Sara Hastings-Simon 🇨🇦

or you can also mean - I want it to be like it was when I moved here, that for a relatively modest amount of money you could buy a small house on a large lot and live in this nice neighbourhood. Which is understandable that one might feel this way, but its not reality today and unhelpful to pretend

Now maybe what some people mean is - I would rather have big multimillion dollar mansions being built than townhomes. Which is certainly a preference you can have. But then you should say that, not "its making housing unaffordable"

I'm very curious to see what the cost/layout of our first townhome infill is. The bungalows they are replacing sold for over $1 million and have generally 3 bedrooms up plus a single bathroom and a basement with a second bathroom. Not a popular floor plan these days.

Screenshot from the wayback machine capture of the Pathways Alliance press release which states: PHASE ONE Pathways Alliance advances net zero emissions plan October 14, 2022 Significant progress achieved on early-stage work for oil sands carbon capture and storage network CALGARY - Oct. 14, 2022 - The Pathways Alliance, representing Canadas six largest oil sands companies, is advancing early work necessary to build one of the world's largest carbon capture and storage (CCS) facilities in the oil sands region of northern Alberta. The CCS project is the primary focus of phase one of Pathways Alliance's ambitious plan to reduce annual emissions from oil sands operations by 22 million tonnes by 2030 and achieve a goal of net-zero emissions by 2050.

I will not stop pointing out that the emissions cap target for oil sands is slightly below that of the Pathway Alliance's own commitment they made, in print, for emission reductions by 2030 of 22 million tonnes. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

It bugs me that the discussion seems to be framed as either keeping the existing homes or building larger infills, when, other than in a handful of cases, that isnt really the alternative.

Farkas gave an example from the Glamorgan neighbourhood, where he said $600,000 bungalows are being torn down and replaced with $750,000 luxury condos.

The alternative to old bungalows being torn down and replaced by a number of condos or townhomes that costs roughly the same is the old bungalow being torn down and replaced by a large house that costs 3x as much.
This is literally what happened before rezoning

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

by the way - if I know you on here and you live in Calgary and you ever need some clothing repaired LMK!

I’m trying! We have a postal strike here (but go unions!) so I just need to find a fax machine to send in my vote.

It’s pronounced cyclist.

I think he is looking at you like “when are you going to figure out I actually am yours”

A woman sits at a table behind a sign that says fabric fixers. She is focused on a sewing machine that has a pair of jeans on it.

Volunteering at the fix it clinic this morning. Keeping clothing out of the landfill is a little but highly satisfying act of resistance 💪

Love it!

Fully vested?

A few inches of a vest on circular knitting needles. The yarn is off white/cream colour and the pattern of diamonds is starting to show up

New cast on. Another vest. This time with a fun diamond pattern and seed stitch. I guess I will be wearing vests now.

#knitting #petiteknit #esthervest

screenshot from a website for a massage and spa service in Calgary. There is a woman sitting with her eyes closed looking serene and it appears a mountain lion is giving her a massage, or at least standing over her shoulders.

Just please no with the AI

Aside from all the issues with it, this woman should be way more worried than she is.

I totally missed the y axis!

It also doesn’t seem to give any indication of number of students? (Not that that is the only factor in costs but it plays a role)

This is the worst because as you say, ppl not on bikes are understandably annoyed that someone isn’t using the bike infrastructure but it’s totally unusable in practice

Markings on a poorly constructed side to street bike ramp showing a much wider ramp at a less extreme angle, a physical barrier to prevent cars from parking in the space but also from hitting someone from behind and removing flex posts that would keep any kind of transport cargo or mobility device out

Fixed that for you

I see many things. The ramp is way too narrow and at too much of an angle. The flex posts are obviously in the wrong place and should be not just moved but replaced with a real concrete barrier where the lane starts.

Fuzzy light tan colour alpaca vest with dark buttons laying flat on a table

And fuzzy alpaca vest is done! I quilted the knitting to the flannel lining and it worked very well. I think it will keep the knit from stretching out over time.
#knitting

Thanks! Good point!

How Big Oil helped push the idea of a 'carbon footprint' Your carbon footprint helps you identify actions you can take to personally fight climate change. It also shifts responsibility away from petrochemical companies. If that seems convenient for Big Oil,...

damn it typo - like the carbon calculators 2.0

(which I learned about from @amywestervelt.bsky.social laist.com/news/npr-new...).

retweeting because this is buried at the end of a too long tweet thread but I believe 100% that overusing warning labels is partially about downloading systemic issues including pollution and failure of health care/public policy onto individuals.

its like the carbon calculation 2.0

phew this was a bit long, sorry. With that I'm done and I think I need to go get a drink 🍺

The vast vast vast majority of ppl who see this warning label will never do this calculation. Hell I've done the calculation and I still feel guilty.

And it's also enabling the downloading of systemic issues (health disparities, pollution, etc) on people unfairly.

I think we need to consider the general impact of making people feel bad for how they "caused" their cancer. This is also a real mental distress that will be experienced by 100% of people who get cancer, and in the vast majority of cases it was nothing they did (it was luck, systemic issues, etc)

So we are labeling beer bottles because of a 1% increase due to moderate drinking but not screening women with a 2-3% risk of developing cancer.

*sidenote this is based on a flawed study but thats for another thread.

So let's look at the risks.
The risk of being diagnosed with breast cancer before the age of 50 is like 2-3%.

How so?
The justification* for the recommendation that women in Canada start breast cancer screening at the age of 50 is based on the downside of screening being the worry one has to go through when there is an abnormal finding that might be cancer but isnt. false positives

This could lead to people discounting risks for cancer that a much higher because they get risk overload (im looking at you CA/prop65). Again out of my wheelhouse but still.

But to come back to breast cancer, we actually recognize the risk of mental worry (someone gets me!_