With 10-per-cent annual turnover, Whittal expects it will take 10 years or more for almost all the units to become entirely smoke-free. 

it's a step forward, anyways.

i should get that info updated.

https://windsorstar.com/news/local-news/social-housing-starts-forbidding-smoking-in-units-with-little-protest

subsidized housing is probably not the right answer, because these old apartments are full of smokers - and the people that live there can hardly be thrown out.

an institutionalized setting, on the other hand, would be non-smoking, because it's a health facility.

what i really want is an apartment in an institution.

and, it doesn't have to be locked down, and it doesn't have to be isolated - it just has to be a building that is dedicated for disabled people.

i don't need a nurse, and i don't need a maid, and i don't need somebody to make me food. but, i need an acknowledgement that i can't exist in a market-based society, and a way to safely escape from it.

you can't place me in the spectrum for the reason that i'm not in it.

stop trying.

another terrible day in hell.

i could very well pass out. we'll find out.

in fact, if i do it, i'll charge both of them - the smoker below me and the smoker next door to me.

i don't have time.

but, if you force my hand...

i am absolutely willing to prosecute a smoker under nuisance laws.

are you going to argue that she's not endangering my health?

what year is it?

http://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/C-46/section-180.html

i don't have time to prosecute a nuisance charge. but, i'm collecting evidence in case i have to.

i will defend myself on free speech grounds, if attacked.

and, i will retaliate with a criminal nuisance charge, arguing that somebody that is wilfully blowing smoke into my air supply - despite being asked not to repeatedly - is negligently endangering m health.

i will not act first. i don't have time. i'm leaving as soon as possible.  but, i will retaliate accordingly.

i just had some cops show up and try to tell me there's no such thing as nuisance under the law.

the reality is that cops generally have no idea what the law says.

this is the great irony, right?

the tory establishment in canada just spent the last twenty years doing everything it could to get rid of the country's liberal traditions, to scatter it's voices, and to essentially convert the party into a "progressive conservative" party - even going so far as to win the son of the party's glory years over to the cause of red tory obama/clinton style moderate conservativism.

they finally get their stooge in place...

....and the republicans elect a liberal president.

now, they have no idea what to do, because all the liberals are gone, under the bus.

i repeat.

on the traditional canadian spectrum, donald trump is a liberal, and justin trudeau is not.

confused?

welcome to canada.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/yes-trump-is-the-liberal-republican-in-the-race

https://winteryknight.com/2016/05/12/fifteen-reasons-why-donald-trump-is-a-liberal/

if you want to see how donald trump will treat doug ford, look at how he treated chris christie.

i think maybe the issue is that so many people are interpreting trump through the filter of alec baldwin. they're getting this caricature of him, blurring reality with fiction and ultimately missing the point.

donald trump is not a conservative; doug ford is quite textbook. trump will instantly interpret doug ford as the complete idiot that he is, and treat him like it - because that's how donald trump has always treated conservatives, like idiots.

if you want a kindred spirit?

send chretien.

donald trump is the complete opposite of doug ford; he is, rather, the mirror image of jean chretien. and, he's ultimately not that dissimilar from trudeau's father, either.

in canada, he'd be a fucking liberal. and, the liberals are so lost in their worship of the democratic party under obama that they can't see their own reflection when placed right in front of them.

they're failing the mirror test.

this is utter stupidity.

to begin with, doug ford is the actual village idiot. he's both outrageously ignorant and legitimately an incredibly stupid person. trump is unread, and proud of it, but not an actual idiot. the difference between ford and trump is the difference between ignorance (trump) and stupidity (ford).

in that sense, it's like sending an angry chimp after a lion.

further, you're talking about sending the premier of a subnational state after what is theoretically the most powerful person in the world (trump is likely to end up dead , quickly, if he were to use that power). what leverage does doug ford have? is he going to sit on him?

so, this is utter stupidity. we need game theory, not football game theatrics.

but, we're in the era of stupidity...

https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/2018/07/07/sick-doug-ford-on-donald-trump.html