Elliot Rossiter

Declaration Act - FNLC - First Nations Leadership Council

This website is a useful resource for understanding misinformation related to DRIPA: www.fnlc.ca/declaration-...

Premier Eby's rhetoric on this topic - e.g., British Columbians should be in control rather than the courts, the act is confusing - is sophistry that obscures the basic point that human rights legislation should allow for judicial review of cases if it is to play a role in safeguarding those rights.

The provincial government should heed Grand Chief Stewart Phillip's statement that DRIPA must be justiciable in court to be meaningfully oriented toward reconciliation.

My main Kraftwerk connection is learning that "fun" and "fahren" sound similar, having misinterpreted their autobahn song for years (I think I realized my error after a German reading course in grad school).

Well, maybe I should get to work on writing the next Great Canadian Novel, though I suspect that my literary fame ultimately peaked at being awarded "Best Letter to the Editor" in the New West Record back in 2018

For my high school, I'd like to say it's me, but Margaret Atwood probably has me beat

The graphic kind of looks like a New Urbanist version of Where's Waldo?

I was thinking more that philosophers are annoying, but I like your explanation better

I wonder what the philosopher-per-capita figure is for each of those cities and how it correlates with livability - my intuition is that they're inversely proportional.

I'm more of a Bay 8 man myself at 22nd St station

Yes, Solidarity by Hunt-Hendrix and Taylor was a great read - I second this recommendation.

In New West, the political rhetoric has gotten completely out of control, stoked by the New West Progressives. At our Monday council meeting, the two NWP members voted against me attending a conference about countering online harm and misinformation. Meanwhile, on their social media page, there is

I thought delegations were an opportunity to use abstruse philosophical jargon in front of a public audience

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As a Leafs fan, my failure has materialized over the course of my entire life

If you're at all interested in that type of economics, I tend to read a fair bit of stuff coming out of the Levy Institute at Columbia: www.levyinstitute.org

The Keynesian assumption in your comment isn't implausible on the surface (countercyclical saving and spending), but I think the economy is more complex for a variety of reasons beyond the scope of a Bluesky thread. In short, I tend to think that Post-Keynesian and MMT approaches are more plausible.

I'm happy to engage on this topic, but ideally not with an anonymous account. Nevertheless, the cupboards are bare metaphor doesn't work for two reasons: first, there's lots of evidence that austerity measures don't generate economic growth; and second, sovereign fiat currencies don't work that way.

I missed the cookies!

Well, I can't say that I have strong feelings about the Music Man one way or the other (aside from that Gary, Indiana song sometimes being an earworm), but I'd be happy to hear your takes on the musical sometime.

The post itself is an interesting assessment of the limits of looking at housing starts rather than sales in assessing the productivity of housing markets in the present, though presumably sales volume is less reliable as an indicator where a greater share of new units are purpose-built rental.

A robust expansion of non-market housing through Build Canada Homes would be a good nation-building project and would fit with the kind of mission-oriented economic framework that Carney lays out in his values book, though this would require a turn from the current austerity governance approach.

The Coming Wave of 20,000 Job Losses in Vancouver’s Housing Sector Policymakers are staring at starts, while sales show the collapse

One way to address the looming threat of job losses amidst downturn in the housing sector could be to stabilize housing production through countercyclical non-market housing development at scale (in addition to reforms and innovations that make housing production generally more cost-effective).

YouTube video by Joe Simonetta The Music Man - Gary Indiana(1080p)

You and the Music Man have different sentiments about Gary, Indiana - catchy tune regardless!

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A magnifying glass placed on a set of two documents sitting in front of an opened laptop. The black text box that reads: “New Reports”. Below the text reads: “Human rights-based housing targets for Canada”.

#Canada is missing millions of affordable homes. The Federal Housing Advocate is calling on #Canada to scale non-market housing to solve the housing and affordability crisis. We have the tools – we need the political will to act. Her advice to government includes:

This was my inspiration!

Hopefully I sleep better tonight! 😀

Not that anyone is interested, but my case for this sentence is the following: politicians running for this party are themselves Vote Vancouver voters (presuming they vote for themselves) whom Vote Vancouver voters vote for, and we sometimes use the verb "vote" without the preposition "for".

This opens up a lot of possibilities for sentences that reduplicate these words. While tossing and turning last night, I came up with the following (grammatical, I would argue) sentence: "Vote Vancouver voters Vote Vancouver voters vote vote Vote Vancouver".

The Ivanova webinar looks quite interesting and I'll have to watch it sometime, though one of my favourite critiques of Laffer Curve logic is this older article by Philip Mirowski - not least because it begins with a Tom Stoppard quote.

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