AnotherDirtyAnglo @ AnotherDirtyAnglo @lemmy.ca

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Check your population density numbers for any European country against Canada, or in fact, any Canadian province.

Nationalize the infrastructure (cell towers / fibre network) and make everyone compete on service. No more "You don't have network? I have network." bullshit -- one cell network, with double the capacity, double the coverage, and everyone competes for customers on price and service and device support (iPhone/Android/watches/data cards/etc.), and everyone pays the same wholesale price for voice/minutes and data/gigs. Everyone gets 5G. Your only government requirement for starting a new cell company is a $1m non-transferable license/access fee that helps pay for expanding/upgrading the network.

If subsidizing flights from Europe to increase economic activity and build a tourism industry is the goal, then a portion of those proceeds should be earmarked directly to expanding and improving air access to other parts of the province - because unfortunately, it's not the people flying from Labrador to St. Johns who are bringing thousands of dollars/euros with them to stay in fancy hotels and eat at a restaurant three meals a day.

If this is indeed the plan, it needs to be recognized that it's risky, and may work... Leading to being worse off overall.

Just out of curiousity, is there an Amazon competitor for online shopping? I mostly use eBay and AliExpress for tech stuff, but the $3/month grab after spending $120/year on Prime is just bullshit.

I've done this a few times... Once, the Via train Toronto to Montreal was delayed because of a 'jumper', and the related police investigation... Rather than just sit there, I went and rented a car, walked into the departure lounge and said, "I just rented a car, I'm going to Montreal, I have room for four people, I'm leaving in 5 minutes."

I got four older women who took me up on the offer, and I dropped them off at Dorval and Gare Central. We had a great time, but it was short lived. :)

I suspect it would result in permanent minorities, and the growth of smaller, more local parties. I'm no political scientist, but as far as I can tell, formalized political parties are just magnets for corruption and consolidation of power that's for sale to anyone with a fistfull of disposable cash.

Even the used ones are still pricey. I'd get a 10 year old Tesla Model S for $25k before I'd spend $35k on a used Bolt.

Yeah, I had to cut Mom off long before her move... The constant stream of agitated nonsense was corrosive to my mental health. I kept lying awake at night, trying to figure out how to battle the onslaught of total bullshit from Facebook and the far-far-right blogs that her boyfriend kept feeding her... In the end I figured that I couldn't defend against the entire internet and some dickhead who lived with her 24x7x365, so I walked away.

There's only two scenarios I can envision -- I get the call that she's been hospitalized and to come get her, or I somehow find out she's died. I'm not sure how I'll deal with either, but I'll know that she did it to herself by believing the bullshit over her last living relative.

Doesn't matter unless they modernize the building codes -- which includes things like heat pumps / air exchangers / radon remediation / greywater systems... All things that make a house better, but also cost more money -- adding to the affordability crisis.

Kids nowadays are so fucked.

People don't care about it until they get bitten. Then they act all outraged and make outrageous demands for compensation.

Pick up a 10 year old Tesla -- they're cheap and they have lots of battery life for short commutes.

Oh yeah, my mother was pushed down the internet conspiracy theory rabbit hole by her idiot boyfriend over the course of the pandemic. Their latest dumbass move to was to relocate to Alberta because the political climate more closely aligned with their beliefs. Given that my mother is chronically ill, and it had taken years for her to find good specialists, I will not be surprised when I get the call that she's died early because her disease isn't being properly managed.

That's why there needs to be aggressive rebates and incentives. It's the only way the market gets built. The dumbest part of this whole thing is how easy it would be to get it right.

• Increase gas taxes quarterly, just a fraction of a percent.
• Gas taxes go towards rebate programs, and to incentiveize manufacturers to manufacture locally.
• Carbon taxes to go public transit - increasing the quantity and quality of service while reducing the end user costs to drive demand.
• The more people who use new and improved public transit rather than buying cars to commute, the closer we get to climeate goals.
• The more people who convert to EVs, the closer the country gets to climate goals.
• Repeat this process so that every year, it gets more and more expensive to operate a vehicle that kills the planet, and it gets cheaper and cheaper to get where you need to be with green tech.

To that point, I'm just some idiot that's lived in the city for 25+ years. I could probably go upstairs and grab some clothes and a backpack, and be better equipped for full-on war than actual russian conscripts. Just give me a sniper rifle and some ammo, and I'm more of a threat than a dozen or more Russians.

About fucking time, assholes. Maybe the CBC should stop posting there.

instead of anything the size of a Honda civic

Chevy Bolt. But they're over $50k CAD before rebates. Fuck that.

Even 'low' gas prices can't compete. If I charge on a street charger from 0%, it costs about $16 for 550km of range. It's free at the office. I bought mine when free unlimited fast charging was offered. I've put nearly 60k kms on the vehicle, and I've paid less than $200 for 'fuel' over the last 4 years.

I don't have a parking spot at home, but my office installed four car chargers, and there were already 120V sockets in every second parking stall. Unlimited charging is included in the parking fee, and they don't care if you plug into the 120V socket. I've left my car there when I was on vacation, and not a peep from them.

There used to be an Electric Ranger, but the snag was that the range was so low that it was only sold for institutional / commercial campus use -- I think it had a 60 mile range, and took overnight to charge.

FYI, the full-electric IKEA delivery trucks are in Montreal as well.