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  @anon_opin@mastodon.social It's not just the lack of a future, it's the lack of a present for kids. We've made it too dangerous for them to walk to school, we've made it do dangerous to run / bike around the neighbourhood with their friends, we've made recreation too expensive for many families, and those who can afford some recreation have to limit what their kids do.

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  Venting The entitlement of some drivers... This BMW is parked in the hash marks between handicap parking spaces (and no they do not have a disability parking pass) I see things like this frequently and it drives me up a wall. If I hadn't been so worn out from getting food at Costco, I would have stopped to report it but my knee was done. #disability #handicap #parking

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  Instead of spending hundreds of billions of dollars on #pipelines and subsidies for O&G, #Canada needs to be making generation investments in #RenewableEnergy We could be investing in publicly owned solar panel and battery manufacturing, using materials sourced in Canada, which would not only meet all our energy needs in perpetuity but give us an exportable product for the foreseeable future. It would create more new jobs than we will lose when O&G inevitably dies AND if we make it pub...

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  #Calgary and many other cities have built Park and Ride lots for #PublicTransit to increase transit useage in cities whose infrastructure is car centric. It is time for out cities to take the next step and start installing #EVcharging in those lots. One of the most common concerns people have about getting an #EV is not knowing where they can charge (not everyone has the option of charging at home). If cities installed level 2 chargers in the park and ride lots, and enforced the usage rules of...

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  AMA it ceases to be 'we are experiencing unprecedented call volumes' when it goes on for months... Now it's just 'we are refusing to increase staffing levels to meet member demand' Sitting on hold #Alberta #insurance

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  'Radical' idea to bring down housing costs in Canada... permanently freeze land values across the nation. Land is one of the largest components of building housing, freezing it's value would over time lower that cost. Additionally it would eliminate land speculation, since you couldn't sell it for more than you bought it speculators would be eliminated from the market. #housing #cdnpoli #Canada

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  RE: https://union.place/@ufwupdates/116835878261092115 This just shows how much workers are getting ripped off for the labour A quick search shows that Rainier cherries are $6.97/lb at Walmart in Washington State; the workers are only getting paid $0.40... which means if you were to buy cherries in the store only 5.7% of the price you pay goes to the worker. Even if you consider waste, the worker is still being ripped off.... and never forget that without these workers there wouldn't be a...

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@noaivancouver/116818049809490833 Boosting this for more visibility and encouraging everyone who can to both boost and sign. #AI #cdnpoli

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  @Njord@zeroes.ca My cat already yells at me enough, I don't dare antagonise her more: - 'You are sleeping in too late' - 'Where is my food?' - 'I want snuggles why are you using your hands to kit that keyboard thing' - 'Where is my food?' - 'Why are you taking out the garbage? I want it' - 'Where is my food?' - 'Where is my food?' - 'Where is my food?' - 'Why is there so little food in my bowl?' - 'Why are you st...

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  Good public services are often invisible, we don't know how important they are till they are gone. This leads people to think that they are getting nothing in return for their taxes. Those same people then in turn get angry when money is tight and they see what appear to be large deductions from their pay going towards taxes (since they don't think they are getting anything for those taxes) Politicians then exploit that anger to get elected by promising to cut taxes. When peopl...

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  RE: https://mstdn.social/@GreenFire/116419810363820840 I really appreciate how they are implementing solutions that don't impede travel by those with mobility disability. By cutting a channel in the sidewalk (pavement in the UK) and inserting covered route for the charging cable they keep the sidewalk accessible to people with disabilities. #disability #EV

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@geoworldpolitical/116343937318674010 I know that politicians in both #Australia and here in #Canada will respond to this by arguing that switching to Canada as a fuel source will protect Australia from this happening again in the future... they are wrong. The US has threatened Canada just as it threatened #Greenland and that means that as a fuel source Canada is only reliable as long as the US doesn't disrupt that supply, something no one should ever assume...

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  Every time someone suggest taxing the rich the same two weak arguments are put forward: 1) If you tax the rich, the rich will simply leave. This is the first argument always put forward and it's the weakest one because the wealth of the rich is linked to where they live; if their ability to maintain those sources of wealth then their ability to leave is curtailed unless they want to abandon their sources of wealth. 2) If you raise taxes on the rich they will stop investing in your ci...

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  RE: https://flipboard.com/@cbcnews/canada-1akomc2pz/-/a-3MNizMhXSsS7LWMx3o2vAg%3Aa%3A107108217-%2F0 $10k sounds like a significant fine until you realise that without knowing how much they made through their deception the fine amount is meaningless. If Oxford only made an extra $5k from the blueberries, then the fine is good, but if they made $100k then the fine is just the cost of doing business

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  Last week we bought ourselves an #EV... today I sold our last fossil fuel burning vehicle and for the first time in 30 years I don't own a single internal combustion engine in anything (my yard tools where converted to electric options a few years ago). Now I'm going to need to clean out the toolbox and sell off some of the engine tools I no longer need... yay more work ;)