Unrealted but I made an account the day RIF stopped working, never went back. I used the new apps that were being spun up, and at the time I wasn’t able to create an account on any of the 3 options except lemmy.ml.

Does everyone think I’m tankie for that? And am I missing out on good content because lemmy.ml is banned/shunned?

Our government is far from great, plenty of shit to criticize. But poivrière is just a corporate shill. The fact they put him at the head of the conservative party tells you everything you need to know about conservatives. He even tried to make a Trump out of himself and start bringing name calling and personal attacks into politics. They want to go bold like Trump and gaslight the political laws everyone follows but them, especially the unwritten ones.

Canadians better show up next election and remember more than just this.

Only the sith deal in absolutes

I get this reference

Tying healthcare to employment is stupid and we see it in the US. It sounds good on paper to cheap bigots who think people are freeloading.

The tax would be a three per cent levy on the digital services revenue a company makes from Canadian users above $20 million in a calendar year. It would apply only to companies with annual worldwide revenue of more than about $1.1 billion. Alphabet Inc. and Meta Platforms Inc. are among those set to be impacted.

The government points out in the budget that at least seven other countries, including the U.K., France, Italy and Spain, already have similar taxes in place.

Mel, a real programmer!

I’d add a motherfucking website. While not exactly a story, it’s one of my favorite bits on the internets

Poivrière is using the Trump method of not having a plan, but only attacking the others plan to look good. Like Trump did with Obamacare which he cut and replaced with nothing, and a new plan was always around the corner for 4 years.

Once he gets into office he’s going to quickly get to work privatizing shit and ignoring everything he said about Trudeau.

Sadly it might just work

If anyone is interested there is a wonderful walk about one of the apollo flight computers

Remember when you hear that kind of talk, someone is going to get something out of it, and it isn’t going to be you.

Before you decide on this, consider that if people half way across the world can live a better life, it’s better for all of us. Helping countries develop is great and we should invest in that. Poivrière is sure not speaking about cutting funding to Israel, or suporting the idea that there is a genocide happening in Gaza.

Go look up what exactly he means by “useless funding” before taking this at face value. And not just from this article, but from his political agenda.

Poilievre’s office did not immediately specify which countries or programs would be on the financial chopping block.

Last month, Poilievre pledged to permanently stop funding a United Nations agency that supports Palestinians amid allegations some of its staff played a role in the Oct. 7 attack on Israel.

After the accusations emerged, the federal Liberals said they would pause funds for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, known as UNWRA.

The former Conservative government of Stephen Harper halted funding for the agency back in 2010, and the Liberals restored it in 2016 after coming into power. In 2010, Harper announced his government would freeze foreign aid for five years as a way to balance the budget. Spending cuts came two years later.

There is no plan, just a history of bad planning. This is a dog whistle and nothing more.

Shit I missed that. Well done.

Thank you for your service.

Really? The audacity on these guys!

Did you ask the Calgary education board what their programs are? The provincial one is just one default program, if you read further you’ll find other programs supported by municipality/city/provincial funding.

I’m not against having federal standards and/or funding, but it’s not like there aren’t any programs.

You didn’t look very far imo

I guess we’ll never know!

Cutting out an important part which is the following line to the exerpt:

That means that while every province has different needs, there isn’t an aligned approach to feeding students across the assortment of existing programs.

There are plenty of programs in Canada, there just isn’t a national one because like a lot of things, it’s left up to the provinces. But there are food programs and school lunches across Canada. There just isn’t a “unified” federal legislation.

He’s new around here

Sure, liberals are LARPing as progressive. I’m sure you’re going to be thrilled when the conservatives start turning over abortion laws, bring religion into politics and cut more checks to the corporations. That’s what they did to our teeth last time. Or better yet, them spending time REDUCING the legal age of consent. Yknow, very cool and very legal policies.

I … dont see how that applies to what I just said. You’re ignoring a lot about politics and looking at the “bright side scenario” to come to that conclusion, it’s unlikely to happen and is still advantageous to conservatives eho can do the same. You’re still voting for a party on a spectrum

It’s the classic scheme of the third party. Conservatives fund the NDP to split the liberal vote, and off to another conservative government. Fml

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My favorite example of this is this nintendo skit

What’s really bad is if someone drastically changed the implementation of something which you’ve also changed

That’s not a merge conflict, that’s a management conflict.