Looks like we need to buy the jets from Sweden 🇸🇪

Hopefully the next NDP leader is effective and returns to the socialist roots.

I want to see Linux desktop usage above 6%. Elbows up 🇨🇦

That’s pretty unfair!

Consider writing to your local mp demanding that your tax dollars be used to expand dentalcare.

9m people eligible in 2025 in the original doc

If that’s true then the maximum would be be 21.76% of the population covered by the plan. We’re currently 8.36% away from that goal.

However our taxes are going to Sun Life Financial who is currently lobbying against pharmacare.

Looks like Robinhood to me. The red and blue politicians intend to keep groceries expensive for their rich backers.

You don’t get to boss the courts around Eby. Stop opposing indigenous rights.

Canadians need to protect Canada Post from the liberal-conservative coalition serving the rich.

The BC NDP wants to serve the rich and powerful who are destroying the climate.

Glad to help 👍

So…how would proportional representation even work? Would your representatives be chosen for you, based on the total number of votes in the province?

You’re thinking of the closed party list electoral system. Which isn’t being proposed for Canada.

Proportional representation is a family of voting systems that corresponds to the percentage of the vote.

The 3 systems that are under the pr umbrella are the single transferable vote, mixed-member proportional and party lists.

who gets to choose who occupies those proportionally delegated seats in the legislative assembly, if it’s no longer chosen by each riding?

The single transferable vote groups multiple single member ridings into one like from 1 to 5 representatives. With mixed-member it’s a hybrid between first past the post and party lists, where you get 2 ticks one for your local representative and one for your preferred party.

I get how this works, in theory…but in practice, we would no longer be choosing our own representatives anymore. You’d get proportional representation…but lose the choice of who those representatives are.

Thats not accurate. Since you can rank your candidates on the ballot with stv or chose between your local candidate with mmp.

Alexander believes the premier’s plan could have the opposite effect, potentially triggering more court cases from First Nations and thereby creating more uncertainty for resource extraction and other industries in the long run, while also damaging the province’s relationship with First Nations.

“People have very fragile trust in the government of the day, but when they so intentionally change legislation to ensure that there’s no objective party reviewing how they perform reconciliation, it seems very insidious.”

This year, B.C. passed legislation to fast-track the North Coast transmission line, renewable energy projects and yet-to-be-defined “provincially significant projects.” The B.C. government admitted it had not fulfilled its consultation obligations before introducing the legislation, which many First Nations forcefully criticized.

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I strongly agree! Canadians need to shed the americanization of our form of english.

Canadian english should use more homegrown & british terms.

Discord just recently had data breaches of thousands of ids in the UK, the British government is now looking to ban vpns. It’s bad policy plain as day.

Exactly this, when the kid turns 16 they can get the parental controls turned off.

Those kids don’t realize their parents are helping them.

Reality: data breaches and censorship with age verification.

Once captured by the law – sites that deliberately transmit pornographic materials to minors and do not use government-approved age verification or age estimation technologies – the enforcement side kicks in. The enforcement of the bill is left to the designated regulatory agency, which can issue notifications of violations to websites and services. Those notices can include the steps the agency wants followed to bring the site into compliance. This literally means the government via its regulatory agency will dictate to sites how they must interact with users to ensure no underage access. If the site fails to act as instructed within 20 days, the regulator can apply for a court order mandating that Canadian ISPs block the site from their subscribers. The regulator would be required to identify which ISPs are subject to the blocking order.

Bill S-209 is better than its predecessor as it seeks to exclude search and other incidental distribution, adopts a new standalone definition for pornographic materials, and sets a higher bar for the technology itself. Yet many concerns remain: the bill still envisions court ordered website blocking, including blocking access to lawful content by those entitled to access it. In fact, the bill expressly states that the effect of the blocking may “have the effect of preventing persons in Canada from being able to access material other than pornographic material made available by the organization.” Orders that knowingly block lawful content is certain to raise Charter of Rights challenges.