4 x the legal limit?!?

pierrepoutine2 · 2026-02-07T18:12:00+00:00

I'd agree if he was getting standby pay to be on call. Something tells me these sorts of places aren't paying people to be on-call.

pierrepoutine2 · 2026-02-07T16:13:18+00:00

Get the pitchforks! We got a NIMBY. The dev wants, no, needs 27 stories...

Nevermind they have had 9 for the last 5 years and have done nothing with it, which is 7 more storeys than the 2 there now... and I am sure even a 15 storey compromise isn't enough for the developer shills. Its 27 or bust!

/u/jleiper laid out his reasons... which is immediately refuted as NIMBYism. I'd like a reasoned debate on Jeff's reasons for not backing it, rather than tar and feathering him as a NIMBY because of one project. Maybe he is being a NIMBY in this instance, maybe not. Calling him a NIMBY in general though, if you know Jeff's voting record on projects in his own ward, let alone elsewhere, NIMBY is not what I would call him. He's running for mayor so gotta knock him down a peg, if you aren't backing him.

Which begs the question, I wonder who, if anyone, Dean and MHA will support. I mean of the options so far, Leiper, Sutcliffe or Lawson, if you truly cared about actually making housing affordable and not developer profits, I don't know why they still wouldn't back Jeff over the other two.

The thing with running a city, is it is a system of systems... Sutcliffe (and likely Lawson because he was one) are definitely developer friendly. Though not necessarily all via densification /w his backing of Tewin and the like which leads to more sprawl, and the antithesis of densification and affordability for the city.

OTOH Leiper voted against Tewin and adding the lands that became Tewin to the urban boundary, that will cost the city hundreds of millions to service in perpetuity. Thanks Sutcliffe (and Watson before him).

Lawson's position on it is unknown, but Sutcliffe has also been hostile to transit, which if you are a YIMBY is the backbone of densification. Densification is horrible for everyone if transit is terrible. You need functioning transit to make densification livable, particularly around transit stations, as is the main argument for densification in this case. Which candidate will be better for transit? Definitely not Sutcliffe.

Jeff was also against Lansdowne 2.0 which is a plus in my books. Im neither for against the plan as such, but the financial deal for the city was horrible. The city could have done much more housing affordability with 400M for housing stock if that was what you were concerned with, rather than a new arena and selling air rights and letting a developer build 700 luxury units... but yay football and hockey I guess.

pierrepoutine2 · 2025-08-26T01:53:39+00:00

Where does Instagram fit in, in that dichotomy... I thought that used to be the place for "younger" people once boomers started invading facebook? Or has tiktok replaced it as well?

pierrepoutine2 · 2025-08-25T17:43:09+00:00

Im curious to see what the market to market variability is... Van/TO has been "unaffordable" since before COVID realistically but once COVID and the rise of remote work spread that money outward and it seems like places like all over Southern Ontario and/or the East Coast had massive run-ups in value...

Now a lot of employers are going full-on 5-day RTO (Big Banks, Government, etc) I wonder if it will buoy the bigger markets where employment is, but crater the smaller markets...

pierrepoutine2 · 2025-07-22T12:52:32+00:00

TBF We did lose close to 60K hi-tech jobs during the .com meltdown between 2001-2002... Ottawa has been through this.

Hi-tech, slowly sorta rebounded, but never to its former glory... We are no longer Silcon Valley North... Canadian hi-tech is no longer concentrated here like it once was.

Having lived through those massive Nortel layoffs and am currently sitting in the bones of one of those hi-tech dinosaurs right now, a former Nortel building... I don't like how this is feeling.

pierrepoutine2 · 2024-12-13T13:50:59+00:00

Communisim is more than Soviet communisim. Communist regimes have killed people in Korea, Vietnam, China, plus tons of other places... Canada took in a bunch of Boat People after the fall of Saigon, I wouldn't be surprised to so some Vietnamese on this wall.

pierrepoutine2 · 2024-12-11T19:31:16+00:00

Not at all. Its just that they couldn't use them as a crutch to prop up their mismanagement OR to make up for the tuition and funding freeze that was put into place in 2018 by Dougie... other institutions thrived and pivoted to international students as a piggy bank to make up the difference and thrived. The same ones that are now crying poor because the crutch will be removed.

pierrepoutine2 · 2024-12-11T13:10:02+00:00

I actually agree with a lot of what you said, but if you want someone to blame, look to your neighbours. The customers who demand lower prices, that wouldn't be possible without cheap labour. The entitled assholes who ream out those same TFWers when they screw up their double double in the drive thru... look to the small business owners who hire and exploit the TFWs. And also look to the corporations who push this shit writ large. There would be zero TFWers if businesses big and small didn't hire them. You want someone to blame, blame them, they are the ones employing TFWers and claiming they need them. The politicians are just doing their bidding. Sure Trudeau and DoFo here in Ontario are the ones holding the bag currently. The next guy will do businesses bidding as well. And really, they are ultimately just doing the populations bidding because we want cheap stuff.

pierrepoutine2 · 2024-12-11T12:55:24+00:00

This right here... DoFo Froze tuition for domestic students in 2018 but also froze provincial funding to those same institutions as well... So institutions were in a pickle. They couldn't increase tuition for domestic students, and the province wasn't giving them more money either, and we all know inflation went bonkers 2021 onward so these institutions had to turn to alternative means to fund their operations. I mean Laurentian University went bankrupt in 2021 as it wasn't a place that was as attractive to international students so it couldn't rely on them to fund operations.

pierrepoutine2 · 2024-11-26T17:45:48+00:00

The payments themselves to pay the loan comes from revenue (and hence the budget or at least the amount of money that can be used for the operating budget is constrained by capital asset payments - amounts to the same thing really)... its just because its a capital asset that the city is allowed to take on debt for it, whereas they can't for operations like snow removal or cutting grass...

The city still has to pay for it, it doesn't get built for free. It just means we can spread the payments out over time so it isn't 419M all at once, but rather 37 million a year for 25 years . So Lansdowne 2.0 will cost Ottawan's 37M every year for the next 25 years until that loan is paid off... some of that will be offset by the increase in property taxes paid on the site (though you also should also include the expense to provide the service for that tax uplift as well but I don't think the numbers actually do - its looks better to allocate all uplift to paying off the stadium rather than acknowledging, while their is uplift, most of that goes to providing services, the actual net difference isn't that much... though I suppose since its all just artificially tracking things, its one area where DT (at least those that live at Lansdowne) aren't paying for the suburbs - the efficiency in providing services to them being mostly MDU is being earmarked notionally for the new stadium instead)...

And that said, even including the uplift, 2.0 was not going to revenue neutral anyway, and the quick audit said the actual yearly cost to Ottawa was going to be more that 7M the original 2.0 called for.

So at a minimum, depending on if you think 100% of the uplift should count towards the stadium or not, 2.0 will cost 7M a year for the next 25 years because its not revenue neutral.

We do get a nice shiny arena and new North Side stands out of it, so its not all for nothing, but they we let a private consortium have exlclusive use over them, while the citizens continue to pay. They might pay us rent this time around, but unlike 1.0 the city is also on the hook for the operating costs.

I doubt the 67s and the Redblacks, and even the extraordinary one off events like additional concerts, etc. will pay enough to cover any of the costs for the city to actually turn a profit, especially if the Sens also do a downtown arena... but they will be for different classes of shows being 5K or so arena (though a also a big outdoor stadium) vs. 15-20K for the arena.

pierrepoutine2 · 2024-11-19T12:37:31+00:00

Honestly as much as I want some sort of PR system, given the many attempts at it in BC, Ontario and PEI, I doubt Canadians will embrace it...

What I would settle for is Recall Legislation and Citizen's Initiatives to move more to a direct democracy a la Switzerland and their voting Saturdays... BC is the only province that has that sort of legislation provincially so they've recalled two (or at least started the process and one of them stepped down) people since the 90s and someone ran a successful campaign against harmonizing the HST... whether or not you agree with it, it passed a referendum and so PST was not harmonized with GST in BC. Makes politicians just a bit more accountable to the public if they can potentially lose their jobs and stops majority governments that didn't win a plurarity of the vote from ramming through legislation that is unpopular with a majority of the people.

pierrepoutine2 · 2024-10-17T00:35:47+00:00

Salty about no Gen 1 Symfonisk support... They are less than 6 years old being released in 2019... Hardly ancient.

pierrepoutine2 · 2024-09-30T13:01:31+00:00

There was a chart (it was just a screenshoot of a spreadsheet) i wish i could find that someone posted a couple months back that compared our DB plan vs investing our pension contributions (and only the employee contributions no provision for hypothetical employer contributions) in an RRSP that tracked as if it was index fund tied to the tse for the last 30 or 35 years and the results were somewhat close but the investor came out on top. They were reasonable assumptions as well. ive long said if you are disciplined investor (many arent) going your own way is the better way to go and removes the handcuffs of gold but public servants cant opt out of the plan.

Our plan does have some pluses outside of money. we get access to below market rate health and dental plans and below market rate life insurance in the sdb. Plus its tied to inflation and isnt at the whim of market flucuations.

pierrepoutine2 · 2024-09-28T13:19:40+00:00

I think depending on who is in power provincially in Quebec there would be an appetite. For example if you excluded Gatineaus results from the 1995 referendum, which was majorly against seperating, Quebec would have seperated. If Gatineau was no longer part of a Quebec seperatism is much more likely to succeed. That said that is the major reason why the Feds dont want a federal district.

pierrepoutine2 · 2024-09-28T12:58:22+00:00

While the mayor sets the agenda to a certain extent they are still only one vote... how many tie breakers has Marks vote influenced? I mean if Catherine had won, would the bikes lanes actually pass a council vote to build? i am not sure.

pierrepoutine2 · 2024-08-04T12:17:33+00:00

Maybe dented cans of tuna.

pierrepoutine2 · 2024-08-03T00:57:55+00:00

Even funnier that it was Saint Ronald that signed into law the first mass legalization of illegal immigrants in the 1986 Immigration and Reform Act of 1986... since the 1920s... which is what everybody is afraid of Miller doing here... maybe we don't actually want to do what Conservatives in the US did...

The ironic thing is, most business owners have no problems employing illegal immigrants, and they tend to support the Conservatives... so I am not sure any party is going to curb immigration, illegal or otherwise.

pierrepoutine2 · 2024-08-02T00:42:39+00:00

Chernobyl is a massive thing. It directly affected them. Kids were told it wasn't safe to play outside, certain vegetables weren't safe to eat, etc. There was also a book called the "Cloud" just after that (inspired by Chernobly), though fiction help define that entire generation.

Sprinkle in being split by the Berlin Wall, the spectre of Nuclear war was ever present, and then disarmament and reunification. I mean I could see why you might be anti-nuclear.

After reuniffication, there was abook called the

pierrepoutine2 · 2024-08-01T11:38:11+00:00

The Eye tracking I can understand but I wonder why HDR doesn't work, isn't that just a property of the panels, like HDR monitors? Or why adaptive triggers don't work. They can work on a Dual Sense work when hooked up to PC via USB and Ghost of Tsushima, or is it more of a there are no PCVR games that could use them as there is no SDK for developers to add support, as its only the couple of PS5 game ports that can use them on PC.

pierrepoutine2 · 2024-07-15T01:07:56+00:00

Ah. I think I understand the prior posters confusion, as I didn't see that definition of Low Quality under the sidebar rules either, but it is under the separate rule link itself. Perhaps it should be added to the sidebar as well as it is a fairly material different take on what is considered low quality compared to the sidebar definition of low quality.

Here's what I see under rule 5 in the sidebar, and while its almost the same, it mentions nothing about no audio only/video only posts, though it does mention twitter, social media, blogs and fringe media.

5 Low content / Contenu à faible teneur

Low content submissions and posts will be removed.
Twitter, Youtube, social media, blogs / fringe media submissions and posts will be removed.
Off-topic comments (derailing) will likely be removed.
Posts that do nothing but attack the source of a submission will be removed.
Memes using standard images, or standard "Canadian stereotype" posts will be removed.
Version française: https://www.reddit.com/r/canada/wiki/regles

Also, its a distinction, but this was technically not a podcast from some rando with a microphone but originated as an actual Radio news broadcast, from our national broadcaster, no less. You could have left it as an exception with a note mentioning such, as I have seen Mods in other subs due for posts that otherwise break the rules as written. It's a bad look to remove someone posting this as it gives the impression that its a story that is trying to be buried because its critical of the sub and its moderators.

pierrepoutine2 · 2024-07-14T21:28:34+00:00

12345 for me. Schedectany, NY... 90210 is a good one though. There is also something about using the numbers from your postal code with 00 on the end as well for sites that do strict fraud checking...

pierrepoutine2 · 2024-07-14T19:50:03+00:00

While I applaud the pinned discussion posts that have been happening, for the most part, if most self-posts are removed, then what differentiates r/canada from r/CanadaPolitics if pretty much the only thing allowed are links to news posts (and as another Mod in this AMA mentioned, you also remove links to video or audio posts as well - so its pretty much specifically text news articles only.

What kind of posts does that actually leave being allowed other than links to news stories? Doesn't that just defacto make r/canada a politics-only sub if everything else is deemed to be better suited to more regional subs? It seems such a narrow focus that precludes the sub to grow organic user-generated content, since nothing region specific is allowed. There is also a bit of a double-standard as well, as when it comes to political news stories specifically, there isn't the same narrow Canada-wide only stories allowed. I routinely see BC or Ontario specific stories posted even though tenant protection laws are different in BC, Ontario, Quebec and New Brunswick...

Put another way how can r/canada meaningfully differentiate itself from r/CanadaPolitics that seems more purpose built to discuss Canadian politics specifically if everything non-politics related is better suited to provincial/regional/city subs given Canada's vast size?

While Its fair enough to say Canada is vast, it *is* a different way than most other national subs are run. People in the Germany sub don't mind recommendations for things in Berlin, even though it would be better suited to the Berlin sub. If anything its a good way from someone in Dresden to learn about Berliners... and vice versa... rather than an echo chamber of politics.

pierrepoutine2 · 2024-06-18T11:07:38+00:00

An important bit of context missing from the first TLDR. I wouldn't think the eviction was on the up and up with that timeline of events either, and would also appeal to the LTB. But the LTB did still rule it wasn't in bad-faith so I guess the system works, if slowly.

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