would you live next to one?

I would rather not to, so if one was planned to open next to my house, I'd consider moving out. However, I would not fight against opening one because I know society needs these. Let me put it this way: I'd hate to live next to a fire station or a an emergency hospital, but I know the city needs those so I will fight for them to exist but I'd move away from them whenever necessary to protect my sleep and peace of mind.

Anyways why not in a hospital? I don’t get why this has to happen in residential areas?

This is a different question altogether to your first question, and you'll get a better answer by talking to specialists.

It's not that bleak. Inflation is a healthy sign if it's under control, so it deserves an actual "Yay!", as it also means interest rate cuts can proceed.

He has been in power in the last few years, just not as prime minister.

If Israel intended to destroy the Palestinian people, you would expect the death toll to be much higher.

Would I? I don't know if I would. It's a big percentage to accomplish in a single campaign, and if you think about the compounding effect of the war on the lives of the remaining 98% it's still a pretty strong result. For example the UN reported that Gaza now has the biggest cohort of child amputees in modern history. Crippling a generation economically with sanctions and literally with shrapnel is a very powerful genocide tool, and so is claiming land - expanding the largest West Bank land grab in 30 years.

you would expect the pace of civilian death to remain constant and not diminish over time.

Again, I don't think I would. Maybe we have different visions of what an effective genocide strategy looks like in the XXI century.

pushing back against it.

Pushing back against 20% and letting the 80% just flow, that's not really pushing back. And for this interview, 20% is probably too generous... he asked the questions but answers flew by unprovoked. The fact that such an extensive fact check needed to be published after the fact means that he as interviewer was not prepared to push back or he chose not to.

The interview goes like:

• JB) If you keep killing Palestinians, Jews in Canada will suffer, no?
• IM) We have to continue the war because Palestinians are terrorists.

JB choses to push back on "yes but your military is saying that it will stain Judaism" instead of "that's genocidal, if you don't stop escalating the only end is genocide". No challenge to the war itself, just the minor points whether Israel is being "unproductive" and inviting antisemitism.

So your criteria is a court conviction? I guess that's one way to answer, but I was more asking what's your criteria, meaning what's the criteria you'd personally use to think whether such court decision would be fair or not.

demonstrated the intent to destroy the Palestinian people

If that's what you mean as your answer, then I kinda agree. That's about what I would use to define genocide.

Canadaland seems to be going on a weird direction. All these stories of worker antagonism and so many journalists leaving in bad terms, most recently Ling and Pugliese left, Goldsbie on a sabbatical... meanwhile Jan Wong keeping the red scare alive, and then Brown amplifies all this bullshit.

It's a shame that the path to survival for indie media is most often to drift right and never stop going.

“40,000 dead civilians” doesn’t define a genocide.

What is the criteria then to tell if Israel is committing genocide to Palestinians?

The person you're arguing with is a Dark Lord of the Sith

And for every 99 doctors siding with reason, there's that 1 doctor that sides with the anti vax crowd. Every profession has its quacks, and having just 1 dissenter among 100 is enough for the Cons (and unfortunately a big chunk of the media) to label something as "controversial".

No, I would prefer to see markets selling those at a loss so they don't make a profit and food isn't wasted. ~And hopefully that loss motivates them to plan for less consumption next year and/or reducing the amount they're willing to pay producers, decreasing the profitability of the meat production industry.~

But as I said before, there's no evidence yet that the food waste is increasing due to price increases. This is just speculation from people who wouldn't buy the thing because they fail to imagine that there are people who would.

Rustad sometimes forget that dog whistles are a supposed to be heard just by the dogs and not by regular people.

At this point he was just yelling "YO MY WHITE SUPREMACY DAWGS" on a megaphone and people still vote for him.

Folks sometimes forget that actually selling the thing is a part of the greedy profit maximizing goal

I don't see a triple whammy, it's a nothing burger to me.

1. If it's a greedy markup on top of a product that I'm against, I don't care
2. Excessive animal farming... exists already regardless of price passed down to consumers
3. We don't any evidence these turkeys are going to waste at higher rates than before yet so this is just speculation

So personally I don't see any reason for me to be mad, though I empathize that folks who care about having turkey have their reasons.

Now that the day is past, today I saw in the news what each candidate was doing yesterday. What's the story behind Á'a:líya Warbus being a Conservative candidate in Chilliwack?

I'm not surprised to occasionally see LGBTQ+ folks joining hands with conservatives because there's one thing that usually threads the needle there: class warfare. I can also understand the poor working class that votes conservative: rugged individualism and "traditional values". But I still can't understand indigenous voters going conservative... Rustad is clearly an enemy!? 🤷‍♂️

I doubt it. But I hope you're right.

I signed it but I don't really get what's the goal here other than rectifying a minor semantic issue

It's always a shame when iconic bits are disrupted by development, but I honestly can't say I care a lot about that cross staying there and I'd be fine with moving it. It's supposed to represent the un-gentrified Vancouver, so it's ironically on-brand to move it to a place that's less gentrified.

Just say yes to fuck up their metrics.

"Yes but don't contact me on this number again, it's my work phone"

To help fund this foreign tourists should pay an entry tax depending how long they stay.

Hmm, I mostly agree with the rest of your comment but you lost me there.