I’d appreciate it if everyone could just stop burning fossil fuels, please. Thank you for your cooperation.
Can’t say I have a whole lot of faith in the accuracy and diligence of the Todayville espionage section, but for a moment it did have me wondering if whoever controls China’s foreign influence operations shares my view that a Liberal majority would be bad news for Canada. But no, they probably don’t care. More likely they perceive the Liberals as more of an annoyance to the USA than the current opposition would be.
$500 million in capital investment funding for food businesses, $20 million for food banks
What if we make that 500 for food banks (or something new) and 20 for capitalists?
Hard to believe anyone would say that in public but I guess being confidently wrong is his go-to move every time.
Little will change for the better so long as the Liberal-Conservative tag team holds such complete dominance.
The bill itself was full of maximally authoritarian bullshit, causing all the civil society groups to oppose it as loudly as they did. It remains around in some form, last I heard, still theoretically in the legislative process somewhere, a continuing threat to us all should the Liberals feel confident enough to try and pass any of the worst parts of it into law.
It might’ve been an attempt to appease Trump, or it might’ve been pushed by some Trumpist infiltrator within the party, I don’t know. Optimistically, we can hope that Carney wasn’t really aware of what was in it, and on a topic outside his areas of expertise he was simply misled by people he mistakenly chose to trust. In any case I’m sure he will have learned from the experience.
Him I took the time to answer. You I will block.
Read a few more words there and find out. He didn’t write that legislation, but he approved of it, has had the power to stop it all along, and has not renounced it.
I guess it serves as a data point indicating what the percentage of Americans who will agree to the craziest shit available on the opinion poll answers is up to now. Seems to me it was as low as 10% not too many years ago.
It’s a good speech. He’d be a great prime minister if he weren’t so fond of fossil fuels, military spending (as opposed to actual defence,) and authoritarian bullshit in the name of security as exemplified in the infamous “border security” bill.
Oh, Doug Ford. Not the Ford Motor Company, which is the Ford I would’ve thought more likely to complain about having a competitor that’s actually capable of selling EVs at reasonable prices.
The main problem is that 49000 is much too small a number given the rate at which Canadians are buying cars.
“Sweden, Canada, and the Netherlands have confirmed deployments as part of the same multinational operation” according to Newsweek, citing “multiple outlets.” I’m pretty sure I heard about it on CBC radio news.
I don’t know, but it would be pretty strange for Canada to be left out.
I don’t trust Mark Carney much and he’s doing a shit job of managing things in Canada so far, but if there’s one thing he ought to be good at it’s negotiating a trade agreement with China.
Toronto police say … Anyone with information is asked to contact Toronto police
Apparently the CBC, normally the closest thing Canada has to good journalism, knows only what the police have told them about this event.
Meanwhile, how much is their media division spending to increase excessive screen time among teens and tweens?
Is there a word for the system of government where a country is ruled by American oil companies? … oh yeah, that’s it, “colonialism.” Well, maybe it will work out better this time, with such enlightened and competent American leadership to organize it.
So, higher oil prices then. Perhaps it will also make Mark Carney pause for a moment and try to get a little more in return before he inevitably gives in to US demands to buy their fighter jets.
Doug Ford says it will “boost the economy.” More commuting = more gasoline sales = more economy, I guess.
“It’s hard to see as an economist how taking money away from the big grocers will then also lead to lower prices.”
Is it really, though? Finding some way to re-introduce to this market what we used to know as “competition” — which was once much beloved of economists — would do exactly that. But I guess that idea is too far-fetched to even come into the discussion. I only wonder how far this code of conduct goes in the opposite direction. The ruling cartel will continue to have its way.
GNU Taler is based in Europe, I believe. But seeing as it’s free software there’s no reason not to use it in Canada.
Maybe it’s actually our Guttenberg moment, as in Steve Guttenberg in Police Academy (1984). AI plays the role of “Ax Murderer” of course. I’m keeping an eye out for the Michael Winslow character.