Alongside banners commemorating missing and murdered Indigenous women and the victims of Canada’s residential school system, Confederate flags flap gently in the wind.
Wow, I hate everything about that.
With a little research these culture vultures could have used an actual local “rebel” flag, this one:
But of course they appropriate a white supremacist flag from American history.
As are most Americans.
“We believe that the province’s commitment to fiscal discipline and stability has wavered in recent years as B.C. has materially increased its spending for both operations and capital investment to unparalleled levels, while economic growth is slowing,” S&P said in its analysis.
So, punishment for Keynesianism? Is this that foreign interference I’ve been hearing about?
Surely Moody’s would never utilize it’s credit ratings dishonestly.
No, this is from Friday. The bit mentioning the January brownouts was making a comparison to those of yesterday.
Business groups claim hard-fought $20 hourly wage victory will cause reduced hours, layoffs
David Card was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for showing that this isn’t true.
(The study (PDF warning))
What was special about this research that won the guy the award?
According to Card:
the thing that has really influenced the field is the idea of looking for these pivotal events or things that have happened that could potentially inform our theorizing and understanding of the world.
That is to say, they actually looked at real world examples and compared (meaning they actually included evidence in their reasoning) rather than assuming it must be so based on neoclassical economic assumptions.
To illustrate, one previous president of the organization was none other than former Conservative MP and UCP leader Jason Kenney.
Considering the emergency they are fleeing from is not over, one wonders whether that deadline will be extended?
According to a news release, the SIU says the incident began at around 1:30 p.m. when police made a traffic stop in the area of Churchill Avenue and Avondale Avenue. A 25-year-old woman got out of the car and ran away, the SIU said. An officer followed.
“At some point, the officer discharged his firearm and the woman was struck. She was transported to hospital for treatment. The woman is in critical condition,” the SIU said.
Doesn’t sound like she presented a threat to anyone. I don’t think stopping a suspect from running away is a reasonable excuse to shoot them.
It makes perfect sense they would use that angle. The National Post exists to smuggle the American (specifically Republican) perspective into the Canadian political conversation.
I agree with a lot of what you’re saying here, but the author of the article doesn’t so much, I think. His thrust seems to be that we need to embrace urban sprawl, and in the course of doing that, rather than densifying urban residential areas, instead de-densify downtown cores and go all in on suburbs and exurbs.
Pearson Vue GED Testing Service, the company behind the test, is ending service in Canada after this month.
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When the end of the program was announced last year, provinces were left to find their own solutions.
Isn’t privatization grand?
It’s not so much that I love winter, but rather the wildfire smoke really puts a damper on summer.
80 year old good Samaritan pushes a woman out of the way of an oncoming vehicle, dies as a result. According to his son, he was always helpful.
Absolutely agreed on that.
That’s an argument to end the exploitative TFW program and increase unionization rates. Not against immigration generally.
Concerns over immigration are mostly about the economy
https://davidcard.berkeley.edu/papers/new-immig.pdf
It is incorrect to think of economic activity as a limited resource that must be defended against the rapacious outsider. Economic activity is not only consumed by people, but also created by them. Value is a product of human labour. In fact, Canada should be looking to increase it’s population rapidly so that the market that exists here can develop enough of a gravity of its own that we aren’t so reliant on the US market.
Outsourcing and automation have been far, far more impactful with regards to wages. NAFTA (now CUSMA) as well has hollowed out a lot of our economy so that the only real growth sectors are resource extraction which feeds the US market, and real estate. Protectionism is a bit of a dirty word however I think it’s necessary to develop industries where we can create value-added products out of our own natural resources, and ultimately build a much more varied and healthy economy. And we need far more people than we are birthing locally to do that.
What’s going on in Palestine is a genocide. But trying to diminish what this guy experienced is pretty ghoulish. Should he just get over it and focus on more important matters? Should we all not put any time aside to feel empathy for this person because we apparently can only find that empathy for one thing at a time?
Time and a place.
Unfathomable. I couldn’t even begin to approach understanding what that poor man must be going through.
I suspect it has to do with being a sort of household appliance. Similar to the fridge, the TV, the bathtub, etc. People think about it in that sense most frequently and it becomes the common parlance.