That’s the difference between ethical governing and the unethical abuse of power.

If you want liberals to “get everything they want”, and ignore democracy, they’d have to do it unethically.

Wouldn’t it be better if everyone played by the rules, and governed like they are actually working in the best interests of voters?

This is exciting news!

Now, what do we do when our Provincial or Municipal governments become the barrier to housing? Because lord knows that Doug Ford is fully capable of screwing this up.

“Investigate” what? Healthcare professionals don’t want to work under a Nazi Regime. What’s hard to understand?

The same happened when Nazis controlled Germany, and guess what? They also came to Canada 😁

Just because one step doesn’t get you to your destination, doesn’t mean you shouldn’t take that first step.

But the first step shouldn’t be to focus on car manufacturing… again.

Bikes aren’t practical in a large number of Canadian cities, especially ones with -30 degree seasons. They aren’t practical for disabled people. They aren’t practical for families with young children.

Says who? With the appropriate infrastructure (i.e. like what you see in Montreal), you can have cycling year-round. Hell, I’m not from Montreal, and have used my bike all winter for errands.

And last summer, I was hauling two grandkids around by bike. It’s not hard.

Cars are unaffordable, and will continue to be for most people. Even families who can “afford” a car, are being hurt by their dependency.

And taxpayers all lose when cars are the focus of our transportation network.

A lack of road infrastructure also hobbles emergency services such as ambulances. It reduces the ability of trucks to deliver goods to stores. It reduces the ability for utility crews to service utilities such as power lines and sewers.

I didn’t say we should reduce our roads to dirt paths and let it all crumble. But we don’t need 18 lane highways or 2 lanes of parking on a four lane road… we are building too much to support gridlock by inducing demand.

Emergency vehicles and delivery trucks benefit by having FEWER drivers on the road. This is a fact.

There are a lot of potential issues with aggressively pursuing what you envision. At the very least you’d need to massively re-work city design and zoning, rebuild a ton of stuff. That will take time.

No, it really doesn’t. What takes time (and money) is road widening, constant road repair, figuring out what homes to demolish to make room for another road we don’t need to build.

Cities and countries that have de-prioritized cars have done so very quickly and with massive benefits to their communities. See Montreal, Paris, any city in the Netherlands, Vancouver, Columbia (the country!), etc.

It costs much less to build out cycling and public transportation, and it can be done much faster than building out infrastructure just for cars.

Shifting to electric cars will take less time, and be a net ‘win’ for the environment, generally speaking. I see no issue with the first persons response saying we should try to make evs in country.

That’s not true at all. We don’t need or want people making short trips in an EV. It still puts the community at risk (crashes), it still degrades the road surface, it contributes MORE to “tire dust”, still keeps people inactive, still keeps the poor at a disadvantage, still removed “community” from our communities. It’s just not a path forward.

I’m not saying we need an all-or-nothing solution. We need to rebalance our transportation network and make transportation more equitable and easier to access. There’s no reason why the majority of Canadians can’t walk, bike, or bus their way around town for the majority of their errands.

Edit: oops, replied to something else.

I agree that we should still be making as much as we can here, even if they are cars. But lets not make the same mistake we already have… by putting all our eggs into the automotive basket. Cars and car infrastructure are hurting this country.

to produce entry level electric vehicles so people can actually afford these fucking things.

The problem is that supporting car infrastructure always results in a loss for society. Building more roads for cars, wider roads for cars (i.e. more lanes), more parking for cars… is such a drain on funding that you never catch up.

If you live in a municipality that doesn’t have enough money for basic services, it’s because of the money needed to support car infrastructure. Sounds crazy, but it’s true.

As a country, we should de-prioritize cars as a means of transportation, but also as an industry that we rely too heavily on.

If Canadian manufacturing could diversify into other areas of transportation (i.e. affordable, Made in Canada e-bikes and e-cargo bikes) or putting our manufacturing efforts into building trains and public transportation vehicles… we would strengthen our economy while helping people, and it wouldn’t be at a loss!

“Woke” = to be aware and concerned about social injustice and discrimination.

If our next leader isn’t “woke”, then they can fuck right off.

Yeah, sobeys has popcorn kernels with the maple leaf on it. I inquired in store if that meant that the corn was produced in Canada, and they said yes.

Inquired with head office when I got home, and it’s actually from the States. No fucking Canadian connection, other than it being sold in Canada, apparently.

For anyone looking, Giant Tiger has popcorn kernels that are a product of Canada, so the best you can get in a retail store.

We make pizza every weekend, so 1 or 2 dough at a time.

And we make bread with a generous amount of trail mix added at least 2 or three times a week.

Our entire level bread machine paid for itself in a few months.

And we could be using it to make all kinds of dough and bread. One of my most used appliances.

Thanks. I guess the demo restricts those backup and export features.

Sigh. Looks like it was just Trump being a lying, untrustworthy asshole.

The White house said this just yesterday:

Canadians “will no longer have to endure the inconveniences of international travel when Canada becomes our 51st state.”

SOURCE

We should keep their electricity turned off and stop all oil exports until they stop this bullshit for at least 30 days.

Wow. That’s a much more inclusive plan compared to when they first introduced it!

I know it exists, but would rather self-host and not have this data linked to Strava.

Not sure how data is exported from that app, though.

Can you screenshot that?

I see an export attachments (does nothing when I tried), and reports (only prints the data, but doesn’t export in any meaningful file format).

It’s better when they work together for the greater good then, eh?

Our liberal federal government has begun to include dental coverage under our healthcare. They started with elderly and those under 18 (I believe), but have expanded it recently.

It should eventually be “free” for everyone, just like our healthcare is (paid through taxes).

I don’t give a shit about my car, but I’d love to use this for my bikes! I’m currently using a spreadsheet and self-hosted calendar to keep track, but this would be “easier”.

I tried the demo, but maybe I missed it: how do you export the data you’ve input, in case you need to move it to somewhere else or if the project stops, and you want to back up the data?

Data portability is as important to me as self-hosting.

Never trust a rapist.

I want to know what our leadership says about this conversation, and how it benefits Canadians.

Because if Trump thinks it will benefit him, then it doesn’t benefit us.

I don’t care what Trump says, because he’s a lying sack of shit. What did Carney say about the call?

I agree…but at some point, there will have to be normalization. Whatever that new normal ends up being.

It took decades upon decades and multiple wars and historic events like 9/11 to forge the relationship that Canada had with the States.

It will take EVEN LONGER to re-build the trust again.

It won’t happen in our lifetime, or our kid’s lifetime.