joshhsoj1902

Competition or a better voting system? Under first past the post adding more competition doesn't address the mismatch between votes and seats.

Of course it will. The low rates are only in some ways part of what caused the problem.

The problem on a whole is going to continue until either municipalities start to allow higher density construction or the provinces step in and force municipalities to stop putting up red tape.

I've never viewed getting rid of plastic bags as a carbon saving measure. To me it's addressing how bad they are when they get into the environment. As much as these bags can be reused, most aren't and they just end up thrown out.

Any one who assumes that another party is going to blanket support a non-confidence vote doesn't understand how minority governments work.

These are times when other parties have the leverage to influence what bills are being passed.

If things got bad enough that no other parties agreed with direction then ya we would be heading to vote, but realistically things aren't that bad right now, they could always be better, but it's not bad enough to just throw away leverage.

What a terrible graph. Market share as a percent on one side being compared to absolutely numbers on the other.

The author could draw any conclusions they wanted by just scaling the axis differently.

I looked it up and it seems like the survival rate of new businesses is about 78% in the US.

https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2024/1-year-survival-rates-for-new-business-establishments-by-year-and-location.htm

The first year seems to be the hardest and each year after that survival rates get better and better.

This data suggests that after 10 years nearly 35% of business are still in business.

https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2024/34-7-percent-of-business-establishments-born-in-2013-were-still-operating-in-2023.htm

How many new business fail?

I think that just shows you don't understand how to read statistics.

The article doesn't really go into details of what the developer has planned.

I have to assume they are looking to demolish the block and build something higher than 3 floors with a bunch more units?

It's unfortunate if the developer isn't offering any options for tenants to move back into the new building.

This doesn't feel like a renoviction though.

That's not a reasonable assumption at all. Everything costs more today than it did 2 years ago, so it's very likely their expenses are higher than it was before.

It's also possible that their profits are way up, but the data you showed doesn't prove that at all.

That image shows revenue not profit