It’s as smooth as you make it. There’s a slight learning curve, and you need to be able to move your foot smoothly, but it’s otherwise pretty straightforward. Some people got used to driving with the gas pedal as an “on/off” button and they need to stop thinking of it like that.
That’s not how tax breaks work. The government isn’t giving money away, it’s just pledging to not collect money in the future. I don’t know the specifics of this deal, and $15B seems like a lot compared to the scope of this project, but it’s likely that if they didn’t offer tax breaks at all, this would have been built in Mexico or USA instead. There was probably a number in between 15B and zero that would have still brought them to Canada though.
Presumably the government accountants who made this deal expect this project to bring in significantly more then $15B in taxes over a decade or so of operation.
If you don’t think she has a serious chance to win, then I’m not sure I understand what the complaint is here. What “harm” are they causing?
At the end of the day what does LBC stand for if they’re undermining legitimate independent candidates?
The stand for electoral reform (and against the first-past-the-post voting system).
If they’re a serious contender, then it shouldn’t matter how many people are on the ballot; their supporters will be voting for them by name.
Just like the LBC didn’t affect the end result in Carlton, it won’t make a huge difference here either.
Can you define “non exploitation”?
My understanding is that leather is a waste byproduct of the meat industry, so much in the same way that gas is from dinosaurs that are already dead, the cows that provide leather are “already dead” due to their use as meat.
So in that sense, it seems like leather is the more ecological choice, though not knowing your definition of exploitation, it may or may not be exploitative. I certainly wouldn’t consider it vegan though.
There once was a final solution
With suffering and mass execution
They said “Never again”
What they actually meant
Was “Palestine’s just an illusion”
Despite these options not being mutually exclusive, I think I would be in the 17.2%. I’m not buying US booze now, but I wasn’t buying it before either.
Mostly this survey is pretty bad, and I don’t think we can make any good conclusions from the results.
The left seems awfully worried about home values
Why do you think it’s the left that’s worried about home values?
There’s a good chance that many or all of these cases are in the Mennonite community.
That’s not an explanation of why he should be barred from office.
He’s Catholic, but he’s not trying to make Canada Catholic. Trudeau and Poilievre are also Catholic. In fact, every single PM of Canada has been either Catholic or Protestant.
Sue them for what? They are fully within their rights to run anti-abortion ads and reject pro-choice ads.
About the same price as PP’s forced byelection will cost.
Did you read the article, or are you just complaining about the headline?
“$X per Y” is a very normal way of phrasing things in financial reports. Like, Xiaomi had an earnings per share of $0.15. That doesn’t mean that the shares are what earned them that money.
Losing $900 per car is just a shorthand way of saying “Xiaomi Group released its Q1 2025 financial report yesterday. The report shows significant progress in its electric vehicle business, with 75,869 SU7 series vehicles delivered during the quarter. The company announced plans to expand production capacity, with cumulative deliveries of the SU7 series now exceeding 258,000 units. In the first quarter of 2025, Xiaomi’s smart electric vehicle and AI innovation business segment generated total revenue of 18.6 billion yuan (2.58 billion USD). Electric vehicle sales accounted for 18.1 billion yuan(2.51 billion USD), while other related businesses contributed 500 million yuan (70 million USD). The smart electric vehicle and AI segment reported a gross profit margin of 23.2% for the quarter, with an operating loss of 500 million yuan (70 million USD). Based on these figures, Xiaomi’s electric vehicle business posted an average loss of 6,500 yuan (903 USD) per vehicle in Q1 2025, a substantial improvement from 2024 when the company’s EV division recorded a net loss of 6.2 billion yuan (862 million USD) on 136,854 delivered vehicles, representing an average loss of approximately 45,000 yuan (6,250 USD) per unit” which is a bit wordy for a headline.
I think adjusting by municipality is a bad idea.
A flat basic income across the country promotes migration to lower COL areas. An adjusted basic income promotes migration to higher COL areas in order to get a bigger income. While different areas having different COLs is pretty unavoidable, I don’t think making high-COL areas more attractive is a good idea.
I’m also not a huge fan of adjusting for couples vs. single people. I get why they do it, it’s an easy way to save money. But the actual expenses of you living with a roommate (as you suggested) compared to you living with a roommate that you’re also sleeping with, don’t change very much. (I have similar complaints about household income being used for basically everything except taxes, but that’s a little further off topic.)
Meld cards all have the restriction of “own and control”, so while your scenario sounds fun, it’s unfortunately not possible (yet).
It’s text on the card, rather than a built in restriction, so in theory it could be possible in the future.
If I understood the article correctly, they’re not actually losing money on each sale though. Their vehicles have a profit margin of 23%. The loss comes from the initial costs of building the factory and tooling to produce these vehicles.
Sure, but for a number of customers (and increasing year over year), that’s not an option. I’m not choosing between an ICE Honda and all the other non-Honda. I’m choosing between an electric Honda or an electric non-Honda.
If they don’t want my money at all, then sure. But this is the sort of decision making that killed Sears and Blockbuster. Society is moving in a particular direction. They can keep up with the trends, or die.
What did they expect? They made this decision during the holidays. Then they need to design, build, and deploy a website. If they have employees capable of doing this, they probably already had plans to work on something else. And if they didn’t have the employees, they need to hire them.
Unless the whole idea was to just throw up a Geocities page titled “Dead People”, these things take time to do properly and respectfully.
I came from a manual transmission, so the learning curve was easier for me than for my wife who had only driven automatics.
The point is mostly that it generates electricity while slowing down. It’s also just more directly analogous to how the motor works. Pedal down -> electricity into motor. Less pedal = less electricity. No pedal = no electricity in. When there’s no electricity being applied to the motor, and the motor is turning, then it generates electricity (by slowing the motor).
The actual weird thing is just that people are just okay with their automatic transmission cars moving when they’re not directly applying gas. I understand the mechanism behind why it happens, but when you think about it, it’s a weird and potentially unsafe behaviour that shouldn’t be replicated in EVs.