Poorer people will find ways to use transit. Richer people will use transit if it’s convenient.

I’m perfectly fine with this.

Why are we taking asylum seekers who entered the US and didn’t like it when there are legitimate reasons to seek asylum from the US (i.e. for LGBTQ Americans) and the needs of those people aren’t being met?

Actually… It’s a gain of 0.1%. it’s also 9% of all new immigrants to Canada in a given year. It’s also 4x the limit of the recent H1B holders visa program for skilled immigrants who could not stay in the US.

Tax rebates are an incredibly inefficient use of money.

Didn’t they get dental care passed? And child care?

Those two are massive.

A lot of international students are going to diploma mills, not the public institutions that make Canadian post-secondary great.

Restricting the income of private diploma mills is a good thing.

Can Singh go back to the school of economic thought he belongs to?

Who would the US have bombed? Canada? Mexico?

The US didn’t have the logistics to project power globally like they can today. What exactly would you propose they drop a bomb on? Moscow?

People love to criticize famines in China and Russia as being mismanagement by government (and they are), but they’re missing the forest for the trees. Prior to the communist governments, famines were a common occurrence in China and Russia.

The Sichuan famine in 1936 killed 5 million. The famine in 1928 killed 6 million. The Chinese famine in 1906 killed 20 million. The Chinese famine in 1876 killed 10 million.

Yet, since the Great Leap Forward? China has not experienced a single famine. Similarly, the last famine in Russia was in 1947. People sit in their ivory towers where food can be imported from around the world and 40% of food is wasted and wonder why so many people died trying to get something so accessible. Meanwhile, places in Africa are still experiencing mass famine and nobody cares.

No way!

The news needs a new scapegoat. The CCP hasn’t gotten any worse than in the past, in fact on many fronts it’s gotten better and less corrupt. Unfortunately, China is no longer a small developing economy that we can export labour to but a large one that competes with Western economies for key emerging markets like EVs and renewable energy.

Why is Canadian politics getting so polarized?

It’s either “let’s throw money at every ESG issue known to man” or “let’s privatize healthcare and water and sell our forests to be developed into parking lots.”

It’s either “fuck them LGBT kids” or “the medical system has no right to misgender a patient by asking for their sex.”

What the fuck is going on?

Most people from hexbear provide sources, which is better than can be said for all the tankie hate.

Canada doesn’t want to end up with “high-speed rail” like the Northeast Corridor, so it’s prioritizing HFR to begin with…

We should probably start planning out an HSR right of way, but I’m not against expanding our conventional network in lieu of burning money on shit trains that run on shit tracks below conventional speeds for most of the trip anyway.

God the Northeast Corridor sucks and the fact that Amtrak is willing to call it HSR is a disgrace.

A lot of responses are fair for acts of treason. Cooperating with a hostile third-party to strip down the government is an act of treason.

Sauce: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VA4e0NqyYMw

Source: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VA4e0NqyYMw

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VA4e0NqyYMw

According to YouTube, it’s an official government account. It shows a number of historical events (Tiananmen, Euromaidan, others) and asks the question “who was pulling the strings?” then alludes that it was US intervention (which is, of course, why you should join them).

The US 4th Psyops literally advertises their involvement in organizing the Tiananmen protests in their recruiting materials.

You don’t know India?

You’d rather rely on the economic group you exited than the country you colonized?