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Premiers of Saskatchewan and Alberta ask for extension of carbon tax exemption in c/canada@lemmy.ca

[–] mski@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Canadian who lives in Alberta here. I just want to point out that the majority of Calgarians, Edmontonians, as well as Banff / Canmore voted NDP in the election earlier this year:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Alberta_general_election#/media/File%3A2023_Alberta_General_Election_Map.svg

We're not all bad. Just enough of us to have a UCP government - AGAIN (after Kenney's shenanigans).

...Mind you, Ontario voted for Ford twice...and based on polling, we're heading for a federal government led by Pierre...

Biden considering $100 bln funding request that includes Israel, Ukraine aid -sources in c/worldnews@lemmy.ml

After 9 months, the New Orleans Police Department’s use of facial recognition has resulted in zero arrests and multiple false positives in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] mski@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Just checked our major urban centre in Canada, and it's around 1:450. As a comparison, that makes New Orleans (1:385) pretty well staffed.

Would be cool to find data covering major urban centres across the world for comparisons.