I was wrong. Apparently they did need Freeland already. So much for Trudeau as the feminist leader. He may actually be more sexist than the old boys club. Why? Gets women to do all the hard jobs and take the fall while retaining power and avoiding responsibility. As to the comment about...

Freeland has been the special teams expert in Trudeaus government basically covering some of the hardest jobs. Finance still has the pandemic to provide cover but it will become difficult in subsequent years: slaying deficits and either raising taxes or cutting spending or both. I’m not sure...

I’m generally liking the new Bloor bike lanes through Bloorcourt (my area). They’re not finished yet but my only suggestion is that more side street space be allocated exclusively for servicing and logistic support (Loading servicing zones) for the Bloor Street commercial buildings versus...

I find the US comes across as very poor when visiting in person. There is a narrow frame in which you can view and take in the wealthy and elite in the US. That is the frame projected to the rest of the world. The best of everything. It’s just everything outside that narrow frame is mediocre...

^I’m not sure that’s a strong distinction. Canada already has carbon pricing so the elimination of carbon pricing is a wedge issue against the sitting government. Furthermore, it’s probable that the Conservatives party is not being lead from a climate change denial paradigm. They just want...

As I mentioned in a previous post a vaccine isn’t a total answer but it’s enough of an answer to neutralize the pandemic. Our special-case bias impairs our ability to see logic. A vaccine doesn’t need to be highly effective, universally administered or to permanently protect in order to...

https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/massive-outbreaks-in-israeli-schools-a-cautionary-tale-for-canada-1.5062834 Cautionary tail. It’s entirely possible that something similar could happen in Canada. I complained about poor leadership, rigidity of thinking, and decentralization as key...

I was looking at the composition of the tsx and noticed that at beginning of 2018 the aggregate market cap of all tech company listings was around 100 billion versus 160 billion for Shopify alone today

https://globalnews.ca/news/7268176/justin-trudeau-vacation-summer-sitting-house-of-commons/amp/ I’m interested in someone explaining to me what at all is attractive about Trudeau as a political leader? I give him the benefit of the doubt that he knows he’s not that intelligent or capable or...

Don’t a bunch of tree varieties aggressively use their fallen leaves, needles etc. to promote monoculture in their surrounding? What’s the take then on leaving leaf matter etc. on the ground especially in an urban environment! I’ve got a horse chestnut on a property and I thought I read...

https://www.macleans.ca/society/health/botanical-sexism-could-be-why-your-allergies-keep-getting-worse/amp/ An interesting angle I hadn’t considered about urban tree selection

PinkLucy, we truly don’t know but if there is anything I learned from the Covid-19 pandemic it’s that we (that is we in the West and particularly North America) have an extreme special case bias. Our bias is so deep and ingrained that I would consider it a fundamental flaw in our logical...

Thinking of the American experience: Is the US inadvertently using the Swedish model and are vaccines just ultimately being developed for rich people? If we are still 8 months out until a reasonable safe and effective vaccine at present infection rates you could see 17 million Americans test...

I’m interested to see the impact of mass remote work. Mass remote work is different than the accommodation of sporadic remote workers. I think the point of my mass remote work movement question is would that catalyze white collar job automation?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-covid-analysis-august-surge-1.5679225 Ontario making good progress. I’m just not liking these kind of new case trends in other jurisdictions such as the BC example I posted. I want to see a sustained plateau of new cases but it seems many...

Maybe this comment is better placed in a “future of work” thread but I was just thinking is an urban exodus work from home movement ultimately a bait-and-switch? What I mean is will ultimately those who choose this route be first, marginalized within their careers and second, will companies...

More broadly it was the cumulative cost escalations in the lives of everyday people that killed the Wynne Liberals in my opinion. It was a government that seemingly knew nothing about life outside government and the public service. It’s not even that the policies themselves were theoretically...

While I don’t support many of her policies I kind of want Lewis to win if only to watch her intellectual dismantle Trudeau and watch White senior Liberal politicians and progressive pundits preform contortions in an attempt to brand her as a bigot ;)

The 2-3 year timeframe I think is exaggerated. Medical intervention in the way of treatment and vaccination will come on stream in 2021 which is more like a 1-2 year timeframe. We may never get rid of covid-19 but that’s not the end-goal. The end goal is reaching an acceptable level of...

^And on drugs. No one does more drugs than an old person!