All the well deserved vitriol aside, there’s a really straightforward explanation for this. The Maroun family owns the competing Ambassador bridge, and has been using it to extort cross border traffic for a generation now. This competition is bad for them. And guess what? They’re Trump donors. So this is just standard, run-of-the-mill gangster capitalism again.

the yella man gon’ take yer srup!

I agree with letting air out of the balloon slowly. That’s what rezoning and densification shoots to do. It is slow because development is slow. But limiting available capital (ie: competing for mortgages)? In what world does that make sense? And if primary residence cap gains aren’t exempt, then anybody that had to move for work would get screwed. That’s a corporate friendly policy, not a people friendly policy. The goal here is for people to own houses, and for there to be penalties for owning more than one. But that’s exactly where policy is right now.

The irony is that decreasing the value of homes really is the inevitability. Because rezoning encourages redevelopment, that redevelopment generally includes more dense and theoretically more affordable housing types. But developers still want to make money, so they are built to maximize profit, not affordability. So it suggests that if they sell, other houses have less demand, and demand will fall. But that hasn’t been borne out.

This really hand-waves away how big a deal it was for Canola growers and seafood producers to have the tariffs dropped. It cost us comparatively little. What amounts to less than 1% of domestic new car market, and with the opportunity to have those EVs made in whole or part here in the future.

To be clear, the people and the government are the same thing. It’s the same wallet.

The difference is one of timelines. As you ramp up industry, you can import affordable EVs. It’s not either-or.

You’re not entirely wrong. The US and China are two huge economies. But there are lots of countries with not-dissimilar economies that have domestic auto manufacturing (Japan, UK, France, Germany), which are all 30-100% larger than ours. And then there are domestic manufacturers from countries that have comparatively smaller economies (Italy, South Korea, Mexico, Brazil, Spain, Russia). Now of course some of those are notable for being low wage jurisdictions. But not all. For a country where mass transit is highly regionalized and economically challenging, there’s a lot of incentive to have a domestic auto industry.

I’ve ceased trying to apply logic to their choices.

The gulfstream 700 and 800 only have conditional certification in the US. Why conditional? Because they have fuel systems that are vulnerable to failure in cold weather. Our choice to not certify them isn’t arbitrary.

That’s a hell of a magic trick. Pierre’s lips move and Trump’s voice come out.

I’m amazed they haven’t kicked her ass out of office yet

Albertans next opportunity is in 2028.

I was recently listening to a podcast interviewing Chris Columbus on how they adapted the novel. It was the first thing he wrote that got picked up. I’ve never read the original screenplay, but they ended up cutting out the most graphic stuff. For example, at one point a disembodied head comes rolling down the stairs due to gremlin shenanigans.

So you experience could definitely have been worse.

Safe to say that we were all pretty nuke-aware when that came out. It certainly didn’t help assuage our anxieties.

I mean, is it too much to ask that people wipe the Santorum off before the salad tossing begins?

Paul Verhoeven is one sick fuck. I’ll watch anything he’s made.

Man, if you caught the scene of Barlow sitting up in his coffin screaming, you got the gist of it.

Aw shit. You just reminded me of seeing Jaws from the back seat of the station wagon at the drive in at 7 when I was supposed to be sleeping.

Hey, my now very adult daughter feels the same way about The Fox and the Hound. Not judging.

I’m assuming the Cronenberg version.