This is fucking stupid. I have lived around this area for my entire life and literally everyone who doesn’t live on a reserve (and isn’t part of an actual town) have wells or cisterns that were paid with privately.

The only thing stopping someone from getting their own well would be if the ground water isn’t available (very low probability that everyone around the reserve has ground water but the reserve doesn’t) or that the ground water is contaiminted (also very low probability for the same reason as before, and especially because contamination that bad would have a huge affect downstream in the Grand River).

Like shit, I have both a well and a cistern, as do all my neighbours around me… If someone could explain why wells and cisterns don’t work on this particular reserve I’d really appreciate it.

So what exactly is your argument about legally being allowed to possess the means to properly defend ourselves?

Considering that the US has less murders per gun than Canada does, I’m not sure issue is the guns.

I mean, the US does it better than any other western nation, we could at least be on par with them

True, though it’d be nice if it were legally recognised.

Also, governments are responsible for the most murders in history (excluding actual wars… which are also caused by governments) so wanting to protect yourself from the state isn’t a massive leap in logic or conspiracy’s territory.

Agreed, this is why we should be allowed to arm ourselves (among other reasons)

Maybe I don’t give a fuck if it’s a for-profit news publisher? History shows that entirely government funded news sources turn out much worse.

Sorry, I no longer realise what is and isn’t paywalled because I have the extension that bypasses the paywall so I don’t know it’s even there.

Get an extension to bypass the lay wall, easy-peasy

Hahahahaha, because Hamas/Palestians and basically every Muslim country treats LGBTQ people so well…

I challenge these Pride organisations to go run a Pride Parade pretty kuch anywhere in the Middle East except Israel and see what happens.

They needed the government funding approved in order to award the contract and the approval process (which required all bids to be submitted, not just the planned awarded one) unexpectedly took 9 months with the feds. It wasn’t a municipal project either, it was a local nonprofit org.

I work a lot with the architect that is overseeing the project and not once did they complain about having to submit extra info to the fed (and I have a pretty solid relationship with them so while not completely professional to complain like that it’s the type of thing that would have come up in side conversations in-person when meeting up for other projects)

Not sure it’s illegal but I’ve never seen it done. Every front end specification I’ve seen says the contractor must hold their price for 30/60 days and many of them stipulate by what date the contract is expected to be awarded.

If the type of pricing you say was submitted when it wasn’t asked for the bid would be tossed for not conforming to the required format. If that type of pricing was asked for you’d have pricing all over the place and you’d probably end up with a shitty contractors who bud extra low and bank on a drawn out approval process getting the job for less than they can actually do it for (and cutting corners like crazy)

The issue is that nobody really expected the approval to be that drawn out.

The main issue with our telecom industry is that it’s heavily protected by government regulation.

The government can be efficient and competent if it wants to be.

See, this is the problem with the typical mindsets of people who support the parties that make in into the HoC (and many people who support parties who don’t): you can’t count on the government (or anyone or any organization for that matter) being benelovent all the time, especially when it doesn’t align with their own interests. You need to design a system where benevolence is always a byproduct of acting in one’s own interest, and what is described in the comment I replied to isn’t it.

The CMHC isn’t a constructor, they have no way of building houses themselves. They need to pay people to build it through their funding, except them providing funding comes with issues too.

I am a designer on a low-income apartment building being constructed by a non-profit organization in Niagara Region and it is 100% government funded (through CMHC I believe). The government took nearly 9 months to approve the funding after all the bids by constructors were received around April 2022 and given the rate of inflation at the time (and construction inflation was higher than the general rate) no subtrades held their price. The government refused to increase the funding to cover the extra cost due to inflation and as a result this building is being value engineered to high heaven and will probably be pretty terrible build quality.

What you’re asking for is effectively a blank cheque for subtrades (and to an extent, designers… even if CMHC uses generic plans everywhere they need local professionals to take responsibility for the permitting process of each individual build, which includes regular inspections and reports) because none of these people trust that the government is competent enough to actually do it properly so they price high to account for fuck ups. (Ex. If CMHC handed me plans to be used I definitely would not blindly sign things off for the local AHJ and put my professional license at risk)

We’re 4 years on in less than a month, do you think that if the Liberals and RCMP really knew what they were doing they’d have at least started confiscating by now, especially since these guns are apparently too dangerous for regular citizens to own?

Wes Winkel is a jackass so take all the runs at him you want, but the article is very much news.

Buying a pile of guns is a good investment regardless.

This has nothing to do with 3D printing and everything to do with the government being incompetent when it comes to gun control (which is par for the course)

I think you’re mixing up Blackrock and Blackstone… Blackstone is the one that’s far, far more heavily into real estate.

The vast majority of federal and provincial politicians, the leaders of companies like SNC, Irving, Loblaws, Bell, Rogers, Telus, Metro, Sobeys. None-exhaustive list of course.