As progress on some measures in the Liberal-NDP confidence-and-supply agreement continue to play out publicly, the two parties have quietly been in talks to table electoral reform legislation before the next federal vote.
The best time would have been on the first day of the administration, after finishing the broken and lame TPP and NAFTA2, equalizing pay in the fed, and then … aw shit, pandemic. Sure there was a lot of noodling around fixing Harper’s multi-year fustercluck, but the timeline before the pandemic was kinda tossed at that point. You remember how hard it was to get ignorant hillbillies to actually vaccinate, right?
The second-best time for non-mortal concerns may be today. Glad to see it’s finally getting a look.
A minority government has been in power for all of Canada’s best achievements. This isn’t a surprise. The NDP would seem short-sighted in the office and bludgeoned in the press, but as the conscience of the Liberals they have the power to push them for our good.
It’s an interesting one-two punch to the cruelty and PR of the Cons. The Libs can defend in the press and play victim to the Dems’ horrible machinations - insert dramatic swoon here - and the Cons have to fight both fronts. Accidentally, while no one’s looking, Canadians’ long-term happiness improves in every way that isn’t American Rat-race cool.
I’m pretty sure we shouldn’t be facilitating apartheid and wanton killing of civilians en masse and a hundred other things that the state of Israel has done to the people of Palestine.
I’m also sure that a tax deduction for donating to what appears to be a charity is unfortunately allowed through a dark comedy of bad assumptions and mistakes, just as I’m sure the piece under this sad click bait title tells us nothing new.
Thousands of WestJet customers' flights were cancelled amid extreme weather earlier this month. And many say the airline would not reschedule them within the required window, in what one advocate framed as just the latest example of a failure to uphold travellers' rights.
This isn’t the westjet of 2018, sadly, and it appears to be going downhill so fast that it’ll be at Air Canada levels of enshittification by the summer.
Hammer them, early and often, as these guys can’t be expected to naturally be good.
A year after a pandemic that saw belligerent and violent science-deniers push experts out of the medical field and we’re still recovering. This should have been expected, but we obviously thought better of our less community-minded citizens. In another forum I’d wonder why they weren’t tased far, far more.
What I know from living under the most mercenary healthcare system I can find - America - and under our own, is what we don’t want to become. And the same people riling the science-deniers into a frenzy of pique over the most miniscule of discomfort are going to now suggest that our healthcare is irreparably damaged and that their mercenary friends assure them the only way forward is backward into an American system. I urge those leaders to relocate their family members under that system for a while before they pitch it further.
In the recent past we removed monthly premiums based on income, instead of tuning it better, which in the past heavily offset operating costs. We defunded capital for land, facilities and equipment. We privatised as much as humanly possible, and beyond, in some shell game of expense hiding after destroying consolidation gains. We’ve got a system that is less fair, less fluid, rife with cost duplication, forces units to compete for artificially-scarce talent and goods, and publicizes the costs while privatizing profits. Running crucial public services as closed-book private for-profit enterprises is so American I’m sure the CEOs are imports.
Reinstate what was working, grow funding for staff and equipment through fair taxation and keep the funds where required through single-payer sourcing, mandated open-book policies and non-profit management styles. Fund medical training through 100% cost deferment while a student is studying at an open-books, non-profit university, with a sweetheart cost- and interest-deferment while they reside and work in Canada. Fund this brutally on the backs of the mercenary colleges for another de-enshittification effort.
While I continue to be paid well for my work, I think we need more taxation to programmes preventing things we’re already complaining about. Tax and Spend is anathemic to self-centered conservatives but it’s the engine of happy, stable societies. And it’s key in us rebuilding our healthcare. We cannot support a healthcare system that competes with itself and forces that costs onto everyone and disproportionately onto groups that require more care to get back into a tax-paying status.
What do you think software engineers work on for Hershey? They don’t make chocolate in a cloud factory. Factory automation needs iron moved around, and there you go.
I’m sorry you wouldn’t think so. I’ve seen far sketchier.
Most Canadians who plan on voting for the Liberal party are more motivated to stop the Conservatives from winning the election rather than endorsing the party's vision and leader, according to a new poll released on Monday.
As the federal government's national dental insurance program continues to roll out, a new report from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives argues that the plan leaves too many Canadians without coverage and need an additional $1.45 billion in funding.
But, and this is the math I’m thinking, helping some in this very early version of a plan the cruel conservatives already want to quash and discredit in its infancy before it can look good, is a laudable goal and a good first step. This is akin to disparaging a toddler for its carpentry work.
Either the Americans have very weird ideas about transportation or they’re completely controlled by auto companies.
Consider both: we know the auto companies controlled the populace by destroying any choice. We also know that public transit is looked on as a plebes travel mode ripe for gutting at every turn so the rich (and those who are gonna be rich any day now) can benefit.
One month after finance ministers met to discuss the Alberta government's intent to pull out of the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) public opinion polling by the Angus Reid Institute suggests there's little desire among Albertans or the rest of Canada to see Alberta leave the plan.
Lets let Bruce willis’ family or val kilmer decide for themselves whether they can work a deal that lets us see their acting or likeness again and they get proper compensation. I’m not going to boycott a production with proper paperwork in place just because they use AI to make fremen eyes blue in a programmatic fashion.
Stuff like this and the “base” he has created give off pretty harsh trump vibes. Here is a link confirming for those wanting one. Sorry I did not include it originally. www.cbc.ca/amp/1.712106
They were dying and they needed a cash cow to milk. The only way that was gonna work is if they didn’t kick the cow and spoil that milk like they’ve kicked every cow before it. And they can’t stop, so they’re just kicking away.
Trudeau and Singh's teams quietly planning electoral reform legislation (www.ctvnews.ca)
As progress on some measures in the Liberal-NDP confidence-and-supply agreement continue to play out publicly, the two parties have quietly been in talks to table electoral reform legislation before the next federal vote.
Defund the police yesterday (www.youtube.com)
Why does CRA allow tax deductions for help killing Palestinians? - Yves Engler (yvesengler.com)
U.K. walks away from trade talks with Canada | CBC (www.cbc.ca)
Sticking point is how much access U.K. producers should have to the Canadian cheese market
'It's just not right': Passengers call out WestJet for breaching rebooking rules (www.ctvnews.ca)
Thousands of WestJet customers' flights were cancelled amid extreme weather earlier this month. And many say the airline would not reschedule them within the required window, in what one advocate framed as just the latest example of a failure to uphold travellers' rights.
The National Post should be the last to lecture anyone about media bias (canadiandimension.com)
Canadians worry about quality of health care, have little faith it will improve: poll (www.winnipegfreepress.com)
Non-Paywall Article
Canada's Best Employers 2024 (www.forbes.com)
Canada Post is selling pieces of itself to save money — the experts say that won't be enough (www.cbc.ca)
Most Canadians who plan to vote Liberal doing so to stop Conservatives from winning: poll (www.ctvnews.ca)
Most Canadians who plan on voting for the Liberal party are more motivated to stop the Conservatives from winning the election rather than endorsing the party's vision and leader, according to a new poll released on Monday.
Why has nobody ever heard of Distrobox? Let me tell you why everyone should take a look at it!
TL;DR: It’s basically a WSL for Linux. Linux subsystem for Linux if you will....
New dental care plan leaves out 4.4 million uninsured Canadians: report (www.ctvnews.ca)
As the federal government's national dental insurance program continues to roll out, a new report from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives argues that the plan leaves too many Canadians without coverage and need an additional $1.45 billion in funding.
Don’t Give Up on the Electric Car Dream | The Tyee (thetyee.ca)
You probably don't need a VPN (www.spacebar.news)
Carmen Osorio, expert in technology addiction: ‘It’s not a good idea to give children a smartphone; in any case, you let them borrow yours’ (english.elpais.com)
The hyperloop is dead for real this time (www.theverge.com)
Most Albertans don't want the province to pull out of CPP, survey finds (www.ctvnews.ca)
One month after finance ministers met to discuss the Alberta government's intent to pull out of the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) public opinion polling by the Angus Reid Institute suggests there's little desire among Albertans or the rest of Canada to see Alberta leave the plan.
AI is modeling David Attenborough and the filmmaker isn’t happy (www.androidpolice.com)
If only more Linux programs followed sandboxing best practices... (i.imgur.com)
Peertube's moment might come soon
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Racism and the CPC (lemmy.ca)
Stuff like this and the “base” he has created give off pretty harsh trump vibes. Here is a link confirming for those wanting one. Sorry I did not include it originally. www.cbc.ca/amp/1.712106
Why do they worship crosses (feddit.de)
Air Canada customers kicked off plane for refusing vomit-covered seat (lemmy.ca)
Pay-wall link: globalnews.ca/…/air-canada-vomit-seat-passenger-a…...
Dear Red Hat: Are you dumb? (www.jeffgeerling.com)