I don’t like homeless encampments, tent cities, favelas etc. They are unsafe, unclean and foster destructive behavior.

Let’s destroy them by building safe, permanent homes for people.

It’s so strange to me that “free market capitalism” lovers can’t see that encampments are a market response. There is a large supply of unenclosed space (parks, sidewalks, underpasses) and an unmet demand for shelter. They shouldn’t be surprised when market participants convert the former into the latter.

How effective do they think it will be to police every unenclosed space in the region vs building adequate shelter. Building shelter has all sorts of associated benefits too.

Shockingly close

It’s a bad look man

I asked:

Would a strategy of making life in Palestine so difficult that everyone either capitulates or becomes radicalized [and therefore a legitimate military target] be genocide?

You answered “no”. Can you elaborate on how you reconcile your answer with our understanding of genocide:

Genocide is the attempt to destroy a nation/ ethnicity.

Would a strategy of making life in Palestine so difficult that everyone either capitulates or becomes radicalized [and therefore a legitimate military target] be genocide?

What would that strategy look like?

Do you think Israel has an interest in there not being a Palestinian nation?

I’ve also gotten the sense of a major schism between Jesse and the employees. I don’t keep track of which employee has what views do in not really sure what you mean by Jan Wong’s red scare.

I don’t think Jesse was amplifying Israel’s bullshit, I think he was pushing back against it.

I don’t know if it’s drifting right or not.

I’m not the person you were replying to but thought I’d weigh in.

Canada attempted/committed (results varied) genocide of its first nations not by killing children (though they did do that) but by making continuation of indigenous ways of living/ culture untenable.

China is attempting genocide of its Uigher population in a similar way.

Russia’s denial of Ukrainian identity and treatment of orphaned Ukrainian children is also genocidal.

Genocide is the attempt to destroy a nation/ ethnicity. It doesn’t have to be murder factories to be genocide.

Do you agree?

Canadaland focuses on Canada, so Jesse tries to ask questions that are relevant to Canadians

journalism is supposed to be about distributing factual information

I have a friend in Canada that I know is trying to figure out if he should send his daughter to public school (eventually, she is still quite young) where she could face anti-Semitic treatment from peers/teachers, or Jewish day school where she could be murdered by extremists. (I think he was already more inclined towards public schools)

His concern is because of the increase in attacks on centers of Jewish community (eg schools & synagogues) in Canada. The increase in those attacks is because of Israel’s disproportionate response to the Oct 7th attacks.

The question of Israel’s accountability is probably quite relevant to him.

I agree it’s strange and possibly inappropriate that the fact check was a text document, not a podcast.

But I really don’t think he was acting as a mouthpiece the way you’re accusing him. He repeatedly asked about the head of the Israeli military characterizing events as Jewish terrorism.

I think it’s important to ask what responsibility Israel has for the safety of Jewish Canadians when hatecrimes rise as a result of Israeli military operations.

Do you mean that the ambassador lied so much that his views shouldn’t have been aired, or that the fact checking is unacceptably anti-Israel.

Or something else? I’m not sure how to interpret your statement.

Yeah, coverage of Israeli/Palestinian conflict is notoriously filled with half truths and misleading implications. I think having a fact check co-published is quite useful.

I don’t know what that guy’s problem is.

I think Jesse did a good job. I’m extremely skeptical of the ambassador’s explanation of the invitation to collaborate.

Was that G7/8 kettling?

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, it’s my opinion that the Electoral Reform committee was sabotaged by the liberals from its inception. Ie they gave themselves a minority on the committee so that the committee wouldn’t be able to make a recommendation.

I don’t think it was Trudeau that sabotaged it, but I think it was the Liberals.

If he comes back to the North, he would be tortured&executed with his family.

Are you basing this statement on anything other than your impression that the North Korean regime is cruel for the sake of being cruel, and everyone in the military and government is incompetent?

It might be true, but it’s also possible that the North Koreans would use it as the obvious propaganda coup it is and send him on speaking tours all over the country/world.

It’s also quite possible that he’s mentally unwell and isn’t making rational choices. Or that he’s trying to escape an abusive situation.

Don’t get me wrong, the North Korean government is not good, I’m just saying that the assumption he’ll be tortured and executed underestimates them.

PS. When you say “comes back” it means that you are in that place. So your sentence implies that you’re in North Korea. I’m sure you meant “goes back”.

I’m feeling totally vindicated with my “this seems like a pretty one sided story” take from when this first surfaced.

I think just about anything would be better than what he said.

I wouldn’t say that it was a different time, or anything about the circles I kept.

I’d go with:

Clearly, I was ignorant of the harm my costume could cause. In the seventeen years since that photo, I’ve learned a lot about Canada’s history of racism and how harmful stereotypes further marginalized racialized Canadians. If I had better understood the iniquity that racialized Canadians faced, and continue to face, I never would have engaged in what I now recognize and denounce as a gross and harmful caricature.

My detractors imply that people can’t change. They’re wrong. People can change, and our town can change. I work hard to make this a thriving, welcoming community and I know that we shouldn’t let anyone distract us from the important work we have to do.

I think that the classic objection to rail transit is

What about the last mile?!

I think that that objection can be almost entirely adressed (on both ends of the ride) with close integration with [e-]bikes/scooters

But it gets cold!

So… pedal?

But it rains and snows!

Yes, and we’re Canadians with rain and snow gear.

What about in a blizzard? Well, what do you do in a blizzard right now? Stay home, or risk getting stuck in the cold right?

Range and charging!

Right, but when the battery is flat, it’s still a bicycle…

Yeah that sounds like what was explained to me

I needed to upgrade my modem because the isp capped the speed of docsis 3.0 modems to like 75Mbps. I remember being quite upset because I was previously getting 125Mbps service on the same modem. I seem to recall there was a quasi legit technical reason for it though.