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@Prominent_Bryan It is used but people don’t like directly paying for it. Highway 407 for example

"if it's such a great project why isn't the private sector financing it?" Why is this question valid for a train but never ever used for a road or a bridge?

@MattSpoke The provincial Liberal bench is terrible. The best was Del Duca and Crombie?? I can't even name the new leader. Is there one? I've seen Marit more. Ford getting photo ops with Chow and Carney is good for him politically tbh.

The PC Government's entitlement will be its undoing. If you can't demonstrably prove that people's lives are better 8 years after first being elected, you eventually stop getting reelected.

@PulOutNWalkAwaY @Wokenessisevil why would you want just random race swaps? Wouldn't you prefer that authentic black stories be told instead of being shoehorned into other stories?

@Wokenessisevil I’m confused does him being black change his character in any significant way or are you just racist mouth breather?

Who else is tired of race swaps in movies/TV shows?

@JacobPacheco6 Yeah I mean, I don't disagree but that is the one piece I'd be looking for. Like say we had Hartenstein... Then I think from a defensive perspective we're pretty set. Hartenstein, Scottie, CMB, Shead and Jakobe... defensive nightmare. Spacing nightmare too...

@visorman30 They need one more piece and then some... The glaring issue with this team is size and rebounding.

Hate to say it guys, but I think Darko Rajakovic's time in Toronto should be dwindling down... This team doesn't need anymore development, it now needs execution - and that lacks. Big time. Speaking of "big". The Poeltl contract looks worse & worse everyday... #WeTheNorth

@Garnet_2203 Tbh there needs to be some consolidation of schools in the TDSB.

They’re cutting vice-principals and expecting schools to share them. Honest question: What happens during a lockdown or emergency when there’s no full-time vice-principal on site? Who’s responsible? Because “cost savings” doesn’t mean much when safety is on the line. Tell me Doug Ford and Paul Calandra, how this is supposed to work?

@scottsantens I'm more than good with it as long as we end all other forms of entitlement programs then. Here in Canada we had a UBI pilot (which was not universal) but it was in addition to the the existing welfare.

UBI—like Social Security—isn't about creating dependency; it's about ending it. It gives people the leverage to negotiate better wages and better conditions. It turns the labor market from a coercive "choice" into an actual choice. That's the freedom we should be fighting for.

@LindaMcQuaig Certainly do not support a wealth tax.

Is Avi Lewis too extreme for the electorate, or just too extreme for mainstream commentators? Ordinary Cdns support a wealth tax & would benefit from public alternatives to grocery & banking monopolies. #canlab thestar.com/opinion/contri…

@TheLaurenChen we also need to get rid of Kash.

There's a lot of grumbling in MAGA right now, but Trump has the opportunity to bring everyone back together. It is time for AG Matt Gaetz.

@gator_gum ok if a pipeline is such a dumb idea, then why did Trudeau buy it?

Dear 99.9% of Canadians, Your life would not change a single bit if a pipeline was built. It wouldn't fix housing, grocery prices, your perceived issues with immigration... It wouldn't make gas suddenly cheaper. Stop pandering to billionaires and mega corps, it's ridiculous.

@The_Acumen Seriously, murdering 40k Iranians is completely immoral. Good thing the US took them out.

Homosexuality isn’t even a sin, or part of the 10 Commandments, but you know what is? Murder (bombing and killing civilians), stealing (wars to steal resources from sovereign nations) false witness (using God and Christianity to justify heinous and evil actions).

@alfkkifine the blades will not be coming from men.

The most terrifying realization a man has as he gets older is that his grace is entirely conditional. If a woman has a career setback, makes a bad financial move, or needs a year to "find herself," she is met with sisterhood, therapy, and endless emotional support. If a man asks for that exact same grace? He is an immediate liability. He is told to step up. His partner's friends will literally advise her to leave him because he's "holding her back." A man is only allowed to fail if he can quietly fix it before anyone notices. The moment his struggle becomes an inconvenience to the people he provides for, the respect vanishes. A lot of men are walking around with the crushing realization that they were never actually loved for who they are; they were just employed for what they provide

@Charl3sZ @SomiEkhasomhi Anti black??? The fictional Orcs were black??? Saruman the White was actually black? The Nazgul were black???

@SomiEkhasomhi Sensible actually. And Game of Thrones is anti Black garbage that only has two black people. And both are slaves & the only black man on the show is fully castrated (yes fully) & the black woman was given nothing to do. And Lord of the Rings was pro white/anti Black garbage.

Stupid opinions like these were popular around 2020. By the time Shogun came out, everybody knew they were idiotic opinions. Imagine not watching Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon because you need to see yourself on screen. It’s ridiculous.

@matthewstoller yes there were price increases but we also have to acknowledge that the type of auto has increased a lot as well. The entire subcompact and sedan market is dead. That was purely driven by the lack of demand in the market. It's all SUVs and pickups.

Y’all should have thought about that when you were raising prices so the average auto price is $50k. Biden gave you a chance, you blew it so you could do buybacks.

@C_S_Skeptic somehow you have to make this about Elon... why????

Today was definitely a day for the history books. The first manned flight towards the Moon since 1972 launched from Kennedy aboard a rocket built by a conglomerate of companies with a common goal. Confirming that cooperation, not commercial competition, in space vehicle development is superior to squabbling, undercutting, underhanded bullying tactics currently being employed by the only Artemis contractor that is yet to deliver a single element of their tech roadmap a contracted. Time for the adults at NASA to take control of this programme, weed out the failed delivery contractors, claw back the funds paid to date, and use that money to assist the capable remaining contractor in getting their MkI and MkII crafts ready to go in a timely fashion, for the successful completion of Artemis IV. You will have to cut the dead weight to move the programme forward, and there is no greater anchor around the neck f NASA than that of the Ketamine King and all the associated unending bullshit that accompanies him everywhere he goes.

@ItsTragik @FantasyWorldW1 Great so if that's the logic then my refusal to watch content that has black people in it should be a-ok right?

@FantasyWorldW1 Good man. If black money is good enough to pay for the content then black actors should be IN the content as well. Here's to hoping we get more reboots in the future where we can cast a more realistic world for everyone.

Star Wars actor John Boyega explained why he doesn’t watch Lord of the Rings or Game of Thrones in 2017: “There are no Black people in Game of Thrones,” he said. “You don’t see one Black person in Lord of the Rings. I ain’t paying money to always see one type of person on-screen. Thoughts?

@HannahDCox And how many women chose the bear...

“Nearly half of men believe they could land a passenger jet with zero training. Of course a lot of them also believe that they can beat the house.”

@ABtheButterfly @aakashgupta Here in Canada we eliminated the difference in minimum wage so that servers are paid the same as any other person. Hasn't made a lick of difference to the expectation on tips. If anything its worse now.

@aakashgupta I know about all that the photo is fake to cause discourse instead of doing something about law so servers actually get paid a decent salary so they don't need to rely on tips, people rather make waitress/waiters look like unreasonable entitle

American restaurants are legally allowed to pay servers $2.13/hour. In Japan, tipping is rude. In Australia, servers make $24/hour before tips. In Denmark, $25/hour with full benefits. In those countries, a server handwriting a demand for more money on a receipt would be absurd. The restaurant already paid them. In America, the restaurant doesn't. So 20% from the customer fills the gap. That's the system. Leaving less means the server worked your table for two dollars an hour. This receipt is what that looks like in practice. $525 check. The restaurant collected every dollar. Printed "gratuity: $0.00" on the bill. Paid the server $2.13/hour. Then left the building. The customer left $60 in cash. That's 11%. The server handwrote a note: "I was expecting more like $120. Thanks." The note looks entitled until you do the math. At $2.13/hour, a four-hour dinner shift pays the server $8.52 from the restaurant. The difference between a $60 tip and a $120 tip is the difference between $17/hour and $32/hour for skilled service on a $525 tab. Everyone is arguing about the server's attitude. Nobody is asking why a business that just collected $525 is paying its worker two dollars. The server and the customer are fighting over who covers payroll. The restaurant owner is nowhere in the conversation. Already won.

@RM_Transit The issue isn't just high speed rail. It's an idea sure, we "could" do it. But under what parameters? Can it cost $1T to build $3T? I've never seen one account post how they make this make sense on the math of it.

While "Cancel high speed rail!" appears a lot to anti social people on Twitter, Canadians living in the real world appear to prefer people who promise to actually do things.

@sean91237 @Molson_Hart Except if you count the fact that you have the opportunity cost of lost productivity and tax income from dead young people.

@Molson_Hart Smoking is actually silly to include because smokers have lower government health care costs. They tend to die younger and save the gov a fuck ton of money

You cannot socialize the cost of healthcare without also socializing the cost of good health. In other words, you cannot ask someone else to pay for your healthcare costs without also letting that person to determine what you are allowed to eat, drink, and smoke. You can have twinkies or you can have free healthcare. You cannot have both.