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[spanky123]

That's my point. Advise the winning cities in advance and their representatives can appear in person. There was no legitimate reason for Lisa Helps to spend my tax dollars to attend this little junket.
 

   CLIMATE EMERGENCY  

 

Personally, I think that the taxpayer will get very little for the $150M being funded through this project. It has more to do with politics then climate change or smart cities in my opinion.

[Mike K.]

Did we know Ubike is now Ugogo?

[Jackerbie]

Did we know Ubike is now Ugogo?

 

Ugogo is the larger mobility company, which includes U-bicycle, U-pool carshare, and U-parqing (sic). U-pool appears to be in its infancy, and U-parqing doesn't exist yet.

[Mike K.]

Interesting. So U-pool and U-parking would have been two of the initiatives that SIPP was backing for its Smart Cities bid, no?

[Jackerbie]

That would be my assumption

[Mike K.]

It makes you wonder if the SIPP bid was lost in part to its backing of so many initiatives on a single private corporation’s services.

[Nparker]

Did we know Ubike is now Ugogo?

Ugagme.

[spanky123]

It makes you wonder if the SIPP bid was lost in part to its backing of so many initiatives on a single private corporation’s services.

 

I think that there is going to be a lot of finger pointing over the next few weeks.

 

The SIPP proposal was really well done. I feel badly for the people that put so much time and effort into it.

Edited by spanky123, 14 May 2019 - 03:14 PM.

[spanky123]

As we speculated, the Mayor's memo to council sounds like SIPP's obituary.

 

Now in year four of its initial term, SIPP is forming an organizational review committee in fall 2019 in order to set the stage for organizational evolution. The Jobs for the Future 2041 Action Plan should consider this evolution.

[Rob Randall]

I've seen some long-term financial graphs but this French one takes the cake.

 

[Mike K.]

The purchasing power in 1376 was something, I tell ya. You could have your cake and eat it too.

[Rob Randall]

dat black death tho

[Nparker]

The purchasing power in 1376 was something, I tell ya. You could have your cake and eat it too.

I understand cake became especially popular in France after Marie Antoinette's endorsement in the late 18th century.

[Victoria Watcher]

I remember the big gdp growth in 1302. what a year let me tell you. what. a. year.

I like how the 1300’s figure is converted for US dollars. huh?

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 22 August 2019 - 10:27 AM.

[Mike K.]

The turnip shortage was a little lame, though.

[AllseeingEye]

Note the spike in the 10-year GDP moving average ~ 1300 AD....all that City of Paris carriage-lane construction clearly stimulated the economy; also answers the mystery of Mike's turnip shortage - all those guild city workers doing the masonry and painting the lanes had to eat something....

[Mike K.]

Our unemployment rate has risen from 3.2% to 3.5%.

[Mike K.]

Nationally we lost 71,000 jobs on the heels of the federal election and unemployment rose to 5.9 from 5.5%.

BC and Alberta led the way.

The US, meanwhile, has the lowest unemployment rate since the late 60s.

[aastra]

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[Hotel Mike]

It's easy to lower the unemployment rate when you give corporations virtual carte blanche in doing business. When you don't have to bother with those pesky environmental assessments, wildlife protection, employment standards and consumer safeguards, it shouldn't be too tough to have strong numbers. But there is more to it than just the number of people looking for work.