Also, more specifically in my field: streetcars in the US were already collapsing before the General Motors conspiracy; they were loss leaders for for-sale development (as in LA) or had been killed by populist city governments (as in New York) and were in decrepit conditions after the war.

The year is 2035. “Canadian nuclear doctrine requires that a launch order is separately confirmed by two senior officers, once in English and once in French.”

*Monkey paw curls* — BC conservatives win snap election, new transit minister Patrick Condon announces $70 billion LRT program to be led by David Miller

It's not useful to think we were or are some kind of fundamentally different person with a gun than the guy to our left and right, and if we were a small balkan country it would be laughed at as podunk petty exceptionalism.

Rubio is the unitary executive today until the mad king sees something else on TV

the realists on the other site are already salivating at the prospect of invading your country