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The Truth About the Cowichan Title Decision Separating fearmongering from facts in B.C.’s historic Aboriginal title case.

The Truth About the Cowichan Title Decision
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Stunning! An 8-hour time-lapse to show the Earth is rotating while capturing the Milky Way.

When humans look at something we find beautiful it causes dopamine release in our brains & looking at plants shifts our brain activity away from fight or flight & into rest & digest mode.
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Hey Canadians, here's the email if you want to tell the so-called Leaders Debates Commission what you think of their decision to rescind their invitation to the Green Party to the Fed debates at the last minute. This is how you suppress a party. info@debates-debats.ca

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I still can’t get over how fun it was so go out and canvass for @copevancouver.bsky.social & @seanorr.bsky.social yesterday! The weather was beautiful, we elected a dedicated democratic socialist to city council, and Jaime Stein blocked me on Bluesky :) the day couldn’t have been better

100%. AI is the death of writing, thinking, soul. Avoid it like, well, a contagious virus that's been allowed to spread unchecked and will have devastating consequences for almost everyone down the line.

Not getting much attention, but the Senate GOP is about to start voting - to make sure banks can charge higher overdraft fees. Seriously.

Good time to let your Senators know what you think of that.

Really unsurprising behavior from people affiliated with Ken Sim’s ABC Party. Seen here: an affiliate of @jaimestein.bsky.social holding Jaime’s spot in line to vote while he texts him about the “tr*nnies” standing behind him. Is this the way the ABC Party talks about Vancouver voters? #bcpoli #yvr

If you need hope to take action, will false hope do?

No. Thank you for asking.

So welcome to economics! Cook your own numbers at home! Or it might be safer to start a meth lab.

On the other other hand, average national debt per American is now $106,529 USD (2024) and average nation debt per Canadian was about $33,682. So by that measure, Americans are more than 3 times worse off, maybe much worse off with Le Exchange Rate. 19/x

But in the same period of time, Canadian debt also doubled, from $612BB to $1.2362T in 2024, which seems like something we should know, but whatever, nothing means anything anymore. Anyway, the US is apparently getting more bang for its debt than Canada. 18/x

And also, what debt did the US build up in that 10 year period, to get its growth rate, compared (proportionately) to the debt that Canada build up? The answer is that the US debt DOUBLED from $18.15TT in 2015 to $36.22TT in 2024. Wow! 17/x

Other salient questions would be: which president was responsible for the most growth in the 10 year period chosen? Did Trump trash the economy in his first term, say, and did Biden make a miracle recovery? What is the current trend? Oh, wait, the US economy is crashing. 16/x

So even Google/Fraser AI doesn’t think the US did more than 4 times better than Canada did in the growth department. But the chart says the US did 40 times better. Which makes no sense. So using unknown data sources is one of the best number cookers (#5). 15/x

Here’s what Google AI has to say – again, even when infected by Fraser Institute’s numbers: "From 2015 to 2023, Canada's inflation-adjusted per-person economic growth averaged just 0.3%, which is meaningfully worse than the G7 average of 1.0% and the U.S. average of 1.2%." 14/x

But the truly misleading part is the REST of the above graph. From 2015-2024, US real GDP growth per capita is reported to have averaged around 2%, so that’s where the chart gets its 20% growth rate over 20 years. But others sources differ. 13/x

Also misleading is the use of extrapolation - recent trends say that population growth in Canada is exceeding GDP growth. So the averages above paint too rosy a picture compared to recent trends. The opposite might also have been true. This is another good way to cook the numbers (#4). 12/x

So you can bet whatever uncredited person created the chart above is using mean, not median. Number-cooker #3. 11/x

To which I'd reply, sure, that’s the mean average income, but what’s the median income? That’s when you discover that 0.1% of Canadians actually got WAY richer and 90% of the Canadian public got FUCKED, over those 10 years. 10/x

That's right. Up here in Canada, the numbers say we kept our head above water, overall – everyone is a little better off, on average. 9/x

The chart above says 0.5% per capita growth rate for Canada, without naming the year range, whether its real GDP, etc., but it’s not far off from the number I got. You might say, not bad for a country that added an additional 10% to its population DURING COVID. 8/x

So on the average, that works out to a 0.62% real growth in GDP/capita, over the 10 years from 2015-24. (As with the IPCC, watch out for baseline year changes, an easy way to pull a fast one. Many times people will cherry-pick a particularly good or bad 10 year period. Number-cooker #2) 7/x

Adjusted for inflation (i.e., in 2015 dollars), 2024 CDP was $1.807TT, or about $46,200 per Canadian, apples to apples. That's a 6.2% increase in real GDP (adjusted for inflation, over 10 years, which you'll notice is much lower than the nominal growth rate of 27.5%). 6/x

Calculating it a different way, 2015 CDN GDP was $1.557TT, or about $43,500/per Canadian (man woman and child - this is a silly way to do things but whatever). 2024 GDP was $2.171TT, or about $55,500/Canadian - that's in nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation. 5/x

Except of course the 27.5% doesn’t take account of inflation over the same time period, so it may not be “real” growth, comparing apples to apples in 2015-equivalent dollars. First great way to cook the numbers. 4/x