To be honest I don’t even know what the defund the police movement is about. I’ve been suggesting police reform including looking at spending and cultural problems since I joined this forum. On the other hand policing is an essential service and a difficult job that earns policemen and women...

Tory getting all hot and bothered... for him.

These greater social issues are relevant though to the philosophical underpinning of opinions we may have on the project. There is a fundamental difference between public transit and highways as a transportation mode. Public transit is fundamentally a people mover and highways are people and...

On a personal note my family will be away more in August but I’m in the prepare for fall second wave crowd. I’m getting as many appointments as possible done now for everything like medical, car repair etc. The kind of stuff with annual frequency. I’ve also moved from a 14-day supply to...

^That’s likely only a temporary phenomenon as infections in young people spread to more vulnerable groups again. I did read however in an article regarding the outbreaks in Florida and Texas that a doctor mentioned they were getting better at treating patients in hospital cutting death rates...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/coronavirus-canada-bars-reopening-1.5652671 Some good articles at cbc.ca lately on vaccines etc. This article is interesting for the graph of bar opening versus test positivity. The take-away for me is basically that bars cannot be opened without raising test...

I believe highways should be tolled; however, free road access is a social “good”. Ironically, many on the left advocate for free transit and free unfettered internet access while advocating the elimination of highways and tolling what remains. I’m not advocating any of these positions but I’m...

^The health system and all systems would be opened up a long time ago if leadership got things done. The difference between effective leadership and ineffective leadership is not incremental, it’s order of magnitude. It’s not 25% it’s 10 or 100 times. https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.5655124 Article...

W.K.Lis, you are correct but that kind of thinking is why we are going to see surges here just like the US. Inflexible dogmatic obtuse thinking (I mean not you, our society in general). Different kinds of problems require different philosophical approaches. The primary thing you learn when...

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/editorials/article-why-nobody-told-you-about-that-covid-19-case-on-your-flight-and-why/ This is the kind of thing that drives me crazy. Basically the federal government refuses to take any lead in Infection prevention and at every step Provincial and...

Lenaitch, What I meant was addressed maybe by Keithz. Basically, what is our ability to project military power and assets in Canada? I’m not talking about matching US military spending but taking some responsibility for our own domestic military security. I personally would much rather...

https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/06/03/868507524/israel-orders-schools-to-close-when-covid-19-cases-are-discovered It’s a good thing we have no clear plan for opening schools because kids aren’t a vector for transmission. Oops, Israel found otherwise. Well Sickkid’s...

I just read through the text of Wednesday’s interview with Dr. de Villa. You would swear it was a piece from the Onion. So many different words to say as answer to ever question: we would like to claim no expertise in anything, absolve ourselves of all responsibility for whatever happens, and...

A CBC news piece on the National caught my attention. It said 80% of units in the ICE condo building were rented as short-term rentals prior to the bylaw change which lead to a mass conversion of units shifting to long-term rent with listings languishing on the market for over 100 days. Need...

For me the next shoe to drop once they get sensible mask policy sorted out is for public health to openly communicate where outbreaks are originating. I mean identifying individual businesses and residential buildings. This should not filter out here and there due to investigative reporting...

https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/at-least-26-flights-have-arrived-in-canada-with-covid-19-cases-in-last-two-weeks-1.5024278 The passage that jumped out at me is that Ontario, Quebec, and the maritime don’t compile data on Covid cases on flights. The next passage that jumps out at me...

I found the answer to my question from a few pages back from Macleans:

Seeing as we are moving to a more open stage of risk tolerance it's worth checking in on Toronto's current dashboard of internal success metrics. Virus spread and testing turn-around are the areas that are of concern. Basically still too much community spread and test result turn-around is too...

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-polish-president-andrzej-duda-wins-election-new-battles-with-eu-loom/ Not too familiar with the Polish situation but continues the global trend of voters electing nationalist populists

How about use US military capabilities as a reference point stretch goal? Canada should aim to be able to respond to threats physical and digital in Canada just as fast as the US military could the same threat in Canada if they were given the jurisdictional permission. Can we already do that...