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I'm sure him and Jeff spent 18 years playing checkers, rest easy.

Irony. So the falling out after a decade+ close friendship happened well before the wide proliferation of email/text and other digital records. Surely that means that nothing untoward happened between 1987 and 2005 and the relationship between Epstein and the weirdo that has been found civilly...

Not to mention the direct tax recovery and downstream multipliers that come with spending 10's of billions domestically.

If they actually are a moderate in comparison- I can live with that. We could handle 47's aims with 45's pre-loss acquiescence to institutional and international norms + a healthy dose of reasonableness.

If only our business oriented sitting government with great experience organizing capital to pursue strategic objectives had identified the need to do just that and recently released some sort of directive to do so. A Military Industrial Policy or something like that.

My forlorn, perhaps naive hope is that the wilder, more outrageous, egregious, and unpredictable his behaviour gets, the harder it will be for any "spiritual successor" to slide in next and carry this torch.

Lol my sweet little early talking girl turned 2 and suddenly it's "I said NOOOO" and That's MIIIIIIINE" in a guttural growl like she's auditioning for a screamo band.

Big IF, and too broad of basket. A. Do we want/ need to, or are missile effects for the defense of the nation/soveriegnty going to be more effectively brought into play by aircraft and naval vessels? B. If we do/want need to- does it need to be/ should it be the same platform as our...

Is it a key capability for Canada? Or was it seen as key capability for the Canadian Army locked into the decades long mindset of interservice rivalry/ fighting for relevance of mission? A bit of a leading question, but one I think needs to be asked and considered at the CDS level. Is the...

Floor in my neck of rural SW Ontario is ~330-400 for a 2BR 1-1.5 Bath ~1050 foot condo. 330-350 gets you the 1 bath tastefully updated 80's build apartment style, 390-400 for the 2Bath new build townhouse walkup. Comparable size in a freehold war time bungalow starter home in the low 400's...

If he wanted to/ was willing to rule by decree (as he as shown willingness to do multiple times) all of those changes could be pushed down from Queen's Park. Ontario municipalities are extensions of the provincial authority empowered by provincial legislation to carry out certain aspects of...

Fits better in this thread. Solution: stop trying to fight mathematical reality and bow to efficiency. You identified the crux of the issue. The suburban property tax base doesn't generate revenue to support their ongoing service cost and upkeep AND/OR bank enough to be prepared for EOL...

Municipalities serve as a delegated extension of provincial authority. Passing the buck downhill is lame especially when he's shown a wanton willingness to trample all over the same municipalities when the mood strikes him. It just isn't possible... when you constrain yourself to a broken...

Yes there are. And the cost of living crisis isn't limited to the housing crisis. But the housing crisis is a massive part of it. And land use planning and housing are provincial files (municipalities are delegated extensions of provincial jurisdiction and accountability that Ford is ultimately...

I have tremendous respect for Ford as a politician- he's got combination of... genuineness?, pragmatism, and flexibility that makes him teflon. He's just a semi-likeable dude doing a job, and when he gets caught out we all shrug as if to say "eh, that's just Dougie, carry on" Case in point-...

Not sure I agree. I think that he desperately wants to be Prime Minister. But I honestly believe he has rightly assessed that his only viable path to doing so is to "hang in there" and try and keep his coalition from falling apart until the burden of governance leaves the other guy unpopular...

It will look ugly to those outside- but the PP wing has control of the party and he'll just continue to lever defections as betrayals to the cause and his core support will just lap it up. It actually helps build the us vs the world narrative and will reinforce the conviction of the believers...

Can't be done. IMO the problem is well past the point of being strategic/tactical/messaging what have you. It's existential. Literal Maple MAGA (Canadian's that like Trump and would prefer Canada to be more like Trump's America) make up like a 3rd of the CPC voter base. Figurative Maple MAGA...

Bend the knee? Kiss the Ring?

In Ontario it depends a lot on the school. Going back 15-20 years for first hand: Grade 7-8 had a monthly/ semi-monthly 1 day module at the local tech centre hosted by highschool- over the two years you got a woodworking day, small engines, robotics, cooking, childcare with robo baby, visual...