They know a conservative government has no plans to do anything at all about climate change. A CPC government will not just prevent progress, but actively accelerate climate change. Pierre was part of Harper’s government, who did such a bad job (sector by sector regulatory approach, repeat) that Canada was on track not only to miss our targets , but also start increasing our GHG output. If it wasn’t for electing Trudeau in 2015, we’d still be on that path and the thing about conservatives is they’re perfectly willing to put us back on it.
“Where are we supposed to go?” This kind of question, carefully considered, does a good job of exposing the problem people face and with our response to homelessness. We are all born involuntarily into this world, into a country, and we are told that almost everything around us already belongs to someone else. If you can’t afford those things, well too bad for you. Those that were here before you have ensured there are laws to stop you from simply walking into a field and setting up shelter. How can we justify telling someone without economic means, who didn’t ask to be here, that they must forgo what would otherwise be natural? To forgo establishing shelter and a permanent home? If society and the government that represents it are going to restrict self- sufficiency in doing what is natural to us in this case, I feel the government then has an obligation to provide other options. Where else are people supposed to go?
People will look me dead in the face and tell me they need the SUV because the kids have hockey practice, I wouldn’t understand. As if my dad didn’t take me to hockey practice in a Toyota Terecel.
My wonderful internet acquaintance , the NDP are a big part of why the electoral reform change never happened. Unpopular opinion time: The CPC, NDP and GPC deserve every bit as much blame, if not more, for the failure to move away from fptp. Why? They banded together in committee to poison any hope of getting electoral reform past the Senate or even the house. Trudeau , naively I think, promised to do things differently from Harper. True to his promise he balanced the electoral reform house committee by popular vote, instead of using his majority power. This meant that the opposition parties could outvote the liberals in committee and, seemingly forgotten by everyone, the opposition parties welded that power to deliver a complete nonsensical , posion pill filled committee report / reccomendation to the house which had no real chance of passing. That document, a worst of all ideas document if I ever saw it, threw out all ideas put forward by the LPC (the majority in the house, who had a free vote on this) instead favoring CPC demands for a referendum, NDP demands for a vague and nonspecific system that wasn’t STV, but was proportional. The GPC and Bloc got in on it, and passed this report that had no chance , none, of passing the house. Even if it had passed the house it wouldn’t have got past the Senate and the committee delayed their report so long nothing could be done before the next election.
I know parliamentary procedure is boring, and most people don’t follow it, but I do and I saw what happened here. The LPC failure was only in so far as they didn’t just stomp all over the opposition to impose their changes. The LPC acted in good faith instead and got politiked so bad people still blame them, reducing the whole thing down to “Trudeau break promise”.
No, the Liberal Party is fiscally liberal, not fiscally conservative. While both philosophies think a market economy is the best economic system, a fiscal liberal is more inclined to use fiscal policy to intervene in that market economy to rectify social or economic inequalities. This would be entirely counter to fiscal conservatism.
For example, a fiscal liberal will support a public health system, a public broadcaster, $10 a day childcare, and EV / electrification/greening grants.
A fiscal conservative will be more laissez faire, and not want any of those things.
I bring this up because by not recognizing the difference we set ourselves up to put conservatives back into power, after all , “both sides same”.
Now social democrats (of which many in the NDP are) tend towards mixed-economy, social-liberalism. This philosophy contains the main body of New Democrats and a contingent of LPC (the left-liberals, social liberals). It’s why we can see progress on nationalized programs under LPC-NDP governments. The NDP has a true democratic socialist rump too, but they have much fewer areas of true overlap with Liberal philosophy.
No, I’m not confused. You seem married to some fairly unsophisticated ideas about political philosophy, and I’m no divorce lawyer. Sorry to waste your time.
This was not on my radar of potential solutions to the housing issue, but it’s a very good idea that we know works. The Liberals have been garbage at getting the message across, much of the public seems to have slipped into just not listening to them at all. But they’ve been working on this problem, following the recommendations in the National Housing Accord: www.nationalhousingaccord.ca
I mean, you dont like this plan, that’s fine, but its one that developers, advocates and experts put together so im onclined towards their opinion over yours. They’ve already implemented new loan programs that developers wanted. Interesting, measuring since 2008 , every year since 2019 has been a record year for Federal investment in housing.
No, it’s messaging. They’ve been implementing housing policy steadily since they were elected, much of the policy was passed well before the pandemic, and due to the long development lag on new housing starts, and the catastrophic jolts from covid19, we are only starting to see the effect. This is not a problem that will be fixed fast or with one piece of legislation.
In 2018/2019 we got the national cohousing investment fund, the rental construction financing initiative, the rapid housing initiative, the first time home buyer incentive, the canada housing benefit agreement.
You agree with these, you don’t agree, you didn’t find them effective, you would have picked something else, fine, that’s fine, people always disagree, but “ignored” housing is honestly just a meme people repeat that weirdo policy wonks like me roll their eyes at.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the Conservative party has been successful at "scapegoating" the carbon price as the reason everything is more expensive.
Well, except for a few major points. Rebates sending more back to most people, those with energy efficient lifestyles avliding the tax and the fact that the tax incidence was not 100%.
The data found about 68 per cent of car shoppers in 2022 who did not own an EV showed an intent to purchase one, but that dropped to 56 per cent this year.
I will never own a gas car again because gas cars are simply inferior technology. I’ve put 170,000km on my EV over the last 5 years, and they’ve been more convenient and less expensive kms than even the cheapest gas cars I’ve owned. The only maintenance has been rotating the tires and the cabinet air filter.
When I wake up in the morning, the car has more mileage charged in it than I’ll use in the day, which includes my 100km+ round trip commute. When I drive it, the instant torque blows by most other vehicles on the road. I live in a rural area, it snows, it freezes, it doesn’t get plowed right away, the car doesnt care. It always starts. I make half a dozen 1000km round trips a year in it, doesn’t matter the weather, sunny or cold. I take 2 kids, my wife and all our gear in it. Did I mention they do sports, we have equipment and bikes and all that stuff.
The darn thing does everything the skeptics say it won’t do and it’s a shame all the misinformation I see, almost daily, about EVs.
I’m not trying to be a dick, but this kind of leading question bugs me because it is something you could have tried to find an answer for by clicking through to the report.
Anyway, I’m not going to answer your question for you. I’m really interested in this bit on page 26
Based on data from Canada’s most recent NIR and Emissions Projections Report (EPR), Canada’s GHG emissions peaked in 2007. This represents a significant accomplishment, given that in 2015, as reported in Canada’s Second Biennial Report to the UNFCCC, Canada’s emissions were projected to be 2.2% above 2005 levels in 2020, and to continue to grow, reaching 9% above 2005 levels by 2030.1 In contrast, the most recent NIR indicated that Canada’s 2020 emissions were 10% below 2005 levels, which does not include the accounting contribution from the LULUCF sector or credits purchased by Québec from California under the Western Climate Initiative (WCI). If the LULUCF and WCI contributions were included, Canada’s emissions are estimated to have fallen by about 16% below 2005 levels by 2020, very near to Canada’s 2020 target of 17%.
Under the last CPC government, we were not only off track to meet our 2020 goals, but worse, we were on track to start increasing our GHG emissions. But since 2015, we reversed the trend and are now on track to actually meet our targets.
On page 29, they indicate that changes in the assumptions about carbon capture lead to an increase in GHG versus old estimates. So expectations are tempered, they don’t expect it to pay off, but they do expect it will play some role.
My brother in law, driving around in his completly blacked out SUV with the Fuck Trudeau sticker on the back is like this. Meanwhile, he is about to head into his annual unemployment period (that CPC tried to cut off last time), enjoying legal weed (CPC voted against), paying $10 a day for daycare, collecting the childcare benefit monthly, collecting the carbon rebate , had his income taxes cut, had his industry kept afloat by pandemic spending, I could go on all day.
But he is convinced by memes and shit he hears from the other guys on his smoke break that Trudeau’s carbon tax is the reason he and wife, both of whom do seasonal, unskilled labour jobs, can’t afford a 4 bedroom house rental.
Well that, and good old fashioned rural racism. Apparently, before Indian people started working at the Tim’s they never got a coffee order wrong. You know, the good old days where young white fast food workers were world fucking famous for flawless service.
Like dude, please, tell me more about how hard done by the Liberals you are as you drag on your 76th cigarette of the day and slip words in over your 4th Coors light.
Can’t wait for all the insufferable glee I’ll be faced with from him if Pierre is made PM. Wonder how he’ll manage to blame Trudeau when the daycare funding dries up and the seasonal EI cuts come back.
Conservatism does not have a mechanism for dealing with long-term problems. They can’t plant trees, so to speak.
Their philosophy is to conserve the existing (or revert to previous) normative social and economic hierarchies. That means, for the most part, God over man, men over women, rich over poor, white over black, straight over LGBT and the maintenance of historical privelles generally. If you’ve ever wondered how social and economic conservative get along, this is why, they’re both trying to conserve these hierarchies but just with a different focus, they largely try to preserve the hierarchy they find themselves highest up in.
It’s why the quote from Lydon Johnson is still relevant “If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.”.
This gets at the heart of it, this ‘lowest white man’, unprivelleged economically, can be made to conserve the rich-poor hierarchy of the economic conservative by exploiting his prejudice towards the racial white-black social conservative hierarchy.
We’ve seen that strategy extended to other hierarchies as well.
When the solutions to problems can not be found in these hierarchies, conservatives will not reject the hierarchy they will reject the solutions and even reality itself.
They reject public health because it provides service to the poor and rich, white and black, men and women, religious and heathen. Public health violates the hierarchies. Similar to global warming. It simply can’t be real because the solutions involve violating or otherwise rejecting the hierarchies.
I’d like to read about that,understand how it’s done. it’s a thought I have whenever I see them but of course the professionals designing them would have thought about it.
So, don’t get me wrong, I’m in on electric vehicles and busses (although maybe lrt or electric rail would be better, idk) , but I’d like to see that study done in Edmonton vs California. Temperature matters for BEV. And while it barely matters for the average commute, it will for a bus expected to run all day.
On Thursday, Poilievre only pointed to CTV when talking about the “media reports” to which he was referring. But it appears Poilievre asked his question in the House before CTV’s reporting was published....
The guy can’t take responsibility for his own mouth and put his team on coming up with a plausible excuse to spit back when asked about it. Too bad the news has timestamps liar.
The guy is a calculated weasel. He hit pay dirt with his ‘fighting back against the media’ Apple eating farce and now he is hoping to copy that viral success. He’ll lie to do it.
Sweet Home Alabama really grinds my gears. Neil Young sings about systemic racism in the south and Skynard retorts ‘yea some people here are racist ♪ but not all of us are ♪ frig off Neil Young♪ whoa now look at the sky’. Horse shit lyrics, sick composition.
I think you’re mistaking VanZants’ self-awareness of his southern pride and conflicting knowledge of the south’s troubled history with an intentional caricaturization .
The song was certainly written in response to Young , as Van Zant thought Neil had been too broad. However, he obviously was aware that Neil had a point, so walking the line between pointing out Neil’s generalization (as Van Zant saw it) while expressing pride was difficult and I think, ultimately too difficult a challenge.
Neat, I’ll let them know. But if you’ve any curiosity about it, the electrician is driving one of those seat delete Chevy Bolt EVs. I don’t know if he bought it directly or converted his own, but the back seats are removed, and a flat bed is installed.
Yes, fair, and to be clear I’m not suggesting that tradespeople turn in their work truck for a hatchback. Moreso saying that if tradespeople can make it work without a truck, certainly the rest of us can figure out a way to commute without a truck.
This would be the last straw for me. I can stand self checkout, I really can, I know, boo-hiss. But what I can’t deal with is criminalization of people just grocery shopping, be it racially motivated, or just the criminalization of mistakes in handling self checkout items.
I’ve been using the new GPT feature of ChatGPT to improve my own feedback on student work. If you don’t know, GPT is like a customized, purpose driven ChatBOT. So I set one up with the purpose of evaluating my feedback and recommending ways to improve it. I can provide the GPT with ‘knowledge’ about a topic in the form of word files and PDFs , then as I grade I simply give it my feedback and instantly receive suggestions for improved feedback that are based on my original feedback and the knowledge base.
It’s flawed, and occasionally messes up, but more often than not it improves the quality of feedback a great deal, expanding a 2-3 sentence piece of critical feedback into a 2-3 paragraph piece of critical evaluation, references to the knowledge base and relevant examples of why the students should take the advice.
Anyway, this relates back to the article with the concept of RAG (result augmented generation) , I give the GPT knowledge to work from, and I have found that it still gets it quite wrong, quite often, especially in some use cases. For example, I generated a GPT for creating quiz questions from a knowledge base, and it was wrong more often than the feedback GPT. The feedback GPT is , as this article says, brittle. If I give it multiple students work, or pieces of feedback, it will start confusing them very quickly. Which is notnideal since you want feedback to be customized per student. Once I realized that, it was solvable by simply starting a new instance of the GPT. But any instructors not paying close attention would see feedback meant for one student end up on anothers paper.
One of the major causes of delays is provincial resistance. With the major provinces having conservative governments, roll outs are stonewalled at every opportunity. Friggen Sask over there threating to break federal law and refuse to collect a legal tax, for example. Alberta would rather burn the country to the ground than even think about something other than oil extraction.
Some Canadian oil firms await Trudeau's fate rather than cut emissions faster (www.reuters.com)
No shelter from the storm (canadiandimension.com)
Paris is saying ‘non’ to a US-style hellscape of supersized cars – and so should the rest of Europe (www.theguardian.com)
Phil Tank: Trudeau may now regret his broken electoral reform promise (thestarphoenix.com)
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Ottawa to launch pre-approved home design catalogue, bring back post-war effort (www.cbc.ca)
The federal government intends to resurrect a post-war effort to ramp up housing construction across Canada — but with a 21st-century twist....
Tories have 'successfully' scapegoated carbon price in affordability crisis: Trudeau (www.ctvnews.ca)
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the Conservative party has been successful at "scapegoating" the carbon price as the reason everything is more expensive.
Canada faces declining EV interest, report shows, despite push to boost sales (globalnews.ca)
The data found about 68 per cent of car shoppers in 2022 who did not own an EV showed an intent to purchase one, but that dropped to 56 per cent this year.
Emission projections show Canada on track to achieve interim climate target (www.cbc.ca)
Most Canadians want more federal spending on health care, housing: poll (www.winnipegfreepress.com)
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Drive aggressively ≠ Arrive early (web.archive.org)
More than half of Edmonton's $60-million electric bus fleet not roadworthy (edmontonjournal.com)
What was behind that Conservative vote against the Ukraine trade deal? (www.cbc.ca)
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Poilievre points at media to explain Rainbow Bridge 'terrorist attack' comments (www.cbc.ca)
On Thursday, Poilievre only pointed to CTV when talking about the “media reports” to which he was referring. But it appears Poilievre asked his question in the House before CTV’s reporting was published....
I'm a fan of "Southern Rock," but sometimes the lyrics make me wonder if i should drop it. Generally I listen more for music than message, but I don't want my kids hearing "be proud you're a rebel..."
“…cuz the South’s gonna to do it again.”...
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South Koreans are eligible to work at NextStar EV factory under Harper-era free trade deal (www.cbc.ca)
The food police (canadiandimension.com)
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Top 1% of Canada’s earners getting richer, while lowest half see incomes drop (globalnews.ca)
According to Statistics Canada, the recovery seen by Canada following the first year of the pandemic produced uneven income gains.