Sydney has 6 million people compared to Auckland 1.2., Melbourne 5 with similar land area. If you look at % then yes, look at people per sqkm we are no where close.

So you don't need as many buses to achieve the same coverage. Public transport infrastructure costs are not fixed for a certain land area, they are also proportional to potential ridership.

Yeah, you can't use austerity as evidence of economic problems when austerity is NP policy. Self-fulfilling prophesy.

And the only real reason for austerity is to make the rich richer and drive inequality even higher.

Our country is less than 200 years old

Presence of Europeans in your country is less than 200 years old.

Almost as if certain governments and malefactors of great wealth were coordinating in promoting it.

That's not the only way it might go.

Peaches should be declared a Canadian national living human treasure.

A surprising degree of self-awareness from the slimy toad.

Let's go, tactical voting! ABCDEF: Anybody But the Conservatives, but Don't Ever Farage.

Except that he's the one who packed the court, he'll do it more if elected, and they'll be his dutiful toadies.

More future Reform candidates there.

Chappelle Roan ticks your left/feminist/queer boxes and is silent on the other topics.

And let's not forget the Crass, and Fugazi.

It'd be interesting to know how much of that is a mercantilist attempt to capture market share in other countries (i.e., dumping) and how much is reflective of a sincere effort by the Chinese government to address the climate crisis.

I suspect it's the former, since alongside China's renewables investment, China's emissions of greenhouse gases continue to grow, as does its consumption of coal.

I agree with the need for tactical voting. I absolutely disagree with the desirability of ever voting for Reform, even to drive the Tories out.

That would be nice, but I'm more pessimistic and think low-information voters (along with the usual racists, xenophobes and other hateful morons) might vote Reform as a protest.

It'll be interesting to see where he settles and whether his legal troubles are over.

This is likely to become an issue with climate modeling as well, as interested parties attempt to poison the discourse with fake analysis and phony effects models. Perhaps, with the banks, the Fed should require the use of open, peer-reviewed models and reject the use of any closed-source model.

So they've moved past denial to bargaining?

Millennials, if there's anything an old guy can do to help...?

One of the low-hanging fruit in combating climate change is to shut down all the golf courses.