Davriellelouna @ Davriellelouna @lemmy.world

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Running a successful restaurant is very difficult. It takes a lot of skills. Competition is brutal.

Running a successful hotel is difficult. It takes a lot of skills. Competition is brutal.

Running a business like TD, RBC or Rogers is actually easy. 3/4 big companies share the banking market and the telecom markets. They pretend to compete but there is so few of them that their CEOs can meet regularly in private to coordinate. Meanwhile, their customers don't have any alternative and are trapped.

This is why Banks and Telecom companies should pay a lot more taxes.

Senator Jim Justice. Second richest man in West Virginia.

He owns several coal mines.

make no mistake, very few people want construction projects going on around them for years, without anything to soothe the pain. If you tell them you’ll freeze their property tax for 10 years because the new development would pay more, then they may be okay with listening to construction noise for a few years.

Canada has a very high immigration rate combined with strict zoning rules.

The result? The country is facing the worse housing crisis in the Western world. Rents have increased at double digits. Visible homelessness has skyrocketed. People are ending up on the streets. Landlords are abusing vulnerable women.

Olivia Chow claims to be a progressive fighting for ordinary people.

That turned out to be a lie. If you live in a country with a major housing crisis and oppose making housing more affordable, you aren't a progressive.

All this effort instead of constructing traffic calming road features. Oh wait, that doesn’t generate revenue…

Speed cameras actually generate very little revenue compared to the financial cost of car crashes: Ambulances, drugs, police, surgeons. If speeding fines were to truly reflect the social cost of car crashes, they would be significantly higher.

Also, the people who oppose speed cameras will absolutely FREAK OUT if you propose to reduce lanes. Look at what just happened to Toronto bike lanes.

This is a great article from Dalhousie University.

Justin Trudeau tried to reduce the use of single use plastics. He faced enormous political backlash. Pierre Poilievre, leader of the Conservative Party, campaigned on defending plastics:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/poilievre-scrap-plastics-ban-1.7514037

Poilievre claimed that the federal Plastics ban was inflicting financial pain on Canadian families

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Bri5-IqHqw

Evidence‑based solutions are indeed under political fire.

This is a great article from Dalhousie University. It especially applies to Canada.

Justin Trudeau, the leader of the centrist Liberal Party, tried to pass a ban on single use plastics.

He faced brutal political backlash. Pierre Poilievre, populist leader of the Conservative Party, campaigned on defending plastics.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/poilievre-scrap-plastics-ban-1.7514037

Poilievre made television ads claiming the federal Plastics ban was inflicting pain on Canadian families :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Bri5-IqHqw

You don't have to tax them directly. You can also tax things they enjoy.

This year, France increased taxes on private jets by 300%

https://www.fliteline.com/blog/understanding-frances-new-private-jet-passenger-tax

Billionaires didn't even notice.

Okay. I'll do that.

They are not Bezos-rich, but for Charlottesville, Virginia, they are rich.

But they are rich homeowners. This isn't vilification. It's just a description.

https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/newsletter/nine-charlottesville-residents-who-own-expensive-properties-are-suing-to-stop-upzoning/

Fair enough. I just want to point out the title in the browser tab isn't the same as the title in the article.

I studied in Montreal and I left the country a long time ago. Yet I still pay close attention to Canadian politics. Because I really want to see Canada improve.

How can I say this without offending anyone?

I feel I can speak my mind bluntly precisely because I am a foreigner.

Brutal truth

Many Alberta politicians act like absolute cunts.

Alberta is one of the Jewels of Canada. It was named after Princess Louise Alberta, the favorite daughter of Queen Victoria, it's a province that was blessed with great beauty and enormous ressources.

One of the responsibility of having enormous natural ressources is managing sustainably to ensure the next generations can live in a good environment.

In 1974, the New York Times reported the province has SO MUCH money it doesn't know what to do with it:

ALBERTA FLOODED WITH OIL REVENUE

At time when most governments at every level, are struggling hard to stay solvent, Alberta, which produces 83 per cent of Canada'' oil, has more money than it knows what to do with.

https://www.nytimes.com/1974/10/13/archives/alberta-flooded-with-oil-revenue-16-million-barrels-a-day.html

Yet all I hear is constant whining, whining, whining. Why? What the hell is going on?

According to Statistics Canada, under Justin Trudeau, Alberta reached the highest oil production levels in modern history. In fact, Justin Trudeau opened a brand new pipeline:

For the fourth consecutive year, production of crude oil and equivalent products reached a record high, up 4.3% from 2023 to 298.8 million cubic metres in 2024.

The Trans Mountain pipeline expansion began operation in May 2024, providing Alberta crude oil with increased access to Pacific Ocean terminals and markets abroad.

https://www.statcan.gc.ca/o1/en/plus/7940-another-record-year-canadian-crude-oil-crude-oil-year-review-2024

Despite this, all I keep hearing from Alberta politicians is how evil Justin oppressed/raped/humiliated ordinary Albertans. This is insane.

Alberta politicians just keep whining about environmental rules. If they want their constituents to have cancer because of heavy metals from fracking and mining, if they want Alberta lakes and rivers polluted by plastics, it's horrible, but it's their choice.

The core issue is these Alberta corrupt politicians seem determined to blow up the planet, claiming there is no alternative. Fort McMurray burned the fuck down. Jasper burned the fuck down. But clearly the Alberta political leaders learned nothing from it.

Alberta has produced many great artists, historians, authors, scientists. They gave Canada many great figures. I hope that one day, people take back their province from these crooks. They deserve better than their current dumbass leaders. I believe Alberta should aim to be like mini-Norway.

Norwegians heavily tax oil and don't let filthy rich Oil CEOs get away with murder. Norway has an investment fund to support the next generations. But they are extremely environmentally conscious. Norway invests heavily in electric cars, public transit, and takes strong measures against plastic pollution. It would be very sad if Albertan leaders led their province to become like so many ressource-rich failed states

Oh hey, you’re back. 954 posts in 19 days. Still absolutely normal. Nothing suspicious here…

I'm posting an absolute SHIT-TON of content because I want to support Lemmy.

I will spare you the pain of reading through all my Lemmy posts to try to build my psychological profile (some people will do that). There is no need for it. You can just ask me.

I speak fluent french and lived in Canada for a while. I really hate car dependency and I'm very worried about pollution. I oppose corporate power concentration and I want stronger labor rights. But I lean centrist socially. I have a lot of free time and try to encourage people to engage in local politics. I support open source software like Gimp, Krita, Inkscape, VLC, LibreOffice. I don't like AI.

Any question you have ?

I'm actually not surprised at all by the result of this study.

We know from several studies that fish 🐟 , eggs🥚, nuts 🌰 and chicken 🐔 are much healthier sources of protein than red meat 🥩.

From Cornell University:

Unprocessed red meat and processed meat consumption leads to a slightly higher risk of heart disease and premature death, according to a new study from researchers at Cornell and Northwestern University

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2020/02/study-red-meat-processed-meat-hike-heart-disease-risk

From Harvard University:

People who eat just two servings of red meat per week may have an increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes compared to people who eat fewer servings, and the risk increases with greater consumption, according to a new study led by researchers from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

“Given our findings and previous work by others, a limit of about one serving per week of red meat would be reasonable for people wishing to optimize their health and wellbeing” said senior author Walter Willett, professor of epidemiology and nutrition.

https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/red-meat-consumption-associated-with-increased-type-2-diabetes-risk/

From Oxford University:

Red and processed meat linked to increased risk of heart disease, Oxford study shows.

Overall, the evidence from the analysis indicated that each 50 g/day higher intake of processed meat (e.g. bacon, ham, and sausages) increased the risk of coronary heart disease by 18%.

Each 50 g/day higher intake of unprocessed red meat (such as beef, lamb and pork) increased the risk of coronary heart disease by 9%.

There was no clear link between eating poultry (such as chicken and turkey) and an increased risk of coronary heart disease.

https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2021-07-21-red-and-processed-meat-linked-increased-risk-heart-disease-oxford-study-shows

Sure. I just added the link in the body.

https://xcancel.com/LauraLoomer/status/1939831588902109629

If you want to see how ignorant some voters can be, there is really no better evidence than Ted Cruz.

I followed his recent Senate race in Texas. In a campaign speech, Cruz said he was fighting the elite.

• His father owns an oil company in Canada.
• He attended a private prep school in Houston. His classmates were Bush family kids.
• He attended Harvard University and Princeton
• His wife Heidi Cruz is a top executive at Goldman Sachs

This guy is fighting the establishment? Are you kidding me? 🤦🤦🤦.

Now that this has come to light, surely the law will be followed and the will be consequences!

The issue is that many american prosecutors are absolute cowards.

In other countries, some prosecutors actually do their job. The headquarters of the ruling Spanish Political party was just raided by prosecutors and the police.

https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/spanish-police-enter-ruling-party-hq-corruption-probe-2025-06-20/

Why do US prosecutors simply refuse to do their job? You break the law. You get criminally prosecuted. It's not that hard.

Sorry!! I thought it could also belong here

I'm a strong believer in non-profit news. I regularly donate money to The Guardian because it's a great non-profit newspaper.

https://www.theguardian.com/about

Many for profit news organizations are absolute garbage. But please don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.

Not all for-profit news organizations are clickbait propaganda. It depends on their business model and their owner.

The New Yorker depends on subscriptions. They employ some of the best writers in the english speaking world.

The Information depends on subscriptions. It's (very) expensive but they have the best coverage of Silicon Valley.