A belated case of SIDS
A powerful interview with a suicidal young man.
Wealth tax coming to Canada
In the form of US sized property taxes. As the middle class evaporates, the gap between haves and have nots widens. If you have, and won’t give, they will take. Another bit of globalism fall out.
These days the Dipper government is 100% on the side of the have-nots, wannabes, envious and angry. After all, this is politics. There are way more votes on one side of the ledger than the other. Odds are overwhelming the extra property tax that people living in $3 and $4 million properties now face ($2,000 more a year) will stay. The protest that surrounded Sunday’s event is a lost cause. This is class warfare – the first inklings of a progressive wealth tax in Canada, based on real estate.
Mobility Pricing could come to GTA too if NDP gets in
No doubt congestion pricing is coming to Toronto, since no new roads are being built.
Two possible options for road mobility pricing in Metro Vancouver have been outlined in the final report of TransLink’s Mobility Pricing Independent Commission (MPIC).The MPIC launched in July 2017 with a $2.31 million budget for its research and policy development work, which is guided by a paid 14-member commission supported by a team of researchers and coordinators, and its report presented to the Mayors’ Council this morning is the culmination of all of their work.
Source: Mobility Pricing could cost Metro Vancouver families up to $8 per day | Daily Hive Vancouver
Ever heard of Nauru?
Me neither.
Nauru is a tiny island, population 12,000, a third of the size of Manhattan and far from anywhere: Yet at the center of several of the decade’s biggest global events. Contributing editor Jack Hitt tells the untold story of this dot in the middle of the Pacific and its involvement in the bankrupting of the Russian economy, global terrorism, North Korean defectors, the end of the world, and the late 1980s theatrical flop of a London musical based on the life of Leonardo da Vinci called Leonardo, A Portrait of Love. (30 minutes)
The Algebra of Happiness
Shanghai the Megacity
Communist capitalistships sure can make a city grow fast. Toronto, for all its self promotion, doesn’t hold much of a candle to this place.
200 km of subways in the next three years? Toronto can only dream.
Source: Shanghai: Life in the Megacity – Top Documentary Films
Uplifting Degrassi story
I grew up in subsidized housing with my mom, and spent weekends with my wealthy grandparents at their Bridle Path mansion. If I wanted to be loved, I’d have to learn to live two lives
Lovely story. Sad that your paternal grandparents couldn’t fork over a few shekels for their bloodline, but hardly surprising either. Glad to see you overcame adversity to become a success.
https://torontolife.com/city/life/mom-welfare-dad-hippie-grandparents-two-richest-people-toronto/
What You Eat Matters – 2018 Documentary H.O.P.E.
Another foodie movie exposing the dangers of an animal based diet.
Money laundering and Patrick Brown and the OLG
Was Patrick Brown brought down for trying to expose money laundering?
This commenter lays out the case.