I hear that quite a bit of the power infrastructure in the US is well past its life expectancy with more coming due for replacement over time. If anything, a national energy plan should account for replacing, upgrading and modernizing a lot of the existing electrical infrastructure since its so critical to the foundation of our current society
They’ve already been considering ending daily mail delivery, but they require a legislative amendment by the federal government to allow them to make any of the changes needed to keep their operations afloat. Here’s an article from earlier this year
I doubt it’ll be allowed anytime soon with an election on the horizon, but any sitting government that introduces the changes will be receiving a lot of backlash from opposition and rural residents.
The previous government allowed for community mailboxes to be setup to replace door-to-door delivery to make deliveries more efficient, and that got repealed because the poor elderly folks and people in the middle of nowhere would have to get some exercise to collect their mail. We all know what happened after the liberals got voted in, so I doubt much will change besides Canada post requiring subsidies in order to be able to operate by the very legislation that’s making them lose money.
I think what also falls on deaf ears is that even if those people don’t “make their own success” that they’d like to loudly proclaim, chances are that there are near-guaranteed positions that they can fall back into or family and friends they can go live with while they plot for their next endeavour.
I believe that would require the federal government to amend the constitution which is no simple feat. All premiers would have to agree to the changes which opens a whole can of worms since Quebec never formally signed on the original constitution, and the other premiers would very likely demand other changes be made as well to suit their own political agenda.
Then the provinces would need to have their own legislative amendments made to recognize the changes in both the constitution, which would also take time to pass as well.
If there is a change in government on either the federal or provincial level, and the party has a vested interest to undo those changes, all that progress gets flushed down the drain.
I think the problem is also in having to secure the loan in the first place (highly doubt most provincial student loan programs cover anywhere near the amount required), then there’s also the risk the students take on in doing the program (failing is not an option, especially with loans on the line).
I’ve grown up with people around me constantly telling and shaming me for doing things wrong or only wanting to half-ass it, even if I just wanted to try something new.
It’s hard getting out of that mindset, especially since its now just me psyching myself out mentally, but it helped seeing this post
This reminds me of my early shopping days using EBay, where it wasn’t uncommon for sellers to under-price their products so they show up near the top of the price (cheapest-most expensive) sort pile, and then charge an outrageous amount in shipping.
I’ve found that almost always (at the time), that the seller offering free or low cost shipping was usually cheaper.
I’ve been lurking, but it’s nice seeing this post every Friday. Thank you
You just leaked the design of the next-generation of Boeing 737s
Just avoid the province of Alberta at all costs. Alberta is currently making access to transgender healthcare difficult, starting with a legislation to ban minors under-16 from accessing lifesaving medical care
Unfortunately, the Gardiner has already been uploaded to the province along with the DVP. Congestion charges require approval from the province (they’ll never approve it).
However, there is the option of installing speed cameras all over major streets, along with more red light cameras to get back at the province.
Thats a pretty thorough reply which gives some further insight into the issues we’re facing. While the ideas certainly makes sense in a vacuum (especially with governments and markets staying in their lane), there is a major issue in that the very politicians managing the government would have a pretty big conflict of interest which would prevent the sort of reforms necessary, as most politicians would fall under one or more of the following:
It’s really difficult to see how the government can be separated from the free market if the politicians are closely involved with the businesses, which can later be deemed as “too big to fail”.
So true. High school (and even elementary and middle school) was so bad from the bullying I’ve received, with the only “friends” using me to copy my homework.
While I’ve only been seldom-homeless, I feel like it was only bad because some people never grew out of the schoolyard mentality, but it still hurts not having anyone have my back, or having anyone to go to since running away from home at 16.
I just hope I never experience prison.
I’m not sure either, but I think anyone under 18 has already been covered this year, and I think under 12 years old were covered the year before
I feel like the needs-testing should be removed as well, and everyone should be entitled to receive dental care just like everyone can with medical.
Insurers would just have to adjust their offerings, and employers can either elect to enhance employee insurance coverage or redirect the difference to employees paycheques.
Really, there’s nothing but benefits to having dental rolled into Medicare except for the current run of conservative premiers refusing to play ball with the federal government because the plan actually helps people.
This is great! Now hopefully the dental care rollout finishes without a hitch next year for the remaining group of 18-64 year olds.
Having been in a situation where I got into an accident and had to lose a tooth because I didn’t have money to get it fixed (no insurance either), it sucked pretty hard and I still had to save up to get the tooth removed while being in constant pain.
It would be interesting if the bike lane removals were countered with speed cameras being installed, along with more red light cameras on Bloor, Yonge and University while maintaining the no right on red restrictions.
I don’t know, I’m not a tree expert. I mean it would be cool if that’s how it works tho
Microsoft Teams is sorta like the all grown up version of MSN, with the colour drained from it and “fun” features out of the box feeling dead on the inside
Not to mention how long it would take to build back up- even with 24/7 work, it could take weeks or months to rebuild while solar has a much shorter lead time, especially if there are stockpiles of panels around