The study is interesting. It uses a fun natural experiment to validate the hypothesis. At no point do the authors blame changing social mores for the entire decrease in birthrates, but they do say it accounts for a small, but statistically significant proportion.
You aren’t wrong, but, as the authors point out, phones have dramatically changed how we interact.
The number represents the time legislators are legislating. I believe committees only sit while parliament is in session, so this is more or less the maximum time a bill can be discussed and amended.
Generally, I’d consider the ever shrinking number an indication that bills aren’t being appropriately debated. Yes, bills are heavily workshopped before they are presented, but that’s among a small group of people without any public feedback.
Diana Rigg was incredible in The Avengers.
On average, provincial and territorial politicians sat about 47 days in legislatures last year
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The LLM has to choose to use the calculating tools. Gemini tried to do this one solo:
4 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 1+ 2 + 0 = 15
Tbf, it did four of these calculations, and 75% were correct.
In the case of CMHC and Build Canada Homes, we lost 6 months waiting for the new org to be created, and since then we’ve lost time for it to be staffed. The new office probably doesn’t have the same expertise as people who have been following (basically) the same mandate for however long they’ve been working there. The BCH goals (4000 housing units in 2026) are laughable, and there aren’t goals for the longer term.
The CORE thing might be different because it doesn’t have a lead, and the article says it doesn’t have the necessary powers.
I don’t know enough about this stuff to know if shutting down CORE would produce better results. But the CMHC/BCH schism seems like a weird choice. I’m sure Carney had reasons, but they aren’t clear to observers.
It’s weird that they’re eliminating an office meant to do that (I guess?) but introducing new legislation meant to do the same thing.
Carney seems to have a thing for ignoring existing organizations to create new ones with very similar mandates. Like CMHC and Build Canada Homes.
It’s a good rant.
It was good to see the GDP per capita increase as well. I don’t feel like things are getting better, but I hope these job numbers get things moving in a better direction.
Growth last month was concentrated in full-time work, StatCan said, and was widespread across industries.
Construction led the way with a gain of 27,000 jobs, followed by the information, culture and recreation sector and the transportation and warehousing industry. Tariff-sensitive manufacturing also posted job gains in May.
The wholesale and retail trade sector took the heaviest hit with a loss of 35,000 positions in the month.
But Rabbi Grushcow wants to see action beyond the creation of more committees
Woah woah woah. Let’s not get hasty now.
/s
It’s nice to see some good news for a change.
And it’ll be harder for Walmart to close on a whim.
The one sticking out of the pelvis.
I was working at a music festival, schlepping cases of beer. Some guy hit me with “I’m Gord Downie’s cousin, give me one”, I didn’t know who he was talking about, so I told him that and ignored him.
Later, a bunch of Ontarians told me I did that in perfect deadpan. In reality, I grew up on the east coast, where the Tragically Hip wasn’t nearly as popular, so I legitimately had no clue who he was talking about.
This gets the NCD seal of approval: 🦭