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This I was wondering why no one was commenting in the thread I created. I even checked to see if there was already one. Wouldn't have expected one in this room.

Apparently he's staying until he can get his budget passed. DoFo gave the Toronto Mayor "Strong Mayor" powers. Apparently an interim Mayor won't have such powers.

I think many young people would do well to start a trade. But that's not for everyone. Sure. This doesn't address that creating Suburb with only Single-Family homes in mind has many harmful effects on the price of Real Estate as the population grows. I actually know people in Florida that saw their rent prices increase to the point of being unaffordable, forcing them out of their house an into an RV. A person that has worked hard their entire life. You'd oppose affordable housing for those people calling them animals because they suddenly can't afford to buy a house in the city they grew up in.

So all these Boomers who had good jobs that required no higher education can buy homes inline with their wages but young people today can pound salt and commute 2 hours a day if they want to live in a single-family home. The price of higher education has also skyrocketed in recent years.

It's a lot easier to earn your home when your wages were in line with Real Estate. https://betterdwelling.com/canadian-real-estate-prices-are-growing-over-10x-the-rate-of-incomes/

Joe does have a lot to say with how Federal Funds are spent. If towns don't want to play ball they can forfeit the funding. $300,000 for a single family home? Must be a crappy town, or very rural. See young professional may be able to afford homes in small towns. But the types of jobs they needs to afford such homes are in the cities you decry. So they're forced into long commutes that destroy their quality of life.

Populations grow and you have these laws that don't allow for housing to keep up with growth by forcing municipalities to only zone for Single Family Homes. So those homes go up in value. You also have investment from people who have no plan to live in the home that's increased value: Short-term rentals or foreign investment. Canada has looked to tackle the latter recently. You want to paint all people looking for Affordable housing as a Drug Dealers and Rabble. It's simply not the case. See what's happening in San Fran? That's what happens when young intelligent people can't afford to live where they work. Would you prefer a homeless problem in Suburbs?

The biggest irony is that the only way many young families can afford to live in the Burbs is with help from mommy and daddy. So it's an example of how Generational Wealth perpetuates privilege from one generation to the next.

The problem is that with current Real Estate, scrimping and saving isn't enough. Buying a Single-Family home is simply unaffordable for most families. The dream of home ownership is out of many people's reach because Real Estate has risen way higher than wages. You frame this as the rabble coming in from the city to ruin Suburbs. But that's not the case. It's young people just wanted to find a place to live. As someone who does have a home in a Suburb, you see this weird scenario where young people move in and their modest home is a huge investment, and you see old boomers living in their rundown homes they've owned since the 80's, but because of the nature of Real Estate, they're sitting on a Gold mine. It's pretty interesting.

Well that's now how urban development works. If a City is worth living in, the price of homes in the Suburbs will rise and unless you want a community where no one can afford to live there, you have to create more affordable housing like Condos and multi-unit dwellings. Many Boomers bought homes in Suburbs in the 80's for under 100k and are now sitting on Single family homes worth well over a million dollars, if not more. But they refuse to have any place built for their kids to live in. No wonder younger generations hate Boomers.

It's called Densification. With environmental concerns and issues with housing capacity, growing up and now out is preferable. As Cities become increasingly more unaffordable, people look to move out to the suburbs. That's happening in Canada as much as it is in the US. And Nimby's who bought their home for $25 fight against it. They're the problem.

The GOP until being the Putin Puppet party has also been quite hawkish throughout its history.

He came out Friday night and said he had an inappropriate relationship with a subordinate and that he'll step down. He has yet to do so. It looks like the Toronto Star was about to publish revelations about the affair so he had to beat them to the punch. John Tory was easily re-elected in October. And has comfortably retained 3 healthy mandates since the chaos of Rob Ford, the current Premiere's late brother. I personally like Tory, I thought he got a raw deal as leader of the Ontario PCs in 2007. I think his political plight is a good litmus test on where you are on the political spectrum. People on both the Right and the Left hate him, but he continued to easily get elected. But his dick did him in. These type of workplace relationships should not be condoned or tolerated. As the mayor, he had the power in the situation. I am sad to see him go, I hope a Socialist doesn't take his place. Perhaps someone for the Ford Political Empire can swoop in, that would be crazy.

Well if Battery Tech does improve then Hydro Storage will also be a thing that will help with Power demands. The problem with Green and Solar isn't the ability to generate power, it's that it doesn't always generate them at the right times in the right places. Storage will be the next thing. Either that or embracing new forms of Nuclear. You can't solve tomorrow's problems with today's thinking, which it sounds like you want to do. Regarding Gas prices. Can you highlight another Western Democracy that has cheaper gas prices than Canada other than the US? All Developed nations are going down the path of making pollution cost more. The North American fringe right is on a lonely limb.

So the source is Ukraine. Mark that the first time member Nationalist believed anything Ukraine has said.

Cite? If they were anywhere near competent, they would have been used already to stem huge losses in territory since September.

BTW in your world all EV development would stop until it meets and exceeds the range and availability of an ICE vehicle. No one is being forced to get an EV. Even in a decade people could keep their ICE vehicles as long as Gasoline was a reasonable fuel source, which I suspect it might not be. Battery tech will have to scale, Green Tech will have to grow, and charger availability will have to grow. It's not there yet. I'm the first to say that these are really only for commuters with Single-Family homes in places with reasonable electricity rates. But even at that, carmakers can't keep them in stock.

These are tired and debunked talking points everyone uses. A few years is 12. Even if you wanted an EV right now you couldn't get one because demand is so high.

They didn't merge, they're just propping them up. If we had an effective 2-party system would the Liberals or a merged party, manage 60%+ of the electorate? This is always the talking point against any Conservative party elected to a majority with 40% of the popular vote. See DoFo in Ontario. Never seems to work when the Liberals get under 40% because the Dipper are seen as similar. I suggest that often the Conservatives and Liberals are often more similar.

I've always wondered if Small L Liberals would bolt if the party merged with the NDP.

It wouldn't be representative though. A federal legislature should be dictated by the fact that Albertans REALLY hate Trudeau. So they run up the popular vote numbers but in more populous areas of the country the political make-up is more balanced. If FPTP does anything, it establishes broad support. Stephen Harper couldn't win the big cities but he was able to win in broad swaths of Canada.

Well they want it when they aren't in power. . .

So what system are you advocating for? FPTP is not the system in the US or other Republics. Liberals would much prefer a system that blocks Conservatives out by letting voters rank their choices.

I conceded that I was aware that frequent fast-charging is bad for the battery. Which is why EV owners only use it when they have to. I haven't used a fast charger since 2021. Old man yelling at Clouds says what? Plastic bags came out in 1993? You're equating plastics to EVs when they are are actually more analogous to the ICE and the idea that belching finitie toxic chemicals into the air would eventually catch up to us. But they don't poop like horses do. . .

You're being told the rate of EVs vs ICE vehicles bursting into flames relative to 100,000 cars It's like Per Capita data. It's accounting for the fact that there are way more ICE vehicles vs EVs. One factor you can't exactly calculate, but it's a real factor, is the idea that ICE technology is pretty static whereas EV technology is constantly evolving. So as more automakers invest in EV technology the safer the technology becomes. Hyundai and Chevy have had to recall batteries for small instances of them catching on fire. This actually is an example of their Quality Control working and the technology becoming safer over the long-run. How often do ICE vehicles have to be recalled for some chance of catastrophic safety issues?