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  • Our cities are choked by cars – here’s how experts would fix them

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  • You can force parliament to pass one piece of legislation right now. What do you make them pass?

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  • Its the ratio I objected to. THIRTEEN articles? Who needs 13 articles about ANY topic on the same day? And as much as being trans is the trendy controversial of the day, the fact is that it affects a tiny minority of the population. But that's the CBC's forte: As ex CBC producer Tara Henley once stated (after she left) "People want to know why, for example, non-binary Filipinos concerned about a lack of LGBT terms in Tagalog is an editorial priority for the CBC, when local issues of broad concern go unreported."

    And there's nothing controversial about Easter but there are still interesting things to report: Ever heard of the Scoppio del Carro (Explosion of the Cart) in Florence, Italy? A small rocket in the shape of a dove, is lit inside a Cathedral during the Easter Mass, it flies along a wire stretched through the cathedral, exiting the church doors and hits a large, ornate cart packed with fireworks, causing it to erupt in a massive, noisy display of fireworks and smoke and then flies back into the church.

    Of course I found that on youtube after a link on facebook. Not likely to see that on CBC.

  • Honda shelves $11B Canada EV factory as its electric retreat deepens

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  • Its better than those without one, but they still lose range in the cold as the heat pump also takes power. There's an advantage if you preheat the battery while the EV is still plugged in.

  • Motorcyclist seriously injured after crash leaves bike dangling from traffic light near Surrey-Delta border

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  • The good part of accidents like this is that generally, the rider only does them once. Same with all the bozos who wheelie and then overdo it and end up sliding along on their butt. They might just be a bit physically sore the next day, but once they find out how much all that bodywork, bars or new pipes cost, they (generally) figure out that staying on two wheels is better. The truly dumb just get buried. Having said that, it is Motorcycle Awareness Month. Look twice, save a life. We're sometimes hard to see even at normal speeds.

  • Honda shelves $11B Canada EV factory as its electric retreat deepens

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  • Honda shelves $11B Canada EV factory as its electric retreat deepens

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  • And your “physics problems” are also solvable, people are currently putting billions of billions of dollars into battery research. There will come a point where batteries are superior to a tank of fuel for most use cases.

    So, we're equating spending money with finding solutions to a physics problem?Would that money include the billions for the NorthVolt plant that just went belly up in Quebec? Doesnt seem very successful. Im glad you're certain cause the people with the big bucks certainly don't seem to be.

    Have you looked at BYD (the BIG Chinese EV maker) lately? It has a Q1 2026 net profit decline of 55% year-on-year. Thats massive. Companies that cant attract investors dont succeed and when Warren Buffet pulls out of your company after 17 years, you know things are bleak.

    Just because some companies spend big money does not in any way guarantee anything. "Hope" does not equal success. More accurately the number of EV startups that have failed far outnumbers the very few that appear to be succeeding. For now.

  • Honda shelves $11B Canada EV factory as its electric retreat deepens

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  • Im going to assume you're just blinded by enthusiasm or high, but the facts say your wrong, my friend. Look at the total sales figures for F150's in 2025. They went DOWN by almost 10% and out of a whopping 555,704 F150, the Lightning sold only 19,077 (3.4% of all F150s sold).

    Those are figures for Ford sales in the US so if "Lightnings were everywhere" then you must have bought a couple thousand yourself because there were only 19,000 sold in the US and we're about 1/10 the population. That would approximate 1900 Lightnings sold in Canada compared to 55,700 gas versions. Thats VERY poor sales - about 4 trucks per dealership in Canada. No dealer is going to train all his techs, invest in new expensive repair equipment and a bunch of unique parts just to sell 4 Lightnings a year.

  • Stop the Surveillance State: Stop Bill C-22

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  • No coincidence that at the same time, Canada is rushing to try and build massive data centers.

    The implications of what and how fast you can very accurately be targeted should really make every Canadian nervous.

  • You can force parliament to pass one piece of legislation right now. What do you make them pass?

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  • It’s deliberately not an open media outlet for broader public consumption, making it a terrible comparison to pubic media outlets

    Except that even with ONLY reading their free multiple morning emails, which are a short paragraph each, I learn FAR more about whats going on behind the scenes on the Hill than I do from all other media. And I don't have to pay for that, its their teaser.

    How do you get people to pay for media? Provide valuable content. I paid for Blacklock's for a couple of years til honestly, it got too depressing to see how MUCH news was not being reported by mainstream media. Infuriating to realize that most of the time we're getting talking points and sound bites, but a great deal of the backroom and under table news was going unreported.

    Also, provide BALANCED news reporting. My prime example would be last year when Transgender Awareness Day happen to fall on Easter Sunday. I emailed the CBC to ask WHY there were THIRTEEN articles about transgender issues on their site that day and ONE about Easter - one is relevant to over 50% of the Canadian population and the other is 0.3% but you couldn't tell from CBC's incredibly unbalanced coverage. They wrote back to point out that I had missed another CBC Easter article and sent a link - it was one story about what stores were closed on Easter Sunday. Yeesh.

  • Canadians say their finances are worse as gas prices climb: poll

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  • Im actually an incumbent bike rider. But never in my town (Id get run over even with a flag).

  • Canadians say their finances are worse as gas prices climb: poll

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  • Well that may be why you dont bike in winter. I dont bike in winter because a) the weather is brutal, often going to -20 and worse with windchill, b) You cant take anyone with you (comfortably), c) carrying anything heavy or large is a pain (like tools, groceries, refillable water bottles, d) we often have a foot of snow overnight and Id rather drive out with my SUV than shovel for an hour just to get to the road, e) putting kids on a bike isn't very safe with distracted drivers all over. Bikes are sometimes a solution for singles, they suck for families. And yes you can put kids on them but its not wise nor safe in this country.

  • Canadians say their finances are worse as gas prices climb: poll

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  • Different country, different problem.

  • Honda shelves $11B Canada EV factory as its electric retreat deepens

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  • Maybe in summer. Real-world EV range loss in winter typically ranges from 14% to 39% based on 2025 AMA tests.

  • Tumbler Ridge school, site of mass shooting, to be torn down and rebuilt on new site

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  • Kind of incredible how the actions of a single deranged person has changed an entire town. No one in Tumbler Ridge is unaffected and I doubt anyone there will ever forget what happened in that school.

  • Canadians say their finances are worse as gas prices climb: poll

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  • I hear what you're saying but you haven't convinced me that people prefer to be in a public setting, over their own private transportation. Even if transit were clean and safe, I still want the option to drive when I want, where I want, listening to whatever I want, and picking up and dropping off whomever and whatever I want along the way. Transit will always been a poorer choice because it takes away all the freedom of driving which is why it will never be as popular.

  • Honda shelves $11B Canada EV factory as its electric retreat deepens

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  • I'll repeat it for the deaf ones at the back of the room - Ive not only owned an EV for 8 years now, I have money invested in two EV startups, Edison Motors (because its a hybrid truck) and Aptera (because its solar powered). Im a past member of my local EV Owners Club and I've been following EVs since I first spotted a Citicar in 1978, so the only part of your comment that is correct is that Im older and much wiser than you.

    The problem with your analogy with mobile phones is that when the smartphone came along, it was EXPONENTIALLY superior to anything that preceded it. Not only could it be a phone but its a handheld computer, wallet, GPS, text, camera, video, it can start your car, run your entire smart home... just about any electronic application can be applied. That beats a Nokia dumb phone by miles which is why everyone has one.

    Thats definitely NOT true of EVs. They do some things better - like lower maintenance costs and have more torque and less noise. But they also do somethings worse - like much longer 'refueling' for road trips and they are almost impossible to repair by owners, they lose considerable range in the cold and they are more expensive to buy. Which is why they will remain a niche product. Because some people will find them more useful but obviously a lot of people don't.

    There are some things that more money will solve, like charging infrastructure, but there are some physics problems that EVs will never solve - like how its impossible to put the same amount of energy into an EV that you have in the size of a gas tank of an ICE car. The little 10 gallon tank in an gas Fiat 500 will take you 500 kms. The Fiat 500 EV with a battery only goes 220 km using up MUCH more room for its battery and it weighs 500 pounds more. Poorer physics is impossible to market as 'superior'.

  • Canadians say their finances are worse as gas prices climb: poll

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  • Have you ridden Winnipeg transit? No one who can afford a car prefers sitting in a dirty bus one row away from a guy nodding off from his near overdose. There's a reason people overwhelmingly prefer the comfort, privacy and safety of their own car.

  • Honda to shelve $11bn Canada EV plant as demand sputters

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  • Yep. I live in a northern city and there are more pickups than cars, and seeing an EV is a rarity. There are couple of Teslas and ONE Cybertruck that I think the guy bought because its a great advertisement to be the only one in a city of 60,000. People LOVE their pickups - EVs? Not so much.

  • Honda to shelve $11bn Canada EV plant as demand sputters

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  • EVs that were built by companies to comply with a gov requirement to build a certain percentage of their vehicles as EVs. Example: The 2013-2019 Fiat 500 was a gas car but Stellantis also built it as an EV. It looks nearly identical, almost all body parts are the same but the drivetrain.

  • Fuck AI @lemmy.world
    LoveCanada @lemmy.ca

    Michael Burry (The Big Short) is betting against the AI Bubble

    www.ctvnews.ca /business/article/michael-burry-of-the-big-short-is-back-with-cryptic-messages-and-two-massive-bets/