Well it’s up to you, but personally I tend to vote for the local candidate I’d prefer to win.

If you were backed into a corner and forced to vote for someone in the recent election, CBC news would like to hear from you.

The military and the oil industry may not look much alike, but they do have some things in common. Both are instruments of violence against humanity and both have a thing for metal tubes.

YELLOW: It might get a bit windy later. ORANGE: Watch out for falling trees. RED: The Event is nearing, remain indoors.

The prime minister knows what bankers and money managers are like, and if he says they love greenwashing I guess he might be right. Give them what they want and they’ll be sure to reward us all with megatons of innovation.

Well if they’re counting every http request that was blocked because their software decided it might be part of an attack, I suppose a few of them were from me back when NRC was routinely blocking my VPN provider.

Billions, huh. I suppose they must be counting every packet in every random port scan as an attack.

I hope India returns to democracy some day.

People do occasionally buy new computers, and this one looks likely to be a better choice than most of what’s on the market.

Okay, but if it’s not the USA or China then which imperial power does he think Canada should become subservient to next?

Yeah I think some Conservatives abstaining is the most likely path. Much as they’d like to I don’t think the NDP (or Elizabeth May) are going to want to be seen as enabling it.

If the Conservatives don’t make it happen, their party may just get its own chance to fail to pass their first budget very soon.

Yves-François Blanchet gave quite a speech about it, the gist of it was that he doesn’t like it. This may be a budget that fails to pass.

AI, fighter jets, economically unviable mining projects, attack submarines, oil pipelines, carbon capture boondoggles — Canada’s government sure does have a lot of money to spend on things that don’t look much like good investments.

It’s a giant money pit either way. Somehow pulling off a miraculous recovery for the Canadian ship-building industry is simply the one thing I can think of that could potentially be used to justify the enormous expense compared to other, better ways of spending that much money. No subs at all sounds fine to me. For intel-gathering purposes of the type so-far mentioned, patrolling around the coastline of Canada watching for the incoming invasion fleet or whatever, there isn’t a whole lot of advantage in trying to do it from a well-armed underwater platform and we’re already spending absurd amounts of money on brand new surface vessels.

The point of submarines is to sneak up on enemy ships and destroy them. That’s not something Canada has an urgent need to be doing. There are more cost-effective ways to defend the country. But it’s not about being cost-effective, it’s about spending as much money as possible — on building up someone else’s military-industrial complex, since they’re too impatient to build up Canada’s capacity to the point where that kind of hardware could be built here — in order to be able to look “strong” like people are clamouring for.

About time, Canada! Just think of all the glorious war fighting opportunities that the country has been missing out on for its entire history as a result of not spending a hundred billion dollars on a big fleet of attack submarines before now.

Opinion: The idea that the USA is making foreign policy decisions on the basis of Trump seeing that ad and being offended by it is absurd, and nobody should believe it. He’s stupid, but he’s not that stupid.

That was the problem all along: The management was out of alignment.

There is much confusion about such things. “Increased surveillance” is how many people understood the worst part of C-2, but it was much worse than just that. The stuff that remains (presumably; I haven’t read the new bills) could also be described as increased surveillance but isn’t the same thing as the completely over-the-top ill-considered lunge in the direction of “lawful access” that was in the original.

The cost estimate for Accessory Dwelling Unit 01 in Ontario is 250k

Huh. Based on estimates I happened to see 20 years ago you could’ve built three rather nice houses each one twice that size for less money then. Maybe the rate of inflation has been a wee bit under-reported over the years?