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2 天前Stupidity is contagious.
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3·4 天前This is exactly why I posted it here. Pretty hard to argue that another Trump term (or a Trump adjacent individual being elected) via this violation of basic democratic principles would not have global implications.
This can’t be legal, right? Either way, keep pumping that national debt!
Canadians definitely haven’t been showing enough gratitude since these tariffs on their products came into effect!
““Prime Minister Carney used the term ‘war.’ It’s not a word we use, right? We don’t talk about it that way. For us, it’s business, it’s economics,” Greer told the FT News Briefing podcast.”
I guess we could just do some “business” and “economics” and stop sending electricity and oil to the US…
Textbook dominance move. “We are going to hit you and you can’t hit us back. If you do, we will hit you again.”
3·7 天前I agree on all fronts. Anecdotally, when I encounter the worst, most dangerous drivers on a weekday morning, they typically have young kids in the car and are likely rushing to do drop off.
We have dumb people living here too.
4·11 天前Complete waste indeed. Nothing worthwhile that could be spent on instead 🙄 I wonder if Ford understands what an opportunity cost is. Actually, I don’t wonder. I’m quite sure he has no idea.
There’s also all this discussion about who will pay for this nonsense. Will it be the city or the province? The real answer is taxpayers.
Snapping Senator was one of my favourites.
I really hope we have decent data on traffic since the bike lanes were put in so that we can see whether removing them helps. Induced demand strongly suggests it will not help but the fact that Ford is doing this in the first place demonstrates that he is not influenced by evidence or science in general.
I’ve got an EHX Qtron. It’s great but the footprint is pretty huge. I also really like the Sample and Hold mode on the Spatial Delivery. Maybe it’s time to make the switch…
The picture in that article is definitely Xan Mccurdy…
This is a great article looking into the evidence regarding the impact of bike lanes on traffic in Toronto. It turns out, there’s no clear relationship. This would matter if Doug Ford wasn’t science illiterate.
(I realize this is paywalled, but maybe some people have access.)
Yup. Unsurprising given Ford’s track record.
This sounds great but damn, it’s expensive for what it is.
Notably: “The White House says, “Canada has extracted a persistent average annual goods trade deficit of roughly $50 billion from the U.S. over the last decade — while refusing reciprocal access.”
The overall number is correct (it was $48.5 billion in 2025, according to the U.S. Trade Representative). But as premiers and others have repeatedly noted, the only reason for that is because Canada exported 3.9 million barrels of oil per day to the U.S. last year.
States near Canada’s border need the oil, and it’s sold at below-market prices, a significant economic advantage for the U.S.
If that oil were removed from the calculation, the U.S. would have a goods surplus with Canada. In other words, excluding energy, it exports more stuff to Canada than Canada exports to the U.S.”
It’s definitely stupidity of some variety.