We have anti hate speech laws.
The idea of free speech is great, but there are limits. You can’t threaten someone under free speech. You can’t extort them. You can’t spread libel. And you can’t spread hate content that promotes harming people based on their immutable characteristics (race, ethnicity, sexual identity, etc.).
The Supreme Court has found that anti-hate speech laws do not violate charter rights even if they restrict freedom of expression.
I’m all for topics being openly discussed, even if I don’t like them. I’m all for criticizing the government, and nobody should fear reprisal in doing so.
But hate speech has essentially no merit to society.
We just bought a new car and the guy who sells the warranties was going through how much it cost to replace things due to the electronics, and I just couldn’t stop thinking it’s it even worth the electronics then?
Obviously stuff is unavoidable, the airbags and seatbelt systems work together, that makes sense. But other stuff… Does the console need to be a full on network connected computer? I just want to play music and show maps from my phone. The different drive mode settings can be an internal rest API or physical buttons. Fuel efficiency displays are just simple polls to an internal rest API endpoint that any component could confirm to.
Unfortunately I support doing this so we can wean off American money.
I know this didn’t start with trumps tariffs, and I know fossil fuels are awful, and fossil fuel companies are among the worst.
I support this because oils create more than just fuel, and we’re in a drowning moment and need a lifeline.
In a bit of good news for the non-Carney candidates, 59% of likely Liberal leadership voters have not yet locked in their vote.
I specifically have not locked in any vote because I need their platforms to actually be released. So far all we have is both want to scrap carbon tax and cancel cap gains increases.
I’m likely voting Carney, but I won’t commit to put a person directly into the PM seat without a platform, even if it’s just for two weeks before a general election.
He’s handled basically every crisis well. It’s really easy to forget that. Remember his covid updates at the start of it? We watched those every day. I’m in Ottawa and with the Convoy every level of government massively failed, but he at least did the unpopular thing and shut that shit down. Last Trump presidency he dealt with NAFTA well.
It’s really easy to dump on him, he’s done a poor job fiscally, housing policy was awful, immigration policy did not account for multiple levels of governance and support needed… but you can’t say he didn’t handle the most critical situations well.
Ironically, because we don’t keep all our eggs in a few baskets (how did they not use this in the article!)
This is yet another interesting capitalism lesson from the US.
You get efficiency by increasing scale, those lower costs drive out smaller producers, and then eventually a few companies run everything.
Suddenly those companies experience issues and there’s are no more meditating factors on the prices, so it’s less efficient than the system started with.
but why bother when you can sell to your neighbors with way less effort and overhead?
That’s generally my point as well. Except this time Trump’s been going on for over a month saying he should annex us and then doing bullshit like trying to make this trade impossible.
Also three days ago Trump said there was nothing canada could do. He’s a terrible business partner not worth appeasing.
I’m pretty sure Canada exists because in two wars the Americans couldn’t take and hold it.
I think you’ll find that Canadians are good friends and fierce enemies. We’d rather go without and rebuild our economy from scratch than lose our sovereignty and country.
I don’t think Canada needs you as much as you think, I think that got really clear this weekend when the entire country organized quickly and Trump backed off.
Cool.
Promises of purging trans and LGTBQ people, firing minorities and women, reducing women’s rights, and mass roundups of minorities, “dictator on day 1”… 100% happy.
Costing companies money, no that’s wrong.
I’m also against the tariffs, but I have trans friends who I’m not turning my back on ever. You can’t look past the shit they promised on the campaign trail.
It’s been a long time since I’ve unfurled my sails. I wouldn’t even know the good places to look.
In the long days ago had a bot that would crawl google for mp3 filetype files, then bulk download entire directories full of music. Then that got turned into a honey pot.
Actually I miss when the internet was ammenable to bots… used to have a bunch, but eventually things like Twitter turned off the taps and everyone removed their RSS and json APIs.
Shit or get off the pot Donald.
I’m not going to get bothered waiting for him to go “oh just 30 more days, but now I want this” for 4 more years.
To me, it’s already dead. You don’t put a gun to a friends head, say “give me your wallet, you know what, maybe I’ll kill you anyway, I’ve always wanted you dead, but here’s 30 days” then go back.
You don’t treat friends this way. We can’t depend on America in any capacity anymore.
America: how are you gonna trade now?!
Canada: Boats, boats boaaatttss!
(Sorry guys, I’m very tired and stressed today, and I’m overly excited about the small wins)
People fight much harder when they have a clear cause and clear enemy.
Right now Trump is giving us one: we’re fighting for Canada, our home and native land. We’re fighting for ourselves, our neighbours, our friends, our families. We’re fighting for our way of life, our healthcare, we fight for everything.
The US is fighting for nothing. Even MAGA conservatives don’t know what Trump is doing. Sun Tzu teaches that is the weakest position to fight from. The US people will falter before a unified and galvanized Canadian front will. Our backs are against the wall and the only option is to fight.
My family came from a small northern Ontario mining community. Times were always hard there but people looked after each other. My grandma grew her own food to stretch their budget. She took in boarders who needed a place to stay and shared what she had. They made do with little and everyone supported each other — that is the Canadian spirit that makes this country great.
Now it’s our turn. I’m supporting whatever our government decides, I want us to fight back tooth and nail. I want to support all the Canadians who are going out of work, and the Canadian businesses that are going to struggle, I’ll pay more taxes to support them, whatever is needed. I’m not buying American products wherever possible, local first always and forever after this. Anything but American. I’m increasing donations to my food bank. I need to start volunteering too.
God keep our land glorious and free!
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.
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Listen to CBC radio every morning
Visit CBC News site
Read the economist
And I’m experimenting with using AI to organize news for me (I wish RSS was still popular for this instead).