Science, technology, politics and dance
To: Hon. David Eby, Q.C., Attorney General of British Columbia Whereas: Police reports have been uncovered that transnational fentanyl traffickers are laundering billions of dollars every year through Lower Mainland real estate market. BC Coroners Service reports that fentanyl-related overdoses have killed 4,000 people last year alone in BC Statistics Canada data show that the […]
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“Hitler introduced tobacco control measures,” the tobacco industry propagandists would say. “Therefore, anyone who advocates for tobacco control measures is a Nazi.” The use reductio ad Hitlerum — a logical fallacy in the form “Hitler did X, therefore anyone who does X is a Nazi”1)http://researchonline.lshtm.ac.uk/1874/1/How%20the%20growth%20of%20denialism%20undermines%20public%20health%20_%20The%20BMJ.pdf — is a common tactic used by the tobacco industry […]
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Go to any public hearing at Vancouver City Council for a market-rate housing project and you’ll see a group of angry millennial men, dorky in appearance, yuppie in dress and frat boy in behaviour. They will come up to speak at the podium one after another in a well-rehearsed ritual. “More,” each will recite. “Build […]
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