Weird take. Yes, the consumer carbon tax sure. But look at housing, Carney has one of the most ambitious plans in the developed world, the cons’ is more of the same with minor tweaks. Admittedly, Polievre borrowed Carney’s removal of duplicate reviews… But other stuff, like expanding resources East West have been pursued by both parties for years but mostly died against opposition from the provinces.

It’s why Polievre is reduced to cheap stunts like provoking a constitutional battle to extra punish murderers or stupid sound bite policies like 3 strikes which have been repealed in most (if not all) places they’ve been tried.

It was going to be announced at his retirement party on Monday… You know the dev likes surprises.

Honestly, a lot of days make me feel satisfied. I work on the comp side of a fundraising department for a large public university. I’m good at what I do, enjoy it and have earned enough of a reputation that people generally let me tackle whatever comes my way however I want.

So, if I have a good productive day, I feel like maybe more students got scholarships because of my work that day. And I work from home so if I did well at work, found time to do my “old man refuses to stop playing sports with kids in their 20s” exercises AND had a couple good homecooked meals, well yeah, I feel pretty accomplished and satisfied.

But yeah, doing something I like for a cause which I ferverently support, I have more good days than bad. Working from home is a heck of a cherry on top though.

I’ve wondered and never thought to ask. Thanks, the resulting conversation has been awesome.

Hmmmm, do we want to be closer with crazytown or basically reasonable people? I’m torn!

This has been tried and repealed in a lot of other places. If memory serves, it also led to a significant increase in homicides. (If there’s no difference between robbery and murder, there is no incentive to leave witnesses.)

And Trailer Park Boys notwithstanding, it’s not like the usual addict criminal is really thinking “well, I’ll only get a couple years, no biggie” before committing a crime.

Utilitarianism makes sense from first principles, Kant is just his opinions.

It’s act vs rule ethics, what is ethical in a particular situation may not be broadly applicable to society.

Edit: And from the religious parents perspective, letting your beloved child suffer an eternity of torment is probably not super moral. I may disagree but that’s their perspective and there’s no arbiter make the call.

I think that’s the ethical answer too.

We can’t know who is right, so I don’t see any ethical way to intervene.

I hate when I see parents giving their kids a screen instead of interacting with them or worse, ignoring their kid im favour of their phone. But again, I don’t feel it is ethical to interfere.

Fully agree, he’s always struck me as a food person on stage and it was a relief he lived up to it.

Polievre: Acting like a human with interests?!? That’s not fair!

Their kid, their call up until the point the child’s safety is in danger.

I have no more right to tell them how to raise their kids than they have about my entirely hypothetical and undesired kids. I may not agree with their choices and they may not agree with mine, I may think they are raising their kids to be less moral, they may think the same with the added bonus that I’m condemning mine to an eternity of torment.

That’s life in a pluralistic society.

I startled Paul F Tompkins at an improv show by bumping into him as we both rounded a corner. We spoke really briefly but he was funny, courteous and we both apologized for startling the other and I laughed at his good joke about it and he politely pretended to laugh at mine.

I saw a Sedin twin (no idea which one) and we gave the guy nod to each other as I biked past. Oh, and last year I saw Rick Tocchet during the playoff run (but he was on the phone and I didn’t want to bug the guy.)

The best one was Kyle Wellwood, who was a mediocre but adorable player. But I saw him at a DJ set where he was with some famous ufc guy and together they were with a half dozen women, none of whom were interested in Wellwood who sat around looking jealous and vaguely annoyed.

I have to think that’s why Carney hasn’t brought it up yet. If I were managing his campaign, I would be so excited about the opportunity to let Canada watch him encounter the reality of his position live.

Carney’s promised some 10 billion to affordable homes which I think is more than triple the entire current Housing Accelerator fund.

More importantly, a half million new home starts a year helps the rental market. Rents are finally falling however slightly as new housing comes online, a trend that should accelerate as we more than double our homebuilding.

Absolutely agree especially on the industrial carbon tax. I hope he slaps Polievre around with it during the debate, as not having one would yoke us even closer to the States as opposed to our friends in the EU. It’s typical Polievre sloganneering instead of actually thinking through the consequences.

I haven’t read it (may try to) but I’ve been pretty impressed by the way he describes the importance of harnessing markets to address climate change. (I’m of much the same opinion, markets are amazing but require government to address imbalances/incentives and straight up market failures like public goods etc.)

Oh, you are in for a treat with hundreds of beavers, enjoy!

But basically agree, good comedies are depressingly rare.

Have you seen Waiting for Guffman and/or American Movie? Criminally unknown (in my opinion) pair of early mockumentaries.

Caught up with Severance which was fantastic.

How about old comedies? Top.Secret was new to me and is now timely with Val Kilmer’s death.

Or, modern old Timey influenced, Hundreds of Beavers.