(It is also a wild move to make this argument with no mention of the RCMP investigation into his expenses)

Yeah it's really all dependent on what the purchase price actually is, relative to the hypothetical cost of building similar units today. If it's comparable then it seems like a clearly good idea to me. I think part of the issue is that an early CBC story erroneously attached a $3bn figure to this

Sure, but if no private buyer will pay it, presumably the rest of the market has concluded that it's a bad deal, no? If that's the case (which again, AFAIK we don't actually know the price details) then I get why the NDP and others are mad. It's effectively bailing out a poor investment

The assumption people are making is that, since these are units that have been sitting vacant, the prices are in fact above market (otherwise somebody would have bought them). If true, then yeah it seems like an inefficient use of money. AFAIK we don't actually have that detail yet though, so IDK.

I tried to use co-pilot to convert some multiple choice questions into a machine readable format for uploading to Moodle. Seemed to work great at first, but then started randomly skipping questions and swapping answers around. I can't fathom any serious use case it could be trusted for.

This little link was an absolute game changer for my Hull-CarletonU commute. Shaved off some considerable time, and made the commute a lot safer / more comfortable. Great to see the holes in the Ottawa-Gatineau bike network filled in!

To me the bizarre thing is that experimental studies in social science are often *less* reliable than observational ones because of how hard it is to make a good experimental scenario. Voting in a simulation just ain't the same, and countries will not let me randomly assign candidates in real ones

Maybe I misunderstood your point, but there is a travel advisory for China and not for the USA? While they've added some language about increased scrutiny at the US border, the advisory for China is very clear about arbitrary law enforcement. If anything we're still understating the US situation.

Yeah the sudden request for rescheduling seems very amateurish. If they were going to object on that basis they should have done it well before now.

I have no memory of it, but apparently we've done almost this exact thing before. Sometimes our politics can stray into self-parody territory.

www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Thought about this a bit more, and now I think I actually might have read that he did this for people he appointed to the Senate, either in addition to or in place of cabinet. Just in case that helps you in searching.

I can offer up that I've definitely also read this before, but can't figure out where. It feels like an anecdote that would have been in Governing From the Centre but a quick ctrl +f tells me it's not.

#votewell.ca handles this a lot better imho, and just tells voters that they don't have any reason to vote strategically in this riding.