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#541 GaryOak

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Posted 05 March 2023 - 01:26 AM

How do you think it should be downsized if you were given the power to do so while keeping everyday Canadians quality of life the same if not increasing it?

#542 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 05 March 2023 - 01:38 AM

How do you think it should be downsized if you were given the power to do so while keeping everyday Canadians quality of life the same if not increasing it?

 

I'd simply allow it to increase at a rate of no more more than 1% for each of the next 5 years.  That requires no staffing cuts, that will easily be met through attrition, where some staff/positions will not be replaced .  Each ministry would be asked to limit the increases, and each could also make a case for any exception.  But they would generally be free to prioritize the cuts where they can do best.

 

I generally do not look to the government to maintain or moderate my "qualify of life", I'd rather have the extra money in my own pocket to choose on my own how I'd like to make some quality of life improvements for me and my family, with my own money.  I bet it's the same with you, some services the government offers are of no interest to you, as some are of none to me.

 

One of the best ways to find savings is to look for duplication of services between levels of government.

 

Another would be looking at management structures.


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#543 Mike K.

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Posted 05 March 2023 - 08:05 AM

Municipal governments have encroached steadfastly into federal and provincial jurisdictions. That has indeed created a lot of duplication, and has wasted taxpayer dollars.

Like Victoria’s pursuit of legalizing pot. Had we waited a little bit, we wouldn’t have wasted all that money. Also with plastic bags. Sooke never wasted money making up its own regime to control them, then be forced to allow them, then be allowed to choose like Victoria did, by plowing ahead of what the higher levels of governments would do.
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#544 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 05 March 2023 - 08:14 AM

Right and liquor and pot stuff.

 

Why does the local council also need a say when its all regulated by the province.  No need for that additional layer.  

 

Lots of stuff in the building and housing and transportation sectors too that has unnecessary extra layers. 


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#545 Mike K.

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Posted 05 March 2023 - 08:17 AM

Indeed. The municipal housing plans are duplicating provincial and federal plans. It creates a mess, and makes government services less efficient.

Like Victoria buying $10 million worth of land on Pandora. Could the federal government or the province not provided land for a similar project? They own a lot of real-estate around the core, and throughout the CRD. Victoria taxpayers could have used that $10 million on other things.
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#546 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 05 March 2023 - 08:38 AM

We duplicate things with parks/school yards, we have streets and dead spaces that could be fixed for more housing.  We hold property for no good reason.  

 

Here is an example:

 

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Extra street, extra space.

 

 


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Posted 31 March 2023 - 08:41 AM

https://twitter.com/...838701381550091

 

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#548 Nparker

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Posted 31 March 2023 - 08:46 AM

Besides activism, what career is fostered from specializing in "transgender studies" at university?



#549 Barrrister

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Posted 01 April 2023 - 05:01 AM

The career of the people teaching these courses is forwarded. Ramind mind me how much tax money has been spend, including the capital costs of the buildings in providing these classes?



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Posted 01 April 2023 - 04:39 PM

So everyone else who has a degree from UVIC gets to see it devalued so that the University can focus on these activist causes and making themselves a joke to the broader community. 


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#551 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 04 April 2023 - 04:19 PM

Spaces designated for students from marginalized backgrounds are spreading across Canadian universities, as officials say they are a necessary and overdue response to decades of racism on campus.

 

Toronto Metropolitan University officially opened a space late last month for students who self-identify as Black.

 

Cheryl Thompson, an associate professor at the university, said the need for such lounges became increasingly clear following the death of George Floyd, whose 2020 killing by a white Minneapolis Police Department officer sparked protests worldwide.

 

“Something did shift in 2020 institutionally … when the world witnessed the inhumanity in that George Floyd video,” Thompson said about the Black man who was seen in a video using his last few breaths telling the officer kneeling on his neck, “I can’t breathe.”

 

“The demands Black students have been making for decades have finally been heard.”

 

 

https://globalnews.c..._medium=twitter

 

 

 

 

 

 

Segregation.


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#552 Nparker

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Posted 04 April 2023 - 04:22 PM

#everyonesavictim

#553 amor de cosmos

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Posted 29 April 2023 - 06:26 AM

The University of Victoria will lead a national, multi-partner research initiative that will help get Canada to net zero—one community at a time—with thanks to an $83.6-million investment from the Canada First Research Excellence Fund (CFREF).
 
The funding for Accelerating Community Energy Transformation (ACET) will support the work of more than 40 partners from academia, First Nations, private, public and philanthropic organizations.
 
“Canada has a tremendous opportunity to lead the transition toward renewable energy-based solutions that respect and leverage local realities,” says Kalynchuk. “Locally, nationally and globally, local community leadership and Indigenous knowledge are necessary for us to achieve our decarbonization and clean energy goals. This initiative will leverage UVic’s decades of expertise in interdisciplinary and community-based research.”

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the other projects https://www.canada.c...stitutions.html



#554 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 29 April 2023 - 06:31 AM

^ rubbish
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#555 Mike K.

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Posted 29 April 2023 - 08:15 AM

Imagine where we’d be with the “electric car revolution” if it hadn’t been for one entrepreneur who just decided to go for it.

One man’s vision and investment will do more for societal change than legions of the these research efforts ever will.
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#556 Matt R.

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Posted 29 April 2023 - 07:40 PM

Has a Uvic phd student come to sample my black water tank last week. Stirred things up quite a bit I think. Stinky.

#557 amor de cosmos

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Posted 29 April 2023 - 08:49 PM

20-second google search
 

Imagine where we’d be with the “electric car revolution” if it hadn’t been for one entrepreneur the government who just decided to go for it.

One man’s vision and investment massive government subsidies & incentives will do more for societal change than legions of the these research efforts ever will.

as of january this year: https://driveteslaca...ter-price-cuts/

& 2021:

On Monday after the close of business, Tesla announced its Q1 2021 financial results in its quarterly earnings call. The company turned a surprisingly large profit this quarter, but it didn’t do it by selling cars. Q1 net profit reached a new record for Tesla, at $438 million. Revenue for the electric car company was up massively to $10.39 billion. Unfortunately, all of that profit is accounted for in the company selling $518 million in regulatory credits, and $101 million was found in buying and then later selling Bitcoin.
 
That second point is particularly interesting, as Tesla purchased $1.5 billion worth of BTC, announced that the company would begin accepting BTC as payment for its cars, which drove up the value of BTC, then sold enough BTC to make a hundred million in profit. Strange how that works, eh? Surely nothing untoward going on there. Not at all. DOGE TO THE MOON! #hodlgang
 
Without the $619 million in credits and BTC sales, Tesla would have actually managed to lose $181 million in Q1. In that time, the company shifted 184,800 3/Y units, and while it didn’t build a single X or S in Q1, it sold 2020 units from previously-built inventory. That means the company lost around $970 per car sold in Q1.

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#558 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 30 April 2023 - 03:32 AM

Q1 of 2021 might as well be 1867 for Tesla.

It’s a completely different picture today.

Today they produce 2x more cars each day.

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#559 amor de cosmos

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Posted 30 April 2023 - 06:10 AM

the "one man" with vision must have been president obama. here he is at the 2011 sotu:

This is our generation’s Sputnik moment.  Two years ago, I said that we needed to reach a level of research and development we haven’t seen since the height of the Space Race.  And in a few weeks, I will be sending a budget to Congress that helps us meet that goal.  We’ll invest in biomedical research, information technology, and especially clean energy technology -– (applause) -- an investment that will strengthen our security, protect our planet, and create countless new jobs for our people.
 
Already, we’re seeing the promise of renewable energy.  Robert and Gary Allen are brothers who run a small Michigan roofing company.  After September 11th, they volunteered their best roofers to help repair the Pentagon.  But half of their factory went unused, and the recession hit them hard.  Today, with the help of a government loan, that empty space is being used to manufacture solar shingles that are being sold all across the country.  In Robert’s words, “We reinvented ourselves.”

That’s what Americans have done for over 200 years: reinvented ourselves.  And to spur on more success stories like the Allen Brothers, we’ve begun to reinvent our energy policy. We’re not just handing out money.  We’re issuing a challenge.  We’re telling America’s scientists and engineers that if they assemble teams of the best minds in their fields, and focus on the hardest problems in clean energy, we’ll fund the Apollo projects of our time.

At the California Institute of Technology, they’re developing a way to turn sunlight and water into fuel for our cars.  At Oak Ridge National Laboratory, they’re using supercomputers to get a lot more power out of our nuclear facilities.  With more research and incentives, we can break our dependence on oil with biofuels, and become the first country to have a million electric vehicles on the road by 2015.

https://obamawhiteho...e-union-address
 
that's why we saw announcements like this in 2016

The Obama Administration is committed to taking responsible steps to combat climate change, increase access to clean energy technologies, and reduce our dependence on oil. Already, in the past eight years the number of plug-in electric vehicle models has increased from one to more than 20, battery costs have decreased 70 percent, and we have increased the number of electric vehicle charging stations from less than 500 in 2008 to more than 16,000 today – a 40 fold increase. But there is more work to do. That is why, today, the Administration is announcing key steps forward to accelerate the utilization of electric vehicles and the charging infrastructure needed to support them.

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#560 Mike K.

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Posted 30 April 2023 - 06:54 AM

^how’s any of that going? It’s just fluff.

Musk launched the EV revolution. It wasn’t even on the radar when he began work on EVs. Now everyone’s jumping into the fray, and government is setting policy not on that water/sunlight fuel you mention, but Tesla. Tesla just went and did while everyone else studied it and talked about it.

We know that, because Obama didn’t make a 2035 deadline. Governments only did it because of what Tesla accomplished a decade later. And the US government’s promotional EV events refused to invite Tesla to their EV policy pressers. Brutal.

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