We can’t have solar or winds farms because it might ruin our “pristine viewscapes”… but open pit mining of the most polluting fossil fuel we’ve ever had by a foreign billionaire is totally fine.

Your hypocrisy is showing Danielle.

Canada’s population is expected to grow by 500~3000 people daily for the next few years.

Building 5000 units Canada wide is not going to even make a dent in the housing market much less destroy it.

What blows my mind 🤯

The landlords game has two different sets of rules you could play with. One set of rules was basically the same as the Monopoly we know today. When the game ends when one player acquires ownership of everything and bankrupts everyone else.

The other set of rules, called “prosperity”, involved a tax that redistributed wealth. The game ends when all players have doubled their original stake and everyone wins.

The game was intended to show how unbridled capitalism ultimately leads to a few billionaires owning everything and everyone else being poor/bankrupt. (Sound familiar?)

And compared it to the prosperity rules which were based on Georgism, a kind of socialism/capitalism hybrid that both rewards people for the value they produce while also creating surplus public revenue that can be used to create social safety nets.

Proportional representation isn’t the only alternative to FPTP.

Something like STV or even just IRV tends to put centrist parties in charge which would likely benefit the liberals.

I work in this space. My focus area is consequential GHG accounting specifically, which is the process of quantifying the impact a decision will have on GHG levels.

There is an internationally recognized methodology for GHG emissions account and for most other things you’d make environmental claims about.

Hard part is most of those methodologies were designed for voluntary compliance. They tend to allow lots of estimates and average when better data isn’t available, because for someone trying to do the right thing, estimating data is better than nothing.

But that leaves a giant gaps in legislation like this because someone with incentive to do so can make generously optimistic assumptions that ridiculously overstate their environmental stewardship while still technically following the methodology.

While I think it’s doubtful we’ll see any major improvements in reporting for a while. The bill is still a massive step in the right direction.

And there’s hope for the methodologies getting better too. The leading methodology for calculating GHG emissions is currently being revised with a new version expected to be published next year. Current proposals being considered include dropping several notoriously inaccurate approaches, that could be used to make false or exaggerated claims.

If BlackRock thinks that population growth in Canada is important, it seems to me they’re actually in a far better position to make that happen than the average Canadian.

BlackRock owns a fuck ton of property in Canada, they are in a strong position to make rents and housing, much more affordable. Which will drive the economy up significantly.

Families will be more willing to “grow the population’ if they’re not allocating 50+ percent of their income towards housing.

Affordable housing also makes us a better destination people immigrating to Canada.

But that would require BlackRock to be less greedy… so

I know nothing about but was curious why they haven increased their residency positions.

One of the first hits on was this article, it seems like the issue (at least for family doctors) isn’t a lack of available residency positions since 268 positions went unfilled.

Sounds like it has more to do with the job basically sucks compared to other specialties, a few reasons mentioned in the article:

• Provinces are effectively forcing family doctors to crank patients through at a high rate since they’re pay is based on the number of pts the see in a day

• Family practice involves less collaboration with other physicians, less opportunity for professional growth.

• Political climate, notably in Alberta, is outright hostile towards doctors.

Doesn’t really explain what’s hindering doctors trained abroad from becoming doctors here.

Seems to me that a program designed to help foreign trained doctors become licensed here would be a good investment.