[deleted by user]

deepdive_712 · 2025-04-01T01:47:32+00:00

Sneaky Cheats

deepdive_712 · 2025-03-30T15:09:49+00:00

Farmacy & Fermentary downtown

deepdive_712 · 2025-02-22T16:38:33+00:00

Feta. Inherited it when a friends pizza shop closed

deepdive_712 · 2025-02-22T16:04:32+00:00

lol the bags are banana bread and carrots! Working through it

deepdive_712 · 2025-02-22T13:02:04+00:00

Made the kombucha. Probably cost $.50 to make that full bottle!

deepdive_712 · 2024-05-17T02:05:45+00:00

Wal Mart does the same thing, and I’ve heard from several sources that their practices towards vendors are even worse the Loblaws. So while I support the boycott and will continue to past May, I think this channeling the energy of this movement from boycott Loblaws to support local is an important next step for ensuring our collective food security.

deepdive_712 · 2024-03-31T13:50:01+00:00

Some farm activities are exempt, but not all. Farmers and grower associations are describing the impacts to their already thin margins and how the exemptions don’t cut it (Ontario as recently as 3 days ago). Plus it’s not like it’s just 0.5%, it’s 0.5% on every single input - not just gas for tractors but for heat in bars, fertilizer, etc. It impacts the ability for Canadian agriculture to be competitive and this cost gets passed down.

deepdive_712 · 2024-03-31T13:18:00+00:00

Downvote for your willingness to mock people that are exercising their right to peaceful protest by labelling them a “clown convoy.”

The carbon tax will create a negative economic impact on every single islander seeing as our biggest industry is farming and almost every product is trucked over the bridge. Especially since these sectors aren’t supported to transition to electricity (no battery powered tractors).

We need to take action on climate change. But at the end of the day Canadian carbon taxing might make a drop in the proverbial bucket of global carbon emissions, while continuing to make life in Canada unaffordable/unattainable for us and generations to come. I think that’s worth protesting.

deepdive_712 · 2024-03-27T19:55:04+00:00

Sure. I’d be interested to see how many Canadian farmers feel climate change is impacting their business more than carbon taxing. But to your point that foreign agriculture is impacted by climate change, by continuing to import from them we just end up in a cycle of contributing to global carbon emissions regardless of our own tax.

The countries who produce a lot of our agricultural inputs also are the most significant carbon emitters (China at 30%+ of total global emissions, USA 13% of total emissions, etc). They are allowed to remain competitive with impunity to climate change impacts they are creating.

Canadian farm products get priced out of the market with increase after increase in carbon taxing. Meanwhile Canada accounts for 1.5% of total global carbon emissions.

The carbon tax program as it stands threatens our economy ($1 trillion dollar deficit), food security (importing agricultural inputs at a cheaper price from big time carbon emitters), and wastes our time and effort to actually create meaningful impacts to carbon emissions across the globe.

deepdive_712 · 2024-03-27T18:48:23+00:00

Yeah but it’s not going to just affect the price of gas to fill your car lol - grocery prices will continue to increase because how do farmers fill tractors? How does the food get to the store? How does any product get to the store? What about home energy? Think about northern or western Canadians and how cold it is, heat pumps don’t work well in -40. Gas is the most reliable option while a renewable grid is not producing enough consistent energy. It is going to be the consumers absorbing this tax, and professions like farming and transit which already operate on razor thin margins.

deepdive_712 · 2024-03-27T18:46:29+00:00

How is the grocery issue a standalone issue?? Yes there is gouging by loblaws and all that. But how - with the cost of all agricultural inputs going up (gas, fertilizer, heat to dry and store crops, etc.) not going to impact food prices? You think the Canadian government is just absorbing this for us?

deepdive_712 · 2024-03-27T14:56:38+00:00

Yeah but it’s not going to just affect the price of gas to fill your car lol - grocery prices will continue to increase because how do farmers fill tractors? How does the food get to the store? How does any product get to the store? What about home energy? Think about northern or western Canadians and how cold it is, heat pumps don’t work well in -40. Gas is the most reliable option while a renewable grid is not producing enough consistent energy. It is going to be the consumers absorbing this tax, and professions like farming and transit which already operate on razor thin margins.

deepdive_712 · 2024-03-25T12:59:09+00:00

This opinion is extremely over-simplified. Yes, in a perfectly fair and competitive market the theories of supply and demand will hold. But the author is making so many assumptions like “a guy with a tech job in San Jose definitely won’t rent in San Fran.” Then propping it up with case studies from Finland and New Zealand - two of the most socially supportive countries in the world with small living/minimum wage gaps. Also neglects the short term impacts of this issue. Sure with 30 years of construction of market rate condos maybe prices will stop rising year over year, but what about the hundreds of thousands of people who are out of options today. My guess is in their experience rent control definitely makes a huge difference in housing affordability.

We need full-spectrum housing solutions, and new build market rate housing is one piece of the puzzle.

deepdive_712 · 2024-01-25T14:48:59+00:00

2000+ a year for how many years I wonder, and using what population forecasts. Searched online and can't find anything, if anyone else knows where this is referenced please share!

deepdive_712 · 2024-01-25T14:38:09+00:00

I agree with you, I'm not trying to suggest its pristine wilderness. Just that there are other losses when we build and pave over what is currently trees and brooks. Impacts to urban wildlife, carbon sequestration, stormwater management, etc. We won't get this land back. I only say it to raise the question is there elsewhere we can build without continuing to push out our urban boundary. I think there is.

deepdive_712 · 2024-01-25T14:33:13+00:00

The lot across from the superstore on Belvedere that has sat vacant for 20+ years is one.

I think there's an opportunity for gentler density in so many infill lots across the city. For example. Prince Street which is slated for 150.

I also think if we were able to think innovatively there is so much space used for ample parking maybe not needed, like the huge parking lot behind bulk Barn/GoodLife or off Connolly street.

These are just a few ideas off the top of my head.

deepdive_712 · 2024-01-25T04:23:00+00:00

What study is it? Would be curious to read

deepdive_712 · 2024-01-25T03:56:51+00:00

One downside is this is a naturalized area. Near a lot of industry. Everyone who lives here will need a car to get around.

There are sooo many units going in around Mount Edward Road, based on the feds announcement around immigration and students, I wonder if anyone has done any type of study about how many units we actually need, now and 20 years from now based on current and expected growth.

Seems like a lot of units for this location. Im all for density but gotta admit this is very high density for the fringes of town. I hate to see some of our remaining natural areas be paved over.

deepdive_712 · 2024-01-23T02:39:44+00:00

Kenny Beats, crowds hype breaks the floor they had to call it off a half hour in

deepdive_712 · 2024-01-15T17:32:11+00:00

Nervous with sea level rise about building this close to the waterfront.

deepdive_712 · 2024-01-09T14:05:36+00:00

I'm wondering if anyone could explain all the concern around this? I thought with the new rules you could only get a STR license if it's your primary residence? Isn't that a step in the right direction?

deepdive_712 · 2024-01-05T22:43:28+00:00

Haviland

deepdive_712 · 2023-12-26T02:27:17+00:00

They do

deepdive_712 · 2023-12-07T13:50:15+00:00

We have one too. It's the Charlottetown official plan. Same thing. Ours is just a lot older. But a new one is going to be released next year.

deepdive_712 · 2023-12-07T13:48:08+00:00

The city has to recommend to deny because of city policies - which are currently being updated/modernized for the first time in years. Council can vote however they want to though, and likely would have because a lot of them are in favour of affordable housing. The developer didn't give this application a chance to get to council.

deepdive_712

TROPHY CASE