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October 11, 2024

How Edmonton’s 15-Minute City Plan May Play Out

Although a good idea on the surface, many fear this is the thin edge of a wedge, leading to vehicular travel restictions and/or tolls. IMO, any restictions, including economic through taxation, on personal vehicles is an attack on women and more specifically motherhood. The automobile has been a great liberator of women, families, and the elderly by providing personal safe spaces in travel.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/how-edmontons-15-minute-city-plan-may-play-out-5737582?utm_source=ref_share&utm_campaign=copy

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Ottawa Funded the China Ferry Deal—Then Pretended to Oppose It

While Beijing-backed hackers infiltrated Canadian telecoms, federal and B.C. leaders quietly financed a billion-dollar shipbuilding deal with a Chinese state firm—then tried to pass the buck.
https://theoppositionnewsnetwork.substack.com/p/ottawa-funded-the-china-ferry-dealthen

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June 25, 2025

Some of these things I still miss

I grew up without safe spaces.
I grew up without trigger warnings.
I drank water from the hose.
I ate peanuts in class.
None of us wore a helmet.
Kids got hurt. We fell down. And we signed a lot of casts.

We couldn’t pause TV. We’d call out “It’s on!” as soon as the commercials started to end (for those who had left the room). And we watched our favourite shows as a family.

There was no next day delivery.
There was no bundle this with that.
There was no internet. Skip the Dishes didn’t exist.
Fast food was not the norm. It was easier to eat healthy. There were home phones. There was VH.........

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