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Given that Elon is part of a hostile government declaring a trade war I think it’s fair that we also treat Starlink and Tesla as possible national security threats.


I believe this is the first time a Canadian politician has addressed the algorithm as a thing controlled by a very small amount of people instead pretending it’s some magical thing.

This should apply to every social media platform that suggest content to users.


He had a bit of quiet spell during the India foreign interference in the Conservative leadership things a couple months back. Funny enough foreign interference report is suppose to come out next week.


You forgot Peterson, Rogan, Alex Jones and essentially every turd of a human being.



Lots of places cropped out Elon arm yesterday and just called it a “questionable arm gesture”.



Headline source:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/musk-canada-poilievre-trudeau-influence-1.7426954

In the past week alone, Musk has dipped into Canadian politics on his social media platform several times; endorsing Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, showering him with praise, reposting his tweets and applauding his speeches and media interactions.


cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/24511890 > The fact that this is a real image is infuriating > > 20-01-2025. This is a real image
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At the end of the day it was all pandering in the first place.

If it isn’t a legal obligation then all these mega companies environmental, social and even fact checking activities was essentially just a line item under the marketing budget.





I really can’t understand how Jagmeet has been allowed to lead for so long with the results he’s had and Charlie didn’t even get a shot.

And then there’s this. How do NDP members defended him barely beating Niki Ashton.

And yet, in the end, the result was not even close. Angus — with 19 per cent of the vote — not only finished more than 30 points behind Singh, he barely beat Niki Ashton (17 per cent) for second place.

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/in-ndp-leadership-race-charlie-angus-was-dealt-the-hardest-blow-h-bert/article_952370e1-9d86-51f4-bd3d-cf41199878d3.html



I think the biggest difference is that while people probably shouldn’t some genuinely like Trump but it seems most people really just tolerate Pierre at best.





The music makes the whole thing more palatable. Should be included for all Conservative videos.



Just want to say Rachel Gilmore one of my favourite modern social media journalist. Certainly worth a follow if you’re into that format of Canadian political content.


The chief actuary’s position paper, posted online on Friday, comes to a similar conclusion as University of Calgary economics professor Trevor Tombe. Last year, Tombe calculated that Alberta would be entitled to between 20 and 25 per cent of the $575-billion plan.

“It is a clear rejection of the government’s 53 per cent claim that has been quite prominently touted now for some time,” said Tombe, who is the director of fiscal and economic policy at the university’s School of Public Policy.

Tombe says LifeWorks derived that estimate by assuming Albertans would be entitled to as much interest as if it had created an independent provincial pension plan in 1966 — when the CPP began — and watched interest accrue.

The chief actuary, Assia Billig, disagreed with the LifeWorks interpretation. Her position paper says the federal law governing the CPP must be interpreted as if all provinces could withdraw from the plan at the same time and take their share.



For anyone wondering if the NDP non-confidence motion goes through we still have a while till a election:

The next sitting isn’t till Jan 27 - https://www.ourcommons.ca/en/sitting-calendar/2025

Min election/campaign cycle is 37 days - https://www.elections.ca/content.aspx?section=ele&dir=cycle&document=index&lang=e



By a lot of large national metrics Canada has held up quite well, but figures like the one below is what’s damning about the current government and also why the proposed Conservative ideologies(deregulate, lower corporate taxes and reduce services) is even worse.

https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/241010/t001a-eng.htm


Posting this since I’ve seen a fair bit of people make random things up regarding this.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reform_Act_(Canada) Usage The caucus member ejection provisions were first used when the Conservative caucus voted to eject Derek Sloan on January 20, 2021.[9][10][11] In February 2022, the leadership removal provisions were invoked for the first time by the Conservative caucus following the 2021 election, which used it to trigger a leadership review against, and remove, Erin O'Toole. During the review, 45 MPs voted to retain him against 73 who voted for his removal.[12] Deputy Leader Candice Bergen was selected as interim leader.[13][14] O'Toole's removal marked the first time since the Reform Act was passed into law seven years prior, that a party caucus formally challenged and dismissed its leader.[15]
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Data for generalized performance of CAD is harder to find than most people would think. It’s good to understand how CAD is doing beyond the USD comparisons.


Source: https://themeasureofaplan.com/canadian-fx-tracker/
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I wouldn’t worry about it. The Liberal supporters is just butthurt their “good enough” party is actually shit and their only effective retort these is that at least they’re not Conservative levels of shit.


I’m not voting for the party leader. I’m voting for my riding’s candidate.

I take it you’re not much of a believer in vote whipping.

Things are going so poorly that the Conservatives is overwhelmingly going to win the next election. If that’s good enough for you I can see why you’re completely fixed on your support for the Liberals.


A & B - I’m talking about the current circumstances and how as a progressive there’s never been a better chance in recent times to vote NDP if you don’t want “waste” a vote. There can be a 20 extra seat swing coming purely from the Conservatives to the Liberals and they still have majority by 34 seats.

C & D - I don’t understand how voting for someone that lied about something as big as Voting reform is suppose to inspire optimism. The Liberals is just better than the Conservatives, they’ve never been been a good party. Even if the Liberals won the next election most Canadian will still be worse off just not as bad.

This whole I’m not the bad guy therefore I’m the good guy rhetoric is deplorable.


I wouldn’t vote for Pierre if he said he’d implement voting reform which is the only thing I’m looking for in the next election.

I really don’t understand how people can look at Canadian politics in the last half a century and want to bounce between these parties that has taken turns seeing how bad they can be before people vote them out.


Can you elaborate how you voting for the Liberals instead of NDP or really anyone else is going to impact this mathematically:


What does that change in the grand scheme of things.

In itself is strategic voting only about one election one riding at a time what about the nation and the future beyond 4 years?


Really no reason to even think about voting for Liberals now that the whole strategic voting thing isn’t even plausible thing with the current polling.


Just some random political commentary of my own:

Yesterday I heard the someone say that Trump tariffs will make Canada great again by somehow improving government efficiency. The individual was the stereotypical person that thinks any and all types of taxes is killing Canada these days but turns out if another nation taxes us then it’s good shit.

Anyways as the polls go Trudeau has the power to implement PR which could hold back Pierre garbage politics but he isn’t exactly for helping Canadians either.



Something almost never brought up in these articles is that while the union didn’t commit to a rotating strike like they did in the past, Canadapost made that decision for them by locking them out.

So if people want to point the finger as to why things went full stop they should be looking at the management for that as well.


If the CIRB agrees, MacKinnon says the labour relations board would order Canada Post and all employees represented by the Canadian Union of Postal Workers to resume operations and extend the terms of the existing collective agreements until May 2025.

“Not only have the parties been unable to show any progress towards an agreement, the federal mediator has now informed me that the negotiations between both parties are now, in fact, going in the wrong direction,” he said during a Friday media conference.



The central bank’s policy rate now stands at 3.25 per cent after the fifth rate cut in a row.

CIBC chief economist Avery Shenfeld said in a note that he also sees the Bank of Canada continuing to lower its policy rate — albeit at a more modest pace of quarter-point cuts — until reaching a low of 2.25 per cent in 2025.



Paywall Bypass: https://archive.ph/GQCR9

“I think what we’re seeing now is that there are probably internal negotiations in the union to determine how to move forward,” said Stephanie Ross, a labour studies professor at McMaster University.

That kind of dramatic restructuring makes it far harder to see a clear path to a settlement than if it were only money dividing the two sides, Ross said. “It’s hard to split the difference when you’re talking about expanding the presence of casual and part-time labour.”

The federal government has thus far said it won’t invoke Section 107 of the Canada Labour Code and apply to the Canadian Industrial Relations Board for binding arbitration to end the strike, but that prospect could push both sides back to the table, said Larry Savage, a labour relations professor at Brock University.

The federal government involvement should be properly discussing the future of Canada Post. We’re seeing the results of a 11 billion dollar entity stuck in limbo for much longer than it should and the government needs to decide if they want to shrink or expand it’s operations.


While job growth in the province has been strong, he said, it hasn’t been sufficient to keep up with the uptick in people moving here.

Alberta’s population grew by around 204,000 people between July of 2023 and July of 2024, according to a recent provincial news release. That’s an annual growth rate of around 4.4 per cent — the highest rate since 1981 and the highest among all provinces, it said. (It’s also the size of two new cities roughly the size of Red Deer.)

An estimated 42 per cent of that increase in working-age population was concentrated in Calgary, and 40.5 per cent in Edmonton, said St-Arnaud.

There are industries still dealing with labour shortages, even with the current job market. Home-builders need more skilled trades workers, and many hospitality businesses still can’t seem to find enough staff, said Parsons, from ATB.



While I have the same sentiment I think it’s best not to dwell to much on a person that’s been gone for more than a decade. I do feel like there’s some candidates in the NDP party that seem like they’d win the party a few more seats.


Is there much history the Bloc is for voting reform beyond the recent bill to looking into voting reform? I’m not entirely convinced they’re truly for it.


If Canadians are insistent on voting in the Conservative in the next election, I wouldn’t mind if we at least permanently get rid of the Liberals.



Canada Post said Thursday it was reviewing new counter-proposals submitted by the union representing more than 55,000 postal employees, who walked off the job three weeks ago.

The sticking points include wages and a push to expand into weekend delivery, with the two sides in disagreement over how to staff the expansion.

Calls for federal intervention have been mounting from the business community, but so far the government has said it’s not stepping in.

Canada Post handled 296 million parcels last year, or nearly 811,000 per day. That’s a big hole for private operators to plug, even if it represents just 29 per cent of the parcel market, according to the Crown corporation.



Video about YouTubers peddling stocks.

As you guys can see this summary list below this video is pretty dense with information, so I would highly recommend watching if you’re interested in this topic.

  • The amounts the creators are paid is very generous for ad campaigns. 10’s of thousands at time 100’s of thousand and even million plus dollars.
  • Many of the channel are right wing alt media creators.
  • Sources for data come from Securities law that requires disclosure for this type of work.
  • Ad campaigns is ran indirectly though additional third party marketing company
  • Majority of companies involved is resource plays
  • A lot of them nano cap(16M median market cap). So have about the same market cap as a single McD locations.
  • Canada once again punches well above it’s weight with half the companies being based in Canada.
  • 30/56 is located Vancouver and a lot of them is in the same address with the same directors and managers
  • 34/56 didn’t report sales in the past 12 months
  • 30/56 had multi million dollar deficits.
  • For many of these companies a large portions(~30%) of their expenses is marketing their stock
  • Campaigns seems to be pretty effective at raising capital for these companies
  • While some investors make a profit. 81% would have a average loss of -52.4%
  • The middle man marketing companies has participated in trading of the stocks


Written article and answer to people’s question

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/canada-post-strike-benefits-cut-1.7395774

Caron was diagnosed with cancer two years ago. In May, he found out it had returned. He’s on medication that currently costs about $2,000 per day.


The full context of this is economists don’t think it’s a long term solution but their other proposed solutions is even less accepted by politicians and the masses.

As such like many of the larger problems we have we’re left with a temporary solution that’s implemented long term.

When people criticize rent control at best what they’re saying is if we bottom out on a problem the only way we could go is up. Ala electing Trump.