America's housing crisis isn't as bad as Canada and their wages are better for highly skilled or highly educated workers. It is common for someone to get a decent education in Canada then go work in America and pray they don't need any serious healthcare.
The liberals got in their previous terms promising electoral reform. They have failed to change anything and promising to do it next time is just an empty promise that nobody believes will happen at this point.
The federal government is somewhat powerless to force municipalities and provinces to build housing, that responsibility falls onto provincial and muncicipal governments. A big part of the problem is the federal government increased immigration significantly without ensuring the lower tiered governments had an adequate plan to house them. Our NIMBYISM and refusal to build anything but SFHs and only really pray that private developers will somehow solve this crisis is a big issue as well and one that has been happening for decades.
Something like a mustang could easlly jump a curb and cripple some people. And the average car is really an SUV, but yeah the bollards should be able to handle cars and trucks.
Large malls or outdoor pedestrian areas need to protected from cars and their drivers. Something as simple and cheap as bollards at every entrance could have prevented the truck from entering the mall.
I'd try to strip and clean any time I come home in that environment. Set up your entranceway so you can easily remove your clothes and shoes and put them in a bag or bin. Santitize the entranceway, wash your contaminated clothing, and wash yourself frequently.
I would wear long pants, ideally waterproof ones or at least thick enough to stop splashes from getting on your skin. You could also wear a mask while outside to help keep your fingers away from your mouth and nose.
And many times, those drivers have to pay $0 in parking fees to park there. Yet the guy in the tent is asked to move along because they aren't contributing
We pretend to be socialist while often being even worse in terms of capitalism, oligarchy, and monopoly. They threaten to take away the little bit of social services we do have if we ever complain or even acknowledge the flaws and exploitation in the system
I blew a lot of my money when i was younger, something I don't regret spending lots of money on is decent tools, they can last a lifetime if taken care of and can save you money in the long run if you learn to do your own work. Sometimes stuff now is a better investment but it can be super specific depending on your situation.
Public school teachers often vilified blue collar work like trades, saying things like pay attention otherwise you'll end up as some plumber. Now the trades struggle to find good candidates partially because everyone considers them as bad jobs or "poor people jobs" despite many trades providing decent salaries and often needing a good mix of knowledge and physical skills.
Suburban sprawl isn't really profitable either, our system is flawed to let developers take the profits while the municipality cannot afford to maintain the neighborhood a few years down the line.
Ive heard and seen some images and videos of soliders building their own antidrone ammo. They rip the tip off the casing and heat shrink a coulple of bbs together and crimp them to the casing. I'm not certain how legitimate or effective it is but I've seen several videos and images of it. They recomend staggering the homemade rounds with tracer rounds to help with aiming.
Tolls on every road isnt the wosrt idea. Roads are massively subsidizsed and most places cannot afford their upkeep because driving has been artificially cheap for a very long time. I'd have a hard time actually supporting tolls or congestion pricing until alternatives like high speed rail exist, but the conept of making drivers pay more would overall be a good thing for society and municpal budgets.
Drivers increase healthcare costs through accidents, so less driving saves on healthcare. They technically increase healthcare costs through a more sedantry lifestyle too, but that metric is hard to measure. City budgets are constantly wasted on adding more lanes that never actually fix traffic, and our lanes are often wider than they need to be, adding even more costs to construction and maintaince.
It is also just a break, and the fact the governmnet calls it a break is acknowledgement of the issues with corporate greed in this country. Struggling Canadians will go right back to struggling as soon as the break is over, if they can even find a way to benefit from it. It isn't a solution and its barely even a bandaid. The government is taking a tax dollar hit that could be used for other programs like welfare, food banks, public transit, or create anti oligarch/anti monopoly policies. We could invest in a national nonprofit groccer to help make food more accesible for struggling canadians.
Instead the government is giving a blanket "break" so that everyone from the poor to the ultra wealthy is inspired to give into capitalism and consummerism and spend even more money while ensuring only the already wealthy capitalists benefit from it.
What bothers me the most is the ads I hear on the radio reassuring me that the economy is doing great, ontario is growing, and building new roads and highways is the best investment we can make, paid for by the government of ontario.
If the economy was doing so great, I wouldn't need an advertisement to tell me that. Decades of research has also shown that too many roads and highways may bankrupt a city and continue the car dependancy crisis. The icing on the cake is that the government wasting money on the advertisement as well. I just hear our tax dollars burning or lining Ford's pockets everytime I hear the ad.
I must have used an old source it did change very recently. I only knew servers made a different wage because my sister worked as a server. I should have also mentioned that when the server wage was in effect, servers were guaranteed to be brought up to standard minimum wage if they failed to make enough tips.
America's housing crisis isn't as bad as Canada and their wages are better for highly skilled or highly educated workers. It is common for someone to get a decent education in Canada then go work in America and pray they don't need any serious healthcare.