them billions and have very good hidden reasons(military). The primary rule of Proxy wars is "don't talk about proxy wars" which is why the public is so mad, and the governments are going to keep supporting them anyways.
Iran has done an excellent job of sacrificing Palestinian lives to turn the PR against Israel. You think Israel want's to be killing civilians? They actually don't, it's bad for their image. Unfortunately Hamas literally sets up bases in schools, hospitals, and other civilian areas because they're literally using human shields and you're acting like Israel is just supposed to ignore them? This is how urban guerrilla warfare works. It's dirty as fuck, and there's no better options.
The only thing stopping other countries from holding Israel accountable... Yea, NO SHIT. The US is THE military superpower for the western world and they aren't willing to give up that strategic location. It's not just the US though, everyone from the UK to Canada is saying "please stop" while still sending financial support. It's a PR issue at this point for governments, but they'll keep working on the problem and keep sending money.
You act like the US has other weapons that can ignore distance but you can't just shoot everything from the other side of the globe, it's far too expensive to hit more than a handful of targets that way.
So how many are they allowed to kill? Zero? The same number? Double? Where's the line?
Overresponse can be a great way to end wars. See historical examples such as the USA nuking Japan, the german blitzkreig, and even Ghengis khan completely wiping cities off maps.
Even on a smaller scale, like if you want someone to stop punching you in the hallway at school, beating the shit out of them frequently works to end the behaviour.
Mass casualty incidents caused by the Israeli military offensive in southern Gaza are becoming normalised in the west and leading to a sense of fatalism inside Gaza itself, according to Sam Rose, the director of planning for the Palestinian relief agency Unrwa....
Horror gets normalized during every war. Do you think WW2 was all happy times and flower circles for 6 years? People got used to losing their family, friends, and neighbours. People got used to thousands dying per day.
Rules in war, lol. Rules don't exist if they can't be enforced and there's nobody that can (and actually wants to) enforce them, even if the ICC was set up to do that. It's toothless, just like the UN. The big players will never respect anything, and even all the little counties combined can't match any of the big counties enough to do anything about it.
is this the right way to establish boundaries with my nosy coworkers at the hospital?
read right as polite, because they get offended easily....
What's the most likely end of mankind and our world as we know it?
Conservatives win longtime Liberal stronghold Toronto-St. Paul's in shock byelection result ( www.cbc.ca )
How long would it take to create a Pyramid today?
Just a shower thought. Seeing how these structures took decades to build in their times, and that too entirely with manual labour, I was wondering how long these architectural marvels would take to be built in this post modern era with the help of our technological advancements....
Canada doesn't count emissions from oil and gas exports. So we did ( newsinteractives.cbc.ca )
While Canada claims to be a climate leader, the oil and gas we export to other countries have the potential to produce more emissions in a year than every sector in Canada combined, an independent analysis reveals.
Truck with anti-Muslim messaging registered to Rebel News Network ( www.cbc.ca )
Quebec's housing crisis goes beyond supply and demand, says new report ( www.cbc.ca )
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Pornhub to leave five more states over age-verification laws ( www.engadget.com )
Canada’s Most Vegan-Friendly Cities Unveiled
https://plantbasednews.org/lifestyle/food/canadas-most-vegan-friendly-cities-unveiled/
Singh 'more alarmed' after reading report, but won't break from Liberal-NDP agreement ( www.ctvnews.ca )
And this is exactly why the security clearances don't matter. May says it's basically a nothingburger involving former politicians while Singh is suggesting in involves current policitians and acts as if he's quite upset, but apparently is not upset enough to actually hold the government accountable....
What's the chance the "traitor MPs" the news is going on about are literally just Han Dong?
We have no idea how many there are, and we already know about one, right? It seems like the simplest possibility.
Health-care system is 'broken,' Niagara woman says after dad dies suddenly in emergency room ( www.cbc.ca )
The (Ontario Health) coalition, which advocates for improvements to the public health care system, is documenting experiences like Zammit's at hearings around rural Ontario this month. With input from opposition critics, the network of over 400 grassroot organizations wants to draft recommendations on how to improve local...
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Green Leader Elizabeth May says no list of disloyal MPs in full spy… ( nationalnewswatch.com )
May told a news conference the full version of the classified report does not contain a "list of MPs who have shown disloyalty to Canada."...
How an Israeli raid freed 4 hostages and killed scores of Palestinians in Gaza ( apnews.com )
EU elections 2024 live: Emmanuel Macron dissolves French parliament and calls snap elections after huge far-right gains ( www.theguardian.com )
"Emmanuel Macron, the French president, has announced that he is dissolving the national assembly, and calling for legislative elections on June 30 and July 7....
Why don't electric car manufacurers put solar panels on the car roofs?
Honestly it seems like a no-brainer to me to put a solar panel on the roof of electric cars to increase their action radius, so I figured there's probably one or more good reasons why they don't....
Women and children of Gaza are killed less frequently as war’s toll rises, AP data analysis finds ( apnews.com )
UN adds Israel to blacklist for harming children in conflict zones ( www.middleeastmonitor.com )
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has notified Israel’s Defence Attache in the United States, Major General Hidai Zilberman, of his decision to add Israel to the blacklist of countries and organisations harming children in conflict zones....
‘We have normalised horror’ says agency official, after Israeli strike on school ( www.theguardian.com )
Mass casualty incidents caused by the Israeli military offensive in southern Gaza are becoming normalised in the west and leading to a sense of fatalism inside Gaza itself, according to Sam Rose, the director of planning for the Palestinian relief agency Unrwa....
The problem with GIMP ( www.spacebar.news )
Russia-China gas pipeline deal stalls over what Moscow says Beijing's unreasonable price demands in major blow for Putin ( www.reuters.com )
Here is the paywalled article...
How should news sites be funded?