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[claenger @claenger1]

@elliereeves I don’t know. Maybe parent and take some responsibilities.

[Chris Rose @ArchRose90]

Bluesky won’t be included in the under-16s social media ban.

Twitter/X will be.

This is clearly a political decision, nothing to do with child safety.

[KybrdWrrr @KybrdWrrr]

“Respect For Every Dollar” sounds great during an election.

If #yyccc truly respected every dollar, we’d see spending cuts - not a new property tax levy.

$49B infrastructure gap happens when mission creep, subsidies, pet projects & ever expanding bureaucracy take
/2

[Darshan Maharaja @TheophanesRex]

Great digging by @KanwarSierah here.

There are 28K refugees from Uganda being processed for permanent residency of Canada…

… BUT Uganda itself accepts refugees from Somalia.

I think we may be witnessing the Refugee Industrial Complex in its full splendour.

[claenger @claenger1]

@cgy_guy @BagelPolling Instead take it down to 2 senators per province (elected) and from 343 to >99

[Calgary Guy @cgy_guy]

I bought my wife a garden fountain for Christmas. One neighbour loves the peaceful sound of the waterfall. It helps mute the sound of the city.

Last night our other neighbour sends my wife a text asking if our automatic sprinklers are going as it’s not our day for watering.

1. We don’t have auto sprinklers.
2. I’ll guarantee she will rat me out, if I water on the wrong day.
3. This new bylaw won’t save water, it just forces you to fall in line.
3. Fuck the @cityofcalgary, @JeromyYYC, @JenniferWyness, @YuleLoveYYC, @djkelly, @RajDhaliwal_YYC, @John4ward6, @mykeatkinson, @nate_for_8, Harrison Clark and @chabot4ward10

for this stupid overreaching bylaw which will have neighbours ratting on others.

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Je vais partir du principe que tu es de bonne foi, parce que ton raisonnement est intuitif et que 90% des gens le partagent. Mais il repose sur trois erreurs factuelles, et ça vaut le coup de les regarder calmement.

Erreur 1 : la fortune d'Elon n'est pas un tas d'argent. C'est de la propriété d'usines, de fusées et de satellites. "Prendre la moitié de sa tune", concrètement, ça veut dire forcer la vente de la moitié de SpaceX et Tesla. L'argent ne sort pas d'un coffre, il sort des entreprises elles-mêmes, qui passent sous contrôle de fonds étrangers ou d'États. Tu ne redistribues pas du cash, tu démantèles un outil de production. C'est la différence entre récolter des pommes et découper le pommier.

Erreur 2 : "ça résout énormément de problèmes dans le monde". Cette expérience a déjà été tentée, en vrai. En 2021, le directeur du Programme Alimentaire Mondial de l'ONU a affirmé que 6 milliards de Musk pouvaient "résoudre la faim dans le monde". Réponse d'Elon : décrivez-moi exactement comment, comptabilité publique à l'appui, et je vends mes actions Tesla immédiatement. Le PAM a publié son plan. Verdict : ce n'était pas "résoudre la faim", c'était nourrir 42 millions de personnes pendant un an. Un an. Puis il faut re-payer, pour toujours. Le PAM avait d'ailleurs levé 8,4 milliards l'année précédente, et la faim était toujours là. Les ONG traitent les symptômes en boucle, jamais les causes, parce que leur financement dépend de l'existence du problème.

Erreur 3, la plus importante : tu cherches ce qui sort vraiment les gens de la pauvreté. Bonne nouvelle, on a la réponse, et elle est massive. En 1990, 36% de l'humanité vivait dans l'extrême pauvreté. Aujourd'hui, moins de 9%. Plus d'un milliard de personnes sorties de la misère en 30 ans. Par quoi ? Pas par la charité ni par l'aide internationale (plus de 1 000 milliards versés à l'Afrique en 60 ans pour un résultat à peu près nul). Par l'ouverture des marchés, l'industrialisation, le commerce. La Chine seule a sorti 800 millions de personnes de la pauvreté en abandonnant le collectivisme, pas en taxant ses entrepreneurs.

Donc fais le calcul complet. Option A : tu confisques 500 milliards, tu finances quelques années de programmes, l'argent est consommé, et tu as détruit la machine qui produisait les fusées, les voitures électriques et l'internet des zones rurales. Option B : tu laisses le meilleur allocateur de capital de sa génération réinvestir 100% de sa fortune dans des industries qui baissent les coûts pour tout le monde et emploient des centaines de milliers de personnes. L'option A soulage ta morale pendant 18 mois. L'option B sort des populations entières de la pauvreté pour toujours.

La pauvreté ne se redistribue pas. Elle se résout par la création. C'est contre-intuitif, c'est frustrant, mais c'est ce que disent 200 ans de données.

[claenger @claenger1]

@FoodProfessor Can he please stop helping.

[Shane Wenzel @ShaneWenzel]

Andrew, this misses the point.

You can be undecided on separation and still recognize the weakness in your argument.

The question isn’t whether Alberta is currently growing. The question is whether Alberta is reaching its full potential under the current federal framework. Those are not the same thing.

A business can be profitable while facing unnecessary regulation. A worker can succeed despite carrying extra burdens. A province can boom despite policies that many residents believe put it at a disadvantage.

Pointing to Alberta’s economic strength doesn’t answer the concerns being raised. It sidesteps them.

Many Albertans aren’t separatists. Many aren’t even supporters of a referendum. They’re simply asking whether the relationship with Ottawa is serving Alberta as well as it could.

If your response to those concerns is “you’re rich, so stop complaining,” don’t be surprised when more people start questioning the status quo.

The fact that Alberta is succeeding doesn’t prove the critics are wrong. It may simply mean Alberta is strong enough to succeed despite the issues they’re raising.

That’s a debate worth having, not dismissing.

[L. Wayne Mathison @WayneMathison]

Kory Teneycke is free to support whoever he wants, but the problem isn’t whether Pierre is too aggressive. The problem is whether Canada’s results are acceptable after a decade of Liberal government.

Housing affordability has collapsed, productivity has stagnated, investment has lagged, debt has exploded, and millions of Canadians feel they are falling behind.

Too often our media class spends more time critiquing the opposition’s tone than scrutinizing the government’s record. That’s how accountability gets replaced by theatre.

I care a lot less about who the pundits want as prime minister and a lot more about whether Canadians can afford a home, find a doctor, and build a future.

That keeps the focus on policy and outcomes rather than attacking someone’s appearance or weight. It tends to be more persuasive to people who don’t already agree with you.

#fat #stupid #liberal #Ford

[KybrdWrrr @KybrdWrrr]

Find the $s #yyccc

[Cory Morgan @CoryBMorgan]

Yup.

I now have two billboards active in Taber and will soon have a third.

[Nancy Lea @nancyleam]

Because I have been in my current #YYC house a long time and keep records I can inform you that my property tax increases over the last 25 years are as follows:

City of Calgary Up 309%
Province Up 141%

At one time the provincial portion of the tax bill was much higher than the city portion, but that is no longer the case.

A one year or four year time frame doesn’t tell the real story.

[KybrdWrrr @KybrdWrrr]

Neglects to mention the provincial property tax is an education tax. Farkas doesn’t need to worry, I’m watching where my Calgary municipal taxes are spent. Maybe instead of posting videos, Farkas should be looking for the $4.1B NOT spent on water infrastructure.

[Landon Johnston @Landonforward14]

@AlbertaLeonidas @JeromyYYC Very little. We did however use your savings account to artificially offset the tax increase. Not sure why we are parading around with that as a win. The provincial portion of the tax increase was for education.

[KybrdWrrr @KybrdWrrr]

@MikeJamiesonYYC @DarrellSto67629 No, the money shouldn’t be spent on smart meters. Has Admin explained where $4.1B was spent? Calgarians shouldn’t be forced to pay twice for a service they paid for, but didn’t receive.

[Lorrie Goldstein @sunlorrie]

COLUMN: Tax Freedom Day -- Tuesday June 9 -- helps Canadians understand the total tax burden from federal, provincial and municipal governments
'If Canadians paid all their taxes up front, they would work the first 159 days of the year': Fraser Institute https://t.co/d5WugH1OXd

[Notalia @NotaliaMateo]

Trump, the President of another country is responsible for everything happening to Canada.

Carney, the Prime Minister of Canada is not responsible for anything happening to Canada.

Do you see how stupid that sounds?

[Landon Johnston @Landonforward14]

We spent $65k on a river listening hotline and built a Forest Bathing Trail complete with sensory stations.

Remember this come November when we do our budget deliberations and the potential tax increase.

We’re not bathing in the forest… we’re getting bathed in taxes.

Calgary help me out. What other city expenditures should we be scrutinizing for actual results versus the tax dollars they consume?

https://t.co/anrnzejLa4

[Chris Selley @cselley]

"Crackdown"

Jesus Christ, just say nothing.