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Almost every trip inside cities, between cities, and even to some rural places could be done with alternatives to cars.

I know it can be hard to imagine a world where cars get minimized to filling a small niche role in a broader transportation system, especially when today most people in Canada and the US think cars are synonymous with mobility. Other countries have shown that car lite/free lifestyles are not only be possible with today’s technology, but desirable.

The alternatives are more space efficient - meaning less traffic congestion, they’re better for the environment, and people’s health and wellbeing.

Even if you’re one of the few who insists on keeping your car, wouldn’t it be nice to give safe, viable, and reliable alternatives to everyone else who doesn’t want to drive so they can get out of your way on the roads?

One of the easiest ways might be to have him take a look at an app like GroundNews, which displays biases of publications and shows blindspots in the media according to political lean. The biases and differences in headlines, presentation, language used, and what stories get reported at all by any given publication become very apparent.

Second hand pixels exist and you’re not giving Google any more money

Landlords who allow their properties to go unused, underused, and/or fall into decay while they speculate on property value should be taxed. This behaviour should have penalties because they’re really not adding anything to the community and taking up limited space that someone else could be using.

Property taxes. Land value taxes are just better.

Does anyone use MPL anymore? Is it a decent middle ground or the worst of both worlds?

I don’t trust most of these websites to give an objective answer for most people’s ridings. Better to spend a bit more time and look at the poll data and riding’s history yourself.

If you’re voting strategically ABC, make sure that the Liberals actually have the strongest contender in your riding based on the polls.

There are a lot of NDP / Conservative battleground ridings that the Liberals will never pick up.

Here is a video of current Liberal heritage minister Pascale St-Onge saying she wants to change the funding formula and bring per capita funding up to the G7 average, up to $62/person, doubling it. Relevant part starts around 1 minute in.

It remains to be seen whether Mark Carney will be receptive to this.

NDP:

The NDP will invest in Canadian journalism and CBC/Radio-Canada

Liberals:

Heritage minister’s vision for a better CBC/Radio-Canada: a clear choice for Canada’s future

Edit: Video providing more details from the heritage minister, including pitching doubling the per capita funding up to total of $62/person, which is around the G7 average

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