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MelanieMcCollum 🍁🚲
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Courtenay Councillor--> climate action/ housing affordability/ livable cities/ environment/ active transportation/
it's bleak these days, but I haven't given up on humanity
Thanks for sharing this - truly the best thing I've read in months
December 7, 2025 at 3:59 PM
If all student get 4 hours to do a 3 hour exam - how does that no change things? Students who need extra time are able to complete the exam and faster student are simply done earlier
December 2, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Yes that's changing - some Canadian universities are simply booking the testing space 25% longer for the same length of exams
December 2, 2025 at 4:50 PM
I've never really understood why time constraints at all on test. If the purpose is to test knowledge, why advantage students who write faster or have faster recall?
Some schools are now providing the extra time to all students
December 2, 2025 at 4:35 PM
not "politically viable" is a perfect excuse for politicians to give up and stay on the path of least effort.
it's frustrating how often North Americans want to quick fixes and easy wins, rather than investing in long term systemic improvements
December 2, 2025 at 5:59 AM
I admit I'm incredibly nostalgic for the summers of my youth, when I didn't know what wildfire smoke skies looked or smelled like.
Now they're as predictable as a warm night in August.
November 28, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I like that much better. Many people I know saying - at least he's not Poilievre...why? what's better exactly? what is substantively different about what Carney's? Cutting taxes for yachts? less international students? pipelines? "slashing red tape" (ie environmental protections)?
November 26, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Everyone in Canada so ready to give Carney the benefit of the doubt infinite times.
He is selling the farm. Nearly every GHG policy Canada had in place has been removed or will be removed in short order.
At what point do we recognize that Climate action has been ripped to shreds?
November 26, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Reposted by MelanieMcCollum 🍁🚲
Is a "Carney maneuver" pissing off an entire province where millions voted for you just to placate another province that's never happy and never votes for you?

Masterful gambit, sir.
November 26, 2025 at 2:48 AM
That was the mental note I made after hearing your interview with Mayor Sim - how can I use the phase "level set" more going forward 😆
November 25, 2025 at 7:42 PM