Recent content by Furniture

Who determines what is false? As soon as you start enforcing this sort of thing in politics, it will be turned into a weapon to silence opposition. Eg. "Mr. Speaker, will the Prime Minister explain where the missing $40M dollars has gone?" "Mr. Speaker, would the Honourable member from...

Another key issue is, how long can they do the task. A warship can be at sea doing a lot of things for a long time, because it can RAS, and the humans onboard can maintain systems. I'm glad the BMD thing has been addressed, and has been acknowledged as a misinterpretation of the name of the...

Depends on what you call "liveable". I had a 450 sq ft apartment at one time that had a full kitchen, and was perfect for a single person living alone. No wasted space, and everything a single person needed. That said, I wasn't paying a premium for the privilege of having no extra space. I...

In fairness to the market, the government incentivized homes as investments through their policies, so it was a twonsoded effort to get us to this dysfunctional housing market.

Then the fight should be to get development fees back to the right level, not a fight for handouts for pretending to fix a problem.

Aren't property taxes and development fees specifically intended to pay for infrastructure? Shouldn't they be set at a rate that allows for that to happen, rather than begging for more money for housing from other levels of government?

You're suggesting that, as if it isn't already what's happening... Under the current housing plan, the municipality doesn't get rewarded for giving a permit that will never be used. The municipalities want that changed, so they can get housing money for granting permits that won't result in...

So... a government expecting concrete results in return for funding is a bad thing now, because Doug Ford is saying it? Municipalities have the ability to encourage home building, by tying permits to abbreviated timelines, and expecting builders to actually build, not just get a permit to...

Those are not problems caused by WFH, those are problems caused by a culture that encourages withholding information, because information is power. I worked in offices just a few feet away from people who didn't pass on a single thing, because as long as they were the only one who could fix...

It needs to be weighed against the actual threat, and the cost/benefit of putting ships and personnel up there. We have presence up in the arctic via the Rangers, and the other CAF elements operating in the North all year. Sending a few ships up on occasion is a good use of resources, but...

Tell me you don't know what my job is, without telling me you know absolutely nothing. That you feel personally attacked enough to go after my occupation kind of lends credence to my position. MCDVS did good work, but they did what they could, when they could. Sending small cheap ships up north...

As much as I have mostly liked PMMC, this is a weird about face for the #Elbowsup PM. Perhaps Europe wasn't as willing to deal with us as some had hoped. I'd rather look elsewhere, like Asia for partners. I imagine Japan and SK are more willing to work with us than France and Germany. Old...

I think a lot of people forget that modern medicine is part of what allows most of us to be alive and live comfortably. I was born near sighted, so my option in life 200 years ago would have been; pick up a skill, become a tavern musician, or die. As a random Canadian alive in 2025, I have...

You are mistaking my lack of interest in wasting time in the north for not being interested in the north. The AOPVs were built to give Canada the option to put ships up there when we want, not to leave ships up there all summer. If the GoC wanted an RCN presence in the Arctic full time, you...