The nation said it shouldn’t have to defend the findings of Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, or the experiences of the Tk̓emlúps te Secwépemc, the Williams Lake First Nation, and other nations who have been “so severely castigated” by the book.
What is up with people trying to pretend Residential Schools didn’t happen, or that they were happy fun times? This is so… embarrassing isn’t even the word, it’s much worse than that.
I had a good time, so times must’ve been good! people must be lying!
I guess? These are, of course, the same boomers that turn around and tell anyone younger than Gen X that if they can’t afford a home, it’s because they don’t work hard enough. unfortunately, we’re all people. the best we can do is try to be less idiotic than our parents.
People–well, right-wing nationalists in this case–have a lot of self-worth tied up in their nationhood and thusly in way the country is perceived. The problem with this is that any criticism, even justified, as an attack on that self-worth. They don’t have the right “mental equipment” to process feeling bad about their country.
Humans are astonishingly tribal animals. A lot of our worst behaviour becomes a lot more understandable when you realize how much of it is driven by primate tribalism that evolved millions of years ago, and the reason it’s so powerful is because, for those millions of years, ostracism was a death sentence. It’ll take a long time to breed tribalism out of humanity.
I agree with everything you’ve written here. And I think you and I can agree that if you’re truly proud of a nation, you help to keep the good parts, and repair the damage of the bad parts.
What I find strange though is this feels the opposite of tribal – they’re turning their backs on their tribe now. You tell me a sub-group within our group was targeted with genocide by people in our leadership, and I will be sure to put a (metaphorical) bullet in anyone who tries that again, or helps those people cover up their crimes.
Imagine hearing people in power you never voted for attempted genocide and then going “I will defend these people.”
I’m not sure who got to them first to brainwash them, but it seems to have done a good job.
The Ministry of Finance estimates the tax could generate about $43 million a year in tax revenue.
What could go wrong you ask? It’s right there… $43m a year… That doesn’t get deducted from the profits of the speculators, it comes out of the equity in the homes that get sold. The flippers aren’t gonna eat the tax, they’re going to add it to the cost of the homes they flip.
The law isn’t going to mitigate flipping much, it’s going to add $43m/year to the amount home prices increase by, and when people see the neighbors house values go up, they’ll demand more for their non-flip sales as well.
It doesn’t take a mathematician to realize that a 20% price hike every time a home is sold is an impossibility. It will absolutely have an effect on flipping volume and turnover duration.
I would agree with a cap of 2 detached houses per person/couple.
Rent is not just for apartments, some people have families and need to rent as well, due to work and other life conditions. Can’t easily house 2 adults and 3 children in an apartment.
It’s all over the CA and AZ deserts. For at least a decade I have witnessed it destroy small game and coyotes. Along with mange and the general public using an insane amount of poison to keep the rat population down, there will be no wildlife left.
The combination is an environmental death spiral.
That’s why I laugh at the preppers. Do they think they will be the seeds for the future? Because they won’t. They’re just morons. ESPECIALLY the rich ones.
It is not contagious to coyotes, canines are either too short-lived to show symptoms or their scavenging-optimized digestive tracts are capable of destroying it, much like all the other horrible stuff that goes down their gullet.
It’s not naturally contagious to small game either, but only to cervids. If your small game are sick, I would blame poisons both intentionally set and oversprayed by farmers. Here in the hills we have plenty of small game but the flat farmland areas are barren from all the spraying. Only rats, mice and coyotes left there.
Almost all of our deer here in my part of Saskatchewan are dead from CWD now. More coyotes than ever before though, and it’s rare that you see one that looks sick in any way. Almost a shame as if there’s any single animal that we wouldn’t miss out here, it’s the coyote.
And he didn’t even serve 7, he has been free for years now. Absolutely disgusting. Very seldom do I want to see someone spend a lifetime in prison but if anyone deserves it, it’s this guy. The absolute cruelty of doing something like that and then be so shitty as to try to avoid your victim receiving compensation is incomprehensibly low.
We need there to be enough of a difference between the punishment of charges, to prevent escalation strategies.
Dead bodies can’t go to the police. If the punishement is the same for manslaughter as whatever it was the crimal did, killing them afterwards becomes “the correct move” in a lot of situations.
As for “he didn’t even serve 7”:
In Canada, each day you spend behind bars before you are convicted counts for 1.5 days of time served, this is to try to curb people being held “just because” by the police. You are up for Statutory realse after 2/3s of your sentence which is kinda like parole, having strict rules and needing to check-in with an office.
So a 7 year sentence in Canada is 1703 days in his majesty’s hotel, and 852 days with release conditions.
Why does occupancy even matter in terms of the amount of rent? You're leasing the space. Maybe the argument is "wear and tear," or if utilities are included? Even so, $600/mo is a ridiculous amount even for an additional permanent adult tenant.
Something tells me that there might be more to this story. It sounds like the landlord wants these tenants out of the residence, and doesn't want to (or can't) go through an eviction proceeding. This nonsense amounts to "constructive eviction." Why does the landlord want these tenants out?
If you want to discourage subletting, you put a clause in the lease that forbids subletting. Sure, an additional adult would generate some additional wear and tear, but certainly not $600/mo worth. Besides which, the wear and tear cost would come in the form of post-tenancy cleaning, carpet, paint - and none of those have a real difference in cost whether you have two or three adult tenants.
It’s more cycles on the laundry machines. You cook more so the stove might wear out faster since things seem to break easier nowadays.
Damage just happens as well in a tenancy, maybe you drop something big that damages the hardwood floors. The security deposit will cover that, but the more people, the more chance for more expensive damage, and you aren’t getting a bigger deposit.
And I bet they’re still all trying to sell at an astronomical price. Someone will blink first and then things will start falling. The question is how long will they try to hold out.
The problem is many of these people paid such highly inflated prices for these places that the only way its profitable is to do short term vacation rentals on them. People won’t pay that much for rent.
The property values are then going to drop as they can’t be used this way anymore and the owners will need to sell at a loss.
Someone will buy that, but because the price is lower, rent will be better and it’ll now be rentable.
These people made a bad investment and will have to suffer the consequences, but it’s not as easy as just rent it now.
Yeah its probably not going to be profitable to have a long term tenant, but you could still have someone else build equity for you and then sell a few years down the road rather than panic sell and take a bath in loss.
These people probably didn’t think ahead and don’t have the cash flow to handle the difference. Especially if they over extended on multiple properties.
Wow. Moving someone to another location and then suddenly firing them for “communication standards?” Unless there’s some highly compelling evidence to indicate otherwise, it’s pretty clear cut what happened here. I guess they calculate it’s better to pay a fine for a wrongful dismissal than to have a supervisor that is sympathetic to workers.
Want to fix this? It’ll take a) jail time, and b) asset seizure.
Corporate structure deliberate distributes responsibility for things like this such that:
It’s very hard to find one person to blame, let alone prove malfeasance.
If by some chance you do find a smoking gun, the fine for doing so is usually less than the profit of the transgression
If, eg, Howard Schultz and his direct-reports faced fines and/or jail time directly, and those fines were orders of magnitude the harms of the action, then you’d see some of this stop.
In this region of Canada, at least, the maximum penalty for wrongful dismissal is … Standard severance.
Source: a dear friend launched a successful human-rights complaint against a very deep-pocketed employer who blatantly violated clear medical orders and then fired him when he objected. Like, 100% dead-to-rights on a claim with no normal upper limit. Except here it maxes out at a pittance.
Need a better lawyer because you aren’t fully terminated till you sign the agreement. Had two friends deal with it. Company thought they would just do standard termination pay, lawyer got one person that plus severance for senior position and years, plus they owed an agreed upon closing pay for ending employment. They other person got every hour of pay they ever worked past their original signed salary weekly hours. Company thought theyd give a few weeks termination, ended up costing them half a years salary in OT
Maps - digital or analog - are by definition only approximations of reality. When the two disagree in any way, reality wins every time.
North Shore Search and Rescue says it was starting to grow dark by the time they got a call for help near Mount Fromme. The hiker had no light source with him ...
When you are going off into the forest where nobody in the world knows exactly where you are, and you have to depend on your own wits to get back to civilization, you'd better damned well have a light, as well as a lighter.
Should mapping services correct these kinds of errors? Absolutely. Is it their fault when some dingus with no gear whatsoever goes walking into the forest where no path is? No.
I have a dedicated hiking bag with two flashlights, a headlamp, and two backup batteries. All use the same 18650s.
I also have an airtight container with zippo fluid, and a ferro rod/striker on the side, a solar charging arc lighter, a regular Bic lighter, and a magnifying glass. I want to put a large ferro rod and a small tin of waterproof matches in there as well.
I also have three mylar blankets, a camp knife, length of paracord and twine, and a first aid kit with splint and tourniquet added.
It sounds bulky, but it all fits in it’s own pouch that hangs off the main bag, and weighs about 2lbs without the knife. Idk if that’s considered bulky or not, but I’ve never had issue with it. Most of my hiking weight comes from water.
That anyone goes out without at least a snack, water, flashlight, and something to catch others attention like a whistle, blows my mind.
I came across 5 people in flip-flops/sandals and gym attire carrying nothing but phones and one or two Nalgene bottles several miles into hilly, winding trails that takes about 3 hours to get to the main landmark, and handed out a couple bottles for their return. Chill dudes, just didn’t plan well. Hopefully they tried again with better planning.
Is it their fault when some dingus […] goes walking into the forest where no path is? No.
Picking a single aspect to assign total blame is kinda pointless, and so is trying to address that through Yes/No. Every incident is the compounded result of multiple contributing factors. One of these contributing factors is that Google Maps displayed inaccurate information, even though common sense should have worked as error correction. The fault is in our stars.
If you ask me for directions to my house, and as part of the directions I give you, I tell you to drive your car down a staircase, and you do,you are entirely responsible for your automobile accident.
Uh, sure? Walking off trail in the woods isn’t as surrealistic as taking a car down a staircase so the analogy doesn’t seem useful to me. Even if the instructions of driving down some stairs were truthful it would still be blatantly illegal/unsafe.
A less silly example: it’s possible to sue the government if one gets into a crash due to bad signage. Even if the driver is the one who technically broke the law, the city may be liable for confusing signage that contributes to accidents.
[I]t’s possible to sue the government if one gets into a crash due to bad signage.
That's because the government operates the roads.
If you ask me for directions to my house, and as part of the directions I give you, I tell you to walk down a path in the forest where no path actually exists, through pretty serious terrain, and you have no gear to speak of, and you go anyway, you are entirely responsible for having to be rescued and airlifted out by helicopter.
This guy, and anyone like him, is not obliged to follow a map application.
I used the car down a staircase story because it happens all the time.
Ah sorry, when you said “I tell you to drive your car down a staircase” I thought you meant you gave literal “take the stairs with your car” as instructions, instead of giving an abstract map/drawing that the person would follow. Then yeah, in this case the analogy makes more sense. My mistake.
I tell you to walk down a path in the forest where no path actually exists […] you are entirely responsible for having to be rescued and airlifted out by helicopter
Kind of off topic but I wonder what’s going to happen to the nuclear plant in Ukraine now that Russia has rigged it with explosives. Seems like nuclear plants are great until there is instability from natural disasters, climate, war or mismanagement. Then they become a threat to everyone around them.
You have to understand that nuclear plant is quite old and not built with current specs in mind. Post-Fukushima improvements were mostly about dealing with external damage. They beefed up reactors against natural disasters, and the Americans took the chance to also ask for more protections against deliberate actions - modern reactors are designed to withstand a direct artillery strike without causing a meltdown or accident.
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