People from rural areas don’t drive to Toronto very often. It’s the drivers from the suburbs that you’re thinking of.

That’s not what the polls said at all.

I support this move, but a change.org petition isn’t the way to go. Get an MP to submit an official petition to www.ourcommons.ca

I’m in total agreement with you about supporting bike lanes, I’m just pointing out the fallacy of saying, “We can’t afford to build rail.”

I hate this and a lot of other decisions the Ford gouvernement has made, but they also greenlit the biggest expansion of GO Transit ever. Plus, a ton of other public transit projects.

Or wire in another router, and use the WiFi on that. It’s not great, with the double-NAT (most of Rogers routers are buggy in bridge-mode), but IMHO, it’s better than using their WiFi.

It’s an automatic 30 days suspension and 14 day impound. They can (and almost certainly will) extend those. We’ll have to see where the trial goes, but in previous cases they’ve lost their cars.

It’s an automatic suspension and impounding. It will almost certainly be extended and other punishments will be handed down, but those repercussions hit immediately, no questions asked.

Every time I hear, “just one more lane,” this video starts playing in my head.

only national, provincial, and municipal flags should be flown at municipal facilities or flagpoles

I know this is pretty off-topic, but I found this part funny when one of my municipal Councillors proposed a similar bylaw (which thankfully failed). In Canada, municipal governments are creatures of the province, and the provinces have entered into confederation. By their logic, we shouldn’t be flying Canadian flags as the country has no direct relation to the municipality.

I completely agree that alcoholism is a disease, and as with any other disease, we have to look at the survivability if she got the transplant.

Let’s be honest, while the article tries to be favourable to the patient, you can piece together the facts and see that her odds weren’t good. While she’s been sober since she got the diagnosis, it appears she was immediately hospitalised which tells us she was in very rough shape and has only been sober while in the hospital. Even if she was able to stay sober, it looks like the odds with a partial transplant aren’t great.

The comparison is apples and oranges. They only include the cost of the surgery itself, not the cost of after-surgical care, the potential cost of complications to both the patient and the donor, etc. Then there’s the cost if the partial liver donation doesn’t take, or if the patient relapses.

Obviously, there’s also a lot of potential upside to having the patient survive, I just don’t think the odds of that were all that high.

Because, it’s a risk-reward calculation. If the patient doesn’t qualify for transplant, then the expected risk outweighs the expected reward. In this case, the risk isn’t just to the patient, but also the donor, and by extension, the medical system itself.

Jesus Christ that’s fucked up. Only 36 too and stopped drinking…

From the article:

Amanda Huska died Aug. 15 after spending six months in an Oakville, Ont. hospital.

and:

Huska, he said, stopped drinking as soon as she was diagnosed with Alcohol Liver Disease on March 3

So that sounds like she was immediately admitted (which implies she was already very sick) and only was sober in the hospital. In my opinion, that doesn’t qualify for “stopped drinking” and unfortunately she didn’t get a chance to prove whether or not she was actually able to stop.

I think it’s less of “goaded him into it” and more of “predicted it”. As others have pointed out, messing with unions is a red-line for the NDP.

At least that means a less conservative (ie LPO OLP) Ontario premier…

Eh, I’m not sure Crombie is much less conservative than Ford. I feel if she becomes Premier, we’re going to have to wait another cycle of shifting right-then-left until we have a chance at an actual progressive government.

They should focus on restoring public funding to postsecondary schools, tightening future foreign student quotas and shutting down diploma mills.

“They” (the Federal government) can’t focus on two of these three since education is the domain of the provinces, and they’ve already tightened student visa numbers.

For anyone who doesn’t get this comment https://youtu.be/Q-25c8Rsobw

Great comparison, a dialect used by millions of people to a dead language. It really shows how much you care about the people who speak that dialect…

This is a bit surprising because it’s already in place. Usually, push-back is because humans are naturally resistant to change and people can’t envision the benefits as easily as the drawbacks.

some residents expressed concern about cars and trucks clogging up side streets.

Maybe these concerns needed to be addressed, possibly by traffic calming the areas around the pedestrian zone? However, my money is that the “clogged up side streets” won’t get any better.

Nice try FBI!

Wow. That is quite the vitriolic rant.

Then you have to allow me to wear a spaghetti strainer on my head as it’s the official wear for followers of FSM.

Let’s be honest, if you want to wear a colander, I’m not sure I see an issue with it. Just remember, by Quebec law, Pastafarians can’t follow their traditions, yet Christians can.

Are you going to sit at a government office in front of somebody you can’t even see because she is 100% covered, even the eyes? Should we allow it a step further, allow that in class rooms (yes, I’ve seen cases for that too)?

I’m not seeing how this is an issue, like at all. And even if it was, what’s the issue with other religious garb?

How about then the next step where they will demand that they can only interact with women because their god demands it?

You’re making a straw-man argument here. No, we do not allow people to hold positions if they can’t fulfill the requirements. Sometimes, we have to review whether the requirements are ethnocentric, but I think it’s good that we question rules and regulations to decide whether their accurate to the requirements. In the case you’re laying out, I’m almost certain they would be considered unsuitable for the job.

In general, your argument seems to be, “I hate religion, so I approve of any law that screws over practitioners.” That doesn’t seem very logical. Can you put your emotions aside, and actually explain why government workers should be banned from wearing religious garb?

Can I ask why?

I’ve heard some people argue it’s because religious views can conflict with a job, but if that’s the case, the issue is the employee’s not doing their job not their religion. Lots of beliefs can conflict with a job, and if that’s the case, a person has to decide whether they want to keep their job or not.

Another argument is that simply the presentation of religious symbols in public is offensive to some, but that seems to be an extreme version of “Safe Spaces” while just skipping over tonnes of preceding steps.

Also, it seems convenient the whiter the religion, the less likely their are to require their worshipers to wear expressions of faith. On the other hand, religions like Islam and Sikhism that just happen to be practiced by more brown people require outward expressions of their faith. So a Christian who is super faithful, goes to mass daily and spends all their free time in prayer can work for the government as long as they keep their cross under their shirt, while a Sikh who might not be all that religious has to decide if they want to risk being shunned from their community.

P.S. Separation of church and state means those organizations shouldn’t influence each other, not that individuals can only be involved in one or the other.

In addition to what @Openopenopenopen@lemmy.world said, if you look at the fleurs-de-lis wikipedia article, there’s a whole section titled “Religion and art”.

There is an argument that, “The Fleurdelisé is more cultural than religious,” but separating those two is extremely difficult. IMHO, it’s pretty ethnocentric to think symbols like that have become so ingrained in our culture that they are no longer religious, while assuming symbols like hijab are purely religious.

Given the Quebec flag is covered in Christian symbols and still flies at government buildings, no it’s not being applied fairly.

Besides what other have said, by my count we’ve already had 2 female MND. One became Prime Minister. The other was fairly recent, IMHO did a good job, and has a bright future in politics.

I don’t even think PBS & NPR are as well funded (though I don’t have sources to support that). That’s why they’re always doing telethons and thanking “viewers like you” for supporting their programming.

I don’t think the article explicitly says how the program is funded. However, the nurse they highlight “normally works in the emergency department at Windsor Regional Hospital” and they talk about the program also reducing visits to the ER. So, I doubt the WPS is paying the nurse’s salary.

Agreed. IMHO, Natural Gas has a place in systems like Ontario’s. Here we’re mostly using it in peaker plants, and to make a smooth transition to renewables since it’s fairly easy to convert coal plants to Natural Gas.

In Alberta you can’t refuse to let someone exploit oil resources found on your property

TBF, I’m pretty sure that’s how it works throughout the country. The title on my home in Ontario has easements for potential minerals/resources as well.

you attacked a person for being a bad example because they are struggling and not at rock bottom because people exist at the bottom.

That’s not my intentions. I question her choices, but that doesn’t mean she has an option that would 100% fix her situation. It would probably be hard to find a 2-bedroom for $1500/mo and she’d still have over 50% of her paycheque going to housing.

My concern is articles highlighting cases like this allow people to disregard the housing crisis as just people unwilling to tighten their belts. Like “stop eating avocado toast” or “cancel Disney+”, there’s no quick fix.

I’m pretty sure she’d be in the same situation in the US. Assuming the house was jointly owned and she had the ability to buy out her ex-Spouse’s equity or get the whole home in the divorce, there would still be a change of ownership, so she’d need to get a new mortgage solely in her name.

I know I’ve heard of couples splitting up and coming up with creative solutions, like continuing to jointly own the house, but that doesn’t seem to be the case here.

You make a lot of assumptions about me and my experiences, and frankly, they’re 100% wrong. I wasn’t trying to insinuated that her situation is easy, I even say it’s “making tough decisions”.

She probably didn’t qualify to take on the whole mortgage without her ex-Spouse.

I really hate these CBC articles where they talk about a huge, legitimate issue, but undercut it by choosing a crazy/unrelated example:

Charmbury, 47, has to make sacrifices because 100 per cent of her income goes to her rent.

She had to sell her house after her divorce and now pays $2,679 per month for a three-bedroom townhouse in the same neighbourhood. She didn’t want her children, a teen boy and teen girl, to have to switch schools or share a bedroom.

So, she’s been cashing in her investments. Child support helps with the bills, her mother helps her with groceries and her friends give her their old clothes. She says she barely sleeps from the stress.

Even 30 years ago, I had friends who had to change schools/share a room when their parents divorced. Putting someone who refuses to make tough decisions and try live within her means in the same category as adults who have to live with multiple roommates, face homelessness, etc. is insulting.

Also, I’m pretty sure most would say child support is income, even if it’s not taxable income. She’s spending 100% of her employment income/paycheques on rent.

We can’t just get rid of it, as the SCC has ruled that MAID is a constitutional right.

The point that you kind of touch on in your comment, is that SUV’s generally aren’t better than a hatchback/wagon. In my experience, most SUV’s aren’t efficiently using their space, so they feel more luxurious to ride in, but have horrible cargo storage. @notjustbikes@notjustbikes.com talked on his podcast about being picked up (with his wife) from the airport in a huge SUV (I think it was an Escalade) and being unable to get their luggage in the trunk.

That’s assuming nothing unexpected happens. Weeks before our '05 (manual) Civic was totaled last May, my spouse and I were discussing how we could probably get 5+ more years out of it. We were (thankfully) able to get a '20 Golf, but VW has even discontinued that!

But they what? With few new small cars being built, the supply is dwindling, even in the used market.

If we were to follow what was proposed in NYC, the funds from the congestion fees would be used to fund more public transit.