It’s a tough fight for them because of how familiar the population is with those corps.

Lab services in Sask have bounced between private and public several times… Nobody really notices (which is sad IMO)

But SGI and SaskTel… Everyone is a client, and everyone can look over any provincial border and go “whoa, don’t wanna end up like them”.

Lol. It’s a crown corporation and WILDLY popular. No one will squawk? Any party would not withstanding that shit immediately because it’s popular, and then just wrap it in their party-specific words.

The LAST thing Bell wants is to draw national attention to how well a provincial offering is. The LAST thing they want is for people to see that there are alternative structures that are working for other Canadians.

Bit of a stretch to say they’re rivals.

I TOTALLY agree.

I think everyone is here thinking I’m pro asshole, I’m just super anti-cop and the problematic systems that enable them.

I am super anti-asshole, but I’m not ready to trade systemic anti-asshole structures that would further enable abusive policing.

I wish that were the case, because it would provide financial incentive for police restraint.

If the hundreds of university kids who were arrested for Gaza protests hit the lottery, I’d be thrilled.

The Jury is completely irrelevant because it’s after the fact. What matters is what the police can use as justification.

I’m saying that the bar needs to be raised for what the police can cuff you for. I am not in favour of “arrest them all and let the jury decide” approach to policing.

My concerns are the legal apparatus that can not distinguish between nuisance and protest.

I think protests against the genocide in Gaza are appropriate l, and I wouldn’t want people rounded up for being a nuisance.

I think the BLM protests were appropriate, and I wouldn’t want people rounded up for being a nuisance.

I think the protests around truth and reconciliation are appropriate, and I wouldn’t want those people rounded up for being a nuisance.

Basically, I’m just saying the knife cuts BOTH WAYS. Any laws that can shuffle people out of your sight for being something so poorly defined as a “nuisance” opens the gate for it to be applied against protests which are BY DESIGN disruptive to some degree.

I’m responding specifically to the comment where the commenters SPECIFIC beef was revving an engine at 1am.

You can think it’s an asshole behaviour without thinking it’s appropriate to charge someone with a crime.

If I noise complaint a protest, should everyone e arrested?

I got the brain inflammation outcome 20 years ago. Brutal. Would not recommend.

In the past, it’s been to just prioritize not getting bitten, so use bug spray and consider how you’re dressed. If you are going to sleep outdoors maybe consider how well your sleeping situation is going to protect you.

Also, big one is to think about if you’re creating good mosquito breeding conditions on your property. If so, change that.

I know years ago, there was interest in reporting/cleaning up suspiciously dead birds too. Not sure what the current direction on that is now.

I guess I’m saying I wished he hadn’t changed, and just did the thing he said he was going to do originally.

Harper wrote a fantastic essay on electoral reform before he was elected.

I’m not impressed by a liberal or conservative supporting reform when polling shows they’d benefit from the proposed change and then immediately forget it once they’re elected w/ FPTP.

Wow imagine if he just actually kept his campaign promise

You don’t want a department that you throw it over the fence to, you want them embedded on your team. Keep those feedback loops TIGHT bois

'Nailing down the definition of a story point to “1 developer day” oughta do it ’

I think it’s significant in principle at least.

Part of the reason that the youth are so disillusioned is that nobody in the older generations show any interest in protecting them in any sense. From abstract things like the projected future climate in which they will live, or in the concrete immediate of swarms of police.

Intergenerational solidarity isn’t something these students have really experienced.

Pretty much every country fired up their money printers to power through covid.

Here is Canada’s money supply:

Every other country did the same thing. Although I think governments, companies, and individuals are stumbling through the shock of such an unprecedented injection of supply… Ultimately IMO this is a global “hangover” from covid money printing.

This is why I’m hesitant to over-attribute current economic conditions to things like “approaching limits of growth”. To me, those are zebras. Unprecedented monetary supply manipulation are horses. When I hear hoofbeats, my first guess is the horses.

I didn’t really understand how much people hate oil until today.

Rex Murphy was literally a member of the Liberal Party, running for office himself twice.

Edit:

I have fond memories of some really great content from him on CBC radio in the 00s.

The vitriol in the comments here did prompt me to look at what he’s been doing for the last (checks watch…) 20 years… Sigh… And yeah… It’s not good.

Sorry that this is how you chose to go out, Rex. Genuinely.

“The gains” in your quote (when taken in a fuller context) is referring to number of jobs added. It’s not related to the average hourly wage.

Using a law to justify arrests knowing full well they won’t hold up as a way to intimate and suppress a protest is absolutely abuse, regardless if it results in a conviction. Almost moreso.

The cops arrested him without following the law.

There is a difference between having an arrest or charges dropped and the police not following the law. By this logic OJ was illegally arrested because he was found innocent of the criminal charges.

Always have been village idiots.

Internet let them find eachother, form a union, and organize recruitment drives.

Not an economist, but these articles seem to suggest that investment is somehow part of the calculation of “output”?

Am I understanding that correctly?

Of course! I think it’s an important story and delineating facts from speculation is critical.

Israel hasn’t officially acknowledged that they did it, so if they DID ask, and Canada DID confirm that they asked, it would confirm that Israel was who did it.

So, I don’t think it’s necessarily true that the ONLY reason to not answer is that Israel didn’t ask.

https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.7168176

Apparently there was some damage. It’s been closed since 2012, so there wasn’t anyone there.

That’s exactly right. We’ve been on the other end of this. We’re still on the other end of this.

Over my life, I’ve met many people who have been systemically oppressed. It’s like they’re being held to the ground, a boot on their neck.

Most of them just dream of a world where they can be free of that oppression… But for some people… Their minds grow diseased, and they instead of dreaming of a world free from oppression they dream of one day becoming the boot.

Don’t be the boot!

When the prejudice is so engrained that you can’t even form an argument against an anonymous person because your entire worldview revolves around your prejudices.

Do you remember when Jagmeet wasn’t the leader of the NDP, and there was that woman yelling at him about him being Muslim? He’s not, he’s Sikh. When he was asked later why he didn’t just say “I’m not Muslim though”

"I chose not to answer the questions asked because I didn’t accept the premise.

“Many people have commented that I could have just said I’m not Muslim. In fact, many have clarified that I’m actually Sikh,” Singh explained in a statement.

“While I’m proud of who I am, I purposely didn’t go down that road because it suggests their hate would be OK if I was Muslim.”

I also refuse to entertain any line of questioning based on the premise that it’s ok to judge individual people who are elderly and being let down society based on the language they speak or the province that they’re in. It’s disgusting.

I sincerely hope that you never endure the predjudices that you yourself are guilty of eagerly holding towards others.

Temper your condescension with the awareness that you have no fucking idea how Ginette spent her life voting. Imagine being a lifelong NDP supporter struggling in your twilight years only to be met with the pitiless snark of some mellenial edgelord who presumes to know you just by your age.

It’s SELF reported “knowing little to nothing”.

As a computer scientist, I can confidently say that most people who confidently say they are well versed in the subject, actually still know little to nothing.

Bro I asked if you were aware of a confirmation by any journalistic source.

Your response to that question makes you sound batshit, btw. Like, freedom convoy level batshit.

The article you posted says nothing about damage to the embassy?

Is there another source?

First of all: it’s insane.

Second of all, it’s a TERRIBLE business move. The GED is so culturally ubiquitous in The USA and Canada, I think people just assume it’s a federal program.

The LAST thing, if I were them, that I’d want to do is remind people it isn’t. As soon as state politicians realize the test is in play, suddenly Florida realizes they can create and deploy their own, loading questions with the same bullshit culture war that they’re pushing K-12. Then Mississippi. Then Texas. Then as a response Oregon and Maine do their own.

Suddenly the who scam comes crashing down.

Lol

DON’T COPY THAT FLOPPY!!

This argument is only a “gotcha” if it was permissible use, but it wasn’t, even before CDs.

Unrelated, but I never really understood how the Eastern dairy lobbies were able to dominate politics so completely whereas the wheat board in the west was essentially destroyed

You’d think they’d have a better understanding of the obscene power that our dairy lobby is. The USA can’t even bargain through it I don’t know why thought they’d be able to.

440 dollars per MP/month

Honestly that sounds like a bargain. I don’t think 440 buys a lot of security.

Probably saved his life