SkepticalButOpenMinded

Thanks for the clarification. Am I the only one that thinks autotldr is almost harmfully bad?

What do they do that they object to? Investigate the lack of privacy in cars? Advocate for open web standards?

People throw hate at it?

I am glad this is happening. No other province is taking measures like this. That said, I want more ambitious targets. The advantage I guess is that they seem to have a lot of buy in from the city councils and mayors, so these are durable changes. But I wonder if we can really solve the housing crisis without pissing a few people off.

haha, I didn't mean for it to sound cynical. "Moving forward as efficiently as possible" isn't necessarily always good. Not all shores are worth reaching. In a representative democracy, politicians often paddle on both sides to appeal to the median voter.

It reminds me of the line by the ancient Athenian statesman Solon: "No more good must be attempted than the nation can bear".

Right, tons of opportunity for personal gain and opportunism. Vivek was a nobody, but now has the status of a conservative celebrity. Some may also be campaigning for another office, or for another term, as senator or governor. I’m pretty sure presidential campaign money can be diverted to another campaign.

That’s assuming that the point of all this is to move forward as efficiently as possible. In fact, the analogy works all the more because switching sides is less efficient, but gives the impression to untrained eyes of going down the middle.

I don’t canoe, but it sounds like the j-stroke serves its analogical purpose too. It’s when you want to be seen as being on the left (or the right), but, unbeknownst to the untrained eye, you’re paddling in such a way as to counteract being on the left, so that you actually end up going down the middle.

Sure there is.

• campaigning for vice president
• campaigning for 2028
• Trump, who is an objectively old man, may die before the election
• however unlikely, Trump somehow loses support, perhaps by being sent to jail. He’ll always have his loyal core, but moderate republicans and independents may abandon him
• Republicans can test different policies and message

This kind of thing gives me hope. In Canada, we may have a lot of problems, but things do slowly get better when we decide to pay attention to the problem. I’m cautiously optimistic.

Poor people have tons of debt. Student loans, credit cards, car loans, rent-to-own furniture/appliances, pay day loans, medical debt in the US and recently installment purchases online. A lot of these are definitely extended to poor and lower middle class people.

I like these answers. The BC NDP are doing a lot on housing. Not discussed in this article, but they also came out swinging against the investment side when they first came into power with a vacancy tax and other measures. It worked, prices dropped then flattened, but when there is fundamentally not enough housing supply, anti-investment measures alone simple aren’t enough.