Much will depend on the NDP’s upcoming leadership election. If they don’t choose a steely, angry, charismatic socialist, the Conservatives will sweep the next election.

No need to blame the Americans. Canada’s got plenty of home-grown stupid.

Unfortunately, a rather substantial portion of warfare is the economics behind it. Often, spending eye-watering amounts of money on proprietary, overpriced hardware is the point. It’s corporate welfare.

That’s the thing, Trakata isn’t making the case that it’s in our best interest to be able to understand legislation. They’re making the claim that they read a document they did not read to show support for legislation that’s both authoritarian and supporting of government surveillance in a time when our biggest problems will be solved by neither.

Understanding complex legislation is a difficult, time-consuming job that requires experts in the field. Experts like those who work with the CCLA and professional journalists that parse this complexity and make it easier to consume for the rest of the nation. In the same way that while it’s in every citizen’s interest to have clean water, we’re not expected to source and boil our own: we have experts who maintain water treatment facilities. Trakata’s smug “I read the bill and I think it’s great” line is both (a) a lie, and (b) a deception intended to distract from the dangers of the bill.

You don’t get to decide who’s Canadian, so I’m really not concerned about how my tone makes you feel. The guy/girl was straight-up lying to show support for authoritarianism and government surveillance. I will not apologise for pointing that out.

Because you didn’t. You’re lying and I’m 100% sure of it.

For those interested, this is the bill, an absolutely monstrous document which when read on its own doesn’t even convey the full extent of the changes because much of it is a series of paragraph amendments to other laws made out of context. To really understand what’s being proposed, one must first understand the current state of all laws being amended, so it’s really this giant document ×20 or so.

So unless it’s your job to parse these documents, or you wrote it yourself, you did not read it.

I also did not read it, but at least I’m being honest about that. I did however skim through it looking for confirmations of what was mentioned in the video. What I found was enough to convince me that the video is accurate. What’s more, the author has done the work of a responsible journalist: he cited his sources in the video description. Sources which were in turn written by responsible people whose literal jobs are to understand these massive changes and compile them into documents the public understand. You know, journalism.

Maybe you read the summary, which is much easier to parse, though still ridiculously long, lacking context and glazing over important details. Even in there though, there are clear mentions of allowing the opening of your mail, so if you read that and are still somehow cool with it then… well I guess it’s true that we’re all condemned to repeat history 'cause some people just refuse to learn.

If you’re genuinely curious, you should probably watch the video. He makes a pretty good case.

Yes, this is a list of US-owned papers. Note that the Toronto Star is not on it.

• The Toronto Star is not the Toronto Sun.
• The Star is owned by TorStar Media and is based in Toronto, Canada.

Delete this. It’s misinformation. Leaving it up is a disservice.

TIL about using lsblk instead of just reading through the output of journalctl to find the disk and partitions. Thanks!

Why would you re-post the same misinformation three times and then keep all three posts up after you’ve been corrected twice? The Star is not owned by Post Media.

That’s not been my experience. It may be using a web view under the hood, but the functionality is quite different. Additional features, breaking the video call out of the primary pane, etc. To suggest that they’re essentially the same is not accurate.

Suggesting that multiculturalism has always been harmful to Québéc is a bit rich when you consider that it was adopted as a policy largely as a reflection of the multicultural nature of the French culture within a majority-English Canada.

Québéc has its own language, history, food, and culture, sure, but they also have their own legal system and a massive political party that advocates for their own political and cultural interests.

Really? All I’ve seen is a Flatpak that’s really just a wrapped web view. Is there now a native version of Teams for Linux?

Dropping environmental concerns from a pension profile has got to be the worst sort of irony. What good is retiring with slightly more money if the world you’re retiring into is literally on fire?

You posted an article with a misleading headline suggesting that the Prime Minister is elected by Canadians at large — something objectively false, and you’re suggesting that I’m the ignorant one.

Yes, but you have to account for the general ignorance Canadians have about our electoral system.

I’m not asking them to parrot talking points, but ignoring reality doesn’t do anyone any favours. It’s like writing from a perspective that the world is flat and talking like only fools would think that a spherical planet worldview is rational. Their perspective is demonstrably flawed, but rather than approaching the issue on the facts, they’ve just blasted this project from a ideological perspective. It’s a bad article and the Globe & Mail should feel bad about publishing it.

The bias in this is just revolting. I get that it’s “opinion”, but they’ve made no attempt at having a terribly balanced one.

Canada’s housing sector has been following the Fraser Institute’s advice for decades now, and the result has been exactly as many predicted. Carney’s right: it’s time for the state to get back into building because the private sector has failed to do the job.

Unfortunately, this reads more like a financial instrument rather than what I would argue Canada needs: a housing agency that actually builds the houses rather than simply funds and directs construction. Regardless, in the wreckage that free market capitalism has wrought on housing, this is the sort of thing that takes a lot of time and money get up to speed. You needs skilled labour, industry connections, reputation, and experience building in various climates, and you just can’t create that out of the blue. I’m pleased to hear that they’re moving in the right direction.

Canadian expat living in the UK here. Do not be so quick to dismiss these as bots.

I moved to London 6 months before the country shot itself in the ass with Brexit. Even days before the vote, literally everyone I spoke to in person and online agreed that Brexit was too stupid to happen, but my wife wasn’t convinced. She’d been spending time on right wing subreddits, reading the misinformation and vitriol. She was convinced that Leave would win.

The day after the vote, two of my work colleagues proudly announced that they’d voted to leave.

Our social spheres are small, and despite (or perhaps also because of) the internet, typically insulated from people with whom we disagree. There are very likely more Leavers out there than you might think.

Alberta has had a deep “fuck Canada” streak for as long as I can remember. It’s entirely plausible that at least some of these comments are from real idiots with real power to vote Leave, and we dismiss them at our peril.