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Ontario's new license plates have a problem: you can't read them

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Re: Ontario's new license plates have a problem: you can't read them

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Post by blaser-waffle »

52-6F-62 wrote: post #81
dangus wrote: post #67

Things I can’t understand: - Why North America doesn’t adopt European-style plates instead of the tiny, squished ones they have - Why license plates are allowed to act as regional advertisements for local states and provinces rather than identifiers - Why Canadians keep the Ford family in power

> Why Canadians keep the Ford family in power And the city of Toronto collectively facepalmed. Honestly it was less about Ford. Some people were frothing at the mouth over Wynne for some reason. And the rural parts of the province usually just keep the same MPP in office. Where I grew up I think the MPP has been rep for almost if not 30 years. "Good ol' Tobe" rides his tractor every year in the Canada Day parade thou…

> And the rural parts of the province usually just keep the same MPP in office.

Common Rural-vs-Urban divide that you see in the US, and plenty of other countries.

"Something something value of their vote is 4x as much something", etc.

Re: Ontario's new license plates have a problem: you can't read them

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Post by refurb »

jbob2000 wrote: post #138
refurb wrote: post #126

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Those dinky little town in fly over country! Why do they feel like they should have a say in how the province is run?

They should have a say, but right now they're being leveraged for political gains (like the flyover states!). None of these people voted for gas pump stickers, blue license plates, and education funding cuts. Yet they were leveraged to vote for the party that provided these instead of one that was working to provide lower utility and daycare costs.

That seems like a long winded way of saying they voted for the party in power.

Re: Ontario's new license plates have a problem: you can't read them

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Post by blaser-waffle »

mthoms wrote: post #142
pseudolus wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"A Place to Grow" - It's a pretty transparent move to encourage cannabis growers to set up shop in Ontario.

The (Conservative) Ontario government was/is opposed to legalization.

If Trudeau was pushing it you can bet the PCs are against it.

Re: Ontario's new license plates have a problem: you can't read them

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Post by frosted-flakes »

UseStrict wrote: post #121
52-6F-62 wrote: post #76

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It's continually amazing to me how far they will go to politicize something. And now the old plates are "the Liberal's fault". They were also introduced by the PCs some time back. Cue eyeroll. That said, I'll take "A Place to Grow" over "Open for Business" as we once feared. All this to do some political posturing but we can't afford to let studies and trials keep running that were already under way. If I let my eyes…

Worst thing is that new commercial plates do have "Open for Business" on them. Fun fact, a lot of those black license plates on pickup trucks are commercial-style plates, meaning all the redneck truck-driving coal-rolling Conservative base will be cruising around with "Open for Business" on their trucks once the new plate designs come into effect.

To clarify, UseStrict means black letters on a white background. The normal ones are blue letters on a white background (with the slogan "Yours to Discover" on both).

Re: Ontario's new license plates have a problem: you can't read them

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Post by frosted-flakes »

nraynaud wrote: post #12
ropiwqefjnpoa wrote: post #10

Dark color font on light background, guess they didn't get the memo...

I think it's a bit more precisely that the new plate is entirely retro-reflective while the old one was not reflective at all on the letter, almost binary.

Not just that, the old plates were stamped with raised lettering. The new ones are just printed.

Re: Ontario's new license plates have a problem: you can't read them

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Post by zouhair »

metalliqaz wrote: post #34
mfoy_ wrote: post #30

Ridiculous situation: MPP Lisa Thompson defends new Ontario licence plates. Video clip from Question Period, she calls previous license plates "Liberal plates". https://www.reddit.com/r/ontario/comments/f5xbtt/mpp_lisa_th...

What the hell is wrong with people? I thought Canadians were better than this. Don't believe what your own eyes are telling you. Orwell turning over in his grave.

Doug Ford is literally a thug from a family of drug traffickers. What did you expect?

Re: Ontario's new license plates have a problem: you can't read them

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aldoushuxley001 wrote: post #94
52-6F-62 wrote: post #89

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If anyone thinks this is hyperbole, there is a CBC interview with Doug where he claims Trump "took a page out of their book" and not the other way around. There are other occasions where he has spoken about his admiration for Trump, and opted to stay at Trump's hotel while on a diplomatic visit. Edit: Since this is drawing some ire I thought I would clarify that this is no remark on either politician in itself. They…

Rob Ford was populist before Trump, so in that sense he’s right.

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Re: Ontario's new license plates have a problem: you can't read them

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Post by flycaliguy »

jfengel wrote: post #105
metalliqaz wrote: post #34

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What the hell is wrong with people? I thought Canadians were better than this. Don't believe what your own eyes are telling you. Orwell turning over in his grave.

It works. The US has a remarkable ability to aim for the lowest common denominator -- in movies, in food, in technology -- and export that to the rest of the world. We're very good at finding things that are broadly appealing, and rewarding the people who create them. Politics is no exception. The world watches us, and they take what works. None of it is ever really novel, but a lot of it lies fallow until somebody s…

No offence to any American looking to feel influential, but the Ford brothers were operating this tabloid populist bandwagon up here before Trump stepped up.

Re: Ontario's new license plates have a problem: you can't read them

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Post by 52-6F-62 »

bryanlarsen wrote: post #149
52-6F-62 wrote: post #119

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To wit, the Ontario greenbelt contains some essential watersheds. https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/greenbelt/pages/383/at... The last time the province's water needs weren't properly cared-for resulted in what's known as the Walkerton Tragedy. https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/walkerton-... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walkerton_E._coli_outbreak

Completely unrelated. Cattle farming is allowed within the greenbelt, and feedlots were the source of Walkerton's E. coli.

They are related in that a government decided to politicize something like water testing (or in this case, environmental protection).

The watersheds are essential for filtering water that hits Ontarian cities.

Walkerton was the result of negligence and disregard for the environment and people's safety.

We could easily run into a similar situation if faced with similar wanton disregard for the functions of the watersheds by deregulating the greenbelt and selling the land off to private suburban development companies whose sole priority is extracting as much profit as possible from initial sales. (Opening that land up to private developers was Ford's stated intention and he only backed down after he drew a lot of public outrage at the notion).

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