This is not a good opinion piece. The piece title suggests that other parties cough conservatives cough have better plans, then doesn’t mention any, then says liberal bail reforms do seem to be working, then concludes with, “we need to collect more data”.

Wow “we should study violent crime to better understand its root causes” what a thought provoking opinion.

I had to look up what the crime severity index is.

The Crime Severity Index tracks changes in the severity of police-reported crime by accounting for both the amount of crime reported by police in a given jurisdiction and the relative seriousness of these crimes. It tells us not only how much crime is coming to the attention of police, but also about the seriousness of that crime.

The specific weight for any given type of offence consists of two parts. The first component is the incarceration rate for that offence type. This is the proportion of people convicted of the offence who are sentenced to time in prison. The second component is the average (mean) length of the prison sentence, in days, for the specific type of offence.

I’m still a little confused. If the number of all crimes including muggings stays the same but they start to punish mugging more severely, the index goes up? Even though the number of crimes is the same?

Also the data he is referencing is for 2022, like he can’t wait for 2022 data?

Canadians each own about $750 of that pipeline.

Put another way we each own about 0.03m of its length (that’s about 1-1/4").

$750 for 1-1/4" of pipe to help oil companies more profitably murder the planet.

Aren’t Gen X-ers basically managerial age right now? Like they’re the ones making the decision for capital that’s owned by the boomers right?

The generation that came of age in the peak of the “greed is good” era?

Yes and no, they will help their own children indenture themselves to the housing market.

Super interesting! I had no idea this was on the table.

Thanks!

I haven’t been following the specifics of ai image generation.

How much does it cost to do this? I thought Dall-e was unrelated to chat gpt, did you link them somehow?

Yes, exactly why they should sell now before the prices tumble.

Recognize Palestine as UK? Like back to the Palestinian Mandate era? …oh nvm.

I’m not convinced by this tack. Wouldn’t most businesses prefer to just cash in their now unneeded real estate?

I think it’s more likely a way to get a portion of your employees to resign without having to deal with the socio-econo-political headache of layoffs or give severance packages.

It doesn’t boost productivity, but it may cut payroll.

An interesting part of this country’s history.

The church burned a few years after it was constructed…

Uhh yikes I’m curious about that!

Hunka was part of a division of Ukrainian volunteers under Nazi command.

This is minimizing it. He was part of the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS. (From Wikipedia:) The SS was the military wing of the Nazi party. The man swore an oath to Hitler.

I understand that a young man that:

-Grew up in a region recovering from the Russian Civil War
-Grew up during the mass murder and starvation of the soviet purge of the kulaks
-Was subjected to nationalistic propaganda  (Nazi and other)

might have great animosity towards the Soviets, and be inclined to join any force opposing them. I’m not asserting that Hunka was a bad person and should have known better, but he may have been. I’m not saying Canada was wrong to admit him as a displaced person, but we might have been. To minimize the Nazi ties of the Waffen SS is not responsible.

His division might have:

(This is one of the allegations against the SS division he served in, just a small example of what’s alleged at the massacre at Huta Pieniacka)

Wikipedia references a publication that claims the Soviets managed to capture several hundred of the SS division in question, a few weeks after the massacre and concluded they had participated in the massacre. The captured SS soldiers were executed. Maybe none of the guilty survived.

Parliamentary guests should be vetted. I actually think a letter from Hunka decrying propaganda, dictatorship and imperialism and celebrating a democratic and pluralistic Ukraine would have been a great thing to applaud in Parliament.

We should mock anyone saying this procedural failure shows Ukraine has significant Nazi sympathies. Or that Canada is soft on Nazis. This was a bureaucratic oversight that had embarrassing fallout. I’m angry that it happened, but let’s have a sense of scale.

Suspensions while under investigation make sense when a person is in a role where their job is to interact with potential victims.

Having a policy that suspends employees while they are under investigation increases opposition to investigations.

I have had issues with the wifi on mine. Frequently losing connection and having to restart the network adapter or reboot entirely.

Adjusting the wifi to avoid 802.11ax seems to have resolved the issue.

I’m with you.

I agree that SM isn’t serving Canadians, and that we should have a system that protects domestic dairy farmers and other ‘staple’ producers as an essential part of our national food security infrastructure. A well regulated market is the answer here.

A bit of a nonsequiter but: Instead of trusting a precariously funded patchwork of volunteer organizations, we should have a national system for getting food to hungry Canadians. I think we should leverage the existing national food distribution oligopoly (Loblaw/Sobey) to accomplish this.

My kids are a similar age to one of the children that died, it’s totally heartbreaking.

To imagine ushering my children out into the bitter bitter cold to try to build them a better life… so sad.

We need to build a world where people are less desperate.

Oxford Economics, a private, for profit, market research firm performed the research.

Profit oriented research firms have an interest in generating headlines which drive institutions to pay for their complete analysis.

Was their research undertaken under their own initiative or was the research commissioned? If commissioned, by whom? and what influence did the commissioning party have over the scope of the research, and the decision to release the brief?

We need independent academia to mitigate the biases of for profit research.

Just my two cents ($0.015 USD).

I’m not so sure. There are some people that oppose any sort of project happening in natural areas. Also there are probably legitimate concerns about pollution and contamination with this project, but idk.

The way they sabotaged the project was by making it harder to cut down trees (ie more likely they’ll damage the logging equipment).

That’s not what I would consider the M.O. of “oil and gas folks”.

I’ve heard of a restaurant in North van that does it, I can’t recall its name though.