I don’t know about other provinces, but here in Ontario, the provincial government created the problem. Tuition has been frozen to 2019 levels and they reduced direct funding to universities and colleges. The “solution” was to massively ramp up international student enrollment, which came with a lot of other issues.

Are you under the impression that this new manufacturer will somehow capture the entire market?

To use Tesla as an example, since they’re the largest and fastest growing “new” auto manufacturer… In 2024, they sold about 50,000 cars in Canada, and manufactured 1.7 million. So we’re barely 3% of their market, and if their Canadian sales drop to zero (as they should), they would barely notice.

As you said, licensing could save a lot of R&D costs, but it would almost certainly come with a stipulation that we couldn’t sell the vehicles outside of Canada. If a new manufacturer were to take up the entire Tesla market in Canada (which would be incredibly ambitious), they’d need to be about a quarter (or less) of the size of the Oakville Ford plant. I don’t think that it can be profitable at that scale, but I’d love for someone to prove me wrong.

Canada has about 1.8 million new vehicle sales per year. It’s not impossible to serve a market that small, but a lot of profits in the auto industry are due to their ability to scale.

Any new manufacturer will have to start in the high priced, low volume, luxury segment anyway, but there isn’t huge room for growth while remaining in Canada.

If they expand to the States, then they just end up with the same problems we have now. If they expand to Europe, shipping is a pain, though doable. But if that’s the plan, anyone with enough money to start a new car company will probably just start it in Europe to begin with, since Europe has a bigger market than Canada.

The other way to do this would be a non-profit or Crown corporation, where profitability isn’t the goal. That has a lot of other issues, but avoids the biggest one.

Can you explain what a trade deficit is and why it’s bad?

It’s a list of Canadians with the implication, but little to no evidence, of war crimes beyond the fact that they served in Israel’s military.

To me it feels a lot like the published lists of people who “celebrated” Charlie Kirk’s death. Yes, it’s likely factual, but it feels like it’s trying to start a witch hunt. And in this case, there’s even less proof of any “wrongdoing”.

Why doesn’t it mean anything?

It literally means that if NY ends DST, we will follow suit to match them. It doesn’t do anything until then, if that’s what you mean, but it still has actual meaning beyond political posturing.

It’s also not what you said. You said NY had already committed to doing it (which they haven’t) if Ontario did it too. I can’t find anything about Quebec passing a similar bill, so I may have been mistaken about that.

Did New York say that? I thought Ontario and Quebec had passed bills that would end it as soon as NY also did it.

The Canadian show follows pretty much the same formula. You don’t need to have seen anything; there’s no continuity outside of the individual seasons.

I think the quality of baking is higher in GBBO, especially in later seasons, but that doesn’t really change how the show works. It just makes judging (and guessing who’s going to lose) harder.

The theory is that students need jobs and money leading to an oversaturated market of gig workers. So delivery companies (whether it’s packages or food) can offer terrible wages and still find people willing to work those jobs.

I do believe there is some truth to that, but the problem isn’t the students directly, it’s that our labour laws aren’t strong enough to protect these workers.

If Amazon and Uber and Skip all had to pay their drivers as actual employees and give them benefits and cover vehicle and insurance costs, they’d be a lot less competitive compared to all the other businesses (like Canada Post) that are providing those things.

It’s weird. This is the first time I found myself agreeing with jkr, and I had to read it a few times to make sure I wasn’t missing something.

How does that improve road safety

Presumably, after paying all 10 tickets, this person will never speed there again. Slightly different because it was a temporary speed limit, but hopefully this person will just remember their 10 tickets and never speed in a construction zone again.

Cameras work by existing. They don’t immediately fix the issue, but after everyone’s received their initial set of tickets, speeding should be way down from the “regular” drivers in the area. Manned police traps only work as long as someone is there. If there’s a cop there every Monday, people speed on Tuesday-Friday. If there’s a cop there very infrequently, people speed frequently and just put up with a ticket every once in a while. But what happens most of the time is that there’s just never a cop there, and people speed all the time.

Also, even when server wages were a thing pre 2022, they were within a dollar of minimum wage Canada wide. It wasn’t the $2/h Americans have, it was $16 instead of $17.

Any act of physical violence should have a trial

Any act of physical violence should have an investigation. There are plenty of straightforward cases that don’t need to go through the time and expense of a trial.

I don’t think it’s necessarily important that they get paid directly for all hours, as long as they think that their compensation is fair. If they got $1000/hour flight time and nothing for pre and post flight, I’m sure they’d all be happy. They might even be fine with a fixed yearly salary tied to a certain number of flight hours.

However, they’re clearly not happy with the current arrangement. My understanding is that their pre and post flight duties have increased over the years, and their hourly wage for flight time hasn’t kept up. An hourly wage per hour worked is probably the easiest way to handle this, and I’m not really sure why they haven’t done so.

There’s about 10,000 Air Canada flight attendants. Dividing the CEO’s salary would give them each about $1200. It’s not nothing, but it’s nowhere near enough money to “fix” the strike.

I don’t think it’s a hoax, but it could certainly be mass hysteria.

“Feeling dizzy” is pretty common at a music festival where you’re probably on the edge of heat exhaustion and dehydration and maybe drinking alcohol.

As for the sharp prick, could be imagined, could be someone walking by too closely had a pin or keys poking out a bit from their bag.

Ask enough people a leading question and you can easily get people who are definitely sure they’ve been drugged.

If they’re really concerned with how big they look on a map, they should advocate for the Madagascator projection.

According to this article:

It also comes just two weeks after AMAPCEO, which represents some 14,000 professional, administrative and supervisory employees in the Ontario Public Service, ratified a new collective agreement.

The union says access to working from home was a key issue in bargaining and the province was “determined to eliminate” flexible work provisions in that bargaining.

I hope the 87.2% of workers that voted to accept the agreement are happy with their arrangement.

Yay? For a city with a budget of $167M for 2025, I’m not sure that this amount is much more than a rounding error.

It’s great that they’re building housing and vastly exceeded their target, but that should be the subject of the article; not the negligible amount of money being thrown their way

Most (maybe all) car seats have two methods of attachment - LATCH/LUAS system and just using the seatbelt.

A quick Google search shows me that they use it in Europe too, but call it ISOFIX. As far as I can tell it’s just three different names for the same system.

The seat belt method should work regardless of whether the car was made for North America or EU.

Plus, safety standards change all the time. This is just one new standard for them to follow (if it is even different at all).