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0·3 days agoAll this effort instead of constructing traffic calming road features. Oh wait, that doesn’t generate revenue…
Speed cameras actually generate very little revenue compared to the financial cost of car crashes: Ambulances, drugs, police, surgeons. If fines were to truly reflect the cost of car crashes, they would be significantly higher.
Also, the people who oppose speed cameras will absolutely FREAK OUT if you propose to reduce lanes. Look at what just happened to Toronto bike lanes.
This is a great article from Dalhousie University.
Justin Trudeau tried to reduce the use of single use plastics. He faced enormous political backlash. Danielle Smith, the powerful leader of Alberta, denounced him on social media. Every single day.
Pierre Poilievre, leader of the Conservative Party, campaigned on defending plastics:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/poilievre-scrap-plastics-ban-1.7514037
Poilievre claimed that the federal Plastics ban was inflicting financial pain on Canadian families
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Bri5-IqHqw
Evidence‑based solutions are indeed under political fire.
0·8 days agoThey are not Bezos-rich, but for Charlottesville, Virginia, they are rich.
But they are rich homeowners. This is not vilification. It’s just a description.
I studied in Canada and I left the country a loooong time ago. Yet I still pay close attention to Canadian politics. Because I really want to see Canada improve. How do I say this without offending anyone?
I can speak my mind more bluntly because I’m a foreigner.
Many Alberta politicians act like absolute cunts.
Alberta is one of the Jewels of the Canadian Federation. Named after Princess Alberta the favorite daughter of Queen Victoria, it’s a beautiful province that was blessed with enormous ressources.
In 1974, the New York Times reported the province has so much money it doesn’t know what to do with it:
ALBERTA FLOODED WITH OIL REVENUE
At time when most governments at every level, are struggling hard to stay solvent, Alberta, which produces 83 per cent of Canada’’ oil, has more money than it knows what to do with.
Yet all I hear is constant whining, whining, whining, whining, whining.
According to Statistics Canada, under Justin Trudeau, Alberta reached the highest oil production levels in history. In fact, Justin Trudeau opened a brand new pipeline:
Despite this, all I keep hearing from Alberta politicians is how the evil Justin oppressed/raped/murdered/despised hard working ordinary Albertans folks.
One of the responsibility of having enormous natural ressources is managing sustainably to ensure the next generations can live in a good environment
Yet Alberta politicians just keep whining about environmental rules. If they want their constituents to have cancer because of heavy metals from fracking and mining, if they want their rivers polluted by single-use plastics, I honestly don’t care.
The core issue is these Alberta corrupt politicians seem determined to blow up the planet, claiming there is no alternative. Fort McMurray burned the fuck down. Jasper burned the fuck down. But clearly the Alberta political leaders learned nothing from it.
My advice to the great people of Alberta: Take back your province. Improve the education system. Alberta has produced many great artists, historians, authors, scientists. You gave Canada many great figures. Develop your province is a sustainable way so your children can be proud of you and have a healthy environment.
You deserve so much better than the current mess.
0·10 days agoOh hey, you’re back. 954 posts in 19 days. Still absolutely normal. Nothing suspicious here…
I’m posting an absolute SHIT-TON of content because I want to support Lemmy.
I will spare you the pain of reading through all my Lemmy posts to try to build my psychological profile. (some people will definitely do that). There is no need for it. You can just ask.
I speak fluent french and lived in Canada for a while. I hate car dependency and I’m very worried about pollution. I hate economic concentration, advertising, and I want stronger labor rights. But I lean centrist socially. I have a lot of free time and try to encourage people to participate to politics. I love open source software like Gimp, Krita, VLC, LibreOffice. I don’t like AI.
Any question you have ?
you’ll get one while not breaking any law.
(Evidence required)
a 2 week old account with over 800 posts. Looks like a bot, smells like a bot.
I’m not a bot. I’m just posting a shit-ton of content to support Lemmy.
I was a victim of a car crash because some selfish asshole didn’t respect the red light. Don’t expect any sympathy from me. Red light cameras are a tax on those who break the law.
0·13 days agoSorry!! I thought it could also belong here
Without identifying anyone by name, Roberts clearly referenced Republican President Donald Trump and Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer of New York when he said he has felt compelled to issue public rebukes of figures in both parties in recent years.
This is just absurd.
Senator Schumer criticized the Supreme Court after ProPublica investigations showed they took secret luxury trips with Billionaires:
👉 https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-scotus-undisclosed-luxury-travel-gifts-crow
👉 https://www.propublica.org/article/samuel-alito-luxury-fishing-trip-paul-singer-scotus-supreme-court
Some Billionaires even bought property for Clarence Thomas:
👉 https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-harlan-crow-real-estate-scotus
Trump repeatedly attacked a U.S Federal Judge, calling him a Mexican:
https://edition.cnn.com/2017/04/20/politics/donald-trump-gonzalo-curiel-jake-tapper-transcript
https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article81537817.html
https://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/donald-trump-judge-gonzalo-curiel-223849
Last march, after a Judge ruled against him, President Trump called him a crook who should be impeached:
Trump and Schumer are not remotely comparable. .
0·14 days agoC’est fixé.
0·14 days agoAs a non-Brit, I see what’s happening as a slow motion car wreck.
Marine Lepen MPs won 40% of the votes in the first round of the parliament elections. Luckily, France has 2 round parliamentary elections. You vote in the first round elections. Only 2 MPs remain. Then, two weeks later, you vote in the second round. In the second round, everyone rallied against Lepen MPs.
If France used the First-Past-The-Post voting system, Marine Lepen would be ruling the country with an absolute majority.
0·15 days agoI should have read the rules carefully. I will delete it!!
Since when Iran has any terrorists in the united state and canada?
**Are you serious? **
Iranians agents tried to kidnap a woman in New York City
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/13/nyregion/iran-masih-alinejad-kidnapping.html
Iran agents tried to blow up the Saudi Ambassador to the United States
https://edition.cnn.com/2013/05/30/justice/new-york-saudi-assassination-plot
In Canada, Iran is using private investigators to target political opponents:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/iranian-intelligence-surveillance-allegation-canada-1.6692075
As part of her climate change plan, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo is pedestrianizing streets, building bike lanes, and planting trees. The goal is to reduce carbon emissions, reduce traffic noise and make the city more able to resist heat.
She has been very aggressive and upset some car drivers. But the results are starting to pay off.
Controversial opinion: This is actually a very good thing.
If you get your information from serious news organizations (PBS, CBC, BBC, Reuters, NYT, The Guardian) you are now in the minority.
Most people now get their information from television and social media influencers:
Bill Gates may have a shit-ton of money but he has no power.
There is a reason why many members of Congress privately say they fear Musk:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/us/politics/musk-house-republicans-trump.html
He can take them down by changing what their constituents see on their feed.
It’s not an impression. It’s a fact.
Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in his 2005 questionnaire:
The newsroom ProPublica found that for several years, Clarence Thomas was paid by a group of Billionaires:
https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-scotus-undisclosed-luxury-travel-gifts-crow
In June, ProPublica reported that Samuel Alito accepted a flight on billionaire Paul Singer’s private jet before the Supreme Court ruled on a business matter involving Singer’s hedge fund
https://www.propublica.org/article/samuel-alito-luxury-fishing-trip-paul-singer-scotus-supreme-court
Paul Singer is a close friend of Rupert Murdoch, who owns The New York Post, the Wall Street Journal and Fox News. So the Wall Street Journal allowed Samuel Alito to attack ProPublica journalists:
Billionaire Rupert Murdoch personally attended events with Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas.
The Wall Street Journal isn’t exactly a neutral source of information. In fact, CBS describes Rupert Murdoch as a “friend of Clarence Thomas”
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/movie-on-clarence-thomas-dropped/
Canada has a very high immigration rate combined with strict zoning rules.
The result? The country is facing the worse housing crisis in the Western world. Rents have increased at double digits. Homelessness has skyrocketed. People are ending up on the streets. Landlords are abusing vulnerable women.
Olivia Chow claims to be a progressive fighting for ordinary people.
That turned out to be a lie. If you live in a country with a major housing crisis and oppose making housing more affordable, you aren’t a progressive.