I may have exaggerated a little with “double” the price. But there are plenty of rich people willing to pay a little more to avoid the company that’s primarily known for being unethical and abusing its employees.

It’s really amazing this talent Doug Ford has to be absolutely wrong about every single thing.

Somebody needs to set up a company that charges double the price of Uber but exists only to give all of the money directly to the drivers. Pretty soon Uber would not have any drivers.

Even if they succeed in temporarily nudging the price below equilibrium all it will do is result in shortages.

Better things they could do include taking 10% of the money that’s spent on highways and putting it towards restoring passenger rail service in this country, creating a crown corporation that makes and sells utilitarian electric bicycles, having the civil service and everyone else work from home as much as possible, prohibiting the sale of new vehicles powered fully or partly by internal combustion engines, and taking six months off to re-evaluate their life choices.

It’s a bad move, even on a temporary short-term basis. In the short run the amount of oil available will be the same, the amount of oil products people want will be the same, and thus the amount of “price rationing” required and therefore the price will be the same, whether the money goes to the federal government or to the oil companies.

To see that this is the end of that regime

Its end is overdue but seems to have been delayed somewhat by an unfortunate American bombing campaign.

Wikipedia: The Frontier Centre for Public Policy is a Canadian public policy think tank founded in 1997 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Among the positions promoted by the Centre are “free markets” and climate change denial. They are part of the Atlas Network of neoliberal think tanks.

Hooray! Encryption for everyone Encryption for client-side encryption (CSE) users with Enterprise Plus licenses and the Assured Controls or Assured Controls Plus add-on after admins enable the Android and iOS clients in the CSE admin interface who remember to turn on “additional encryption” option when sending an email.

No mention as to whether it follows any standards or is interoperable with anything else in the world.

Can we get some Liberals crossing to the NDP please? There have got to be at least two or three of them capable of understanding that it’s the right thing to do for the political life of the country.

Far behind what, exactly? This question arising from the headline isn’t answered in the article except by saying it’s far behind what the most hawkish war nerds they could find would like to see. The CBC here simply repeats uncritically everything they are told, including that we are already at war with China, and calls it news.

changes introduced in the 2025 federal budget granting Ottawa explicit authority to disband organizations designated as “terrorist entities.”

It seemed inevitable that if that legislation was ever used, it would be abused. I’m not a lawyer, but I’m pretty sure that participating in terrorism was already illegal, and so this can serve only to harass people who are not doing so. Sure enough it appears to be the case — although if they have credible evidence to the contrary I’d like to see it.

That they snuck it in through the budget document is adding insult to injury. This new government has repeatedly shown complete indifference to the principles of good government that made Canada what it was.

All the big bureaucracies went haywire in the first years of the pandemic. Including the CBC.

Would there be any value in understanding the major drivers for supporting separatism

You wrote that comment in response to an essay detailing an extensive investigation into the major drivers for supporting separatism.

What reason? Other than that it tastes good, I mean. Maple syrup is mostly sugar.

What you were trying to say and how it pertains to bicycles was very unclear but I think I deciphered it. But there are lots of Mac users who ride bicycles, I know one or two of them myself.

The headline makes it sound as if they’re being unfair. It doesn’t matter that much whether he uses that one specific word, what matters is what he does say about it. But when you get down to the details of what he’s said, it seems less unfair. Making trade deals with China might be profitable, but if it really does require being that deferential to them on this topic then the cost isn’t worth it.

The same should apply to other countries as well, of course.

Complaining about how extremely expensive trains are, no objections at all to spending ten times that much on fighter jets, battleships, and attack submarines.

There are at least 5 different widely-used definitions of the “cup”, that’s why it’s such a fun unit of measure.

we fear it is a political decision by Mark Carney’s Liberal government to prevent the visit of someone who might ‘stir up controversy.’

The amount of controversy that will be stirred up by this story is at least an order of magnitude more than whatever they could’ve expected from not doing it. It’s pretty unlikely that anyone in the PMO would be too slow to understand that, but I can believe that someone at CBSA might.

Fuck ICE, though. They’ve been in the news lately for operating in Canada, and even in Europe.