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Liberal Minority Government 2025 - ???

Absolutely not. The youth and the elderly need more controls when it comes to driving. I would up the driving age to 21 to be honest. As well our come from aways need more extensive training and probably a longer probationary/accompanied period.
I take the opposite approach. If being a adult starts at 18 everything a adult is legally allowed to do should be available at 18. Be it drinking, driving, voting, joining the military, etc. this constant babying of adults needs to stop.
Like I said the examples I saw showed graphic (pictures) of various sexual acts. It's was a YouTube video of a Danielle Smith press conference where she provided examples of their aim.

I'm in support of literature on the study of the gender spectrum and the study of greater topic that is human sexuality in our school libraries. I'm not in favor pornographic depictions of sexual acts.
Keep in mind we get all upset over sex being described but don’t blink a eye over reading books describing murder, war, etc. which is all a whole lot more unnatural than sex.
 
I take the opposite approach. If being a adult starts at 18 everything a adult is legally allowed to do should be available at 18. Be it drinking, driving, voting, joining the military, etc. this constant babying of adults needs to stop.

Keep in mind we get all upset over sex being described but don’t blink a eye over reading books describing murder, war, etc. which is all a whole lot more unnatural than sex.

Look I am all for parental freedoms. They are welcome the but the material and use it at home.

I don't think it's appropriate on schools. What I saw wasn't educational it was graphic novels with explicit sex scenes. I don't think that's correct for schools.
 
the whole thing is a gross overreach.
Maybe. Have your read or read about whats contained in books like Flamer or Fun home?

For example in the former there's apparently a scene where young boys are playing a game where they take turns jerking off in a bottle. In the later the father has implied sexual relationships with underaged boys.

In another graphic novel I searched up forn reference there was an illustration of two young teenage girls with one of them on their knees sucking on a strap on dick the other one was wearing.

And you cant forget the Holy Bible, Genesis 19:30–38, of course.

Quite possible I'm just being prudish.

Being available in the library is not the same thing as being curriculum required reading.
That's a very good point, inclined to agree with you. I'm not a fan of banning books from libraries and censoring knowledge.

There's always a line to be crossed though. Knowledge vs normalizing.
 
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"Any book worth banning is a book worth reading."

- Isaac Asimov
I learned the phrase "blood engorged pole of muscle" in elementary school, by going to the school library and reading the first chapter of the Godfather....

Times seems to have changed :cool:
 
Maybe. Have your read or read about whats contained in books like Flamer or Fun home?

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That's a very good point, inclined to agree with you. I'm not a fan of banning books from libraries and censoring knowledge.

There's always a line to be crossed though. Knowledge vs normalizing.
I have not, but age ratings of 14 and up (highschool) seem fair for the subject material. Maybe parental authorized access in grade 7-8.

Knowledge vs normalizing comes down to parenting and having discussions- but not having books isn't going to spare teens being exposed to sexuality, especially in the age of the internet.


As to @PPCLI Guy 's point - yeah. By grade 6,7 it was Clancy and W.E.B Griffin I was taking out of the library. A surprising amount of "non-smut" fiction at higher reading levels contains some amount of smut somewhere.
 
As to @PPCLI Guy 's point - yeah. By grade 6,7 it was Clancy and W.E.B Griffin I was taking out of the library. A surprising amount of "non-smut" fiction at higher reading levels contains some amount of smut somewhere.
Not sure what age I first read Without Remorse, but I’m not sure I was a teenager yet, and that was about banging hookers and murdering pimps, so…
 
Knowledge vs normalizing comes down to parenting and having discussions- but not having books isn't going to spare teens being exposed to sexuality, especially in the age of the internet.

That's fair. I agree too about the ease of access to information.

Small tangent. It will be interesting to see if the publics views on "leave it to the parents to discuss" still hold when Grand Theft Auto 6 comes out and the rumors of players being able to run over people at pride parades are true.
 
Two men, two boys accused of kidnapping and home invasion in Markham

Two men and two teenage boys are accused of staging a vehicle collision to abduct a woman before committing a home invasion in Markham where a man was shot on Monday.
Shakir Bhatti, 21, of Ajax; Parkaran Panglia, 20, of Brampton; a 16-year-old Caledon boy; and a 17-year-old Toronto boy were arrested.
They are each charged with attempted murder, conspiracy to commit kidnapping, robbery with a firearm, wearing a disguise with intent, possession of restricted firearm knowingly not holding a license, possession of a prohibited device knowing no authority, and possession of property obtained by crime.
One of the accused was on a release order for unrelated charges at the time – and another accused was freed on bail within two days.
 

Looks like some major policy issues are going to be announced
 
Look I am all for parental freedoms. They are welcome the but the material and use it at home.

I don't think it's appropriate on schools. What I saw wasn't educational it was graphic novels with explicit sex scenes. I don't think that's correct for schools.
maybe not but the intelligent folks who select the books for school libraries obviously do. According to them, parents aren't savvy enough to decide what is appropriate. These are the same people who were pulling Rowling's books simply because they disagreed with her stand on genders.
 

Looks like some major policy issues are going to be announced
I think this was inevitable; the dates were ambitious at best, but there was never any reinvestment in the (mostly privatized) power distribution grid to enable it, and EVs are realistically impractical to be wholesale adopted in a country the size of ours with the population density and distances between places we have.

Great for city runners though, and the new smart chargers that just got incorporated into the CEC that automatically down rate until the load on the panel drops off (ie at night) makes it actually practical for all the people that can't upgrade to 200 A panels even if they want to, just because the grids are tapped out.
 
I think this was inevitable; the dates were ambitious at best, but there was never any reinvestment in the (mostly privatized) power distribution grid to enable it, and EVs are realistically impractical to be wholesale adopted in a country the size of ours with the population density and distances between places we have.

Great for city runners though, and the new smart chargers that just got incorporated into the CEC that automatically down rate until the load on the panel drops off (ie at night) makes it actually practical for all the people that can't upgrade to 200 A panels even if they want to, just because the grids are tapped out.

No government incentives = no EV sales.... it's on the ropes already, might as well put it out of its misery

 
No government incentives = no EV sales.... it's on the ropes already, might as well put it out of its misery

Even with the incentives, I couldn't make the math make sense, unless you ignored the lifespan and replacement cost of the batteries. A lot of the batteries really aren't even designed to be recyclable as well, so they are cost prohibitive and risky to recover the various rare (and toxic) metals used for anodes and cathodes. Probalby a lot sitting in landfills, so maybe someone will eventually mine garbage to recover it.
 
I think this was inevitable; the dates were ambitious at best, but there was never any reinvestment in the (mostly privatized) power distribution grid to enable it, and EVs are realistically impractical to be wholesale adopted in a country the size of ours with the population density and distances between places we have.

Great for city runners though, and the new smart chargers that just got incorporated into the CEC that automatically down rate until the load on the panel drops off (ie at night) makes it actually practical for all the people that can't upgrade to 200 A panels even if they want to, just because the grids are tapped out.
Considering that about 80% of our population in now considered urban, there is still a potential market, but I've never been convinced that EVs were going to replace ICE vehicles across the board.

A bit of a tangent regarding demands on the grid, but I listened to an interesting article on the demands that AI will be placing on the grid and it will be significant. MIT projects that data centres will consume about 1/5th of all electricity in the US by 2028. Some data centre owners like Google are considering entering the energy production market.


Even with the incentives, I couldn't make the math make sense, unless you ignored the lifespan and replacement cost of the batteries. A lot of the batteries really aren't even designed to be recyclable as well, so they are cost prohibitive and risky to recover the various rare (and toxic) metals used for anodes and cathodes. Probalby a lot sitting in landfills, so maybe someone will eventually mine garbage to recover it.
The industry would have us believe that they are recyclable and, technically, they probably are, but it needs to have a business model. I have heard of one or two start-ups but I don't know how profitable it is.
 
Considering that about 80% of our population in now considered urban, there is still a potential market, but I've never been convinced that EVs were going to replace ICE vehicles across the board.

A bit of a tangent regarding demands on the grid, but I listened to an interesting article on the demands that AI will be placing on the grid and it will be significant. MIT projects that data centres will consume about 1/5th of all electricity in the US by 2028. Some data centre owners like Google are considering entering the energy production market.



The industry would have us believe that they are recyclable and, technically, they probably are, but it needs to have a business model. I have heard of one or two start-ups but I don't know how profitable it is.
I think like everything else, it depends on outside influences.

California has a mandate of 100 percent EV sales by 2035. That's a population and economy much larger than Canada.

Many EU countries, like UK (2035), France(2040), Germany (2035) have EV mandates. If most of the world switches to EVs, companies are not going to continue supplying Canada with ICE vehicles because we just are not that big a market.

That said, the foolish part was thinking that we could be the leading edge of this. The global vehicle market needs to force the change and we will be dragged along whether we like it or not. But if big markets like Europe and the USA don't make that change, we cannot force it on our own.

So might as well get ride of the mandate, or push it back to 2040-2045 when we know what the global trend will be, at which point it will largely be moot.
 
Absolutely not. The youth and the elderly need more controls when it comes to driving. I would up the driving age to 21 to be honest. As well our come from aways need more extensive training and probably a longer probationary/accompanied period.

On the subject of youth and bad driving:

 
On the subject of youth and bad driving:

On the flip side

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Staff Sgt. Jim McCabe of the Sarnia Police Service said a driver, whom he described as an elderly woman, was attempting to park but her foot slipped off the brake onto the gas pedal "and unfortunately that vehicle accelerated into the building."
 
I do not like when they refer to electric vehicles as ‘zero emissions vehicles’. They are not. Everything has emissions. The only way to accurately study it is a cradle to grave analysis. The most recent one I saw basically put a electric car slightly better than a gas car over its lifespan and thats assuming you never replace the battery in the electric car over a 180,000 mile lifespan (which is the average life of a gas car).

They push it without having a honest conversation about it and declare it better based off a small time frame instead of its full lifespan.
 
A.K.A "The Gypsy's Warning" ;)



Finance Minister signals ‘tough choices’ to find savings in federal budget


Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne says the government will make tough choices in the upcoming federal budget, acknowledging that the planned spending cuts will lead to staffing adjustments in the public service.

Mr. Champagne, speaking to reporters Thursday ahead of a cabinet meeting in north Toronto, said ministers have submitted their plans to reduce program spending over the next three years.

“Will there be tough choices to make? Definitely. Is the nation ready? I would say yes. I mean Canadians have elected us to do things differently,” he said.

“We said we’re going to spend less so we can invest more. And you know, people understand that. My mother understands that.”

Mr. Champagne requested this summer that ministers submit plans by the end of August to reduce program spending by 7.5 per cent in the fiscal year that begins April 1, 2026, followed by 10 per cent in savings the next year, and 15 per cent in the 2028-29 fiscal year.

Asked if this had been done, he replied: “It was not an option.”

“There’s things that we can do more efficiently,” he added.

Prime Minister Mark Carney is huddled with his cabinet at a north Toronto hotel this week for two days of meetings focused on the state of the economy as well as Canada-U.S. relations, fast-tracking major infrastructure projects and crime.

The Finance Minister’s comments follow those of Mr. Carney, who on Wednesday said the federal government will present both an austerity and investment-focused budget this fall, as he criticized the sharp rise in spending under his predecessor’s watch.

Mr. Carney said the rate of federal government spending over the last decade is more than 7 per cent year over year, which is faster than the rate of growth of the economy.

Asked if there were any areas of government that would not be touched by cuts, Mr. Carney said on Wednesday that health care spending, education transfers and transfers to individuals would not be affected.

Mr. Champagne on Thursday would not outline any specific spending cuts but when asked about layoffs to the public service, he said there will be “adjustments.”

“We’ve been adding a lot of people over the last few years,” he said. “You’re looking at adjusting, but at the same time, the point is really about using technology, delivering better services, making sure that Canadians find value for money.”


Finance Minister signals ‘tough choices’ to find savings in federal budget
I'm possibly willing to change my mind on his first 6 months seeming fairly unimpressive IF he does what he says he will do...

To be fair, even if PP had been elected, not much of the real parliamentary work can be done while parliament is away for it's summer recess.



If Mr. Carney actually attempts to do the things he seems to be indicating, I'll feel relieved
 
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