I was driving down to Sydney on Friday, and the rain was almost scary. I had to pull off the highway at Antigonish during a downpour because I couldn’t see the road.

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Did we forget the whole “join us, voluntarily or not” rhetoric coming from the White House? That language alone was a threat of war. Actual war. Like, with tanks and shit.

Carney is engaging in disaster capitalism, and must be called out for that. But let’s not forget the disaster part.

Businesses love fascist, lawless kakistocracies up until they find themselves neglecting their protection payments.

GrapheneOS could try supporting handsets that don’t involve handing $1000 directly to Google if they want more donations.

The issue is that it continues to be sold as if it does work. It’s been used as leverage when proposing more oil projects, and as a greenwashing panacea for politicians, for 20+ years now, despite that it’s complete vapourware.

They needed to made to work before it was used as an excuse to drill-baby-drill. Not 30 years later.

Canada doesn’t have an auto industry. We haven’t in generations. We don’t own our factories, we don’t own the caar companies, and we have no control over what is produced or if it makes sense.

The autoworkers here are just pawns. An expendible extension of the US and Japanese auto industries, which have both made awful choices anf gambles in recent decades.

Blue Jays games have seen a laarge jump in the amount of ads shown this year, too. It’s all garish. Watching things on SportsNet is like torture for the eyes.

It’s just the tabernacle, which is the little box Catholic churches store the communion wafers and wine in.

This is why most connected people get jobs.

Well, you gotta make sure it’s the right people counting the ballots. They need to be properly trained to know which ballots to count as 500 votes and which ones to count as 1.

But it was said to manipulate markets…

They think they’ll get to keep their passport, so they probably think they’ll get to keep voting in Canadian federal elections, too.

Not sure which ridings they think they’ll be voting in.

But they want their ground goo and to burn it, too.

Sorry, Galen, what were those record profits again?

Guess it’s time to strike harder. These rights were not gained by listening nicely to government.

ive written my MP twice over these bills. both times i got a generic response from the office, not the MP, the office of the MP, and both times it was basically “thats nice. we’ll bring it up” and based on the transcripts, not one of my points against this bill were brought to light. and it was some pretty simple, blatantly obvious issues that anyone else would have, so its not like it got lost in the sauce or anything. the POS continues to advocate for the bill.

So, there’s a couple of things to keep in mind. A major one is that anything that’s done in public, where you can see what they’re saying, is whipped. They’re following the party line of whichever party they’re part of. The real open discussion happens in caucus discussions, and those are private. Your MP might be bringing those points up for discussion there, or they might not be. You can’t tell without actually getting to talk with your MP directly.

The other is that persistence and volume are important. If they think you’ll go away, your concerns are more likely to be brushed aside. If you’re the only person voicing concerns, they are more likely to be brushed aside. The MP is there to represent the people of your riding, and to represent the party. If the people of the riding don’t seem like they care, on the whole, while the party does, then the party’s voice wins. This isn’t even a factor of allegiances, just exposure. They hear more people talking about these things as good than they do bad, they’ll side with the bigger chorus.

Don’t stop writing, and try to encourage others to write. That’s how you change minds.

The profit margin isn’t that hidden. Distributors pay groocery stores for shelf placement, and big US brands have deeper pockets and can outbid Canadian alternatives. The winning play, then, is to find any excuse to label US brands as Canadian, and collect from both sides.

The investigation is being run by Elections Alberta. We should be lucky that they don’t just hand over more records to the separatists.

I wad gonna say, if they’d hired another Chris after I left I was going to feel really offended. I’m happy to take credit for talking shit about the publisher publically, though.