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 Our vaccine uptake looks really good compared to most of the world? I realize that curve will start to flatten as we shift to second doses and also start hitting hesitancy but that Angus Reid poll that was posted in the last thread suggests we still have a ways to go before we do. Is it overly optimistic to think we might soon become the world leader? https://twitter.com/angusreidorg/status/1394333161941786624
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May 29, 2021 16:41
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As the Conservatives start to give more lip service to climate change and the Liberals continue doing a good job of pretending to care about it, is there even room for a Tesla Tory party? If the Liberal candidate in Kitchener hadn’t withdrawn, the Greens would have probably been reduced to just May’s seat. I feel like the Greens should try outflanking the NDP from the left if they want a chance at continued relevance going forward. Edit - just to be clear, i don’t think going ecosocialist will yield much more electoral success for the Greens but it would at least make their existence more relevant in a PPC kind of way. With FPTP we can only have so many successful parties. Shofixti fucked around with this message at 19:55 on Sep 21, 2021 |
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Sep 21, 2021 19:46
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It's being enforced in Ottawa. And most of the time, in my experience at least, the people checking are actually taking their time to read the vaccine receipt and compare it to my ID.
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Oct 14, 2021 21:10
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Or we could build a space elevator and, on the dates of the old time changes, raise or lower a giant mirror that reflects additional sunlight onto Canada
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Oct 27, 2021 17:18
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The year is 2090 and the ONDP finally appear poised to sweep into power on the back of a young charismatic leader. Opening line of a Toronto Star op-ed a week before the election: "I feel the excitement too, but on the 100th anniversary of Rae Days we need to ask ourselves if we can really trust the NDP with power"
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Nov 3, 2021 17:23
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The only silver lining from Ford's inevitable re-election is that we might finally see Horwath resign.
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Jan 9, 2022 19:17
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JP sounds too much like Kermit the frog to win any political office
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Feb 2, 2022 20:50
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I know amending the constitution is basically impossible but municipalities really need to be recognized as more than just creatures of the province.
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Mar 1, 2022 19:59
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So I guess this shouldn't be a surprise coming from the Liberals, but the Request for Expression of Interest for the high frequency rail project was released and it looks like it is going to be a lovely public private partnership. The private partner will design, co-finance, build, operate, maintain, and retain revenues. It's essentially a privatized line at this point. Can't wait for this to be "value engineered" to hell and back.
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Mar 11, 2022 18:29
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HackensackBackpack posted:I do feel bad for small business owners who've had their customer base kind of ripped away from the because of the pandemic but it's been two years. You look at what a lot of downtown people are saying these businesses could be open later in the evenings or pivot toward catering to people who actually live downtown. Offer them something they can use and actually access outside of office business hours. Ottawa is particularly egregious in this regard. Businesses north of Laurier basically all shut down after 5pm. It becomes a total ghost town. And even elsewhere in Centretown it’s hard to just find a tea or a snack after like 8pm.
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Mar 23, 2022 21:38
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Eagerly awaiting future PM Pierre Pollievre tweeting at Elon Musk asking him to join a P3 Vancouver reconstruction project while also soliciting crypto donations for disaster relief
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Apr 26, 2022 03:46
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CBC... not terrible? I feel like Evan Dyer is going to get called into Catherine Tait's office for a talking to. https://twitter.com/CJPME/status/1521810666495123461
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May 4, 2022 13:58
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I don’t understand going out to eat steak. It’s pretty much the easiest thing to cook. Just buy a quality cut from a butcher, salt generously and use a food thermometer to get it medium rare or whatever you want. When i go out to eat I would rather pay for something that’s too complicated or annoying to do at home.
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May 26, 2022 16:53
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Ottawa has effectively already been living under a strong mayor system given how the Watson club basically supports his agenda unconditionally.
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Jul 20, 2022 05:58
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My friend with two kids in daycare just got COVID for the third time this year. Pretty great we’re forcing people to continue working and putting their kids into those situations.
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Jul 26, 2022 21:21
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Looks like we’ve got our first Indigenous Supreme Court Justice. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/michelle-obonsawin-scc-nomination-1.6556152
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Aug 19, 2022 16:04
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I want to believe McKenney has a strong chance at winning given all the positive momentum they have from the convoy onwards. Plus, the centre/right was definitely counting on Watson running again and were caught flat footed by the inquiry and sudden resignation. Sutcliffe was all they could scrounge up on short notice and he’s not a compelling candidate. That said, McKenney might scare enough lovely suburban voters to motivate them to go to the polls for Sutcliffe.
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Sep 7, 2022 17:14
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If he had transitioned to being a regular transit user then his death is justified.
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Sep 22, 2022 20:45
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TBH I would donate more if Trudeau did his best Billy Mays impression and promised to quadruple the federal government's donation matching if you call within the next 20 minutes.
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Sep 28, 2022 12:32
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Voting for Catherine McKenney in Ottawa will legitimately make a positive difference.
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Oct 24, 2022 15:26
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Oxyclean posted:I like how Ottawa had a mayoral candidate who had a mild platform of improving the alternatives to cars - better transit and more bike lanes, and STILL their opponent turned it into "Rah Rah War on Cars" despite also campaigning on improving public transit. As someone who does active transportation planning as a job, I can confirm you are correct. There are many people in public consultations who will freely admit they are categorically opposed to anything that takes away space for cars and any broader benefits of the project are irrelevant to them. Also has there been any quantification of the degree to which McKenney’s loss was due to transphobia? Anecdotally it seemed to be a vote motivator. Would a cis white dude with an identical platform to McKenney have beaten Sutcliffe? Shofixti fucked around with this message at 22:26 on Jan 6, 2023 |
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Jan 6, 2023 22:24
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Fidelitious posted:Yeah, I know less than poo poo about Peel Region (I assume it's some Toronto thing) but I'm generally in favour of municipal government structures that actually govern at least vaguely similar areas so that there aren't untenable competing interests. If the Province isn’t bringing regional governments back any time soon, an interim measure that Councils could do would be to organize their committees to better recognize regions. We already sort of do that in Ottawa with the Agricultural and Rural Affairs committee. Could also have two planning/transportation committees: one for inside the Greenbelt and one for outside.
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May 19, 2023 18:40
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Fidelitious posted:What a lovely post. I literally gave 4 (5?) examples of former car cities that made the choice to change and you come in with this crap. I work in this field and this is accurate. Every year cities are digging up old sewers/water mains. You can put the street back together however you want afterwards and the cost is more or less the same. Similarly, huge amounts of road are being repaved yearly and you can easily change up the line paint while you're at it to narrow/remove lanes, remove parking, add painted bike lanes, etc. In Ottawa most of the bicycle infrastructure these days is implemented "for free" through these regular renewals rather than the capital projects driven by the active transportation planners. You just need to change the policies and have the political will to stand firm when people rage about losing on-street parking.
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Jun 15, 2023 00:54
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I don’t want landlords killed. I just want their income properties expropriated and used for socialized subsidized housing funded by higher taxes on the rich 
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Jul 31, 2023 16:50
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Fornax Disaster posted:This is a terrible idea. An experienced motorist will know about what situations pedestrians and cyclists become hard to see. Removing that knowledge from the process of designing cycling and pedestrian infrastructure would get a lot more people killed. I mean, the people who have influence over policy are not the ones doing the actual design of roads and intersections where those types of issues come up and are addressed. Policymakers create the framework and then the engineers and planners at the staff level figure out how to safely implement the policies. Plus, in my experience, city councillors who live without cars are the most eager to hear about ways to keep pedestrians and cyclists safe from vehicles.
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Aug 2, 2023 02:30
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An acquaintance of mine who works in a security-sensitive government job got escorted out of the office and is suspended/under investigation because they liked a pro-Palestinian post on Instagram. The post they liked was a benign sort of "pray for the innocent children in Gaza" message but that same account who posted it also had separate pro-Hamas posts. So be careful - this is becoming a red scare situation.
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Oct 23, 2023 02:48
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The province would never allow Toronto to toll the Gardiner cause the 905 would hate it. At least the PCs and Liberals would never allow it. The NDP might but if we have an NDP provincial government they’d probably also be open to tearing it down even if they own it. It’s lovely but I think I agree with the realpolitikers on this one. Had they not uploaded it, did Toronto have the Council votes and will to tear down the Gardiner?
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Nov 28, 2023 04:31
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No longer owning the land under the Gardiner is for sure a downside. As already noted this does make it less likely that it’ll eventually be torn down and even if it were, the province would effectively control what the corridor would look like post demolition. That’s a loss. I’m not really seeing the land development aspect though. The province already has absolute power over that. The only thing that really keeps the province in check is public pushback on MZOs. Sure the City won’t push back publicly now on some lovely provincial projects but Ford never cared what municipalities thought anyway. It’s a small PR win not having to push back on City opposition in the press.
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Nov 28, 2023 17:38
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That’s not my position of how I see municipalities (I work for one!). But it is how the PCs see them and they tend to act accordingly.
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Nov 28, 2023 18:04
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Newfie posted:It's crazy this isn't the biggest news story in both countries. The fact that hindu extremists are trying to assassinate people on Canadian and American soil 10 years ago would probably be grounds for severing international relations but with our need to have an anti China state in their sphere of influence we will probably just send Modi a google note about how killing our citizens makes us sad. Yeah but they’re trying to assassinate brown people in Canada so
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Dec 1, 2023 15:57
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Watching the Lexx episode where they go to the super horny planet was a formative moment of my youth.
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infernal machines posted:That is every episode of Lexx Clearly my mistake was only watching one episode of Lexx
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Mar 7, 2024 20:00
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