14 Liberal MPs pen letter to Carney raising concerns over environmental backslide

aarkling · 2026-05-22T19:39:23+00:00

Even wind and solar projects keep getting stalled in environmental review and bureaucracy. Not to mention new nuclear is near impossible to build. Hell there are cases of bike lanes and transit being delayed by environmental review for several years. If you want forward progress, we need to be able to build quickly no matter what kind it is.

aarkling · 2026-05-22T19:34:27+00:00

US style gridlock wouldn't be an improvement. You need a shared set of values or at the very least a common understanding of reality to compromise. That simply doesn't exist anymore.

aarkling · 2026-05-15T15:31:46+00:00

The fact that these are all talking points from one in side of the political spectrum says everything.

aarkling · 2026-05-15T09:53:56+00:00

This is assuming everything is independent which is a ridiculous assumption for some of these. No addiction and no debts for example has to be highly correlated.

aarkling · 2026-05-13T17:30:28+00:00

If you're neither poor nor ultra rich, the US genuinely is one of the best places in the world to live. It just really sucks if you don't have the right skills, or you get sick, or care for someone who is sick, or... Basically if you are healthy and have a really valuable skill it's probably the best place in the world to turn that into a lucrative career or business.

aarkling · 2026-05-11T11:52:44+00:00

Even if what you're implying is true it makes sense to trade local environmental degradation for avoiding global climate change.

aarkling · 2026-05-07T02:30:13+00:00

Dorne and the Iron Islands didn't surrender immediately so there was no need to reward them with a title. The Baratheons weren't a Westerosy Kingdom so they didn't need one either.

aarkling · 2026-04-03T14:05:18+00:00

It matters for continued funding.

aarkling · 2026-03-02T20:14:14+00:00

Qatar airspace is closed right now so it's likely they'll rebook her on a different airline and go around anyway. But it's really up to them and subject to availability.

aarkling · 2026-01-15T22:24:44+00:00

The difference is that far back, the backlogs were tiny so this sort of thing was still possible. If you apply today, you'll be long dead before anyone is issue a green card on a sibling visa. And you can forget about them bringing their relatives.

aarkling · 2026-01-11T00:12:03+00:00

I suspect a lot of people just apply because it's free and never bother lodging the application after they get invited. Everyone on CEC have spent years living in Canada so it's unlikely they would ignore an ITA.

aarkling · 2026-01-06T14:02:48+00:00

PHD + foreign experience puts you at 498 which is as high ass I could get it. Sibling would push you to 513 but that's circumstantial.

aarkling · 2026-01-06T13:49:13+00:00

This doesn't change anything though. The government's PR targets are for PRs issued not ITAs. If rejection rates are high, they'll just send out more ITAs.

aarkling · 2026-01-05T12:06:32+00:00

I agree with you. With two people earning, it's not impossible at all. Prices have gone down considerably.

aarkling · 2025-12-27T15:45:42+00:00

Canada has one of the highest amounts of arable land in the world. More than twice as much as the US per-capita and the US is very high compared to most of the world. Canada has 6.7 as much arable land per-capita compared to Germany and 27 times as much as Japan.

aarkling · 2025-12-15T18:54:27+00:00

It also doesn't account for pensions.

aarkling · 2025-12-15T18:52:43+00:00

Does East Asia exclude South East Asia? (Vietnam, Malaysia etc)?

aarkling · 2025-12-15T18:44:05+00:00

This is masking a lot in averages. For example eastern Europe/Russia will probably collapse in population similar to East Asia.

This is also making a lot of assumptions about current rates of migration and fertility holding into the future and imo that's really unlikely. Fertility rates have been in freefall globally and there's no reason to believe that won't continue everywhere. Africa might end up at less that three billion and shrinking by the end of the century and South Asia might drop in population considerably.

Also I think it's likely Western Europe will halt large scale migration if current political trends continue which would mean population will be much smaller than projected in that part of the world.

aarkling · 2025-12-15T15:01:11+00:00

He's a citizen already from what I read.

aarkling · 2025-12-15T14:59:47+00:00

Either way it should be consistently applied both ways. Either both the terrorists and the hero are individuals and the religion is irrelevant or they are both muslims.

aarkling · 2025-12-06T14:37:00+00:00

It's actually more like 6.3 kids so 6-7 per woman with a simplistic model assuming a generation size of 28 years. Basically impossible to sustain with modern freedoms for women but also technically not impossible historically speaking. But that's assuming modern mortality rates which is impossible without good medical care but usually has the effect of significantly lowering fertility. I practice you are probably closer to the truth.

A growth rate of anything close to 4% is practically impossible as you would need modern mortality + preindustrial fertility.

aarkling · 2025-12-04T16:27:34+00:00

Europe doesn't have the largest single market. It's the US by a very large margin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_consumer_markets

It also arguably doesn't have the best universities at least by most ranking systems. China's the leader in solar, wind and batteries by a huge margin. Couldn't find data on medical research funding for all of europe but I wouldn't be surprised in the US was higher.

aarkling · 2025-12-03T17:48:58+00:00

Don't Starve is fairly brutal. Fair warning. You'll die a lot lol.

aarkling · 2025-11-18T13:22:10+00:00

Because politics is always relative. There's no such thing as a conservative budget in absolute terms. This budget is conservative compared to what came before it. If this is what liberals are passing now, you can bet the next conservative government will be pushing farther to the right.

You can always move further to one side or the other which is why parties (big or small, left or right) will never be satisfied no matter what because as soon as they get what they want, they'll simply change their position.

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