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How BC Could Tax Soaring Property Values for the Public Good | The Tyee
The vast majority of B.C.’s residential property wealth — $1.5 trillion — is in the value of the land rather than in the buildings on it. Unlike the value created by constructing or improving a...
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Stuff I read 04-Sep-2023
An occasional roundup of news I found interesting, with even less occasional commentary! How a mere 12% of Americans eat half the nation’s beef, creating significant health and environmental impacts A...
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To Read! Dark PR by Grant Ennis
In his new book, Dark PR: How Corporate Disinformation Harms Our Health and the Environment, Grant Ennis — a lecturer at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia — identifies the “nine devious...
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American Caste and ’90s flashbacks
Always like when I’m validated for something I said 25 years back Wilkerson rigorously defines eight pillars that underlie caste systems across civilizations, including divine will, heredity, and...
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Why Deport Jaskirat Singh Sidhu?
A federal judge has dismissed applications from the truck driver who caused the deadly Humboldt Broncos bus crash in Saskatchewan and was fighting deportation back to India. Source: Federal judge...
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Roasted rutabagas are awesome!
This week unlike other weeks, I picked up that rutabaga I usually avoid at the grocery store and it paid off Preheat the oven to 425 F Cut into 1.5 cm cubes Transfer to a bowl and add salt, mix to...
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Leftover milk solids chocolate balls
When you make ghee, and are careful enough not to burn the batch, the milk solids that are filtered out are great to use up. This site has a bunch of ideas . The one I do most often is a variation of...
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Big Wool and Fast Fashion
Cute sheep or not, factory farming is always impactful According to one analysis of wool production in Australia, by far the world’s top exporter, the wool required to make one knit sweater is...
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Choices for 2024
When your phone does a thing I’m not much of a resolver, resolutioner, whatever the word may be. But my phone did show me these very interesting choices of app first thing this morning when I unlocked...
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My kid loves statistics and 15 minute cities
My kid’s transport goals for the year We have started this simple diary where my 7 yo tracks each of her trips and categorizes them as car or not car. I find the analog simplicity of this approach to...
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