thisorthatorwhatever

joined 2 years ago

Great car for someone to learn to drive on, especially withing the City of Toronto.

[–] thisorthatorwhatever@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Yes we do. Don't hate democracy.

[–] thisorthatorwhatever@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Look at the size of ridings in 1867, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Pearce_Howland Total Eligible voters 2,243. The winner received 810 votes. By the time riding reached over 30,000 voter participation started to drop significantly.

[–] thisorthatorwhatever@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Still lots of used Smart Fortwo cars around.

[–] thisorthatorwhatever@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Sadly, Nobody cares.

[–] thisorthatorwhatever@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (4 children)

We need two sets of laws for Ontario. In Toronto we want speed cameras, some roads closed to cars. I get that it's not an issue in N. Ontario. I'd even let 14 year olds drive in N. Ontario because of the distances, if we make people start by driving a small 1L car, before being allowed to buy an SUV in the Greater Toronto Area.

[–] thisorthatorwhatever@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I hate that his corruption goes unchecked. The OPP, TPS and other police departments in Ontario all need to held accountable and leadership changed.

[–] thisorthatorwhatever@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (6 children)

The size of ridings is also too big, currently almost over 100,000 people. Should be capped at 30,000. A situation that no one brings attention to.

About half of Ontarians are outright racists, homophobic, and sexist. They just hide it. Never fool yourself into believing otherwise.

Agree with everything that you said...add the size of our ridings at a 100,000 people to 1 representative. Ridings should be no larger than 30,000 people. Many people have never met, or could point out. their rep.

Canada is no where near needing to worry about battery storage. Maybe after 20 years of installing solar, this would be a concern. Currently it isn't.

In reality it's Detroit/Windsor to Quebec City. That's an extra 4million people living in the Detroit area, making the train even more valuable and used.

 

Since the 1960s America has taxed light trucks being imported. Because America didn't have to build light trucks to compete internationally they lost the international market on light trucks. Now nobody wants to buy American cars and trucks because they are not as good as what others countries build. So now America has put up high tariffs to make itself even more isolationist, since they can't compete.

 

N. American cars are garbage. Our garbage car economy is garbage.

What about all the other industries?

 

Ridings in Ontario were historically about 5000 people, with very large ridings hitting 8,000, and nothing in the double digits. Today ridings are 100,000 people.

Look at the difference between 1908 and 2022 Ontario general election, in Toronto.

1908 Ontario general election Toronto South - Conservative win with 5,202 votes of 6,965 cast (75% of the vote). 74.69

2022 Ontario general election Toronto Centre - NDP won with 15,285 votes of 34,921 cast (43.77% of the vote).

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