Check your population density numbers for any European country against Canada, or in fact, any Canadian province.
AnotherDirtyAnglo
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If subsidizing flights from Europe to increase economic activity and build a tourism industry is the goal, then a portion of those proceeds should be earmarked directly to expanding and improving air access to other parts of the province - because unfortunately, it's not the people flying from Labrador to St. Johns who are bringing thousands of dollars/euros with them to stay in fancy hotels and eat at a restaurant three meals a day.
If this is indeed the plan, it needs to be recognized that it's risky, and may work... Leading to being worse off overall.
Just out of curiousity, is there an Amazon competitor for online shopping? I mostly use eBay and AliExpress for tech stuff, but the $3/month grab after spending $120/year on Prime is just bullshit.
Heh. My chronically ill mother moved to AB to 'be more free' after pissing off literally all her friends and family with her anti-vax and conspiracy theory bullshit... I'm curious to see how she's going to fare in the freedom-loving healthcare system that's being planned.
I've done this a few times... Once, the Via train Toronto to Montreal was delayed because of a 'jumper', and the related police investigation... Rather than just sit there, I went and rented a car, walked into the departure lounge and said, "I just rented a car, I'm going to Montreal, I have room for four people, I'm leaving in 5 minutes."
I got four older women who took me up on the offer, and I dropped them off at Dorval and Gare Central. We had a great time, but it was short lived. :)
Keep voting against your own interests, and keep reaping the rewards, Alberta!
I suspect it would result in permanent minorities, and the growth of smaller, more local parties. I'm no political scientist, but as far as I can tell, formalized political parties are just magnets for corruption and consolidation of power that's for sale to anyone with a fistfull of disposable cash.
Even the used ones are still pricey. I'd get a 10 year old Tesla Model S for $25k before I'd spend $35k on a used Bolt.
Yeah, I had to cut Mom off long before her move... The constant stream of agitated nonsense was corrosive to my mental health. I kept lying awake at night, trying to figure out how to battle the onslaught of total bullshit from Facebook and the far-far-right blogs that her boyfriend kept feeding her... In the end I figured that I couldn't defend against the entire internet and some dickhead who lived with her 24x7x365, so I walked away.
There's only two scenarios I can envision -- I get the call that she's been hospitalized and to come get her, or I somehow find out she's died. I'm not sure how I'll deal with either, but I'll know that she did it to herself by believing the bullshit over her last living relative.
Doesn't matter unless they modernize the building codes -- which includes things like heat pumps / air exchangers / radon remediation / greywater systems... All things that make a house better, but also cost more money -- adding to the affordability crisis.
Kids nowadays are so fucked.
People don't care about it until they get bitten. Then they act all outraged and make outrageous demands for compensation.
A buddy of mine is desperately working with grid-scale green energy companies to integrate second-life batteries into their production, to smooth out demand on the grid.