Well it’s up to you, but personally I tend to vote for the local candidate I’d prefer to win.

If you were backed into a corner and forced to vote for someone in the recent election, CBC news would like to hear from you.

The military and the oil industry may not look much alike, but they do have some things in common. Both are instruments of violence against humanity and both have a thing for metal tubes.

YELLOW: It might get a bit windy later. ORANGE: Watch out for falling trees. RED: The Event is nearing, remain indoors.

The prime minister knows what bankers and money managers are like, and if he says they love greenwashing I guess he might be right. Give them what they want and they’ll be sure to reward us all with megatons of innovation.

Well if they’re counting every http request that was blocked because their software decided it might be part of an attack, I suppose a few of them were from me back when NRC was routinely blocking my VPN provider.

Billions, huh. I suppose they must be counting every packet in every random port scan as an attack.

I hope India returns to democracy some day.

What do you mean “people who don’t want a normal prebuilt”? That’s exactly what they’re going to be selling — a normal prebuilt from a vendor people trust with the economy of scale to sell it for a competitive price. It’s got an unusual form factor and some fancy hardware, but functionally that’s what it is.

Okay, but if it’s not the USA or China then which imperial power does he think Canada should become subservient to next?

Yes, that is the type of monopoly they have. It’s one that would probably not attract the attention of anti-trust regulators. If you’re not coming from the free software world I guess it looks like that’s the only way things can be.

Games that are linked with the Steam libraries, distributed through the Steam store, and launched through the Steam client.

It’s true though, Steam has a monopoly on Steam games.

That video came up in my youtube recommendations last night, and I watched it. Pretty good, although if you’ve used Windows in the past ten years there aren’t going to be any real surprises in there. It sucks for all the reasons people usually complain about, and it’s all getting worse lately.

Yeah I think some Conservatives abstaining is the most likely path. Much as they’d like to I don’t think the NDP (or Elizabeth May) are going to want to be seen as enabling it.

If the Conservatives don’t make it happen, their party may just get its own chance to fail to pass their first budget very soon.

Yves-François Blanchet gave quite a speech about it, the gist of it was that he doesn’t like it. This may be a budget that fails to pass.

AI, fighter jets, economically unviable mining projects, attack submarines, oil pipelines, carbon capture boondoggles — Canada’s government sure does have a lot of money to spend on things that don’t look much like good investments.

It’s a giant money pit either way. Somehow pulling off a miraculous recovery for the Canadian ship-building industry is simply the one thing I can think of that could potentially be used to justify the enormous expense compared to other, better ways of spending that much money. No subs at all sounds fine to me. For intel-gathering purposes of the type so-far mentioned, patrolling around the coastline of Canada watching for the incoming invasion fleet or whatever, there isn’t a whole lot of advantage in trying to do it from a well-armed underwater platform and we’re already spending absurd amounts of money on brand new surface vessels.

The point of submarines is to sneak up on enemy ships and destroy them. That’s not something Canada has an urgent need to be doing. There are more cost-effective ways to defend the country. But it’s not about being cost-effective, it’s about spending as much money as possible — on building up someone else’s military-industrial complex, since they’re too impatient to build up Canada’s capacity to the point where that kind of hardware could be built here — in order to be able to look “strong” like people are clamouring for.

About time, Canada! Just think of all the glorious war fighting opportunities that the country has been missing out on for its entire history as a result of not spending a hundred billion dollars on a big fleet of attack submarines before now.