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  • Incorrect. The notwithstanding clause is explicitly a temporary measure related to provisions 2 and 7-15 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. It’s not some magic “I don’t like this law” button.

    What the Ontario government is trying to create is a way to bypass provincial and municipal laws by designating a piece of terrain a special zone.

    To use an analogy, let’s say smoking bans came in as a Charter right rather than how they did. A controversial ban at the time, but widely reflected as a good move now. The right to clean air of something. Ontario could go “Hey, we grow a lot of tobacco, and we have a rich history of blowing smoke in each other’s faces at Tim Hortons. So we’re going to enact the not withstanding clause.” That buys Ontario a couple of years to figure out how to work the ban into its existing laws and culture.

    This bill would be akin to Ontario saying “Okay, I know smoking is allowed everywhere except kindergartens and hospitals. And some municipalities have also banned smoking grade schools. So we’re proposing a special bill that will allow use to declare special smoking regions, which will allow people to smoke everywhere regardless of our, or cities, regulations”


  • It sure is. And the alternative is dying.

    For some more applicable advice, time bound you commitment to this cause. 10 minutes a day? 2 hours a week? 10 hours a month? Doesn’t matter. Get it a set amount of time, and dont let it bleed into your other priorities often.

    Thinking about something advocacy sized and slow moving all the time will burn you out. I’ve learned this through my cycling route advocacy. It gets the time I dedicate to it. No more, but no less.




  • They seem upset about two requests for briefing binders.

    briefing binders prepared for ministers ahead of overseas trips are excellent reference works for journalists and researchers. They often contain biographies of individuals the minister will meet with and an outline of Canada’s position on any issues likely to be discussed or raised on a trip.

    This reads to me like:

    Journalists don’t feel like finding information about the person’s met with themselves or using the official position of Canada used during the meeting or using the actual content of the meeting (all of which can change from the prep binder). So instead were going to rely on a leading indicator about a meeting, but use it at least 30 days after the meeting?

    Am I missing something here?




  • more kinetic energy will impart more speed to the human during the impact impulse.

    Partially correct, the speed (technically acceleration) of the human after a collision is limited by the decceleration of the moving object caused by thr human. Since a car and a truck decellerate about the same amount when receiving the counter-acceleration of the human, the force transfer remains similar.

    The bowling ball will not slow down in the slightest when is hits the beach ball, accelerating the beach ball up to it’s speed.

    The plastic ball will lose significant speed hitting the beach ball, decelerating itself significantly as it accelerates the beach ball.

    I’m going to pick some easy math speeds/masses for demonstration. 2,000 kg sedan, 4,000 kg pickup and 100 kg human. Starting velocities of 20m/s and 0m/s. An impact/acceleration time of 1s.

    The sedan hits a pedestrian with (f=ma) of 40kN. It takes 2kN to bring the human up to 20 m/s. So the sedan will be somewhere around 38kN, or 19m/s at the end of it and the human absorbing 1.8-2kN.

    The truck has f=80kN. Same 2kN for the human. So the truck will be somewhere around 78kN or 19.5m/s at the end. With the human absorbing 1.9-2kN

    In either case the we talking a difference of 1.8-2kN for the human. Regardless the mass (and total force) of the vehicle, the relatively small human as a maximum force they can absorb. And that maximum force is heavily related to the speed of the larger object.

    Not to say trucks/SUVs aren’t deadly for other reasons (like where and how the force os transferred)








  • Most bike-friendly cities I’ve visited in the last ten years fall into two categories: 1) a comprehensive network that’s been intentionally incorporated into the infrastructure across decades, or 2) quick-and-dirty changes that work really well on some streets with a comprehensive network to be desired. Paris has built a comprehensive network with mostly quick-and-dirty changes in less than ten years. And it’s obvious just riding around that these changes continue to iterate. I was most delighted to track how the striping below my feet had been scraped and relocated as evidence that the bike lanes had been expanded. It’s a work in progress, and that progress is working.

    I felt that paragraph adressed it pretty clearly. It’s not that Paris is doing better than X Netherland city. It’s that Paris is tackling the problem with a quick and dirty, but still comprehensive, network. An approach that can be modelled in other cities, even without decades of working towards the goal.

    An approach that has inspired me to delegate in my own city as a way to get after this.