Gentle reminder to everyone calling for boycotts to their logistics and retail that Amazon makes a lot, if not most, of their profit from Amazon Web Services being the internet’s corporate landlord. They’re the number one cloud service provider globally with >30% market share.
Will you boycott up to 1/3 of the internet too?
The simple truths are that Lemmy is niche, not everyone listens nor respects nor funds scientists and educators, progress is hard and slow at the best of times, and we’re facing entrenched interests with massive amounts of cash to spend on propaganda.
It’s fine to talk here, but if you don’t want to shout into the void, then try convincing Joe Suburban on Facebook that a carbon tax and rebate isn’t that bad actually, his next vehicle doesn’t need to be an F-3 million 3 gallons per mile edition truck - it can be an EV instead, bike lanes actually give people a safe opportunity to get out of his way when he’s driving in the city, a heat pump can replace his aging furnace and won’t give out in the dead of winter, adding density and mixed use zoning isn’t going to ruin the character of his neighbourhood and won’t tank his property values, and the economy won’t die if we slow down the rate of new resource extraction expansion and if we stop building pipelines.
It would not surprise me if game developers use those screens to gain more time to load assets and initialize things in the background.
I’ll bet they do that with cutscenes and elevators too whenever you’re about to go into a new zone.
America badly needs electoral reform and viable third parties. This FPTP, pay-to-win system creates is such a dumpster fire.
somebody should be modelling and providing detailed pricing analysis.
This sounds like what MPAC should be doing in Ontario. The last assessment was done in 2016. Ever since Doug Ford’s PCs got elected, the Tories have been delaying them for years, even before the pandemic was a convenient excuse, and now they’ve delayed indefinitely. They also closed all of the field offices. Even when MPAC did do assessments, they didn’t track market prices well because they only did them every 4 years. For comparison, Denmark calculates these values every 2 years.
Another organization in this space in Ontario and Manitoba to be aware of is Teranet. They’re a private, for-profit company that has exclusive contracts with the Ontario and Manitoba governments. Seems shady to me that Ontario and Manitoba have allowed one company to monopolize and hoard our land registry data. In contrast, in BC, a crown corporation manages land registries data.
It always surprises me that when making the biggest purchase of their life people put so much trust and blind faith into realtors who aren’t required to have any formal education nor required to have any credentials to do the job.
Maybe they should be required to get a degree that covers topics like geography, land use planning, architecture, and trades related to home construction.
The other comment is not quite right. The lieutenant governor, a mostly ceremonial figure, always gives the incumbent the first opportunity to test the confidence of the legislature, even if they lost the election.
In 2017 there was another close election, much like this one, with the BC Liberal Party (a now non-existent centre right party) as the incumbent retaining a plurality of seats, but not quite a majority. The BC NDP at the time was only a few seats behind. When the legislature returned after the election, the BC Liberals established a new cabinet and then tested the confidence of the legislature. The BC Greens and BC NDP all voted them down. At that point the lieutenant governor could have either called another election, or give a chance to another party to test the confidence of the legislature. Almost always the latter happens. The BC NDP had been in contact with the BC Greens in the background and it was then that the supply and confidence agreement was established so the lieutenant governor gave them the chance to test the confidence of the legislature and the BC NDP had enough to pass and form government.
I’m Canadian. I can’t vote for Stein. Nor would I under your current system if I was able to. It’s tragic though that your federal system funnels your people into just 2 options.
Canada’s electoral systems are not much better but at least we have viable third party options up here that have been able to exert pressure and influence our governments and bring attention to important issues. It’s still first past the post, and that should change. Third parties can do good work in the right environment if you let them. We recently got the beginnings of a national pharmacare and dentalcare programs from our social democratic / democratic socialist / progressive party working with the liberals.
At lower levels of government, the US does have third parties other than the Greens that have been putting in work between presidential elections. Vermont’s Progressive Party and New York’s Working Families Party are worth checking out.
It doesn’t need to start with the federal level. There’s a growing amount of states that have already adopted some form of ranked choice voting and some of those have also adopted a proportional variant. Progress is being made in some places at lower levels, but it’s slow. Other states have banned it unfortunately.
North America’s electoral systems are so broken. It’s painful to see so much negativity, frustration, and fear directed at third parties in general. If that same energy was directed towards building a ranked choice voting system with proportional representation, like single transferable voting (STV), the duopolies would crumble and we could all actually vote for whoever we want without having to worry we might end up with the worst candidate winning.
The city will establish a formal “limited activity zone” near the Rogers Centre to alleviate congestion during the pop superstar’s six-night stand.
Too many Ontarians are willfully ignorant, and are easily swayed by simple answers (and wrong) to complex problems that don’t involve any behavioural changes. Apparently we have one of the most highly educated populations in the world, yet we don’t vote like it.
I wouldn’t assume malice in all cases. Maybe they just aren’t great at breaking down complex subjects into plain language because it’s complex. Being an effective communicator and teacher is a skill that needs a lot of patience, practice, development, and feedback in order to get good, especially when trying to convey ideas through speech.
Somewhere in north eastern Ontario. To the naked eye, almost none of those colours were visible, it was mostly gray/white streaks, but they shimmered occasionally. I didn’t need any special equipment for these pics, they’re not edited either, just long exposure and night mode on a phone a few years old.
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Here are a few of mine:
People in Toronto and across southern Ontario were fortunate enough to witness the rare sight of the Northern Lights on Thursday evening, and for tho…
With still no opening date after 13 long and messy years of construction, the Crosstown Eglinton LRT may go down in history as Ontario's most delayed…
A brand-new waterfront park has just opened in Toronto, creating a serene community space to a previously underutilized area. Officially opening to t…
The Canadian government is looking into the dough-like substance that is appearing on beaches in the province.
Economists expect inflation continued its downward trend last month, giving the Bank of Canada the all-clear to continue cutting its benchmark interest rate.
It’s the second time the North York school has been hit by gunfire in six months.
After the event’s ad was met with backlash, CEOs for Ontario’s Home Construction Regulatory Authority and Tarion did not attend.
Trudeau wanted IRV because it benefits the Liberals. Everyone else wanted PR because it is fair.
Trudeau wasn’t willing to reconsider and IRV is not an upgrade over FPTP.
Forcing through IRV was not and is not a good idea.
Ah yes, so much fun to be had on the daily commute, stuck with everyone else from your sleepy suburb on a congested highway moving at glacial speeds because there’s no other option to safely and effectively get around for the people who don’t want to be there and can’t get out of your way.
Sure, you can take that thing out on weekends on country roads, mudding, camping, hauling ATVs to your favourite trails, building you or your buddy’s cottage, whatever you dream - but that still leaves 5 days of the week in traffic hell if you work in a city. Do you really want your neighbours to be left with no options to get out of your way so you can enjoy driving more on those days?
I would hope that they would be able to forecast demand reasonably well and use any extra for other products that might sell better in between holidays, like cold cuts, before it gets stuffed and packaged up only to end up in the dumpster.
The study was commissioned by the Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions in response to concerns over a growing reliance on temporary nurses
