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Wouldn't be the first time. In Canada our former PM was accused of accepting 'kickbacks' in 1995.
I can't imagine there won't be exception for Northern BC, Farm/Industrial Vehicles, etc...
First paragraph says "All light-duty cars and trucks sold in British Columbia would have to be zero-emission by 2040 under legislation tabled Wednesday."
Side note, why do articles about legislation rarely include a link to the actual legislation?
Here it is: https://www.leg.bc.ca/parliamentary-business/legislation-deb...
wrnu commented on Space catapult startup SpinLaunch comes out of stealth techcrunch.com/2018/02/22... · Posted by u/stingrae
This reminds me of the "Supergun" that Gerald Bull [2] was trying to build with Saddam Hussein [1].
One of my professors, that worked with Bull at the University of Toronto, told me all about his arms dealing/designing escapades. Bull was ultimately assassinated outside his home in Brussels.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Babylon [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Bull
wrnu commented on A basic income could boost the US economy by $2.5 trillion weforum.org/agenda/2017/0... · Posted by u/rbanffy
I'm currently on an Amtrak train between Philadelphia and NYC.
Especially in leafless winter, the sheer uglyness of this swath of in-disrepair America is almost shocking.
Abandoned factories and houses. Lifeless downtowns. Trash along the tracks. Non-sweet graffiti.
Paying people to do nothing when there is so much to be done seems crazy to me. It's not like we have figured out how to solve these problems with AI or robots yet.
I could listen to an argument for paying people to participate in FDR-style public works programs. Building a bicycle lane network. Planting flowerbeds. Demolition and recycling and then re-urbanization or re-forestation of those crumbling factory grounds. And so many more things that would make this a better place to exist.
One way to look at it is that people wouldn't, in fact, be paid to do nothing. They would be paid for the valuable service they provide; using their knowledge and experience to select products and services.
It might benefit Bombardier and their investors, but if the C series jet was going to be manufactured in Canada by Canadian workers, this ends up harming those (potential?) jobs in favour of American workers who previously never had any sort of relationship with Bombardier.
To me, the whole situation is a schoolyard example of "having your cake and eating it too".
It seems like only the planes bound for US airlines will be manufactured in the US.
If we all started using Control Tower perhaps they'd get funded enough to continue to build it out and make it awesome.
I've used the ASEA to get a number of organizations setup. I prefer it to Control Tower (it can be installed on top of CT). The ASEA is open source and written in AWS cdk so it can be forked and modified if needed.