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www.nytimes.com Alberta Draws Academia Into Its Fight With Justin Trudeau

Alberta is seeking powers to veto funding agreements between the federal government and provincial entities, including postsecondary institutions.

Alberta Draws Academia Into Its Fight With Justin Trudeau
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Are Electric Cars the Solution?
  • Have we ever thought they were a solution and not just a stopgap?

    Until proper alternatives are fully operational, EVs are not the worst thing.

    You’re undercutting your own argument here.

    EVs make sense in rural contexts, but that is and will always be a niche application. We can’t afford to ignore the bigger picture - most people live in cities. There are more efficient and better options to decarbonize cities than electric cars.

    As the other commenter pointed out, electric cars are a step. A lot of people living in cities are ready to go farther now though. Let’s not ignore them or get in their way.

  • www.strongtowns.org How a Cold, Hilly Canadian City Became a Year-Round Cycling Success Story

    Who would go cycling in snowy conditions, in a city with a 764-foot-high hill right in the middle of it? Montrealers, and the city’s bikeshare program has the stats to prove it.

    How a Cold, Hilly Canadian City Became a Year-Round Cycling Success Story
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    www.strongtowns.org How a Cold, Hilly Canadian City Became a Year-Round Cycling Success Story

    Who would go cycling in snowy conditions, in a city with a 764-foot-high hill right in the middle of it? Montrealers, and the city’s bikeshare program has the stats to prove it.

    How a Cold, Hilly Canadian City Became a Year-Round Cycling Success Story
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    www.theglobeandmail.com Investors own 23.7 per cent of Ontario homes, report says

    The story over the past decade-plus has been a surge in the number of homes purchased by multiple-property owners, according to Teranet Inc.

    Investors own 23.7 per cent of Ontario homes, report says
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    apnews.com French President Macron regrets the Senate's vote to reject the EU-Canada trade deal

    French President Emmanuel Macron says he “regrets” the Senate’s vote to reject legislation to ratify a trade deal between the European Union and Canada.

    French President Macron regrets the Senate's vote to reject the EU-Canada trade deal
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    A national school food framework is on Chrystia Freeland's desk. Will Ottawa say yes?
  • A study of the Swedish school lunch program found that

    exposure to the school lunch program had substantial effects on educational attainment and health and these effects can explain a large part of the return to school lunches.

    … and …

    pupils exposed to the program during their entire primary school period have 3 percent greater life-time earnings.

    If this is administered well in Canada, with fresh nutritious food, I’m all for it.

  • www.ctvnews.ca 'Processing issues' with home savings accounts causing tax refund delays: CRA

    The Canada Revenue Agency is blaming 'processing issues' after tax refunds were delayed for holders of a First Home Savings Account.

    'Processing issues' with home savings accounts causing tax refund delays: CRA
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    www.nationalobserver.com The provinces are driving inflation now

    Inflation is on track to end 2024 below two per cent, and interest rate cuts are almost surely on their way sooner than that. So why do the provinces keep doing things that drive up the cost of living — and will Pierre Poilievre ever call them out?

    The provinces are driving inflation now

    Paywall bypass: https://archive.ph/2024.03.21-193541/https://www.nationalobserver.com/2024/03/21/opinion/provinces-are-driving-inflation-now

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    www.ledevoir.com Petits rappels sur ce mal-aimé prix du carbone

    La tarification du carbone est la façon la plus simple et la plus efficace de lutter contre la crise climatique.

    Petits rappels sur ce mal-aimé prix du carbone

    English translation: https://www-ledevoir-com.translate.goog/economie/809471/explicateur-petit-rappel-ce-mal-aime-prix-carbone?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=fr&_x_tr_pto=wapp

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    www.lapresse.ca La médecine familiale de moins en moins populaire auprès des étudiants

    La popularité de la médecine familiale continue de décroître auprès des étudiants du Québec. Selon les données du Service canadien de jumelage des résidents (CaRMS), 91 postes de résidents en médecine de famille demeurent vacants à l’issue du premier tour de jumelage.

    La médecine familiale de moins en moins populaire auprès des étudiants
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    www.theguardian.com The end of landlords: the surprisingly simple solution to the UK housing crisis

    Mass-scale housebuilding isn’t necessary – there is already enough housing stock. But we need to learn the wisdom of the last century when it comes to landlordism

    The end of landlords: the surprisingly simple solution to the UK housing crisis

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/17845295

    > The end of landlords: the surprisingly simple solution to the UK housing crisis

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    Biden Administration Announces Rules Aimed at Expanding Electric Vehicles | Not a ban but would require automakers to sell more electric vehicles and hybrids by tightening limits on tailpipe emissions
  • While electric cars are an improvement over ICE vehicles that will help the planet, there’s still a lot more potential to decarbonize cities faster and help people get moving again by investing in alternatives to driving and upzoning everywhere permissively to legalize traditional development patterns ie mixed use, walkable, transit oriented streets.

  • www.theguardian.com The end of landlords: the surprisingly simple solution to the UK housing crisis

    Mass-scale housebuilding isn’t necessary – there is already enough housing stock. But we need to learn the wisdom of the last century when it comes to landlordism

    The end of landlords: the surprisingly simple solution to the UK housing crisis
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    Toronto falls into the pit of urban decline that's plagued U.S. cities
  • But there cannot be a full renaissance without challenging progressive political power, which, unfortunately, has risen in Toronto.

    Swing and miss by NatPo. Not that anyone should expect much from an opinion piece from any of a conservative American hedge fund’s papers.

    NIMBYs can come in any political stripe and must be countered everywhere.

    There’s grains of truth peppered in throughout this piece but it’s light on quality sources.

    Cities will have to become denser mixed use places. More car dependent suburban sprawl is not the answer. It’s been proven not fiscally sustainable.

  • How long a crate can be left unupdated to consider it out of date?
  • You can always reach out to the maintainers to see. Some of them might have behind the scenes work going on, others might consider the crate complete if it’s already hit 1.0.0.

    I don’t think you’ll find a one size fits all answer here, it depends the crate.

  • Loblaw Has Become an Everything Company | The Walrus
  • Getting rid of the efficiencies defence is a good start.

    The article also hints at a deeper problem of land use. Zoning is limiting the space where new competitors can establish themselves. The established conglomerates buy up what little land is available.

    Provincial governments need to tax ground rents so the revenue gets used to foster competition, not lining billionaires’ pockets.

    Municipalities need to open up the suburbs to become denser mixed use spaces, where small businesses can develop and thrive.

  • www.nytimes.com A Financial Crisis May Jeopardize Local News in Most of Atlantic Canada

    The main lender for SaltWire, which owns most of the region’s legacy newspapers outside New Brunswick, has moved to dissolve the publisher.

    A Financial Crisis May Jeopardize Local News in Most of Atlantic Canada
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    'Plan in advance': Eclipse glasses are hot sellers ahead of rare celestial event
  • It would be nice to get to a doughnut economy where we can build a strong social foundation within the ecological boundaries of the planet, but of all things, worrying about recyclable, reusable, and rarely consumed eclipse glasses shouldn’t be our first priority

  • Company forgets why they exist after 11-week migration to Kubernetes
  • K3s is a distribution of Kubernetes that bundles in a few commonly used convenient tools. It’s fairly lightweight compared to vanilla k8s, and it’s simple to setup. It’s a great choice for experimenting and learning and also production ready when you’re ready to push it farther.

  • Jagmeet Singh vs. Galen Weston: The NDP's crusade to bring down 'corporate greed'
  • They make boneheaded decisions occasionally like supporting the porn ID bill and it’s enough to make people hesitate.

    There’s also a common narrative online that the NDP doesn’t actually support or care about labour anymore. It doesn’t really hold up when you actually take a critical look into the NDP’s actions but that’s too much effort for most people.