What is with Toronto?
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The quintessential Canadian question.
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The Cons use it as a scapegoat because the rest of the province thinks we get too much provincial money.
We also generate more provincial money, but they don’t like to think about that.
Fun fact: if these ward changes go through, we’ll have about the same number of wards as Ottawa – a city with less than 1/3 the population.
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I can’t even remember the last time a federal government felt the need to threaten a provincial government like this.
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*** cough *** Kinder Morgan *** cough ***
Seriously, though, what Ford is doing is obvious. TO as a whole doesn’t support him, so TO’s gotta go (so to speak).
AFAIAC, incorporated areas should be able to determine their own districting, it should be based on population in that if you have X population, you must have a minimum of Y districts, and the provincial government’s job is to make sure that you don’t drop below that minimum.
If a city wants to waste its money, that should be up to the residents of that city. If only to prevent butthurt autocrats from pulling shit like this.
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There are Tim Horton’s all over SE Michigan. Everything tastes like cardboard. Including the coffee. Oddly, if I were to drive 45 miles south and east, I would find Timmy’s that sell stuff that taste like food. Because I would be in Canada.
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None of the companies you mentioned come with a side of intolerance. Arby’s failure in the GTA (but not the rest of Ontario, there’s been one in my hometown forever, and it’s still there) can probably be chalked up to the type of food they serve (“alternative” fast food) not going over well. In comparison, most of the complaints around Chick-Fil-A have centered around the organization itself, not the food.
I won’t even try them for that reason, here or when I travel to the US, whereas all the other companies you mentioned are “fair game” and will end up as a part of my mealplan solely on the quality of their food alone.
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Also:
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Way to go, Doug. Let teachers know the requirements to which they need to completely overhaul their entire year’s syllabus, less than two weeks before most schools start up for the year (and three weeks after the year-round schools start up).
I’m sure that’s lots of time for them to plan out a curriculum and do a complete changeover of course material for the year.
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This… could be interesting.
If the Conservatives split into two parties, that could completely change the complexion of Canadian politics. For one thing, everybody (except the Liberals) will be more amenable to electoral reform.
I wonder what the Bernier party would choose (beyond stricter border controls) as their unifying ideology.
Edit to add: It seems that supply management, unsurprisingly, is going to be one such issue.
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Well, the days of me considering the Conservatives the party of racist assholes is certainly coming to a middle.
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I am shocked, shocked1 at the suggestion that Trump and his subordinates may not have been negotiating in good faith with Canada, with regards to the updates to NAFTA. Shocked, I tell you.
1Well, not that shocked.
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Given how many foreign companies there already are here, I expect it would just be about the paperwork.
Ottawa would certainly be an excellent market for such an endeavour.
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Feds regulate that now. Good starting point: What industry needs to know about cannabis. You’ll note that carrying it across the border is strictly illegal, and that they are implementing a supply line tracking system. That being said, the current regulatory setup (even before the Cannabis act takes effect) allows for export permits to licensed medicinal marijuana suppliers, with shipping fairly tightly regulated. I don’t see, provided the regulations are met, anything that precludes a UK citizen from entering the business here.
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Might interest you.
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Does that work any better?
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