I will always remember him for the purchase of a pipeline to hell, if that counts.
Also for not making a stronger effort to replace our first past the post voting system during what looks to have been a narrow window of opportunity, but that might just be me.
From what I read in this article and what I've read elsewhere, the police knowingly broke the law. How do we create a system in which police can and will be charged when they break the law? As long as they can act with impunity, they will always be above the law.
On a related issue, how much did this cost? Would that money not have been better spent on a few hot meals and maybe a warm-up shelter with washrooms and shower facilities?
Great. They can barely run a website and somebody wants them to do health care? Lunacy.
What a bunch of nitwits. What's wrong with redirecting the carbon tax into alternatives?
Conservatives insist on means testing everything, so make a sliding scale of combined subsidies and tax breaks that pays for low-income people to go solar and/or install heat pumps. Less subsidy, more tax break as you climb through the income levels until you reach a tipping point at which there is no subsidy and the tax break starts to disappear.
The people with both money and brains are doing this stuff anyway. The small number of people with money and no brains will get taken care of by making building codes that require new construction and certain renovations to include solar and heat pumps and by pushing the carbon tax ever higher over time.
And think of all the jobs! Get some existing trades people with the right qualifications some training in the delivery of training and encourage them to open up their shops as training centres, then pay the tuition of anyone who enrolls so that there are enough people to do the work.
That's probably an oversimplification, but that's what smart bureaucrats are for, so stop gutting the public service and put them on the case.
Okay, now I better understand your argument. I was ready to just dismiss you as a crank.
I agree with you that governments should not be in the death business. But they already are, in a sense, in their legislation of things like murder, negligence causing death, etc.
I think that proper legislation would allow for someone to help me carry out my wishes in dignified ways that are less traumatic to those I leave behind. Obviously, that means regulation to ensure that nobody is imposing their will on mine.
At the very least, I don't want anyone charged with negligence just because they didn't stop me from taking what turns out to be my final swim.
Which goods and services? Cars and doctors? Or Big Macs and pizza delivery?
There is no shortage of legitimate experts who say a proper progressive tax regime will handle UBI just fine. And if it doesn't, then at least we failed honestly instead of sitting on our hands.
Did you miss the part where they've found a birth certificate showing that she was not born on any reservation.
She also made official reference to her birthplace as part of getting married in 1982, just to seal the deal.
I think that it's possible for essentially random people to be honoured shows just how bad things are being run.
Does nobody do even the slightest bit of checking out who is being honoured? The whole thing makes me think that people are just running on empty, doing whatever pops into their heads without the slightest bit of actual thought.
Glorified Roombas, the lot of them, and that might be an insult to Roomba.
I don't get it. There are untold fields in which I haven't got the expertise to educate my kids. That includes all this gender stuff that is newer to me than the technology I struggle with. And that doesn't even consider actual methods of teaching! I've been an job-retraining instructor, but I can't help thinking that has little in common with getting school aged kids to make progress.
It's like finding a mechanical repair shop. You find the people who know what they're doing and how to do it, then pay them to do what you can't.
In the society we've built, we all have become dependent on expertise that we don't possess, so sometimes we just have to get out of the way. Not just when we know we don't have a clue or are feeling lazy or pressed for time, but even when it's hard to admit that someone might know more than us.
Nope, it's 2023, where people seem to have forgotten how cheques work.
That's okay. Make driving a little more painful will discourage it, as long as other options also become available and less painful.
The rulings against exclusion zones need to start including fines, remedial training for all staff from administrators to front-line enforcers, and easy access to fast-tracked injunctions.