villasv

@villasv@lemmy.ca

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villasv,

Dental care pilot is a pretty big deal too, though cannabis legalization is probably going to be the first line item.

villasv, (edited )

Construction labour in Canada is near 100% utilization in Canada.

True but there are other ways to spend money that doesn’t involve having more construction happening at once. For example, buying land to be used for non-market housing. This one taken seriously would dry up the whole 73B already. Buy already built properties, give more financial incentives for multi-family housing, etc. There’s a long list of things of expensive solutions waiting.

Send that money to provinces tied to strict usage rules towards transit oriented development and non-market housing. For example, Translink needs funding and expanding mass transit is one way to improve the housing crisis.

villasv,

BlackRock owns a fuck ton of property in Canada, they are in a strong position to make rents and housing, much more affordable

Do they, though? Managing funds doesn’t actually mean owning the assets in those funds

villasv,

Welp, a bigger economy is how we can increase the feasibility of having HSR built in Canada so bring it on.

Secret RCMP report warns Canadians may revolt once they realize how broke they are (nationalpost.com)

Reading things like this makes it make sense as to why the government is putting big efforts into reducing legal gun ownership (and the type of guns targeted, ex. 50 cal rifles) instead of going after criminals and makes sense of things like the Online Harms Bill… The elites are trying to prevent a repeat of 1789 France or...

villasv, (edited )

the more educated one is about our gun laws, the less likely they are to support bans

(X) doubt

The more respondents self reported as educated, the less likely they are to support bans. Meaning, respondents thinking they are educated in gun laws. Same would happen if you interviewed folks on vaccines and trusted them because “they’re doing their own research”. But are these people really educated on longitudinal studies about the effects of gun laws? Or are they educated in the sense of knowing what the Canadian laws are?

villasv,

The “surprisingly simple” solution involves economically attacking the politically stablished forces so, nothing simple about that at all.

villasv,

The phaseout is now years ahead of schedule, in large part due to natural gas taking over much of the generation. Many coal plants were either replaced by gas plants or converted to burn natural gas instead. Electricity generated from natural gas puts out roughly half the amount of greenhouse gas emissions as compared with coal.

Ok, so fossil fuel is still the primary driver. But well, incremental improvements do matter. Zeroing out coal this year is a great milestone.

The share from renewables is growing too, even if a bit slowly.

villasv, (edited )

Open Banking is cool but Canada needs a federally owned instant payment/transfer system like everyone else is doing, yes even the US, and no Interac doesn’t cut it.

villasv,

Woah those are some healthy looking numbers, ty

villasv,

Canada needs more people. It also needs more infrastructure.

Unfortunately Canada is doing a good job tackling #1, but a bad job tackling #2 because the financials work out to be just fine to do so.

villasv,

Its factually true from my perspective.

That’s an interesting sentence

villasv,

half of them are stupider than [the average person]

About half, depending on how biased the distribution is. The statistic to use for this is the median, not the average!

villasv,

Intelligence follows a normal distribution

That’s news to me, as I’m not aware of well stablished quantifiable definitions of intelligence.

villasv,

Some good analysis on why having summer time as the permanent time would be good for safety

drivingintherealworld.com/turning-back-time-a-str…

villasv, (edited )

Yes, there is some decent research on this though nothing super definitive because most research is still very local. Specially on traffic accidents, most security experts agree that having DST permanent would be beneficial.

I’m the opinion that having fewer crashes would offset the mild annoyance of being 1 hour out of sync with the US, but I’m not too strong on this stance either. We have other things that have higher return for same level of effort to implement… like better car lighting regulations that as always the US (NHTSA) is fucking motionless and we’re locked to them.

I’d put all chips to eliminating RTOR but I don’t expect to see that in my lifetime.

villasv,

Premier David Eby has said change will be enacted once Washington state, Oregon, California also make the move

How likely is this to happen in the next few years, though? Seems hopeless to me.

villasv,

I think it has been considered plenty, both for health and safety reasons. e.g. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2603528/

I think the discussion is centered around shifting the time zone because it addresses the problem more effectively, with a single decision made by the appropriate body (the govt). But you can message your school board and your company departments asking them to take the matter to their own hands too. The more organizations doing this, the more likely we are to push this provincially

villasv,

CBC readjusted title to “mass killing”.

In fact, the incident was not a shooting. Later Thursday, Staff Sgt. Jeff Pilon, one of the leads of the homicide unit, told CBC there was no shooting on Berrigan Drive.

A shooting inside a townhouse is not what most people would understand as a mass shooting anyway.

Completely unrelated, congrats to CBC for using OSM instead of GoogleMaps. First time I’ve noticed it.

villasv,

I’m honestly a bit surprised. I was betting initially that we’d keep increasing throughout 2024, so the mere fact that talks are revolving around “remaining high” instead of further increases is, to my pessimistic prediction, a good development.

Map showing the path of totality of the solar eclipse in Canada on April 8, 2024 (www.asc-csa.gc.ca)

On April 8, 2024, a spectacular and rare celestial event is set to unfold over Canada, the United States and Mexico – a total solar eclipse. As the Moon aligns perfectly between Earth and the Sun, temporary darkness will sweep across parts of the country, captivating countless spectators.

villasv, (edited )

Unfortunately I won’t be traveling to New Brunswick.

I’ve gotta work on getting my US visa ready…

villasv,

Literally just like any other affluent city of similar size in NA right now lol

villasv,

Well count me in for 90% if we can get there, don’t want to let perfect be the enemy of good.

Wealth moving around isn’t that big of a problem really, people keep touting “wealth exodus” is a huge economic risk but rarely has that really outweighed whatever the benefits that caused it.

villasv,

That’s why there’s a whole text with explanations right below the headline

villasv,

A high income tax bracket does nothing.

This is nonsense. Wealthy people do tend to have high income, though of course most of it comes from invested wealth income and capital gains instead of wages. Taxing these is known to be effective.

I do think governments should explore taxing unrealized capital gains too, though.

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