Also, the so-called progressive NDP needs to stop kicking people out for taking a stance against the Israeli genocide of Palestinians (yes, that happened; look up Sarah Jama’s unceremonious ousting, among others).

It’s important to separate the provincial NDP from the federal NDP. They each have their faults, but they’re different faults, and we shouldn’t blame the provincial parties for things Singh has done, and we shouldn’t blame Singh for things provincial NDP parties have done.

He’s always been competent. He just hasn’t been working with the same ideals or goals as most of us until now.

It’s actually by Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie (also Canadian). I don’t really know how it got attributed to The Arrogant Worms, but it was probably Napster’s fault.

That’s fair, but at least personally, I was initially turned off of switching to vegetarianism/veganism due to sites and recipes such as the linked one. It took another decade before I tried it again. It doesn’t create a great first impression when your exposure to vegetarian and vegan cuisine consists of the same recipes you already make, but using “non-dairy milk” and “plant-based meat”.

There are actually a lot of great vegetarian recipes that aren’t just meat-based recipes in disguise, substituting meat/tofu/mushrooms for the meat. Fewer vegan ones, but they do exist. The best ones I’ve found come from cultures that are largely vegetarian or have large vegetarian sub-cultures (e.g. Indian or Ethiopian dishes).

I’m not trying to be a downer here, but a lot of those recipes are just “use dairy-free milk/yogurt/butter” instead of the dairy version. There’s nothing inherently vegan about those recipes.

Imo, the non dairy versions are all worse than the dairy versions, and some (like vegan butter) are actually less healthy than the dairy version. Much like how beyond meat isn’t healthier (or cheaper) than beef (though is much better to the planet), dairy free alternatives just aren’t all that great.

Over the last year, I’ve worked my way to about 50% of my meals being vegetarian or vegan (mostly vegetarian), but I’m largely unimpressed by vegan/vegetarian recipes that rely on 1:1 replacements for non-vegan products.

The problem with resorts is that they’re expensive, so if someone pays for a trip, they’re going no matter what. So you get guests with super contagious infections, and then everyone gets it.

There are things resorts can do to better mitigate the damages, but if someone with Norovirus decides they’re going to spend the day at the swim up bar, a lot of people are going to get sick.

If a resort is open long enough, their reviews will eventually contain a week or two of people who all got sick.

It’s also possible that food handling is not done safely and all manner of other things, but that’s hard to distinguish when looking at reviews.

This is a great ideology, but there aren’t many better alternatives for a lot of people. Most of the alternatives (e.g. Walmart) are just as complicit.

Avoid Amazon when you can, but they have such a critical mass that the only way to defeat them is through government regulation.

if supply is low, can’t the province run healthcare just pay more

Best we can do is cap raises at 1% per year.

What charges did the right-way driver get? Ultimately, this wouldn’t have happened if they were also driving the wrong way.

Oh sorry, I thought we were playing the “blame everyone but the police” game.

Most people don’t “back” Trudeau. We tolerate him because the likely alternative is so much worse.

That’s the thing though. The people flying the duck Trudeau flags don’t understand that we don’t have unwavering loyalty to the party. They don’t understand nuance. And it’s going to destroy Canada during the next election.

Can I ask which province you live in? In my experience (Southern Ontario, not GTA) local meat is not cheaper (though it’s definitely better quality). Same with locally milled flour and locally grown produce (when in season).

I have tried to support local (and sometimes still do, despite the cost) but I just don’t understand how labour costs in Ontario can be so much higher than labor + shipping for produce from California or Florida or Mexico.

Is it just a bigger markup because there are enough people who are hardcore about buying local here? Is there another factor I’m ignoring?

What makes the Kindle more annoying? I’ve only owned a single Kindle, but I’ve never had any problem dropping pirated content on it using Calibre.

My next eReader probably won’t be a Kindle, but not for reasons related to piracy.

If only there were some sort of article attached to the title that contained quotes and statistics to answer your question. I guess it will forever remain a mystery.

If pp cares so much, he can get the security clearance and look at the list himself.

Where can you get a BYD Seagull outside of China for that price? When they install all the required safety features, it’s much closer to 20k Euros (30k CAD).

That’s still a little cheaper than anything we have here, but not so much cheaper that it’s worth the human rights violations and loss of local industry.

I don’t know, it just feels like we haven’t tried much of anything here.

You’re absolutely correct in that. We’ve mostly just allowed for monopolies and oligopolies to take over industries in a way that only supports their bottom line.

This is one place where I think the free market could have worked, given enough time and sufficient enforcement to prevent this sort of conflict of interest, but the time for that was a decade or two ago. Now we need strong interventions by multiple levels of government to fix this problem.

if you’re not increasing supply then you’re failing your free market duty

I disagree. Brooks is correct in saying that it’s not their job and that its two separate industries. Affordable/social housing is the government’s job, not theirs.

In theory, the free market should see this increase in rental prices and react by building more units. Why isn’t that happening? Largely it comes down to the fact that a lot of developers are also landlords, and thus have a huge conflict of interest in this area. This is where regulators need to step in. But landlords (on their own) do not, and should not, be responsible for building housing.

Ontario had a program called micro FIT (feed in tariff) to encourage people to generate electricity. It paid higher than the going rate for electricity and was a really good deal if you could install solar. I think it was capped at 10 kW systems, but wasn’t dependent on your own usage. New sign ups ended years ago, but the existing contracts were something like 20 years.

Now the best you can get in Ontario are credits that expire in a year.

If only the NDP had made electoral reform a part of their deal to support the liberals. None of the other parts of the deal mattered - they could easily do all that and more after winning the next election. But instead, we get a bunch of half measures and they don’t have a chance at winning a majority.

No such thing.

The $10k Chinese EV is only $10k in China. When localized for other markets, it’s much closer to the same price as all other EVs. Some of this is tariffs, but there’s a bunch of changes they need to make to meet safety requirements. Even the $15k Seagull they talk about in the article is expected to be the cheapest offering in Europe, eventually, and they’re aiming for 20k Euros, which is 30k CAD.