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You're taking that on faith in the absence of evidence. In any case I was introduced to the silliness of the supernatural when I was scientifically tested for my psi abilities as a kid. I'm absolutely certain your creation science falls into the same realm.

The very same thing happened to billions of other human beings. What makes Jews so special?

I'd certainly prefer that I personally survive but it goes without saying I could care less about you. I honestly think climate change and dictatorship, not necessarily in that order, are a far greater peril. You support more of these not less because you're insane.

I'm willing to take a chance with WW3. Better that than a world in which the West's right-wing shrugs in the face of the Putin's of the world. I think the dangers of radioactive fallout are overrated. Almost four decades after the Chernobyl disaster—the world’s worst nuclear accident—signs of life are returning to the exclusion zone. Wild animals in Chernobyl are flourishing within the contaminated region; puppies roaming the area are capturing the hearts of thousands. Tourists who have watched the critically acclaimed HBO series Chernobyl are taking selfies with the ruins. Once thought to be forever uninhabitable, the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone has become a haven for flora and fauna that prove that life, as they say in Jurassic Park, finds a way. https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/586059/chernobyl-animal-facts

No, it's just simple.

Theists lose because they're not even on the playing field. That's because it's not science.

Is it safe to say you're oblivious to why this works both ways?

I meant COVID vaccines. Consider yourself corrected. They are for me. I asked my entire medical team, GP, cardiologist, urologist, (cancer...still all good so far👍) pharmacist. They all said 👍.

It certainly was where I live. And even more so with regards to addressing housing shortages for renters who need affordable housing. Now people can build or legalize existing secondary suites, laneway houses, and yes build duplexes, triplexes and fourplexes too. I think Nimbys are probably more scared of new renters not new owners.

Sure, the vast VAST majority of medical experts still stand by their conviction that vaccinations are the best way to prevent further disease and death. They've obviously made some improvements. As I reported earlier my arm doesn't hurt and they seem to have done away with the little circle in the lower right hand corner of my field of vision indicating the chips were updating to the latest version. That was always kind of distracting.

My mistake, I shouldn't have assumed you actually looked at the RBC report the G&M story your thread is based on wrote about. Apparently you can't bring yourself to do so. Well sure there was COVID and now high interest rates holding things back. The report mentioned these as well as a chaotic housing market. This slowdown may have diluted or masked the fact zoning issues are a prominent aspect of the housing conundrum but they haven't gone away. I highly doubt that training institutions for building trades, materials manufacturers or people who might wish to rezone are going to invest time or money gearing up for the great rebuild until all the ducks are lined up, especially the biggest flock, residential property owners.

Definitely me. There was always a perfectly good valid reason for vaccine mandates, to prevent the spread of disease and death. That said you can be quite certain there was never any need to resort to using these when vaccinating people. The MSM stopped talking about COVID in 2022? Not on the planet I live.

Sure. It's the 4th idea in the list of 7 in RBC's housing report. I guess you didn't read it because you're such a know it all who didn't need to. It says; Ease zoning restrictions to allow more density in cities and diversify the types of houses built to make more productive use of land. https://thoughtleadership.rbc.com/the-great-rebuild-seven-ways-to-fix-canadas-housing-shortage/ Which exist for the purpose of creating, enforcing, regulating and above all else, changing ...wait for it...zoning bylaws! Many of which are there to ensure changes occur in someone else's backyard.

You do your homework then. And if you're saying the polls indicate people are against a tax on wealth perhaps you could direct me to one. I've looked and I couldn't find any at all.

If that's really true then what do you mean by this? Amongst other things this primarily means zoning regulations It also means things like relaxing or getting rid of building standards, property line setbacks, environmental protection etc etc etc. You figure there's another little cheat for this? Its not governments that are the issue here, it's people, voters and taxpayers you need to get out of the way, they are who are interfering and adding years to the process. And now Doug is saying no to zoning changes. He's turning years into decades.

Maybe you just fainted in disbelief when doing your homework. You might want to sit down before clicking this wealth-tax polling In any case it looks like someone in Ottawa still has their heads screwed on right. By Voting Against a Wealth Tax, Canada’s Politicians Have Shown Who They Really Work For BY CHRISTO AIVALIS The vast majority of Canadians support a wealth tax, but 90 percent of the country’s MPs recently voted against a proposal to establish one. When push comes to shove, Canadian politicians are just as much in thrall to the rich as their US counterparts. https://jacobin.com/2020/12/canada-new-democratic-party-tax-the-rich

They're simply the old Deplorables which was a badge of honour amongst chuds not that long ago. They even have merch. https://www.amazon.com/proud-be-deplorable/s?k=proud+to+be+deplorable

A majority of Canadians think the Trudeau government is spending ‘too much,’ poll finds Meanwhile... When Canadians were polled on the prospect of a wealth tax on the one per cent back in 2021, it garnered almost 90 per cent support nationwide, including 82 per cent from Conservative voters. https://www.nationalobserver.com/2024/02/22/opinion/canada-needs-wealth-tax#:~:text=When Canadians were polled on,per cent from Conservative voters. In a very real way these polls indicate Canadians might agree that the government is not collecting enough taxes to meet society's needs. I wonder if PP would have the courage to pose such a question in the context of income disparity in the face of our national debt? Maybe PP could make it easier to swallow a wealth tax on the 1% by promising to cut funding for things the other 99% need. How could any self-respecting Conservative voter ever say no to that? That said when people are actually faced with the piteous situation the 1% find themselves in it could be too much for even moderate Conservatives to accept anything less than tax-cuts for everyone...and especially the 1%.

Like Wokism? Maybe we should call it porkism. It seems pretty versatile... We are the Pork, resistance is futile. May the Pork be with you.

Zoning is merely the first step and you won't get much if anything solved until you take it. You seem to think it can be sidestepped because you're either dreaming or because I pointed it out months ago and you've invested too much emotional capital in the issue to admit you still don't have a clue what you're faced with or even talking about. Go tell it to Doug. A handful of people thought/hoped it would be a magical cheat around having to deal with zoning issues in the urban areas adjacent to greenbelt areas. They handled it so badly that it set public trust back even farther. The land-use planning scandal that has rocked Ontario’s Progressive Conservative government has revealed how the province utilized all manner of regulatory tools to force more housing on cities and towns – removing land from the protected area known as the Greenbelt, expanding urban boundaries and issuing special decrees known as minister’s zoning orders. But a Globe and Mail analysis has uncovered a fourth, less discussed mechanism: The Ford government imposed two dozen policy changes on the city of Hamilton and the regions of Halton, Peel and York by rewriting their official plans – documents that guide what gets built and where. It altered local planning decisions by, among other things, making lands zoned for commercial use available for housing and foisting greater height limits on residential buildings, documents show. When compared with the 7,400 hectares of farmland the province unilaterally added to the urban boundaries of the four municipalities, the policy changes seem modest. But regional councils opposed them, largely because of their outsized negative impact on local communities. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-ford-government-greenbelt-policies/#:~:text=The land-use,on local communities. Sure kid. Like I've said to our forum's vaccine and climate change experts you should approach the powers that be with your housing issue expertise and prescriptions for progress. Get your name put on schools, cul de sacs and boulevards - heck I bet even Doug Ford will throw his panties in your direction.

I think there'll always be an expectation that Canadians should still do the responsible thing when a more collective approach is called for, as in the case of any other emergency. I think COVID made it clear that a sense of their shared responsibility is what Canadians abandoned. Given the power of hindsight perhaps we can come up with better ways of checking all the misinformation that compels so many people to mistrust their governments - we already know that misinformation about vaccines and alternative 'remedies' led to thousands of deaths and hospitalizations not to mention the billions of dollars that cost. But of course better transparency and accountability is something we should always be working on constantly. I think it's clear as day that if we don't address public mistrust and another even deadlier event happens sooner rather than later that it'll make COVID look like it was only a bad flu that killed a few old farts. I still get the sense some people think COVID was an opportunity lost and that we should have let it rip.

Yes I know. Some of us are years ahead of you if you're just getting around to dealing with zoning and density in your region/municipality now. We managed to get here via consensus but it looks like it'll need to be forced or enticed in a lot of other places. Sure, good luck with that and let us know how that works out, especially in Ontario, we saw how cheating worked out there and now Ford is courting the Nimbys.

We started years and years ago. It took that long just to change the zoning and amend our community plan. Enough of the the older nimbys finally died off too thankfully.

Works for me.

I had jab # 7 yesterday. I feel just fine, not even a sore arm.