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  • Canadian premier accuses US lawmakers of 'trying to trivialise' wildfires

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  • It's climate denial dressed up. The US lawmakers wanted a chance to get their "forest managemt" narrative in front of people again.

  • Ontario colleges lose nearly 10,000 jobs, and face cancellation or suspension of more than 600 college programs.

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  • It's much more than that, it's a decades old problem of slowing population growth and the impact from it. North America's least favorite economicbsuccess story is the population boom after WW2. We tell ourselves tales of ingenuity and hard work but the fact is we owe much economic success to growing the population whole other countries needed to rebuild. In the context of colleges and schools, we see a decade long period of increasing domestic demand as population and education requirements grow. But, as population growth slows the colleges find themselves with enough capacity for a generation that already graduated, with no new domestic students coming. So they fill the capacity with international students, who also help fill the missing economic capacity. The recent changes leave colleges with the original problem, capacity built for boomers and their children being far too much for the children of millennials. So they're shrinking now. The colleges are a kind of microcosm of our entire economy. Population growth is slowing long term, and economic fallout will follow. I wish I had solutions to our problems that didn't involve a time machine. We needed to not stop building public housing 40 years ago, we put ourselves in a housing trap that's going to be hard to get out off. Colleges are just a prominent example.

  • This tax testifies to the utter corruption of conservative thought | Congress is coming for your EV — and what’s left of conservatism.

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  • The average vehicle is, for the last 20 years or so, pegged at 4000 lbs when doing road damage calculations. A Chevy bolt EV is around 3800 lbs, or smaller than average, while Tesla vehicles are heavier. Road damage is proportional to the per axle weight to the fourth power, or in short "The fourth power law". The take away point from that law is that all vehicles in and around that 4000 lb range and nothing, notta, moot, compared to large trucks and shipping rigs. Small increases in weight mean big differences in road wear.

    As an example. Take the bolt EV at 3800 lbs, the F150 at 4200 lbs, and the F350 at 6764 lbs.

    The bolt and f150 would have 1900lbs and 2100lbs per axle respectively. Applying the fourth power rule the F150 does (2100/1900)4= 1.49 times the damage of a Bolt EV. Meanwhile the F350 does , (3382/1900)4 = 10 times the road damage.

    So then, is it true that the F150 and F350 will be made to pay 1.5 and 10 times the registration and fuel taxes of an EV like the Bolt? I have not yet seen this to be true anywhere EV taxes are reality. Now imagine how much damage a delivery van, or large shipping vehicle does.

    The other part of this is environmental damage, are these states going to find a way to charge for carbon emissions proportionally from the gas vehicles? Of course not.

  • Trump Administration Seeks Nuclear Arms Budget Hike as Science Funds Are Cut

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  • Probably at a hurricane.

  • Toronto’s unsold condo rate has reached ‘an incredible level’: expert

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  • Investors and speculators should have to eat the loss, they took the risk now take the hit.

  • Love to see it

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  • Best for him to step down. Let's not confuse my subjective fondness for the guy with his objective failure as NDP leader.

  • Love to see it

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  • Oh no, did Jagmeet lose his seat too? I'm a liberal but Jagmeet is a good guy, didn't deserve that.

  • Carney’s Liberals beat Conservatives, CTV News declares, will form minority government

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  • Policy

  • Election Day Discussion thread [Monday April 28]

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  • Good spot check, thanks

  • Election Day Discussion thread [Monday April 28]

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  • 1 short may as well be 2 short, because the house will elect a liberal speaker and reduce the vote number one more. But, whatever will happen is set in stone, waiting to be counted. I don't know why I engage with this as if its a story unfolding, like I can influence it by watching.

  • Election Day Discussion thread [Monday April 28]

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  • It's time allotment in the HoC and money for staff, research, etc. Not much more.

  • Election Day Discussion thread [Monday April 28]

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  • I may as well get to bed, but I wish I would know before if the NDP will have enough seats to prop up an LPC minority. I'd hate to see the LPC+NDP be one or two seats short, leaving the CPC/BQ with enough votes to stymie everything. Right now it's sitting at 170 combined, need 172 or more to make it work.

  • Carney’s Liberals beat Conservatives, CTV News declares, will form minority government

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  • Please give me just enough new dems to get things passed. I wanted a lib majority, but if it's a minority give them enough new dems to work with.

  • FBI Agents Involved In Trump Cases ‘Escorted Out’ of Offices in Friday Night Purge

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  • Saddam Hussein , 1979. Have you seen that video?

  • 2024 Presidential Election Megapost!

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  • I can't

  • Police say they are 'not aware of anything' after Donald Trump claims 'massive CHEATING' in a key swing state

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  • This is disgusting, how can so many Americans look at this man's antics and think a single positive thing? A criminal, rapist, liar, narcissistic, selfish, easily manipulated, hate monger, moron but the exit polls say "oh Trump would be best for the economy" like are you fucking kidding me? The guy with the plan to slap a tariff on every other thing? The guy who can't string together a coherent speech for the economics club? What a joke this all is, and here I am absoltuly physically sick about it. I'm sick because it actually matters, it does, it matters and it's so damn close this fucking clown could be in power again, after killing so many people, after taking women's rights away, after all of it, and because what? Voters remember cheaper bananas or some shit? Fuck this life.

  • Trump and allies have primed supporters to falsely believe he has no chance of losing

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  • Meanwhile, Trump is a convicted felon.

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  • Joe Rogan's mind is so open his brain fell out.

  • Incendiary device plot targeting UK may have been dry run for US and Canada

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  • Helping strongman and Conservatives generally come to power.

  • Prince Edward Island @lemmy.ca
    Funderpants @lemmy.ca

    Residents urged to be cautious as RCMP search for man accused of attacking woman with sword on P.E.I. beach

    www.cbc.ca /news/canada/prince-edward-island/rcmp-pei-sword-suspect-1.6955659
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    'You're risking your life': Some Charlottetown bike lanes too narrow, cycling groups say

    www.cbc.ca /news/canada/prince-edward-island/pei-cycling-groups-bike-lane-safety-1.6940616
  • Prince Edward Island @lemmy.ca
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    P.E.I. is getting hotter. How are you grappling with the changing climate?

    www.cbc.ca /news/canada/prince-edward-island/pei-climate-first-person-pitches-1.6890305