Scott

Occasionally on here, but mostly not. 🇨🇦 living in 🇺🇸

[Scott @Scott_dLB]

@ToonTownDano When someone declares war on the Federation, they send Starfleet, a uniformed, permanently armed service with a well defined rank structure and chain of command as their warfighting force. Thats a military.

It may not have been Roddenberry's intent but that's what it is.

[Scott @Scott_dLB]

Starfleet is a military force and I'm tired of pretending it is not

[Dr. Dad, PhD 🔄🔼◀️🔽▶️ @GarrettPetersen]

Give me your best Star Trek nitpicks. No reasonable criticisms or analysis, I'm talking real pedantic here.

[Jen Gerson @jengerson]

"Last week, some MPs felt the prime minister’s message was that he’s not interested in what they have to say."

My guys, you ran the country into the ground for ten years. The time of other people being interested in what you have to say has passed.

[Basil🧡 @LinkofSunshine]

Creating a certificate of need to open a corner store is unserious policy

[Millennial Moron @Mill_Moron]

OAS is the largest line item in the budget, and the income allowance before clawbacks begin is huge. Like it or not, it's the lowest-hanging fruit if you want to cut federal spending.

[Scott @Scott_dLB]

@RChinYVR There will be some distribution from airports to rail. But most of that will be from SeaTac, with a smaller amount from Portland. With all the other stops being south of the boarder an air to rails hub in Vancouver makes no sense compared to a downtown terminus

[Scott @Scott_dLB]

This makes no sense. HSR would go south from Vancouver to Seattle and Portland. If you're going to travel there you'd fly there directly, not through YVR.

HSR should connect to downtown, not the airport.

[Daily Hive Vancouver @DailyHiveVan]

High-speed rail terminus station should be at Vancouver International Airport, says YVR CEO 🚝
https://t.co/GU0H2cXIM5

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

The progressive idea of "Let's make everyone equal at math by just not making anyone learn math" is going just about as well as you'd expect

[Scott @Scott_dLB]

@neoliberalAB @kaclk Yeah, from what I understand declining to hear a case is the SCC equivalent of "no comment"

[Scott @Scott_dLB]

@kaclk @neoliberalAB And even if that is wrong the SCC procedurally could always hear the cowichan appeal when it finally makes its way up there. Supreme Courts sometimes wait for an appellate split before weighing in instead of taking the first case that gets appealed to them

[Scott @Scott_dLB]

@kaclk @neoliberalAB IIRC the Wolastoqey case has not been finally decided and what made it to the appeals court was on the specific issue of whether the nation could seek a title declaration over private property, but having exhausted this appeal it is returned to the trial court to finish the case.

[Scott @Scott_dLB]

@kaclk Yeah thats fair, I just dont think we can presume it settles it. Appellate splits aren't uncommon, especially on contentious issues where the case law is still being developed.

Until the appeals court in BC rules on it, I'm not presuming any outcome

[Josh Dehaas @JoshDehaas]

This is not accurate. Just because the SCC refused to hear Wolastoqey doesn't mean they upheld it or agreed with the AT comments. The main issue wasn't AT but procedural; the FN argued that the comments on AT and private land were obiter dicta. The case to watch now is Montrose.

[Scott @Scott_dLB]

@marissenmark We shouldn't read too much into the SCC declining to hear the case. That means the appeals court ruling out of NB is not binding national precedent and is at most a persuasive not binding decision to the BC courts.

[Scott @Scott_dLB]

@CrashKate The thing is we've had a planning frame work that has sought to do the opposite & suppress value. Read any CoV planning doc, they are full of concern about land owners realizing too much gain from planing changes & go out of their way to mitigate it. Yet the city is unaffordable

[Scott @Scott_dLB]

The framing of this piece is bizarre. Relaxing building restrictions doesn’t create value so much as it is a case of the government not actively destroying value

[The Vancouver Sun @VancouverSun]

Opinion: From exception to entitlement: What Vancouver’s tower review is really about https://t.co/VDd6em4cZp

[Scott @Scott_dLB]

@CrashKate View cones and set backs definitely do.

Fire codes are about protecting the building and occupants, not artificially limiting the size of the building like zoning, so they are value add.

Heritage rules are a mixed bag, but there are some that are a net negative (ie BowMac sign)

[Neetu Arnold @neetu_arnold]

Another example why high school grades aren’t the most reliable indicator for academic competency:

Over 25% of students enrolled in a UC course “intended to fill the gaps in elementary & middle school math” had 4.0 GPAs in high school math 😬

[Mark Marissen @marissenmark]

A national leader should stand for national unity and not treat some separatists as more “worthy” than others.

Avi Lewis is not helping Canada here.