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Yes, provinces and federal government can help, but municipalities can solve things quicker.

Municipalities are a creation of the province. Everything municipalities can do, so can the province. With that, the province can actually get things done quicker here as they can force the changes across the entire province at the same time.

Primary mass transit would be expanded to increase the feasible housing areas

It's pretty clear that access to mass transit increases the value of homes, sharply. Removing access to mass transit would be the quickest way to see housing nosedive back to affordable levels. Housing has become much more expensive because living in them has improved dramatically over the past couple of decades. Expansion and advancement of mass transit systems is one of features that has contributed to that improved livability. It is a truism that desirable things are more expensive than undesirable things.

It sound like Meta is acting preemptively to put pressure on the government.

There isn't much pressure to exert. C-18 has already received Royal Assent. The people of Canada have spoken, and this is what they want. Given that this is what Canadians have proclaimed as being what they want, why would Facebook wait?

If homicide laws were being introduced for the first time, and not yet in effect, are you going to kill a few people while you still can? Or are you going to realize that people don't like being murdered and conclude that maybe you should not do that even if the law still technically allows?

There is also the option of simply making housing something people don't want to own again. It worked for most of human history. Turn our cities back to how they looked 50-60 years ago and you'll scare the people away from owning homes pretty quickly. That is easily within the hands of municipal/provincial governments.

Typically one will spell out the division of assets in a separation agreement. That can be done at any time. You can even write up such an agreement when you are at the peak of marital bliss if you really wanted, although it might be unusual.

They seem to be happy to maintain a relationship, even if just for the kids, so there is no social division.

Divorce doesn't really mean much – other than allowing you to get married again, I suppose. It's a pretty handwavvy concept to begin with.

federal government absolutely used to fund social housing and no longer does.

What are the chances of the provinces accepting the funding again, though? They kicked and screamed just to accept a paltry sum for subsidized childcare. This would be a lot bigger deal than that.

Particularly if you believe the provinces are purposefully creating the situation, as many do.

It’s primarily the municipalities

Municipalities are a creation of the province, so the province has the same power as municipalities. As this is reported to be a province-wide issue (in most provinces, at least), it does seem like a place for the province to step in.

It is weird only in that if they are not going to socially separate, all this tells us is that they have decided to separate their assets. Is that worth announcing? Were we otherwise going to be alarmed if Sofie opened a new bank account in her own name?

I don’t think it is out of left field.

Yeah, the photo in the article of them on the field shows them to be on the right side of the field.

Honestly with this model of social networking now past its infancy and the most painful growing pains (I think)

The most painful growing pains for any social networking service is their Eternal September moment.

I am not so sure we're past that as we keep seeing over, and over, and over again.

Try Ground News to build yourself a list of sources you like to check directly

This particular reporter is the source. For all intents and purposes he is the only one that reports on the area (small community). Ground News seems to only pull from text sources, and it is grabbing essentially nothing. His work is presented as video.

Lack of local reporting has been an issue since long before these new rules.

Well, the reporting is sufficient enough, but not well aggregated outside of Facebook/X. If you work hard you can ultimately find it on CTV properties, but it's hard to deny that Facebook improved access to the news.

What's the alternative? The local CTV reporter who keeps us abreast in the local news – the news that matters most in our daily lives – also published his reports on X, but beyond that?

If I go directly to CTV they want to tell me about how the fire department was called to save a cat stuck in a tree in a city hundreds of kilometres away. I couldn't care less. That isn't worth my time. It is true that hidden in there are the same local reports that are posted to Facebook, but I'll be bored to death by all the other irrelevant news before I find them. The user experience is horrendous.

To actually get at the pertinent news without needing to become a full-time researcher, Facebook was where it was at.

That's right, you're supposed to go down to the local coffee shop to find out what is going on.

If the objective is curation, that could easily and more effectively be done via an online feed

Well, it is, just like every other CBC Radio program. Podcasts is the business they are in.

The OTA broadcast is there merely to stream the same content out to legacy devices which are not compatible with the modern feeds. If it were a campus/community run venture, even if it were a commercially run venture, they would no doubt only offer the feed, but as they have taxpayer support they are also able to accommodate those who are unable or unwilling to adopt newer devices.

Now, maybe there is a case to be made that the program isn't worth producing for any medium, but I don't have listenership data to delve into that. It would not surprise me if a lot of people enjoy it, though. It seems far less niche than Writers and Company. Assuming it is well received, that is a pretty good reason to produce it.

she kind of was the show in a sense.

Fair. Hard to lament someone wanting to move on with their life, though. That show has been on the air seemingly forever. It is not like Podcast Playlist is displacing it. They have been produced in parallel. Its actual replacement is yet to come – and it might be even better!

There’s no reason for that to be on the airwaves in 2023.

Why's that? A radio show that curates the best of other radio shows is a perfectly fine use of the medium. In fact, it makes a lot of sense as if you like listening to one radio show you will probably like listening to others as well.

Programs like The Sunday Edition, and Writers and Company are gone

Huh? Writers and Company is still there, and is streamed to legacy devices on Sunday at 3PM.

Maybe radio is dying, I don’t know.

Quite the opposite. It is alive and well. That show you spoke of earlier being able to regularly find new content from other radio programs to present to the audience is telling about just how strong radio is. If radio was dying, that show would have died long ago.

they always seem a bit too reluctant to lead.

It is unlikely they have the know-how. The OECD doesn't call Canada the "most educated nation" because we believe in learning how to learn. We believe that one needs to be trained before they are able to do anything. At this time, it is all but certain that nobody has gone through a Fediverse/Mastadon/Lemmy college course.

FWIW, I’m 45yrs old.

Metric or imperial?

The Canadian solution to every problem is always “more tax”.

Well, traditionally it is: Establish a monopoly/monopsony.

But with US companies already entrenched, it is a little late for that. "More tax" is our fallback plan.

I noticed you completely glossed over friends and family living in different places.

I've addressed that many times already. What new and edgy details have you brought to the table that warrants a new response?

People travel to see other people.

Once every few years, sure. You are an exceptional individual if you are jetting off to China each week to lunch with your friend. That is not the norm at all. People normally only keep regular ties to those who are convenient.

are we all going to be able to live in a 6 block radius?

Well, if you don't all live nearby, who is going to support the local economy? An economy needs all of those functions.

But it does mean transportation is a requirement.

Why's that? Given a properly designed city, what would you need it for?

I get you want to vacation once in a while, and while it is a stretch to think that is a requirement, without regular traffic there won't be the ridership to support transit even granting it as a luxury. You're back to needing car .