I was the same way, under thr assumption he’d bring it back by a new name as promised. So far disappointed… hopefully when something actually happens (instead of just discussions) it won’t be so bad but my hopes are lowering.

Nice! Happy to see us start the process of decoupling from the US, even if it’s going to be a long slow process.

Yea we’ll see what happens with arbitration. Disappointed they intervened so quickly but I highly doubt any arbitration agreement won’t get rid of unpaid OT.

Well NORAD is more than just missiles, same with this proposed “Golden Dome” thing. NORAD is radars, missiles, interceptors, and protocols. I’m not sure it would be prudent for us to bail on NORAD at this time - it costs us very little, doesn’t materially impact our readiness against US pressure or invasion, and ultimately does provide at least security theater against non-continental aggressors such as Russia.

Golden Dome is a new thing, involving satellites, space-based missiles, kinetic interceptors, etc. By all accounts it appears to be a boondoggle in the making.

NORAD modernization could be anything from updating protocols or hardware for drone interception, updated training, modernization packages for existing hardware, software updates, etc. - NORAD modernization is probably a good cost/benefit ratio for us in aggregate for our defense, depending on details. If we’re relaxing some form of restrictions around missile defense, this could also plausibly mean the Canadian military stepping up and running more of our own hardware. This would be a good thing.

Golden Dome would be a net-new level of integration for us, and would likely represent closer ties with Americans for a number of different agencies.

I think they’re quite different, at least from a technical standpoint. Political interpretations may vary.

This particular article is not super worrying in my opinion, but it’s not stellar. It’s kind of scant on details and relies heavily on interpreting the defense minister’s response about missile defense to mean they’re seriously contemplating joining this Golden Dome initiative. I wish they had included the exact question posed. If you remove the context provided by the article, the response itself is relatively sensible:

“The threat environment has drastically changed and Canada needs to be prepared,” McGuinty explained in an email to the Ottawa Citizen. “By removing outdated restrictions on our air and missile defence policies, Canada is taking another necessary step to strengthen the safety and security of Canadians, and the sovereignty of Canada.”

I’m guessing the question posed was something along the lines of “what’s going on with the removal of restrictions on missile defense?”, but we’ll never know unless they publish the email itself. Also, the article heavily implies the original statement,

McGuinty noted the government “removed all restrictions on air and missile defence of Canada” but specific details were not provided at the time.

is with respect to Golden Dome, but I don’t think it is. See https://www.canada.ca/en/department-national-defence/news/2025/07/minister-mcguinty-visits-norad.html, wherein the context of the statement is said to be about NORAD and Canadian missile defense in general, which is again, quite sane even in the context of a potentially hostile neighbor.

Minister McGuinty reiterated Canada’s commitment to NORAD modernization, Arctic security, and initiatives such as Arctic Over the Horizon Radar (A-OTHR) and Integrated Air and Missile Defence. Consistent with the Prime Minister’s commitments to supporting NORAD and strengthening Canada’s air and missile defences, Minister McGuinty also confirmed that the Government has removed all restrictions on air and missile defence of Canada. This will enable Canada to strengthen its defence capabilities and better deter and defend against threats to our country’s sovereignty, population, and critical infrastructure.

Overall I don’t know that I find this specific article hugely problematic but it relies heavily on structural implications about Canada’s intent to join the Golden Dome, but reading the primary sources I don’t believe that is the correct interpretation. I wish they included the full question asked, and response, and I wish they didn’t put McGuinty’s statement at NORAD along with Golden Dome stuff when that doesn’t appear to be what he’s discussing.

I’m not willing to take these allusions at face value, especially not when they’re suffixed with “but we have no details at this time”. There may be something here, but as long as the only source saying this is this article (and its children across the internet), I’m not sold on the fear.

That’s my personal read of this.

I make no judgement on this particular article or any claims within - that may be true. Just trying to ensure everyone has their critical thinking cap on around the American billionaires :)

Ottawa Citizen is a Poat Media outlet owned by the US - read and trust with caution!

Don’t forget the enormously successful and equally maligned Carbon Tax which put money in the hands of less wealthy people while actually reducing our carbon emissions for the first time ever. Still waiting on Carney to implement his “market based carbon pricing” thing that was just the carbon tax by another name.

What? There’s absolutely no way we can interpret intent in this case - this could genuinely be a fair question asked in good faith.

“What about US tech?” could be interpreted a number of ways, from “are Canadians also divesting from US tech?” to “But Canadians aren’t divesting from US tech, what about that?”. There’s no reason to believe this person is going after the latter case here when “ok that’s retail, how’s tech doing?” is equally likely and imminently reasonable.

I’m fine to get dog piled here but I think you’ve assumed bad faith where there is no reason to make that assumption, especially after the user attempted to disambiguate in exactly the way I’ve described.

I’m also curious to see how Canadian usage of American tech companies has changed. I wonder if it got more people to quit Twitter finally.

Postmedia has a bunch of “* Star” papers and the Toronto Sun but notably not the Toronto Star.

I was pretty sure it was the Toronto Star that was Postmedia… I may be remembering incorrectly. I’m gonna delete my comment until I can verify.

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But my province literally is on fire - that’s not hyperbolic. We have 20,000 people being evacuated as their towns are (your favorite!) literally burning down.

The guy I replied to is the one who started using the word “literally”:

Because the world wouldn’t be literally on fire, that’s hyperbole.

My province is literally on fire.

1. “Nothing is literally on fire.”
2. “My province is literally on fire.”
3. “You’re being hyperbolic because you used the word literally”
4. ???

Can you explain how what I said was hyperbole? Because it was all factually accurate.

100,000 hectares of my province burned last week because of drought conditions and unseasonally high temperatures. The resulting smoke caused my sports games to be cancelled. How can facts be hyperbolic?

Hi its only May and my province is already literally on fire to the point where my sports games are getting cancelled from air quality cconcerns.

You can export images to tarballs and import them to your local docker daemon if you want.

Not sure how podman manages local images.

Idea:

1. Setup inotifywait on your sources directory and rsync to keep directories in sync, and on change, build and run latest image
2. Setup inotifywait on your image tarball directory/file and on change import and run latest
3. Mount your source directory to a docker server image that supports hot reloading.

Indeed - stagnate prices and drive wage increases until the ratio is back down.

The scary part is even on the surface, a meaningful reduction in housing prices would have pretty rough consequences for us economically. We’ve spent 40 years building our entire financial system to the point where the majority of the median citizen’s net worth is in their home’s equity. Seeing any short term devaluation of housing in a significant way would effectively be reducing the median citizens ability to retire.

Probably the best we can hope for is price stagnation and modest but consistent decreases in housing prices while we decouple our economy from the false growth of real estate.

He’s also very clearly not just a neoliberal central banker - the housing plan calls for a new government agency that actually produces homes which is like, radically not neoliberal “let the market work” type solutioning.

Yeah I hope the fact that both the NDP and the LPC got screwed in BC on so many ridings causes their hopeful coalition government to actually implement voting reform this time.