So pie charts are the newest trend for dietary guides? I won’t miss the bullshit of the food pyramid but kinda surprised that it’s gone

Sometimes takes multiple cycles of conservative power for the people to swing back, and sometimes the damage done in the meantime is irreparable. Lives will be ruined, lives will be lost.

Could be just a lens flare though

Amusingly the first reply in this post to self-identify is a non-vegan explaining why they’re not vegan.

This joke has always been silly but nowadays it’s ironically reversed

A tour literally called “terror tour” fits squarely into terrorism propaganda. No need to philosophize too much on intolerance paradoxes and freedom of expression debates.

Hell yes they should. Every city should. And expand labour laws to force companies to pay for some of it that would otherwise be coming out of worker paychecks. Make companies share the burden of sprawling development and car dependency. When companies decide to put their offices in Richmond and selectively hire people who commute from North Vancouver, it ruins transportation and the planet for everyone.

just need to update it to also regulate the flip side

“just need to update it” is not that simple, because if legislation forbids price adjustments in all directions it’s effectively dictating the price of the service, which is hard to defend in court. It was only justifiable to forbid cutting driver earnings because the assumption is that the company has other ways to compensate.

Why bother trying to protect Uber “consumers” anyway? If people want to make use of an exploitative service, they should pay a lot for it. Let Uber be priced out.

forbid them to pass it

This would be either illegal or unenforceable

Good. Hope it closes permanently

Of course, but you can’t fight everyone.

Clearly some can, and it’s a group large enough to make it to the headline

This might actually lead to housing prices dropping significantly.

This has been scarcely fulfilled promise so far, looks like this prediction has been a bit overestimated. I would very much welcome it but wouldn’t bet on it.

It’s not good enough.

This is a bit subjective, but not unfair.

Trudeau and his government are moving us backwards in climate change action.

Hmm, well, small steps forward is still forward movement.

It’s understandable that this person has this much influence, even though it’s not an elected position. But I do agree that the PBO tone and positioning is very worrying. There’s clearly some agenda in there and the man felt he had something to gain in this biased report. 100% influence peddling, though this is usually hard to prove.

Fuck TD all the way though, choosing WS over TD is worth 3%

Decent article but senseless headline. Nobody ever positioned mandatory service as a method to make Canadians love their country…

NDP has been doing a good job with Ravi Kahlon on housing. I don’t even vote by elimination, I think they’re doing a good job. Folding on decriminalization and the blind eye for LNG has been my biggest disappointments but still overall satisfied with the last 2y of provincial government.

I appreciate the Tyee squeezing every possible angle against this but…

trading partners take the threat of climate change seriously and use carbon tariffs to punish other countries they see as free riders

The US and they would be happy to see the carbon tax go away, so they don’t have “communism” nearby, and we know that “trading partner” for Canada means mostly the US. The odds of Canada getting sanctioned for backtracking a 1 yr old tax is negligible.

This is addressed in the article (A greening American leviathan), but I won’t be holding my breath. Even if carbon tariffs has bipartisan appeal for now, let’s see what happens when the time comes.

Because he knows conservatives are coming, and this is yet another futile attempt to cater to these devils before election

keeping returns below inflation will divert investors from the real estate market over time.

There are multiple types of Real Estate investors. We want to attract investors who build, who finance land development, infill, retrofits and so on. These will keep coming because the goal is to sell the labor of construction, and that can still be profitable. We don’t want to attract land speculators or rent-seekers, these provide little value to the market.

They will HODL however if not presented with exit strategy. If they are allowed time to divest and exit - they will IMO

Investors (i.e. institutional/professionals, not amateurs) don’t hold on to investments because they lack an exit strategy. It’s the exact opposite. Investors get rid of assets as soon as there’s enough information to say a loss is likely.

I know that the biggest chunk of real estate “investors” are amateur shops, people hoarding homes as their retirement plan, and these might hold on despite bad performance yeah. This happens all over the world because in most markets Real Estate is a bad investment, yet people are addicted to it.

But in any case, I was discussing the outcomes under the hypothesis that home prices are following inflation, so the hypothesis includes the assumption that there’s enough market transactions to put those prices under control.

I think the plausible circumstance is them selling and moving out of Canada

Or moving to SK