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DrEasy said:
If our car factories are at risk of closing, wouldn't it make sense for another company to take them over? Can they repurpose the factories somehow to make different parts for presumably a different car company? Can the government step in and subsidize the creation of a Canadian company that could make use of the factories at risk? Isn't this an opportunity to create a new non-Chinese electric car company to rival Tesla and Polestar? Or is it too risky and can't compete?
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We produce gas make gas powered. Develop the tech for electric but where it is today is not where we need it to be.
 
jbeck5 said:
They ranged from $7,500-9,800 in 1974-76.

If you had average salary, that's like the average salary being $65,000 today, and the bricklin costing 40-45k.

Good luck finding a new V8 sportcars with Gullwing doors for that price today lol
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V8 Gullwing is big money now a days. I know I will get torched for this, but I had this SLS gullwing for about 5 years. What a car.
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The AI world is creating a dangerous world. And doing so in all sorts of areas. Not just information/mis-information. But manipulation of reality.

Bruce Willis did a movie some 20 years ago, People sat at home in machines and did not go out. Their near perfect selves in AI generated cyberspace interacted. Physically perfect in all ways. Now the movie had large gaps in logic. Like how did they eat? And work and so on.. But, the message should not be lost.

Once you introduce AI, you introduce a fakeness to society and we are seeing this in ways people have not caught onto yet... and you begin to introduce manipulation and herding. And segregation, xenophobe, etc.

I fear for society's future.

I watch Love B Volleyball.. A new league, 6 teams in the American Heartland.

It is nothing more than a beauty pageant. Clearly, the criteria for making a team is your looks. And the players understand this. All you see is size 2, 4 and 6. Makeup. Jewelry. Manicured nails.. Perfect smiles. Perfect teeth.

What is behind that? AI, Does anyone post a picture that has not been AI enhanced. Or a short video that has not been? Does anyone air a commercial that has not been AI enhanced? Cars driving through mud, yet glistening. Shining.

Once we create this society.. we are finished? think of this league and think of some female who is a fantastic player, but falls short in her looks!

We are slowly but surely heading to the world that Bruce Willis Depicted. Or the world in the movie Elysium (Mat Damon.. watch it, it is great).

Dangerous path, we are heading.
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Tnuoc Alucard said:
So you’re the guy still watching….

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#1 in the world is BBC, thats what I watch.
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Top 50 news websites in the world: The Hill and AP saw largest growth in February

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What started off as an innocent "I wish CBC would make good programing like BBC" has gone political, time time get this train back on the tracks guys. I'll be cleaning up the posts, in the next few mins so don't be surprised if your comments disappear...
 
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It's funny how it's only now because of tariffs that people are going Canada first when this has been a problem for decades. Hope it sticks but we all know it won't.

It's like this guy read my posts from over the years. lol



This guys video's are great.
 
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Stylizer1 said:



It's funny how it's only now because of tariffs that people are going Canada first when this has been a problem for decades. Hope it sticks but we all know it won't.

It's like this guy read my posts from over the years. lol



This guys video's are great.
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am a fan of his vids too
 
Stylizer1 said:



It's funny how it's only now because of tariffs that people are going Canada first when this has been a problem for decades. Hope it sticks but we all know it won't.

It's like this guy read my posts from over the years. lol



This guys video's are great.
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Though entertaining and well made, they have an agenda, and the comparison between those cities is silly.

London is spread out in an area 4 times greater so of course they'll be more car dependant. They're much more densely populated in Utrecht. Of course they will be more set up for walkable cities and great public transit.

The Netherlands is 20% smaller than Nova Scotia and has 18 million people. Of course it's filled with walkable cities and great interlinking between cities.

It's not really relevant to Canada.

I live in Orleans. Have friends in Almonte. Have a cottage in Chelsea. Have a sister in Cumberland. Have a baby. Brother in law in arnprior. Father in law in cornwall. The idea of transfering from bus to rail to bus with a newborn in between naps sounds like a nightmare.

Also, had to take the bus once with my hockey gear as a kid. Never again.

That lifestyle makes sense centrally, but you're going to have your suburbs or urban housing in Canada with all this land.

To have a super efficient transit system, you would have to have the population density to get the ridership needed to justify a train or bus going to an area often.

For Canada to be like that, you would have to pack all of Canada's population of 40 million into the windsor-toronto-ottawa-montreal-quebec corridor to have the proper population density, and then leave the other 99% of Canada completely untouched and unreachable.
 
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jbeck5 said:
Though entertaining and well made, they have an agenda, and the comparison between those cities is silly.

London is spread out in an area 4 times greater so of course they'll be more car dependant. They're much more densely populated in Utrecht. Of course they will be more set up for walkable cities and great public transit.

The Netherlands is 20% smaller than Nova Scotia and has 18 million people. Of course it's filled with walkable cities and great interlinking between cities.

It's not really relevant to Canada.

I live in Orleans. Have friends in Almonte. Have a cottage in Chelsea. Have a sister in Cumberland. Have a baby. Brother in law in arnprior. Father in law in cornwall. The idea of transfering from bus to rail to bus with a newborn in between naps sounds like a nightmare.

Also, had to take the bus once with my hockey gear as a kid. Never again.

That lifestyle makes sense centrally, but you're going to have your suburbs or urban housing in Canada with all this land.

To have a super efficient transit system, you would have to have the population density to get the ridership needed to justify a train or bus going to an area often.

For Canada to be like that, you would have to pack all of Canada's population of 40 million into the windsor-toronto-ottawa-montreal-quebec corridor to have the proper population density, and then leave the other 99% of Canada completely untouched and unreachable.
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And the weather. Canada has some of the most extreme weather (and extreme weather range) in the world. As we've seen in Ottawa with the LRT, it's difficult to build transit for areas that can go from 35C to -40C in the span of 12 months.
 
jbeck5 said:
For Canada to be like that, you would have to pack all of Canada's population of 40 million into the windsor-toronto-ottawa-montreal-quebec corridor to have the proper population density, and then leave the other 99% of Canada completely untouched and unreachable.
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It's worse than that. The Netherlands is sandwiched between Belgium, France and Germany.

If you draw a 500km radius circle around Utrecht you're talking about 150+ million people in a customs union.

By comparison right now Ottawa would be about ~40 million but this would include several major cities in the US especially New York - Buffalo, Syracuse, Albany.

You would need to put the entire Canadian population in Southern Ontario and then triple it.

I'm not saying we can't make things more walkable or pack in more density. There is a housing crisis here and we need to build density in Ottawa. But there's a reason we don't have the commuter rail system of Europe. It's not realistic to expect trains going in and out of London (Ontario) or Toronto or Ottawa at the same frequency they do in Utrecht or any other European city where 100+ million people are less than 5 hours away.
 
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jbeck5 said:
Though entertaining and well made, they have an agenda, and the comparison between those cities is silly.

London is spread out in an area 4 times greater so of course they'll be more car dependant. They're much more densely populated in Utrecht. Of course they will be more set up for walkable cities and great public transit.

The Netherlands is 20% smaller than Nova Scotia and has 18 million people. Of course it's filled with walkable cities and great interlinking between cities.

It's not really relevant to Canada.

I live in Orleans. Have friends in Almonte. Have a cottage in Chelsea. Have a sister in Cumberland. Have a baby. Brother in law in arnprior. Father in law in cornwall. The idea of transfering from bus to rail to bus with a newborn in between naps sounds like a nightmare.

Also, had to take the bus once with my hockey gear as a kid. Never again.

That lifestyle makes sense centrally, but you're going to have your suburbs or urban housing in Canada with all this land.

To have a super efficient transit system, you would have to have the population density to get the ridership needed to justify a train or bus going to an area often.

For Canada to be like that, you would have to pack all of Canada's population of 40 million into the windsor-toronto-ottawa-montreal-quebec corridor to have the proper population density, and then leave the other 99% of Canada completely untouched and unreachable.
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yep.
 
jbeck5 said:
Though entertaining and well made, they have an agenda, and the comparison between those cities is silly.

London is spread out in an area 4 times greater so of course they'll be more car dependant. They're much more densely populated in Utrecht. Of course they will be more set up for walkable cities and great public transit.

The Netherlands is 20% smaller than Nova Scotia and has 18 million people. Of course it's filled with walkable cities and great interlinking between cities.

It's not really relevant to Canada.

I live in Orleans. Have friends in Almonte. Have a cottage in Chelsea. Have a sister in Cumberland. Have a baby. Brother in law in arnprior. Father in law in cornwall. The idea of transfering from bus to rail to bus with a newborn in between naps sounds like a nightmare.

Also, had to take the bus once with my hockey gear as a kid. Never again.

That lifestyle makes sense centrally, but you're going to have your suburbs or urban housing in Canada with all this land.

To have a super efficient transit system, you would have to have the population density to get the ridership needed to justify a train or bus going to an area often.

For Canada to be like that, you would have to pack all of Canada's population of 40 million into the windsor-toronto-ottawa-montreal-quebec corridor to have the proper population density, and then leave the other 99% of Canada completely untouched and unreachable.
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Im sure in another 300 years the population density will be right up there.
 
jbeck5 said:
That lifestyle makes sense centrally, but you're going to have your suburbs or urban housing in Canada with all this land.

To have a super efficient transit system, you would have to have the population density to get the ridership needed to justify a train or bus going to an area often.
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This is the key point. Do you want to live in small tightly packed housing with great transit or large houses that have double wide driveways with lousy transit?

Unfortunately for Ottawa, what's being built now in the suburbs is the worst option - large houses on smallish lots with lousy transit. Twenty years ago or so lots would be 35'-50'x100'. Now they're moving to 30'-35'x80'-85'. Not dense enough to make transit great and too dense for everyone to have lots of parking.
 
Nac Mac Feegle said:
And the weather. Canada has some of the most extreme weather (and extreme weather range) in the world. As we've seen in Ottawa with the LRT, it's difficult to build transit for areas that can go from 35C to -40C in the span of 12 months.
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Or even -20 to +10 in the spand of 24-48 hours or so lol
 
Masked said:
This is the key point. Do you want to live in small tightly packed housing with great transit or large houses that have double wide driveways with lousy transit?

Unfortunately for Ottawa, what's being built now in the suburbs is the worst option - large houses on smallish lots with lousy transit. Twenty years ago or so lots would be 35'-50'x100'. Now they're moving to 30'-35'x80'-85'. Not dense enough to make transit great and too dense for everyone to have lots of parking.
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That's why it makes more sense to buy an older house. Plenty of single family houses in Orleans built in the 70s, 80s and 90s being sold.

You get a bigger yard. You have trees. You have parks. You have space in between houses.

No all new builds you can basically touch both houses at the same time by reaching. Fire hazard, no?

Not to mention parks. Why do new developments not have a bunch of parks? There should be a mandatory amount of x amount of acres

But to answer your question...I would rather live in a place with a nice big house where I have to drive, then live in a compact apartment and not own a car...I actually ENJOY driving. Buy a fun car. Have fun driving.
 
DrEasy said:
If our car factories are at risk of closing, wouldn't it make sense for another company to take them over? Can they repurpose the factories somehow to make different parts for presumably a different car company? Can the government step in and subsidize the creation of a Canadian company that could make use of the factories at risk? Isn't this an opportunity to create a new non-Chinese electric car company to rival Tesla and Polestar? Or is it too risky and can't compete?
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Maybe. We would have to provide government support (subsidies, tariff protection, import restrictions, domestic content requirements, foreign content limits, vehicle marketing restrictions, etc.) to create a Canadian-owned manufacturer of vehicles that would sell in the quantities required to achieve economics of scale and scope. I don't see that happening because the Canadian market is small compared to the world market. I doubt many Canadians would want to be limited to buying a Canadian equivalent of a Russian Lada or VW Beetle.

I think the government could provide encouragement/incentives to non-USA foreign manufacturers to assemble vehicles in Canada using domestic and non-USA foreign component parts. Cut out the USA auto manufacturers who do not employ Canadians in vehicle production. This could have some downstream negative effects such as not being able to sell those vehicles in the USA or other countries, and/or not being able to get those vehicles repaired in the USA or other countries due to lack of component parts availability or repair depots.
 
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