Davriellelouna

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Until very recently, British Columbia Parties were allowed to received unlimited amounts of money. BC was the ‘Wild West’ of political cash:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/13/world/canada/british-columbia-christy-clark.html?unlocked_article_code=1.bE8.4Jpf.54nkVpZalefG

In 2017, the newly elected NDP Government of John Hogan did two great things.

1. They severely limited, money in politics.

2. They introduced a tougher lobbying law

I'm very grateful for what they did, because it created real positive change.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-election-2020-campaign-donation-limits-analysis-1.5765772

Thanks to these two laws, British Columbia is now less corrupt than Alberta or Ontario.

But there are still serious loopholes :

👉 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/north-van-chlorine-plant-campaign-1.7319259

I decided to write to the BC Legislature when I learned they will review the Lobbyist Transparency Act

https://www.bclaws.gov.bc.ca/civix/document/id/complete/statreg/01042_01

I received an answer. They created this page:

https://www.leg.bc.ca/parliamentary-business/committees/43rdparliament-1stsession-lta

I intend to send a memo with two proposals:

Measure 1. Requiring lobbyists in BC municipalities to publically register. Under They currently only have to register if they are lobbying the province.

Measure 2. Significantly increasing the maximum penalties for lobbyists breaking the law.

If it was entirely up to me, I would push EXTREME ethics measures inspired from France, Denmark and Singapore. But that would scare lawmakers and they would think I'm completely nuts. So I came up with these 2 modest measures. I'd rather have 20% of what I want implemented than 0%.

I'm still working on the memo. If you have ideas, I urge you to write to lawmakers about this topic:

https://www.leg.bc.ca/parliamentary-business/committees/43rdparliament-1stsession-lta

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[–] Davriellelouna@lemmy.world 92 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (14 children)

Tesla senior executives are meeting right now. They are ready to unleash a deluge of social media attacks to discredit the court decision. Attack. Attack. Attack. It's all they know.

But in 2023, the New York Times magazine spent weeks investigating Tesla .

As a paying NYT subscriber (yeah, we exist), here is the full investigation:

👉 https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/17/magazine/tesla-autopilot-self-driving-elon-musk.html?unlocked_article_code=1.a08.yjIl.D2-3J_WLZon7

It's very clear that Mr. Musk knowingly lied about the safety of his Autopilot system.

As a result, innocents were killed. He simply believed he would never be caught.

[–] Davriellelouna@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I'm not Canadian but I lived there for a few years. I went back to my home country, but I still follow Canadian politics closely.

Calgary has the worst traffic fatalities rate in the country:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/pedestrian-deaths-increase-1.7530354

Alberta has the worst measles epidemic in North America:

https://www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/article/alberta-surpasses-us-in-confirmed-measles-cases-with-more-than-1300/

Premier Danielle Smith publically criticized vaccines:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/danielle-smith-adolf-hitler-netflix-rachel-notley-1.6836160

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If Alberta politicians are too incompetent to manage traffic safety or prevent measles, what makes people think they can manage a new country...???

No offense, but this would be a Failed State on day 1.

[–] Davriellelouna@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Nope. I'm definitely not a bot.

I regularly post a lot of articles from some websites, but you will notice my patterns can be extremely irregular. There are some articles that I don't find interesting/attractive, so I just don't share them.

However, I do find the rise of sophisticated bots worrying.

[–] Davriellelouna@lemmy.world 54 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

I'm posting an absolute shit ton of content to support Lemmy.

You aren't the first one to notice :)

[–] Davriellelouna@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

The only place in Canada that gets housing right is British Columbia.

After decades of failure, the newly elected government of David Eby actually started to fix the problem.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Eby#Housing

In the long term, it will pay off. Ontario is still asleep.

[–] Davriellelouna@lemmy.world 28 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (10 children)

Are speed cameras really effective? There are multiple studies that looked at this.

And the answer is yes, they are:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1963295/

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3861844/

The car crashes that happen in Ontario cost society far more ressources (police, hospitals, nurses, medication, surgeries) that any of the money raised by speeding tickets.

Road narrowing is a great idea. It can be applied to local streets.

But the people who hate speed cameras are going to absolutely FREAK OUT if you suggest road narrowing as a potential solution.

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