@sandlapper37 Marriage shouldn't be about waiting for "the one" who is absolutely perfect either. No one's absolutely perfect, neither are you. If you want to get married and have kids, find someone you think you'll be generally happy with and whom you think will be generally happy with you and choose to love that person as much as you can.
A President Gore would have made #ClimateChange a much higher priority, but I don't know if he would have gotten any relevant legal changes through Congress in 2000 to 2008.
@evan The impression I get from the news is that such occupations/encampments generally contain elements who cross two critical lines: from pro-Palestinian to pro-Hamas and from anti-Israeli-government-policy to anti-local-Jews. Hence I'm negative overall.
I would like to believe that such elements are merely a radical fringe, condemned by the vast majority of protesters. I welcome evidence to that effect.
@evan Yelled at? The admonishment seems to have been "On behalf of the House of Commons, I admonish you." Mr. Firth should have received a real dressing-down from the Speaker.
@evan I'm not at all convinced that Canada shutting down domestic fossil fuel production is desirable. The burning of fossil fuels is not supply-constrained, and any decrease in Canadian production would merely be replaced by production elsewhere in the world.
We have to cut carbon emissions by reducing demand, since we have so little leverage over global supply.
"[T]he parliamentary budget officer, wrote in a report last year: “When both fiscal and economic impacts of the federal fuel charge are considered, we estimate that most households will see a net loss.” He estimated that for the 2024-25 fiscal year, the carbon tax would cost the average household between $377 and $911 after accounting for rebates and factoring in the economic cost of lower incomes."
Personally, I mostly agree with Minister Guilbeault: #ClimateChange is a serious problem for the world; Canadians ought to do our share to reduce carbon emissions; increasing the cost of emissions is in principle an economically efficient way to do so.
That said, there are empirical questions: How much is the #CarbonTax reducing emissions? Are there other measures that would have similar effects at lower cost? Premier Moe is not wrong when he says natural gas exports can be beneficial on net.
@evan I went travelling at one point in my life, and bought new shoes in preparation for all the walking I anticipated. I gradually broke them in, but the day before my departure I walked to the post office without socks. I blistered the backs of my ankles that day, and for the ensuing month my skin had no chance to heal.
@evan I was a delegate at a leadership convention in 2003, in Toronto. It's a perfectly legitimate process, and a lot of fun for party activists as well as the media.
But in the case you're thinking of, I think the real issue is not that pundits want an exciting convention, it's that they want a candidate with a higher likelihood of victory.
@evan I remember the conversation Prof. Cowen did with #JohnMcWhorter: he started with a question having to do with a relatively obscure part of Prof. McWhorter's research, and there was this... shocked pause as McWhorter realised that the interviewer had read a huge part of his writings.