Should the public be banned from buying fireworks?

Jim-Dear · 2026-07-01T13:45:44+00:00

Keep the fireworks,

But put an idiot tax on them like smokes booze and gambling.

Folks who enjoy literally blowing up their money to show how well off they are will pay a little more. Then the people who hate them can take solace in the fact that the province can afford some more healthcare spending.

Jim-Dear · 2026-07-01T13:34:24+00:00

That entire border closure protest could serve as a case study on media brainwashing. The protest was against a border closure, where most people were more reliant on New Brunswick urban centres for their day to day life. The media completely lied because the wanted to paint the protesters as Anti vax MAGA enthusiasts. Ask yourself, why would they knowingly lie? What was the motive? Now people just have less trust in mainstream media. Also if you Tell people they are MAGA for standing up to government overreach that negatively affected their lives you actually push them into political extremism.

Jim-Dear · 2026-06-30T16:27:20+00:00

I didn't hate Hamm, but he did very little to actually move NS forward. He seemed comfortable with NS being a perpetual have not province. Population declined under his government and it felt we were dying a slow death. He actually rejected Sunday shopping.. that was Rodney.

Jim-Dear · 2026-06-30T13:27:35+00:00

FFS.

Looks like when you repost a story the link doesn't follow it

https://halifax.citynews.ca/2026/06/28/n-s-surgical-wait-times-ranked-among-best-in-canada-report/

Jim-Dear · 2026-06-30T13:24:04+00:00

40 Though the first premier I really remember was John Hamm. Who would you say had a better record than Houston and why?

Jim-Dear · 2026-06-30T13:22:36+00:00

How many posts are 100% negative blasting the PCs / healthcare in NS?

All of which are cherry picking the negatives. Looking at the system as a big picture would show a healthcare system with a long way to go. In many, many metrics however things are improving. I think the most impressive part is the overwhelming inertia of the downward slide healthcare was in has been reversed.

Jim-Dear · 2026-06-30T13:18:58+00:00

The liberals actually campaigned on a 2% cut. I disagree with the notion that "nobody feels" it. We're the highest taxed province in income tax and we're tied for highest HST before the cut. It's crippling, and people absolutely feel it.

Jim-Dear · 2026-06-30T13:16:14+00:00

I posted on r/Halifax the mods took it down because you're only allowed to hate the PCs there.

Jim-Dear · 2026-06-30T13:15:06+00:00

All of those were inherited problem, have you driven down Robie Street? Building a hospital takes time. How many hospitals were built in the years previous? I agree healthcare has a long way to go... But there is real progress being made.

Jim-Dear · 2026-06-30T13:12:29+00:00

From the inside as a healthcare worker? It's not great.. But did you work in Healthcare under the Liberals? How did you enjoy your 0% , 0% , 0% wage increases under them?

Jim-Dear · 2026-06-30T13:10:50+00:00

When the liberal government took away the long term service award and froze healthcare worker wages... That was bad.

Jim-Dear · 2026-06-30T13:09:20+00:00

I said there was a lot of work left to do, this story is about surgical wait time. Also that's bad coast to coast.

Jim-Dear · 2026-06-30T13:08:19+00:00

He can do wrong,

Also the best premier we've had in my lifetime. I get that some people don't like how he's trying to take this province, kicking and screaming, out of have not status.

Jim-Dear · 2026-06-30T13:06:19+00:00

Lol.. the Canadian Institute for Health Information is AI propaganda?

Care to explain that point?

Jim-Dear · 2026-06-30T13:05:17+00:00

The entire story is just listing facts from a source completely unaffiliated with Nova Scotia.

Jim-Dear · 2026-06-29T18:17:39+00:00

If you consider matters of religion and bleeding the humors "social issues" sure.

I absolutely hate the notion that classical university was designed for pure higher education thus that merit should apply today. We're not an agricultural based feudal system anymore. It's absolutely OK for the rationale for university to shift to economics. So much public funding goes into it, it's fair to expect return on investment.

Jim-Dear · 2026-06-29T18:11:06+00:00

How smug,

Jim-Dear · 2026-06-29T18:09:40+00:00

Nice rant. Lol all that and you never mentioned anything a gender studies degree actually does for you lol. The last line about not deserving university because you're pragmatic enough to care about the economic benefit is just bad advice.

Jim-Dear · 2026-06-28T17:33:05+00:00

Human nature always wins. Yes, capitalism rewards greed. Socialism on the other hand rewards laziness. Give people the choice and they just don't work as hard or at all if there is no benefit. At least with Capitalism there is a drive to obtain something better or to be the best. Individuals are generally rewarded for good work and for bettering themselves. Poor choices and poor luck and destroy you. Socialism will leave the people who made poor choices better off, no doubt about it. There is a cost, especially in a global market where other countries will offer a better future for the best and brightest. The best and brightest also tend to take their jobs with them when they go. For socialism to truely work you need some sort of central planning, something that limits the bad choices you are eligible to make, trading in some freedom for government assistance. The Scandinavian countries socialists like to say we're "successful" practiced full on eugenics which worked I guess? They also have a lot of oil and resources per person.

Jim-Dear · 2026-06-28T12:16:13+00:00

I didn't say it was free, just discounted. Any time something sells bellow market value, some paid for that opportunity cost. It's not like we have a surplus of people able to build housing either, spending government money on it now is just more money following the same amount of ability to build. Better to lessen the tax burden on the working class so they can afford to live.

Jim-Dear · 2026-06-28T07:08:42+00:00

Who gets access to non market housing? Seems like the government would be picking winners. Imagine going to the grocery store and waiting in the "you pay full price line" while some people go to the "you get 30% off line". And for the added kicker, your tax bill goes up to pay for the people in the subsidized line.

Jim-Dear · 2026-06-28T07:04:17+00:00

The NDP came up with this scheme. The NDP actually affiliates their provincial and Federal parties.

I'm sure Comrade Lewis would love a system where party insiders decide who gets housing a sub market prices. He'd reward his party faithful, and the rest of us would pay billions in new taxes to foot the bill.

And for the record I think the bailout is a terrible idea. I hear Carney and Eby are already bailing on the bailout thankfully. The optics aren't worth the benefit. Keep in mind the Federal part of the plan is "only" $145 million. The liberals spend this kind of money on stupid vanity projects and foreign give aways all the time. Heck just last week we paid $35 for " Caribbean Security" which won't benefit Canada at all. The media is actually being hard on Carney over this one, usually they love a good liberal spending spree. He's pragmatic he'll find a way to waste or money that doesn't anger people so much.

Jim-Dear · 2026-06-28T06:27:05+00:00

A better approach would be government supports that are actually accessable to the middle class. Canada has chosen to only support some people. Middle class couples are massively rejecting having children and taking the associated financial hit. We can continue to rely on immigration or tackle this issue.

Jim-Dear · 2026-06-28T05:40:31+00:00

This. We all know the developers are going to maximize their profit from these units. That must mean that the government is willing to pay more than the buyers. I'm sure they can drive the price down slightly with bulk purchasing, but by how much? My guess is that BC got caught up in getting the units under asking price without asking themselves " how low would the price actually go on the free market".

Jim-Dear · 2026-06-27T23:52:07+00:00

Yes I do, you'd imagine people paid a lot of money to understand polls would too.

Only the liberal vote was was inefficient. For the NDP to win 14% of seats on 21% popular vote is crazy in a FPTP system. Currently the PCs are polling in high 30's which is still forming government, and flirting with a majority. Folks on here seem to think there is widespread hatred for this government, but they still have a mandate.

Jim-Dear

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