PT6A posted:

You have no problem with being told to go outside? Well, pity that all the new bylaws forbid it outside, then!

I think there’s room for reasonable restriction but this goes too far. There is no problem with smoking outside away from doors and air intakes. That’s a completely acceptable compromise.

DarkCrawler posted:

I mean I am not Canadian but even I know that...the lake is named for the state where the city is ffs

CLAM DOWN posted:

Smokers are terrible people and the laws segregating and restricting them to the most inconvenient and annoying places is good and cool. Pot should fall under that exact same category. No smoking anything in parks, anywhere near doorways, patios, etc etc.

PT6A posted:

I don’t want to smell it, but I recognize that it’s not my right to be free of all annoyances in a public space. Why are people so loving fragile? Yes, it smells bad. loving deal with it; you’ll be okay if you’re briefly annoyed!

smoke sumthin bitch posted:

i remember jeff sessions saying something very similar to this about a year ago

NZAmoeba posted:

Try endlessly farting in an office or not showering for a week and see how long your manager decides to put up with it before deciding you have to have A Talk. Also the massive social faux pas of microwaving fish in the office kitchen.

Or stuff like this:



Foul odours are actually one of the senses we police quite strictly, as bad ones can be a lot more repulsive and difficult to avoid or tolerate than other nuisances.

NZAmoeba posted:

Try endlessly farting in an office or not showering for a week and see how long your manager decides to put up with it before deciding you have to have A Talk. Also the massive social faux pas of microwaving fish in the office kitchen.

Or stuff like this:

Foul odours are actually one of the senses we police quite strictly, as bad ones can be a lot more repulsive and difficult to avoid or tolerate than other nuisances.

Oxyclean posted:

Occasionally getting a whiff of someone's smoke because the wind happened to be blowing a certain way is a lot different then being in enclosed environment where smell lingers.

Springtime dogpoop thaw and farm manure smells feel far more prevalent and offensive then cigarette smoke.

Baronjutter posted:

That's why there's fines for not picking up after your dog?

Reince Penis posted:

https://twitter.com/nationalpost/status/982267889674670087

Doug Ford's gonna lose this election lol

Reince Penis posted:

https://twitter.com/nationalpost/status/982267889674670087

Doug Ford's gonna lose this election lol

Jimbozig posted:

The Ontario Liberals are less poo poo than the federal ones, tyvm. They actually throw in some good policies that help people and keep some promises while they sell us out with neoliberal privatization bullshit. The Federal Liberals just say they'll do good stuff but always after the next election - they're too busy trying to build pipelines and sell weapons to dictators to get those promises done in this decade.

The Federal Liberals also had a mandate to enact electoral reform that would prevent any chance of a future Conservative majority, and they decided that nah, we are cool with letting the Cons get their turn. So much for "anyone but conservatives". A vote for the Liberals is a vote for the Conservatives, plain and simple.

infernal machines posted:

I wouldn't bet on it.

And he's not ...entirely... wrong. Doug Ford doesn't need a plan to win, he's wrong about why, but that doesn't matter. No one who is willing to vote for a Ford led PC government gives a flying gently caress about a "plan". It does not factor into their voting intention and never has with the Fords.

Every election they've been involved in beyond Ward 2 council has involved spilling barrels of ink pointing out the complete impossibility of their stated policies, their general innumeracy, and the absurdity of their rhetoric. It doesn't matter.

Reince Penis posted:

The amount of chutzpah and hubris on display for an election still two months away is staggering. The Conservatives are loving this up.

Reince Penis posted:

The amount of chutzpah and hubris on display for an election still two months away is staggering. The Conservatives are loving this up.

Lead out in cuffs posted:

Re: Peterson, and in support of Lowtax's new neck, I give you:

Postess with the Mostest posted:

Lol did I hear on the radio that doug ford is going to do some high speed bullet train to London or something how does that even make sense

Wistful of Dollars posted:

Postess with the Mostest posted:

Jesus no it's Wynne putting 11 billion into a high speed train Windsor to Union station to "help businesses attract talented workers from across a wider area". At least she admits she's made Toronto unliveable.

Premier Kathleen Wynne was at Info-Tech in London today to highlight Ontario's historic investment to build a high speed rail line along the Toronto-Windsor corridor that will connect communities and create jobs and economic growth across Southwestern Ontario.

As announced in the 2018 Budget, the government will make an initial investment of more than $11 billion to support construction of Phase One of the project between Toronto and London. Canada's first high speed rail line -- the largest new investment in the Budget -- will slash travel times in half along the corridor, offer people a convenient new travel option that will reduce carbon emissions, while creating new opportunities for workers, businesses and anyone traveling in this part of Ontario.

Electric-powered trains will move at speeds of up to 250 kilometres per hour on a combination of existing track and new dedicated rail corridors. The high speed trains will dramatically reduce travel times -- to an estimated 73 minutes between London and Toronto Union Station. This will give people a faster and greener way to get around, and will help businesses attract talented workers from across a wider area.

This project is one in a series of major investments Ontario is making to build and expand public transit and transition to a low-carbon innovation economy. These investments include the transformational GO Regional Express Rail (RER) project, which will introduce all-day, two-way service every 15 minutes across the GO rail network, with electrified service on core segments, including the Union Pearson Express. Weekly trips across the entire GO rail network will grow from about 1,500 to nearly 6,000 by 2025.

Building high speed rail is part of the government's plan to support care, create opportunity and make life more affordable during this period of rapid economic change. The plan includes free prescription drugs for everyone under 25, and 65 or over, through the biggest expansion of medicare in a generation, free tuition for hundreds of thousands of students, a higher minimum wage and better working conditions, and easier access to affordable child care.

Lead out in cuffs posted:

It's working now:



Enjoy!

Postess with the Mostest posted:

Jesus no it's Wynne putting 11 billion into a high speed train Windsor to Union station to "help businesses attract talented workers from across a wider area". At least she admits she's made Toronto unliveable.

Postess with the Mostest posted:

Jesus no it's Wynne putting 11 billion into a high speed train Windsor to Union station to "help businesses attract talented workers from across a wider area". At least she admits she's made Toronto unliveable.

Premier Kathleen Wynne was at Info-Tech in London today to highlight Ontario's historic investment to build a high speed rail line along the Toronto-Windsor corridor that will connect communities and create jobs and economic growth across Southwestern Ontario.

As announced in the 2018 Budget, the government will make an initial investment of more than $11 billion to support construction of Phase One of the project between Toronto and London. Canada's first high speed rail line -- the largest new investment in the Budget -- will slash travel times in half along the corridor, offer people a convenient new travel option that will reduce carbon emissions, while creating new opportunities for workers, businesses and anyone traveling in this part of Ontario.

Electric-powered trains will move at speeds of up to 250 kilometres per hour on a combination of existing track and new dedicated rail corridors. The high speed trains will dramatically reduce travel times -- to an estimated 73 minutes between London and Toronto Union Station. This will give people a faster and greener way to get around, and will help businesses attract talented workers from across a wider area.

This project is one in a series of major investments Ontario is making to build and expand public transit and transition to a low-carbon innovation economy. These investments include the transformational GO Regional Express Rail (RER) project, which will introduce all-day, two-way service every 15 minutes across the GO rail network, with electrified service on core segments, including the Union Pearson Express. Weekly trips across the entire GO rail network will grow from about 1,500 to nearly 6,000 by 2025.

Building high speed rail is part of the government's plan to support care, create opportunity and make life more affordable during this period of rapid economic change. The plan includes free prescription drugs for everyone under 25, and 65 or over, through the biggest expansion of medicare in a generation, free tuition for hundreds of thousands of students, a higher minimum wage and better working conditions, and easier access to affordable child care.

quote:

Whenever I’m asked about liberal media bias by disaffected news consumers, I explain that it’s not so much that they’re fully for or against one candidate or another. It’s just that they’re naturally predisposed to viewing liberals in a more positive light than conservatives, such that it’s more difficult for them to see things in a neutral fashion. (Case in point: The Ottawa bubble has, to their credit, finally figured out that Trudeau’s progressive schtick is a smarmy ruse. It just took them two years longer than the rest of us to get there.)

Hence why right after Doug Ford won the leadership we saw all of these headlines predicting the doomsday things he was going to get up to and how he’s just a repeat of Trump. It was not only lazy journalism but most of it ranged from baseless to flat-out lies. It’s an example of how their first inclination is to reach for any conceivable negatives, which is of course the opposite of their response to a liberal victory.

Here’s the thing though: If they display this bias too heavily, it risks further eroding the dwindling trust people have in them. For two years in a row, the annual Edelman Trust Barometer has found that less than half of the country trusts the media.

The tour bus is the least of their problems. The question is how fairly they cover the events once they get there.

vyelkin posted:

lol the NDP tried this under Bob Rae too, they did a feasibility study and everything. I feel like it's the desperation play of the election campaign playbook.

infernal machines posted:

It's not as if it's not needed, it would help combat congestion on the 403/QEW and reduce fossil fuel usage in general. But it's massively expensive and cannot be supported by fare revenue (see UPX, times 100), so no private business will ever do it on their own and the province will be paying huge fare subsidies in perpetuity to run it.

vyelkin posted:

On the other hand I have no doubt in my mind about the fact that this is 100% a cynical election ploy by a party that's trailing Doug Ford in the polls due in part to its legacy of horrible corruption on major deals like this one.

PT6A posted:

I don’t want to smell it, but I recognize that it’s not my right to be free of all annoyances in a public space. Why are people so loving fragile? Yes, it smells bad. loving deal with it; you’ll be okay if you’re briefly annoyed!

infernal machines posted:

It's not as if it's not needed, it would help combat congestion on the 403/QEW and reduce fossil fuel usage in general. But it's massively expensive and cannot be supported by fare revenue (see UPX, times 100), so no private business will ever do it on their own and the province will be paying huge fare subsidies in perpetuity to run it.

Reince Penis posted:

https://twitter.com/nationalpost/status/982267889674670087

Doug Ford's gonna lose this election lol

quote:

but in the decades since, “progressives” have successfully demonized the lexicon of government to the extent that any attempt at covering costs without going into debt is tarred as “austerity,” which is synonymous with “evil.”

xtal posted:

Can we devote a moment to talk about when Hamilton committed itself to racism and transphobia