A typical bike-riding leftist urbanite who also happens to be a hockey-crazy Western Canadian.
What’s with conservative premiers elbowing their way into municipal affairs recently? Weren’t they the ones complaining about government overreach a while ago?
Anyway, I’m picturing Doug Ford busting into the provincial treasury in a car-brain fueled rage, and trying to explain that yes, he really needs $100 billion, no it’s not for drugs cars this time, it’s for economic growth
This is Danielle Smith we’re talking about. Corruption should be taken for granted. Attempting to use her position to install her husband as the province’s preeminent rail tycoon is pretty much exactly on brand.
And the ones from China still cost less after the 100% tariff
I kinda have to agree with Singh on this one. It’s hard to see this move as anything other than anti-worker
I don’t really have a problem with a certain amount of protectionism as a concept, but Canada has a long history of granting special privileges to specific companies in key industries, then sitting back while those powers are used to mercilessly abuse consumers. I’m not super confident this is going to be any different.
No, you would not pay $333k in taxes. You would add $333k to your taxable income for the year, and then pay regular tax rates on your total income.
If you made $500k in capital gains and had no other income that year, then by extremely rough estimation (I’m too lazy to pull out a calculator to get the exact figure) you would only be paying somewhere in the ballpark of $60k in federal taxes, then another $20k-$30k based on what province you live in. All things considered, that’s like a 17% effective rate, which is too damn low if you ask me.
And that’s only on amounts greater than $250k. So anyone this change actually affects is going to be fine. The people complaining about it are straight up lying.
She zeroed in on journalism schools and her thoughts that not enough conservative journalists and commentators have come out of those programs.
That has nothing to do with federal funding and everything to do with the current version of conservatism being completely idiotic.
Right? He can just smugly munch on an apple while thinking of low-iq rhetorical questions to interject with, and that’s the entirety of his politics. That’s all it takes to become champion of the reactionaries.
That’s a massive blunder. There is about 0 chance the Cons are serious about finding “alternative plans” for climate policy. If they were, they wouldn’t be asking the likes of Danielle “blanket ban on renewables” Smith and Doug “let’s just develop the greenbelt” Ford for their ideas. Furthermore, if they think this tax is too much of an imposition on Canadians, then that rules out essentially all other forms of climate action, because the tax is one of the most conservative policies possible.
I’m not saying the carbon tax is perfect by any means, but up to the present, nobody opposed to it has been able to come up with a better idea, or even much of a coherent argument against it. I don’t know what the NDP are gaining from this deal, but I can’t see it being worth all the trust and credibility they had to concede.
The amount of effort spent whining about this tax on a national level is probably more than it would take to solve the damn climate crisis.
People will do just about anything to avoid the tiniest bit of self reflection.
This is a critical juncture for the direction of our housing market, specifically in Edmonton. House prices are relatively sane at the moment, thanks to a combination of staying ahead of the curve on building houses, forward-thinking urban development, and the lack of any real draw for people to want to live here. Calgary’s market is beginning to inflate and it’s only a matter of time before people get priced out and have to settle for Edmonton.
It’s really important that we continue to be forward-thinking and deliberate with new development, so as to keep prices manageable while fostering a healthy urban fabric. I know everyone in the country is dicks out for fast and cheap housing development, but relying on infinite suburban sprawl is a really, really bad idea. Let’s use what we’ve learned from the mistakes of previous generations and do it right this time
Call me traditional, but I find regular AUR to be chaotic enough.
This would normally be a compiler warning, but someone has enabled the -Werror compiler option (probably in the makefile) which causes the compiler to treat all warnings as errors. You can just remove any -Werror flags from the makefile and it should compile properly.
Private insurance doesn’t even make sense.
Insurance is essentially a bunch of folks each contributing a small amount of their excess resources to a pool so that nobody gets left behind in case of a disaster. It’s an inarguably collectivist idea. Private insurance just means there’s some fat business types skimming more than their fair share off the top because they “own the company”.
Nevermind the fact that single-payer systems are mathematically more efficient.
If Russia is drafting foreigners who would otherwise not be there if not for Unilever, then this would be a profoundly evil thing. If they’re actually just drafting Russian citizens who happen to work at Unilever, then this might be a misleading headline. The article doesn’t specify.
(Unilever still sucks for paying Russian taxes and supporting their war effort)
To add a few I haven’t seen mentioned yet:
And a few more which I think are great but YMMV depending on your particular interests:
tl;dr: if you only pick up one name from all these comments, let it be jon bois. He’s made some of the most compelling content I’ve ever seen, especially the “pretty good” series. Money back guarantee, you will not be disappointed.
tl;dr for real: jon bois, climate town, electroboom.
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Real cryptocurrencies (of which bitcoin is the only one, don’t @ me) I think are fine and worthwhile projects. 99% of the rest of the crypto sphere is straight up snake oil, and anyone saying any different is probably trying to sell you something.
The difference with the fediverse is that its main appeal is actually the decentralization and censor resistance, not the boatloads of speculative money to be made. The “entrepreneurs” seeing dollar signs is what made crypto into a joke, so hopefully we can avoid that for a while.
I seem to remember some list of “enforceable conditions” set out by the government for this merger. So those were bullshit, I guess.
Another W for the telecom cartel.