• HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works
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    4 days ago

    The rising fatality figures come one day after the public learned a teenage skateboarder had died after colliding with an SUV last week.

    The teen didn’t collide with the SUV … the SUV hit and killed the teen.

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      Full sized SUVs. Crossovers and midsized are fine.

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        As long as they are small enough to not get the"commercial" vehicle exception for pedestrian safety.US laws that I guess also affect Canadians…

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    But they designed their city so that this would happen. Cities are for cars, not for pedestrians.

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    So let’s say Alberta separates from Canada… Who would they be asking for this money?

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      They’d have the billions in equalization payments I’d assume? I think it was around 4b last year.

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        Pretty sure most oil reserves are on crown land. Which they would not get if they ceaded