I suspect it will be several years off. And is as likely to come from BC as Alberta.

I am increasingly coming to the view that at some point in my lifetime there is going to be a significant constitutional amendment with respect to a lot of these issues, because the current path seems unsustainable

That would be dropping a nuclear bomb on national unity and supercharge a combination of western populism and separatism.

That said they have been incorporated into the constitution so it is very difficult to see how they could be ruled unconstitutional.

The B-52 might have a head start, but at this rate I wouldn't bet against the A-10 ending up with the longer service life

Very much so

California seems to be very good at mixing the worst urges of western cowboy libertarianism with micromanaging progressivism.

Like, I should have a god given right to build in wildfire zones, but also it should be illegal to build tall buildings in Santa Monica

Pretty decent chance that if the building was built in the last couple decades in Japan it has seismic isolators, which will significantly reduce what you'd feel

Eby is toast, it's only a matter of time

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First Nations say Eby backs down again on B.C. Indigenous law Two First Nations leadership sources say B.C. Premier David Eby is backing down again on the suspension of key parts of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act.

Eby just pulled yet another reversal. At this point he is on borrowed time

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Probably a factor but I think they found the political ground fell out from under them on reconciliation and are stumbling around trying to figure out what to do.

They're caught between their base/caucus, FN and the public and aren't able to find a path forward

More elaborating on each other's points.

Agreed, though with the carbon tax they didn’t keep changing plans every other week

Maybe, but they were shambolic last time and still came within spitting distance of winning with less favourable background conditions. Not out of the question but a hell of a thing to gamble the future of a government on

Oh it would have been a disaster to go the polls on this issue. Not only is public opinion against them but it divides their base.

But this only buys them time. The longer they delay resolving things to the satisfaction of the public the more damage they are going to take before the next election.

Eby pulled back on this being a confidence motion. Gives the opposition limited options to force an election on this until the next throne speech or budget

A must read

I listened to Corey for years on the Strategists podcast. I don't think political strategist Corey would have ever recommended a "you don't know how good you have it" message

I'm still angry that he had 4 years (really 8) to get the country ready and instead wasted it by treating everything after the NAFTA renegotiate as business as usual

We're talking about people with a $185k income. Their retirement is already easy.

Even if a little bit more gets recouped in taxes, its still a poor use of funds to be subsidizing the wealthy instead of funding affordable housing or supporting low income seniors

That is an unfair characterization of Kershaw's position that OAS should have greater means testing with the funds that were subsidizing $185k/yr households going low income seniors, affordable housing

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B.C. faces surge in electricity demand, looks to dust off big dam plans Energy Minister has asked BC Hydro to look at new sources of power with no ideas barred from discussion

Woah, digging up ideas like a 'Site E' Dam and a scheme closed in 2016 to install a gigawatt of run-of-river projects on the Bute Inlet tributary systems www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/briti...

Sure, but I don't find we're all going down on the ship together to be that comforting, karma or not.

I try not to succumb to pessimism, but having watched what should have been the obvious inflection point amount to nothing its hard not to.

The sense of urgency and unity from the sovereignty threats lasted all of 3 months before returning to the status quo with a slightly punchier gloss on it.

There are a few publications that also appreciate the state of sclerosis. The Line most notably.

But the country is not going to change because Matt Gurney writes a few more columns. At some point a decent chunk of the population has to wake up and pull out of the slow nose dive to avoid disaster.

The Carney government seems to he under the impression that the problem with past defense procurement is we didn't do enough to turn them into a jobs patronage program

Considering self driving vehicles have a lower accident rate than human drivers (and the tech is only going to keep improving). I think we can put this down as a clear win in the way that is much less clear for the glorified predictive text machines

Such a bummer knowing left wing transit advocacy groups are going to spend the next few decades campaigning against autonomously driven buses (which could drastically increase service hours) because they prioritize the demands of transit unions, not the riding public.

I’m gonna be the cranky contrarian here and loudly say “nope”:

1) we don’t lack for places to install solar,
2) above-ground parking is a blight on our cities,
3) it should be redeveloped into better uses, and
4) putting solar panels above parking lots is an obstacle to developing them.

That paper is contemporary with the build out of the West End

Also wild to consider how old a lot of buildings are and when structural engineers and building code writers developed their understandings of earthquakes

downwardly mobile gentrifiers want riding the subway to be Cool, urbanists want the least cool person you know to prefer riding the subway to owning a car