u/YqlUrbanist

I got this in an email from the city earlier - seems like the next play from council is to convince us that it's actually the greedy firefighters at fault here, and we definitely shouldn't blame the UCP or their spineless toadies on council.

It looks like the EMS union had already agreed to a new division that would result in pay cuts over time through attrition (again due to pressure from the province) but that wasn't quick enough for the UCP - well paid government workers delivering world class service doesn't jive with their "everyone must suffer for the good of our donors" mentality I guess.

I fully recognize the city doesn't have a lot of power here. Municipal governments are completely at the mercy of the provincial government - but other municipal politicians are getting loud about it, and making sure it's very clear where the blame lies. That's what I expect from ours - not them spending their days on their hands and knees polishing Danielle Smith's boot.

A few councilors along with the Mayor Hyggen have posted very similar statements to this, and at least to my reading they seem deliberately vague. They keep referring to some nebulous additional option - it's unclear what they expect that to be, whether it's privatizing the service or hoping the UCP governments decides to change course.

I also laughed at "I do not believe we should ever put a dollar figure on a human life." That's exactly what you're doing Mr. Mayor. And fair enough - as much as people like to say stuff like that, we put a dollar figure on human life all the time whether that's designing a road for speed over safety, deciding how much to spend on healthcare, or drafting environmental regulation. Most of politics is deciding how much it's worth spending to improve or save lives.

Hey all,

For the last day or two my browser behavior has changed - previously when I typed "r" in the address bar, it would complete to "reddit.com", now it's going to "radisson hotels" which I've searched in the past, but certainly not regularly. Instead of facebook I get fastmail, and other regular sites disappeared entirely.

The top sites widget on my Start Page has the same effect - some of those common pages are no longer listed.

Any thoughts on what happened or how to fix it? I've checked my history to see if I accidentally cleared it but it looks fine, and I'm on the latest version of Vivaldi (7.9.3970.60) on Windows 11 Version 25H2 (Build 26200.8246). I haven't (deliberately at least) made any settings changes recently.