Perhaps the prime minister could take a moment out of his busy schedule to tell us what the fuck he was thinking if it’s anything other than “we’re absolutely desperate to make a deal and have no choice but to give them whatever they want.”

In Canada I assume the vast majority of the increase goes to corporate profits because that’s what our economy seems designed to maximise, but it’s also worth noting that world food prices are back up to levels not seen since the 1970s: https://www.fao.org/worldfoodsituation/foodpricesindex/en/

Oh right, this one which the previous government had the decency to abandon after everyone pointed out the problems: https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=d64e0f63-70d4-46ac-b9e4-709547d6c438

The bill allows the federal government to “secretly order telecom providers” to “do anything or refrain from doing anything… necessary to secure the Canadian telecommunications system”

I don’t know, there’s just something about it.

For a long time we had VGA for video cables. There was no VGA version 2.1.9, now supporting 1024x768 mode with 16-bit colour. Cables did not cost $29. There were no rent-seeking patent holders charging license fees, or at least they weren’t obnoxious enough that we knew about them. It didn’t have five different types of connectors. There was no VGA consortium constantly keeping itself in the news with periodic press releases. Companies didn’t need to sign away their soul to write drivers for it. There was no VGA copy protection trying to keep us from decoding our own video streams. Cables didn’t include enough microelectronics to power a space shuttle.

Somehow I think we could do better.

I hate HDMI with a passion that can not be explained.

The Premier suggested the structure would become a tourist attraction itself

If they build it to last, I can see it happening. 200 years from now, people will visit from all over the province to marvel at the massive concrete edifice — its glass facade long since shattered — standing as one of the few remaining structures to survive the water wars, a monument to the accelerating madness that took hold of the world in the early 21st century.

Gearing up for war, here we go. Well, I’m too old to get drafted. Good luck, kids.

The specific promises are for more prisons, “tougher” sentences, and more incarceration of people not yet found guilty. Perhaps that bit at the end will prove to be more than just pretty words, but this government hasn’t earned that much trust so far.

“encouraging” responsiveness to new legal guidance

i.e. they’ve been forced to stop one of the illegal things they were doing.

I keep expecting that at any moment the prime minister will become aware of what ended up in the text, the government will back down in shame, and the bill will be withdrawn and never seen again. But even if they do recognize the need to do that — as previous governments did with similar legislation that wasn’t as appallingly bad as this bill — I suppose it will take a few months. Let it be a constant annoyance to them until that time.

Seems about right and points out some things I wasn’t aware of despite following all the news on this. Good thing we still have La Presse.

Yeah, it’s clear why they’re unhappy about it. What’s the point of pretending to take action if you can’t then lie about what a great job you did?

I’m sure It will probably be fine for at least a year or two before the new owners manage to ruin it somehow but anyway I’ll just go make sure I have a full backup of my 150 gigabytes of skyrim mods.

Too far … or not far enough? I think they should abandon the Canadian market, relocate to Florida.

To be clear, I did mean to say that the CN Tower remains the tallest building in Toronto.

I like how “used it in the past year” in one paragraph mysteriously becomes “regular, heavy use” in the next.

The new mayor of Halifax. Opposed to bicycles, in favour of homelessness.

It’s to be very tall, but apparently the CN Tower will remain the tallest by more than a hundred metres.

I don’t think so. But for anyone who didn’t get the reference (idk if they still teach that in grade 10 history class) the relevant excerpt from the original speech can be found here. Imagine a world where politicians talk like that.

A vital element in keeping the peace is our military establishment. This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is the new Canadian experience. Its influence is felt in every city, every board room, every restaurant on Sparks Street. We must not fail to comprehend its glorious patriotic implications. We must never let the weight of our liberties and democratic processes endanger this huge industrial and military machinery of defence. It will shape the very structure of our society. In the councils of government we must strengthen the power and influence, overt and covert, of the military-industrial complex. So let’s throw some money at it as quickly as possible.